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Elephant Watch Camp is super eco-chic and offers an unrivalled experience, thanks to our links with Save the Elephants and the Ewaso national reserves (Samburu and Buffalo Springs).
- Save The Elephants
I’ve been involved with Save the Elephants (STE) ever since...
- TV Series
Co-presented by Saba Douglas-Hamilton, Jonathan Scott and...
- About Saba
Saba lives in Kenya with her husband, Frank Pope, and...
- Wildlife Filmmaker & Conservationist
Saba works in parallel to STE, running a social enterprise –...
- Save The Elephants
- Day 1 Meet Your Guide and Go on An Elephant Safari
- Day 2 Volunteer with Save The Elephants Team
- Day 3 Helicopter Safari Tour of The ESASO Nyiro River
- Day 4 Meet The Samburu For A Hosted Party
- Day 5 Nairobi and A Visit to The Elephant Orphanage
- Visit Orphaned Elephants
You’ll fly north from Nairobi to the Samburu National Park, where you’ll be collected from the airstrip and driven to Elephant Watch Camp, home to the Douglas-Hamiltons and your base for the next four nights. Elephant Watch Camp has just six individually styled tents with colourful cloth drapes and eclectic furniture. Each tent has an en-suite bath...
After a morning wildlife drive, you have lunch with the field staff from Save The Elephants. Over lunch the research team will provide a short synopsis of the work Save The Elephants is doing in the fight to protect these wonderful animals. After lunch you head out with the research team in vehicles to find the elephants, so that you can assist wit...
With a bird’s eye view of the endless plains and wide skies, you land for a picnic breakfast on Mathews Range. Known as a ‘sky island’, the 150km long Mathews Range rises from the dry desolate country exposing lush forested hills and craggy peaks. Natural springs and rivers flow through the valleys, and sacred sites of the Samburu lay hidden for fe...
This morning you have a relaxed morning in camp and you have the opportunity to go on a wildlife drive to find some of the rarer species in northern Kenya such as the gerenuk, Grevy’s zebra and reticulated giraffe. You return to camp for lunch and have a relaxed afternoon at the river’s edge. After high tea you have an evening walk to a sundowner s...
This morning you go on an early morning wildlife drive and take in your last sights of the Samburu. You have a bush brunch in the heart of the Samburu National Reserve before your guide returns you to the airstrip in time to meet your private light aircraft flight to Wilson, Nairobi’s domestic airport. On arrival into Wilson, you are met by a drive...
To complete this elephant inspired itinerary we can easily include an optional visit to the David Sheldrick elephant orphanage in Nairobi. This wonderful sanctuary is open to the public for an hour every day between 11 am and noon during which time the orphans arrive for their midday mud bath and feeding. If you choose to foster an elephant you can...
Douglas-Hamilton has served as a trustee of Save the Elephants, a charity founded by her father. Based in Samburu National Reserve in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya , Save the Elephants carries out detailed long-term monitoring of the local elephant population, and deploys sophisticated elephant tracking techniques there and across the continent.
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ABOUT. The idea for Elephant Watch Camp came to Oria Douglas-Hamilton when she and her family – husband Iain and daughters Saba and Mara – were in Canada for the premiere of an IMAX film – Africa’s elephant kingdom they had worked on in the late 1990s. One afternoon the family took a whale-watching boat trip in the waters off Vancouver.
She also runs Elephant Watch Camp, an intimate eco-camp and life-long partner of Save the Elephants. Back to our people. Saba Douglas-Hamilton is a conservationist, filmmaker and TV host. She served as a Trustee of Save the Elephants (STE) for a decade and is now their lead….
