Sopa Samburu

Location: Set within Samburu National Reserve

Rooms: Accommodation is in cottages, bandas and rooms

Stars: 4

Facilities: Restaurant, Pool, Game, Camp, Other

Samburu Lodge is set in a rugged landscape with a backdrop of jagged mountains and its own indigenous animals, unique to the region. The landscape, wildlife and vegetation is very different to the lush, rolling grasslands of other National Parks.

Samburu is the place for leopard, lion, elephant and crocodile. It is the place of the semi nomadic Samburu people. A place of thornbrush, open plains and vast horizons.

It gives one a taste of the romance of the desert. Samburu Lodge is beautifully situated on the banks of the Uaso Nyiro river with a wide choice of accommodation spread up and down the river in cottages, bandas and single or twin rooms, all facing the river.

Everything in the Lodge is geared to making the most of Samburu lodge's spectacular setting. The dining room is open on the river side with long tables and large buffets. The ever popular Crocodile Bar overhangs the water and is a great vantage point for the nightly feeding of crocodiles.

Animals of special interest in Samburu and rarely found elsewhere are the delicately marked Grevy's sebra, reticulated girraffe, gerenuk and the beisa oryx. The bird-life is especially notable.