Kembu Cottages & Campsite

10/09/2026

Kembu Nights. Fire and Song.
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01/09/2026

Music, birds, and the perfect family escape.

28/08/2026

27/08/2026

Can we have a minute?

The salad on your plate was growing here this morning. The pasta is made in house. So is the bread. What Kembu doesn't grow itself comes from farmers in the highlands around Njoro.

From Farm to Fork. Yeah, we do that.

Lunch is served. Come hungry.

📍 Pioneers Restaurant, Kembu Cottages & Campsite, Njoro.
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25/08/2026

Practice makes perfect!

The farm is the ultimate playground for kids. We have archery, farm walks, obstacle courses, and more at Kembu Cottages & Campsite.

24/08/2026

These guys might need some more practise with the frisbee.

18/08/2026

Just you, a tent, and nowhere to be.

12/08/2026

“But, for a little while, this is the place for us -- a good place too--a place of good omen, a place of beginning things--and of ending things I never thought would end.”
― Beryl Markham, West with the Night

10/08/2026

Acacia Cottage's most loved feature is a glassed in conservatory from which you get that inside outside feeling, the farm on one side, your morning coffee on the other.

A double room, a brass bathroom, and a conservatory that makes you want to sit still for a while.

📍 Kembu Cottages & Campsite, Njoro
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31/07/2026

Fathers, sons, and family politics... in the bird world!

The White-fronted Bee-eater has one of the most unusual family lives in the bird world.

In the late 1980s, biologists Stephen Emlen and Peter Wrege spent years studying them at Lake Nakuru, right here in the Rift Valley. What they found was remarkable, fathers actively disrupting their own sons' breeding, chasing them, stealing food meant for their mates, blocking nest entrances. The sons, rather than fight back, would abandon their own breeding attempts and stay to help raise their younger siblings instead. The study was published in Nature in 1992 and changed how scientists understood family behaviour in birds.

The White-fronted Bee-eater is a Rift Valley bird. It favours open grassland and cliff faces at the altitude where Kembu sits on the valley's western wall.

📍 Kembu Cottages and Campsite, Njoro
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