8 Days: Tsavo East, Amboseli, Lake Nakuru & Samburu National Park Safari

After early breakfast depart for a morning game drive in the reserve, en-route to the gate. Landscape is beautiful and we had interesting animal sightings including gerenuk, fringe eared Orynx and lions mating. The combination of red earth and blue sky is stunning and the elephants covered in red are worth seeing. Park is well sign posted and we were able to borrow a laminated map from the park gate. Game drive time. Enjoyed exploring along the Voi River and also the area around the Galena Falls. A visit to the Voi Stockade in advance seeing the orphaned elephants return to the stockade in the afternoon for milk and bedtime was a highlight for us.

We depart to Amboseli via Kajindo in the morning after breakfast and drive south through Masai country to the plains below Mt. Kilimanjaro where Amboseli is situated. After a picnic lunch enroute with the majestic backdrop of Mt. Kilimanjaro, spectacular displays of wildlife animals like lion, elephant, leopard and various plains platues game, postcard perfect pictures are almost always guaranteed. Amboseli National Park is known for its large elephant herds and views of immense Mount Kilimanjaro, across the border in Tanzania. Observation Hill offers panoramas of the peak and the park’s plains and swamps. Varied wildlife includes giraffes, zebras, cheetahs and hundreds of bird species.

You will have another day in this beautiful park. After your breakfast and with your picnic lunch you will go for a full-day game drive in Amboseli. Amboseli is a signature attraction is the sight of hundreds of big-tusked elephants set against the backdrop of Africa’s best views of Mt Kilimanjaro 5895m. Amboseli national park is a home to over 80 different species of wildlife including African buffaloes, impalas, lions, zebras, wildebeests among others. The park is also an important birding area hosting over 400 bird species including, common redshank, Dickinson’s kestrel, Eurasian thick-knee, Greater flamingo, Hartlaub’s bustard, Lesser flamingo, Long-toed lapwing, Pangani longclaw, Rufous chatterer, Rufous-bellied heron, Spike-heeled lark, Steel-blue whydah, Taveta golden weaver, Von der Decken’s hornbill, Yellow-necked spurfowl and many more.

After breakfast, you will depart for Lake Nakuru via Nairobi with lunch en-route arriving at Lake Nakuru in the afternoon. Main destination: Lake Nakuru National Park. The Lake Nakuru park’s main feature is a large, shallow lake supporting great birdlife, including big flocks of pelicans and variable flocks of flamingos. The lake is regaioning its famous for its flamingos, the conditions is becoming favorable for these birds and most have moved back from Rift Valley lakes.

In the morning after our breakfast, we head to Samburu National Park. You will be driven north past the equator to the northern frontier district. Continue to the semi-arid Samburu National reserve and check in to your campsite. There will be time to settle in before your safari adventure. Samburu is also known for some rather unique wildlife not usually seen elsewhere. A visit to the reserve will bring you in sight of such memorable species as Grevy’s Zebra, the reticulated giraffe and the Beisa onyx. And this is one of the few parks where you have a good chance of spotting African wild dogs. On game drives over the savannah, through acacia forest and riverine vegetation there will be numerous opportunities to view kingfishers, marabous, vultures, guinea fowl, Somali ostrich, egret, falcon and eagle. Set out for an afternoon game drive in the reserve. Return to the lodge before dark.

Set out for an early morning game drive in the Samburu reserve. This is usually the most popular game viewing time. During the early hours’ temperatures are low, thus providing a favorable atmosphere both for the game and the viewer. Lion, Cheetah, and Leopard roam the vast grasslands in search of their next meal, it may be an unsuspecting impala or even a small one like the warthog whatever the players, the spectacle of nature unfolding is always awe-inspiring. Back at the lodge, enjoy your sumptuous breakfast with your lunch in the park during your game drive. Return to the campsite before dark. Have dinner at seven thirty.

End your time in Samburu National Reserve with an early morning breakfast at your lodge before checking out. You will arrive in Nairobi, at which point the tour will come to its conclusion.