Watching animals and people at The Ark Lodge

Set in a mountain forest, The Ark is a very special place where you can watch animals.
Wildlife gathers at the saltlick and waterhole at The Ark, a lodge in Kenya’s Aberdare Range, offering visitors close-up views of animals in their natural habitat.
Apart from his family, the Bible tells us that Noah took only animals on his Ark when the floods came. Perhaps like the American poet, Walt Whitman, he thought he could turn and live with animals.
‘They are so placid and self-contained,’ Whitman wrote. ’I stand and look at them long and long.’ I know what he means. And he couldn’t have found a better place for looking at animals long and long than the Ark in our Aberdare Range of mountains.
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