Kiangazi House: Kenya's best kept secret

Chui Lodge’s rustic welcome sign. (PHOTO: THORN MULLI/ STANDARD)

A lot sure can change in a decade. Take the A109 and A104 roads, for instance, whose common feature barely ten years ago was teeming wildlife. My mates and I while shuttling back and forth from school never thought much of the Tommy and Grant’s gazelles accompanied by the unmistakable zebra herds browsing away with no care on either side of the highway. Now I know to never take anything for granted because I presently have to plan an expedition just to illustrate to my daughter a real life gazelle.

Like most of the country, the Naivasha area was originally well populated with a large variety of wild animals. The population of wildlife in the area, unfortunately, has since been reduced drastically or even decimated due to human encroachment of areas which were previously the domain of the rich diversity of wildlife.