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Samburu
National Reserve
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Samburu Reserve, established in 1985, is an arid, hilly
region with riverine forests, doum palms, acacia woodland
and scrubland, offering a dramatic and rugged landscape in a rather remote location of Kenya - which is precisely the attraction of this reserve - fewer tourists in a wildlife rich, desert like setting amidst a colourful local tribe.
Samburu has a permanent water supply that's like a magnet for the numerous animal species,
that include the big Cats, herbivores and reptiles such as crocodiles. Samburu is one of the few parks where leopard spottings are frequent.
Samburu also offers superb bird-watching with numerous weaver
birds, the marial eagle and the blue legged somali ostrich. |
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Fact
File on Samburu National Reserve
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| Area
: 165 sq km Altitude: 800 to 1230 m [2620 - 4035
ft] |
| Access
from Nairobi : Road
: 344 kms (
5 hours ) |
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Park Fee Cost
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See Samburu Entrance Fees |
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Animals
: Gerenuk,
crocodiles, storks, leopards |
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Vegetation
: Doum
palms, acacia woodland and arid land |
| Birds
: Storks,
weaver birds, marial eagle, blue legged Somali Ostrich |
| Facilities
: Several
lodges |
| Attractions:
Various wildlife species
and the colourful Samburu people |
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Safaris
in Samburu Game Reserve
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3
Day Samburu Safari
This safari takes you to semi-desert
region in the north. Samburu National Park is renowned for
its many distinct species of wildlife including Reticulated
Giraffe & Somali Ostrich. Overnight at the lodge for 2 nights
with morning and afternoon gamedrives...
Click here
for more information.
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4
Day DikDik Safari
This safari takes you to semi-desert
region in the north. Samburu National Park is renowned for
its many distinct species of wildlife including Reticulated
Giraffe & Somali Ostrich. Overnight at the lodge for 2 nights
with morning and afternoon gamedrives then an overnight
at Mountain Lodge on the slopes of Kenyas Highest Mountain,
Mount Kenya...
Click here
for more information.
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A
nomadic people, numbering over 100,000 who moved south from the
horn of Africa into the current day Kenya, the Samburu tribe are
quite similar to the Maasai tribe with almost the same traits
and cultures but with the exception that the Samburu are found
on the northern part of the country whilst the Maasai are to the
south.
The Samburu are pastoralists with a close attachment to their
livestock, which they live off. Meat from sheep, goats and milk
from cattle are their principal foods, supplemented by the blood
of living cattle. The land they inhabited is mainly semi - arid
and offers few opportunities for agriculture except around the
hilly areas where maize, sorghum and wheat is now actively grown.
Despite sharing the same language as the Massai community, the
Samburu are more tolerant of other groups and their cultural rites
are elaborate, carefully followed with social ceremonies being
loud and colourful.
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