Samburu Intrepids, Samburu National Park

Mara Intrepids, Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Norfolk Hotel, Nairobi

Lion Hill Lodge, Lake Nakuru National Park

Panari Hotel, Nairobi

Ol Pejeta Ranch House, Laikipia Plains

• Our Deeper Kenya safari offers the scope, breadth, and quality which have made Kenyan safaris famous. Wildlife viewing is in four of Kenya’s premier wildlife viewing areas at a pace that allows for contemplation and the ability to savor these special, wilderness areas. Your private Deeper Africa Land Cruiser and private Deeper Africa naturalist guide ensure that your wildlife viewing is premier and without the crowds other tourists encounter.
• Samburu National Reserve offers shelter to 66 known elephant family matriarchal groups and approximately 100 bulls, numbering about 750 elephants. Two thousand elephants undertake a seasonal migration from the Laikipia plains northward into the rangelands of Samburu, Buffalo Springs, and the Shaba reserves. Seven hundred and fifty of those elephants consider Samburu their home range, with the remainder of the elephants spread out over the larger northern reserve lands. Electronically tagged elephants are monitored as they migrate across the Laikipia plains, research made famous by well known conservationist, Iain Douglas Hamilton. Because of Dr. Douglas Hamilton’s research elephant migration corridors are better mapped and the human to elephant conflicts are better understood. The elephant viewing in Samburu is spectacular, but the truly amazing thing about the Samburu area is the ecosystem differentiation which brings unique species for observation including Grevy zebra, reticulated giraffe, gerenuk antelope, oryx antelope, and somali ostrich. Predators, including leopard, are plentiful and there are good opportunities for viewing.
• The Ol Pejeta Conservancy, a 90,000 acre wildlife reserve, is part of the vast Laikipia Plateau. Traditionally, this area was cattle ranching country in Kenya, but more and more, the old cattle ranchers and the traditional Kenyan Samburu people in the northern rangelands are investing in conservation and tourism. Because of these efforts wildlife populations through out the Laikipia area have increased and profit is being derived from wildlife tourism with reinvestment into local community development. About one quarter of the reserve is given over to the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa with successful translocations into other Kenyan national parks. Your visit to Ol Pejeta includes very good big five wildlife viewing, including black rhino, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and lion. You’ll also visit Jane Goodall’s Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, which is located with the Conservancy. Sweetwaters provides sanctuary and housing to three groups of chimpanzees orphaned at a young age by the bush-meat trade. The objective of the sanctuary is to provide a safe, secure, and permanent refuge for the chimps in an environment that is as natural as possible. The destruction of the West African rainforest and continued demand for bush-meat compels Sweetwaters to continue accepting new orphaned and abused chimps. The sanctuary now holds 40 chimpanzees with a staff of 16 staff that care for them day and night.


• Nakuru is a small, beautiful park with ecosystems that include an acacia forest, woodlands, and a famous soda lake that draws flocks of greater and lesser flamingos. Nakuru is full of wildlife and you have the opportunity for sightings of giraffe, rhino, buffalo, zebra, and many antelope species including waterbuck, eland, reedbuck, dik dik, impala, as well as Thomson and Grant gazelles.
• Visit the the northern section of the Serengeti ecosystem, the Maasai Mara. The vast savannah grassland of the Serengeti extends for over five thousand square miles into Tanzania, forming one of the world’s largest wildlife refuges. Herds of animals follow the seasonal rains traveling from the Serengeti into the Mara, sometimes migrating as much as 300 miles a year. The Mara is the most famous reserve in Kenya with open plains, teeming with vast numbers of game. During the months of July to December the spectacle of the migration unfolds as a million and a half wildebeest and zebra move across the vast open plains. The rest of the year is never dull either with large resident populations of plains game including Thomson and Grant Gazelle, hartebeest, topi, eland, waterbuck, and impala. Elephants are plentiful and it is common to see hippos and croc idles basking in the rivers. It is the superabundance of prey in the Mara that accounts for the Mara’s big predator populations. At last count there were 22 lion prides in the Mara. As well, the Mara savannahs with their open country and grasslands support a healthy cheetah population. Cheetahs face increasing pressure from humans and land encroachment – with between 9,000 to 12,000 left in the world. You’ll be scouting for cheetah in one of the two remaining cheetah strongholds in the world: the Mara/Serengeti ecosystem.
  

Schedule as you wish mid-June through the end of October and December through March.
Arrival and departure out of Nairobi, Kenya.
Prices do not include international air travel.
All itineraries and prices are subject to change.