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					RS 801 - Samburu - Tree lodge - Lake Baringo - Lake Nakuru - Masai Mara Day 1: This morning, head north to the dramatic semi-arid scrubland of the Northern Frontier. After lunch, an afternoon game drive. This reserve, located around the life-giving Uaso Nyiro Rivezr, is home to the rare, beautiful and resident wildlife species like the Reticulated Giraffe, Grevy’s Zebra, Beisa Oryx and the blue-necked Somali Ostrich that are rare elsewhere in the country. Thereafter return to one of the luxurious Samburu lodges, located along the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River for dinner and overnight stay. Day 2: Early morning and afternoon game drives give you a chance to explore some of the world’s most spectacular and exciting terrain. Meals and overnight at the lodge. Day 3: After breakfast, head towards the Aberdares Ranges. Lunch at a base hotel followed by transfer to your tree lodge situated deep in the Aberdare forest. Here, forest animals visit the floodlit waterhole and saltlick throughout the day and night, thus ensuring the pleasure of unlimited, all night game viewing from the vicinity of the lodge. Day 4: After breakfast, transfer to your base hotel for onward journey to Lake Baringo. L Baringo, a fresh water lake in the Rift, is a peaceful oasis in the dry thorn country, bursting with birdlife and with a captivating characteristic of its own. L Baringo possesses two major ornithological attractions: the Gibraltar Island with the largest nesting colony of Goliath Herons in East Africa and the escarpment immediately west of Campi ya Samaki on the western side of the lake. It is the home of Verreaux's Eagle, rare Bristle crowned Starling and Hemprich's Hornbill. Apart from birds, the lake houses a sizeable population of crocodile's and hippos. Meals and overnight at a spectacular lodge / tented camp situated by the lake. Day 5: After breakfast, depart for Lake Nakuru National Park situated on the floor of the world’s greatest land rift - the Great Rift Valley. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game drive in the park. This park provides a sanctuary for the endangered black rhino and the Rothschild's Giraffe. Additionally, the fluctuating shores of Lake Nakuru host one of the greatest bird spectacles in the world - millions of flamingoes that turn the shores of the lake pink. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge. Day 6: After breakfast, drive through the breathtakingly, spectacular Great Rift Valley to Masai Mara – the greatest of nature's stages. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game drive to get a closer look at the Mara. On the plains, with their endless vistas and enormous herds of grazing animals, look for the predators hidden among the acacia trees: Black-maned lion, cheetah and leopard. There are hippos in the rivers and exotic birds everywhere. Thereafter, return to your lodge / tented camp for dinner and overnight stay. Day 7: Two game drives for the day in this country of breath-taking vistas, a panorama of vast rolling plains and rounded hills, of intermittent groves of acacia woodlands and dense thickets of scrub. And in every direction there are seemingly endless herds of game animals - black maned lions, buffalo, black rhino, hippopotamus, leopard, cheetah, common zebra, Coke’s hartebeest, white-bearded gnu, oribi, warthog and Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelles. The bird life of Mara is as profuse as its mammalian fauna. All meals and overnight stay are at the lodge / tented camp. Day 8: After breakfast, return to Nairobi.
									Samburu National Park Masai Mara National Reserve Lake Baringo National Reserve