It also includes the Samburu National Reserve and Buffalo Springs National Reserve, Mount Ng ' iro, Ndoro Mountains, Mathews Range ( Ol Doinyo Lenkiyo ), Kirisia Hills, and Loroki Forest.

Meru City is a jumping-off place for Samburu and Buffalo Springs National Reserves and Lewa Downs, all some distance north of Meru, with Samburu and Buffalo Springs via Isiolo, and Meru National Park, to the northeast of Meru, via Maua in the Nyambene Hills.

The Samburu National Reserve is located on the banks of the Ewaso Ng ' iro river in Kenya ; on the other side of the river is the Buffalo Springs National Reserve in Northern Kenya.

Samburu National Reserve can be entered via the Ngare Mare and Buffalo Springs gates.

In Kenya, important protected areas include the Buffalo Springs, Samburu and Shaba National Reserves and the private and community land wildlife conservancies in Isiolo, Samburu and the Laikipia Plateau.

There is a nearby Shaba National Reserve, located east of the Samburu National Reserve.

The Isiolo town is also becoming a centre of interest because of the of its newly acquired status as a resort city cashing in on the popular Samburu and Shaba Game reserves and the Meru National Park, which have become preferred destinations after the famed Maasai Mara.

There are many game parks in the area, one of the most well known is Samburu National Reserve.

The Samburu National Reserve was one of the two areas in which conservationists George Adamson and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness made famous in the best selling book and award winning movie Born Free.

The Samburu National Reserve is also the home of Kamunyak, a lioness famous for adopting oryx calves.

Samburu National Reserve is very peaceful and attracts animals because of the Ewaso Ng ' iro river ( meaning " brown water " and pronounced U-aa-so-Nyee-ro ) that runs through it and the mixture of acacia, riverine forest, thorn trees and grassland vegetation.

There is a wide variety of animal and bird life seen at Samburu National Reserve.

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Yawning vervet monkey in Samburu National Reserve, Kenya

Grevy's zebras in Samburu National Reserve.

Kamunyak ( which means Blessed One ), is a lioness in the Samburu National Reserve, in Northern Kenya.

The Turkana people of the north, the Bajuni, Akamba, Borana, Chuka, Gusii, Kikuyu, Luhya and Luo, the Maasai and the related Samburu and the Mijikenda (" nine tribes ") of the eastern coast are all found within the borders of Kenya.

They live north of the equator in Samburu District, an area roughly.

The Turkana are a Nilotic people native to the Turkana District in northwest Kenya, a semi-arid climate region bordering Lake Turkana in the east, Pokot, Rendille and Samburu to the south, Uganda to the west, and Sudan and Ethiopia to the north.

There is a town named Samburu in Kwale District of Coast Province of Kenya, but is not related to Samburu District or Samburu people.

Maralal is a small hillside market town in northern Kenya, lying east of the Loroghi Plateau within the Samburu District.

The town is inhabited by the Nilotic Samburu and Turkana, as well as the Cushitic-speaking Gabbra, Burji, Borana and Rendille.

For instance, CNN recently portrayed the Samburu practice of young men giving a large number of beads to a particular girl as tantamount to rape, and erroneously stated that no research exists on the tradition despite the fact that anthropological portrayals based on long term studies show it to be largely akin to the U. S. practice of “ going steady .” In a 2009 article MSNBC took readers on a tour through imaginary places purported to be in Samburu District, while asserting that ethnic conflict between Samburu and the neighboring Pokot was the result of both sides starving because they had more cattle than the rangelands could support, although the reporter did not indicate how having too many cattle could make people starve.

It is performed by people of many cultures, such as the Indigenous Australians, the Arrente, the Luritja, the Samburu, the Samoans, and the Native Hawaiians.

In Kenya, Samburu society is said to be a gerontocracy.

The paradox of Samburu gerontocracy is that popular attention focuses on the glamour and deviant activities of these footloose bachelors, which extend to a form of gang warfare, widespread suspicions of adultery with the wives of older men, and theft of their stock.

The name they use for themselves is Lokop or Loikop, a term which may have a variety of meanings which Samburu themselves do not agree on.

The Samburu speak Samburu, which is a Nilo-Saharan language.

The main highland area is the Leroghi plateau ( known in Samburu as Ldonyo, the Mountain ), at about above sea level.

Even today Samburu is relatively remote, although highland areas can be reached fairly easily by public transport.

The paradox of Samburu gerontocracy is that popular attention focuses on the glamour and deviant activities of these footloose bachelors, which extend to a form of gang feuding between clans, widespread suspicions of covert adultery with the wives of older men, and theft of their stock.

The name ' Samburu ' is also of Maasai origin and is derived from the word ' Samburr ' which is a leather bag used by the Samburu to carry a variety of things.

It is unclear when Samburu became a distinct ethnic identity.

A Samburu settlement is known as a nkang ( Maa ) or manyatta ( Kiswahili ).

However, as Western style education has increased, and interaction with non-Samburu has become increasingly common, it no longer bears the same stigma, although clothing deemed " traditional " by Samburu is still the norm, and would be expected to be worn in many everyday and ceremonial contexts.

Milk is still a valued part of Samburu contemporary diet when available, and may be drunk either fresh, or fermented ; " ripened " milk is often considered superior.

Today Samburu rely increasingly on purchased agricultural products — with money acquired mainly from livestock sales — and most commonly maize meal is made into a porridge.

Tea is also very common, taken with large quantities of sugar and ( when possible ) much milk, and is actually a staple of contemporary Samburu diet.

The Samburu believe that God ( Nkai ) is the source of all protection from the hazards of their existence.