DAY 1: ‘NAIROBI CITY – OLPEJETA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY

0800 hrs Pick up from your hotel drive to the northern part of Kenya passing through the industrial town of Thika and the intensely cultivated farms of the central Kenya. Arrival for lunch at your camp/lodge take a rest until 1600hrs where you will proceed for an evening game drive at the expansive olpejeta conservancy and a visit to the chimpanzee santuary. Return to the lodge/camp for dinner and overnight.

DAY 2: ‘OLPEJETA WILDLIFE CONSERVANCY – SAMBURU GAME RESERVE

0730hrs after breakfast drive north along the northern foothills of Mount Kenya a 17,058-foot dormant volcano with a glistening cap of white ice and snow arriving for Lunch at Samburu in your camp/lodge. After lunch take a rest until 1600hrs then proceed for an evening game drive in this grassland area, which forms the bridge between Kenya’s lush south and parched north. Watch out for herds of impalas, Grant’s gazelles, Elephants and African buffalo. Return for dinner and overnight at your lodge/camp.

DAY 3: ‘SAMBURU GAME RESERVE FULL DAY GAME DRIVE

0800hrs: A morning and afternoon game drive which includes outings at dawn, when animals are most active and afternoon when the light is best for photography. Return to the lodge for breakfast, lunch. Today you stay close to the Ewaso Nyiro River, where vast herds of plains game come to water, braving lions in the grass, leopards in the trees, and giant crocodiles. Stars of Samburu not easily seen elsewhere are the liver-red reticulated giraffe, the long-necked gerenuk antelopes, and the elegant gravy’s zebra. 1600hrs return to the game reserve for evening game drive and, Return back for dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp.

DAY 4: ‘SAMBURU GAME RESERVE – LAKE NAKURU NAIONAL PARK

Depart very early after breakfast with a brief stop at Thompson Falls to view the waterfalls and then make your way down to the Rift valley floor. Lunch at the Lodge upon arrival. After lunch take a leisurely drive through Lake Nakuru National Park, famous for its pink flamingos. Drive to the edge of the lake to view thousands of birds feeding in the alkaline water; see the sweeping view from the top of Baboon Rocks; then look for warthogs and waterbucks as you leave the park. Return for dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

DAY 6: ‘MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE FULL DAY GAME DRIVE

Full day game drive in this reserve, Kenya’s best and most scenic park. At the northern extremity of the unique Serengeti ecosystem. The Masai Mara has a thriving, permanent population of plains game, augmented in the dry season by the migration of 2 million gnus and zebra from the vast, parched Serengeti plains. Of the hunter’s “big five” elephant, buffalo, lion and leopard are quite common, while even the much rare rhino might come out of the thicket for you. The waters of the Mara River are home to crocodiles and pools of hippo, the acacia woodlands and riverine forests favored by leopard and elephant, and the open savannah and dry bush areas play host to the plains’ game and their attendant predators such as lion, cheetah, hyena and jackal. Hyenas are plentiful and the cheetah, a 60-miles-per-hour daytime hunter, is often seen. Return to the lodge/camp for meals and overnight.

DAY 7: ‘ MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE – NAIROBI CITY

0630hrs: Early morning game drive then return back for breakfast at the Lodge/camp, checkout and Leave Masai Mara, head back to Narok, district headquarters of this part of Masai land and then travel across the vast plains on the floor of the Rift Valley ‘ keep an eye out for herds of giraffe and gazelle ‘ and head up the Rift Escarpment on a road built by Italian prisoners of war during World War II. Arrive Nairobi in the afternoon. Meals Breakfast.