Day 1. Nairobi-Samburu Game Reserve (6h). An early morning drive to Samburu Game Reserve. Picnic lunch en-route and afternoon or evening game drive. Samburu Game Reserve stands as one of the most beautiful Kenya Parks in Northern Circuit. It holds the most indigenous wildlife as well as the home of African Elephants and beautiful species of Grevy’s Zebras and the Reticulated Giraffes. Dinner and overnight at campsite or lodge.
Day 2. Samburu Game Reserve. The whole day will be spent exploring this amazing game reserve, it gives you the refreshment of your mind as the park is not populated and not many people visits here. Elephants, lions, leopards, buffaloes, as well as the "Special Six" of Samburu: species found only in this northern area of Kenya. Gerenuk (long-necked giraffe antelope), Reticulated Giraffe, Somali Blue-legged Ostrich, Grevy's Zebra, Beisa Oryx (a large and beautiful antelope) and Guenther's dik-dik. There are over 450 identified bird and aquatic species in the Ewaso Nyiro River including vultures, kingfisher, marabou, bateleurs. The whole day will be dedicated to exploring the park with a sundowner with the elephants or admiring a superb view of the sunset from the top of some rocky hill! Dinner and overnight at campsite or lodge.
Day 3. Samburu GR-Aberdare National Park (4h30). An early morning transfer to Aberdare National Park. The drive is scenic via the central Kenya highlands with stops to view tea and coffee plantations. Aberdare National Park is home to elephants, black rhinos, leopards, spotted hyenas, olive baboons, black and white colobus monkeys, buffalos, warthogs and bushbucks among others. Rare sightings include those of the Black Leopard, Giant Forest hog, bongo, golden cat, serval cat, African civet cat and the blue duiker. Dinner and overnight at campsite or lodge.
Day 4. Aberdare NP-Lake Nakuru National Park (4h). After breakfast, we depart to Lake Nakuru National Park. Known all over the world for its flamingoes, it's alkaline and is recognized as being one of the natural wonders of the world. Lake Nakuru is now a rhino sanctuary, harbouring a population of over 40 black and over 60 white rhinos, but the flamingos, of course, have always been the main attraction. At times there may be almost 2 million flamingos in the residence, forming a stunningly beautiful deep pink band around the edge of the lake shore. Arrive in time for lunch then have an afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at campsite or lodge.
Day 5. Lake Nakuru NP-Masai Mara NR (5h). An early morning drive to Masai Mara National Reserve, it holds on as one of the few places left on earth where wildlife still lives comparatively undisturbed, in the numbers that once roamed the plains and forests of Africa. As the northern tip of the vast Serengeti ecosystem, the Mara hosts the spectacular seasonal migration of many thousands of Wildebeest, Zebras and attendant predators.
Arrive in time for lunch then have an afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at campsite or lodge.
Day 6. Masai Mara National Reserve. After breakfast, we have a full day game drive, with packed lunch provided. The reserve is well known for its black-manned lion, as well as its abundant resident wildlife and its one of the few places where it's possible to see the big five during a morning's game drive. Here lives the formidable coalition of cheetahs who arrived in the Mara Game Reserve in 2016, known all over the world for their incredible success in taking down huge prey. The “Tano Bora”, the magnificent Five, now left in Four, the “Nne Bora”! For the bird enthusiast, almost 500 species have been recorded. Dinner and overnight at campsite or lodge.
Day 7. Masai Mara NR-Nairobi. Morning game drive in Mara and late departure in the morning to Nairobi (5h), arriving at about 5 pm. Lunch en route.