Kenya, known for
its safaris, infamous for its illustrious
over-the-top settlers and a new wave of responsible
tourism initiatives, has an amazing selection of
luxury safari lodges and coastal getaways.
A luxury honeymoon
to Kenya could consist of a stay in the top safari
lodges in the country. Depending on whether your
priorities are the Big Five or the more
community-based models of safari lodges in Northern
Kenya, with a greater emphasis on culture and the
experience of being in the remote wilderness than a
focus on the Big Five, Urbane Nomads would be able
to design a luxury honeymoon for you.
Sleeping out under
the stars in starbeds in an area so close to the
equator ensuring unparalleled views of the night sky
is a once-in-a-lifetime experience that manages to
combine both romance and a rusticity to the
experience. Picnics in the bush by day, spectacular
sundowners in isolated kopjes come evening time and
joining in the bonfire pre-dinner, listening to
Samburu warriors singing by night are some of the
definitive moments to a luxury getaway in Kenya.
Luxury accommodations, excellent home-made food and
a cultural initiation is a distinctly Northern
Kenyan experience. A post-safari experience would
take in the sleepy fishing village of Lamu that's
found favour with the Euro jet-set, manifesting in
quite a few luxury accommodations, each evincing a
Swahili chic and cosmopolitan aesthetic or the more
remote beaches of Mombasa, where the experience
could be as novel as a safari open-air tent fronting
the beach, waking up to glorious sunsets in the
morning and sleeping to the sounds of waves at
night. And where the luxury is not only in the
standard of accommodations but also the level of
personalized service and small number of rooms.
Guests each have a personalized menu, tailored
taking into account the guests' dietary preferences
(with no two menus being the same), although the
main emphasis is of course, being on the coast, the
seafood! Options for dining spots are another fun
feature- you could be dining by the pool one night,
over the cliff the next or next to the cave with
your own private chef another.
Urbane Nomads'
idea of a luxury honeymoon to Kenya could be as
relaxed as a few days spent on safari with some days
unwinding on the beach or it could take in the more
exotic sights- a heli-tour to Lake Turkana, for
example, or combining destinations- Kenya with
Northern Tanzania, or the more unusual combination
of Ethiopia and Kenya!
Photos courtesy of Shompole,
Majlis Lamu and Msambweni House
An initiation itinerary for first timers to
Bhutan. Itinerary can be tweaked to suit
photographers, with trip being led by the
photographer behind the first coffee table book
on Bhutan.
Combining Marrakech with
the romance and luxury
of camping in the
Sahara- marrying
exoticism with isolation
whilst based in the most
seductive hotels in a
country known for its
high standards of
hospitality.
A rustic luxury safari-
combining nights in star
beds in Northern Kenya,
a retro-chic camp in the
Masai Mara and nights
under the stars on a
luxury dhow in Lamu.
