3 Days Samburu Game Reserve from Nairobi Hotel/Airport
Duration
Tour Type
Safari Description
Samburu National Reserve that our guests find calming, even in the midst of all the wildlife. Perhaps it’s the fact that Samburu is somewhat off the beaten path, so you’ll enjoy a wild game park with fewer tourists.
And you’ll be treated to the sight of such unique creatures as Grevy’s zebra, gerenuk and the Somali Ostrich.
Tour Highlights:
Samburu Game Reserve
- Local cultures, subsistence and commercial farming activities
- Snow capped Mount Kenya
- Different climatic and vegetation zones
- Oryx, Gerenuk, Somali ostrich, Grevy’s zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, Elephant
- Samburu tribes & culture
Shaba Game Reserve
- Dramatic scenery including river-side forests, scattered woodlands and dry grasslands dominated by the Shaba Hill volcano
- Endangered Grevy’s zebra and the rare Williams’s lark
- Lots of Klipspringer and hyrax in the hills
Buffalo Springs National Reserve
- Old lava flows and volcanic soils of olivine basalt.
- Narrow band of riverine forest along the Ewaso Nyiro River
- Alkaline grasslands with occasional springs and swamps
- Game species common to Kenya’s northern plains
- Oryx, Gerenuk, Somali Ostrich, Grevy’s zebra, Grant’s Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe
Included
- Full board accommodation, meal plan as mentioned in itinerary
- All game drives as will be detailed in the itinerary
- Start and end of Safari in Nairobi
- Transport in a customized 4x4 Land Cruiser.
- Experienced professional driver guide
- Game viewing drives.
- Park entrance fees.
- All meals on safari.
- Bottled drinking water in safari vehicle.
- Government taxes and local levies
Excluded
- International flights.
- Soft drinks or alcoholic drinks
- Visit to the Maasai village
- Items and services of a personal nature
- Tips & gratuities.
Tour Amenities
Tour Plan
Meal: Lunch, Dinner
Emiet driver guide will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel/Airport. Then drive over Kenya’s central highlands enjoying views of small, local coffee, tea, sisal and pineapple farms.
We’ll also pass the imposing form of Mt. Kenya, the pride of our country and its tallest peak.
Safari
We’ll arrive at the reserve in the afternoon and tour the three parks and their varied environments.
A major landmark at the border between Samburu and Buffalo Springs is the Ewaso Nyiro River which is a lifeline for the parks’ wildlife. It also creates an unexpected corridor of green forest along its path, breaking up the more arid look of the reserves.
Here we’ll find wildlife from the neighboring reserves gathering to drink at the river’s nourishing banks. The river is also home to hippos, crocodiles and some of the many varieties of birdlife found in the parks.
Overnight
Dinner and overnight at the lodge or camp of your choice
Safari
Meal: Breakfast, lunch, dinner
We’ll meet the new day with a game drive to look for lion, leopard, cheetah and whoever else might show up in the dawning light.
Following the path of the Ewaso Nyiro River, we’ll be on the lookout for elephant, buffalo, and some of the more entertaining wildlife like dik-dik, warthog and the olive baboon.
Samburu is also known as one of the two regions where conservationist Joy Adams raised Elsa the Lioness, later made famous in the book and movie, Born Free.
Here too, are the Samburu people, closely related to the Maasai, an indigenous, pastoral group, who have inhabited this region for eons.
As always on our safaris, be as active as you wish or relax at your safari accommodation.
Overnight
Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp of your choice
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch.
Our final morning in the park will give us opportunities to add more wildlife sightings to our checklist. But not all the park’s animal activity is limited to mammals. Samburu hosts over 350 species of birdlife including kingfisher, vulture, guinea fowl, egret, falcon and eagle. You’ll have plenty to keep watching for on the land, in the springs and overhead.
We’ll enjoy another game drive as we exit the park on our journey back to Nairobi.
Heading back to the city, we’ll break up the drive with a stop for lunch.
Drop off
We should arrive in Nairobi in the late afternoon and will drop you off a your Nairobi Hotel/Airport.
