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CSL11 7 Days:
Best of Sarova Lodges Samburu
Shaba |Lake Nakuru |
Maasai Mara
This is a regular routing
visiting all the main parks
and staying at the
imaginative and popular
Sarova Hotels and Game
Lodges.
Day 01: Nairobi BB
You are met on arrival and
transferred to the Stanley
Hotel, a city centre hotel
and one of the main meeting
places in Nairobi,
especially the famous Thorn
Tree Terrace. Arrangements
are for bed and breakfast.
Day
02: Nairobi - Shaba Game
Reserve
[4 hours approximately]
Depart Nairobi after
breakfast and drive up to
the Equator crossing for a
short stop to see the
"performing of the waters",
where a local entrepreneur
demonstrates the clockwise
and anticlockwise properties
of running water on each
side of the Equator line.
Continue to Shaba, where you
arrive at the lodge of the
same name for lunch. In
actual fact there are three
adjoining reserves, Samburu,
Buffalo Springs and Shaba,
situated in arid country
north of Mount Kenya, and
watered by the Uaso Nyiro
River and natural springs.
It is very scenic, with
craggy hills and everywhere
Doum palms following the
water courses.
Some unusual animal species
can be found here; the
Reticulated Giraffe, Oryx,
Lesser Kudu, Grevy's Zebra,
and the Gerenuk, known as
the "Giraffe Gazelle".
Afternoon game drive. Dinner
and Overnight at Sarova
Shaba Game Lodge.
Day 03: Shaba Game
Reserve
Morning game drive followed
by breakfast, spend the
morning at leisure at the
lodge pool or the terrace
overlooking the river. After
lunch proceed for an
afternoon game drive.
Overnight at Sarova Shaba
Game Lodge.
Day 4: Shaba Game Reserve
- Rift Valley Lakes
[5 Hours approximately]
Depart after breakfast and
drive via Nyahururu Falls to
Lake Nakuru, in time for
lunch and an afternoon game
drive. Lake Nakuru is a soda
lake often frequented by
thousands of Greater and
Lesser Flamingos lining the
shore in a pink mass.
The Lake is famous for the
various water birds that
breed in the lake’s alkaline
waters including flamingos,
white pelicans and marabou
stork can be seen. White
rhino may be seen as well as
the rare Rothschild’s
giraffe, Cape buffalo and
other plains game.
Dinner and Overnight Sarova
Lion Hills Lodge.
Day
05: Lake Nakuru to the Masai
Mara Game Reserve
After breakfast depart for
the Masai Mara arriving at
the Mara Sarova Game Lodge
for lunch. This Reserve is
one of Africa's best known
wildlife areas, and is part
of the Serengeti ecosystem.
A land of undulating hills
and rolling grasslands it
supports a large animal
population. Even a casual
visitor is treated to the
sight of lions in prides
sometimes numbering more
than thirty beasts with a
handsome black maned male in
dominance; a cheetah at
great speed runs down its
prey; a leopard in the lower
branches with its kill. In
the Mara river there are
crocodiles sunning
themselves on the banks, and
hippos playing in the water.
Overnight at Mara Sarova
Game Lodge.
Elephant, Cape Buffalo,
Giraffe, Topi, Gazelle are
all in abundance, and during
the months of July to
September the great
migration of Wildebeest and
Zebras spill over from the
Serengeti. The sight of
these beasts legging it
across the Mara River,
avoiding both the crocodiles
in the river, and the
predators harassing them
from behind is amazing, and
the topic of some of the
most spectacular photography
ever seen. In the afternoon
there is a game drive
followed by dinner and
overnight.
Day 6: Masai Mara Game
Reserve
Early morning and afternoon
game drives. Overnight at
Mara Sarova Game Lodge.
The Mara offers wildlife in
such variety and abundance
that it is difficult to
believe: over 450 species of
animals have been recorded
here. You will easily see
lions, rhinos, hippos,
crocodiles, giraffe,
wildebeests, zebras,
buffalo, warthogs, hyenas,
jackals, wild dogs, buffalo,
leopard, many kinds of
antelopes and elephant. It
is in the Mara that perhaps
the most spectacular event
of the natural world takes
place. This is the annual
migration of millions of
wildebeest and zebra from
the Serengeti (Tanzania) in
search of water and pasture.
Following on their heels are
the predators of the
savanna- lion, cheetah, wild
dog, jackal, hyena and
vultures.
Day 7 Masai Mara Game
Reserve - Nairobi
[6 Hours approximately]
Depart after breakfast and
drive back to Nairobi with a
drop off in the city centre
or at your hotel.
Cost
per person sharing
2 people US$ 2030
4 people US$ 1890
6people US$ 1750
Safari price Includes:
-Transport on custom made 8
seater tour van ideal for
game viewing and photography
-Full board accommodation
whilst on safari
-Accommodation in
double/twin room
- 1 night hotel
accommodations in Nairobi on
BB
-All park entrance fees to
include government taxes
-Service of an English
speaking professional
driver/guide
-All game drives as detailed
in the itinerary
Complimentary return airport
transfers
-Bottled water whilst on
safari
-Start and end in Nairobi.
-Personalized service
safari price excludes:
-Tips
-Laundry
-Beverages/Drinks
-International flights
-Visas
-Items of a personal nature
-Any other extras not
detailed in
-Hotel accommodations in
Nairobi after the safari
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