Tag: Sarova Hotels

• Exploring the Battlefields of Taita Taveta

  

  Before dawn on the 15th of August 1914, a column of 200 soldiers of the German Schutztruppe marched into the Taveta township and exchanged fire with a British East African Police Border Detachment. The corporal in charge of the police post, Murimi Mwiti, was killed as he resisted the German advance, becoming the first of…

  Jan Fox

  21/10/2018

  Events, Travel

  Battlefield Safaris, Battlefield Tourism, East African Campaign, First World War, Guerrillas of Tsavo, James G Willson, Sarova Hotels, Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge, Sarova Taita Hills Game Lodge, SGR, Taita Hills, Taita Taveta County, Voi, WW1

• A Weekend at the Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

  

  Tales of riverside campsites, crystal-clear springs and waterfalls had recently elevated Shaba to the top of my list of places to visit in Kenya. The 240sq.km reserve forms part of a much larger ecosystem that includes Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, but Shaba is the least visited of the three. This relative obscurity simply…

  Jan Fox

  15/07/2018

  Travel

  Buffalo Springs, Isiolo, Mount Ololokwe, Northern Kenya, Safari, Samburu, Sarova, Sarova Hotels, Sarova Shaba Game Lodge, Shaba, Shaba National Reserve