The Very Best Of Western Circuit 10 Days - QWE 144

Magharibi Safari

Day 1: Nairobi / Lake Baringo

After breakfast, pick up your hotel and proceed to Lake Baringo with a brief stop over at the Great Rift Valley view point. Along highway Mr. Longonot, which is of volcanic origin and Lakes Naivasha, and Elementaita can be seen.

Arrive Lake Baringo in time for lunch. After lunch proceed on a 1 hour boat ride on the island to view birds and the hippos in the waters.  A visit to a local njemps village or a local snake farm can be arranged at an extra cost.
Dinner and overnight at a Lake Bogoria campsite

Day 2: Lake Bogoria / Mt. Elgon

Early breakfast followed by visit to Lake Bogoria, which is adorned with natures rare gifts, thermal springs and geysers, thousands of flamingos, different species of water fowls but fishless. Visitors boil eggs at natures cost while they sit under the hardy acacia trees listening to the singing weaverbirds, buzzling bees and sometimes the cough of an agitated baboon.

With lunch enroute proceed to Mt. Elgon National Park followed by afternoon drive to the elephant caves where you will be able to walk and explore with a guide on hand to explain the caves history.
Dinner and over night in a Mt. Elgon campsite.

Your stay in Kenya is only complete with a visit to this paradise island located within the second highest fresh water lake in the world and the source of the river Nile. The lake borders Kenya and Uganda.
Dinner and overnight at a Rusinga Campsite.

Day 7: Rusinga Island

After breakfast, you spend a full day having fun and exploring, try your hand at fishing at Takawiri, or take a boat ride on the lake. For bird lovers enjoy the sight of fish eagles perch a top trees like sentries then suddenly swoop down for fish on the lakes surface, a fantastic “bird action” photo – to- opportunity.
Dinner and overnight at a Rusinga Campsite.

Day 8: Rusinga Island / Kericho

After breakfast, drive via Kisii to Kericho Tea Hotel with picnic lunch enroute and maybe for a stop to buy soapstone souvenir carvings. Arrive at Tea Hotel in the afternoon and relax in the hotels lush gardens taking in the magnificent view of Tea farms stretching for miles all around you.
Dinner and overnight at a Kericho Campsite.

Day 9: Kericho / Nakuru

After breakfast, depart for Lake Nakuru National Park arriving in time for lunch. Proceed on an afternoon game drive in this park that has a fantastic array of bird life including thousands of flamingoes, white pelicans and the marabou stork, all water birds that bred in the lakes alkaline waters.

You may spot white rhino and the rare Rothchild’s giraffe that has 5 horns instead of the usual three and clear instead of spotted shanks (legs). A visit to the baboon cliff offers a scenic panorama of the lake below, surrounded by a vast tract of euphorbia and acacia forest. Makalia falls within the park are an additional attraction.
Dinner and overnight at a Lake Nakuru campsite.

Day 10: Nakuru / Nairobi

After breakfast, proceed on a morning game drive and after depart the park for Nairobi through the floor of the Great Rift Valley and with stops to view Lake Elementaita, Lake Naivasha , Mt. Longonot and also a stop at the Rift Valley view point. Arrival Nairobi by Mid afternoon. Afternoon rest and transfer to airport to fly home.