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Lowis & Leakey Mobile Camp, Shaba
Shaba National Reserve
Kenya
Our traditional tented camp will be set up somewhere in the wilderness just for you. Staying here offers the ultimate privacy, flexibility, and spontaneity, allowing you to experience the rhythm of nature as intimately as possible.
Lara’s and Ninian’s families have used mobile camps to access the wilderness in comfort for many decades. We have custom-designed the tents to ensure they are spacious and comfortable. As this camp is truly mobile, the tents strike a delicate balance between luxury and practicality. The result is an unpretentious, stylish, and comfortable nomadic home.
Our guest tents have ensuite bathrooms with traditional camp showers, a flushing loo, comfortable bedding, and solar-powered lights.
You will be the only guests in camp, allowing you to dictate the pace of each day. Game drives and other activities are not pre-planned but based on daily discussions with your guides. Lara plans the menus and is happy to cater to any preferences, and the team takes pride in fabulously fresh food and homestyle cooking.
It can be fun to stay in the mobile camp in different areas of Kenya. You move to a lodge for a few nights while our team moves the camp.
About This Area
Shaba National Reserve lies alongside Samburu and Buffalo Springs Reserves on the edge of the semi-deserts of northern Kenya. Shaba is a magnificent wilderness with dramatic rock formations and towering hills. The dry scrub is broken by the green banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River that meanders through the reserve.
The river is a magnet for the regions wildlife; there are elephant, crocodiles and cats as well as plains game, the wildlife is shyer than in other areas. We will also see species that are endemic to northern Kenya such as Grevy's Zebra, gerenuk, Somali ostrich and the Reticulated Giraffe.
This is one of our favorite places for its combination of amazing scenery, wildlife and the opportunity to be out of the cars. We can explore along the rocky banks and beaches of the Ewaso Nyiro river, and do some great hikes through the gorge exploring the small caves that house old pottery and some rock art. Though we can have elephant and other animals wander into camp to drink from the spring – we do have to work hard here to see the game as the animals are shy. This is part of the appeal of Shaba, spotting and tracking game with Ninian, and the reward of finding it. We love to spend the hot afternoons down by the river under the shade of an acacia tree.
Lowis & Leakey Mobile Camp, Shaba
