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SAMBURU / BUFFALO SPRINGS / SHABA GAME RESERVES

Samburu National Reserve lies 325 km north of Nairobi.   The semi-arid country of Northern Kenya framed by volcanic mountain ranges and dotted with lakes, each unique. Throughout the region, rare animals abound, the Reticulated Giraffe, Beisa Oryx, Grevy's Zebra, and long-necked Gerenuk. On the fringe of the hot and sparsely populated northern region of Kenya lies a small oasis, the Samburu Game Reserve.   Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves provide a different face of Africa in a hot semi-arid desert area, before the true desert stretches away to the north. It is a favorite spot for many returning visitors to Kenya.

There are a number of unique wildlife species rarely found elsewhere in Kenya: the Gravy zebra, the Beise Oryx, the blue-shacked Somali ostrich, the reticulated giraffe, and the shy, long necked gerenuk (the antelope giraffe).  Distinctive hills and mountains, interrupted by the Doum Palms, characterize the area where the lifeline for human and animal inhabitants is the sluggish Ewaso Nyiro River, with its large population of hippos and crocodiles nestled along the shady river edge. 

Shaba National Reserve is adjacent to Buffalo Springs Game Reserve immediately across the river.