Samburu & Meru Lodges

Samburu & Meru Lodges

The Samburu reserve is one of Kenya's newer parks. Located about five hours north of Nairobi in a remote, dry and arid as well as hilly region; all part of the Great Rift Valley. This remoteness serves the visitor well as there are fewer tourists in this game rich and wilderness environment. There exist here more exotic game species seldom seen in other parks such as gerenuk, reticulated giraffe and the blue legged Somali ostrich as well as more frequent leopard sightings. Samburu has a permanent water supply fed from Mount Kenya and consequently, the profusion of the game also produces numerous predator species balancing each other.

Famed conservationists George and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the lion cub here. Elsa became the main character of the popular book and the award-winning movie "Born Free." In recent years, the reserve has gained notoriety as the home of the unusual lioness named Kamunyak, who garnered media attention for adopting and caring for oryx calves. The Samburu reserve is named after the Samburu tribe, close relations in customs, habits and dress to their southern cousins, the Maasai.

Our expert consultants will guide you as to the choice of excellent lodges and camps available as part of your bespoke itinerary.

Lodges In The Samburu & Meru

  • Sabuk Lodge

    Sabuk Lodge was fashioned out of the local landscape, built with local materials, twisted wood and stone boulders incorporated into the architecture, open walls and private veranda's face out over the Ewaso Nyiro River gorge 150 feet below.

  • Joys Camp

    Joy's Camp is an elegant oasis in the arid lands of Samburu; Joy's Camp is built on the site of Joy Adamson's tented home in Shaba National Reserve. The site was also home to Penny the leopard, the heroine of her last book.

  • Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

    Sarova Shaba Game Lodge offers a unique experience that extends beyond game drives in the reserve, a plethora of activities to indulge in from bird watching to camel safaris to the viewing deck along the river to feed and watch crocodiles.

  • Sasaab Lodge

    The Sasaab Lodge with 9 luxurious rooms is in the midst of a community conservancy, rich in raw Samburu culture and traditions and has been built with wildlife conservation and preservation of the environment foremost in mind.

  • Saruni Samburu

    Perched on the top of the Kalama mountains with an all-round view of Northern Kenya all the way to snow-covered Mount Kenya, Saruni Samburu is a design lodge that is introducing a fresh concept to a well-known safari destination.

  • Elephant Bedroom Camp

    Elephant Bedroom Camp with 12 magnificent tented suites et on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River in Samburu National Reserve offers guests the chance to view huge herds of elephant, prides of lion or the solitary leopard.

  • Elsa's Kopje

    Elsa's Kopje is a luxurious oasis in the wilds of Meru National Park. Elsa's Kopje was named after Elsa the lioness made famous by George and Joy Adamson in the film 'Born Free', released into the wild here in Meru.

  • Samburu Intrepids Camp

    Samburu Intrepids Camp with 30 tented rooms is located 345 kilometres north of Nairobi, each tent sits on a raised deck overlooking the river where the elephants make an appearance or the crocodiles come out onto the river's banks.

  • Lewa Safari Camp

    Lewa Safari Camp is situated in the Northwest of the Conservancy, the safari Camp offers all the comforts of home, steamy hot showers, flush toilets, warm comfy beds at the end of a long day's game viewing.

  • Ol Malo Game Lodge

    Ol Malo Game Lodge is a privately owned game sanctuary on the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River in Kenya's wild and beautiful North Eastern Province, overlooked by Mount Kenya and teeming with the elusive antelope and wildlife.

  • Loisaba Tented Camp

    7 luxurious rooms at Loisaba Tented Camp overlook 60,000 acres of wilderness in a private conservancy, this stunning lodge clinging to the edge of a five hundred foot escarpment in Laikipia has unsurpassed views which defy description.
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