6-Day Samburu, Aberdare, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Nakuru National Park

Morning picked up from the airport/ hotel with a short briefing and driven to depart to Aberdare National Park. Check into your lodge, have lunch. After lunch rest before proceeding with your game drive. The Aberdare National Park also hosts a large eastern black rhinoceros’ population and over 250 bird species including the endangered Aberdare cisticola, Jackson's spurfowl, sparrowhawk, African goshawk, African fish eagle, sunbirds and plovers. Accommodation: The Ark Hotel.

After breakfast, you will depart for Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Nanyuki via Nairobi. Check into your lodge, have lunch. After lunch have a thirty minutes rest before proceeding with your game drive. Continue into the Ol Pejeta Conservancy for a game drive across the open plains, which are home to a remarkable population of rare animals including wild dogs, zebras, cheetahs, and hartebeest, as well as the “Big Five”: lion, Cape buffalo, African elephant, leopard, and rhinoceros. The Ol Pejeta Conservancy is a 360 km² wildlife conservancy in Central Kenya's Laikipia County. It is situated on the equator west of Nanyuki, between the foothills of the Aberdares and Mount Kenya. Accommodation: Comfort Garden Nanyuki.

You will be driven north past the equator to the northern frontier district. Continue to the semi-arid Samburu National Reserve and check in to your campsite. Have lunch at the lodge. There will be time to settle in before your safari adventure in the afternoon. Set out for an afternoon game drive in the reserve. Enjoy twice daily game drives where you will see huge majestic elephant, lion, leopard and cheetah and all of the ‘special five’ which include the Beisa oryx, reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, Gerenuk antelope and Somali ostrich. In the hot and arid lowlands of the Northern districts of Kenya, featuring doum palms and over 450 species of birds, there are interesting experiences to keep you fascinated over the next day or two. Return to the lodge before dark, settle and have your dinner in the tented lodge. Accommodation: Simba Lodge Samburu.

Set out for an early morning game drive in the Samburu Reserve for a whole day. In the morning is usually the most popular game viewing time. During the early hours’ temperatures are low, thus providing a favorable atmosphere both for the game and the viewer. Lion, cheetah, and leopard roam the vast grasslands in search of their next meal, it may be an unsuspecting impala or even a small one like the warthog. The spectacle of nature unfolding is always amazing to watch over the top pop-up roof. Accommodation: Simba Lodge Samburu.

After an early breakfast, enjoy a game drive en-route to the gate. Drive a southerly direction to the equator. Here, the locals do a water demonstration to qualify the position of the equator and for a small tip. After the brief stop, drive to the Thompsons Falls for a photo-stop then down into the Great Rift Valley. As you ascend the eastern wall of the Rift Valley, lush coffee and tea plantations reveal themselves and your driver guides will give you a brief talk about coffee farming in Kenya. Arrive at the hotel for check-in, and have lunch. In the afternoon, have an en-route for the game drive. Dinner will be at Lake Nakuru Lodge. Accommodation: Wagon Wheel

Early in the morning, have breakfast then check out of the hotel at eight in the morning as you will be driven back to Nairobi airport for the further destination.