Exploring remote areas, game drives, hiking, bush walks, fishing, boat trips, biking, village visits.

Laikipia and Mt Lossos, Samburu, Mt Lololokwe, Marsabit, Chalbi Desert, Lake Turkana, Lake Bogoria

Safari lodges, house boats, bush camps, mid-range hotels

Fullboard accommodation at all safari lodges, full board at all other accommodation outside Nairobi, accommodation with breakfast in Nairobi hotels, all national park and conservation fees, all transfers within Kenya, Flying Doctor emergency evacuation cover.

Welcome to Enchanting-Africa! Our tour manager will receive you at the airport in Nairobi and take you to your hotel for check in.

Explore Nairobi, the safari capital of Africa and a city that never seems to sleep. Experience one of the lively and colourful street markets, the fantastic music scene and one of the many excellent restaurants. Alternatively, discover the Karen Blixen museum, giraffe centre where you can feed giraffes or venture into Nairobi National Park, just outside town, with its cliffs and forests and large herds of Zebra, Wildebeest, Buffalo, Giraffe and more.

Accommodation: Fairview Hotel or Country Lodge

Drive from Nairobi to Laikipia (5-6 hours)

The Laikipia plateau in central Kenya is one of the last stronghold of romantic East Africa - vast open ranches, shadowed by snow-capped Mount Kenya, dusty plains and verdant grasslands, interspersed with rocky hills, home to diverse communities including the Maasai and Samburu. The region also has large herds of elephant and wild dog, leopard, lion, cheetah and other predators hunting the plentiful game. You will experience the hospitality of the local Maasai at a lodge that is owned, run and hosted by them which will allow you to get close to African everyday life. Enjoy relaxing days at your lodge with out-of-this-world views, go on game drives, bush walks and tackle the challenge of trekking up sacred Mt Lossos from where you have fantastic views over the entire central part of Kenya.

Accommodation: Il N’gwesi or Tassia

Drive Usambara Mountains to Kilimanjaro (ca. 4 hours)

Transfer to Samburu (ca. 3 hours)

A place of endless skies, dust-red plains and palm-fringed rivers, Samburu National Reserve lies on the fringes of a vast and arid desert, whose heat-scorched scrublands extend all the way to the jade-green waters of Lake Turkana and beyond. Samburu provides one of the few sanctuaries in Kenya for the endangered Grevy’s zebra and the rare Beisa Oryx whilst large herds of elephant roam the gaunt hills during the day before returning to bathe on the banks of the river in the evening. Discover Samburu on game drives and experience a combined camel and walking safari. You will usually walk for two to four hours or so in the early morning and relax through the heat of the day, with the opportunity to stroll further in the afternoon and evening.

Accommodation: Camp

Drive Samburu – Base of Mt Lololokwe (ca. 1 hour)

Ololokwe is one hell of a big rock that dominates a large section of the Northern Frontier District. Its sheer walls are about 500m high on 3½ sides, and you will be one of few people to hike and camp overnight at the top. The hike up to the top takes around 6 to 7 hours and you will be supported by local porters. If you are free of vertigo, venture to the edges of the cliffs, lay on the lip, inch your head slowly over and marvel at the sheer wall falling away below as your guts twist. As night falls, you can enjoy amazing views of the stars and a fantastic 360 degree unobstructed panorama.

Accommodation: Camp

Marsabit

Drive to Marsabit (ca. 2 hours), via the `Singing Wells' of the Boran tribe which is quite a colourful ceremony as they fetch water in a long queue cum chain singing in their mother tongue

Marsabit Town is situated on an isolated extinct volcano which rises almost a kilometre above the Chalbi Desert and is surrounded by Marsabit National Park. From the summit the views are fantastic - the whole area is dotted with extinct volcanoes and craters, which have bubbled up and left these monuments to themselves.
Marsabit National Park is one of Kenya's most remote and least visited national parks. The heart of the park are heavily forested hills which support animals not normally found in arid northern Kenya. There are elephant, rhino, lion, leopard, cheetah, buffalo, warthogs, Grevy's Zebra, reticulated giraffe, hyena and antelope. However, the thick forests do not make for great game viewing unless guests have lots of time. Nevertheless, this oasis of forested mountain rising up out of the surrounding desert is an amazing place and has a wealth of rare birds as well as several enchanting lakes such as Lake Paradise.

Accommodation: 1 day in Camp in Marsabit

Chalbi Desert

Drive to Kalacha (ca. 2 hours)

Take a rest from hiking and camping at a beautiful camp - situated in the Chalbi Desert, North Eastern Kenya, Kalacha Camp sits on the edge of a permanent oasis, fed by a natural artesian well. The Gabbra people of this area are a hardy race, and adaptation to a nomadic way of life ensures their survival. The Kalacha oasis is an assured watering point - several days’ walk from suitable grazing areas, and camels, cattle, donkeys and goats gather here in mass

Accommodation: Kalacha Camp

Drive to Lake Turkana (3-4 hours)

Lake Turkana, formerly Lake Rudolf, is a jadegreen jewel in the dry north of Kenya bordering Ethiopia. The lake is 256 km long and 48 km wide, but is decreasing in size. Even today a journey to this remote lake is an exhausting experience and has a special taste of adventure. The impression when first setting eyes on this lake is one of having left earth and landed on another planet. No plants, no creature, only stones over stones. Visit the El Molo tribesman in their village, who are said to be the smallest tribe in Africa (at extra cost). Caution should be exercised near the lake as its waters are crocodile infested.
Discover the various islands in the lake and Sibiloi National Park on the eastern shores of the lake has some Grevy Zebras and Oryx Beisa, but is known mainly because Richard Leakey discovered here remnants of an two million year old Hominid, an early anchestor of man. The people in this area live from fishing and some goats and tribes like the Boran are very proud camel shepherds.

Accommodation: House Boat on the Lake

Relax at a wonderful island in the middle of Lake Baringo, a fresh water lake and with its picturesque islands and encircling mountains a spectacular sight. The lake has a lot of fish and consequently many herons, cormorants and marabus can be found here. On Gibraltar Island, a birders paradise, are breeding more Goliath herons then anywhere else in East Africa. Bird walks and boat rides are the most popular activities around Lake Baringo but cultural tours to local villages can be arranged as well.
Lake Bogoria has achieved fame as the "new home of flamingos", with a migrant population of up to two million birds. The reserve offers plenty of wildlife apart from flamingos including leopard and is one of few parks in Kenya accessible on foot and bike.

Accommodation: Samatian Island or Island Camp Baringo

Enjoy a memorable good bye dinner at one of Nairobi’s joints with live music before you transfer to International Airport for departure

If you want to book this itinerary or if you want to receive more information on it please contact us at info@enchanting-africa.com. We will be happy to customize and adapt this itinerary to your specific interests and requirements.