Samburu National Park, Elephant Bedroom Camp, Kenya 2025
After arriving in Nairobi the day before we headed out early to our first camp- the Elephant Bedroom Camp in Samburu National Park. I knew this would be a rough day. I usually build in a couple days of low key activities in a house where we control food and activity after a long haul flight to help with jet lag. But given the location and nature of this trip, we set straight out after less than a day in this time zone 9 hours ahead of ours (eek!). The big kids felt this hard and were really struggling the first couple days. Ollie got pretty sick on the bush flight and the first order of business upon arrival to the airstrip was an outhouse clean up- clothes unsalvageable. Ollie was an incredible trooper with no complaints when he then had to get in the safari car to get to camp. Plunge pool on our porch We were advised during our camp talk that the elephants would come right up to our tent and want to drink from our deck plunge pool. Sure enough, day 1, we are hanging out in the...