5 Days Nairobi National Park, Tsavo West and Ngulia Safari Tour

Nairobi National Park is a unique wildlife reserve situated just a few km away from the bustling Nairobi city. This park is the perfect getaway for anyone seeking to experience Kenya’s wildlife while still enjoying the comfort of modern amenities. The park is home to a wide range of African wildlife, including lions, cheetahs, buffalos, and giraffes, among others. Visitors can take guided tours and safaris through the park, allowing them to see these magnificent creatures up close and personal. The park is also home to over 500 species of birds, making it an ideal destination for bird watchers.

Aside from its abundant wildlife, Nairobi National Park is also renowned for its breathtaking scenery. The park boasts of stunning landscapes, including vast open savannah grasslands, rocky outcrops, and acacia woodlands. Visitors can enjoy scenic drives through the park, which offer panoramic views of the city skyline and Mount Kenya in the distance. The park also has several picnic sites, allowing visitors to relax and enjoy a meal while taking in the park’s natural beauty. Overall, Nairobi National Park is a must-visit destination for anyone seeking an authentic African wildlife experience.

Our safari Landcruiser arrive at the airport at exactly 0800 hrs. You will take a few minutes familiarizing with the driver before departing to Nairobi National Park. You will check in at the park East gate at approximately 0900 hrs. Here you will have an opportunity to sight all the big five except elephants.

At 1300 hrs you take lunch at Rangers restaurant one of the safari style restaurants in the park. Afternoon game drives continue to 1600 hrs when you transfer to a hotel where you spend the night.

Accommodation: ———————-

 Day 2: Nairobi- Tsavo west

You depart from your hotel at 0600 hrs heading to Tsavo. You will check in at Tsavo river gate at 1100hrs. Thereafter you will have a short game drive within Tsavo west as you head to Ngulia lodge where you check in and take lunch. You spend the afternoon at Ngulia rhino sanctuary which is one of Africa most successful black rhino conservation initiatives.

Accommodation: Ngulia Safari lodge

Day 3: Game drives, Mzima springs and Shetani Lava flow

At 0700 hrs you will depart for a short morning game drives with picnic lunch. The morning drives are the best as most of the animals are actively looking for the day meal. At 1000 hrs you will visit the mzima springs where there are fascinating underground water reservoirs, beautiful green flora and alluring bird scenes. You will also visit the Shetani basaltic lava flow.

Picnic lunch will be served at a site near Mzima springs. In the afternoon you will proceed with the normal game drives.

Accommodation: Ngulia safari lodge 

Day 4: Game drives and Ngulia rhino sanctuary

This day is reserved for game watching. Tsavo west is a stronghold for the characteristic red-painted Elephant, zebras, giraffes and wildebeest. Our driver will be kin to take you through various wildlife hotspot in the park for optimal bush experience.  Tsavo west also features a more fascinating vegetation and a host of migratory and local birds. At 1300 hrs you will return to the lodge for lunch.

The afternoon is spent on game drives and rhino tracking in Ngulia rhino sanctuary.

 

Accommodation: Ngulia safari lodge

Day 5: Tsavo- Nairobi

After breakfast you checkout from your lodge. You will have a short game drive as you exit via Tsavo river gate. You will be dropped off at the airport/ hotel later in the afternoon.

5 Days Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru Camping Safari

Masai Mara is part of the greater Mara region encompassing a public reserve and a host of privately owned wildernesses. The region arguably offers the best game viewing due to its high wildlife density. The park is the best for sighting predation scenes having large numbers of most of the big cats except leopards.

There are about 900 lions in Masai Mara which means there are possibility of sighting a pride of 10 individuals in every 20 square kilometres drive within the park. The worlds most famous lions pride is the Musiara pride is situated in the park.

In these floodplains you are almost guaranteed of sighting some predation actions especially when you are travelling in the dry or migration season. The masai Mara safari will also be a big boost to your big five view owing to the fact the park is a stronghold for all the big 5s except the Rhinos(black) which are occasional.

Lake Nakuru

The lake is one of the many soda lakes in Kenya, Tanzania and Ethiopia that is frequented by flamingos. Two of the world’s six Flamingo species are endemic to the region. lesser flamingos are the most common in Nakuru with their characteristic pinkish plumage making some of the most stunning views on earth. Although continued precipitation in the lake has lead to drop in flamingo numbers in the park in recent years, the park still boost an impressive flamingo in July, August and September.

Besides watching flamingo the adjacent park is one of the most impressive wilderness boosting beautiful yellow backed fever woodlands and great sights of wildlife.  The lake Nakuru tour will complete your foray for the big five since the park host one of the highest white rhino population in Africa. The park is also a stronghold for the endangered Rothschild giraffes. Though not a very fanciful big cats destination when compared to Masai Mara the park boost a notable good lions and leopard population.

When is the best time for Masai Mara and Lake Nakuru Safari

With Masai Mara maintaining a good game view all round the year and Nakuru being a good sight for birding and watching rhinos most part of the year you can choose to visit the park any time. However the months of July and August are the magical period with the mara migration peaking and flamingos being common ocxcurences in Nakuru

Program

Day 1: Nairobi- Masai Mara

Our driver arrives at the airport/ your hotel at 0700hrs. you depart for masai mara at 0730 hrs taking you through the view of native Masai grazing in the field and a quick view of the scenic landscape at the great rift valley viewpoint. You will arrive at Masai Mara at around 1300 hrs. you will drive to Rhino tourist camp a budget facility set on the dramatic oloolaimutia escarpments on the eastern border of Masai Mara reserve. Lunch will be served in the camp.

After lunch you will depart for the afternoon game drives checking in at oloolaimutia gate situated 10 minutes drive from the camp. The game drive will take you through different sections of the mara plain guaranteeing a first round view of all the big five except Rhinos. Our driver will be keen to take you to Musiara major game view hotspots. Game drives continues till close hours when you return to your camp.

Day 2: Masai Mara game drives/ balloon safari/ village tour

Immediately after breakfast you check into the park heading to a hot air balloon launch station near governor’s camp. Balloon rides are Mara’s most rewarding bush experience giving you an opportunity to drift above the rolling plains enjoying vintage view of wildebeest, zebras and cape buffalo in the field as well as the riverine forest lining the meandering Mara river. The ride will continue for about 1 hrs after which you will go for a mid-morning to lunch hour game drives this time seeking a more detailed check into more game hotspots especially along mara river including the oxbow floodplains of Olpunyata.

If you are travelling over the migration season, our driver will be on high alert to keep you close to the next wildebeest herd crossing epic an event that creates optimal predation experience for travelers.

In the afternoon you will visit one of the nearby Masai bomas or continue carrying out game drives.

Day 3: Masai Mara- Nakuru

After breakfast you take an early morning game drive in Masai Mara. Morning hours are the optimal period for game viewing as most of the wildlife are out in the open foraying for the day food. At 1000 hrs you will return to the camp for check out and afterward transfer to Nakuru. You will remain glued to the window screen watching scenes of tropical flora, escarpments, lakes and mountain formations throughout the driver to Nakuru. Lunch will be served en route at George resort. You arrive at a Nakuru in the evening when you check in golden palace hotel  and spend the night.

Day 4: Lake Nakuru

After breakfast we drive to the park with packed picnic lunch.  It takes about 30 minutes drive to the park’s gate from the hotel. After checking in you drive to the lake to look for flamingos. Marked by evergreen riparian beds, the lake shorelines are popular grazing spots for black rhinos and other wildlife. After taking photos, you proceed for the game drives through the park continuing for the entire day. You will have an opportunity to check into various sights in the park including out of Africa lookout viewpoint which offer the best view of waterbirds in the lake. lunch will be served at Makalia waterfalls.

Day 5: Depart for Nairobi

After breakfast you checkout from the hotel followed by dep;arture from Nairobi. You are dropped off in a Nairobi hotel/ Airport before 1000hrs .

Includes

  • Quality safari
  • The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
  • Full board accommodation
  • All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
  • Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
  • guaranteed window seats
  • bottled mineral water throughout your safari
  • dropping off at the Airport/ Hotel/ point of pick up
  • Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
  • All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:

  • Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
  • The optional activities e.g., visit Masai Village, going for 20 USD/ person, Balloon ride 450pp-bookable before departure.

Tip to driver/guide

3 Days Samburu National Reserve

Samburu national reserve is in the northern part of the rift valley 6 hrs drive from the capital Nairobi. The part is part of a broad ecosystem encompassing buffalo springs, Samburu national reserve, shaba national reserve and a number of private conservancies.

The parks is well for its large elephant population. Despite the low visitor uptake Samburu National reserve offer some of the best game view in the country with an impressive faunal display. Importantly, Samburu national reserve is set at the point where the savannah plains transition to a more arid habitat leading to a very unique set of fauna and avian varieties.

The beautiful reticulated giraffes, grevy’s zebra, Beisa oryx and gerenuk are some of the most prevalent wildlife species you can easily spot on a normal game drive. For the big cats, Samburu offers one of the best opportunities to sight leopards which a rare and elusive cat in other Kenya wilderness. The park also boosts a large population of birds adapted to desert like habitat. You are likely to encounter one the large Somali ostrich as you proceed with your day activities. Samburu is the only place in Kenya where you can sight certain Abyssinian bird varieties.

When is the best time for a 3 days Samburu national reserve safari?

Samburu is an all year round destination. The park like most parts of northern region receives low rainfall and experiences prolonged drought. However, the January and February offer optimal game view as most grazing spots are dried up leaving the wildlife clustering along River Ewaso Ng’iro which has all year round rush savannah. Over this period some mt Kenya elephants migrate from Mt Kenya via the Ngare ndare corridor into Samburu region.

Program

Day 1: Nairobi- Samburu

Early morning our driver pick you The Airport or your hotel in Nairobi. You depart for Samburu by 0700 hrs circumventing the scenic mount  Kenya which is one of the highest peak in Africa. Along the way you will enjoy the of flora and beautiful snow peaks as well as the refreshing crossover of the equator to the northern hemisphere. You will arrive at 1300 hrs approximately where you check in take lunch as you head for an afternoon game drives. The climax will be at the sunset view of the wildlife feeding out in the field.

Day 2: Samburu Excursion/ Samburu village/ walking safari

Morning game drives begin at 0700 hrs. These are the best hours to check wildlife in the flora rich riparian banks of River Ewaso Ng’iro which acts as a natural border between Samburu National reserve and Buffalo springs. Here elephants are common sights. Over the harsh dry season, the river dries up to a panoramic floral cover that is the last remaining grazing spot for wildlife in the 3 parks making it easier to experience game view offered in this wilderness. Morning game drives proceed until lunch hour when you return to your camp for lunch( picnic lunch option available). In the afternoon you will proceed with your normal day drives with an allowance to visit a samburu village, go for a guided bush walk, camel riding or check into one of the other two Samburu parks coming at an extra cost.

Day 3: Samburu – Nairobi

You will go for an early morning game drive followed by checkout at around 0900 hrs. At 1000 hrs for evening drop off at the point of pick up. You will have lunch at a restaurant on your way to Nairobi.

Cost includes

  • Quality safari
  • The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
  • Full board accommodation
  • All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
  • Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
  • guaranteed window seats
  • bottled mineral water throughout your safari
  • dropping off at the Airport/ Hotel/ point of pick up
  • Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
  • All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:

  • Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
  • The optional visit to tribal villages
  • Camel ride fees
  • Walking safari fees
  • Entry fees at buffalo springs/shaba national reserve
  • Tip to driver/guide

3 Days Meru National Park Safari

Situated in Eastern edge of Meru is the untouched wilderness boost an array of fascinating landscapes and flora that is Meru National Park. It is one of few Kenya national parks that receives enough rainfall that sustain a rich and diverse flora all round the year.

The northern part of the park are long savannah grasslands tucked in dense tropical greenwoods mostly encompassing the flat-topped acacia trees. In addition the park boost a number of River Tana tributaries, most famous of them River Ura and Rojerwero boosting a river basin lined with rich riparian flora. the river basin has some of the best game viewing spots especially over the dry period when grass in other parts of the park has exhausted.

Meru National park is a stronghold for Elephants, zebras, hartebeest, reedbuck, gazelle and kudu. The park is also a refuge to over 400 local and migrant bird species. Notably meru national park is one of the few places where you can freely go for an open sided photography which creates a profound feel of nature and the perfect game view for a photography safari.

When is the best time for a Meru national park safari

With the park receiving an impressive amount of rainfall all round the year, game viewing is similar all year round. However, the dry season between January and February is a slightly better moment for a safari.

Program

Day 1: Nairobi- meru national park

Our driver arrives at the airport/ your hotel at exactly 0700 hrs. You will have departed for meru by 0730 hrs moving round the snow capped Mt Kenya from the western side to the East via the shorter Embu route. Along the way you will be struck by the views of the sharp pointed peaks back dropping rich highland flora to keep you glued to the window throughout the 5 hrs long journey. You arrive at Elsa Kopje lodge at approximately noon where you check in and take lunch. The famous hotel is set at a rocky hillside inside the park enjoying a vista view of the unspoilt wilderness spectacularly spreadout in the lower reaches. After checking in you will proceed with the afternoon game drive.

Day 2: Meru National park

This day is reserved for game drives with photography. You will have the option to carry on with our land cruiser or book for an open sided safari at an extra cost. Game drives starts in the scenic view of Adamson falls that splashes water from a 50 m height. A visit to the burial site of Elsa the lioness follows to give you a broad insight of the park’s passionate conservation history. Later on you will check in at the rhino sanctuary a 48 square kilometre fenced portion of the park that is a highly guarded refuge for close to 100 black and white rhino. In the afternoon you can choose to go for a bush  walk safari with the help of an expert guide from the park or go for another round of game drives.

Day 3: Meru National park – Nairobi

Early game drives follow a quick breakfast and going on until 1000 hrs. Alternatively you can choose to relax in your private lodge and have a moment checking all this wilderness has to offer at a glance. By 1100 hrs you will have checked out and departed for Nairobi. You are dropped off in the capital at approximately 1600hrs.

Includes

  • Quality safari
  • The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
  • Full board accommodation
  • All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
  • Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
  • guaranteed window seats
  • bottled mineral water throughout your safari
  • dropping off at the Airport/ Hotel/ point of pick up
  • Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
  • All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:

  • Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
  • Walking safari
  • Open sided game drives
  • Tip to driver/guide

3 Days Masai Mara Safari Package

Masai Mara is the best safari destination in Kenya. Characterized by high wildlife density, Masai mara is the only place in Kenya where you can sight all the big five within the first 15 minutes of your safari. The greater mara vegetation is largely open savannah grasslands, and you are not required to go off-road to watch game scenes happening away from the park’s main roads.

Masai Mara has the largest lion concentrate in Africa and is the best place to watch predation action, especially along the riverine forest lining the Mara river that separates the Masai Mara and the mara triangle from Serengeti National park in Tanzania. The park is well known for the scenic river crossing, a well-known phenomenon in the migration cycle.

Where to stay?

Camps inside Masai Mara

This is the best option, especially when traveling during the migration period. Masai Mara’s best accommodations are along Mara river, which has excellent game view spots. Such accommodations include The Mara Expedition Camp, The little governor’s camp, Mara Serena lodge, and Governors’ Il Moran Camp. The little governor’s camp is the best choice since it is near a popular wildebeest river crossing route and, therefore, the best for tracking the herds as the phenomena. Importantly, the camp is one of the only two camps in the remote south-Western section of the Mara triangle. The Mara triangle is the best place within the public park where there is no crowd menace seen in the high and peak season. The intersection also has a higher wildlife density, with all the big five found within 5 square km. Animals in the region do not migrate as the mara river act as a natural buffer.

Camps outside Masai Mara

These are facilities set along the borders of the main park. Less than 30 minutes drive from the six main gates. These facilities include Enkorok Mara camp, Mara sidai camp, Enchoro Mara camp Jambo Mara safari camp. Though not as popular and expensive as facilities inside the park, proximity to the main gate and strategic location within the precincts of the main park make your stay similar to what you will get in the main park. The only difference is that you will access the main park from outside. Importantly, persons staying inside the main park won’t have added advantage in hours in the wilderness as there are no game drives taking place after closing hours.

Masai Mara experience in seasons

Masai Mara safari from December to Mid-March and October

This is the high season which is largely dry. Most of the savannah lands have thinned out, and the wildlife moves to the few remaining grazing spots along the riverine and floodplains. During this period, game viewing is optimal as it is easier to track games confined in different game hotspots within the park. This is the best time to go on a safari away from the crowded migration period.

Masai Mara safari in April to June and November

April to June is the long rains season. Very few visitors come to the park over this period and most of the accommodation facilities are charging very favorable rates. It is the best time to travel on a tight budget. Even though the increased lush grasslands scatter the wildlife, the high wildlife density keeps the game view good and enjoyable. The season is the best for birding as most exotic species migrate from Europe and Asia over this period. November and the first weeks of December are the short rains and offer an experience akin to the long rain season.

Masai Mara in July to September

This is the migration period. The season starts with the Mara river crossing in the last two weeks of July and August. This is the most sought-after event, and the number of visitors is peaking. In September, game viewing is at its best, with heightened hunting scenes occasioned by the sudden increase in prey. Towards the end of September, the herds will have diverted eastwards, exiting greater mara via eastern Serengeti.

Program

Day 1: Nairobi- Masai Mara

Our safari driver arrives at the airport/hotel at exactly 0800 hrs. Your first interaction with the driver, who is also your tour guide, will be a quick brief about the trip, after which you depart from Nairobi through the great rift valley. The road trip will take around 6 hrs, taking you through endlessly beautiful sights on and off the floor of the Gregory valley, which is the world’s most prolonged depression cutting across ten countries in the Eastern Africa region. You arrive in Masai Mara before lunch hour, and you will be checked into a camp within or outside the public park.

After lunch, you will go for the afternoon game drives till evening.

 

Day 2: Masai Mara

Game drives start immediately after breakfast. The morning game drives are good since most of the game is actively looking for the day’s food. Here you will have an opportunity to encounter some of the most enthralling game scenes. Our driver will take you to some of the most popular game hotspots, like the musiara floodplains, which are famous grazing and predation sites. At 1300hrs, you will return to your camp for lunch. You can continue the game drives in the afternoon or go for a Masai village tour at extra cost.

 

Day 3: Masai Mara- Nairobi

You will go for pre-breakfast game drives to catch the last scenes in the park. After 0930 hrs, you will drive back to the camp, take a full breakfast, check out and start the journey back to Nairobi. You will stop in Mai Mahiu, the administrative town of the Masai, for lunch. Dropping off at the airport/ Nairobi at around1600 hrs in the evening.

Includes

  • Quality safari
  • The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
  • Full board accommodation
  • All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
  • Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
  • guaranteed window seats
  • bottled mineral water throughout your safari
  • dropping off at the Airport/ Hotel/ point of pick up
  • Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
  • All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:

  • Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
  • The optional visit to tribal villages, e.g., visit Masai Village, going for 20 USD/ person, Balloon ride 450pp-bookable before departure.

Tip to driver/guide

2 Days Lake Nakuru Safari Package

Lake Nakuru is famous for being one of the 3 major  flamingo lakes in Kenya holding a concentrate of up to 2 million birds at the optimal season. lake Nakuru is also the most dependable game spot located to the north of Nairobi boosting an impressive population of giraffe, hippo, baboons, buffalo, zebra and Rhino. The park black and white rhino view can only be compared to the Laikipia conservancies of Lewa and Ol Pejeta.

The lake Nakuru is surrounded by a number of viewpoints offering bird eye perspective of Lake and the surrounding wilderness

During your safari you will visit the dramatic makalia falls which is the most scenic feature in the park offering a view of 10 m water splash and beautiful sights of flora in the lower reaches.

When is the best time to go for 2 days Lake Nakuru safari

Lake Nakuru offer an excellent all year round safari each season adding a unique set of bush experience. The rainy season(March to April) is the best time for a flamingo watching with the swarm increasing to over 2.4 million at the height of the season. Though you are guaranteed of flamingo scenes throughout the wet season, there number depends on the quantities of algae in the lake something that have become very unpredictable due to destructive human activities that caused desalination(precipitation) of the water. However, you will still have optimal view at nearby flamingo lakes- Elementaita and Bogoria. The dry season on the other end will offer optimal game view with the lake side being one of those places in the park that sustain tracks of lush grasslands over the prolonged dry period.

Program

Day 1 : Nairobi- Lake Nakuru

Our driver arrive at the airport/ hotel in Nairobi. At 0730 hrs you depart for Nakuru via Naivasha. The two hrs journey leads to some of the most dramatic terrains with views of Lake Naivasha, the perfect round Longonot crater and the scenic rift valley escarpments. You will stopover at the rift valley viewpoint and take images of the rift valley features. You arrive at golden palace hotel before 1000 hrs where you check in and head to the park with picnic lunch.  Game drive start at the lake to view flamingos and other waterbirds on the soggy lake shorelines. Lake Nakuru boost a flourishing lakeside beds that are teeming with wildlife all year round. Afterwards you will go game tracking in the extensive wilderness with a possible excursion at baboon cliff which is a stronghold for primates. Lunch will be served here or at the scenic Makalia falls

Day 2: Lake Nakuru- Nairobi

Early morning, you will go for a prebreakfast game drive around the lake. the sunrise game drive is one of the most rewarding safari experience as most of the wildlife are actively looking for the day meal. You return to the hotel at 9 o’clock. By 1000 hrs you will have checked out and started the return journey to Nairobi. You are dropped off at the point of pick up in the afternoon.

Cost includes

  • Quality safari
  • The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
  • Full board accommodation
  • All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
  • Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
  • guaranteed window seats
  • bottled mineral water throughout your safari
  • dropping off at the Airport/ Hotel/ point of pick up
  • Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
  • All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:

  • Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
  • Tip to driver/guide

2 Days Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha Safari Package

The lake Nakuru is one of the few permanent soda lakes that maintain a good flamingo view all round the year. The adjacent National park is one of kenya prime game hotspots and is possibly the only government park in Kenya where both black and white Rhinos are common.  Other common animals include hippo, giraffes, zebras and lions.

This safari entails a visit to the lake shore, baboon cliff, makalia falls all coming alongside exhaustive game drives. The baboon cliff is a great primate site. Makalia falls are the best location for taking picnic lunch offering one serene setting backdropped by the throbbing sounds of nature.

Lake Naivasha – This is one of the only two fresh water lakes inside Kenya’s great rift valley. The conducive freshwater coupled with extensive yellow-backed acacia woodlands for nesting make it Kenya best destination for sighting semi-aquatic and truly aquatic bird species. The lake has the largest waterfowl concentrate in Kenya. Common waterfowls species include northern pintail, tufted duck, maccoa duck, helmeted guineafowl, red-billed duck and whistling duck.  The adjacent woodland tracks are also great sites for terrestrial species like weavers and raptors. These include common cuckoo, common quail, Africa fish eagles, nightjar and Namaqua dove. In the package program you will have a boating excursion docking at the crescent island game park where you will embark on short guided walking safari. The crescent island is one of the few places where you can freely walk to track wildlife. Some of the most common varieties include zebras, impalas, kongoni and giraffes.

When to go for 2 Days Lake Nakuru and Naivasha safari

Since both destinations boost an excellent birding and game experience, there is no appointed time for this package. However, different seasons yield different experiences. The dry season( January to February and July to October) is the best for game viewing in Lake Nakuru and crescent island. Over this period most of the wildlife congregate around flora rich lake side swamps a clustered setting that make game tracking easier. However the wet season(March to April and again November) is the best for birding as most birds are in the breeding period. Over this period some intra-africa breeding species are common. For the Europe migrants some duck species settle in Lake Naivasha throughout the wintering season(November to April).

Program

Day 1: Nairobi – Lake Nakuru

Early morning our driver arrive at the airport for a guaranteed departure by 0730 hrs. The 3 hrs journey to Nakuru is an adventurous roadtrip taking you through the most scenic section of the Kenyan great rift valley featuring incredibly step escarpments, scenic Longonot volcano and several lake Naivasha look outs. Along the way you will a stopover at the rift valley viewpoint to have a bird eye perspective of various natural formations on the floor of the valley. You arrive in Nakuru at approximately 0930 hrs where you check into a hotel. By 1100 hrs you will have driven to the park with the lake being you first location. Here you will find wildlife especially rhinos grazing on the riparian flora bed backdropped by a breath-taking bird scenes. Thereafter you will embark on a full day game drive with a check ins at the baboon cliff and Makalia falls. Picnic lunch will be served in one of the two locations.

Day 2: Lake – Nakuru- Lake Naivasha – Nairobi

After breakfast you will check out and depart for Naivasha for a guaranteed arrival in Naivasha before 0900 hrs. You will head to the lake where you will embark on a short boating excursion. The lake shorelines are spectacularly teeming with herons who are busy foraying in the diet rich shorelines. You also have a chance to encounter over 30000 waterfowl ducking waterfowls as well as several hipppos pool. You drift up ashores the crescent island where you will have a short guided walking safari. The crescent island has no big cats which explains why you are at liberty to freely walk without fears of attacks. You will have lunch in Naivasha as you head for Nairobi.

Includes

  • Quality safari
  • The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
  • Full board accommodation
  • All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
  • Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
  • guaranteed window seats
  • bottled mineral water throughout your safari
  • dropping off at the Airport/ Hotel/ point of pick up
  • Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
  • All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:

  • Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
  • Canoe riding
  • Tip to driver/guide

3 Days Tsavo East Tsavo West Safari Terminal Tours Kenya

Day 1: Mombasa – Tsavo East
Leave very early in the morning from your beach hotel towards Mombasa-Nairobi highway to Bachuma Gate, the main gate of Tsavo East national park (area 13,747 sq km). It’s the biggest park in Kenya. Make game drive slowly, looking for lions, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, gazelles, antelopes and different kind of birds. Stop at Aruba Dam (main water body) for game viewing and photo taking. Later drive around the Tsavo River watching the animals drinking water and feed. Later drive to lodge/camp, after checking in take your lunch (buffet) and relax by pool watching the animals coming by the nearby water to quench their thirst. At 4 pm go for the evening game drive. Thereafter, come back to lodge/camp for dinner and overnight.
About Tsavo West
Tsavo West National Park is a wilderness featured in the southern parts of Kenya. It has vast inhabited plains which make it one of the favorite tourist destinations. The park stretches from Chyulu Hills to the Tanzanian border. It is a wild land of broken volcanic hills, and dense acacia woodland. The wildlife densities are lower compared to Tsavo East and Masai Mara but it provides diversity.
Day 2: Tsavo East – Tsavo West
Leave for the morning game drive, come back for breakfast and later leave the lodge/camp towards Tsavo West national park. Game drive en-route to lodge/camp. Check in for lunch, after lunch relax by swimming pool cooling your body and watching the animals drinking water by the nearby waterhole. Later go for the evening game drive, visiting the Rhino Sanctuary until 6pm, come back to lodge/camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Tsavo West – Mombasa
Very early in the morning take your breakfast and leave the lodge/camp to Mzima Springs for hippos and crocodiles. Take your nature walk at Mzima spring where all the water from Mt Kilimanjaro come underground then burst from the volcanic lava rocks therefore making big pool of water where you will find hippotamus, crocodiles and different kinds of birds. After walking at Mzima springs come back to your bus and drive out of Tsavo West National Park to Nairobi–Mombasa highway. Stop for extra lunch at Voi. Drive back to your coastal hotel.
What’s included?
· Kenyan Experience with home comfort
· Quality safari
· The services of our knowledgeable English speaking driver/guide
· Full board accommodation in self-contained-tents/camps + Meals on Safari (B.L.D)
· Picnic-lunches at the Mara-River on the second day as indicated
· All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
· Transport in a safari Micro-Toyota van with a pop-up-roof for wildlife viewing and photography.
· guaranteed window/and comfortable seats
· 02nights/ 3days staying in the Tsavo East/West
· Saftyness
· bottled mineral water throughout the safari
· Return transfer to your place of staying
· Emergency flying doctors evacuation cover up to a radius of 1000-km ex-Nairobi
· All applicable taxes & government tolls
Cost excludes:
· Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
· The optional visit to tribal villages e.g. visit to a Maasai village $ 20 PP, its also negitiatable with the masai chiefBallon safari in the Mara $ 450pp-bookable before departure.
· Tip to driver/guide

5 Days Samburu National Park, Aberdares and Lake Nakuru Safari

The Samburu National Park is in the northern part of the rift valley which entails some of the driest locations in the country. The park is set in a small but largely endowed ecosystem mainly comprising Samburu national reserve, buffalo springs and a more remote and less visited Shaba national reserve.

Due to its remote and far location from the capital Samburu receives relatively low number of visitors despite its impressive   wildlife population. Here elephants and reticulated giraffes are the most common animals often sighted within the first few minutes of your game drive. Over the dry season large concentrates of wildlife especially elephant that migrate from Mt Kenya gather along river Ewaso Ngiro which has the last grazing spots to sustain life in the entire ecosystem.

This leads to a premium experience for game watchers. Though not a big cat destination, Samburu offers impressive sights of leopard which are more elusive in places like masai mara. Besides game drives Samburu is a great ornithological site boosting a unique set of semi arid birds that you may not find in other parks in kenya. Somali Ostrich which are some of the largest birds in the world are some of the most common bird varieties in this wilderness.

Aberdare National Park

Aberdare is not a typical game drive destination boosting dense woodlands track that would affect visibility. Most visitors here experience the incredibly beautiful game scenes by embarking on a hiking trail or booking a stay in the Ark lodge which has a permanent floodlit watering hole situated at the heart of the park. The facility also owns aberdare country club set on a private concession on the more open muiga hills a location ideal for a game drive or a horse safari. Some of the most common wildlife you are likely to encounter include elephants, buffalos, giraffes (aberdares country club) and rhinos.

Lake Nakuru

This is a national park in central rift valley just 155 kms from Nairobi the capital, Nairobi. The park is well known for hosting large concentrates of flamingos. Lake Nakuru national park on the lakesides is also an excellent wildlife and terrestrial bird hotspot. You will have an opportunity to sight the black and white rhinos more than any other place in Kenya. The lake park is also one of the few government owned wildernesses where you will have the luxury to alight from your vehicle and watch game scenes over viewpoints like Makalia falls and baboon cliff.

Program

Day 1: Nairobi- Samburu

Early morning our driver arrives at the Airport/ your hotel. You will have departed for Samburu by 0730 hrs ascending to the central highlands where you will enjoy great views of flora and landscape. You will have a refreshing transition to the northern hemisphere at the equator town, Nanyuki. You arrive at a lodge in Samburu at around 1300 hrs where you check in and take lunch. In the afternoon you will have your first round of game drives continuing to sunset.

Day 2: Samburu game drives/ camel riding/ village tour/ bush walk

After breakfast you will go for the morning game drives starting with sites along river Ewaso Ngiro where you are guaranteed of great wildlife encounters as most of the animals are actively feeding on the flora rich river basin. The morning and evening hours are the most common feeding moments for most daytime animals. With Samburu wilderness being just 510 square kilometres in size you will have exhaustively unraveled all this track has to offer by lunch hour. In the afternoon you can choose to go for a second round of game drives or embark on a walking safari guided by a Samburu warrior. This will help you discover some of alluring bird scenes mostly entailing arid birds as well as a variety of trees and their usefulness in Samburu culture.  Alternatively, you can visit one of the nearby Samburu vlllaes or o for a game drive in Bufallo springs.

Day 3: Samburu- Aberdares

After breakfast you checkout followed by departure to Aberdare in te central highlands. We will first check into aberdares country club set on a private wilderness on the slopes of muiga hills on the periphery of Aberdare national park.  Here you will have an opportunity to o for a horse back safari guided by an expert from the facility and an armed ranger. This will help some of the best kept secrets of this wilderness as you navigate into some of the most inaccessible terrains and view wildlife at a close range. Lunch will be served in the facility.

At 1500 hrs you depart for tree tops, another ark facility situated at the heart of Aberdare national park where you spend the night.

Day 4: Aberdares – Lake Nakuru

After breakfast you will spend some moment in the private lounge overlooking the watering hole. The Ark lodge watering hole boost an excellent game view all round the year especially elephants. The morning hours are the premium times as most of the animals are breaking for their day activities. At 1000 hrs you will check out followed by departure for Nakuru. The maximum 4 hrs journey leads into the lush central flora and the scenic central rift valley landscape. You make a stop at the breath-taking Thompson set along where water splash from 10 m. You will arrive at sarova lion hills lodge in Lake Nakuru at approximately 1400 hrs where you check in and take lunch. The lodge is set at a major viewpoint enjoying bird-eye perspective of the lake and the surrounding wilderness. After taking lunch you can choose to relax in the bar lounge with a pair of binoculars and enjoy avian and wildlife in the entire wilderness. Alternatively, you go for short game drive.

Day 5: Lake Nakuru – Nairobi

After breakfast you will go for a short game drive around the lake where you are likely to encounter buffalo and rhino breaking the day with the rich riparian flora by the lakeside. You are also likely to encounter some flamingo though their numbers are largely depending on climatic conditions. Thereafter at 1000 hrs you return to your hotel for checkout and subsequent transfer to Nairobi. You are dropped at the point of pick up in the afternoon.

Cost includes

  • Quality safari
  • The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
  • Full board accommodation
  • All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
  • Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
  • guaranteed window seats
  • bottled mineral water throughout your safari
  • dropping off at the Airport/ Hotel/ point of pick up
  • Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
  • All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:

  • Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
  • The optional visit to tribal villages.
  • Camel ride fees
  • Buffalo springs entrance fee
  • Horse riding fee
  • Tip to driver/guide

2 Days Tsavo West Safari

Tsavo West – The park is the largest of the two Tsavo parks. The park bosts an excellent landscape unseen in any other park accessible from the coastal town of Mombasa. With sceneries ranging from the vast dense greenwoods to the view of natural formations like chaimu volcanoes, lake jipe, shetani lava flow and mzima springs a two days trip will just be a teaser of all the wilderness has to offer. Though the thick woodlands make it slightly less dependable game viewing destination when compared to park the sister Tsavo East, the park will still impress when you are travelling with the help of an experienced driver. Tsavo parks are famous for the red painted elephants that acquire the unique colour skin when they sun bath in anthills mounded from the parks red volcanic soil. Ngulia safari lodge the accommodation facility offered for this package is situated near Ngulia rhino sanctuary a fenced stronghold for the endangered black rhinos.

Program

Day 1: Mombasa- Tsavo west
At 0700 hrs our driver arrive at your hotel in Mombasa. You depart for Tsavo at 0730 hrs you will pay entrance at the main gate before heading Ngulia safari lodge for check in. At noon you take early lunch and proceed to mzima springs for a brief nature trail with photography at the shetani basaltic flow which is one of the longest fresh stream of solidified magma in the world. The day closes in chaimu crater further in the south one of the picture perfect sights where you can take image backdropped by the ashy conical shaped elevation.

Day 2: Ngulia – Mombasa
After a quick breakfast you proceed to Ngulia rhino sanctuary for a game drive. At 1000 hrs you return to the lodge for check out followed by a brief drive as you leave for Mombasa. You are dropped off at the hotel at approximately 1600 hrs

Includes
• Quality safari
• The services of our knowledgeable English-speaking driver/guide
• Full board accommodation
• All the Park entrance/ conservation fees
• Transport in a customized safari Landcruiser
• guaranteed window seats
• bottled mineral water throughout your safari

• dropping off at your Hotel/ point of pick up in Mombasa
• Emergency flying doctor’s evacuation covers up to a radius of 1000 km ex-Nairobi
• All applicable taxes & government tolls

Cost excludes:
• Soft drinks, juices, alcoholic and other beverages taken with lunch/dinner
• Tip to driver/guide
• Activities not included in this program