Day 1: Nairobi – Lake
Nakuru
After breakfast, leave your Hotel and drive via Lake Bogoria
with picnic lunch before you drive to Lake Baringo camp site.
Day 2: Lake Baringo –
Maralal – South Horr
After breakfast leave Baringo for Maralal with your picnic
lunch en route. Take a short walk in this beautiful town before
proceeding via Losiolo which is on the edge of the Great Rift
Valley to Baragoi for dinner and overnight stay at South Horr
campsite.
Day 3: South Horr –
Lake Turkana
Depart from the campsite after breakfast to Lake Turkana to
arrive at El – Molo campsite for lunch, which is on
the shores of Lake Turkana. Rest of the day is spent at leisure
by the Jade Sea. Dinner and over night stay in the camp.
Day 4: Lake Turkana
Visit the El Molo village after breakfast and get back to
the campsite for lunch. Rest in the afternoon and go for fishing
or swimming if crocodiles permit. Meals and overnight in the
camp.
Day 5: Turkana – Maralal
Leave Lake Turkana for Maralal with a picnic lunch en route.
Dinner and overnight in Maralal.
Day 6: Maralal
Drive to Suguta Valley observation point and later descend
to the bottom of the valley where you have trek with Samburu
guides to visit their villages and the surrounding environs
(4-5 hrs) and return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Maralal – Samburu
After breakfast drive to Samburu National Reserve in the northern
side of Mount Kenya. Arrive at the camp and thereafter proceed
on an evening game drive. Meals and overnight stay at the
camp.
Day 8: Samburu
Full day spent in Samburu viewing animals like Elephant, Giraffe,
Zebra, Lion, Leopard, Gerenuk, Oryx and others plus numerous
bird species. Overnight in the camp.
Day 9: Samburu – Nairobi
After early morning game drive leave Samburu via Mt Kenya
to arrive in Nairobi in the evening.
Turkana
via Chalbi Desert- 8 Days
This rugged 1,900 kilometer is usually done
in a purposely-built truck that takes you up into the heart
of the Northern Frontier District. You will traverse along
some of Africans most adventurous roads, see beautiful mountain
forest surround on all sides by hot desert, eventually arriving
in the Jade Sea (L. Turkana). You will se great variety of
tribes and cross the Chalbi Desert if dry. During rains, it
becomes an enormous shallow lake.
Day 1: Nairobi –Samburu
Depart Nairobi in the morning heading north via the shoulder
of Mt. Kenya to Samburu Game Reserve. Accommodation in our
semi-permanent campsite beautifully set under a canopy of
trees or pitch tents on the Ewaso Nyiro River.
Day 2: Samburu
Morning and afternoon game viewing in Samburu. Elephant abound
the park. You may also see Lion, Reticulated Giraffe, Gerenuk,
Grevy’s Zebra and the Beisa’s Oryx. Dinner and
overnight in your campsite.
Day 3: Samburu-Marsabit
We head north again along the Trans-African highway to Marsabit,
which is an extinct volcano heavily forested on its upper
slopes. After setting up camp, we will visit the lodge inside
the National park. You may see Elephant, Buffalo and the Greater
Kudu as the lodge is situated on the edge of a water filled
crater. We do not go further into the park as thick forest
hampers the progress of large vehicles and viewing is difficult.
Day 4: Marsabit – Kalacha
We visit Marsabit town and another volcanic crater before
making our way back into the desert and lava flows. We camp
at Kalacha, a small settlement on the edge of Chalbi desert.
Day 5: Kalacha – Lake Turkana We depart early crossing the Chalbi Desert.
The desert cannot be crossed if wet but there are alternative
roads around the North and South. We arrive at our semi permanent
beach campsite just outside Loiyangalani soon after lunch.
Here we have our traditional Turkana huts with a cool breeze
blowing from the lake for use if available otherwise we pitch
tents in alternative campsite. Indeed otherwise a perfect
place to relax protected from the searching sun and heat characteristic
of the harsh climate of this remote area.
Day 6: Lake Turkana
We spend the day relaxing and bathing only interrupted by
a short boat excursion to visit the surrounding areas. In
addition, we visit Loiyangalani and the community settled
there, while in the evening we may visit one of the Turkana
Manyattas for traditional dances under a star studded sky
at an extra cost if clients wish.
Day 7: Lake Turkana –
Maralal
We journey via South Horr and Baragoi to Maralal, another
forested area. The Samburu abound in their red-ochre.
Day 8: Maralal – Nairobi
Heading south again via Laikipia plains and Thomson’s
Falls (Nyahururu) we drive back into Nairobi by mid afternoon.
Lake
Turkana Safaris, Lake Turkana Expeditions
