Lewa Safari Camp is a tented camp on the 60,000 acre Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. The wildlife here is excellent, and Lewa has 10% of Kenya’s Black Rhinos (around 47) and 20% of its White Rhinos (about 35). It is also home to 20% of the world’s endangered Grevy Zebras. It is a non-malarial area due its altitude of 1700m.
Lewa Safari Camp has 12 tents, each within a thatched structure, accommodating up to 26 guests. The tents are comfortable rather than luxurious, but well-appointed with an en-suite shower room with flush loo. They are also nicely spaced for a reasonable amount of privacy. There is a generator providing bedside and bathroom lighting morning and evening.
In the public area, there is a lounge (with library), bar and restaurant. You can also charge cameras etc here. There is a swimming pool, a hide, and also a gift shop.
The list of activities you can enjoy here is very extensive. There are day and night game drives, nature walks, and horse rides. However it is the choice of conservation/community-orientated activities which makes Lewa Safari Camp unique. These include visits to orphaned animals, days out with Grevy zebra researchers, accompanying tracker dogs on their training, assisting fencers on patrol, visiting Ngare Ndare Forest Reserve to find Colobus monkeys and learn about flora and fauna, visit water schemes and other community development projects, and guided tours of ancient hand axe sites and prehistoric rock-hewn game boards.
Fair Trade / Responsible Tourism
All profits from Lewa Safari Camp go to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, which is a pioneering non-profit organisation. Profits go to a variety of conservation and community development projects. 15% of what you pay goes directly to the conservancy as a conservation fee. The rest, after costs such as fuel, food and a little for future developments, goes to the conservancy to pay for rangers, roads, fencing and other such things which are integral to the running of the reserve. Lewa is home to the Northern Rangelands Trust (a partnership of northern Kenyan communities who have given land over to wildlife preservation) and to the Lewa Education Trust.
