Samburu, Kenya
Sasaab
Sasaab is a beautiful lodge in northern Kenya that offers a true wilderness experience in complete comfort and privacy. This area of Kenya is remote, wild and perfect for disconnecting daily life and immersing yourself in nature. Sasaab is a beautiful lodge in northern Kenya that offers a true wilderness experience in complete comfort and privacy. This area of Kenya is remote, wild and perfect for disconnecting daily life and immersing yourself in nature.
Sasaab is a beautiful lodge in northern Kenya that offers a true wilderness experience in complete comfort and privacy. This area of Kenya is remote, wild and perfect for disconnecting daily life and immersing yourself in nature. Sasaab is a beautiful lodge in northern Kenya that offers a true wilderness experience in complete comfort and privacy. This area of Kenya is remote, wild and perfect for disconnecting daily life and immersing yourself in nature.
Location
Situated above the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River, in the arid heart of Samburu community land, Sasaab’s tranquil setting offers views towards the Laikipia Plateau and of Mount Kenya.
Accommodation
Accommodation at Sasaab consists of eleven exquisitely designed and decorated tented suites, each over 100 meters squared comprising of a bedroom, sitting room and en-suite bathroom. Electricity is solar powered and all tents have cooling fans and a private plunge pool. The main area sits on a high rocky ridge allowing guests to enjoy the spectacular views through the Moroccan interior and courtyard.
The main swimming pool is perched on the hill side overlooking the river, while massage and beauty treatments are offered from the privacy of your tent. At meal times a strong emphasis is placed on the highest quality and freshest products and many of the dishes are of a Moroccan influence.
Experiences
- Enjoy traditional game drives - day or night - alongside a wide range of other activities including bush walks along the river, mountain biking, quad biking and camel rides.
- For a flavour of the authentic safari experience of days gone by, spend a night fly-camping out in the wilderness.
- Spot the Samburu ‘Special Five’, five creatures unique to northern Kenya: Somali ostrich, Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, Besia oryx, and gerenuk.
- Learn more about the local Samburu culture by visiting nearby community projects, markets and villages.
- To see Samburu from a new perspective, take to the skies in a helicopter and soar over some of Kenya’s most dramatic landscapes.
Positive Impact
We prioritise working with properties that collaborate with local communities and address location-specific needs from education to anti-poaching. We assess our partners to ensure the people we work with share our values of ensuring our trips continue to act as a force for good. Here we share some of the positive impacts your stay here contributes to.We prioritise working with properties that collaborate with local communities and address location-specific needs from education to anti-poaching. We assess our partners to ensure the people we work with share our values of ensuring our trips continue to act as a force for good. Here we share some of the positive impacts your stay here contributes to.
Conservation
The area surrounding Sasaab holds one of the largest remaining populations of grevys zebra on earth and the camp partners with the Grevy’s Zebra Trust to help conserve and protect this stunning and unfortunately endangered zebra subspecies.
Environment
Every year Sasaab’s parent company; The Safari Collection, plants trees in carefully chosen areas supporting vital water catchments and where indigenous forests are in need of reforestation and protection. Since 2019, Sasaab has become their first fully carbon negative lodge. It plants enough trees to absorb more carbon dioxide than the lodge and all its activities produce, making it a climate positive property.
Community
As part of the conservancy within which the camp resides, Sasaab protects a core area dedicated to wildlife conservation and predominantly employs its staff directly from the local community. Since Sasaab opened it has put over one million dollars back into the Westgate Community Conservancy to help them with their own projects including security, roads, schools, clinics and general management.
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