Steeped in culture SARARA CAMP
NAMUNYAK CONSERVANCY, MATHEWS RANGE, NORTH KENYA
Offered by Bush & Beyond, Sarara (meaning ‘meeting place’ in the Samburu language) is one of the oldest community-owned conservancies in East Africa and a role model for what they can achieve, having seen an elephant population that had been poached to near extinction return to a healthy 4,000 in number since Namunyak's inception in 1995. This dramatic landscape is home to the Samburu, whose age-old traditions, including their famed ‘singing wells’, are as much a part of the fabric of this land as the wildlife. Families have to dig deep to source water for their cattle, with a chain of people passing up
