Wings of KenyaTrails - 12 Days

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Overview

Itinerary

Cost

Overview

Birds of Kenya offer ample opportunities for sightings for the novice bird-watcher and it is quite manageable to log over 300 species in a two weeks period – without a specialist bird guide.

If you would like to see and experience the rarest and shyest one’s, than the watchful & knowledgeable eye of a Bird-Expert may be advisable and worth every penny!

In the same two weeks you might encounter 600-700 species that way.

Kenya, after the Congo, has the second-highest record of birds in Africa at around 1070 species.

To put this in perspective; North America has about 600 and Great Britain 300.

It is one thing to see wildlife documentaries, but an entirely different experience and such a thrill to glimpse a colorful bee-eater, spot the fabulous sunbirds in all their glory, observe rollers and shrikes swoop from perches to catch insects, the impressive looking storks or the ever watchful vultures circling above looking out for a kill.

Kenya has a wide variety of habitats across the country, and is in most places easily accessible, making it a paradise and highly rewarding place for bird-watching. The different areas also help supply this fascinating part of the world with the most diverse bird list.

Itinerary

Day 1
Nairobi -Arrival

Arrival at Jomo Kenyatta Airport met and assisted by our representative. Transfer to your Nairobi hotel. Afternoon visit to the Nairobi national Museum just next to Nairobi river for your first count of Kenyan birds.Holubs Golden Weaver. Thrush, the black Kite, and Northern pied Babbler and many more different bird species. Meals and overnight at your City hotel.

MEAL PLAN

Dinner – Golden Tulip Hotel Nairobi

OVERNIGHT

Golden Tulip Hotel Nairobi

Day 2
Nairobi - Naro Moru

Early morning breakfast and pick- up for your trip heading to the north with a stop at the seasonal Karatina swamp covered with water hyacinth and reeds. You will have a view of the Sacreds and adadas ibis, African paradise flycatchers, African Jacana on the wide hyacinth leaves, white-faced whistling Duck, and many more species.

Proceed to Naromoru river lodge arriving for lunch and check-in at the cottages facing the gentle flowing Naromoru river a bird’s paradise.

Afternoon will be a walk along the river for a such of the resident birds including the Sunbirds, Giant kingfisher,Chinspot Batis,African green pigeon etc.

Meals and overnight at the lodge.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Golden Tulip Hotel Nairobi

Lunch – Naromoru River lodge

Dinner – Naromoru River lodge

OVERNIGHT

Naromoru River lodge

Day 3
NARO MORU - SAMBURU

Early morning Walk with backyard swooping, chirping and singing bird calls and songs .Return to the camp for breakfast then checkout and drive north via Nanyuki and Mt Kenya to the Samburu National Reserve with a unique landscapes and open savannahs, scrub desert and vegetation which makes it almost guaranteed encounter with top 380+ bird species. A home for all. Arrive in time for lunch and check-in.

Afternoon gave drive to meeting the Shining Sunbird, Verreaux’s Eagle, Golden-breasted Starling, Eastern Yellow- billed Hornbill, Von der Decken’s Hornbill, Black-faced Sand grouse, Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse, Golden-breasted Starling, Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Rosy-patched Bushshrike, Pringle’s Puffback, Northern Puffback, Northern White-crowned Shrike, White-headed Mousebird, Hunter’s Sunbird, Black-bellied Sunbird, Shining Sunbird, Red-billed Hornbill, countless.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Naro moru River lodge

Lunch – Ashnil Samburu camp

Dinner – Ashnil Samburu camp

OVERNIGHT

Ashnil Samburu camp

Day 4
SAMBURU NATIONAL PARK

Early morning game drive along Ewaso Nyiro river banks to view different early bird species.Return to the camp for breakfast.

Whole day spend in search for birds including the Fire-fronted Bishop, Buff-crested Bustard, African Bare-eyed Thrush, Somali Sparrow, Donaldson-Smith’s Nightjar, Dusky Nightjar, Vulturine Guineafowl, Rufous Chatterer, African Mourning Dove, European Turtle Dove, Egyptian Vulture, Bateleur, Martial Eagle and Tawny Eagle.

Somali Bee-eater, Stone Partridge, African Orange-bellied Parrot, Yellow-vented Eremomela, Northern Crombec, Northern Grey Tit, Black-capped Social Weaver, Northern Brownbul,ETC

Meals and overnight at the camp.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Ashnil Samburu camp e

Lunch – Ashnil Samburu camp

Dinner – Ashnil Samburu camp

OVERNIGHT

Ashnil Samburu camp

Day 5
SAMBURU – MT KENYA

After early morning breakfast, leave your lodge and proceed Mount Kenya for the lovers of the highland species like the Pin-tailed whydas, Hartlaub’s Turacos and Olive.

Arrive At the mountain lodge for lunch and check-in. Afternoon will be a walk in the mountain forest in search for the Eastern Bronze-naped pegion, crowned canary, Scaly Francolin, Pternistis squamous count them.

Meals and overnight at the camp.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Ashnil Samburu camp

Lunch – Serena mountain lodge

Dinner – Serena mountain lodge

OVERNIGHT

Serena mountain lodge

Day 6
MT KENYA - NAKURU

Morning Breakfast and checkout. Drive to lake Nakuru which is famous for the hundreds of greater and lesser flamingoes that literally paint the lake Pink; other notable species including the great white and pink-backed pelicans and stilt. Lunch will be at your town hotel.

Afternoon visit to the lake Nakuru National park with plenty of birds including, storks, ibises, Terns, white-browned coucal in the wooded acacias arrow-marked babbler and the trogon.

Late evening exit the park and return to your town hotel.

Meals and overnight at your hotel.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Serena Mountain lodge

Lunch – Sarova woodland

Dinner – Sarova wood land

OVERNIGHT

Sarova woodland

Day 7
NAKURU – BARINGO – NAKURU

Early morning Breakfast. Drive with lunch boxes to lake Baringo a fresh water lake with dry climate and with over 400 species of birds.

You will have time to walk around the Scrubland and cliffs surrounding the lake and enjoy a boat ride in search for the water birds.

Afternoon drive south to Lake Bogoria National Reserve with Lake Bogoria a volcanic soda lake, where the hot springs are a local attraction. it’s also an attraction to birdlife found in huge quantities, especially the Lesser Flamingos,

Other birds include the Hunters and the violet- backed with the nightjars common in the lake shores.

Late evening return to lake Nakuru for your dinner and overnight.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Sarova Woodland

Lunch – Sarova Woodland

Dinner – Sarova Woodland

OVERNIGHT

Sarova Woodland

Day 8
NAKURU –KAKAMEGA

Early Breakfast at the Hotel, check out and drive to Kakamega forest arriving for late lunch at you resort.

Kakamega forest is a virgin tropical rainforest and home for a wide range of bird species.

Arrive and checkin. Late afternoon spend on bird viewing including the black- and-white casqued Hornbill, red headed bluebill, mackinnons shrike and many more.

Meals and overnight at the Rondo retreat resort.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Sarova Woodland

Lunch – Rondo Retreat resort

Dinner – Rondo Retreat resort

OVERNIGHT

Rondo Retreat resort

Day 9
KAKAMEGA

Breakfast at the resort. Day spend birding in the Kenya’s last remaining pristine Ancient Forests,

Meals and overnight at the Rondo retreat resort

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Rondo Retreat Resort

Lunch – Rondo Retreat resort

Dinner – Rondo Retreat resort

OVERNIGHT

Rondo Retreat resort
Day 10MAASAI MARA NATIONAL PARK

Day 10
MAASAI MARA NATIONAL PARK

Breakfast at the resort. Early breakfast and checkout and head to Masai mara National park.The Iden Gem of wildlife and over 450 species of birdlife.

Expected species includes the Ground hornbill, common Ostrich,Vultures in action with a kill,Lilac Breasted rollers, Egyptians,Griffons,Bustards,Secretary bird,Tawny and the Snake Eagles not to miss the pale chanting Goshawk and countless more.

Meals and overnight at your camp.

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Rondo Retreat.

Lunch – Ashnil Mara Lodge/ Similar

Dinner – Ashnil Mara Lodge/ Similar

OVERNIGHT

Ashnil Mara Lodge/ Similar

Day 11
MAASAI MARA

Breakfast. Full day spend in game drive along the Mara river.

Other species will include. The Schawlow’s, crested guide fowls, different species of weavers, sterling not to miss the Fishing owl and countless more.

Meals and overnight at your camp or lodge..

MEAL PLAN

Breakfast – Ashnil Mara Lodge/ Similar

Lunch – Ashnil Mara Lodge/ Similar

Dinner – Ashnil Mara Lodge/ Similar

OVERNIGHT

Ashnil Mara Lodge/ Similar

Day 12
NAIROBI - DEPART

Early morning game drive. Return to the camp for breakfast. After breakfast drive to Nairobi, Kenya’s colorful capital city with a stop at the rift valley view point.

Proceed to Nairobi. Lunch on own arrangement. Later transfer to you’re the airport for your flight out.

Includes/Excludes

Includes

  • Arrival + Departure Transfers
  • Accommodation as per Itinerary
  • Park Fee
  • All meals as per itinerary
  • All game drives as per itinerary
  • Transport in a 4x4 lodge vehicle with Services of a qualified English Speaking Driver Guide
  • 1 Litre bottle of mineral water per person per day
  • Flying doctors evacuation service

Cost Excludes

  • All International Flights + Taxes + Local Flight
  • Visas
  • Travel & Personal accident insurance
  • Tips & personal expenses such as telephone calls…etc.
  • Excursions not detailed in above program

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Trip Facts

  • Birds of Kenya
    Abyssinian Crimsonwing,
    Abyssinian Ground Thrush,
    Abyssinian Ground Thrush,
    African Black Duck,
    African Blue Flycatcher,
    African Broadbill,
    African Cuckoo,
    African Green Pigeon,
    African Harrier Hawk,
    African Marsh Harrier,
    African Orange- bellied Parrot,
    African Snipe,
    African Yellow White-eye,
    Allen's Gallinule,
    Angola Swallow,
    Bare-faced Go-away-bird,
    Bateleur,
    Beautiful Sunbird,
    Black Cuckoo,
    Black-and-white Mannikin and Spot-flanked Barbet,
    Black-and-white-Casqued Hornbill,
    Black-billed Barbet,
    Black-billed Weaver,
    Black-collared Apalis,
    Black-crowned Night-Heron,
    Black-crowned Waxbill,
    Black-faced Rufous Warbler,
    Black-headed Waxbill,
    Black-headed Waxbill,
    Black-tailed Godwit,
    Black-throated Barbet,
    Blacksmith Plover,
    Blue-capped Cordon-bleu,
    Blue-headed Bee-eater,
    Bocage's Bush-Shrike,
    Bristle-crowned Starling,
    Bronze-tailed Starling,
    Brown Woodland Warbler,
    Brown- tailed Rock Chat,
    Brubru,
    Buff-throated Apalis,
    Cape Eagle-owl,
    Cape Teal.
    Cape Wagtail,
    Chapin's Flycatcher,
    Chapin's Flycatcher,
    Chestnut-bellied Shikra,
    Chestnut-crowned Sparrow-weaver and Green-backed Eremomela,
    Chubb's Cisticola and Hartlaub's Marsh Widowbird,
    Collared Pratincole,
    Common Teal,
    Common Wattle-eye,
    Coqui Francolin,
    Crowned Eagle,
    Crowned Eagle,
    D'Arnaud's Barbet,
    Dark Chanting-Goshawk,
    Doherty's Bush-Shrike,
    Double-toothed Barbet,
    Dusky Nightjar,
    Dusky Tit,
    Eastern Bronze-naped Pigeon and Oriole Finch,
    Eastern Double-collared Sunbird,
    Eastern Double-collared Sunbird,
    Eastern Grey Plantain-eater,
    Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill,
    Egyptian Vulture,
    Equatorial Akalat,
    Familiar Chat,
    Ferruginous Duck,
    Fulvous Whistling Duck,
    Gambaga Flycatcher,
    Gambaga Flycatcher,
    Garganey, Knob-billed Duck,
    Greater Swamp Warbler,
    Green Hylia,
    Green-throated Sunbird,
    Grey-crested Helmetshrike,
    Grey-crested Helmetshrike,
    Grey-headed Bushshrike,
    Grey-headed Gull,
    Grey-winged Robin,
    Griffon Vulture,
    Hairy-breasted Barbet,
    Hartlaub's Turaco,
    Hartlaub's Turaco,
    Hemprich's Hornbill,
    Heuglin's Courser,
    Heuglin's Masked Weaver,
    Hildebrandt's Francolin,
    Hunter's Cisticola,
    Hunter's Cisticola,
    Hunter's Sunbird,
    Jackson's Francolin,
    Jackson's Francolin,
    Jackson's Golden- backed Weaver,
    Jackson's Hornbill,
    Jameson's Wattle-eye,
    Lammergeier Eagle,
    Lesser Blue-eared Starling,
    Lesser Jacana,
    Lesser Swamp Warbler,
    Levaillant's Cisticola,
    Long-tailed Widowbird,
    Luhder's Bush- Shrike,
    Maccoa Duck,
    Mackinnon's Fiscal,
    Martial Eagle and Tawny Eagle,
    Meyer's Parrots,
    Mocking Cliff-Chat,
    Montane White-eye,
    Montane White-eye,
    Montane White-eye,
    Moorland Chat,
    Moorland Chat,
    Moorland Francolin,
    Moorland Francolin,
    Mottled Swift,
    Mountain Buzzard,
    Mountain Illadopsis,
    Mountain Wagtail,
    Northern Brown- throated Weaver,
    Northern Masked Weaver,
    Northern Pintail,
    Northern Puffback,
    Northern Red Bishop,
    Northern Shoveler,
    Nyanza Swift Mottled Swifts,
    Olive Pigeon,
    Olive-Green Camaroptera,
    Ospey,
    Pale Flycatcher,
    Papyrus Canary,
    Papyrus Gonolek,
    Papyrus Yellow Warbler,
    Pennant-winged Nightjar,
    Peregrine Falcon and Crowned Hornbill,
    Pied Avocet,
    Pink- backed Pelican,
    Red- fronted Parrot,
    Red-chested Flufftail,
    Red-chested Sunbird,
    Red-fronted Parrot,
    Red-headed Bluebill,
    Red-necked Spurfowl,
    Red-winged Francolin,
    Reed Cormorant,
    Rosy-breasted Longclaw,
    Rufous Chatterer,
    Rufous-bellied Heron,
    Ruppel's Vulture,
    Ruppell's Vulture,
    Sandgrouse,
    Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird,
    Scarlet-tufted Malachite Sunbird,
    Schalow's Turaco,
    Secretarybird,
    Sharpe's Longclaw, Jackson's Widowbird,
    Shining Sunbird,
    Slender-billed Starling,
    Slender-billed Starling,
    Slender-billed Starling,
    Slender-billed Weaver,
    Slender-tailed Nightjar,
    Snowy-headed Robin-Chat,
    Somali Bee-eater,
    Somali Courser,
    Somali Ostrich,
    Sooty Chat,
    Square-tailed Nightjar,
    Stone Partridge,
    Stuhlman's Starling,
    Swamp Flycatcher and Carruther's Cisticola,
    Tacazze Sunbird,
    Temminck's Courser,
    The 120m-high cliffs,
    Thick-billed Honeyguide,
    Turner's Eremomela,
    Uganda Woodland Warbler,
    Verreaux's Eagle,
    Verreaux's Eagle,
    Vieillot's Black Weaver,
    Vulturine Guineafowl,
    Waller's Starling,
    Waller's Starling,
    Whiskered Tern,
    White-billed Buffalo-Weaver,
    White-breasted Negrofinch,
    White-chinned Prinia,
    White-headed Mousebird,
    White-headed Vulture,
    White-naped Raven and Ross's Turaco,
    White-naped Raven Ross's Turaco,
    White-spotted Flufftail,
    White-tailed Ant-Thrush,
    White-winged (Black) Tern,
    Yellow-bellied Hyliota,
    Yellow-bellied Hyliota,
    Yellow-bellied Wattle-eye,
    Yellow-billed Hornbill,
    Yellow-billed Shrike,
    Yellow-crested Woodpecker,
    Yellow-fronted Canary,
    Yellow-mantled Widowbird,
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