6 Days, 5 Nights Best of Kenya Safari Masai mara, Lake Nakuru and Samburu on a private
Code: cross012
Description
Experience the excitement of game viewing in three of the most spectacular national game parks – Samburu, Lake Nakuru and Maasai Mara. Have plenty of time to enjoy the excitement of Kenya’s wildlife and the variety of its varied landscapes in this active adventure safari. Your guide will expertly share with you the highlights. Thrill to The Big Five – lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino and elephant, plus rare species – the gerenuk and oryx. Topping it off you will delight to a fantastic land scape.
The Samburu Game Reserve is in the Northern Province of Kenya. It is rugged and a semi-desert. To arrive, you will cross the equator at Nanyuki and go toward the northern side of the equator, passing the snow-topped Mount Kenya lying on the equator line. This game reserve is renowned for its rare species of animals that can only be found in this park, like –the long necked gerenuk, gravy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, also Leopard and the Beisa onyx. Next destination is a major Lake Nakuru National Park and an important sanctuary for Rhino, both Black and White Rhino are found here, and are often seen resting under acacias by the Lake shore likewise there are huge herds of waterbuck, zebra, buffalo, the endangered Rothschild Giraffe and a variety of other herbivores. The lake has become world famous for these birds, who visit the lake to feed on algae that forms on the lake bed. They move back and forth, feeding and occasionally and spectacularly taking
to flight, filling the sky over the lake with color.
This is the best National reserve, a home of big five and millions of wild animal’s migration during July to October. During Masai Mara National Reserve game drive you will find elephant, Black Rhino, buffalo, plains zebra, roan antelope in small numbers, white-bearded gnu, Oribi, warthog, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelle, hartebeest and the big cats; the rivers are home to hippo and crocodiles. The reserve it is also have many different species of birds found inside. This safari is only possible to start and end in Nairobi. If you are in Mombasa/ Diani is advised by a flight to Mara and return flight from Samburu to Diani.
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Itinerary
NB: This trip is only possible to start and end Nairobi
Day 1: Nairobi – Samburu National Reserve
You will be picked up from the airport in the morning on arrival at 7:00 am or at a Nairobi hotel after breakfast for a drive to Samburu National Reserve arriving on time for lunch at the tented camp or lodge. You will enjoy an afternoon game drive from 4:00 pm-6:30 pm. Some of the animals you can look forward to seeing include the Samburu Special Five (Grevy zebra, gerenuk, Somali ostrich, beisa oryx and reticulated giraffe), lions, leopards, and elephants among other big game. Dinner and overnight at same lodge or tented camp.
Day 2: Full day game drive Samburu National Reserve
You will wake up early in the morning, grab a cup of coffee and leave for the morning game drive in search of the big game. You will return to the lodge or tented camp thereafter for a full breakfast. Afterwards, you will relax at the lodge enjoying the lodge facilities. You will have lunch at the lodge and later leave for the evening game drive in search of big game. You’ll return to the lodge or tented camp in the evening for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 3: Samburu – Lake Nakuru National Park
You will wake up at first light, grab a cup of coffee and leave for an early morning game drive when animals are most active and later, return to the lodge or tented camp for a full breakfast. You will checkout and leave Samburu for Lake Nakuru National Park arriving in time for lunch at tented camp or lodge. You’ll relax after lunch and leave the camp at 4:00 pm for the evening game drive. It is known all over the world for its flamingoes, and its alkaline waters and is recognized as being one of the Natural Wonders of the World. Lake Nakuru is now a rhino sanctuary, harboring a population of over 40 black and over 60 white rhinos, but the flamingos, of course, have always been the main attraction. After the game drive, you will proceed to the Lodge or tented camp for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 4: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara National Reserve
You will have an early breakfast, check out and enjoy a morning game drive in search of wildlife. Later on, you will leave the park and drive further southwards to Masai Mara arriving in time for lunch at the tented camp or lodge. You will relax after lunch and later leave the camp at 3:30 pm for the first game drive in this vast reserve. Masai Mara is renowned for the spectacular great migration that takes place from July through October. Nevertheless, it is an all-year-round destination that never disappoints. You can spot all of the Big Five (lions, leopards, rhinos, elephants and Cape buffalos) at any time of the year.
Day 5: Masai Full day game drive Mara National Reserve
You may spend the entire day exploring the park after breakfast with packed picnic lunch or enjoy the usual early morning and late afternoon game drives in the Masai Mara National Reserve. It is Kenya’s most famous park with an extraordinary density of animals, including all the Big Five. In July – October, it’s also the scene of the great annual migration, when hundreds of thousands of wildebeests, plus smaller numbers of zebras and antelopes, arrive in search of fresh grazing from Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park in the south. The predators follow the herds, so this is the best time to witness plenty of animal action, especially if you get the opportunity to see the wildebeests cross the Mara River, where they have to dodge crocodiles, too. You will return to your tented camp or lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 6: Masai Mara National Reserve – Nairobi Hotel/Airport
Nairobi. Should you be interested in visiting a Maasai village, you can do so as you exit Masai Mara. You will arrive in Nairobi in the early afternoon where you will be dropped off at a Nairobi hotel or the airport. That’s the end of your 6 days, 5 nights safari Kenya.
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