MS 10: 6 Days Shaba - Treetops - Masai Mara Lodge Safari
The Masai Mara lies in the Great Rift Valley, which is a fault line some 3,500 miles (5,600km) long, from Ethiopia's Red Sea through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi and into Mozambique. Here the valley is wide and a towering escarpment can be seen in the hazy distance. There can be as much wildlife roaming outside the park as inside. Many Masai villages are located in the 'dispersal areas' and they have, over centuries, developed a synergetic relationship with the wildlife.
Out of the north Kenyan tribes of Samburu, Rendille, Turkana and Borana, the Samburu dominate this area. To the uninformed eye they could be confused with the Maasai - for they are closely related and wear similar bright clothing and jewellery and have the same cultural beliefs. They continue their nomadic pastoralist lifestyle as they have done for hundreds of years.
Itinerary
Day 1:
Drive to Shaba National Reserve to arrive in time for a late lunch. After lunch proceed for an afternoon game drive in the park famous as the place for the Samburu semi-nomadic tribesmen, the reticulated giraffe, the Grevy's zebra gerenuk, beisa oryx and a host of the big game including elephant and lion. Overnight at Sarova Shaba Shaba Lodge.
Day 2:
Drive to Samburu National Reserve for morning game viewing and lunch at Samburu Lodge. Afternoon game viewing en route to Shaba. Overnight at Sarova Shaba Lodge.
Day 3:
Morning drive to Outspan Hotel for lunch. Transfer to the Aberdares National Park for an evening of game viewing from Treetops where there a pegeant of animals, coming to lick from a water hole nearby.
Day 4:
After breakfast at the Outspan Hotel drive via Nyahururu Falls to Lake Naivasha Country Club for lunch. In the afternoon continue to the Maasai Mara National Reserve for overnight at Sianna Springs Luxury Tented Camp.
Day 5:
Morning and afternoon game viewing. Maasai Mara Game Reserve and set-up Camp. After lunch proceed for an afternoon game drive in the game reserve which is Kenya's finest wildlife sanctuary. Including migrants, well over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. Although July, August andSeptember are the months when the Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeest and zebra, there is also resident wildlife year round. The famous Maasai tribesmen live within the dispersal area of the game reserve. Overnight Sianna Springs Luxury Tented Camp.
Day 6:
Morning return drive to Nairobi arriving around noon.
