A great deal of the World War 1 war fought, won and lost by the European super powers and their allies in our backyard. Lions Bluff is situated close to the strategic arena in the East African campaign of World War 1. We host a series of unique battlefield tours which retrace the battle lines of perhaps the most strange campaign in British and German military history. On the landscape around you a campaign to deny the Germans access to the Mombasa – Uganda railway line was conducted. Battles ensued, involving blowing up railway lines, Rolls Royce armoured cars, field guns salvaged from a sunken Royal Navy Cruiser and rickety aircraft from the Royal Naval Air Service and Royal Flying Corps.

Imperial troops came from many sources including the British Indian Army, European settlers in Kenya and South African volunteers. Large numbers of locally recruited askaris were also used by both sides. There were huge logistical problems such as poor communications, disease and lack of water. Indian Army engineers laid a water pipeline in 1916 from the high hills to the north east of Lions Bluff to Maktau and this is still in use today. The railway line they constructed is still to be seen in several places alongside the road from Voi towards the turn off to Lions Bluff.