8 Days Mt Kenya, Samburu, Ol Pejeta, Nakuru, Masai Mara
8 Day Safari to Mt Kenya, Samburu, Ol Pejeta, Nakuru, Masai Mara
Go on a big five hunt expedition in Mt Kenya, Samburu, Nakuru, Ol pejeta and Masai Mara. Safari game drives and all 8 day meals included in the package.
Discover 8 Days Mt Kenya samburu ol pejeta lake nakuru Masai Mara safari. This is one of the most popular 1 week plus safaris in Kenya.
The safari goes 3 of the most scenic parks and terminates at one of the premier big five animals park in Kenya.
View the second highest peak in Africa among the big five animals. Combined with a dab of the great migration tracking in Kenya’s Masai Mara, this safari completes your dream of Africa.
This 8 day tour to 5 parks includes a visit to sweetwaters chimpanzee orphanage.
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This safari tour will feature some of the top wildlife parks in Kenya. You will visit Samburu Game Reserve, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Maasai Mara Game Reserve, as well as the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.
After a few days in this African paradise, you will surely leave with great memories!
Here are 4 highlights of the 8 Days Mt Kenya, Samburu, Ol Pejeta, Lake Nakuru, Masai Mara Safari
1. Mt Kenya National Park
Africa’s second-highest mountain might just be its most beautiful. Here, mere minutes from the equator, glaciers carve out the throne of Ngai, the old high god of the Kikuyu.
To this day the tribe keeps its doors open to the face of the sacred mountain, and some still come to its lower slopes to offer prayers.
Besides being venerated by the Kikuyu, Mt Kenya and Mt Kenya National Park have the rare honour of being both a Unesco World Heritage Site and a Unesco Biosphere Reserve.
The highest peaks of Batian (5199m) and Nelion (5188m) can only be reached by mountaineers with technical skills, but Point Lenana (4985m), the third-highest peak, can be reached by trekkers and is the usual goal for most mortals.
When the clouds part, the views are simply magnificent.
2. Samburu Game Reserve
Samburu Game reserve is located about 310 kms from Nairobi and about 5 hours drive from the City.
These game reserve is a gem on its own quite smaller than other game reserve covering only 104 km2 which means you don’t need to drive a long distance to spot those animals that you love.
Samburu Game reserve is a gem located about the 310 kms from Nairobi, Kenya. The departure for these day trip would have to be very early in the morning around 5 am as the drive is about 5 hours.
The drive will take you through the the Kenyan north with breathtaking terrains and early in the morning would be a perfect to take a few photos on your way there.
The most popular park in northern Kenya, Samburu’s dominant feature is the Ewaso Ngiro River, which slices through the otherwise bone-dry country.
The river acts as a magnet for thirsty animals, and large numbers of elephants, Grevy’s zebras, giraffes and lions gather along the riverbanks.
3. Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Orphanage and Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Ol Pejeta Conservancy was once one of the largest cattle ranches in Kenya, but is now a 365-sq-km, privately owned wildlife reserve. It markets itself as the closest place to Nairobi where you can see the Big Five and possesses a full palette of African plains wildlife. It’s also one of the few private conservancies in the region that is geared towards day visitors.
It’s the rhinos that form the centre piece of the conservancy effort here – its (at last count) 111 black rhinos form the largest population in East Africa. However, Ol Pejeta’s role in the wider ecosystem extends beyond its boundaries thanks to its partner agreements and wildlife corridors with other Laikipia ranches.
Ol Pejeta is also extremely active in local community projects including school infrastructure, health care and the provision of clean water.
4. Lake Nakuru National Park
Lake Nakuru is among Kenya’s finest national parks. Flanked by rocky escarpments, pockets of acacia forest and at least one waterfall, the park is gorgeous year-round and is home to both black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, hippos and endangered Rothschild’s giraffes.
Rising water levels in 2014 forced the park’s famous flamingos to flee (although a small number had returned at the time of research), and the lake is now hauntingly surrounded by drowned trees.
The southern end of the lake is the best place to see wildlife. The forested area below Flamingo Hill is a favourite lion-spotting point – lionesses love to sleep in the trees – while leopards frequent the same area, and are also sometimes seen around the Makalia camp.
5. Masai Mara National Reserve
The world-renowned Masai Mara National Reserve is a huge expanse of tawny, sunburnt grasslands pocked with acacia trees and river woodlands, and heaving with animals great and small.
Impressive at any time of year, it’s at its best between July and October when a million migrating wildebeest and tens of thousands of topis, zebras and other animals pour into the reserve from Tanzania in search of fresh grass.
It is, arguably, the most spectacular wildlife show on the planet and the one thing that no visitor to Kenya should consider missing.
Reliable rains and plentiful vegetation underpin this extraordinary ecosystem and the millions of herbivores it supports. Wildebeest, zebras, impalas, elands, reedbucks, waterbucks, black rhinos, elephants, Masai giraffes and several species of gazelle all call the Mara home.
Predators here include cheetahs, leopards, spotted hyenas, black-backed jackals, bat-eared foxes, caracals and the highest lion density in the world.
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