Arrival Nairobi - Samburu Game Reserve
On your arrival at Nairobi, after customs and immigration formalities, you will meet your safari driver-guide and start your journey to Northern Kenya, passing via Thika, which boasts the world's third largest pineapple plantation. Enjoy your lunch en-route at the Trout Tree Restaurant and continue to Samburu National Reserve in the early afternoon. Enjoy a game drive in the park on the way to your lodge arriving in the early evening. Check into your rooms and enjoy the rest of the evening at leisure. Dinner will be served at the lodge.
Samburu Game Reserve
Today is filled with morning and afternoon game viewing drives.
Animals commonly seen are elephants, lions, cheetahs, Grevy’s zebras, giraffes, gerenuks, buffalos, Oryx, grants gazelles, dikdiks and waterbucks. There are over 350 varieties of birds. These include the famous Somali Ostriches (distinguished by their unique purple/blue legs during mating season), kingfishers, humming birds, eagles, guinea fowls and vultures. All meals will be served at the lodge.
Samburu National Reserve – Ol pejeta Sanctuary
Breakfast at the lodge. Thereafter depart for Ol Pejeta Sanctuary.
Upon arrival, lunch is served and afternoon game drive in the sanctuary with a visit to the chimp sanctuary.
The Sweetwater’s Chimpanzee Sanctuary was established with an agreement between the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS) and the Jane Goodall Institute. The aim – to provide lifelong refuge to orphaned and abused chimpanzees from West and Central Africa. Over the last decade, Sweetwater’s Chimpanzee Sanctuary has been compelled to keep accepting chimpanzees rescued from traumatic situations - bringing the total number of chimpanzees in the Sanctuary to 38. Many are confiscated from cramped and unnatural living conditions, and many arrive with horrific injuries sustained from abuse at the hands of humans. Here at Sweetwater’s, they get a chance to start over. Dinner is served at the lodge.
Ol pejeta – Lake Nakuru – Lake Naivasha
After an early breakfast, depart and drive to Nyahururu Falls for a photo-stop. Still known to many as Thomson's Falls, its waters fall 237-feet making it the country’s highest. Continue in a south-westerly direction on into Lake Nakuru National Park for a morning adventure. Explore Lake Nakuru National Park very well known for its numerous bird species. Besides the greater and lesser flamingos, the park is home to many other bird species including, the great crested grebe, the black necked grebe, little grebe, pelicans, cormorant, African darter, Egyptian geese, night heron, fish eagle, grey heron, Marabou stork, Sacred and hadada ibis. Animals including water buck are usually sighted along the lake shore. This park is a contented home for the Rothschild giraffe. Baboon, impala, buffalo, monkeys, warthog, impala, reed buck and eland are also resident here. However, one of the main attractions is the rhinos. The park is a designated rhino sanctuary and it is one of the best places in Kenya to observe them. Both black and white Rhinos thrive here. A delicious lunch will be served at Lion Hill Lodge and later continue with game drives. In the late afternoon you will depart the park and drive to Lake Naivasha arriving in the early evening. Proceed to your lodge, check in and have the rest of the evening at leisure. Dinner will be served at the lodge.
Lake Naivasha - Masai Mara Game Reserve
Breakfast will be served at the lodge.
Leaving the lakes area behind; begin your ascent up over the top of the Mau Escarpment. Then, heading south, you travel towards Narok, gateway to the Masai Mara and district headquarters of this part of Maasailand. You'll travel across the "breadbasket" of Kenya, covered with acres of wheat and barley, before you reach your destination arriving in time for lunch.
After lunch, enjoy a game drive. Masai Mara is a magnificent landscape of open plains bisected by the Mara River and its tributaries, and punctuated by marshes and forests. Certainly the most frequented game reserve in Kenya, this 650 sq kilometer reserve supports the highest density of game to be seen anywhere. During the seasonal migrations, Masai Mara is home to up to a million wildebeest and an equally impressive number of zebras that move into the area from neighboring Serengeti National Park, in Tanzania. The reserve is home to all the “big five” and it is also possible to observe; baboon, eland, ostrich, bat-eared fox, jackal and cheetah. The rivers abound with hippos and crocodiles.
Return to your lodge at dusk. Dinner is served and the rest of the evening is left at leisure.
Masai Mara Game Reserve
Wake up call to be followed by early morning tea and coffee. Set out for an early morning game drive in the reserve. This is usually the most popular game viewing time. During the early hours temperatures are low, thus providing a favorable atmosphere both for the game and the viewer. Lion, cheetah and leopard roam the vast grasslands in search for their next meal, it may be an unsuspecting impala or even a small one like the warthog…whatever the players, and the spectacle of nature unfolding is always awe inspiring! Return to the lodge for breakfast, thereafter mid morning at leisure to be followed by lunch. Afternoon game drive will follow, dinner and overnight.
Masai Mara Game Reserve – Nairobi- Depart
After your breakfast you will be driven to Nairobi arriving in time for lunch at The Carnivore Restaurant, later you will be transferred to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your flight home.
