Welcome to Kenya. On arrival in Nairobi, after clearing customs and immigration, you are met by a representative of Endless Safaris and transferred to Nairobi Hemingway’s Hotel. Hemingway’s Nairobi is a luxury boutique hotel located in the suburb of Karen featuring 45 suites overlooking the Ngong Hills.
Overnight at Hemingway’s Nairobi Hotel, Breakfast
After breakfast, you will start your drive to the Samburu Game Reserve, where your comfortable Elephant Bedroom Tented Camp is perched on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River. You will check in, have lunch and then join your Safari Guide on a game drive. The river serves as both the lifeline and nerve centre of this reserve, with animals congregating along its banks to quench their thirst while clever predators stalk and take opportunities from a distance. The reserve is also home to the pastoral, nomadic Samburu people.
Overnight at Elephant Bedroom Tented Camp, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Spend two days exploring the semi-arid Samburu National Reserve enjoying morning and afternoon game drives searching for the famous ‘special five’ (Reticulated giraffe, Gravy’s zebra, Beisa Oryx, Somali ostrich, and the graceful, long necked gerenuk), found only north of the equator. With luck, you may also spot the elusive leopard stalking the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River.
Overnight at Elephant Bedroom Tented Camp, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airstrip to catch your flight to Nairobi where you take a connecting flight to Kilimanjaro Tanzania. Upon arrival, hop on a flight to Manyara airstrip where you will be met by a Tanzania Safari Guide who will drive you to Ngorongoro Crater Lemala.
Overnight at Lemala Ngorongoro Tented Camp, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
You will have a whole day to explore the Ngorongoro Crater’s prolific wildlife with a picnic lunch. During the game drive you get to look for elephant, flamingo, buffalo, lion, antelope and the highly endangered black rhino. You may encounter Maasai herdsmen with their cattle, who continue to roam here as they have done for centuries.
Overnight at Lemala Ngorongoro Tented Camp, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will drive to Lake Manyara airstrip where you take your flight to northern Serengeti National Park, home to many wildlife species including zebra, gazelle, lion, leopard, hyena, giraffe, elephant and buffalo.
Overnight at Lemela Kuria Hill Lodge, Lunch and Dinner
Spend two full day enjoying morning and afternoon game drives in this vast region, a protected animal refuge since 1929. Enjoy the kopje overlooking the Serengeti plains, and join fellow guests for a delicious dinner.
Overnight at Lemela Kuria Hill Lodge, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast you will drive to the airstrip to take you flight to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. After you arrive AT the Olkiombo Airstrip, you will picked and transferred to your luxury tented camp. Enjoy an afternoon game drive.
Overnight at Kaboso Safari Camp, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
The Mara contains Kenya’s richest concentrations of wildlife. On game drives in the heart of this classic grassland savannah, view migrating herbivores and their predators – lion, cheetah and leopard. Visit a local Masai village and enjoy an optional hot air balloon flight with champagne breakfast or take a flight to Lake Victoria. On your final evening here, dine on the banks of the Mara River.
Overnight at Kaboso Safari Camp, Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast, fly to Wilson Airport, Nairobi and transfer to the Nairobi Serena Hotel where you a dayroom has been reserved before you board your international flight later in the day.
Dayroom at Hemingway’s Nairobi, Lunch
The Samburu National Reserve is a game reserve on the banks of the Ewaso Ng’iro river in Kenya. On the other side of the river is the Buffalo Springs National Reserve. The park is 165 km² in size and is situated 350 kilometers from Nairobi. It ranges in altitude from 800 to 1230 m above sea level.[1] Geographically, it is located in Samburu County.
In the middle of the reserve, the Ewaso Ng’iro flows through doum palm groves and thick riverine forests. It provides water, without which the game in this arid region could not survive.
Samburu National Reserve can be entered via the Ngare Mare and Buffalo Springs gates. Once inside the reserve, there are two mountains visible: Koitogor and Ololokwe. Samburu National Reserve is very peaceful and attracts animals because of the Ewaso Ng’iro river (meaning “brown water” and pronounced U-aa-so-Nyee-ro) that runs through it and the mixture of acacia, riverine forest, thorn trees and grassland vegetation. The Ewaso Ng’iro flows from the Kenyan highlands and empties into the famous Lorian Swamp. The natural serenity that is evident here is due to its distance from industry and the inaccessibility of the reserve for many years.
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Kenya
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Samburu
Ngorongoro Crater, extinct volcanic caldera in the Eastern (Great) Rift Valley, northern Tanzania. It lies 75 miles (120 km) west of the town of Arusha.
The caldera’s floor is predominantly open grassland. It is home to a diverse array of animals including elephants, black rhinoceroses, leopards, buffalo, zebras, warthogs, gnu (wildebeests), Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, and the densest population of lions in the world. The local Masai people also graze their livestock in the crater. Lake Magadi, a shallow soda lake ringed by extinct volcanoes, is renowned as a habitat for great flocks of pink flamingos.
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Tanzania
The Serengeti National Park is a large national park in northern Tanzania that stretches over 14,763 km2 (5,700 sq mi). It is located entirely in eastern Mara Region and north east portion of Simiyu Region and contains over 15,000,000 hectares (37,000,000 acres) of virgin savanna.
The Serengeti is well known for the largest annual animal migration in the world of over 1.5 million blue wildebeest and 250,000 zebra and the largest lion population in Africa. It is under threat from deforestation, population growth and ranching.
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Tanzania
Maasai Mara, also sometimes spelled Masai Mara and locally known simply as The Mara, is a large national game reserve in Narok, Kenya, contiguous with the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It is named in honor of the Maasai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, who migrated to the area from the Nile Basin. Their description of the area when looked at from afar: “Mara” means “spotted” in the local Maasai language, due to the many short bushy trees which dot the landscape.
Maasai Mara is one of the most famous and important wildlife conservation and wilderness areas in Africa, world-renowned for its exceptional populations of lion, African leopard, cheetah and African bush elephant. It also hosts the Great Migration, which secured it as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa, and as one of the ten Wonders of the World.
The Greater Mara ecosystem encompasses areas known as the Maasai Mara National Reserve, the Mara Triangle, and several Maasai Conservancies, including Koiyaki, Lemek, Ol Chorro Oirowua, Mara North, Olkinyei, Siana, Maji Moto, Naikara, Ol Derkesi, Kerinkani, Oloirien, and Kimintet.
Country:
Kenya
City/Location:
Narok
Country:
Kenya
City/Location:
Nairobi
Elephant Bedroom Camp offers luxury in a setting of breathtaking beauty. It is set along the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River and shaded by doum palms and other trees that make up this green belt of riverine forest in Samburu National Reserve. The surrounding Samburu National Reserve is an area of spectacular scenery; its dry plains bisected by the meandering river, with the backdrop of Africa’s dramatic mountains, including Mt Kenya.
Country:
Kenya
City/Location:
Samburu National Reserve
Country:
Kenya
City/Location:
Samburu National Reserve
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