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User Reviews of Samburu National Reserve (81 Reviews)

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Avatar icon Margaret Lamont Visited: November 2013 Reviewed: Apr 16, 2015

Exciting, beautiful, fulfilling and peaceful

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I have visited Samburu on more than one occasion. It is scenically outstanding, the wildlife is varied and prolific, the people are very welcoming and the lodges I have frequented are all excellent. This is my favorite safari destination in Kenya.

Avatar icon LilyM Visited: February 2006 Reviewed: Apr 9, 2015

Very scenic, huge variety of wildlife, comfortable accommodations, good food.

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Samburu National Reserve was a great park to visit. It's a little off the beaten path so we had the scenary and wildlife viewing more to ourselves. I saw a greater variety of wildlife in this park than in any other I visited. The accommodations at Samburu were comfortable, the food in the lodge was very good and overall, from my experience, I would highly recommend it as a place to visit.

Avatar icon Mn Reddy Visited: August 2014 Reviewed: Apr 9, 2015

Kenya is the best wild life reserves on earth

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Yes i love Samburu National park a lot, bcz its having a unique semiarid weather conditions. I love there is abundant Bird life is there. The great big cats you will not miss anything, particularly the elephants due to its dusty conditions the back drop of Elephant shots will come out amazingly.
If any one will ask me do you recommend Samburu park, with out any hesitation i will vote to it.
Thanks.

Avatar icon Sue Visited: January 2015 Reviewed: Mar 24, 2015

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I loved Samburu National Reserve for my first view of animals I have never seen before, Grevy's Zebra, Gerenuk, and the Somali Ostrich.

Avatar icon florette kingston Visited: February 2009 Reviewed: May 24, 2014

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we saw huge herds of elephant up very close .The Samburu National Reserve is located on the banks of the Ewaso Ng'iro river in Kenya. We stayed at Larsens tented camp here and we extremely happy with the whole experience

Avatar icon Curtis Horton Visited: January 2002 Reviewed: Jul 2, 2012

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Opportunity to see unique wildlife, such as the Grevy's zebra. Overused, but still a magical place.

Male avatar icon Berend Netherlands flag NL       Visited: September 2011 Reviewed: May 2, 2012

65+ years of age

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Also a very quiet NP with a lot of animals and birds

Male avatar icon Angel P. A. Mexico flag MX       Visited: October 2007 Reviewed: Apr 19, 2012

35-50 years of age

An Exciting place for every kind of visitors with hihg density of animals and excelent services

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My general impression is a place to see animals on their real habitat on very close situations. I personally stayed at the Samburu Serena Lodge. They are really friendly and accommodations are great. Also the food at the buffet.
The reserve is a very small place but the river is the meeting point for all kind of animals. The secret is to get a good guide with experience in a vehicle on good conditions.
I did all my trip to Africa helped locally with Abercombie & Kent and for sure they are the best on the continent. I think the most important think is do arrangements with a local company plenty of experience capable on connections and services continuity from one park to another.

Female avatar icon MeisjeSanne Netherlands flag NL       Visited: August 2006 Reviewed: Apr 16, 2012

35-50 years of age

In the footsteps of Joy Adamson

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A wonderfull peacefull place, with a lot of wildlife. Giraffe, buffalo, waterbuck, elephants, zebra and the beautiful Grevy's zebra. Also Lion, leopard and cheetah are also quite easy to spot. The gerenuks wich stand on their hind legs to feed are great to see.

The landscape is rich and varied with hills and plains, wood, grassland and a river that runs through.

Female avatar icon joyandtony United Kingdom flag GB       Visited: October 2007 Reviewed: Apr 7, 2012

Email joyandtony  |  50-65 years of age

A truly wonderful experience, which fulfilled all our expectations. It was a holiday of a lifetime!

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We thought that the wildlife was superb spotting all the big five including a glimpse of a leopard, the scenery was great and the weather was very good. The accommodation was excellent staying in a lodge in Samburu National Park. We had own our guide who could not do enough for us taking us on extra safaris and we even visited a Samburu village and tasted their way of life. The food was well cooked and we even tried crocodile and ostrich eggs. Cannot wait to go back again