Experience 5 Days Nairobi to Lake Naivasha Friends Trip Package

Game Viewing Lodge 3

You will depart Nairobi for the Aberdares (3.5 hours), a park set in a mountain range with great views of Mount Kenya. There are many waterfalls and mist covered, lichen hung trees and you may see elephant, rhino and leopards here as well as long haired colobus monkeys and the mountain bongo if you are lucky. You will arrive at the Aberdares Country Club for lunch after which you will be transferred to The Ark - a game-viewing lodge, where you will stay for a night. The Ark offers a unique game viewing experience from the comfort of the lodge, with four viewing decks and a hide. Before dinner, the host gives an interactive talk about the local fauna and animals and dinner is served from 7.30 pm to 9 pm. Then continue to watch the wildlife and if you do want to go to bed, during the night the resident ranger stays on watch and will buzz your room if an interesting animal comes to the water hole!

Sopa Lodge 3

After breakfast you/’ll leave The Ark and the Aberdares and continue on to Samburu (3.5 hours) a place rich in wildlife with its rare Northern species; including the gerenuk, Beisa oryx and Somali ostrich. Samburu is a very scenic but lesser known park and is situated along the Ewaso Nyiro River that attracts wildlife in from the surrounding savannah plains. This is a semi-arid area and can become quite hot but the park is rich in wildlife and is home to a number of large predators including cheetah, lion and leopard. You will arrive in time for lunch and spend two nights at Sopa Lodge, where you can dine by a watering hole and watch the local wildlife amble in for an evening drink. Sopa Samburu is styled to match the Samburu villages and has 15 cottages positioned around a watering hole, it has a large lounge area and a swimming pool and is located within the park area

Sopa Lodge 3

The day will be spent exploring Samburu, with game drives in the morning and late afternoon. All meals at Sopa Lodge.

Sopa Resort 3

After breakfast, you/’ll leave Sweetwaters camp and take a short game drive through the park before heading to Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley, arriving in time for lunch at the Sopa Resort. The lodge is situated on the lake shore and has beautiful grounds with huge cactus, many acacia trees and you are likely to see colobus monkeys, bushbuck, zebra and giraffe wandering the grounds. The main building has an interior garden, fireplaces and low comfy leather sofas. The rooms themselves are spacious, Swahili style chalets either with a balcony or a glass fronted lounge area for relaxing and wildlife viewing. After lunch you/’ll take a boat safari across the lake where you may see hippos and many species of birds including fish eagles and pelicans and sometimes flamingoes. At the end of the boat safari you/’ll stop at Crescent Island for a guided bush walk before returning to the lodge for the evening where you can take a swim, have dinner and watch the hippos come up from the Lake to graze in Sopa/’s grounds.

After breakfast and a morning game drive, you/’ll head back to Nairobi (5.5 hours) with a picnic lunch. Alternatively, stay for lunch and fly back to Nairobi mid-afternoon (optional), you/’ll be picked up by one of our drivers from the local Nairobi airport and transferred to the international airport to connect with your flight