Elephant Bedroom Camp lies inside the Samburu National Reserve on the bank of the Ewaso Nyiro River, under doum palms, and publishes its position as 0°35'22.613"N, 37°36'12.065"E. It has fourteen tents in Luxury and Deluxe grades, each sleeping up to three, and several have plunge pools on the patio. Elephants move through the camp regularly, which is the origin of the name. Game drives use open 4x4s carrying a maximum of six guests; guided nature walks, bush meals, sundowners, birding and Samburu cultural performances are also offered. Access is about five hours by road from Nairobi, or by scheduled flight to the Kalama, Oryx or Buffalo airstrips followed by a 30 to 60 minute game drive.
What sets it apart
It is one of very few Kenyan camps to publish its own GPS coordinates, and its riverbank position inside the reserve puts elephants through the camp rather than only on drives.
Who it suits
Elephants at close range; Samburu dry-country species; river frontage.
The essentials
| Country | Kenya |
| Where | Samburu National Reserve, on the Ewaso Nyiro River, northern Kenya |
| Property type | tented camp |
| Rooms | 14 tents in two grades, Luxury and Deluxe, each taking up to three guests with either one king or two queen beds (operator's own site) |
What it costs
No rate is published on the property's own site. Third-party reseller range only, not an official published rate: "€385 - €565" per person sharing per https://www.go2africa.com/accommodation/elephant-bedroom-camp, as listed September 2026.
A reseller's range tells you the bracket, not the price you would pay. We show it because it is the only public figure that exists, and we label it rather than present it as the property's own.
About the photographs
The pictures on this page are stock photographs of African bush and desert country, chosen to suggest the kind of landscape you find around the dry country of northern Kenya. They are not photographs of this property, and we cannot verify where any of them was taken — a stock library records the photographer, not the place. We use them rather than borrow the property's own marketing images, which would imply we had been there. For pictures of the rooms, see the property's own site.