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Photo Safari
12 Days: Kenya Photographic Safari
Day 1: Nairobi - Masai Mara
After breakfast, we will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel.
Thereafter depart for the Masai Mara Game Reserve with stops at
the viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley and Narok town for lunch
and refuelling. Arrive in time for a late afternoon / early
evening game drive enroute to the lodge / campsite for dinner
and overnight.
Day 2: Masai Mara
Early breakfast then proceed for a full day of game viewing in
the reserve. The day will be taken up tracking game with your
guide though there will be a break for a picnic lunch at the
hippo pool. The abundance and variety of game in this reserve is
nothing short of amazing. Practically every mammal can be seen
in the Mara with a few exceptions. Various antelopes, scavengers
like hyena and vulture are common. The reserve contains all the
cats that are; lion, cheetah and leopard; sighting leopard needs
luck more than just being there but lions are abundant and there
are excellent chances for spotting cheetah. The hippo pool is a
popular spot to watch out for hippos; with luck, you may catch
crocodile basking on the rocks. Elephants, buffalo, the Masai
giraffe, wildebeest and the common zebra abound. Return to the
lodge /campsite for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Masai Mara
After breakfast proceed on another game-viewing session. After
lunch you will have the option to go for a game drive or at
extra cost, visit a nearby Masai village to see their nomadic
lifestyle. Both activities will end at the lodge or campsite in
the mid evening where you will retire for the night after
dinner.
Day 4: Masai Mara - Nakuru
After breakfast, depart the Mara region for Nakuru. The drive
offers panoramic views of Mt. Longonot and Lake Naivasha from
afar; this means that you will see them from the main highway.
Arrive Nakuru in time for dinner and overnight at the lodge /
campsite.
Day 5: Lake Nakuru / Samburu
Wake up to an early morning game drive in Lake Nakuru National
Park. Flamingos and other water birds that thrive in a
salt-water environment can be seen. With luck you may track the
white rhino and the Rothschild’s giraffe which both have
endangered species status. The park is 188 km and is home to
cats (both lion and leopard), various antelopes, grazers like
warthog and the waterbuck and Cape buffalo that breed near the
shoreline. After the game run, depart Nakuru for Samburu via the
Thompson falls, which are named after Joseph Thompson, one of
the first European explorers who walked from Mombasa to Lake
Victoria in the 1880’s. Lunch will be at Nanyuki, which is at
the foothills of Mt. Kenya. Arrive Samburu in the evening, which
a game drive enroute to the lodge / campsite where you will
retire for the night after dinner.
Day 6: Samburu
Morning and afternoon game drives in Samburu with a lunch and
leisure break in the mid afternoon. The reserve is home to rare
drought resistant animals that are peculiar to the semi-arid
region north of the equator. These include the reticulated
giraffe, grevy’s zebra, the Beisa Oryx, gerenuk and the blue-shanked
Somali ostrich. Samburu is dry most of the year but is watered
by the Ewaso Nyiro River, which rises in the Aberdare’s and
drains in the Lorian swamp north of Shaba National Reserve.
All meals and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
Day 07: Samburu/Mt. Kenya
Morning breakfast at Samburu and another game drive enroute.
Leave for Mount Kenya (Nanyuki ) to arrive intime for lunch.
After lunch, proceed for a visit to the Mau Mau caves (where
freedom fighters could hide from The British Troops during the
struggle for independence). Dinner and overnight at the lodge /
campsite.
Day 08: Mt. Kenya/Amboseli
After breakfast drive south via the biggest open-air market in
Eastern and Central Africa (Karatina) and via Namanga border
town with a brief stop for lunch. Proceed on to Amboseli
arriving in time for a late afternoon game drive . In clear
weather, you may see Mt. Kilimanjaro’s peak. Dinner and
overnight at the lodge /campsite.
Day 09:Amboseli
After breakfast, proceed on a game drive in this park, which
lies in a dried-up lakebed. There are swamps and springs fed by
underground rivers from the melting snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro,
which give permanent water to the wildlife. The animals seen
here include lion, elephant, cheetah, buffalo, plains game and
the rare Taita weaver and the gerenuk. The animals are mainly
found around the Ol Kenya swamp. If the weather is clear and
there is no low cloud cover, you may see the peak of Mt.
Kilimanjaro, which forms a beautiful backdrop to the park. The
observation hill offers a view of the entire park and beyond. An
afternoon game drive will follow after lunch.
Rest of meals and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
Day 10: Amboseli - Tsavo West
After breakfast, depart Amboseli for Tsavo West National
Park, lunch enroute. You will visit the Shaitani Lava flows as
the area where the park lies is of volcanic origin. The Mzima
Springs which contain 20 million tonnes of crystal - clear water
from the underground streams of the nearby Chyullu Hills are an
additional attraction; various aspects of marine life including
hippos, crocodile and fish can be seen from the specially
constructed underground glass tank. The animal species seen at
Tsavo are hippo, crocodiles, elephant, gazelle, zebra, giraffe,
various birds, buffalo, and kudu in a thick acacia setting.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge / campsite.
Day 11: Tsavo West - Tsavo East
A morning game drive will follow after breakfast and probably
view the rock hyrax, squirrels and mongooses as the park
contains a large population of these. Depart for Tsavo East
National Park, lunch enroute. Here, only the section south of
the Galana River is open to the public for game drives; the rest
of the park serves as a wilderness for the animals to retreat
into. Here the dried up Aruba dam can be seen plus crocodiles at
the crocodile point below the Lugard falls. Dinner and overnight
at the lodge / campsite.
Day 12: Tsavo East - Nairobi
After breakfast, your final game drive will follow during which
you may see plains game, zebra, antelope, lesser kudu, ostrich
and large herds of elephant. Lunch will be taken enroute. Arrive
in Nairobi in the evening.
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