The Big Five & Flamingos: An 11-Day Kenya Camping Safari

Our professional safari guide will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel and proceed to Samburu National Park. On the way, you will pass through coffee, pineapples, and flower plantations, and you will see Mt. Kenya at close range The guide will look for a good place for your picnic lunch on the way En route game drive towards your camp, checking in the evening. Dinner and Accommodation at your Camp in Samburu National Park

You will be doing early morning game drives coming back at 9.00 am for breakfast. Have the afternoon game to see what you didn’t see in the morning. You will see the Big Five (elephant, lion, leopard, rhino and buffalo), Samburu specials and these are Somali ostrich, gerenuk, reticulated giraffe Beisa Olyx and gravy zebras among others. Dinner and Accommodation at Samburu N. P.

After breakfast, you will be en route to the game drive and continue driving on Nanyuki/ Nyahururu/ Nakuru Highway. Have a stopover at the highest Thomson Falls in Kenya, and have a picnic lunch on the way. In the afternoon, you will do a game drive down to the lake to see the pink color of the waters of the lake, and lesser and greater flamingos feeding. These flamingos are in terms of million and they migrated here mostly from Lake Nakuru, Elementaita, and Naivasha after these lakes got floods which killed their food. You will see some animals, especially greater and lesser kudu, zebras, elands, impala, tortoise, and many birds. Dinner and Accommodation at Lake Bogoria Lodge

After breakfast, you will have bird watching on your way to Lake Baringo, where you will have a boat ride to visit five islands to see how the fish eagle flies very low on the water to catch their prey. There are more different bird species, such as kingfishers, ibis, cormorants, geese, herons, ducks, etc., and you will learn how people live in these islands. After lunch, you will be taken along the lake shore by our naturalists to see different environments, e.g., trees, reptiles, etc., going back late in the evening. It is only in this hotel that you will find a swimming pool with natural hot water. Any time you want to swim in the pool, the hot water is ready for you, but they also have a cold swimming pool. Dinner and Accommodation at Lake Bogoria

After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunch boxes and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, one of the best parks to see black and white rhino, although the black rhino, being a browser, spends most of its time in the bushes. Other special animals to see are the Rothschild giraffe and tree lions. Others are buffalo, leopards, many antelopes, and very many different bird species. You will have your lunch in one of the picnic sites in the park. Have the afternoon Game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park to view the concentration of flamingos in the lake. There are many bird species around the lake, and later you drive on towards Lake Elementaita, arriving in the evening. - Dinner and overnight at Lake Elementaita Lodge

Depart after the horse ride or bird walk, and proceed to the Masai Mara National Game Reserve Have picnic lunch on the way, then drive on, arriving in the afternoon. Start your game drive in this national game reserve to see the beauty of the Masai Mara, beautiful sceneries, many animals, and birds coming back to the camp in the late evening. - Dinner and overnight at your Camp in the Masai Mara.

Do an early morning game drive and come back for breakfast. You will have the afternoon game drive to see the beauty of the Masai Mara with its famous sunset Before the game drive, you can choose to Visit Masai village and see how the Masai community lives with animals. Dinner and Accommodation in your Camp Masai Mara

You will have full-day game drives This is the best park for viewing the big five (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo) You will be going out early in the morning to see more cats, as this is the best time for hunting because it is cold for them. You will see the behaviors of different animals, e.g., lion making a kill, cheetah hunting, etc. There are about 450 bird species, including the birds of prey You will see the migration of wildebeests depending on the time of the year you are coming. Dinner and overnight at your Camp, Masai Mara

You will do an early morning game drive and come back for breakfast at 8.30 am. Depart after breakfast and en route game drive on your way out of the park. You will have your picnic lunch in Narok, then you proceed on to Nairobi. Stop over at the eastern side of the escarpment for a view of the valley Arrive in Nairobi in the late afternoon, having a good time to do the shopping. Later, our guide will take you to our famous Carnivore Restaurant for an early dinner, where you will have a chance to taste the game meat. Then you will be taken to JKIA to catch your international flight back home.