8 DAYS ROAD SAFARIS

Day 1: Samburu
This morning, head north to the dramatic semi-arid scrubland of the Northern Frontier. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive. This reserve, located around the life-giving Uaso Nyiro River, is home to the rare, beautiful and resident wildlife species like the Reticulated Giraffe, Gravy's Zebra, Beisa Oryx and the blue-necked Somali Ostrich that are rare elsewhere in the country. Thereafter return to a luxurious lodge, located along the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 2: Samburu
Early morning and afternoon game drives give you a chance to explore some of the worlds most spectacular and exciting terrain. Meals and overnight are at the lodge.

Day 3: Aberdare
After breakfast, head towards the Aberdares Ranges. Lunch at a country club followed by transfer to your tree lodge, situated deep in the Aberdare forest. Here, forest animals visit the floodlit waterhole and saltlick throughout the day and night, thus ensuring the pleasure of unlimited, all night game viewing from the vicinity of the lodge.

Day 4: Lake Nakuru
After breakfast, depart for Lake Nakuru National Park situated on the floor of the world's greatest land rift - the Great Rift Valley. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game drive in the park. This park provides a sanctuary for the endangered black rhino and the Rothschild's Giraffe. Additionally, the fluctuating shores of Lake Nakuru host one of the greatest bird spectacles in the world - millions of flamingoes that turn the shores of the lake pink. Dinner and overnight are at your camp.

Day 5: Maasai Mara
After breakfast, drive through the breathtakingly, spectacular Great Rift Valley to Maasai Mara - the greatest of nature's stages. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game drive to get a closer look at the Mara. On the plains, with the endless vistas and enormous herds of grazing animals, look for the predators hidden among the acacia trees: Black-mane lion, cheetah and leopard. There are hippos in the rivers and exotic birds everywhere. Thereafter, return to the lodge/tented camp for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 6 and 7: Maasai Mara
Two game viewing drives per day in this country of breath-taking vistas, a panorama of vast rolling plains and rounded hills, of intermittent groves of acacia woodlands and dense thickets of scrub. And in every direction there are seemingly endless herds of game animals - black mane lions, buffalo, black rhino, hippopotamus, leopard, cheetah, common zebra, Coke's hartebeest, white-bearded gnu, warthog and Thomson's and Grant's gazelles. The bird life of Mara is as profuse as its mammalian fauna. All meals and overnight stay are at the lodge/tented camp.

Day 8: Nairobi
After breakfast drive back to Nairobi.