Overview
The trip today takes you to very beautiful areas within our lovely country, They are places visited as you are enroute to different areas but in this instance we shall take our time visiting the Aberdare National Park, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy and finally the Samburu National Reserve. Transport will be within a luxury vehicle and your driver guide will be knowledgeable and ever ready to answer any of your flora and fauna related questions.
Highlights
- Samburu
- OL PAJETA
Itinerary
Pick up from your hotel or the airport and head to the Ol Pejeta conservancy which is located on the equator west of Nanyuki between the foothills of Mount Kenya and the Aberdare’s. It contains over 10,000 large mammals and is the only park where the big 5 and chimpanzees can be seen. It is also serves as a haven for the fastest growing population of rhino in Africa. You will arrive in time for lunch at the camp after which you will embark on a game drive within the conservancy. Aside from the big five you will also be privileged to see a considerable number of Jackson’s hartebeest and the Grevy’s zebra. You will then retire to your camp in the evening.
Dinner and Overnight at Sweet waters Serena
Meal Plan (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)
Depart from your hotel and take a drive that will take you to the central highlands of Kenya passing through maize and coffee plantations to reach Aberdare Country Club, which is nested on a slope of Mweiga hill.
Aberdare National Park is a picturesque piece of heaven with steep forested ravines and is home to beasts such as the elephants, the black rhinos, the spotted hyenas, bushbucks among others. You will arrive in time for lunch at the country club. This captivating site was the homestead of an English couple that decided to settle in Kenya. Almost a half-century later, their home, “The Steep”, was renamed the Aberdare Country Club and opened for guests. After lunch, transfer to the Ark Lodge, which is built in the shape of Noah’s Ark and overlooks a floodlit waterhole and salt lick that attracts a host of awesome wildlife. Your afternoon will be spent viewing wildlife at the lodge.
Dinner and Overnight at the Ark Lodge
Meal Plan (Lunch and Dinner)
After having breakfast you will drive to the Samburu National Reserve. This fierce beauty is located on the banks of the Ewaso Ng’iro River in Kenya. This means plenty of water, trees, and shade which attract wildlife like the elephant, the lion, the leopard, the reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebras, Beisa oryxes, Gerenuk gazelle and the greater and lesser kudu from the surrounding savannah plains to come and quench their thirst. This provides first hand and up close viewing of these creatures. Cheetahs are also regularly spotted.
Dinner and overnight at Ahnil Samburu Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Have full day game drive in this wild and rugged, Samburu which is fiercely beautiful with its arid savannahs watered by the lovely Ewaso Nyiro River. It is also one of Kenya’s most protected areas and home to species only found north of the equator, from the reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebras, Beisa oryxes, Gerenuk gazelle and Greater and lesser kudu.
Dinner and overnight at Ashnil Samburu Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
You shall rise and have your breakfast before proceeding to Nairobi. You will arrive in time either for your international flight homebound or be dropped off at your hotel residence.
Cost
The Cost Includes
- Accommodation and Meals as stipulated in the itinerary
- Scheduled Game drives
- Park fees as stipulated in the itinerary
- All meet and greet services.
- Vehicle Park entry fees
- Service of an English speaking tour guide
- Complimentary Local transfers
- Complimentary Bottle of water during the safari
- Government taxes
- Transport in a chauffeur driven Vehicle with pop-up roof for easy game viewing & photography.
The Cost Excludes
- Visa fees and travel insurance.
- Boat rides to be paid directly
- All items of personal nature e.g., telephone call bills, fax/email bills etc.
- Tips and gratuities to hotel, lodges, camp staff and driver- guide(s)
- Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks.
- Any local or international flight and departure taxes.
- Laundry services.
- Any other item(s) not included in our itinerary