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Perfect safari location retreats for big groups are Hippo Point. Originally constructed in the 1930s and rebuilt and remodeled in 1998, Kenya Safaris Tours has a British colonized building known as Hippo point home.

Kenya’s Hippo Point

The experienced guide helps you to move around while walking in different animal species like that’s the way the visitors experience the nature as well the place is perfect for the bird lovers since the hippo point sanctuary is not fenced and shares border with a certain game reserve. Hippo point is a wonderful place to appreciate nature and have fun with friends, families as you also sleep under the Russian linen sheets, covered by the great African stars.

Old private Kenya residences.

Manor House in 1932.

The resident has wildlife like the buffalo, hippo, zebra, buffalo, gazelle stand out against the soft, with the comforts of the Russian bed linen and the warm wooded flooring and bathtubs, Manor house is a classic British country house in the entire Africa where the roses and the lush lawns contrasts sharply with the brilliant yellow dusty tree trunks of the surrounding acacias. It features eight doubles and one single with two sections at the end perfect for the kids.

The Folly of Dodo.

Dodo’s Folly is among the most opulent Kenyan homes visited by the people in search of the unique; today it is open to a limited number of guests annually; on a safari the guests enjoy the spectacular Oloidien and Lake Naivasha while observing various animal species including the zebra, giraffe, hippos at the tower. The best unique luxury safari experience in Africa is the four double rooms, one single ground floor room, dining room, kitchen, large living room with the most amazing view point, writing room, meditation room and small top view room that you could enjoy and visit with your dear ones the family, friends so it is.

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Surrounded by a garden filled with succulents, the house that was formerly an Irish magistrate’s country welling fake Elizabethan has been meticulously restored to what it must have looked like in the early 20th century. Its style is upcountry like it’s a wooden flooring, exposed beams, fireplaces, deep set chairs and sofas. It comprises en-suite double bedrooms, swimming pool, dining room, lounge and spa.

Designed in a great manner, the tower is a homemade pagoda with four en-suite bedrooms, a beautiful veranda the tower is such amazing like no other place in Kenya. Set in the thinning acacia wood, nine stories high are built almost entirely out of the wood.

They serve organic food even all of their vegetables are obtained straight from the garden next to it); they are such wonderful, yummy, and the service is great. The hippo point has the best food and quality.

Hippo Point Kenyan location
Activities in Hippo Point in Kenya

Tracking the animals, pinching, night wildlife drives with hippos, boat trips and water sports, long walks with wildlife, maasages, swimming, volcano climbing, bird viewing, water sports and among others are the activities the visitors to the Hippo point and tower enjoy. Additionally visited is an orphanage not far away.

Hippo point is so special in that it is a second home and it takes only 25 minutes from Nairobi by private plane or helicopter. It offers unusual comfort and fun in the environment that will be difficult to find in years to come.

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