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10
DAYS GAME SAFARI
GCT 212
DAY
1:
NAIROBI/MASAI MARA09.30
hours:
Depart from our Nairobi office for a journey South along the floor of
the Great Rift Valley. Lunch
served enroute, then past Narok climb the western wall entering Hemingway's
country of " the Serengeti Plains". Arrive late afternoon in the Maasai
Mara Game Reserve, game drive en-route. Dinner and overnight at the Camp.
DAY
2:
MASAI MARA
Full day spent in search
of Elephants, Zebra, Wildebeest, Rhino, Buffalo, Lion, Cheetah, Leopard
and other plains game. All meals and overnight at the Campsite.
DAY
3:
MASAI MARA
Full day game viewing.
Meals and overnight at the camp.
DAY
4:
MASAI MARA/NAKURU
After breakfast leave
the Camp and depart for Nakuru. Lunch is served en-route. Lake Nakuru
is renowned for its large variety of birds. Besides birds for which it
is world famous its possible to see other game such as Rhino, Water Buck,
Impala, Buffalo and Gazelle in the garden-like surrounding. Dinner and
overnight at the camp.
DAY
5:
NAKURU - BARINGO
Leave Nakuru for Lake
Bogoria where we are conducted on a tour of the geysers or hot springs.
The bird life here is also prolific and for the bird-watcher this is the
climax of the tour. After lunch proceed to Lake Baringo, another ornithologists'
delight. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.
DAY
6:
BARINGO - MARALAL
After breakfast leave
Lake Baringo and travel north to Maralal Town, one of the most colourful
towns in Kenya with the Samburu people resplendent in their red ochre
and brightly coloured attire. An unforgettable sight is of the antelopes,
zebras and giraffes peacefully browsing or grazing, undisturbed by the
townspeople going about their daily chores. Lunch, dinner and overnight
at the campsite.
DAY
7:
MARAL - SAMBURU
An early morning departure
after breakfast for Samburu Wildlife Sanctuary which is reached in the
early afternoon. Lunch and evening game drive followed by dinner and overnight.
DAY
8:
SAMBURU
A full day is spent
tracing the large variety of game that is to be found in this northern
wildlife sanctuary including the rare gerenuk (or antelope-giraffe), Grevy's
zebra, reticulated giraffe and the somali ostrich. All meals and overnight
at campsite.
DAY
9:
SAMBURU - MT. KENYA
After breakfast depart
the Samburu country for the slopes of Mount Kenya. The afternoon is spent
at leisure or trekking on the foothills of this snow-peaked tropical mountain.
Dinner and overnight.
DAY
10:
NAIROBI
The morning is spent
at leisure and we depart the mountain after lunch for Nairobi which is
reached in the early evening.
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