Arrival
Arrival
Day 1
Nairobi- Samburu National Reserve
Nairobi- Samburu National Reserve
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport or pick up at your Nairobi Hotel (an option that applies), you will be met by our professional English-speaking driver-guide for a meet and greet and briefed on your safari. After departing, you'll drive north to the Samburu National Reserve. You'll have an en-route game drive as you enter the park. Upon arrival at Ashnil Samburu Camp, you will check-in and enjoy lunch. After lunch, you will take some time to relax at the tented camp. Later, you will have an evening game drive. The park is famous for the Samburu semi-nomadic tribesmen, reticulated giraffes, zebras, gerenuks, beisa oryx, and a host of big game including elephants and lions. Around sunset, you will return for dinner and your overnight stay at Ashnil Samburu Camp.
- Main Destination:
- Samburu National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Ashnil Samburu Camp
Wildlife in Samburu NR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Samburu National Reserve
Samburu National Reserve
You will rise early, have breakfast, and then take off for a full day morning, afternoon, and evening game drive in the reserve. You will enjoy a picnic lunch during the afternoon drive or have a hot lunch at the tented camp. The Ololokwe Table Mountain forms a dramatic backdrop to your game viewing where you will see a third of Kenya's giraffe species including the rare reticulated giraffe (only found in the Northern parks). You will also see the Blue-legged Somali ostrich, the long-necked gerenuk gazelle, and the straight-horned Beisa oryx antelope. Around sunset, you will head back to the tented camp for dinner and your overnight stay.
Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ashnil Samburu Camp.
- Main Destination:
- Samburu National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Ashnil Samburu Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Samburu- Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Samburu- Ol Pejeta Conservancy
On this day, you will have breakfast at your tented camp. After breakfast, you will be picked up by our professional English-speaking driver-guide. You will depart for Ol Pejeta Conservancy which safeguards some of the most vulnerable wildlife in the world, and advocates for change. You'll arrive in time for lunch at Sweetwater’s Serena Camp. After lunch, you will proceed for a game drive in the park.
Ol Pejeta is home to two of the world’s last remaining northern white rhinos and a sanctuary for over 110 critically endangered black rhinos.
You stand the chance of spotting some of Kenya’s more unusual critters. Aardvarks, zorillas, bat-eared foxes, leopards, and lion hunts are just some of the sights included. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Sweetwater’s Serena Camp.
- Main Destination:
- Ol Pejeta Conservancy (Laikipia Plateau)
- Accommodation:
- Sweetwaters Serena Camp
Wildlife in Ol Pejeta Conservancy
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Ol Pejeta Conservancy-Lake Nakuru National Park
Ol Pejeta Conservancy-Lake Nakuru National Park
On this day, you will have an early breakfast at the luxury tented camp and later check out. You will depart and drive towards the Great Rift Valley viewing the scenery. You'll arrive at the pink lake often referred to due to its great masses of flamingos. You'll check in at Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge. You will have lunch and after lunch proceed for a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park with numerous animals. During the game drive, you will see the huge numbers of flamingos that are concentrated along the lake shore. In addition to the birdlife for which Lake Nakuru is so well known there are many different wildlife species in the park including lions, leopards, black rhinos, white rhinos, buffalos, Rothschild’s giraffes, zebras, impalas, and waterbucks. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Nakuru National Park
- Accommodation:
- Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Nakuru NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Lake Nakuru- Masai Mara National Reserve
Lake Nakuru- Masai Mara National Reserve
You'll have an early breakfast. You will depart for Masai Mara National Reserve, which is located south along the floor of the Great Rift Valley, then past Narok, where you will climb the western wall that enters Hemingway's country: the 'Serengeti plains'. You will arrive in time for lunch at Ashnil Masai Mara Luxury Tented Camp. In the afternoon, you will enjoy a game drive in this famous reserve. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ashnil Masai Mara Luxury Tented Camp.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Ashnil Mara Camp
Wildlife in Masai Mara NR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Masai Mara National Reserve
Masai Mara National Reserve
You'll have a full day at this reserve with morning, and evening game drives searching for wild game with an option to enjoy a balloon safari. You can carry a picnic lunch or have lunch at the camp. A visit to Masai villages is also an option.
Lions are abundant throughout the park, as are the elephants, giraffes, and a variety of gazelle species and zebras. Cheetahs and leopards are also regularly seen. The annual wildebeest migration, one of nature's few remaining wildlife spectacles, occurs in the Mara from July to September where the big animals and their predators are to be present in abundance during the time frame of this trip. Several species of bee-eater, the flying rainbow that heads the list of Mara's birds, occur in the reserve. The Masai Mara is also home to the colorful Masai tribe who may be seen around the borders of the park - Moran’s. You'll return to the luxury camp in the evening. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ashnil Masai Mara Camp.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Ashnil Mara Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Masai Mara- Nairobi
Masai Mara- Nairobi
You will have breakfast at the luxury camp, have a game drive en route depending on your departure flight, and depart for Nairobi having lunch en route at an extra cost. On arrival in Nairobi, you will be dropped off at the airport in time for final departure OR dropped off at a location/hotel you will advise us.
End of safari.
- Main Destination:
- No major destination visited
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
