Borana Lodge is the main guest property on the Borana Conservancy in Laikipia, which shares a dropped fence line with the neighbouring Lewa Wildlife Conservancy so that rhino and other game move between the two. The lodge is built against a hillside with open views. Its stated maximum is 18 guests. Activities include tracking rhino on foot at first light, bush walks, river picnics, e-bike rides, fly-camping, in-room massage, and behind-the-scenes time with the conservancy's rangers, nurses and teachers. The conservancy holds GER certification through The Long Run. Published rates carry a stated 24 per cent non-commissionable contribution to Borana Conservancy's environmental and social work.
What sets it apart
Its published rate carries an explicit, itemised 24 per cent conservation levy, and the dropped fence to Lewa means the two conservancies are managed as one rhino range.
Who it suits
Rhino tracking on foot; riding and e-biking; conservation-linked stays.
The essentials
| Country | Kenya |
| Where | Borana Conservancy, Laikipia County, adjoining Lewa |
| Property type | lodge (cottages on a hillside) |
| Rooms | unverified as a unit count — the lodge's own site and rates page publish no room number; Borana Conservancy's listing gives a maximum of 18 guests |
What it costs
Borana Lodge publishes its own rates. Published on the official site: 2026 "Adult Peak: $1,320 | Standard: $1,025" per night, "inclusive of a 24% non-commissionable contribution to Borana Conservancy's environmental and social responsibilities", per https://www.borana.co.ke/rates, as listed September 2026.
Rates move by season and are almost always quoted per person per night sharing, so read the property's own page before you budget.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs of African bush and desert country, chosen to suggest the kind of landscape you find around the Laikipia plateau below Mount Kenya. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had been there. For pictures of the rooms, see the property's own site.