About Your Stay

The Ark is built to resemble its namesake, raised on stilts over the Aberdare forest and looking down onto the Yasabara waterhole and salt-lick — one of the largest in the Aberdare range. Guest decks, balconies and a glassed-in lounge put the waterhole at eye level from almost every part of the lodge.
The waterhole is floodlit from 6pm until dawn, and each of the 60 en-suite rooms has a buzzer system that sounds when something worth seeing — elephant, rhino, buffalo, leopard, or the rarer genet and suni — arrives below.

Signature experience: All-night floodlit waterhole viewing from private balconies and a glassed lounge, with an in-room buzzer alert for notable sightings