14-Day Kenya Wildlife Photo Tour

After breakfast and pre-tour briefing, the Kenya wildlife photo tour leaves for Samburu National Reserve to begin our Safari. Driving through the central highlands, which are comprised of small-scale farms and large tracks of pineapple and coffee plantations, we arrive at our lodge for lunch.

Game drive in the afternoon till 18:30 hrs.

We’ll spend the next 3 nights here, and the game drive should take us through the three famous national reserves, namely Samburu, Buffalo Springs & Shaba (George and Joy Adamson did live here).

Dinner & overnight at Samburu Game Lodge

Include species well restricted to the arid conditions and some to the north of the equator, such as Gravy’s Zebra, Somali Ostrich, and Reticulated Giraffe. Gerenuk among large herds of Elephants, Impalas, Bright’s and Eastern Thompson’s Gazelles, Desert Warthog, Beisa Oryx, Leopard, Lion, among the smaller mammals such as the Somali Dwarf Mongoose, Striped Ground Squirrel, and if you are patient enough, the Naked Mole Rat.

The comical-looking Vulturine Guineafowl is a species we hope not to miss. 

Overnight at Samburu simba Lodge

After an early morning breakfast, we drive through the reserve en route to Naro Moru. The lodge compound is great for birding and photography.

Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner

Overnight at Naro Moru River Lodge

After breakfast, take a short bird walk on the lodge compound. This may as well be a morning with sunbirds, which may include Collared, Northern Double-collared, Variable, Bronze, Tacazze, Green-headed, Amethyst, and Scarlet-chested. Lunch along the way before entering the park.

The park hosts a great variety of mammals, including the Lion, Leopard, Black Rhino & White Rhino, large herds of Cape Buffalo, Defassa waterbuck, among other herbivores. The lodge where we stay is located in the hills.

Overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge

Spend the day birding and photographing in the park. This is the only place we would see the Rothschild’s Giraffe. Among many different species of waterbirds

Overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge

After breakfast, we will take a morning game drive, and our Kenya wildlife photo tour leaves for the Maasai Mara National Reserve. We’ll spend our next 4 nights in the central part of the reserve, and not far from the banks of the Mara River in a luxurious tented camp.

Overnight at Matira Bush Camp

After breakfast, we will take a morning game drive, and our Kenya wildlife photo tour leaves for the Maasai Mara National Reserve. We’ll spend our next 4 nights in the central part of the reserve, and not far from the banks of the Mara River in a luxurious tented camp.

Overnight at Matira Bush Camp

Our Kenya wildlife photo tour leaves early with our picnic breakfast for a whole morning game drive before transferring to Nairobi

Overnight at Ole Sereni Hotel

Early morning transfer to Amboseli National Park, located on the leeward side of Africa’s highest mountain the Kilimanjaro on the Kenya/Tanzania border.

Overnight at Amboseli Serena safari Lodge

Morning and afternoon game drive in the park. Though a relatively dry, dusty, and mainly open area, it collects lots of underground water from Mt. Kilimanjaro, hence several springs of swampy habitats of papyrus that attract a huge concentration of wildlife, especially African Elephant, Eastern White-bearded Wildebeest, Common Zebra, Common Warthog, Masai Giraffe, Gerenuk, Impala, and Lesser Kudu with a variety of waterfowls. There’s also the open acacia woodland and Commiphora bushland around the park.

Overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge

After an early morning breakfast and a game drive, transfer to Nairobi. Kenya wildlife photo tour visits Giraffe Centre and a women-run Kazuri Beads Factory, and tours the factory as they make beads. In the evening, or depending on your international flight, we visit Carnivore Restaurant for dinner and transfer to the airport for your outbound flight.

Breakfast + Lunch + Dinner