Tag: Buffalo Springs

• Buffalo Springs: Of Blue Pools and Pink Elephants

  

  ‘You guys missed all the action!’, one of the rangers said, as we returned to camp from a long morning game drive. ‘A big crocodile dragged an impala into the river, and then fought with three other crocodiles over the scraps!’ They would have had a good view of this toothy tussle – the Spring […]

  Jan Fox

  16/02/2020

  Camping, Travel

  Buffalo Springs, Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Camping, Elephants, Leopard, Lions, Recent, Samburu, Samburu National Reserve, Swimming, Wild Camping, Wildlife

• Camping on the Banks of the Ewaso Nyiro

  

  A couple of weeks ago I covered a recent trip to the Shaba National Reserve, and a night at the Sarova Shaba Game Lodge. As part of that trip, my fiancée and I also camped along the Ewaso Nyiro River, at one of the reserve’s many campsites. Accommodation options are limited in Shaba, but I […]

  Jan Fox

  12/08/2018

  Camping, Travel

  Buffalo Springs, Camping, Isiolo, Isiolo County, kenya, Samburu, Shaba, Shaba National Reserve

• A Weekend at the Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

  

  Tales of riverside campsites, crystal-clear springs and waterfalls had recently elevated Shaba to the top of my list of places to visit in Kenya. The 240sq.km reserve forms part of a much larger ecosystem that includes Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves, but Shaba is the least visited of the three. This relative obscurity simply […]

  Jan Fox

  15/07/2018

  Travel

  Buffalo Springs, Isiolo, Mount Ololokwe, Northern Kenya, Safari, Samburu, Sarova, Sarova Hotels, Sarova Shaba Game Lodge, Shaba, Shaba National Reserve