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$2,688 to $2,772 pp (USD)
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Day 1
Nairobi – Samburu National Reserve
Nairobi – Samburu National Reserve
You'll be picked up from the JKIA and depart for Samburu National Reserve. You'll arrive in time for lunch and an afternoon game drive. You'll have dinner then spend the night.
Shaba National Reserve:
This is a protected area to the east of the Samburu and the Buffalo Springs National Reserve. Together the three form a large protected area. The Shaba has dramatic scenery including the riverside forest, scattered woodland, and dry grassland dominated by the Shaba hill volcano. The Shaba is home to endangered gravy’s zebras and the rare Williams’ lark. Shaba being greener than Samburu is a home for klipspringers and the hyrax in the hills. Also, it is home to Aardvarks, warthogs, foxes, elands, impalas, gazelles, kudus, oryx, lions, leopards, elephants, striped and spotted hyenas, Somali ostrich, reticulated giraffes. Shaba is also a home for threatened birds like the African darter and great egret and the resident white-headed vultures, martial eagles, and yellow-billed oxpeckers.
- Main Destination:
- Samburu National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Lion's Cave Camp
Wildlife in Samburu NR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Samburu National Reserve
Samburu National Reserve
You'll have breakfast and depart for a game drive to Samburu National Reserve with a packed picnic lunch. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the camp.
Samburu National Reserve is a game reserve on the banks of river Ewaso Ng’iro, on the other side of the river the Buffalo Springs National Reserve. The park is geographically located in Samburu County. This is the place where Elsa the lioness was made famous and is a home for Kamunyak the lion known for adopting oryx calves, also the elephant watch camp lies within this park.
Samburu National Reserve is home to lions, cheetahs, African leopards, elephants, buffalos, hippopotami, gerenuks, gravy’s zebras, reticulated giraffes, olive baboons, Grant’s gazelles, impalas and 350 species of birds located in the area. The Ewaso Ng’iro contains large numbers of Nile crocodiles.
- Main Destination:
- Samburu National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Lion's Cave Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Samburu – Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Samburu – Ol Pejeta Conservancy
After breakfast, you'll start a safari heading for Nanyuki and arrive in time for lunch and an afternoon game drive in Ol Pejeta Conservancy. You'll have dinner and spend the night.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy is situated in central Kenya Laikipia county on the equator west of Nanyuki, between the foothill of Mount Kenya and the Aberdares. The Ol Pejeta conserves wildlife and provides sanctuaries for great apes.
This is a place where you get to encounter so much closeness to the wildlife through the following activities.
Activities at Ol Pejeta Conservancy:
Riding with rhinos in the endangered species enclosure. Here, you get to horse ride within the endangered species enclosure. This area offers you the opportunity to encounter a myriad of plains game. However, the highlight of this activity is to meet the last remaining northern white rhinos Najin and Fatu daughters of Sudan who happened to be the last males of the species before they died in March 2018.
- Main Destination:
- Ol Pejeta Conservancy (Laikipia Plateau)
- Accommodation:
- The Stables
Wildlife in Ol Pejeta Conservancy
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Ol Pejeta – Aberdare National Park
Ol Pejeta – Aberdare National Park
After breakfast, you'll head for the Aberdares. You'll arrive in time for lunch at Aberdare Country Club then have an afternoon transfer to the ark for dinner and overnight stay.
Aberdare National Park:
This park was established in 1950. It is a protected area in the Aberdare Mountain range in central Kenya. This park is where Princess Elizabeth got the news that she would be the queen after her father King George VI died.
Wildlife found in this park include lions, leopards, elephants, wild dogs, bushbucks, mountain reedbucks, waterbucks, buffalos, side-stripped jackals, elands, duikers, olive baboons, black and white Colobus monkeys. Rare sightings include the African golden cat and the bongo. There are also 250 species of birds recorded including the endangered Aberdare cisticola, Jackson’s spurfowls, sparrowhawks, African goshawks, African fish eagles, sunbirds, and the plovers.
- Main Destination:
- Aberdare National Park
- Accommodation:
- The Ark
Wildlife in Aberdare NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Aberdares National Park – Lake Nakuru National Park
Aberdares National Park – Lake Nakuru National Park
After breakfast, you'll check out from your hotel, and head for Lake Nakuru National Park. You'll arrive in time for lunch then have an afternoon game drive. You'll have dinner then spend the night.
Nakuru means “dust or dusty place”. One of the floors of the Great Rift Valley surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland, is where the park lies. This beautiful haven is ideal for bird-watching, picnics, hiking, and game drives. The place is attractive due to its numerous flocks of flamingoes, which are hosted by the algae that spread in the lake this supports the nesting grounds of the birds. There are also birds like pelicans, avocets ducks a total of 400 species of birds recorded in the park. Apart from the birds, it’s home to rhinos, lions, cape buffalos, zebras, waterbucks, African wild dogs, and lions. Other attractions include the hills, Makalia waterfall, and unique vegetation.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Nakuru National Park
- Accommodation:
- Buraha Zenoni Hotel & Resort
Wildlife in Lake Nakuru NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Lake Nakuru National Park– Masai Mara National Reserve
Lake Nakuru National Park– Masai Mara National Reserve
You'll have an early morning game drive, get back to your hotel for breakfast then check out. You'll head for Masai Mara, and arrive in time for lunch and an afternoon game drive. In the evening, you'll have dinner and spend the night at the camp.
The camp has 10 fabulously luxurious en-suite rooms designed to accommodate business and leisure travelers with all-in-room amenities and private verandahs.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
-
Mara Olodare Camp
Wildlife in Masai Mara NR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Masai Mara National Reserve
Masai Mara National Reserve
You'll have breakfast then depart for a day’s game drive with a packed picnic lunch. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the camp.
The Mara cojoins with the Serengeti and is named in honor of the Maasai people the inhabitants of the area. The description of the area when looked from afar “mara” means spotted in the Maasai language due to the short bushy trees that dot the landscape.
It's one of the most famous and important wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, known for its exceptional populations of lions, African leopards, cheetahs, and African bush elephants. It also hosts the great migration of wildebeest, topi, zebras, and the Thomson gazelles which is one of the seven natural wonders of Africa. It's also home to white and black rhinos, the cape buffalos, spotted hyenas, giraffes, wild dogs, impala, duikers, and coke’s hartebeests, and more than 470 species of birds. The reserve also has hippopotamuses and crocodiles found in the Mara and Talek rivers.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Mara Olodare Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Masai Mara – Lake Naivasha
Masai Mara – Lake Naivasha
You will have breakfast, check out from your hotel, head for Naivasha, have lunch in Naivasha then head for an optional boat ride. You will have dinner and spend the night.
Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake in Kenya, outside the town of Naivasha in Nakuru county, which lies northwest of Nairobi in the Great Rift Valley. The name Naivasha was derived from “Nai-posha” meaning rough water because of the sudden storm that can rise. The lake is also home to a variety of 400 different species of birds and a sizeable population of hippos.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Naivasha (Naivasha)
- Accommodation:
- The Nest Boutique Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Naivasha – Nairobi
Naivasha – Nairobi
You will have breakfast and then check out from your hotel. You will head for the airport passing through the breathtaking Rift Valley viewpoint. You will be dropped off back at the airport.
- Main Destination:
- Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (Nairobi)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
