A place of endless skies, dust-red plains and palm-fringed rivers, Samburu and Shaba National Reserves lie on the fringes of the vast and arid desert once known as the Northern Frontier District, whose heat-scorched scrublands extend all the way to the jade-green waters of Lake Turkana and beyond. Its dramatic landscape features rocky battlements, craggy scarps, dry river beds and fallen boulders rising out of the thorn scrub against a backdrop of the far-distant hills and the great red table mountain known as Lololokwi. Samburu provides one of the few sanctuaries in Kenya for the endangered Grevy’s zebra and the rare beisa oryx whilst large herds of elephant roam the gaunt hills during the day before returning to bathe on the banks of the river in the evening.

Accommodation in Samburu & Shaba

Images of Samburu & Shaba