Samburu Game Reserve

Area  - 833 sq km (the 3 reserves combined)
Distance from Nairobi   - 340 km - 5 hours by road.

These three reserves lie adjacent to each other, and are located in the hot, arid northern region of Kenya. The three reserves are in the beautiful and still unspoilt country of the Samburu people. Proud, happy, friendly, they defy the modern world to go about their traditional business and still cherish the customs and colorful ceremonies of their ancestors. Ewaso Nyiro River goes through the three reserves. In fact this river forms the boundary between Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves. Each reserve is run separately.

As the area is so arid, game is concentrated along the banks of the river, making game viewing particularly good.

The reserves are within the land of Samburu cousins of the Masai and contain wildlife species rarely found else where including Grevy’s zebra, and the long necked gerenuk.

Other wildlife in the reserves: lion, herds of elephant, reticulated giraffe, leopard vervet and blue monkey, and Beisa oryx. The leopards are a very frequent sight in Samburu.

Bird life: Marshal eagle, pygny falcon, blue-legged Somali ostrich, hornbill and Egyptian geese.