Day 1 30/10/2013 Nairobi, Kenya
JKIA arrival transfer by private vehicle.
Safari Park Hotel BB
Day 2 31/10/2013 Nairobi, Kenya - Samburu Game Reserve
Drive for approximately six hours northwards via Nanyuki and Mt Kenya, across the Equator and onto the Samburu National Reserve. Rugged and remote, this wildlife reserve provides some the best and most colourful game viewing in the country. Lunch shall be taken en-route, arriving in Samburu for a leisurely afternoon game drive into camp.
Fresh trout lunch at The Trout-Tree Restaurant.
Elephant Bedroom Camp-Tents L-DBBL
Day 3 01/11/2013 Samburu Game Reserve
Full day of game-viewing in the Samburu Game Reserve. Samburu is home to six special big game species rarely seen elsewhere: Grevy's Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, Somali Ostrich, Gerenuk, Guenther's Dik-Dik and Beisa Oryx.
Opportunity to learn about Samburu tribal culture.
Elephant Bedroom Camp-Tents DBBL
Day 4 02/11/2013 Samburu Game Reserve
Full day of game-viewing in the Samburu Game Reserve. Samburu is home to six special big game species rarely seen elsewhere: Grevy's Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, Somali Ostrich, Gerenuk, Guenther's Dik-Dik and Beisa Oryx.
Elephant Bedroom Camp-Tents DBBL
Day 5 03/11/2013 Samburu Game Reserve - Sibiloi National Park
Fly to Alia Bay in time for a site inspection and afternoon eclipse.
Fly Camp D-LDBB
Day 6 04/11/2013 Sibiloi National Park - Lake Nakuru National Park
Fly to Mbweha Camp arriving in time for a late lunch and leisurely afternoon activity.
Mbweha Camp-Cottage DBBL
Day 7 05/11/2013 Lake Nakuru National Park
Day spent in Lake Nakuru National Park, home to the "greatest bird spectacle in the world". This internationally recognized catch phrase that was actually coined in 1960 by one of our first safari guests, American author, and Audubon Society naturalist, Roger Tory Peterson.
Mbweha Camp-Cottage DBBL
Day 8 06/11/2013 Lake Nakuru National Park - Masai Mara Game Reserve
A six hour drive, with picnic lunch en-route, via The Great Rift Valley and Narok to the Masai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful volcanic scenery, rolling grasslands and plenty of big game.
Mara Intrepids Camp-Tents DBBL
Day 9 07/11/2013 Masai Mara Game Reserve
Full day of game-viewing in the Masai Mara. The Mara/Serengeti eco-system is perhaps the only region left in Africa where the visitor may see animals in excess of the super-abundance as existed a century ago.
Mara Intrepids Camp-Tents DBBL
Day 10 08/11/2013 Masai Mara Game Reserve
Full day of game-viewing in the Masai Mara.
Mara Intrepids Camp-Tents DBBL
Day 11 09/11/2013 Masai Mara Game Reserve
Full day of game-viewing in the Masai Mara. The Mara/Serengeti eco-system is perhaps the only region left in Africa where the visitor may see animals inexcess of the super-abundance as existed a century ago.
Mara Intrepids Camp-Tents DBBL
Day 12 10/11/2013 Masai Mara Game Reserve - Nairobi, Kenya
1100/1215 hrs Fly Mara to Nairobi. After an early morning game drive you shall be transferred to the nearby airstrip for your one hour flight back to Nairobi.
Wilson arrival transfer by private vehicle.
Day room at Panari Hotel.
Lunch at the Pampa Grill.
JKIA departure transfer for onward flight.
Comments:
To all people of Spears Travel and Origins Safaris we say
THANK YOU!!
for all Your efforts in organizing wonderful 2 weeks in Kenya!
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