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Shompole Lodge

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From Travel + Leisure , JAN 2005

Overlooking Kenya's Great Rift Valley at the edge of the Nguruman Escarpment, Shompole Lodge is a successful alliance between a private safari company and the Masai, who are employed as hotel staff and rangers. At present, the Shompole Group Ranch community receives conservation fees and increasing shares in the lodge. (By 2018, they are expected to gain majority ownership.) This gradual earn-in gives the Masai time to hone their operational skills while the safari company maintains a base in one...MORE>>

– Shane Mitchell Living Culture

From Travel + Leisure , JUL 2003

Shompole seamlessly blends understated luxury and responsibility in its six soaring tent structures with their river-rock walls, in-room springs, and 180-degree big-game views. The natural fuel­heated showers and composting toilets are impressive, but the real revolution is Shompole's partnership with the Masai community, which is training more than 40 tribespeople to assume majority ownership within 15 years....MORE>>

– David Hochman 25 Great Ecolodges

Last updated January 2005