For us, Sarara must rate as one of the loveliest places in Africa, certainly in Kenya. The lodge is exclusive, it can only accommodate about 5 couples, and the facilities are comfortable in the extreme where your every need is pre-empted. We have visited Sarara twice before, but as paying punters rather than passing DIY campers. Its situation in a virgin African landscape, where there is no sign or sound of other human habitation other than the indigenous Samburu tribesmen, makes it almost exclusively unique. The whole area is run as a Game Conservancy project, heavily involving the local tribesmen who benefit financially from the arrangement. In consequence the wildlife has prospered, elephants abound, and other species thrive too. The birdlife around the camp area, let alone in the Conservancy itself, is wonderful and this morning
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