Safari Accommodation at:
Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary:

Sweetwaters Tented Camp
Offers the finest quality tented accommodation, overlooking a large watering hole backed by a spectacular view of Mount Kenya
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Ol Pejeta House
Offers large luxurious rooms, a stunning garden with watering hole, and two swimming pools
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Ol Pejeta Bush Camp
Situated on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River this small bush camp will offer guests the opportunity for interactive conservation safaris
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Porini Rhino Camp
Hidden in a secluded valley and set amongst shady acacia trees on the banks of a seasonal river, the camp consists of six spacious guest tents, each comfortably furnished with en suite bathrooms
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Kicheche Camp-Laikipia
The new Laikipia Camp is a small luxurious tented camp, nestled at the foot of indigenous forest overlooking a waterhole. It's twelve guests will be hosted by the inimitable Andy and Sonja Webb.
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Laikipia
Northern Kenya

Laikipia Ranches & Wildlife Conservancies:
Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary:
Ol Pejeta Conservancy
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Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
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Ol Malo
Borana

Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary
Laikipia-Kenya




Visitors to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy have free access to the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, which is open daily from 9:00am to 10:30am and 3pm to 4:30pm.

The Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary is incorporated within the Ol Pejeta Conservancy and is the only place in Kenya where this highly endangered and remarkably intelligent species can be seen.

The Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary opened in 1993 in a negotiated agreement between the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Jane Goodall Institute. The facility was initially established to receive and provide life-long refuge to orphaned and abused chimpanzees from west and central Africa. An initial group of three chimpanzee orphans were brought to the sanctuary from a facility in Bujumbura, Burundi in 1993. This group of chimpanzees needed to be evacuated due to the outbreak of civil war in Burundi. This was followed in 1995 by another group of 9 adult chimpanzees, followed by another 10 in 1996.

Over the last decade Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary has been compelled to keep accepting chimpanzees rescued from traumatic situations bringing the total number of chimpanzees in the sanctuary to 43. At Sweetwaters Sanctuary chimpanzees are being carefully nursed back to health so they can enjoy the rest of their days in the safety of a vast natural enclosure. The chimpanzees live in two large groups separated by the Ewaso Nyiro River.

Sweetwaters is a chartered member of the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA), an alliance of 18 sanctuaries in 12 African countries, currently caring for over 800 orphaned and/or confiscated chimpanzees. PASA’s role is to help conserve chimpanzees and other primates and their habitats through public education and lobbying for political goodwill.

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