About the lodge
Saruni rhino is in 350,000 hectares Sera conservancy, in the northern frontier of Kenya. Saruni rhino offers the first rhino tracking in East Africa, a walking safari that provides an adventure, but also allows the guests to contribute to the protection of this species. Herds of elephants populate this vast landscape, offering also birdwatching and cultural experiences with the singing well.
Rooms
Saruni rhino is a 3-banda camp. A banda is a rustic stone cottage with a thatched roof and canvas roll down windows. All bandas have flushing loos, hot & cold water and natural stone showers. The bandas are along a dry river bed lined with doum palms in a way that ensures privacy for guests.
Banda 1
Banda 1 is an open banda that sleeps 2 people, with a bathroom & stone shower and flushing toilet in the room. It is open plan in style with no room divider so more than 2 guests sharing will need to feel comfortable in the open-plan space. A sandy terrace has chairs and tables overlooking the lugga, the dry river bed.
Banda 2
Banda 2 is an open banda that sleeps 2 people. The en-suite bathroom & stone shower and flushing toilet is within the banda. A sandy terrace has chairs and tables overlooking the lugga, the dry river bed. A nearby tree bed provides resting space.
Banda 3
The family banda 3 is composed of 2 x double bedrooms sleeping 4 people. Both rooms have en-suite bathrooms & natural stone showers with flushing toilets. A shared lounge provides a cool retreat from the large stone verandah which also has outside seating & tables and has the best view of the waterhole directly in front.
Rhino tracking
Walking safari provides a unique adventure whilst also allowing guests to actively contribute to the protection of this iconic species. Tracking black rhino on foot, accompanied by an expert Saruni guide and a highly-trained Sera community ranger, equipped with a transmitter correlating to the GPS whereabouts of the 12 rhino throughout the 54, 000 hectares-large sanctuary.
Rhino sanctuary
Sera community conservancy, home to around 16, 000 Samburu semi-nomadic pastoralists which form part of the sub-tribe of the Maasai, here is where essentially a sanctuary within a conservancy was formed. Highly secure and fenced, a group of black rhino were re-introduced to Sera conservancy rhino sanctuary to spread and increase Kenya’s black rhino population and encourage visitors to the remote and stunning part of the country with a fully community-focused ideology to encourage the sustainable benefits of conservation that Saruni so strongly believes.
Black rhino introduction
An area which for over 40 years has seen the depletion of the black rhino, until now, where one of the most advanced conservation projects has taken place and the first of its kind, whereby a group of black rhino has been successfully reintroduced in the fenced, maximum protection sanctuary offering the endangered species a chance to flourish.
Singing wells
A totally unique and intimate tradition, the singing wells of Samburu remain an exclusive experience we offer our guests. Home to the fifty wells, Kisima Hamsini, a series of fifty springs where local pastoralists take their livestock to water, digging deep in the barren land filling up wells to in-turn fill up holders and troughs whilst singing a unique melody to which each Moran’s herd heeds.
