11 Days Backpackers Kenya Holiday -- BSTC 231 Masai Mara/ Lake Nakuru/Samburu/Amboseli/Tsavo East/Tsavo West

Day 1: Nairobi/ Masai Mara
We will pick you from your hotel after breakfast; thereafter depart for Masai Mara game reserve stopping at the view point of the Great Rift Valley and at Narok town for lunch. Arrive in time for a late afternoon or early evening game drive in this park that is essentially the northern extension of Tanzanias Serengeti national park as an artificial border separates the two. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Day 2: Masai Mara
This will be a day of tracking game with your guide, after an early breakfast. The Maras landscape is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills which enables the reserve to attract sufficient rainfall to maintain and support a large population of herbivores, together with the predators that follow. You will be served your picnic lunch at the hippo pool where with luck you can spot hippos and crocodiles at a close distance. Return to the campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Masai Mara
After breakfast proceed on another game viewing session returning back to the campsite for lunch. After lunch you will have the option to go for a game drive or at extra cost, visit a nearby Masai village to see their nomadic lifestyle and a nature walk with our armed Masai guide. All activities will end at the campsite in the evening where you will retire for the night after dinner.

Day 4: Masai Mara/ Lake Nakuru
Depart the Mara region for Nakuru after your final game drive. The drive offers panoramic views of Lake Naivasha from the main highway. Arrive in Nakuru in time for dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Lake Nakuru/ Samburu
Wake up to an early morning game drive in Lake Nakuru national park. Flamingos and other water birds that thrive in a salt-water environment can be seen. With luck you may track the white rhino and the Rothschilds giraffe which both have endangered species status. The park is 188km and is a home to various antelopes, grazers like warthog, waterbuck and the Cape buffalo. After game drive, depart Nakuru for samburu via the Thompson falls which are named after Joseph Thompson, one of the first European explorers who walked from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in the 1880s. Lunch will be at Nanyuki town which is at the foot hills of Mt. Kenya. Arrive in Samburu in the evening with a game drive enroute to the campsite where you will retire for the night after dinner.

Day 6: Samburu
Morning and afternoon game drives in Samburu with a lunch and leisure break in the mid afternoon. The reserve is a home to rare drought resistant animals that are peculiar to the semi arid region north of the equator. These include the reticulated giraffe, grevys zebra, the beisa Oryx, gerenuk and the blue shanked Somali ostrich. Samburu Is dry most of the year but is watered by the Ewaso Nyiro River which rises in the Aberdares and drains in the Lorian swamp north of Shaba National park reserve. All meals and overnight at the campsite

Day 7: Samburu/ Amboseli
After breakfast depart for Amboseli via Nairobi. In clear weather, you may see the peaks of Mt. Kenya, the highest Mountain. You will also by-pass very pleasant countryside with coffee plantations. Lunch will be taken in Nairobi. Arrive in Amboseli in the late afternoon with a game drive enroute to the campsite for dinner.

Day 8: Amboseli
After breakfast, proceed on a game drive in this park which lies in a dried-up lake bed. There are swamps and springs fed by underground rivers from the melting snows or Mt .Kilimanjaro, which give permanent water to the wildlife. The animals seen here include lion, elephant, wildebeest, cheetah, buffalo, plain game and the rare taita weaver and the gerenuk. The animals are mainly found around the Ol Kenya swamp. If the weather is clear and there is no low cloud cover, you may see the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro which forms a beautiful backdrop to the park. The observation hill offers a view of the entire park and beyond. Afternoon game drive will follow after lunch. Rest of the meals and overnight at the campsite.

Day 9: Amboseli/ Tsavo West
In the morning, depart Amboseli for Tsavo west National park with a lunch enroute. You will visit the shaitani lava flows as the area where the park lies is of volcanic origin. The Mzima springs which contain 20 million tones of crystal- clear water from the underground streams of the nearby Kyulu hills are an additional attraction; various aspects of marine life including hippos,crocodiles,elephants and plains game can be seen in this park. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Day 10: Tsavo West/ Tsavo East
A morning game drive will follow after breakfast and probably view the rock hyrax, squirrels and mongooses as the park contains a large population of these. Depart for Tsavo East National park, with lunch enroute. Here, only the section south of the galena river is open to the public for game drives, the rest of the park serves as a wilderness for the animals to retreat into. Here the dried up Aruba dam can be seen plus crocodiles at the crocodile point below the Luggard falls. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Day 11: Tsavo East/ Nairobi
After breakfast, have your final game drive tracking plain game such as zebra, antelopes, lesser kudu, ostrich and large herds of elephants and kudu. This park is where the superintendent John Lyall was taken from a steam locomotive by the man eaters lion (Man eaters of Tsavo) during the construction of Kenya railways in 1901. Return to Nairobi with lunch enroute to arrive in the evening

The Best of Kenya Camping - 14 Days - BSTC 234
MARA/LAKE NAIVASHA/ LAKE NAKURU/ LAKE BOGORIA/LAKE BARINGO/ SAMBURU/ MT KENYA/ AMBOSELI/ TSAVO WEST/ TSAVO EAST/ NAIROBI OR MOMBASA

Day 1: Nairobi/ Masai Mara
After breakfast, leave Nairobi for Masai Mara Game reserve with lunch enroute. On arrival proceed for a game drive in search of black manned lions, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, buffalos and other plains game. Return to the campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Masai Mara
Full day of game viewing in the Mara Game reserve whose landscape is savannah grassland on rolling hills. Virtually every type of animals is found in the Mara which has extensive road and track network which allows excellent photography and viewing opportunities, making it the best and most visited park in Kenya. We will cater for a picnic lunch at the hippo pool. In the evening drive back to the campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Masai Mara
Leave for early morning game tracking with your guide after breakfast, then return to the campsite for lunch. After lunch you will have three options game drive or at extra cost you visit the Masai village or have a nature walk with our armed Masai guide. Return to the campsite where you will retire for the night.

Day 4: Masai Mara/ Lake Naivasha
After breakfast, leave for Lake Naivasha. This lake was famous in 1930s as a staging post for imperial Airways flying boat services from Durban to London. This is an ideal water resort for leisurely bird watching, 340 species of birds are recorded here and a large number of hippos. Fishing of tilapia and black boss, game watching at crescent island private game sanctuary gives visitors a chance to walk among small herds of plains game including water buck, dik and Thompson gazelle. Crescent Island is one of the few places in all Africa where you can wander on foot among herds of zebra, wildebeest, gazelle and giraffe because of the absence of predators. The Hells gate national park is near this lake, this park gives visitors a good opportunity to walk amidst plain game and the small perimeters of the park gives a chance to see a variety of them at a close distance. The park has a challenging 320m rock climbs nearby with the high pinnacle of rock called Fishers tower. Overnight at the campsite.

Day 5: Lake Naivasha/ Lake Nakuru
Leave after breakfast and drive to the home of millions of flamingos and the home of the white rhino and about 350 species of birds. Its known as ORNITHOLOGICAL PARADISE. Dinner and overnight

Day 6: Lake Nakuru/ Baringo/ Bogoria
After breakfast drive to Bogoria where the hot water springs abound and plenty of medicinal springs. After lunch, visit Lake Baringo a 1 hour boat trip to see various species of birds and very ancient caves. Dinner and overnight at the campsite

Day 7: Bogoria/ Samburu
After breakfast, leave for samburu via the Thompson falls. Lunch en route arriving late afternoon. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Day 8: Samburu
06.30 hrs, after breakfast departs for an early morning game drive. Return to the campsite for lunch. 16oohrs another game drives returning back to the campsite in the evening.

Day 9: Samburu/ Mt. Kenya
Leave Samburu for Mount Kenya (Nanyuki) arriving in time for lunch. After lunch visit the Mau Mau caves where the freedom fighters could hide from the British troops during the struggle for independence. Dinner and overnight at a budget hotel.

Day 10: Mt. Kenya/ Amboseli
After breakfast, drive south via the biggest open market in East and central Africa (Karatina). Proceed to Nairobi arriving in time for lunch. Continue to Amboseli in the afternoon via Kenya/Tanzania border (Namanga) arriving in Amboseli late afternoon. An evening game viewing drive. Rest of the meals and overnight at the campsite.

Day 11: Amboseli
Early morning game drives before breakfast. After breakfast leave for another game drive in this park which lies in a dried-up lake bed. There are swamps and springs fed by underground rivers from the melting snows or Mt. Kilimanjaro, which give permanent water to the wildlife. The animals seen here include lion, elephant, wildebeest, cheetah, buffalo, plain game and the rare taita weaver and the gerenuk. The animals are mainly found around the Ol Kenya swamp. If the weather is clear and there is no low cloud cover, you may see the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro which forms a beautiful backdrop to the park. The observation hill offers a view of the entire park and beyond. Afternoon

Day 12: Amboseli/ Tsavo West
In the morning, depart Amboseli for Tsavo west National park with a lunch enroute. You will visit the shaitani lava flows as the area where the park lies is of volcanic origin. The Mzima Springs which contain 20 million tones of crystal- clear water from the underground streams of the nearby Chyulu hills are an additional attraction; various aspects of marine life including hippos, crocodiles, elephants and plains game can be seen in this park. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Day 13: Tsavo west/ Tsavo East
A morning game drive will follow after breakfast and probably view the rock hyrax, squirrels and mongooses as the park contains a large population of these. Depart for Tsavo East National park, with lunch enroute. Here, only the section south of the galena river is open to the public for game drives, the rest of the park serves as a wilderness for the animals to retreat into. Here the dried up Aruba dam can be seen plus crocodiles at the crocodile point below the Luggard falls. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Day 14: Tsavo East/ Nairobi or Mombasa
After breakfast, have your final game drive tracking plain game such as zebra, antelopes, lesser kudu, ostrich and large herds of elephants and kudu. This park is where the superintendent John Lyall was taken from a steam locomotive by the man eaters lion (Man eaters of Tsavo) during the construction of Kenya railways in 1901. Return to Nairobi or Mombasa with lunch enroute to arrive in the evening.

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