- Tier
- Luxury
- Style
- Manor house
- Size
- 9 rooms
- Region
- Lewa
- Nearest airstrip
- Lewa Downs airstrip
- Drive from strip
- 30 min
The Craig family's original homestead, a heritage stay that pioneered conservation tourism on what was once a working cattle ranch turned rhino sanctuary.
Run by the founding Craig family, Lewa Wilderness is a collection of characterful rooms — six panoramic Hill Rooms and three Garden Rooms — overlooking the valley on the eastern edge of the conservancy. Beyond classic game drives it offers riding, fishing, mountain biking and even scenic flights in a vintage biplane. Over forty years of deep family roots give it a warm, lived-in sense of place that few lodges can match.
Flying in
The nearest airstrip is Lewa Downs airstrip, about 30 min by road from the lodge. See the real fly-in routes and how the rest of the region connects on the Getting Around map.
Open the fly-in mapEach Wildtouch safari is quoted individually — rates depend on your dates, the camps you choose and how it all links together. Wildtouch prices the whole journey, not a per-night sticker.
Safaris that visit Lewa
Lewa Wilderness sits in Lewa. These are the routes we run through it — each one rebuilt around you, with your choice of camp.
10-Day Luxury Kenya Fly-In Safari: Amboseli, Lewa & Maasai Mara
A ten-day luxury Kenya fly-in safari from Amboseli's tusker elephants beneath Kilimanjaro, to the exclusive 62,000-acre Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, ending in the Maasai Mara and Naboisho Conservancy for the Great Migration and big-cat country.
View this safari →14 days14-Day Rwanda Gorillas & Kenya Luxury Fly-In Safari
Two weeks across two countries, flown rather than driven — an hour with mountain gorillas in Volcanoes National Park, then Kenya's conservancies by bush plane: elephants beneath Kilimanjaro in Amboseli, rhino country at Lewa, and big cats in Mara Naboisho.
View this safari →Other places to stay nearby
Lewa Safari Camp
The only guest camp actually owned by the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, so its conservancy fees flow straight into rhino protection and community work — a textbook conservation stay set inside one of Kenya's most celebrated rhino sanctuaries.
LuxuryLewa House
A genuinely owner-hosted home on a UNESCO World Heritage rhino conservancy, where game drives sit alongside horse and camel riding safaris with sweeping views to Mount Kenya and the Mathews Range.
LuxuryBorana Lodge
An owner-run conservancy lodge whose profits directly fund Borana's rhino and wildlife operations, perched on a ridge with unobstructed views over the savannah to Mount Kenya.
Ultimate luxurySirikoi Lodge
An intimate, family-run lodge inside Lewa with an outstanding farm-to-table kitchen and exclusive-feeling access to the conservancy's full activity range.
Ultimate luxuryKifaru House
An intimate, often exclusive-use lodge named after the Swahili word for rhino, set within Lewa's healthy black and white rhino populations and home to Grevy's zebra and reticulated giraffe.
Ultimate luxuryArijiju
An award-recognised architectural landmark clad in local Meru stone and inspired by monastic design, with a strong wellness focus and conservation ethos.