Top short (3 days) Kenya safari & chimpanzees experience
Top short Kenya safari overview
A diverse 3 days Top short Kenya safari in central part of the country getting to sceneries of Africa’s big 5 game, the largest population of birds- flamingos at lake Nakuru, the only chimpanzee harboring place at Ol Pejeta conservancy and game drives in the Nairobi national game park which is just next to the capital city.
Top short Kenya safari highlights
Arrival and departure: Nairobi
Day 1- arrival to Nairobi park
Day 2- Lake Nakuru
Day 3- Ol Pajete to Nairobi for departure
Detailed Top short Kenya safari itinerary
Day 1 Nairobi park
On arrival at the airport, you will be picked up by our guide and get you to your booked hotel for a brief rest and there after head out through Nairobi city to Nairobi national park which is just 7km outside the city. You will have an exciting tour of a tour of wild game while gazing at skyscrapers of the city. The park has numerous bird species and numerous migrant species especially during the time between June and August adding to the more than 400 resident species making it a true birding haven in Africa. Along with mammal species such as lions, leopards, hippos, ostriches, giraffes, cheetahs, impalas, rhinos, hartebeests, waterbucks, hyenas, buffaloes, kobs, reptiles among others. This park will give you a unique scenery of the existing interdependency of nature and its wild with modernity. The later afternoon hours will get heading out of the park to lake Nakuru national park.
Accommodation: Sarova lion hill game (or a similar lodge)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Day 2 Lake Nakuru
This day will find you at lake Nakuru which one of the world’s highest bird concentrated areas with more than a million flamingos, storks, geese, ducks among others residing at this shallow lake. The shallowness of lake Nakuru easily exposes algae which acts as food to flamingos and other water birds thus making it a favorite place for them to stay. The pink colored flamingoes flying and settling in huge numbers make this lake one of the most colorful destinations in the world to visit; hottentot teal, bateleur, maccoa duck, pallid harrier, rupell’s vulture, shining sunbird, European roller, great snipe, western reef heron, red-capped lark, Abyssinian thrush, eastern imperial eagle, long crested eagle among others. Along the birds are mammals such as buffaloes, kobs, water bucks, antelopes, giraffes, baboons, monkeys, reptiles among others. Later in the evening you will leave the park and head out to Ol Pajete conservation sanctuary.
Accommodation: Milele resort (or similar equivalent)
Meals: Breakfast| Lunch| Dinner
Day 3 Ol Pejeta sanctuary
On this day you will be at Ol Pajete conservation area which has the highest number of protected black and white rhinos and also the only 2 remaining northern white rhinos in the world. The park offers both drives and walking safari experiences to its visitors as they interact with rangers sharing with them knowledge about the sanctuary and the animals therein. The conservatory is also a sanctuary to many more rescued species especially from hands of poachers and this is also the only place in Kenya where you can find chimpanzees. The expanse of the sanctuary also harbors lions, wild dogs, zebras, wildebeests, hippos, cheetahs, giraffes, elephants, warthogs, hyenas, kobs, waterbucks, leopards, reptiles, buffaloes, baboons, vervet monkeys among others. Later on in the day you will head back to Nairobi and prepare for your departure flight.
Accommodation: N/A
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner
Inclusions
- Park entry fees
- Airport transfers
- Bottled drinking water
- Driver & guide
- Government taxes
- Transport 4×4 safari landcruiser
- All activities indicated on itinerary
Exclusions
- Travel insurance
- International flights
- Visa fees & processing
- Extra activities, meals, alcohol/ liquor not on itinerary
- Tipping & gratitude
- Accommodation after end of the trip
- Any changes to the itinerary
- Souvenirs & snacks
- Anything not mentioned
Your safari route map
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