07 days Kenya Serena experience - THE SERENA EXPLORER
This exciting safari, which is conducted in a 4-wheel drive vehicle, will ensure encounters with a superb number of animals and birdlife, whilst you are comfortably accommodated in award-winning Serena properties.
Sweetwater’s is in the private Ol Pejeta Conservancy, set in the extensive savannah grasslands and riverine forests that border the Ewaso Nyiro River. At the forefront of the Kenyan conservancy programme, Ol Pejeta boasts the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa, hosts the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Kenya, and shelters large numbers of rare and endangered species.
Then travel to Lake Elementeita in the Great Rift Valley, where a wide variety of bird life may be seen. The small and exclusive Lake Elmenteita Serena Camp, which opened in July 2011, offers spectacular views over the landscape to the lake.
7 Days Samburu / Treetops / Lake nakuru / Masai Mara
Day 1: Nairobi - Samburu Game Reserve
Samburu Game reserve is in Northern Kenya,situated on the banks of Ewaso Nyiro and plays host to the Big 5 as well as the Samburu 5.
The reserve consists mainly of open savannah, rock outcrops, doum palms, acacia and thorn trees.
Expect to see elephants, gerenuk antelopes, ostriches, Nile crocodiles, leopards, cheetahs, waterbucks, lions, impalas, baboons and vervet monkeys all flock to the river to quench their thirst and forage for food.
Over 350 bird species have been recorded in Samburu including marabous, kingfishers, guinea fowls, Somali ostriches and bateleurs.
Just a stone throw away is Buffalo Springs National Reserve featuring riverine forests, grasslands and woodlands.The hot springs, rolling savannah and scrub characterize the Shaba National Reserve which can be found just across the river.