Next, we stayed 2 nights in budget camp called Stables in the middle of private Ol Pejeta Conservancy (2.5 hour drive from Samburu, gate to gate), where we had lovely large cottage with bathroom plus simple freshly cooked food. We loved it. There was no discount accommodation for our guide and driver, so they stayed one night in Nanyuki and another at different camp. We had great views of Mt Kenya (The Mountain) from our camp, and morning and evening game drives. Ol Pejeta is famous for high number of rhinos and we saw many of them, including white southern rhino mother with big baby that wanted to drink milk, black rhino mother with baby and several other white and black rhinos. We visited, fed and patted Baraka, rescued blind black rhino, and chimpanzee sanctuary for animals rescued in other countries (there are no wild chimpanzees in Kenya) from illegal trade and abandoned pets. We saw many buffalos, elephants, reticulated giraffes, common zebras, defassa waterbuck, different antelopes, hartebeest, suni, black-backed jackals, baboons and vervet monkeys, Masai ostrich, crowned crane and many other birds. We went on night drive in conservancy jeep (night drives are possible only in private conservancies and not in national parks). In addition to some animals we saw earlier, we saw hundreds of rabbits and aardvark (ant/termite eater).
Giraffes at salt lick in Ol Pejeta
