Basecamp Samburu
Tented camp with star beds · Kalama Wildlife Conservancy · Saruni Basecamp
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Outside the gate
Safari company
Basecamp Samburu opened in January 2025 as the second camp in Kalama Wildlife Conservancy, where the conservancy fee applies and a drive into Samburu National Reserve is charged separately at $85 per non-resident adult. Five tents, four doubles and a family tent, plus star beds for a night out under the sky. No rate is published, so Saruni Basecamp quotes on request.
Why you'd pick it
- Second camp in Kalama, opened January 2025
- Five tents in around 200,000 acres of community land
- Star beds for sleeping out
What's here
- Family rooms
We could not reach a website for Basecamp Samburu, so this list is incomplete by definition. Ask them directly.
What the park charges on top
The rate above buys you a bed. Samburu National Reserve charges its own entry fee for every day you are inside. Here is what that adds up to.
- Park entrySamburu National Reserve; Buffalo Springs and Shaba charge $70.
- $85per person, per day
- VehicleA car under six seats at KES 800.
- $6per vehicle, per day
Three nights means three days inside, so two adults sharing one vehicle pay $528 in park fees before anyone pays for a bed.
No published validity period. The counties do not state whether a ticket runs 24 hours or a calendar day, so a multi-day stay could be charged either way.
The full fee schedule for Samburu National ReserveRates
On request. No rate published by the owner has been seen for this camp. Reservations at reservations@sarunibasecamp.com quote on request; ask whether the Kalama conservancy fee is inside the rate.
What the rate covers is not confirmed. We do not know yet whether meals, drinks and activities are included, so read this as the bed only.
Every figure on this page is in US dollars.
Checked in September 2026. This region publishes almost no rates in the open: nearly every camp hides its tariff behind an enquiry form or a PDF, and several operators' own websites were unreachable on the day we looked. Where that happened we say so and list the place as on request, because we only print a rate the owner has published. Agent and tour operator quotes are deliberately left off this page. County entry is extra everywhere: $85 per non-resident adult per day for Samburu National Reserve, $70 for Buffalo Springs and Shaba, and a conservancy fee instead of either if you stay outside the reserves.
Something this page does not answer?
This camp does not publish a rate, so the only way to a real number is to ask them or us.
Ask us. We answer questions about the park itself, and we can usually tell you which camps work on one route and who to write to. If what you want is a trip someone else arranges, we will say so and hand you to an operator we know, and we earn a commission if that becomes a booking.
Nothing on this site sits behind the form. Every figure we have is already on the page.