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Ruma National Park
Dubbed the "Last Retreat of the Roan Antelope", The park protects the only indigenous population of rare roan antelopes within Kenya Details
Lake Simbi Nyaima
Simbi Nyaima means the village that sank. Simbi Nyaima is actually a crater lake a few kilometers from the shores of Lake Victoria. Details
Lake Victoria
This is the World's largest fresh water lake. Come experience the best voyage with our boat rides in the lake to the famous cradle of Mankind Rusinga Island.
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Staridge Accommodation
Staridge Hotel is Homabay’s largest with the most exiting conference. An exquisite hotel at the Heart of Homabay County. Staridge Hotel offers supreme luxury accommodation, beautifully landscaped gardens and a world class restaurant. It is easily accessible since it is an hour away from Kisumu International Airport, which is 45 minutes from JKIA(Jomo Kenyatta International Airport), you are assured of catching up with your international flight in two hours from Hotel Staridge.
The hotel offers a wide variety of rooms larger than global standards, with ensuite marble bathroom, elegant tilled floors, and antique shoe stand. All our rooms are spread out in three floors with some of the rooms overlooking the beautiful Lake Victoria.
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Staridge Restaurant
Staridge Hotel offers a world class cuisine and a refreshing ambiance. It is the only hotel in South Nyanza in which you can enjoy a dining safari within the hotel grounds.
We offer a stunning selection of flame roasted barbecued meat(Nyama Choma) served on skewers. If you are in the mood for the Lake Victoria varieties of fish, come enjoy it as cooked in the African way.
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Historical Land Marks
One more reason you should come to Staridge Hotel is to tour some of our landmarks one being Lake Simbi where the flamingoes are back and they long to be domesticated in homes! According to the Luo myth, they are the domestic fowls that the Lady of the Lake (Nyanam) turned into wild birds as the Simbi village was being sunk as punishment for her slighting. But they have a photographic memory of where they came from, and so return often to lake Simbi and the outlying villages. Come see for your self.
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Visiting of Game Parks
Dubbed the "Last Retreat of the Roan Antelope", Ruma National Park is the only terrestrial park in Nyanza Province. The park protects the only indigenous population of rare roan antelopes within Kenya
The Lambwe valley’s tsetse-fly-ridden bush, protected as Ruma National Park, is one of the few places in Kenya where you can see Jackson’s hartebeest and two extremes of the antelope family: the miniature oribi and the enormous, horse-like roan , which is found only here. Roans are extremely rare, and the best place to see them is among the park’s western grasslands, which are often hit by community fires that spread into the park from the west – they like the fresh grazing on burnt ground. Ruma also has about seventy beautiful Rothschild giraffe which aren’t too hard to see above the tall grass. Details
Boat Cruizing
Staridge hotel offers outdoor activities like boating rides and game drives to Ruma National Park , Lake Simbi, Rusinga,
Some historic places are like Nyamgondho where it is believed, The rock formations resembling the Lady of the Lake’s footsteps and those of her animals can be seen at the point where she entered the water. People in the Nyanza region in Kenya believe that the water which flows above the ‘footsteps’ has medicinal powers and they come from as far as Kisumu to collect it.
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Hiking
In addition to our hospitable staff and Best accomodation in Homa-Bay town, we also arrange for local hicking tour of Homa hills where the magical experience words cannot explain but the visit will blow your mind.
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