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Samburu Maralal International Camel Derby

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Samburu Maralal International Camel Derby Description

Samburu Maralal International Camel Derby is held every August and is one of the most unique travel experiences. Each year, Camel Derby brings colour and action to the streets of Maralal as the finest Camels gather for the big race. This is a great attraction for many visitors and locals alike.

Kenya’s Northern Frontier is a wild and untamed region, where people still wander with the seasons, and where one of the continent’s unique events happens every August, the Maralal International Camel Derby. Maralal Town is a relatively large settlement for the area and is set on a hillside. It is the headquarters of the Samburu People who are the cousins of the Maasai.

Samburu Maralal International Camel Derby
Samburu Maralal International Camel Derby

The town is mostly a market town but the growth of tourism in the region in recent years has ensured that is serves as a base for tourist activities such as wilderness walks, white water rafting and Camel safaris – and of course the Maralal Camel Derby. This remote desert town is a haven for adventurers and nomads wanting to experience Kenya’s wild north.

Annual Derby Day in Maralal

The Camel has been the mode of transport for people in the region for centuries and as such a camel derby is part of the way of life. The single humped dromedary is the vehicle of choice and each year in August people gather to celebrate their animals.
The Maralal International Camel Derby is a three day event where everyone is welcome. In fact visitors can also try their hands at riding the camels as the completion is opened to amateurs as well. The people of the region mostly use their animals as pack animals and some only get ridden at the derby.
The Camel Derby certainly brings colour and celebration to the usually arid town and as more and more visitors experience the event the more the town will benefit.

Samburu Maralal International Camel Derby Contacts

Attraction Type:    Culture, Special Interest
Category:    Community Tourism, Camel Ride
Region:     North Rift
Road / Street:    Within Maralal
Telephone:     254 65 62456
Entrance Fee:    Yes

More About Kenya

Kenya is a world unto itself. Kenya is Africa’s original safari destination, attracting explorers, adventurers, and travelers for centuries. A safari to Kenya is a trip of a lifetime.

Tourist Attractions in Kenya:

Kenya has one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions sites, known for its diversity of landscape, wildlife, and cultures. From sweeping savannahs to tropical beaches and coral reef, dense equatorial forests to mighty snow-capped mountains, and more.

For more information visit: Tourists Attractions in Kenya

Kenya Safari

Kenya is the ultimate safari destination, providing travelers with a window into the heart of Africa. But this is not all that Kenya has to offer. Located near the equator, Kenya´s magic lies in the fact that the country encompasses an astounding variety of landscapes and climates, flora and fauna, as well as communities and cultures, home to water sports, a swim with dolphins and adventure.

For more information visit: Kenya Safari

Hotels and Accommodation in Kenya

Hotels in Kenya vary enormously in price and facilities. Luxury hotels in Kenya offer excellent standards of service and are comparable to the best hotels anywhere in the world. Kenya’s abundance of natural produce, combined with the rich variety of cultures and traditions, has created a great culinary nation.

The fertile volcanic soil of the Rift Valley produces a bounty of fresh vegetables, while the coast is a great source of tropical fruit and fresh seafood. The Kenyan coast is also the home of the world-renowned Swahili cuisine, a blend of Middle Eastern and African cooking with a particular coastal twist.

For more information visit: Hotels in Kenya

Towns in Kenya

Apart from the towns of Nairobi , Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru, Kenya has other major towns each a unique representation of the country’s striking abundance in flora and fauna. Most of these towns are headquarters in their respective counties or major economic bases in their regions. Luxury hotels and lodges located here provide good accommodation and conferencing facilities for guests who dare to try out a taste different from the capital or the coast.

For more information visit: Towns in Kenya

The Kenyan People Culture and Tradition

Kenya’s culture blends together diverse tribes, traditions, and religions into one beautiful, well-woven tapestry.  These traditions complement each other while incorporating the modern influences of globalization – resulting in a vibrant cultural spirit that is uniquely Kenyan. Kenya has over 42 different tribes with different languages and several dialects. Kenyan tourism has made the Maasai and Samburu tribes the most famous because of their long preserved culture.

For more information visit: Kenya People and Tribes

Eliye Springs

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A Guide To Eliye Springs

Eliye Springs is also known as Ille Springs, this is a beautiful site with a unique beach located in a remote village on the Western side of Lake Turkana. It produces lush vegetation along its section of the otherwise barren lakeshore, and supports a community of about 5000 people with fresh drinking water.
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Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary

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Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary Description

Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary is hosted by Bour-Algi village, south of Garissa town and was set to host internally displace giraffe that had been affected by the Kenya/Somali border skirmishes. Its name stems from the large presence of giraffes attracted by the abundant acacia trees.Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary
Community-based natural resource management programmes are crucial for the survival of wildlife populations because communities have a greater interest in the sustainable use of natural resources around them more than the centralized or distant government or private management institutions. The Garissa Sanctuary giraffe conservation project is a community based conservation initiative with the sole objective of conserving the reticulated giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis reticulata). The project focuses on the conservation and management of this species that once occurred throughout much of the horn of Africa, but is now, largely confined to Northern Kenya. In so doing the project will:
establish community-based ecological monitoring systems for the Sanctuary,
improve and expand security operations within the sanctuary, and
will undertake a preliminary assessment and ecological research within the Sanctuary.
Further, the project will work to promote capacity building and make management recommendations for the long-term compatibility of wildlife, livestock, and pastoralists in Garissa District. Results from this project will provide sorely-needed information on the basic ecology and natural history of these giraffe, and will form the basis of conservation and monitoring of this range restricted species in its native range in north-eastern Kenya.

Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary contacts

Attraction Type:    Wildlife
Category:    Animal Sanctuary
Region:     Northern
City / Town:    Garissa
Road / Street:    A3 Garissa
Telephone:     254 20 260 3243
Email:     info@wildlifedirectbeta.org
Website:     http://wildlifedirect.org/contact/
Entrance Fee:    Yes
Garissa Community Giraffe Sanctuary

More About Kenya

Kenya is a world unto itself. Kenya is Africa’s original safari destination, attracting explorers, adventurers, and travelers for centuries. A safari to Kenya is a trip of a lifetime.

Tourist Attractions in Kenya:

Kenya has one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions sites, known for its diversity of landscape, wildlife, and cultures. From sweeping savannahs to tropical beaches and coral reef, dense equatorial forests to mighty snow-capped mountains, and more.

For more information visit: Tourists Attractions in Kenya

Kenya Safari

Kenya is the ultimate safari destination, providing travelers with a window into the heart of Africa. But this is not all that Kenya has to offer. Located near the equator, Kenya´s magic lies in the fact that the country encompasses an astounding variety of landscapes and climates, flora and fauna, as well as communities and cultures, home to water sports, a swim with dolphins and adventure.

For more information visit: Kenya Safari

Hotels and Accommodation in Kenya

Hotels in Kenya vary enormously in price and facilities. Luxury hotels in Kenya offer excellent standards of service and are comparable to the best hotels anywhere in the world. Kenya’s abundance of natural produce, combined with the rich variety of cultures and traditions, has created a great culinary nation.

The fertile volcanic soil of the Rift Valley produces a bounty of fresh vegetables, while the coast is a great source of tropical fruit and fresh seafood. The Kenyan coast is also the home of the world-renowned Swahili cuisine, a blend of Middle Eastern and African cooking with a particular coastal twist.

For more information visit: Hotels in Kenya

Towns in Kenya

Apart from the towns of Nairobi , Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru, Kenya has other major towns each a unique representation of the country’s striking abundance in flora and fauna. Most of these towns are headquarters in their respective counties or major economic bases in their regions. Luxury hotels and lodges located here provide good accommodation and conferencing facilities for guests who dare to try out a taste different from the capital or the coast.

For more information visit: Towns in Kenya

The Kenyan People Culture and Tradition

Kenya’s culture blends together diverse tribes, traditions, and religions into one beautiful, well-woven tapestry.  These traditions complement each other while incorporating the modern influences of globalization – resulting in a vibrant cultural spirit that is uniquely Kenyan. Kenya has over 42 different tribes with different languages and several dialects. Kenyan tourism has made the Maasai and Samburu tribes the most famous because of their long preserved culture.

For more information visit: Kenya People and Tribes

Soysambu Conservancy

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A Guide To Soysambu Conservancy

Soysambu Conservancy one of the few privately owned large scale wildlife Conservancy was created as an entity to conserve the flora, fauna and scenery of Soysambu Ranch as part of the great rift valley ecosystem. It now supports a rich vegetation and birding life, while involved also in community development.

Soysambu Conservancy, a non-profit organisation, works to conserve the Soysambu Estate as a traditional wildlife area, which supports the integrity of the greater Rift Valley eco-system, while promoting sustainable coexistence of wildlife with livestock and at the same time being relevant to and part of modern-day Kenya.

Soysambu Conservancy
Located on Lake Elmenteita (within the “Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley” World Heritage Site, a Ramsar Convention Wetlands Site and a Bird Life International -Important Bird and Biodiversity Area), Soysambu Conservancy is bordered by Lake Nakuru National Park on the west, volcanoes Ol Doinyo Eburru to the south and Menengai to the north.  Consisting of 48,000 acres of diverse ecological significance, Soysambu Conservancy is home to more than 450 bird species (28% of the world’s population of Lesser Flamingo) and 10,000 mammals of over 50 species including 90+ Rothschild’s Giraffe (10% of the world’s population of this endangered species).

What to do at Soysambu Conservancy

  1. Game Drives– Day game drives offer peace and privacy, with chances to watch vast herds of zebras, gazelles, elands, waterbucks and buffalos, as well as family groups of black-backed jackals, warthogs, dik-diks and baboons.
    Night game-drives offer a unique opportunity to spot nocturnal creatures including the curious-looking aardvark and elusive leopard.
  2. Bird watching– Witness the spectacle of thousands of great white pelicans flying between Lakes Nakuru and Elementeita daily to fish and watch them feed their chicks on the islands of Elementeita. Watch thousands of lesser and greater flamingos feeding in the shallow waters of Lake Elementeita. Enjoy over 450 species of birds, over 80 of which are waterfowl.
  3. Nature Walks– Walk through the bush with an experienced tracker-guide, to experience the miracles of the bush close-up.
  4. Bush dining and Sundowners– Enjoy scenic safari ‘sundowner’ cocktails in the bush and bush dinners beneath the stars with flamingos flying overhead.
  5. Fly over Lake Elementeita in a hot air balloon at sunrise and see all three lakes as well as Mt Kenya
  6. Visit nearby Lake Nakuru National Park with its white and black rhino and prides of lion.
  7. Horse Riding
  8. Bicycling
  9. Camping

How to get to Soysambu Conservancy

By road: Soysambu Conservancy is approximately a distance of 135 km from Nairobi on the Nairobi-Nakuru highway and 30 kilometers from Lake Nakuru National Park.
By air: there is an airstrip beside the camp for private or chartere d flights.

A Map to Soysambu Conservancy

Soysambu Conservancy Contacts

Attraction Type: Wildlife
Category: Wildlife Conservancy, Birding Site
Region: South Rift
City / Town: Nakuru
Road / Street: Nairobi-Nakuru Highway
Telephone: +254 726 151041
+254 711 235039
Email: info@soysambuconservancy.org
Website: http://www.soysambuconservancy.org/
Entrance Fee: Yes

More About Kenya

Kenya is a world unto itself. Kenya is Africa’s original safari destination, attracting explorers, adventurers, and travelers for centuries. A safari to Kenya is a trip of a lifetime.

Tourist Attractions in Kenya:

Kenya has one of the world’s greatest tourist attractions sites, known for its diversity of landscape, wildlife, and cultures. From sweeping savannahs to tropical beaches and coral reef, dense equatorial forests to mighty snow-capped mountains, and more.

For more information visit: Tourists Attractions in Kenya

Kenya Safari

Kenya is the ultimate safari destination, providing travelers with a window into the heart of Africa. But this is not all that Kenya has to offer. Located near the equator, Kenya´s magic lies in the fact that the country encompasses an astounding variety of landscapes and climates, flora and fauna, as well as communities and cultures, home to water sports, a swim with dolphins and adventure.

For more information visit: Kenya Safari

Hotels and Accommodation in Kenya

Hotels in Kenya vary enormously in price and facilities. Luxury hotels in Kenya offer excellent standards of service and are comparable to the best hotels anywhere in the world. Kenya’s abundance of natural produce, combined with the rich variety of cultures and traditions, has created a great culinary nation.

The fertile volcanic soil of the Rift Valley produces a bounty of fresh vegetables, while the coast is a great source of tropical fruit and fresh seafood. The Kenyan coast is also the home of the world-renowned Swahili cuisine, a blend of Middle Eastern and African cooking with a particular coastal twist.

For more information visit: Hotels in Kenya

Towns in Kenya

Apart from the towns of Nairobi , Mombasa, Kisumu and Nakuru, Kenya has other major towns each a unique representation of the country’s striking abundance in flora and fauna. Most of these towns are headquarters in their respective counties or major economic bases in their regions. Luxury hotels and lodges located here provide good accommodation and conferencing facilities for guests who dare to try out a taste different from the capital or the coast.

For more information visit: Towns in Kenya

The Kenyan People Culture and Tradition

Kenya’s culture blends together diverse tribes, traditions, and religions into one beautiful, well-woven tapestry.  These traditions complement each other while incorporating the modern influences of globalization – resulting in a vibrant cultural spirit that is uniquely Kenyan. Kenya has over 42 different tribes with different languages and several dialects. Kenyan tourism has made the Maasai and Samburu tribes the most famous because of their long preserved culture.

For more information visit: Kenya People and Tribes

Watch a Video of Soysambu Conservancy