3 Days Birdwatching Safari

Open sandstone expanses await visitors to Hell’s Gate National Park from Nairobi. After hotel pickup, head to Hell’s Gate National Park for your choice of a safari drive, or bike ride, followed by a hike, visit to Maasai community, boat ride and optional boat ride on Lake Naivasha. Tour concludes with drop-offs too.

Open sandstone expanses await visitors to Hell’s Gate National Park from Nairobi. After hotel pickup, head to Hell’s Gate National Park for your choice of a safari drive, or bike ride, followed by a hike, visit to Maasai community, boat ride and optional boat ride on Lake Naivasha. Tour concludes with drop-offs too.

Itinerary

Day 1: Nairobi – Lake Nakuru National Park

Stop At: Lake Nakuru National Park, Lake Nakuru National Park, Rift Valley Province
Our driver will pick you at 7:00 AM and proceed to Lake Nakuru National park which is a small (it varies from 5 to 30 square kilometers) shallow alkaline lake on the edge of the town of Nakuru lies about 160 kilometers north of Nairobi. The lake is world famous as the location of the greatest bird spectacle on earth – myriads of fuschia pink flamingos whose numbers are legion, often more than a million maybe two. The park now has more than 25 rhinos, one of the largest concentrations in the country, so the chances of spotting these survivors are good. There are also a number of Rothschild’s giraffe, again translocated for safety from western Kenya beginning in 1977. Waterbuck are very common and both the Kenya species are found here. Among the predators are lion and leopard, the latter being seen much more frequently in recent times
Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Budget: Lanet Matfam Resort or similar
Luxury: Sarova Woodlands Hotel or similar

Day 2: Lake Nakuru – Lake Bogoria

Stop At: Lake Bogoria, Kenya
Have an early morning breakfast and proceed to Lake Bogoria where you will get to see the beautiful flamingos at the lake and have a good viewing of them.The Lake is renowned as a bird sanctuary with over 400 bird species at times, there can be up to two million greater and lesser flamingos and tens of thousands of other birds hence the park is referred to as the ‘Birds Paradise’.
Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Budget: Lanet Matfam Resort or similar
Luxury: Sarova Woodlands Hotel or similar

Day 3: Lake Bogoria – Lake Naivasha – Nairobi

Stop At: Lake Naivasha, Naivasha Road Nakuru County Kenya
Early Morning you will have breakfast the head to Hells Gate National park arrive at 9:30am. Once at the Park, you have the option of a game drive in a Safari vehicle or take bikes into the Park. Cycling in the Park is a great adventure as you get to ride the bikes for 7 Kilometers before resting at a ranger’s post. After a brief stop at the rangers post you leave the bike and start a walking safari. Enjoy the spectacular views of the gorge. Continue on foot into the park’s distinctive gorges, where narrow passageways and caves are sunk into sedimentary rock. After a 1-hour walk, stop by a local Maasai community to learn about traditional life and customs in the Great Rift Valley, then head to Lake Naivasha for a boat ride and another session of bird-watching then later head back to Nairobi
Duration: 10 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
No accommodation included on this day.