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Kenya Safari - 11 nights / 12 days
This safari is specifically designed for you to see the highlights of East Africa – the Laikipia Plateau, Samburu, Chyulu Hills, and the Masai Mara.
Through this wide variety of ecosystems there is an extraordinary volume and diversity of wildlife, and a changing scenery that you will not believe possible in such a small corner of Africa. You will also enjoy a variety of cultural experiences.
DAYS ONE – TWO
Laikipia Plateau
Arrive Nairobi
Charter flight to the Laikipia Plateau
The rugged plains and woodlands of the Laikipia Plateau are home to a rich diversity of wildlife. As well as a stunning birdlife, larger game includes elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah, reticulated giraffe, baisa oryx, and the rare Grevy’s zebra and Jacksons hartebeest.
Further more this isolated region offers an opportunity to experience the fascinating cultures of the local Samburu and Pokot, warrior cattle peoples who still pursue their traditional ways of life unchanged for centuries.
Game viewing by vehicle and on foot with the option to camel trek.
Accommodation in a luxurious and comfortable lodge.
DAYS THREE – FIVE
Samburu National Reserve
Samburu is incredibly beautiful, and undoubtedly one of the best wildlife parks in Africa. Its rugged hills, undulating plains and striking red soil offer a stark contrast to the picturesque ribbon of green riverine woodland that borders the life giving Ewaso Nyiro River.
Samburu offers sanctuary to an extraordinary variety of animals, as well as over 365 species of birds. Game viewing is excellent, and as well as boasting all the African big cats, it has several rare and striking species such as the reticulated giraffe, gerenuk, oryx, and Grevy’s zebra.
But above all Samburu is elephant country, and your enduring impression of Samburu is likely to be a family of these extraordinary creatures bathing in the river just in front of your tent !
All game viewing in this remote northern park is done from by vehicle - comfortable, well equipped and 4-wheel drive with roof hatches to stand up and view from.
Accommodation in a mobile tented camp or a permanent tented camp.
DAYS SIX – SEVEN
Ol Donyo Wuas, Chyulu Hills
Ol Donyo Wuas is a private lodge stunningly situated in the foothills of the Chyulu Range in a concession of 300,000 acres of communal Maasai owned land, which is also part of the Amboseli ecosystem.
Wildlife on the concession includes the Big Five although rhino are hard to see as they live in very dense cover. Other species include Ostrich, Oryx, Gerenuk, Giraffe, Zebra, Wildebeest, Thompson’s and Grant’s Gazelle, Reed Buck, Cheetah, Lion, Leopard, Hyena, Jackal and Bat-eared fox.
Gameviewing can be done in open landrovers, on horse back or on foot. It is also possible to take cultural visits to the Massai villages, picnic breakfasts and dinners in the bush.
Accommodation is in seven individual cottages built with local materials with spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro. Mobile fly camping is also available.
DAYS EIGHT – ELEVEN
Masai Mara Game Reserve
Throughout the year the Mara is a place of natural drama where the “Big Five” – elephant, buffalo, rhino, lion, and leopard – roam, together with hundreds of others from the fastest animal on earth, the cheetah, to one of the most secretive, the bat-eared fox.
However, after the spring rains in August, when the first flush of grass turns the Mara’s golden savannah green, the most mesmerizing wildlife spectacle on earth takes place, the great migration. This is the time when one and a half million wildebeest, accompanied by vast numbers of gazelles and zebra, make the long trek north from Tanzania to this corner of Kenya. Dwindling grazing and the drying waterholes force this all-consuming army of herbivores further and further north, enticed by distant rain clouds and rumbles of thunder. As they near the northern end of their migration and enter the Masai Mara the migrating herds find their range bisected by the Mara River, a gently meandering watercourse packed with pods of grunting hippos and more than the occasional 20-foot crocodile. In their relentless search for fresh pasture and the promise of rain, the herds are constantly being forced to cross this river, and they do so in a style all of their own, often in their thousands.
Game viewing within the Masai Mara is by vehicle but in the peripheral areas this can also be done on foot. Balloon trips are also possible in the Mara.
A variety of accommodation is offered from mobile or permanent tented camps, to luxurious permanent lodges.
Most properties in Kenya are closed November and April/May.
DAY TWELVE
Return to Nairobi, depart Kenya
Walking in Kenya - 12 nights / 13 days
This safari is designed to allow you to enjoy the experience of game viewing on foot. Through a variety of ecosystems you will enjoy a close encounter with both the animals and the local people which only walking allows.
DAYS ONE – FOUR
Ol Donyo Wuas, Chyulu Hills
Arrive Nairobi
Charter flight into Ol Donyo Wuas.
Spend four days exploring this 300,000 acres concession owned by the Masai and part of the Amboseli ecosystem. The terrain is varied – open rolling plains interspersed with granite kopjes (high rock hills covered with small trees and bushes) and solidified larva flows, the latter providing sanctuary for a number of the elusive black rhino and a wonderful variety of birds. To the east is a small (and easily climbable) mountain range – the Chyulu Hills.
Wildlife on the concession includes the Big Five – Elephant, Lion, Buffalo, Rhinoceros and Leopard. Other species include Ostrich, Oryx, Gerenuk, Giraffe, Zebra, Wildebeest, Thompson’s and Grant’s Gazelle, Reed Buck, Cheetah, Hyena, Jackal and Bat-eared fox.
Game viewing is mainly done on foot but also in open landrovers, or on horse back if so desired.
Enjoy a mixture of comfortable fly camping and permanent accommodation, the latter in the uniquely designed Ol Donyo Wuas Lodge built on top of a hill with spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
DAYS FIVE – NINE
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, Il Ngwesi and Lekurruk Communal Ranches
This five day (or shorter if requested) walk starts on the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy`- a 45,000 acre game sanctuary that has been credited with helping to save the black rhino and Grevy’s zebra from the brink of extinction. Situated against the dramatic backdrop of the snow-covered massif of Mount Kenya and with the magnificent Northern Frontier District stretching to the north, Lewa encompasses one of the greatest natural diversities in Africa - grassy plains, acacia forests, and seasonal swamps fed by the snows of Mount Kenya.
The walking safari also takes you through two Maasai Community Conservation areas, Il N’Gwesi and Lekurruki. The area is collectively known as the Laikipiak Maasai Land and provides some of the most stunning landscapes in Africa as well as home to a wide variety of game.
The unique aspect of this part of the walking orientated safari is that it is backed up by camels. On arrival you will be met by the walking trail guide and camels who will carry your luggage between each overnight camp stop. More camels carry the camp equipment, food etc from stop to stop. The camps are basic – small dome tents with sewn in groundsheet and fully gauzed, stretcher and bed roll with sheets. Nearby is a long drop lavatory and hot/cold bucket shower. Meals are enjoyed under the spreading branches of the umbrella-like acacia tortillas trees which are synonymous with this area.
DAYS TEN – TWELVE
Masai Mara – Loita
As there is no walking allowed in the Masai Mara Game Reserve proper these last few days of the safari is undertaken on the Ol Kinyei Concession which lies between the reserve and the Loita Plains. The specific area is locally known as Esinga and is close to the only permanent source of water in this area, a large spring called Olare Lemuny – which means ‘Rhino salt lick’ in the Maa language.
The Ol Kinyei area is a Maasai group ranch (community land which is owned and lived on by the 500 local families) of approximately 200,000 acres. The southern part of the ranch consists mainly of classic open plains with scattered acacia savannah, quartzite hills and one or two perennial springs.
Like the Masai Mara this area is renowned for its outstanding wildlife. The African ‘cats’ living around Ol Kinyei include the leopard, cheetah, lion, civet and genet as well as elephant, buffalo, rhino and hippo and an abundance of plains game such as wildebeest, giraffe, zebra, a host of gazelles. Not to forget the night animals (night drives are allowed here) genets, porcupines, aardwolf etc. Birdlife is rich and varied.
Enjoy a mixture of very comfortable fly camping on the concession as well as in a beautiful permanent tented camp situated in a grove of yellow-bark acacia trees overlooking a natural mineral salt lick area frequented by game and birds.
DAY THIRTEEN
Return to Nairobi, depart Kenya
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