How your bliss and happiness serves community

The sunshine is glittering on the wings of the small Cessna, when she is sliding downward and unhurriedly spiraling down to the airport between the Aberdeen Mountains and Mount Kenya. The pilot, Alain, - who looks with his specs and intense smile exactly as if Richard quest would sit at the console - turns his head to send a smile to the few passengers who are departing the aircraft before it will leave the airport of Nanyuki again.

We have only forty-minute drive in the sparkling sunshine and refreshing breeze to Olpejeta house which road takes us through more and more deserted bush where candid impalas are crossing our paths, serious looking and concerned warthogs pursuing their important business, and near to the horizon an elephant family congregate around the dark grey matriarch.

A lonely rhino with rise and fall of his heavy steps blocks our way for a while till he generously decides to take a smaller path to the left and lets our Landcruiser a free pass. Baboons are mingling in the shadow where two big adult male guarding jealously at the roadside the females and the babies. One quick nervous look into our direction with jerky turns of heads and we are no more attracting their attention.

The appearing house is surrounded with wall of dark green vegetation as if to protect the towering trees inside. We are greeted at the entrance with candid smile. Inside through delicately carved architecture the reflections of sunshine and windows are breaking into the rainbow colors of the spectra. Now we are in a spacious cave of spreading furniture in front of an enormous sized fireplace, which is so big that would perform pretty well in a fairy tale movie. Few steps across and we are on a veranda overlooking the plain; in the mist the distance is closed by the towering Mount Kenya: from here we could even better see the lace like fragments of the collapsed caldera, from this unusual angle exposing more small peaks around the usual giant one known from photographs. On the right curiously emerging from the canopy a swimming pool, and beyond the pool giraffes are drinking from the salty pond. On our left the veranda merges with the restaurant - colours are brown and warm, we are rather in a family invitation for lunch, served with attention and elegance: a leisurely slow pace of fastidious multitude of choices.

A surprise bottle of Chalk Hill Cabernet Sauvignon is waiting in our room. We pass our anterooms to our door marked “private”. Beyond this door an enormous room with a bed makes us groping agape. We walk further through the dressing room covered with wall to wall mahogany cupboards and beyond this is a super sized bathroom with the biggest ever bathtub surrounded by mirrors, furnished with fine carved dressing table, and every minutiae of refinery designed to blend in harmony for our service and to boost our individualist self.

Outside the veranda is bathing in reflected sunshine of the glittering surface of private swimming pool blended in a wonderful little botanic garden and secluded as your private enclosure. Proportion, size, dimensions, magnitude and serenity are the adjectives which comes to the mind to describe Olpejeta house.

But Ole pejeta is not only this. It is a 90,000-acre wildlife sanctuary with abundance of rhinos, elephants and swarming wildlife. Not too far from Olpejeta house there is the tented camp. We drove from the olpejeta house to the chimp sanctuary. This is an unique reserve because chimps are not indigenous animals in Kenya; actually those chimps were rescued from central and west Africa and being adopted here into a chimp group which lives on the both side of the river and actually separating them into two families. One can see the disheartening fate of the chimps – our nearest relatives in the nature together with the bonobos – and other great apes of Africa, which are cruelly exploited, massacred and traded in the black market. Its easy to get growing empathy for those very sophisticated animals and it is actually an easy way to adopt one – of course not literally, but you will know everything about the life of your adoptee and can closely follow his/her development.

There is also a rhino sanctuary, because here lives a very dense rhino population remaining still in Kenya: just consider few decade back we has 50,000 rhinos, and now only few dozens. Therefore here each and every rhino has its own rangers to guard and they course is followed by radio and satellite positioning device.

Olpejeta visitors, and everything what happens here including the sustainable agricultural livestock projects are supporting the local community and all income and profit goes back to ensure water, education, health care and other projects serving people.