The Elephant Watch Safari
Elephants are special sentient creatures of high intelligence that are much like us. Our passion at Elephant Watch Camp is to understand all we can about the secrets of their world and to share this with you.
During your stay with us in Samburu, we'll take you out to meet many of our favourite individuals in this fascinating society of 1000+ elephants whom we've known intimately for more than two decades, that use Samburu and Buffalo Springs national reserves as part of their range.
The Winds, Storms, Spice Girls, Goddesses or Rivers are some of the sixty-six families you might meet in Samburu, along with their impressive matriarchs - Mistral, Monsoon, Cinnamon, Athena or Euphrates.
We'll point out the new-born babies and curious teenagers, as well as the enthusiastic nannies (allo-mothers) that rush around looking after them all, and explain the friendships and alliances that exist between families.​
Thanks to the long-term research of our conservation partner, Save The Elephants (who trained our team), we can now trace the family history of each calf born today, back through time about four generations.
Our guides know each of Samburu's elephants individually by name and the intimacy of our encounters with them is quite remarkable. The elephants have come to know and trust us over years of consistent, gentle interactions, so they are completely relaxed in our company.​
The more we learn about Samburu's individual elephants, the more we see that each has its own unique personality and character, and that 'family' is the single most important unit in elephant society.
Each time the elephants welcome us into the heart of their herds, we delight in the unadulterated pleasure of watching their lives unfold in un-hurried elephant-time, in a completely relaxed manner. ​​
