Solio Lodge is the only high-end property on Solio Ranch, a private sanctuary between Mount Kenya and the Aberdares that has, since the 1970s, become one of East Africa’s most successful rhino breeding grounds, supplying founder populations to reserves across the region.
A small number of individually designed cottages with wide verandas overlooking the plains, decorated with an understated, contemporary Kenyan style.
A single seasonal menu built around Kenyan ingredients, served communally or privately depending on the day’s plans.
Game drives across Solio’s plains focused on rhino tracking, with both Mount Kenya and the Aberdares visible on the horizon.
Solio holds one of the highest densities of both black and white rhino found anywhere in Africa, a direct result of decades of dedicated breeding and protection work on the ranch.
Solio’s open plains and low rhino density-to-space ratio make for unusually calm, unhurried rhino photography compared to more heavily visited reserves.
Solio Ranch’s breeding programme has directly supplied rhino to reintroduction projects across Kenya and neighbouring countries, making it one of the most consequential private conservation efforts on the continent.
To arrange a tailor-made journey to this lodge, speak with your Kipekee Journey Lead.
