Shaba National Reserve

Isiolo County · Kenya

Shaba National Reserve, Kenya
Photo: Marc Samsom, CC BY 2.0 via Wikimedia Commons

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Best time to go
June to September and December to March, in dry conditions
Budget
$$
Coordinates
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The wildest of the three reserves along the Ewaso Ng'iro River, a landscape of lava flows, springs, and doum palms beneath the flat-topped Mount Shaba. Conservationist Joy Adamson lived and died here, and the reserve remains far quieter than neighboring Samburu.

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