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Day 1: Nairobi/Masai Mara
Having been picked up from your hotel, depart Nairobi at 9.30 a.m. Drive to the
Masai Mara arriving in time for a late afternoon/early evening game drive, stopping
at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint and at Narok town for lunch and re-fuelling.
Dinner and overnight at the Mara Sarova camp. Day
2: Masai Mara
Breakfast will be followed by a full day of game drives within
the reserve. You will have a break at the hippo pool for your picnic lunch. At
the Mara you should expect to see three out of the big five namely elephant, lion
and buffalo though luck is essential to track the other two that is rhino and
leopard which are very shy and elusive. A wide variety of antelopes and other
plains game can be seen. Scavengers like hyena and vulture are common. Return
to the camp for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day
3: Masai Mara
After breakfast depart on a morning game drive in this reserve,
which is essentially the northern extension of Tanzania's Serengeti National Park.
Lunch at the camp/ lodge or campsite. In the afternoon you have a choice of three
activities: - a game drive or a nature walk with our Masai guides; the final choice
is a visit to a Masai village to see their nomadic lifestyle at an extra cost
payable directly to the Masai villagers. All activities end at the camp/lodge
by 6.30 p.m. where you will retire for the night after dinner.
Day
4: Masai Mara/Nakuru
Early morning pre-breakfast game drive. After breakfast depart the Mara
region for Nakuru arriving in time for lunch .The drive offers panoramic
views of Mt.Lon gonot
and Lake Naivasha from afar meaning you will see them from the main highway.
After lunch in Lake Nakuru lodge proceed for a afternoon gameviewimg after
which you retire to lake Nakuru lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day
5: Lake Nakuru/Lake Baringo
Early breakfast then proceed on a game drive in
this park which has a fantastic array of bird life including thousands of flamingos,
white pelicans and the marabou stork, all water birds that breed into the lakes
alkaline waters .You may spot white rhino and the rare Rothschild giraffe that
have 5 horns instead of the usual three and clear instead of spotted shanked (legs).A
visit to the baboon cliff offers a scenic panorama of the lake below, surrounded
by a vast tract of euphorbia and acacia forest. Makalia falls within the park
are an additional attraction. Then drive further north to Lake Baringo. Here you
proceed for an hour's boat ride which enables you to see hippos at close range
and the bird life that inhabits this lake as over 350 species of birds have been
recorded here including some that conform to a migratory pattern, as well as crocodiles
and Egyptian geese which migrate all the way from western Europe. Dinner and overnight
at Lake Baringo country club.
Day
6: Lake Bogoria/Lake Naivasha
After breakfast in Lake Baringo then proceed
to lake Bogoria where the hot water springs and geysers abound and plenty of medicinal
springs. After breakfast depart your base lodge for Nairobi.
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