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Kenya
Kenyan Highlights
10 days London to London Days 1 & 2. Depart London Depart London on the overnight flight to Nairobi. On arrival in Nairobi you will be met and transferred to the Intercontinental Hotel. The afternoon is at leisure but you may like to spend some time enjoying the sights of Nairobi, which include the Karen Blixen Museum, where the bygone era of the pioneering coffee farmer is preserved, Giraffe Centre for a view of the rare Rothschild Giraffe, the colourful city market, the snake park or the National Museum.
Days 3 & 4. Samburu National Reserve [B, L, D] Head north to Samburu National Reserve and the Samburu Sopa Lodge, some 325 kilometres north of Nairobi in the hot arid fringes of Kenyas vast northern region where you stay for the next two nights. The reserve is within the lands of the colourful Samburu people, close relatives of the Maasai, and harbours a number of wildlife species rarely found elsewhere. These include Grevys Zebra, Reticulated Giraffe, Beisa Oryx, Somali Ostrich, Vulturine Guineafowl and Nile Crocodile. The unusual long-necked Gerenuk is also a common resident here.
Day 5. Mt. Kenya [B, L, D] For a total contrast you head south-west today to the Aberdare National Park. The park consists of a range of extinct volcanoes clad in thick montane forest. Elephant, Black Rhino, Cape Buffalo, Bushbuck, Common Waterbuck, Lion, Giant Forest Hog, Sykes Monkey and Bongo can be found here. Stay one night at Mountain Lodge, set in a forest glade with a waterhole that attracts all sorts of wildlife during the day and night. The waterhole is floodlit and there is an underground viewing platform. Day 6. Lake Nakuru National Park [B, L, D] This morning you head for Lake Nakuru National Park via the beautiful Nyahururu Falls, for a 1-night stay at
Flamingoes at Lake Nakuru
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