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Wednesday, February 20, 2019

The Great Rift Valley (13)

8 Days 7 Nights Mt. Kenya, Meru, Laikipia, L. Naivasha & Masai Mara

The Great Rift Valley

DAY 1: NAIROBI – MOUNT KENYA SAFARI CLUB (NANYUKI)

This morning after breakfast we depart by road to the famous Mount Kenya Safari Club situated on the foothills of Mt. Kenya, bordering the Mt. Kenya National Park, 10 Kilometers from Nanyuki Town and 220 Kilometers from Nairobi. The driving time is approximately 3½ hours. Mount Kenya Safari Club membership includes a host of movie stars, politicians and aristocrats. Here you can have a day of total relaxation in the splendid landscaped surroundings with magnificent views of majestic Mount Kenya.

7 Days 6 Nights Aberdares National Park, Samburu Game Reserve, L. Naivasha & Masai Mara

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DAY 1: NAIROBI- ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK

Early morning our driver will pick you up from Airport and drive you to Aberdare National Park on arrival lunch will be taken at Aberdare Country Club. After lunch, set off for the Ark tree lodge, located in the forest on mountain slopes of the Aberdare Mountains at 7,000 feet. This outstanding lodge offers high altitude game viewing, including animals that are rarely encountered elsewhere: giant forest hog, bush pig, tree hyrax, large spotted genet, and the elusive bongo.

6 Days 5 Nights L Nakuru National Park, L Bogoria, L Naivasha & Masai Mara

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DAY 1: NAIROBI – NAKURU NATIONAL PARK

This morning you will depart for Lake Nakuru National Park. Famous of its number of Flamingoes that carpet the lake pink. Have a game drive en route, arriving in time for lunch. Enjoy an afternoon game drive a long side the shores of the lake where you will have an opportunity of seeing millions of migratory birds. In the acacia woodland, you will search for the plain game including the White Rhino.

7 Days 6 Nights L. Naivasha, L. Bogoria, L. Nakuru & Masai Mara

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DAY 1: NAIROBI – LAKE NAIVASHA

Early Morning you will be met by our driver/ Guide at the Airport who will then pick you as you leave for Naivasha, it is a papyrus-fringed, a cool and peaceful escape from Nairobi’s big-city bustle. With over 400 species of bird, this freshwater lake is a birding Paradise. Along the lake’s fabled waters, we are bound to see some of the area’s more intriguing species—hippos, giraffes, buffalo and even the arboreal colobus monkey.

Lake Naivasha Day Trip From Nairobi

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DRIVE TO NAIROBI NATIONAL PARK

Pick up from your hotel and drive to Nairobi National Park, only eight miles from the city center. Wildlife roams this magnificent Park, which provides an excellent opportunity for photography. Nairobi National Park is a unique ecosystem by being the only protected area in the world close to a capital city.

5 Days 4 Nights Aberdares , L. Naivasha & Masai Mara

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DAY 1: NAIROBI- ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK

Day Excursion To Lake Nakuru National Park

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NAIROBI –NAKURU

Early morning you will depart for Nakuru National Park. Which is approximately two and half hours from Nairobi.

Lake Nakuru National Park hosts a fresh water lake, Lake Nakuru is famous of its number of flamingos nesting along the shores. The surface of the shallow lake is often hardly recognizable due to the continually shifting mass of pink. The lake's abundance of algae attracts the vast quantity of flamingos that famously lines the shore. The park has recently been enlarged partly to provide the sanctuary for the black rhino. This undertaking has necessitated a fence - to keep out poachers rather than to restrict the movement of wildlife.

Lake Turkana

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Lake Turkana – also called the Jade Sea, was originally named Lake Rudolph in 1888 and was renamed Lake Turkana in 1975. The lake is famous for its greenish-blue colors and it is notorious for the strong desert winds making sailing on the lake sometimes hazardous affair. With a length of 300 km long in North-South direction and a width of 50 km wide, Lake Turkana is the largest permanent desert alkaline lake in the world as well as the largest lake in Kenya though lake Victoria shared between Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania is much larger. It is the Africa fourth Largest Lake. As the Lake has no outlet, water is lost mainly by evaporation.

Lake Baringo

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Lake Baringo is one of the water bodies that line up on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, the Earth’s scar that crosses the East of Africa north to south. After the huge Turkana, Baringo is the second largest in Kenya, with 130 km². Baringo and Naivasha stand up as the only freshwater shallows in the Kenyan Rift. The lake is fed by several rivers, Molo Perkerra and Ol Arabel, and has no obvious outlet.

Lake Bogoria

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The lake Bogoria lies in a trough below the Ngendelel Escarpment, a shear wall 600 meters high. The lake covers 32 square kilometers. It is geothermically active on the western shore, with geysers and hot springs.The major river feeding the lake is Waseges River, which rises on the northern slopes of the Aberdare Range. The geologist J.W. Gregory described the lake in 1892 as “the most beautiful view in Africa”.