Elephant Watch is an eco-bush camp. It has been cleverly made out of fallen trees and locally available materials. Green to the core, the camp’s guiding philosophy emphasizes recycling, composting, solar energy and minimal pollution.
The camp has six wide and breezy desert-style tents, draped in multi-coloured cotton, each covered with a high thatched roof. Using the unique shapes of dead trees stripped of their bark by elephants, each tent is individually decorated with unique pieces of handcrafted furniture, a king-size bed and crisp cotton sheets. Side tables with books and solar-powered bedside lamps add to the cozy atmosphere.
The en-suite bathrooms are built around the gnarled trunks of acacia trees and are open to the African sky. Water from the camp well is heated in the sun and poured into hand-painted buckets for a reviving “bush” shower. Elephant Watch has become home to some of the largest elephant bulls in Samburu, and they regularly walk among the tents.
