Overview
This 14 days Kenya Classic Birding Safari is designed for vivid birders. This Kenya birding safaris takes you to explore some of the top birding destinations in Kenya. Your bird guide is knowledgeable and will be giving you an amazing experience enroute and also while exploring in different national park famous for hosting variety of different bird species.
Tour Highlights
- Day 1: Arrival in Tanzania
- Day 2: Birding in Nairobi National Park
- Day 3 and 4 : Explore Mount Kenya National park
- Day 5 and 6 – Samburu National Reserve, full day birding
- Day 7: Full day birding in Lake Nakuru National Park
- Day 8 and 9: Lake Naivasha
- Day 10: Birding To Maasai Mara
- Day 11 and 12: Birding in Maasai Mara
- Day 13: Birding to Nairobi
- Day 14: Departure
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Tanzania
Arrive in Nairobi for your Kenya birding safari. You will be met by the company representative who will pick you up from the airport and transfer to your hotel. You will receive a briefing about your tour for better preparations. Spend the rest of the evening at leisure.
Accommodation: The Boma hotel Nairobi
Meal plan: Dinner
Day 2: Birding in Nairobi National Park
Today after an early morning breakfast, we start our birding to Nairobi national park which is home to over 500 bird species. The park is home different species from the African highland’s biome and the Somali-Maasai biome. The birds to look out for include; the Yellow White-eye, Brown Parisoma, Variable sunbird, Red-billed Firefinch, African Silver bill, Spotted Flycatcher, Rufous-napped Lark, Yellow-breasted Apalis, Northern Pintail, Collared Widowbird, Blue-billed Teal, Scaly Francolin, Dusky Turtle-Dove, Black-faced Sandgrouse, Hartlaub’s Bustard, White-bellied Go-away-bird, Pied Cuckoo, African Cuckoo, Abyssinian Nightjar, Little Swift, African Swamphen, Water Thick-knee, Long-toed Lapwing etc.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, Dinner
Day 3 and 4 : Explore Mount Kenya National park
After breakfast, we start journey to Mt Kenya national park for a fruitful birding time. The forest has well maintained forest trails which lead to different habitats like the montane grassland, montane forest, moorland and bamboo.
Some of the species to look out for include the Hartlaub’s Turaco, Sharpe’s Long claw, Broad-tailed Warbler, Lesser Kestrel, Red faced Cisticola, African Fire finch, Abyssinian Crimson wing, Yellow-crowned Bishop, Mounatin Yellow Warbler, Zanzibar Sombre Greenbul, Brown-hooded Kingfisher, Mountain Buzzards, Wallers Starlings, Northern Double-collared Sunbirds, Lemon Doves, African Hill Babbler, Oriole Finch, White-eared Barbets, Common Stone-chat,
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, Dinner
Day 5 and 6 – Samburu National Reserve, full day birding
After Breakfast, transfer to Samburu national reserve this morning from Ol Pejeta conservancy. Samburu is more up north with semi-arid habitat and rich in woodlands. The birds to look out for while on here include the; Somali Ostrich, Namaqua Dove, Yellow-necked Francolin, Donaldson-Smith’s Nightjar, Mourning Collared-Dove, Crowned Lapwing, White-bellied Go-away-bird, Common Greenshank, Black-crowned Night-Heron, Lesser Spotted & Tawny Eagle, Augur Buzzard, Violet Wood hoopoe, African Pygmy Kingfisher, Northern Red-billed Hornbill, White-headed Mousebird, Little Bee-eater, Narina Trogon, Red-fronted Barbet, Lanner Falcon, Bearded Woodpecker, Pygmy Batis, Red-bellied Parrot, Northern Puffback, Cape Crow, Rosy-patched Bush shrike, Red-faced Crombec, Singing Bush lark, Somali Tit, Tiny Cisticola, Northern Brown-bul, Pale White-eye, Lesser Striped Swallow, Southern Black-Flycatcher, Black-bellied Starling, Brown-tailed Chat, Shining Sunbird etc
Accommodation: Saruni Samburu
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, Dinner
Day 7: Full day birding in Lake Nakuru National Park
Today we will explore Lake Nakuru, unfortunately the numbers of Lesser Flamingos have reduced over the years. The lake has more of the Greater flamingos taking over most of the lake. Other birds to seek out for include; Pallid harrier, Ruppel’s vulture, Lavaillant’s Cuckoo, Abyssinian thrush, Montane white-eye, Brimstone Canary, Crab-plover, Grey-headed woodpecker, Great snipe, Kenya Rufous Sparrow, Red-throated Wryneck, Lesser Kestrel, Western reef heron, Grey backed Fiscal, Slender-billed greenbul, Red-capped lark, Shining sunbird, Mocking Cliff Chat etc.
Accommodation: Loidia House lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, Dinner
Day 8 and 9: Lake Naivasha
Our birding will mainly be on Crescent Island Game Park which is now a peninsula, it was originally an island. The birds we are likely to see include; Black-headed Oriole, Saddle-billed Stork, Northern Fiscal, Pearl-spotted Owlet, Greyp-capped Warbler, Red-chested Cuckoo, African Jacana, Red-faced Crombec, Malachite Kingfisher, Pink-backed Pelican, Buff-bellied Warbler, Variable Sunbird, Tropical Boubou, Yellow-billed Duck, Common Quail, Horus Swift, Lesser Moorhen, Eurasian Thick-knee, Wood sandpiper, African Skimmer, White stork, Long-tailed Cormorant, Squacco Heron, Osprey, African Grey Hornbill, Madagascar Bee-eater etc.
Day 10: Birding To Maasai Mara
After morning breakfast at the lodge, depart Naivasha for the famous Maasai Mara national reserve Enjoy the scenery and landscape of the Great Rift Valley as you drive and short birding stopovers. Be expectant for an amazing time of birding in the massive plains and riverine habitats.
Accommodation: Mara Serena Lodge
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, Dinner
Day 11 and 12: Birding in Maasai Mara
You will be having whole day birding of this reserve, leaving the lodge early morning with a packed lunch to maximize time in the field. Birds to seek out for include; Kori and Denham’s Bustard, Southern Ground Hornbill, Secretary Bird, Bateleur, Martial Eagle, White-throated Bee-eater, Fischer’s Sparrow-Lark, Trilling Cisiticola, Red-winged Francolins, Purple-breasted rollers, Lappet-faced Vulture, Abdim’s stork, Giant Kingfisher, Rosy-throated longclaw, Giant Kingfisher, Grey penduline tit, Yellow-throated sandgrouse, Silverbird, Schalow’s turaco, Woolly-necked stork etc.
Day 13: Birding to Nairobi
Today will be mostly driving to Nairobi with short stopovers of birding for species we will have missed the previous day. We shall have a short birding around the lodge as we drive out of the park.
Accommodation: The Boma Nairobi
Day 14: Departure
Short birding in Nairobi before proceeding to the AirPort depending on your departure flight time. You will have lunch before drop off at the airport for your departure flight back home.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch
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Why Book This Tour?
Tour can depart on any day of the week.
Tour can be customized
Transportation in Landcruiser or minivan with pop-up for game viewing
Suitable for solo travelers
Includes
- Accommodation during the safari
- Transport in 4×4 safari vehicle with a popup viewing roof
- Professional guides
- Park fees including taxes
- All activities included in the Itinerary
- Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Bottled Water
- Airport transfers
Excludes
- Expenses for optional activities
- Expenses for personal spending e.g. souvenir purchases, etc.
- Drinks (Alcoholic and soft drinks)
- Visa fees
- Tips or gratuities
- Travel insurance
How To Get There
The trip will start from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to Lake Nakuru National Park to Masai Mara National Reserve to Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area and you will be dropped off at your hotel in Kigali or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after the trip.
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