Daily Tour
1 person
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Early breakfast and drive to Nairobi National
park. Here we will start our photography in
the parking area where encounter WEarly breakfast and with luggage parked visit Nairobi National park for Black and White
rhinos, Elands, Thomson and Grant’s gazelle, Kirk’s dik dik and the Coke’s hartebeest.
Marshal eagle, Secretary bird, African fish eagle, helmeted guineafowl, Saddle-billed stork
and many other birds will be seen in the park, we will then go for lunch at Galleria mall and
later depart to Castle forest in Mt Kenya for a night, though birding can be done on our way
up, if light and time permits.hite
headed barbets, Brown backed barbet, Spot
flanked barbet, Green backed honeybird,
Bronzy sunbird, the entry into the bushy areas
will enable us photograph Variable sunbird,
Yellow breasted apalis, Tawny flanked prinia,
Tropical boubou, Singing cisticola, White
browed scrub robin, White eyed slaty
flycatcher, African moustached warbler, Red collared widowbird, Winding cisticola, Stout
cisticola, Purple grenadier, Little bee-eater. The water pools enable us take pictures of Longtoed lapwing, Blacksmith lapwing, Spur-winged lapwing, Black crake, African rail, Common
moorhen, Black headed heron, Grey heron, Great egret, Intermediate egret, little egret,
Reed cormorant, African darter and more while the grasslands will provide Crowned
lapwing, Yellow necked spurfowl, Shelley’s francolin, Black bellied bustard, White bellied
bustard, Rosy breasted longclaw, Cuckoo-finch,Rufous naped lark, Red capped lark, the
acacia scrubs will provide Northern pied babbler, Black winged kite, Gabar and Shikra, Augur
buzzard and more. We will break the birding here into two: a morning section and and an
afternoon section, after we have taken lunch. We will be back at the lodge at 5:30 PM
Early breakfast and birding along the road with packed luggage for Northern and eastern
double collared sunbird, Montane white eye and montane oriole. Colubus and Sykes
monkeys may also be seen here. We will eventually drive away stopping for lunch in Nanyuki
town then head to Samburu where upon arrival we will bird from the gate as well as watch
the mammals. We expect Donaldson-smith sparrow weaver, Golden breasted starling, Kori
bustard, Pygmy falcon, Eastern chanting goshawk, Vulturine guineafowl, Tawny Eagle, Martial
eagle, Black faced and Chestnut bellied sandgrouse and more before we get to Samburu
Simba Lodge
After an early breakfast we will drive into the park hoping to see the Golden pipit, African Red
bellied parrot, Buff crested bustard, Golden breasted starling, Black bellied sunbird,Rosy
patched bush shrike, Vulturine guineafowl, Tawny eagle, Wahlberg’s eagle, Martial eagle,
Straw tailed whydah, Ashy cisticola, Kori bustard, Taita fiscal, White headed buffalo weaver,
somali bee eater plus other beautiful game like Grevy Zebra, Reticulated giraffe and
sometimes Caracal, Wild Cat etc. We will come for lunch and later do a round of game drive
before retiring. Night at Simba lodge
Early breakfast and go birding and game viewing till late morning when we come for rest and
later lunch. More rest or swim in the pool till late afternoon for yet another session in the
park.
Early morning game drive and later breakfast and depart for Lake Nakuru, lunch may be
taken on the way or otherwise we can have a late lunch upon arrival at Lake Nakuru lodge. In
the late afternoon we will drive to the lake shore for Flamingoes, Pelicans, ducks, Ruffs,
Sandpipers and more as well as Buffalos, Rhinos, perhaps lions and more
Early breakfast we will make our way out to Kakamega forest, arriving for late lunch or dinner
if we choose to have lunch on the way. Once in the forest we expect to see Great Blue
turaco, Grey-throated barbet, Yellow-spotted barbet, Black and white casqued hornbill, Joyful
greenbul, Mountain wagtail, Black-collared apalis, African blue flycatcher, Yellow billed
barbet and also Red tailed monkey, Blue monkey and Black and White colobus. Night at
Rondo Retreat
Early breakfast and start a waking from the hotel for Brown eared and Buff spotted
woodpecker, Dusky Crested flycatcher, Turner’s eremomela, Oriole finch, Southern Hyliota,
Grey chested babbler, Yellow billed barbet, Black billed turaco, White headed saw wing,Grey
winged robin chat, Equatorial akalat,Ansorge’s greenbul, Toro olive greenbul, Turner’s
eremomela,Southern Hyliota, Wattle eyes and more before we come for lunch and rest till
late afternoon when we embark on more walk.
Early breakfast and then embark on birding in the forest till around 10 AM when we come for
a check out and then depart to Nairobi by road or take a flight from Eldoret Airport
Start Nairobi- Day 1
