An Elephant Watch Safari
If you're passionate about ethical travel or diving deep into the sentient minds of wild creatures, an Elephant Watch Safari is the best place to start.
From the luxurious comfort of your new home-in-the-wild at Elephant Watch Camp, Samburu, we offer expert conservation-led safaris that engage in the most authentic and thoughtful way with traditional nomadic cultures and specialise in profound encounters with elephants and other wild life.
Our warrior-ambassadors from the local nomadic community immerse you in Kenya's last great frontier, introducing you with reverence and the gentlest etiquette to the 1000+ wild elephants that roam feely across this vast landscape. Their astute understanding of the wild is gleaned from long experience and draws on chasmic reservoirs of traditional knowledge.
Our guests describe elephant-watching in Samburu as "transformative", akin to once-in-a-lifetime encounters with great apes or whales.
Starting mid May, the elephant season runs through summer to the end of October when Camp closes briefly for the rains. We freshen up for the coming holiday season, opening again in the first week of December just as elephants sail back in to the park to socialise in their hundreds.
With a fresh green landscape bursting full of plentiful food you'll watch newborn calves fumble through first steps, pirouetting females lace the air with pheromones, and mighty musth bulls fight for the right to mate.
As the land dries up, the elephant families begin to drift apart until storm clouds build again in the sky, announcing the coming of the long rains at the end of March. We close at the first downpour - when the elephants scatter - until the start of May when the cycle begins again!
