Samburu Game Reserve

Set alongside the Ewaso Nyiro River, Kenya's biggest northern river, Samburu Game reserve covers an area of 165 Km² within the lands of the colourful Samburu people who are closely related to the Maasai.

Samburu is remote, off the main tourist route, and offers some great cultural interaction and experiences. Its home to a number of wildlife species including the ‘big five’ and the ‘special five’ rarely found elsewhere in Kenya. This is wildlife species only found north of the equator; these include the Reticulated Giraffe, Gerenuk, Grevy’s zebra and Somali ostrich.

Samburu Game Reserve is also an ornithologists’ paradise with over 450 bird species.