Tassia lodge is situated in the 40,000acre community conservancy of the lekerruki. Situated on the foothills of Mount Kenya on a rocky Kopje looking north east to the desert country.
Tassia lodge consists of seven beautifully designed rooms looking to the morning sun in the east and over the valley floor below. Which is graced by giraffe, elephant and Martial eagles to name a few. Each room has a double with up to three singles and one twin room sits adjacent looking to the back hills of losses mountain into the evening light. Each room is large and spacious uniquely designed with relaxing sofa area and safari table and chairs for writing. All with en-suite bathroom. Showers are solar powered and flushing toilets all have an outstanding view.
The living area consists of a round viewing Lounge which is perched on the highest rock kopje overlooking a well watered waterhole which brings in the wildlife. A lounge area unfurls below with comfortable seating areas and tables for drinks and the large bar area behind with a glass refrigerator for drinks service. Aligned along the bar are long legged stools to gather on for bar drinks and tapas.
Above a flat roof ceiling which allows for up to 8 to enjoy low level Moroccan style dinner in under the African sky or evening sundowners above it all or dawn tea with friends before a walk. The dining area below consists of a large round table serving area and a smaller table to allow for large gatherings where all guests staying dine together. Dinners are set out on the rock kopje with fires or on the deck below the infinity pool candle lit with a bonfire too under the African sky..
Meals here are served to catering preferences with a menu filled with outstanding catering. All vegetable dishes and fruits are sourced locally Here your served a high quality beautifully presented. Three course dinners with tappas staring at the bar and finishing with a light dessert.
Lunches are chilled and fresh. Breakfasts are always a feast fresh fooods. It all tastes amazing after swimming and walking out. The kitchen has a pizza ovan made of elephant dung and our best chef, Jackson to cook for you.
The pool is situated below dropping off to a view of the river bed and elephants amoung the flat dotted Newtonia and Acacia trees. There is a pool bed to rest up in in. The shade and sun beds to catch the warmth while watching nature around rock hyrax and Lizards and eagles souring the thermals above. Further spa treatments massage and pedicures can be arranged for those who need rest and recuperation after long safari walks or the bumpy tracks in search of the big 5 elsewhere.
A day begins with the dawn chorus of the lowland birds the first light dances golden on your mosquito nets the hyrax and other small creatures awaken and like you may tiptoe out to a rock kopje to lap up the morning light. Hot tea and coffee with biscuits is served to your room and after a while meditating on the dawn you’ll be collected by our special guides to gather for a walk into the wild to gather the news of the natural world. Here everything is best seen on foot.
The soft sand river beds and ochre sand grasslands allow for easy walking with space to view all you see in a picturesque setting. Lowland wildlife like the lesser kudu, greavy zebra and striped hyena and the gerenuk are a special few.
Our guide has the ability to track animals from their spot to there laying ground be ready for some incredible different experiences. Whether it’s following a honey guide to the honey, hunting with a sparrow hawk, tracking a zorilla to its hiding place or stalking up on a leopard relaxing under a tree downwind having seen it from the lodge itself. If walking is not your scene we have open safari vehicles to take you on game drives to the places the wildlife congregate where you can enjoy sundowners surrounded by elephants in the warm evening light and returned refreshed by the light of the spotlight to catch a glimpse of the nocturnal world where lion, genet cat, wild and golden cats step out among porcupines leopard and owls to rule the night.
Tassia is the name of the most recent known mokogodo Maasai hunter who dwelled in the local caves in the 1950s. Tassia rock kopje was a favorite hunting ground for those last Yaku speaking hunters who made spears of the iron ore found around and hid in the mud wallows below the lodge waiting the elephant to drink then leaping out spearing them with their poisoned spears. This is the land of true worriers and hunter gatherers. This connection to the land and their ancient tribal culture runs rich in the Mokogodo blood. It’s culturally fascinating and here you can experience and learn how these people survived to be the last Maasai left in Laikipia. Walking and learning medicinal purposes of the trees and learning their art of fire making a wood carving metal work as well as beading with the women and visiting their real homesteads are a liberating and humbling experience as well as scaling mountain tops to be retold stories of fierce tribal battles where their right to belong was marked.
This land and this lodge belongs to the mokogodo Maasai people and Tassia is a truly unique experience in that your giving back to enrich a future heritage by coming to enjoy this brilliant beautiful and awe inspiring place where people live so at one among nature and in doing so continue to protect the flora and fauna of this diverse and rich environment. Being here with Martin enriches this experience with his knowledge experience and expertise on the culture and nature of this land having lived here most of his life and partly bringing up his children here.
Getting here is easy there’s an airstrip for those who can charter flights. We can pick you up from Lewa airport and take you on a two hour transfer game drive to reach here with chance of spotting black and white rhino or drive in on some of the most scenic tracks around which will deliver you from the upper slopes of Mount Kenya to the dry arid lands of Tassia.
Geust Quote: ‘Relaxing, Charming and Insightful. Tassia is a beautiful lodge with excellent staff and perfect hosts, can’t wait too spread the word’
Guest Quote: ‘Having never been to Africa let alone Kenya, I have been blown away. Words do not do this beautiful place justice. An oasis of Fantasticness‘
Geust Quote: ‘Amazing views, fantastic people, especially the Maasai Village, thanks for the great walks and animal discoveries, information and hosts. We love it all with unforgettable moments‘
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