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If there is one country that is synonymous with wildlife safaris in Africa is has to be Kenya and our itinerary brings together two of the country’s most distinctive reserves, Samburu and the Maasai Mara.
Located in arid northern Kenya, the three reserves of Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba make up a combined area of over 235sq km of diverse terrain fed by the Ewaso Nyiro River. The patches of forest and doum palm dotting the landscape provide an ideal setting for exuberant primates, sombre hippo and sedate crocodile. Elephant families visit the river’s shallows to give themselves a shower or immerse themselves in the cool water, though Samburu’s real jewels are the species only seen north of the equator; grevy’s zebra, beisa oryx, reticulated giraffe and the long necked gerenuk gazelle as well as the Big 5 and other savannah game.
Justifiably one of the most famous reserves in Africa, Maasai Mara’s dominant feature are great rolling plains of savannah grasslands which sustain the greatest concentration of wildlife in Africa. Game viewing is excellent all year round with giraffe, buffalo, zebra, eland, hartebeest and Thompson’s gazelle offering a rich choice for the predators lion, leopard and cheetah but the concentration of game is at its highest from July through October when the Mara is host to the annual migration of more than a million wildebeest.
We have chosen our departure dates to coincide with the annual migration but it must be noted that the migration follows no fixed timetable and can vary by several weeks from one year to the next.
Kenya
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If there is one country that is synonymous with wildlife safaris in Africa is has to be Kenya and our itinerary brings together two of the country’s most distinctive reserves, Samburu and the Maasai Mara.
Located in arid northern Kenya, the three reserves of Samburu, Buffalo Springs and Shaba make up a combined area of over 235sq km of diverse terrain fed by the Ewaso Nyiro River. The patches of forest and doum palm dotting the landscape provide an ideal setting for exuberant primates, sombre hippo and sedate crocodile. Elephant families visit the river’s shallows to give themselves a shower or immerse themselves in the cool water, though Samburu’s real jewels are the species only seen north of the equator; grevy’s zebra, beisa oryx, reticulated giraffe and the long necked gerenuk gazelle as well as the Big 5 and other savannah game.
Justifiably one of the most famous reserves in Africa, Maasai Mara’s dominant feature are great rolling plains of savannah grasslands which sustain the greatest concentration of wildlife in Africa. Game viewing is excellent all year round with giraffe, buffalo, zebra, eland, hartebeest and Thompson’s gazelle offering a rich choice for the predators lion, leopard and cheetah but the concentration of game is at its highest from July through October when the Mara is host to the annual migration of more than a million wildebeest.
We have chosen our departure dates to coincide with the annual migration but it must be noted that the migration follows no fixed timetable and can vary by several weeks from one year to the next.
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