Overview
This Safari Trail takes you to the most famous park in Kenya. All accommodation will be in very comfortable permanent tented camp in which you have options to choose your preference. You will be touring in a luxury private safari vehicle with a Driver guide all throughout your safari and back to Nairobi
Highlights
- Lake Naivasha boat rides and game drive
- Masai Mara game drive
- Lake Nakuru
- Samburu
Itinerary
You will be picked up from the hotel and drive to Samburu National Reserve which lies 325 km north of Nairobi in the hot and arid periphery of the vast northern region of Kenya. The Reserve is within the lands of the colorful Samburu people, close relatives of the Maasai, and harbours a number of wildlife species found only north of the equator; these include Grevy's zebra, the reticulated giraffe and the Beisa Oryx. Samburu Reserve offers unique vistas of rounded and rugged hills and undulating plains. The mix of wood and grassland with riverine forest and swamp is home to a wide variety of animal and birdlife. Arrive for lunch and later proceed on an afternoon game drive until sunset.
Dinner and Overnight at: Ashnil Samburu Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
Spend a further day in this Reserve where game viewing and visibility is excellent. Bird life is superb with over 380-recorded species and game includes reticulated giraffes, Grevy’s zebras, elephants, Oryx, Somali ostrich, hippos, crocodiles, gerenuk, buffaloes, lions, leopards, cheetahs and hyenas. The long-necked gerenuk is a graceful antelope which spends much of its time in a bi-pedal stance seeking succulence among the withered scrub which dots this harsh terrain.
EXTRA ACTIVITIES
BALLOON SAFARI @$450PER PERSON
MASAI VILLAGE @$25 PER PERSON
Scenically, for most of the year Samburu is under the unsympathetic equatorial sun. Relief comes from the Ewaso Ng’iro River which rises some hundreds of kilometers to the west on the foothills of the Aberdares and which vanishes beyond Samburu in the recess of the Lorian swamp. On this day you can choose also to visit Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in Samburu
Dinner and Overnight at: Ashnil Samburu Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will drive to Lake Nakuru. Upon arrival have lunch at Sarova Lion Hill. After lunch you will enjoy the afternoon game drives at the park.
Later after the game drive you will drive to Lake Naivasha where you will spend the night
Dinner and Overnight at: Lake Naivasha Country Club
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will check out and drive to Hells gate. At hells gate you will decide if you will use the vehicle or enjoy Bike riding at Hells gate. After enjoying your stay there, you will be back to the hotel for lunch. Have lunch and relax Later after lunch you will enjoy boat rides at Lake Naivasha. Boat rides will be paid directly at the lake by the help of the driver.
Dinner and Overnight at: Lake Naivasha Country Club
Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will drive to Masai Mara, so named to mean the “spotted plains” in the Maa language. This is home to the greatest concentration of large mammals and is widely recognized as Africa’s ultimate wildlife reserve. The park is the northern extension to the vast Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, famous for its annual migration of wildebeest. Arrive in time for lunch. Afternoon game drive until sunset in this spectacular place of breathtaking sceneries, never-ending plains and the most abundant variety of wildlife remaining anywhere in the world. The landscape is made up of rolling savannahs dotted with patchy shrubs and bush thickets.
Dinner and Overnight: Enkorok Mara Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will spend the rest of the day enjoying a full day game drive at the park. Masai Mara is known for abundant wildlife in the Reserve with the gentle grasslands ensuring that animals are never out of sight. Birds are prolific including immigrants, 450 bird species have been recorded among them 57 birds of prey. Every year the Mara plays host to the world’s greatest natural spectacle; The Great Wildebeest Migration from the Serengeti. The big cats - lion, leopard, and cheetah - follow the wildebeest, essentially their main source of food, into the Mara. So the Mara at this time is literally packed with wildlife, providing lucky visitors on safari with superb sightings of game.
Dinner and Overnight at: Enkorok Mara Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will drive to Nairobi. Upon arrival you will have Lunch on own account. After lunch you will be dropped at the airport in time for your international flight which departs around 8pm or 10pm
Meal Plan: Breakfast only
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.
- 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
- PCR test and can be organized upon request