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10 Days Mount Kenya, Aberdares, Lake Bogoria, Lake Baringo, Lake Nakuru, Maasai Mara, Lake Naivasha, Amboseli, and Tsavo West National Parks Kenya Safari Tour Package

Day 1: Nairobi – Mount Kenya National Park

Meet and greet followed by a short tour briefing before departure. Enjoy a relaxed scenic drive toward Mount Kenya.

Mount Kenya standing at 5,199 m high is Africa’ second highest Mountain.

The mountain’s sprawling slopes are cloaked in forest, bamboo, scrub and moorland, giving way on the high central peaks to rock, ice and snow in its peaks.

The Mountain has a rich montane avifauna. Arrive in time for lunch.

Embark on our first bird watching exercise.

Some of the birds that exists in this area includes Abbott’s Starling, Lesser Kestrel (a passage migrant on the moorland).

Others include Jackson’s widow bird, Sharpe’s Long claw, Olive Ibis, Sledgehammer, Ayres’s hawk-eagle, African Crowned Eagle,

Be on the look out for the African Grass Owl, Cape Eagle-Owl, Purple-throated Cuckoo-shrike, Long-tailed widow bird.

Abyssinian Owl (very rare and poorly researched), Scarlet-tufted Sunbird, and Kendrick’s Starling can also be seen in this region.

Dinner and overnight in your lodge/luxury tented camp of choice.

Day 2: Mount Kenya via Abaderes –  Lake Bogoria – Lake Baringo

After an early morning breakfast, check out and drive via  Thomson’s Falls with a stop over to view the scenic waterfalls .

Proceed via Tea / coffee plantations stopping briefly at Lake Bogoria to see the Hot Springs and the Geysers .

Then continue to your lodge for check in and Lunch.

Enjoy a guided bird walk around this fresh water lake with over 450 species of birds.

Birds that are found in this area includes curly crested helmet shrikes, silver bird, grey silver-headed silver bill , grey-headed bush shrike, northern masked weaver.

Take a boat trip on the lake [at an extra cost] or visit the Njemps tribe and see more birds.

large concentration of lesser and greater flamingos also exists in this rift valley lakes.

Dinner and overnight at a lodge/luxury tented camp.

Day 3: Lake Baringo – Lake Nakuru National Park

After breakfast, leave for Lake Nakuru National park.

Arrive in time for lunch.

Evening game drive starts at 1600 Hrs.

Important to note is that lake Nakuru national park is located on the floor of the rift valley.

Its alkaline water is an attraction of tens of thousands of flamingos & other pelicans.

This has made it an ornithological bird’s paradise.

In addition to bird watching activities; the park hosts a Rhino sanctuary with both black and White Rhinos present.

Dinner and overnight in your lodge / Luxury camp of choice.

Day 4: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara National Reserve

Early morning breakfast followed by a departure with Bird viewing en route to the exit.

Drive to Masai Mara arriving in time for late lunch.

Evening game drive & Bird watching in this paradise of animals.

Dinner and overnight in a Lodge or Tented Camp of your choice.

Day 5: Masai Mara National Reserve

Spent the whole day in Bird viewing. Masai Mara is an endemic bird area with even the Seven globally threatened species recorded .

Which include the Madagascar Pond-Heron, Pallid Harrier, Jackson’s Widow bird, Red-throated Tit, Grey-crested Helmet-shrike, Corncrake, and Lesser Kestrel.

Grassland birds ,12 species of Cisticola & 53 birds of prey.

Large numbers of Pale arctic migrants in the area including Caspian Plover and White Stork.

In addition to bird watching Look out for the “BIG FIVE”,Predators, Scavengers and many more as they roam freely in this game reserve.

Lunch will be by the Mara river.

Dinner and overnight in a lodge/Luxury camp of choice.

Day 6: Masai Mara – Lake Naivasha

After breakfast, drive to Lake Naivasha which also lies on the floor of the Rift valley” a bird watcher’s paradise” .

The lake has fascinating bird life of over 350 species supported by the availability of dense vegetation at the lake edge.

Papyrus fringes the main lake’s shore and cloaks the inlet rivers.

A boat trip around the lake with a stop at the marvelous Crescent island provides more chances for spotting .

Many species of duck and Pale arctic waders occur in large numbers.

The lake is known for its high density of African Fish Eagles which nest in the surrounding Acacia woodland.

Grey-crested Helmeted-shrike, Basra Reed Warbler, Lesser Flamingo are also found here.

Large congregations of Red-knob ed Coot, African Spoonbill and Little Grebe also exists.

Dinner and overnight in your lodge /Luxury tented camp.

Day 7: Lake Naivasha – Amboseli National Park

Early breakfast will be followed by a check-out from your lodge/tented camp.

Optional visit the towering cliffs of the hell’s gate gorge.

Much time will not be spend here as we have a journey ahead to Amboseli national park.

We will have our lunch en route. Arrive in Amboseli in the evening.

Time permitting evening game and birding drive.

Dinner and overnight in a lodge/Luxury tented camp.

Day 8: Amboseli National Park

 We will start the day before sunrise to enjoy the magnificent view of Mount Kilimanjaro.

We shall set off for a bird watching drive before the clouds build up over the summit.

Mount Kilimanjaro is the highest mountain in Africa and is snow-capped at the peaks.

The majesty of this tropical mountain makes Amboseli an ideal photographers’ haven by offering a spectacular back ground for wildlife and scenic photography.

Members of the big five exists with hippos and other grazers often seen from the observation hill.

Amboseli boosts of a rich bird life.

Over 400 bird species recorded include the globally threatened Madagascar Pond-Heron, Lesser Flamingo, Lesser Kestrel , the Shoe bill and many more.

All meal and overnight in the same lodge or luxury tented camp.

Day 9: Amboseli – Tsavo West National Park

Early breakfast followed by a checkout from your lodge.

Short bird viewing en route to exit. Proceed to Tsavo West through Chyulu gate arriving in your lodge in time for lunch.

We shall have a rest before the evening birding drive & game drive.

Tsavo West National Park has a prolific bird life & lies within the migratory routes of pale arctic migrant birds.

Over 500 species have been recorded from this park.

Look out for African Fin foot, African Darter, Great egret & Saddle-billed Stork

White-headed Vulture, Martial Eagle,Violet Wood Hoop and many more are also found here in Tsavo West National Park.

Dinner and overnight in the same lodge / luxury tented camp.

Day 10: Tsavo West – Nairobi

This is our last day of our memorable safari and an optional wildlife drive shall be scheduled before breakfast.

This will be followed by a checkout and proceed for our last game drive this time visiting the famous Mzima Springs.

View Hippos, Crocodiles and different types of Fish in crystal clear waters.

Commonly seen species are Golden-breasted and Fischer’s Starling , Grasshopper Buzzard, Friedmann’s and Singing Bush Lark, Somali Bee-eater, Pringle’s Puffback, Tsavo Sunbird, Common White-throat, Brown-breasted Barbet and Quail Plover.

Lots of bird life exists in this greenery location like the Taveta-golden Weaver.

More game viewing en route to exit from this park.

Thereafter drive back to Nairobi or to the Kenya coast beach resorts arriving in the afternoon.