14 Days Kenya Safari Tour

You begin your safari with a warm welcome upon touchdown by your Africa Travel Tours driver/guide will transport you to your hotel to relax and recharge during your stay in Kenya’s capital.

OVERNIGHT- EMARA OLE SERENI- https://emara.ole-sereni.com/ OVERNIGHT- 254 OLE SERENI https://254.ole-sereni.com/

MEAL PLAN-B & B

Your day starts with a early morning visit to the Nairobi national park one of the sparkling bird watching destination. It is one of the essential stop-offs of most of the migratory birds to within Africa making the park to be the leading choice for bird finders.

 Nairobi National Park has more than 520 bird species recorded being a park that have a thing for everyone, it is unmistakably a birder’s delight. Nairobi National Park birding tour can get you close-up and personal with the incredible African Crowned Eagle and displaying male Kori Bustard, Secretary Bird, Martial Eagle, Siffling Cisticola, African Fish Eagle, African Finfoot, Palm-nut Vulture, Grey-Olive Greenbul, Jackson’s Widowbird in full breeding dress, White-backed Night Heron, Rosy-breasted Longclaw, Black Rhinos, Lions, Leopards.

OVERNIGHT- EMARA OLE SERENI – https://emara.ole-sereni.com/

TAMARIND TREE https://www.tamarindtree-hotels.com/

MEAL PLAN-BB

Early morning breakfast and checkout. Drive north via Nanyuki and Mt Kenya to the Samburu National Reserve with a unique landscapes and open savannahs, scrub desert and vegetation which makes it almost guaranteed encounter with top 380+ bird species. A home for all.

Arrive in time for lunch and check-in.

Afternoon gave drive to meeting the Shining Sunbird, Verreaux’s Eagle, Golden-breasted Starling, Eastern, Yellow-billed Hornbill, Von der Dicken’s Hornbill, Black-faced Sand grouse, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Golden-breasted Starling, Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Rosy-patched Bushshrike, Pringle’s Puffback, Northern Puffback, Northern White-crowned Shrike, White-

headed Mousebird, Hunter’s Sunbird, Black-bellied Sunbird, Shining Sunbird, Red-billed Hornbill, countless.

OVERNIGHT- SURANA LUXURY CAMP https://ashnilhotels.com/surana/

ASHNIL SAMBURU LODGE https://ashnilhotels.com/surana/

Early morning game drive along Ewaso Nyiro riverbanks to view different early bird species. Return to the camp for breakfast.

Whole day spend in search for birds including the Fire-fronted Bishop, Buff-crested Bustard, African Bare-eyed Thrush, Somali Sparrow, Donaldson-Smith’s Nightjar, Dusky Nightjar, Vulturine Guineafowl, Rufous Chatterer, African Mourning Dove, European Turtle Dove, Egyptian Vulture, Bateleur, Martial Eagle and Tawny Eagle. Somali Bee-eater, Stone Partridge, African Orange-bellied Parrot, Yellow-vented Eremomela, Northern Crombec, Northern Grey Tit, Black-capped Social Weaver, Northern Brownbul, ETC

Meals and overnight at the camp.

OVERNIGHT- SURANA LUXURY CAMP https://ashnilhotels.com/surana/

ASHNIL SAMBURU LODGE https://ashnilhotels.com/surana/

Early morning breakfast and check out. Depart to the southwest of mount kenya Aberdare National Park. Endangered and vulnerable feathered species include Aberdare cisticolas, abbott’s starlings, sharpe’s longclaws and jackson’s widowbirds, amongst the common species of moorland chats, montane white-eyes, mountain flycatcher-warblers, thick-billed seedeaters and more!

Meals and overnight at the camp.

OVERNIGHT – ABERDARE COUNTRY CLUB https://aberdarecountryclub.com/

Breakfast and check out, depart for Naivasha with a stop at the Thomson falls for a view of the African fish eagle, augur buzzard, Hartlaub’s turaco, red-winged starling, black-headed oriole, silvery-cheeked hornbill, and many more. Proceed to Naivasha arriving for lunch and check-in.

Afternoon optional walk along the lake or a boat ride in the lake a diverse water bird community with more than 80 species, abundant Paleartic ducks most especially in November and February, the lake is famous known for its high density of African Fish Eagles nesting in the surrounding Acacia woodland and regionally threatened species include Podiceps cristatus, Oxyura maccoa,and many more birds species.

OVERNIGHT – ENASHIPAI RESORT https://www.enashipai.com/

OVERNIGHT – NAIVASHA SOPA https://www.sopalodges.com/lake-naivasha-sopa- resort/the-resort

Early morning Walk with backyard swooping, chirping and singing bird calls and songs.Return to hotel for breakfast then checkout and drive to the famous masai mara arriving for lunch and check- in.

The Iden Gem of wildlife and over 450 species of birdlife.

Expected species includes the Ground hornbill, common Ostrich, Vultures in action with a kill,Lilac Breasted rollers, Egyptians,Griffons,Bustards,Secretary bird, Tawny and the Snake Eagles not to miss the pale chanting Goshawk and countless more.

Meals and overnight at your camp.

OVERNIGHT -TIPILIKWANI LUXURY CAMP https://www.atua-enkop.com/tipilikwani- mara-camp

OVERNIGHT – SAROVA MARA CAMP https://www.sarovahotels.com/maracamp-masai- mara/

Breakfast. Full day spend in game drive along the Mara river.

Other species will include. The Schawlow’s, crested guide fowls, different species of weavers,

sterling

not to miss the Fishing owl and countless more. Meals and overnight at your camp or lodge..

OVERNIGHT -TIPILIKWANI LUXURY CAMP https://www.atua-enkop.com/tipilikwani- mara-camp

OVERNIGHT – SAROVA MARA CAMP https://www.sarovahotels.com/maracamp-masai- mara/

Breakfast at leisure. Check-out and leisurely drive to Nairobi arriving early afternoon. Rest of the evening spend at leisure and data combination as you wait for the second leg of the southern region of kenya.

OVERNIGHT – RADISSON BLU HOTEL https://www.radissonhotels.com/en- us/hotels/radisson-blu-nairobi-upper-hill

OVERNIGHT – THE 254 OLE SERENI https://254.ole-sereni.com/

Early morning breakfast. 0700hrs ;depart to the south to Amboseli National park. With breathtaking sights of Mt Kilimanjaro if weather allows embark on an adventurous game drive throughout the park.

The park hosts over 420 bird species. The park hosts both permanent residence birds as well as the migratory birds. The park has 40 species of birds of prey, with a record of 42 bird species of the Somali-Masai Biome out of 94 species that are found in Kenya. The location of the park near the coastal area of Kenya has made the park to be the breeding grounds of many bird species. Its also the migratory route for more European birds that transit through the park hence breaking their long flights with a break at this park.

OVERNIGHT- ELEWANA TORTILIS CAMP-https://www.elewanacollection.com/tortilis-camp-amboseli/at-a-glance

OVERNIGHT – KIBO SAFARI CAMP https://kibosafaricamp.com/

MEAL PLAN- FULL BOARD

Breakfast and check-out. Proceed south to Tsavo East National Park a must-do for all serious birders. This is because three unique forest birds, Taita Apalis, Taita White-eye and Taita Thrush occur on this small forest patch and nowhere else in the world.

Other than the Taitas special, you can easily pick species like; Orange Ground Thrush, Yellow- throated Woodland Warbler, Lemon Dove, Hartlaub’s Turaco, Evergreen forest Warbler, White-starred Robin, Striped-cheeked Greenbul and Striped Pipit.

OVERNIGHT – TAITA HILLS GAME LODGE https://taitahillssafariresort.com/ OVERNIGHT – SALT LICK GAME LODGE https://saltlicksafarilodge.com/ FULLBOARD

Your last leg will lead you to the Arabuko sokoke forest, Mida Creek, and Sabaki estuary at the coastal beach of Kenya.

Here you will get the opportunity to see the near endemic Amani Sunbird, Sokoke Pipit & Malindi Pipit, East Coast Akalat, Scaly Babbler, Mombasa Woodpecker.