Description
7 DAYS NAIROBI – SAMBURU, ABERDARE, LAKE NAKURU & MAASAI MARA SAFARI
This is a full and enjoyably diverse safari. Diverse in the different parks and landforms you’ll experience. Diverse in the wonderful range of wildlife you’ll encounter. Diverse in the native cultures and peoples you’ll have the opportunity to meet.
Your first stop at the Samburu National Reserve presents unusual species like Grevy’s Zebra and the reticulated giraffe. There’s also plenty of big game here such as lion, leopard, cheetah and buffalo. The reserve is home to the Samburu people whose villages dot the landscape.
Perhaps one of the most unique parks and certainly your most unique lodging is at your next stop, Aberdare National Park. Amidst upcountry rainforest and waterfalls, you’ll be staying at a tree hotel! From your balcony you’ll look out on the park’s wildlife of black rhino, elephant, Cape buffalo, Bongo antelope and much more.
Then it’s off to Lake Nakuru National Park and along the way there you’ll pass the scenic drama of 74m high Thompson’s Falls. Lake Nakuru is known for hosting some endangered but beautiful species. You’re sure to see rare Rothschild’s Giraffe along with white rhino, especially along the lakeshore.
The climax to your busy week of immersive scenery and wildlife is the world-famous Maasai Mara Known for its incredible diversity of game, including the Big Five, the Mara is Africa’s richest eco-system.
Amenities
- Balcony
- Bedding
- Outdoor Seating
- Smoking Allow
- Terrace
Language
- English
Calendar & Prices
Details
Day 1: Nairobi to Samburu
0630hrs: Pick-up from your hotel/residence.
Proceed via the central highlands of Kenya with views of coffee, tea, sisal, pineapple and subsistence farming activities. Local African homesteads dot the red soiled slopes of this region.
View the Mount Kenya with its snow-capped peaks along the safari route, weather permitting.
Arrive in time for lunch.
Afternoon game viewing drive in Samburu National Reserve or Shaba National Reserve or Buffalo Springs National Reserve.
Overnight at a camp/lodge.
Day 2: Full day in Samburu
The day shall be spent with game viewing drives / relaxing interludes at the game reserve.
Game viewing drives in this dry and scenic game reserve are concentrated along the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River where most wildlife is found.
Overnight at your lodge/camp.
Day 3: Samburu to Aberdare
After breakfast, drive to Aberdare National park. On arrival, you will check in and have lunch at your base hotel.
After lunch transfer to your tree lodge. Overnight at your tree lodge with floodlit game viewing from the lodge viewing decks.
Day 4: Aberdare to Lake Nakuru
After breakfast, we shall leave the Aberdare for Lake Nakuru National Park.
Arrive in time for lunch and later proceed for an afternoon game viewing drive.
Lake Nakuru National park is not only the home of wildlife like the endangered black rhino, the Rothschild’s giraffe, the waterbuck and predators like the lion and leopard, but is wild famous as the location where the pink flamingo vast numbers literally turned the Lake horizon pink. The numbers has in recent years declined due to climate change which led the lake to overflow.
Dinner and overnight at your lodge or tented camp.
Day 5: Lake Nakuru to Maasai Mara
After breakfast, we depart Lake Nakuru for Maasai Mara arriving in time for lunch. Later proceed for the afternoon game viewing drive.
Dinner and overnight at your lodge or camp.
Day 6: Full day in Maasai Mara
Spend the full day at the Maasai Mara game reserve with unlimited game viewing drives.
The reserve is an extension of the vast Serengeti plains and is known for its spectacular great wildebeest migration and is home of the big five. You shall have your picnic lunch at the banks of the Mara River. Residents of the reserve are Maasai giraffe, buffalo, eland and thousands of plains game including impala, zebra, topi, Thompsons and grant gazelles
Optional activities.
– Visit to a local Maasai village for a Maasai cultural tour.
– Hot air balloon ride in the early morning.
Dinner and overnight at your lodge or camp.
Day 7: Maasai Mara to Nairobi
After breakfast, check out and embark on your drive back to Nairobi to arrive in the afternoon.
Drop off at your Nairobi hotel/residence or airport for onward flight.