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The emphasis here is mainly on walking excursions, with local Namunyak community game scouts being employed as your guides. Sarara Camp (the old Rhino sanctuary head quarters) with its lush green lawns, pool and tented accommodation, provides visitors with an insight to conservation and wildlife management at its best! Sarara is a dry season refuge for several hundred elephant and numbers increase dramatically during the rainy seasons. Lion and leopard are resident and there are two separate groups of the endangered African wild dog, with one pack numbering at least thirty individuals. Other wildlife species of particular interest include kudu, Grevy’s zebra, striped hyena and gerenuk. There are black and white colobus monkeys in the forest.
Location:
Situated to the north of Ol Donyo Sabache, in the Mathews Mountains of Northern Kenya.
Accommodation and facilities:
Sarara tented camp has five luxury sleeping tents, each with its own flush loo and open-air bush shower. Each of these delightfully appointed dwellings have exceptionally comfortable beds with quality bed linen. There is a beautiful lounge/dining banda which overlooks a natural rock swimming pool and waterhole affording unrivalled views of the Mathews Mountains beyond. The main lounge and dining area are on a wooden deck with commanding views of the Northern Frontier.
Activities:
Activities include escorted bush walks with local scouts, guided hikes into the Mathews rainforest, climbs to the top of Lolokwe and moonlit bush dinners beside natural animal watering points. Sarara also has the facility to offer fly camping safaris with camels along the wide sand ‘luggas’.
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