Samburu & Lake Nakuru

We begin your African safari vacation with an early morning pickup at 0730 am. Our driver will collect you at your Nairobi hotel as we prepare to start our safari to Samburu Game Reserve.

Ahead of us is an approximate 5 - 6 hours’ drive to Samburu National Reserve. We’ll be making stops along the way to admire some of Kenya’s scenic spots, one of them being the Great Rift Valley escarpment.

We’ll enjoy our hot lunch en-route. Our arrival in our Samburu lodge/ tented safari camp will be followed by check in then move out again for our first afternoon safari activity. We will come back to our Samburu safari lodge/ tented safari camp for dinner & overnight stay.

Day 2 and our African wildlife safari picks up pace with an early rise for breakfast and proceed to an exhilarating morning sunrise sightings in the Samburu Game Park.

Since you’re on a private African safari, your safari time is flexible and you can choose to return back to your safari lodge for lunch or rather take with you a packed picnic lunch therefore maximizing your time out in the field.

Our focus during this Kenya safari trip will be spent tracking the abundant range of species from the Grevy Zebra, Somali Ostrich, Reticulated Giraffe, Gerenuk, the Beisa Oryx, Elephants, predators such as the Lion, Leopard and Cheetah till late in the evening after which we’ll enjoy our dinner and retire for the night at our Samburu safari lodge/ tented safari camp.

Today we will rise with the sun for an early morning game drive in Samburu as search for some of the Kenya safari animals that are still on our list. Next up on this African safari trip is a transfer to one of Kenya’s top safari parks.

With an action packed sightings awaiting us at Lake Nakuru National Park, we’ll depart after an early morning breakfast and proceed to Lake Nakuru, with a game drive en-route.

Drive past the northern tip of the Aberdare Mountains to descend into the Great Rift Valley where Nakuru is located. Picnic lunch en-route, arriving late in the afternoon at your Lake Nakuru safari camp/ safari lodge followed by check in, giving you the opportunity to refresh.

You have the opportunity to go for an optional boat safari at Lake Naivasha and sail among the hippos as you watch the birdlife and other Kenya safari animals that we’ll come across. Later on return to the camp/lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Today, our early mornings will also be spent on bird and game watching drives around the Lake.

Due to some progressive natural factors like increasing water levels, the flamingo numbers have been reducing but the park itself remains stunning – one of Kenya’s finest. Great rocky escarpments tower over acacia forest, waterfalls, wooded hills and euphorbia trees dot the lake.

The few quantity of flamingos is accompanied by other birdlife – pelicans, cormorants, kingfishers, ostriches, storks as well as herons and eagles. The scene here is bountiful, busy and full of color.

But that’s only the beginning of what this special park has to offer because the wildlife viewing here is easy and accessible. Lake Nakuru is known for hosting some endangered but beautiful species. You’re sure to see rare Rothschild’s Giraffe along with white rhino, especially along the lakeshore.

The park is also sanctuary to one of Kenya’s largest populations of black rhino.

We’ll have lunch enroute as we depart for Nairobi whereby we will arrive in the late afternoons followed by your transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport/ your Nairobi hotel bringing an end to this Kenya safari trip.