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SWT 204: Track the Big 5 and optional beach holiday
7 Days Masai Mara – Lake Nakuru – Samburu
Day 1: Nairobi – Maasai mara
After breakfast at 0900hrs you will be picked up from your Nairobi hotel and depart for Masai Mara game reserve via the viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley, lunch enroute. Arrive in time for an evening game drive at 1600hrs in this pristine, unequalled 'big game country'.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge/campsite.
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Day 2: Masai Mara
This will be a day of tracking game with your guide, after an early breakfast. The Mara's landscape is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills which enables the reserve to attract sufficient rainfall to maintain and support a large population of herbivores together with the predators that follow. Lion, buffalo and elephants can be seen at relative ease though lack is a necessary factor for spotting rhino and leopard that complete the big five as the two animals are very timid and few in number.
Plains game like wildebeests, maasai giraffe, zebra abound as well as hippos and a wide variety of antelopes including impala, dik dik, Grant's gazelle, Thompson's gazelle, hartebeest among others can be seen. There will be a picnic lunch at the hippo pool. In the evening return to the lodge/campsite for dinner and overnight. |
Day 3:Masai Mara
After breakfast, another morning of tracking game in this reserve that borders Tanzania's Serengeti National Park and is the seasonal scene of the migration of close to 1,000,000 zebra and wildebeest that occurs between the two parks. Lunch at the lodge/campsite. In the afternoon at extra cost you may visit a local maasai village to see their their nomadic lifestyles; the maasai are famous for their bravery as they have co-existed with the animals over the years.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge/campsite.
Day 4: Masai Mara – Lake Nakuru
After breakfast prepare to leave Masai Mara for Lake Nakuru with a stop for lunch enroute, with scenic views of Lake Naivasha and Mount Longonot from a far on the main highway.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge/campsite.
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Day 5: Lake Nakuru – Samburu
After breakfast a morning game drive will follow in Lake Nakuru National park. The abode of various water birds that breed in the lake's salty water including flamingoes, white pelicans and marabou stork, white rhino may be seen as well as the rare Rothschild 'Baringo' giraffe, cape buffalo and other plains game in this park that is 188km2.
Depart for Samburu game reserve for dinner and overnight at the lodge/campsite via the Thompson falls which was named after Joseph Thompson one of the first European explorers who walked from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in the 1880's with lunch and game drive enroute. |
Day 6: Samburu
Morning and afternoon game drives in Samburu with lunch and leisure break at the lodge/campsite in mid afternoon. Samburu is North of the equator and contains rare, drought resistant animal species which go for long periods of time without water.
These include the reticulated “Samburu” giraffe, grevy's zebra, Somali ostrich, the gerenuks and the beisa oryx.
In the late afternoon (at an extra cost) go for optional activities like having a nature walk, visits to Samburu village to see their nomadic lifestyles or swimming in the nearby lodges.
Dinner and overnight at the lodge/campsite.
Day 7: Samburu – Nairobi
After breakfast, depart Samburu for Nairobi, lunch enroute with scenic views of Mount Kenya's peak if the weather permits. Pleasant countryside with coffee and tea plantations will be by-passed enroute to Nairobi.
Arrive in the evening. |
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Day 8 – 11: Beach holiday on half board basis in Mombasa.
You can travel to the coast by flight, train or bus (price not included but arrangements can be done.)
SWT 204: Track the Big 5 and beach holiday
SWT 205: 7 Days Masai Mara – Lake Nakuru - Amboseli
SWT 206: 12 Days Masai Mara
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