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Camping Safaris in Kenya
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7 DAYS MASAI MARA/NAKURU/AMBOSELI
Day 1: Nairobi/Masaai Mara
Leave Nairobi for Masaai Mara Game Reserve. Picnic lunch enroute. On
arrival proceed for a game drive in search of black manned lions,
elephants, leopards, cheetah, buffaloes and other plain game. Return
to the campsite for dinner and overnight.
Day 2:Masaai Mara
A full day spent game viewing a cross the rich, tree studded
grassland and rolling hills. The famous mara is renowned for its
great herds of plain game, black-maned lions, leopard and cheetah
but also contains numerous elephant and virtually every type of
wildlife to be found in Kenya. All meals and over night in the
campsite.
Day 3: Masaai Mara
Full day game viewing in the Mara with an optional nature walk or a
visit to a nearby Masaai village in between the meal break. Dinner
and overnight at the campsite.
Day 4: Masaai Mara/Nakuru
After early game drive leave Masaai Mara for Nakuru National Park.
Picnic lunch enroute. Dinner and overnight at a hotel.
Day 5: Nakuru/Amboseli
After breakfast, morning game drive. Have lunch in Nairobi and
proceed to Amboseli National Park. Once in the park proceed for a
short game drive if time permits. Dinner and overnight at the
campsite.
Day 6: Amboseli
Full day in Amboseli with an optional tour to maasai village, Meals
and night at the campsite.
Day 7: Amboseli/Nairobi
After breakfast leave campsite for the last game drive as you leave
the park for Nairobi. Picnic lunch served enroute. Arrive in Nairobi
late afternoon.
Price
includes:
- Transportation in a custom safari minibus with
pop-up roof ideal for game viewing and sightseeing
- Services of a trained and experienced English
speaking driver/guide
- All camping equipments except sleeping bags
- Three meals per day prepared by our safari cook
- Bottled water for use during the safari
- Game drives and park entry fees
Not
included:
- International air transportation to and from Nairobi
- Expenses of personal nature such as visas,
travel/baggage insurance, laundry, beverages, tips
etc.
12 Days MASAI MARA - LAKE NAKURU - SAMBURU
- AMBOSELI - TSAVO
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 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 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 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
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 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 campsite.
Day 7: Samburu - Mt.Kenya
After breakfast, leave Samburu for Mount Kenya (Nanyuki)
arriving in time for lunch. After lunch, visit the Mau Mau
caves (where Kenyan Freedom fighters could hide from the
British Troops during the struggle for independence). dinner
and overnight at a budget hotel. Day 08: Mt. Kenya - Amboseli
After breakfast, depart for Amboseli via Nairobi. In clear
weather, you may see Mt. Kenya’s peak. You will also by-pass
very pleasant countryside which coffee and tea plantations.
Lunch will be taken enroute. Arrive Amboseli in the evening
with a brief game drive enroute to the campsite for dinner.
Day 9 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 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 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 campsite.
Day 12: Tsavo East - Nairobi or Mombasa
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
- Package Includes:
1. All game parks entrance fees
2. Qualified English speaking driver guide
3. Transport by comfortable safari vehicles with
hatch-roofs
4. Accommodation in the camp
5. Three sumptuous meals per day whilst on safari, prepared
and served by our cook
Not Included:
1. A visit to the masai village which is optional
2. Personal things like beers, sodas, cigarettes and
toiletries
3. Tips
4. Drinking water
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