Six-day safari across Kenya through Samburu Game reserve, Lake Nakuru in the Rift valley and culminating with a visit to Masai Mara. Safari explores arid Northern Kenya, the rift valley birds, and the Rhino sanctuary lake and includes wildlife drives in search of the Big 5 at the Masai Mara. In the program, we use Sopa Lodges.
Itinerary
Pick up from Nairobi airport or Nairobi hotel. Drive on the scenic route via the central highlands to the Samburu National Reserve in the semi-arid northern frontier of Kenya. Samburu, Shaba and Buffalo springs game reserves are a place of endless skies, dust-red plains, and palm-fringed rivers. The reserves lie on the fringes of the vast and arid desert once known as the Northern Frontier District. The combined landscape of the Samburu game reserve features rocky battlements, craggy scarps, dry river beds, and fallen boulders rising out of the thorn scrub against a backdrop of the far-distant hills and the great red table mountain known as Ololokwe. Overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge.
Accommodation:
Samburu Sopa Lodge or equivalent
Mid-range lodge located inside Samburu NR
Meals & Drinks:
Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
A day spent at the Samburu game reserve with game viewing drives. Game viewing is concentrated along the Ewaso Nyiro River, the lifeline of this semi-desert environment. You can explore further the adjacent Shaba & Buffalo springs reserves overnight at Samburu Sopa Lodge or equivalent
Main Destination:
Samburu National Reserve
Accommodation:
Samburu Sopa Lodge
Mid-range lodge located inside Samburu NR
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After breakfast, proceed to the Lake Nakuru National Park Take an afternoon bird and game viewing drive before returning to the lodge in time for maybe a swim, optional cocktail, and dinner. Entitled ‘the greatest bird spectacle on earth’ thanks to the millions of fuchsia-pink flamingos that flock to feed on the teeming algae of its alkaline waters, the pink-frosted shores and sky-mirrored waters of Lake Nakuru yield some of the most evocatively beautiful photo-images in Africa. Kenya’s first and largest rhino sanctuary, sightings of both black and white rhinos are almost guaranteed, while plentiful waterbuck, warthog, zebra, gazelle, and buffalo graze the shoreline. Echoing the haunting cries of the numerous fish and eagles, this is also the park in which you have the best chance of seeing a leopard. Overnight at Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge or equivalent
Main Destination:
Lake Nakuru National Park
Accommodation:
Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge
Luxury lodge located inside Lake Nakuru NP
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Safari proceeds to the Masai Mara Game Reserve Late afternoon game viewing drive at the Mara. The Mara makes the ideal hunting ground for Kenya’s famous ‘big cats’ and hosts her largest population of lions It also offers the best chance of spotting a leopard in the wild. Other predators include cheetahs and spotted hyenas. The Masai Mara is famous for the large herds of elephants and buffalo that inhabit the plains; also for the pods of hippos that wallow in its muddy river beds. Other animal species include the Masai giraffe, Topi, Hartebeest, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelle, zebra, impala, dik-dik, bushbuck, waterbuck, and red duiker. The Reserve also boasts plentiful crocodiles, monitor lizards, baboons, vervets; blue and red-tailed monkeys, bush babies, and tree hyrax. There are over 550 resident and migratory species of birds. Overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or equivalent.
Main Destination:
Masai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation:
Masai Mara Sopa Lodge
Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Enjoy a full-day game viewing drive at the Masai Mara with a picnic lunch at the Mara River crossing there are optional activities such as guided nature/bird-spotting walks or cultural visits to the local Masai homesteads. Overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge.
Main Destination:
Masai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation:
Masai Mara Sopa Lodge
Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
Meals & Drinks:
All meals included
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Depart Masai Mara National Reserve, arrive in Nairobi for lunch. Drop off at your hotel or at the airport.
Main Destination:
Nairobi
Accomodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
Drinking water (Other drinks not included)