Itinerary

1. Day 1: Drive from Nairobi to Samburu

   • Your driver guide will pick you up at the airport or your hotel in Nairobi.
   • After the meet and greet, he will escort you to your car and commence the drive to Samburu National Reserve, where you will arrive for lunch at the camp.
   • After check-in and lunch, you will go for an afternoon game drive or an optional visit to a local Samburu village at 16:00hrs and return to the lodge before dusk for dinner and an overnight stay at Lion’s Cave Camp Samburu.

2. Day 2: Full day Game drives in Samburu National Reserve

   • After early breakfast at the camp at 07:00 am, join your safari driver guide and depart for a full-day game viewing drive with picnic lunch boxes to Samburu National Reserve, famous for its truly wild semi-arid landscape and the large concentration of wild animals and bird life. Together with the adjoining Shaba and Buffalo Springs national reserves, Samburu is famous for hosting the rare Northern-Kenya animal species (Gerenuk, Reticulated Giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, Beisa Oryx and Somali Ostrich), which are not found in the other popular parks and reserves in Kenya. It is also home to all the African big cats (lion, cheetah and leopard), alongside other big game including elephants, buffaloes, warthogs, hippos, impala, water-buck and many others. Samburu is also a renowned bird-watching haven with hundreds of bird species. These include kingfisher, bee-eaters, tawny eagle, guinea-fowl, yellow-throated spur-fowl, lilac-breasted roller, red-billed hornbill, secretary bird, Verreaux’s eagle, superb starling, yellow-billed hornbill and vultures.

   Dinner and overnight stay at Lion’s Cave Camp Samburu.

3. Day 3: Samburu to Nairobi

   • After breakfast, check out and depart back to Nairobi.
   • Arrive in Nairobi in the afternoon, where you will be dropped off at your hotel or airport for your departure flight.