Samburu · Kenya

Samburu Intrepids Camp

Safari accommodation in Samburu

Samburu Intrepids is renowned as a pioneer of luxury camping in one of the world’s last truly great wilderness areas and guests can view this dramatic wilderness from many fascinating perspectives.

Samburu Intrepids Camp offers 27 modern tents with a private view over the wildlife-rich riverbanks. The tent has soft four-poster beds, mahogany closets and desks and en-suite bathrooms with hot showers. The bathrooms also offer twin washbasins, flush toilets, and sockets for shavers and battery charging. The tented camp roofing is all palm-thatched and is raised on stilts to catch the cooling breeze coming from the river.

Activities Samburu Intrepids Camp

The main dining room opens onto an outdoor dining terrace where buffet breakfasts, lunches and dinners are served overlooking the river. (Meals can also be enjoyed on your private verandah or at one of the specially selected ‘bush sites’ close to the camp.) Buffet lunches and candlelight dinners are served on an elevated deck amidst the high shade trees.

Facilities include: dining areas overlooking the river, lounge and bar, freeform ‘oasis’ swimming pool and sunbathing garden, small conference room with television/VCR facilities, boutique with souvenirs and safari essentials, telephone, e-mail, fax and postal services and professional health and beauty treatments.

As a member of the Heritage Hotels group of properties, Samburu Intrepids features the renowned Adventurers’ Club for the kids. For children aged under 12 years The Adventurers’ Club includes activities such as:

Build your own mini Maasai homestead Have a close brush with a toothbrush tree Learn to make a fire with a pair of sticks Catch and study the brightest butterflies Plant a tree and help bring back the rains Cast big cat tracks from the real thing Make friends quiver with your own bow Learn how to identify birds of all feathers Stalk victory in the bush treasure hunts And for older children (aged 12-17 years) there is: Bush orienteering First aid Snake and bird identification Tree identification Mammal behaviour studies Guided bush walks

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