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KENYA
PHOTOGRAPHIC SAFARI
DAY 1:
NAIROBI
MASAI
MARA
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your
Nairobi
hotel.
Thereafter depart for the Masai Mara Game Reserve with stops at the
viewpoint of the
Great Rift Valley
and Narok town for lunch and refueling. Arrive in time for a late
afternoon / early evening game drive enroute to the lodge / campsite for
dinner and overnight.
DAY 2
MASAI
MARA
Early breakfast then proceed for a full day of game viewing in
the reserve. The day will be taken up tracking game with your guide
though there will be a break for a picnic lunch at the hippo pool. The
abundance and variety of game in this reserve is nothing short of
amazing. Practically every mammal can be seen in the Mara with a few
exceptions. Various antelopes, scavengers like hyena and vulture are
common. The reserve contains all the cats that are; lion, cheetah and
leopard; sighting leopard needs luck more than just being there but
lions are abundant and there are excellent chances for spotting cheetah.
The hippo pool is a popular spot to watch out for hippos; with luck, you
may catch crocodile basking on the rocks. Elephants, buffalo, the Masai
giraffe, wildebeest and the common zebra abound. Return to the lodge
/campsite for dinner and overnight.
DAY 3
MASAI MARA
After breakfast proceed on another game-viewing session. After
lunch you will have the option to go for a game drive or at extra cost,
visit a nearby Masai village to see their nomadic lifestyle. Both
activities will end at the lodge or campsite in the mid evening where
you will retire for the night after dinner.
DAY 4
MASAI
MARA / NAKURU
After breakfast, depart the Mara region for Nakuru. The drive offers
panoramic views of
Mt.
Longonot
and
Lake
Naivasha
from afar; this means that you will see them from the main highway.
Arrive Nakuru in time for dinner and overnight at
the lodge / campsite.
DAY 5
LAKE
NAKURU
/ SAMBURU
Wake up to an early morning game drive in
Lake
Nakuru
National Park
. Flamingos and other water birds that thrive in a salt-water
environment can be seen. With luck you may track the white rhino and the
Rothschild’s giraffe which both have endangered species status. The
park is 188 km and is home to cats (both lion and leopard), various
antelopes, grazers like warthog and the waterbuck and
Cape
buffalo that breed near the shoreline. After the game run, depart Nakuru
for Samburu via the Thompson falls, which are named after Joseph
Thompson, one of the first European explorers who walked from
Mombasa
to
Lake Victoria
in the 1880’s. Lunch will be at Nanyuki, which is at the foothills of
Mt.
Kenya
. Arrive Samburu in the evening, which a game drive enroute to the lodge
/ campsite where you will retire for the night after dinner.
DAY 6
SAMBURU
Morning and afternoon game drives in Samburu with a lunch and
leisure break in the mid afternoon. The reserve is home to rare drought
resistant animals that are peculiar to the semi-arid region north of the
equator. These include the reticulated giraffe, grevy’s zebra, the
Beisa Oryx, gerenuk and the blue-shanked Somali ostrich. Samburu is dry
most of the year but is watered by the
Ewaso
Nyiro
River
, which rises in the Aberdare’s and drains in the Lorian swamp north
of Shaba National Reserve.
All meals and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
DAY 07
SAMBURU
/ MT.
KENYA
Morning breakfast at Samburu and another game drive enroute. Leave
for
Mount Kenya
(Nanyuki ) to arrive intime for lunch. After lunch, proceed for a visit
to the Mau Mau caves (where freedom fighters could hide from The British
Troops during the struggle for independence).
Dinner and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
DAY 08
MT.
KENYA/AMBOSELI
After breakfast drive south via the biggest open-air market in
Eastern and
Central Africa
(Karatina) and via Namanga border town with a brief stop for lunch.
Proceed on to Amboseli arriving in time for a late afternoon game drive
. In clear weather, you may see
Mt.
Kilimanjaro
’s peak.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge /campsite.
DAY 09
AMBOSELI
After breakfast, proceed on a game drive in this park, which lies in a
dried-up lakebed. There are swamps and springs fed by underground rivers
from the melting snows of
Mt.
Kilimanjaro
, which give permanent water to the wildlife. The animals seen here
include lion, elephant, cheetah, buffalo, plains game and the rare Taita
weaver and the gerenuk. The animals are mainly found around the Ol Kenya
swamp. If the weather is clear and there is no low cloud cover, you may
see the
peak
of
Mt.
Kilimanjaro, which forms a beautiful backdrop to the park. The
observation hill offers a view of the entire park and beyond. An
afternoon game drive will follow after lunch.
Rest of meals and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
DAY 10
AMBOSELI
- TSAVO WEST
After breakfast, depart Amboseli for
Tsavo
West
National Park
, lunch enroute. You will visit the Shaitani Lava flows as the area
where the park lies is of volcanic origin. The Mzima Springs which
contain 20 million tonnes of crystal - clear water from the underground
streams of the nearby Chyullu Hills are an additional attraction;
various aspects of marine life including hippos, crocodile and fish can
be seen from the specially constructed underground glass tank. The
animal species seen at Tsavo are hippo, crocodiles, elephant, gazelle,
zebra, giraffe, various birds, buffalo, and kudu in a thick acacia
setting.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
DAY 11
TSAVO
WEST - TSAVO EAST
A morning game drive will follow after breakfast and probably view the
rock hyrax, squirrels and mongooses as the park contains a large
population of these. Depart for
Tsavo
East
National Park
, lunch enroute. Here, only the section south of the
Galana
River
is open to the public for game drives; the rest of the park serves as a
wilderness for the animals to retreat into. Here the dried up
Aruba
dam can be seen plus crocodiles at the crocodile point below the Lugard
falls.
Dinner
and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
DAY 12
TSAVO
EAST -
NAIROBI
After breakfast, your final game drive will follow during which
you may see plains game, zebra, antelope, lesser kudu, ostrich and large
herds of elephant. Lunch will be taken enroute. Arrive in
Nairobi
in the evening.
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