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SWT 207: Amazing Bird Watchers Paradise

7 Days Nairobi – Lake Baringo – Kakamega – Nakuru – Naivasha - Nairobi

Day 1: Nairobi – Lake Baringo
Pick up from your hotel and drive through Limuru tea farms, descending to the floor of the Great Rift Valley with a brief stop at the viewpoint. Mount Longonot which is of volcanic origin and Lake Naivasha can be seen from far enroute to Lake Baringo. This is one of the two fresh water lakes in the Rift Valley and a haven for bird watchers. It has over 400 recorded bird species and a number of hippos. Check in and lunch at Lake Baringo country club of which rooms have plenty of information on the areas bird life or campsite.

A resident ornithologists leads walks before breakfast and in the evenings.

Dinner and overnight at lodge / campsite.

Day 2: Lake Baringo
After breakfast, take a 1 hour bird watching trip by boat to the island to view more birds and hippos. On the island you can organize short excursions at an extra cost to see the Njemps village (local tribe) dancing or a local snake farm. After proceed to the nearby Lake Bogoria an hour away.

Lake Bogoria is a shallow soda lake hosting thousands of pink flamingoes, a large number of other birds and the lesser kudu.

Scalding hot springs and geysers at the southern end of the lake spurt and steam their alkaline waters. The bubbling of hot springs, hundreds of singing weaver birds and a million flamingoes feeding in the bluish water present a scenic beauty. Dinner and overnight at lodge / campsite.

Day 3: Lake Baringo – Kakamega
After breakfast, Drive to Kakamega National Reserve. This is the country’s only tropical rain forest and formed part of the dense rain forest that stretched from West Africa, across Central Africa and into the highland areas East and West of the Great Rift Valley.

The forest is world renowned as home to several hundred species of birds including rare snake eating birds, insects, monkey’s and other mammals as well as countless exotic tree species. Dinner and overnight at budget hotel / lodge / campsite.

Day 4: Kakamega

After breakfast spend the whole day in the kakamega National Reserve with bird walks accompanied by game wardens and our driver / guide with picnic lunch.

Dinner and overnight at lodge / campsite.

Day 5: Kakamega – Nakuru

Drive to Lake Nakuru National Park after an early breakfast arriving at the Lake Nakuru lodge / hotel in time for lunch. The park is home to stunning flocks of lesser and greater flamingoes which literally turn the lakeshores into a magnificent pink stretch. The bird life here is world renown and over 400 bird species can be seen like white pelicans and the marabou stork, all the birds that breed in the lakes alkaline waters. You may also spot white rhino, rare Rothschild giraffe and other plain game.

Dinner and overnight at lodge / campsite.

Day 6: Nakuru – Naivasha
A pre-breakfast bird spotting drive in the park and around the lake before returning to the lodge / campsite for breakfast. Drive to Hell’s Gate National Park with a brief stop at Lake Elementaita viewpoint.

The park is famous for its natural steaming geysers and a haven for bird watchers. Walking or hiking in the park gives one a sense of freedom, open space and a clear view of wildlife. The cliffs are breeding grounds for vultures, verreauxs eagles, augur buzzards and thousands of swifts. Over 120 species have been recorded here. Lunch at lodge / campsite and afternoon is spent at leisure either to explore the rich, bird filled gardens or an optional boat ride to crescent island at an extra cost.

Dinner and overnight at lodge / campsite.

Day 7: Naivasha – Nairobi
After a leisurely breakfast drive back to Nairobi and drop off at your hotel or at the JKI Airport to catch your flight back home

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