It’s not often a manager asks you to pick up some whipping cream and a couple of lettuces on the way to your hotel. But when we finally reach Sasaab, a luxury lodge in the heart of Kenya’s wild Northern Frontier, I can see why popping out to the shops is tricky.
The lodge is a hot and dusty, nine-hour drive north from Nairobi through a succession of thrilling landscapes – lush valleys, shimmering wheat fields in the foothills of Mount Kenya – followed by close encounters with elephant in Samburu National Reserve. Then there’s another bumpy hour’s drive across arid plains, where Samburu warriors in scarlet kikois and brilliant beads herd their cattle.
I travelled to Sasaab, a luxury lodge in northern Kenya, for Conde Nast Traveller.