3 Days Samburu Wildlife Safari Kenya Cultural Tour

Transfer from Nairobi and Afternoon Game Drive

Your adventure begins with leaving your hotel after an early breakfast at 8:30 am. You have a 2 hours’ drive to the first stop at Karatina open Market. This stop brings you face to face with East Africa’s largest open air retail outlet which majorly known for a variety of goods, ranging from fresh fruits and vegetables, Kiondos, (baskets made from sisal), all types of cereals, and many other market goods with stalls that can hold up to 3,000 traders.

You will spend 30 minutes at this stop to get a feel of the local market activities before embarking on a 1-hour drive to Nanyuki town for Lunch at Ibis Hotel. Thereafter, you will yet have another 1-hour drive to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy.

This is the home to amazing wildlife where a 2-hour game drive will give you an opportunity to see the Rhinos, Gravy’s zebras, elephants and many other animals. You will then switch to one and half hours drive to Samburu National Reserve, reaching in time for your check-in, dinner and overnight stay

Accommodation

Luxury: Samburu Game Lodge

Midrange: Ashnil Samburu Camp

Budget: Samburu Riverside Camp

Morning Game Drive and Samburu Village Tour

Your day starts with an early breakfast at the camp 7:00 am, you will leave for an extensive game drive in the reserve. The park exploration will bring you close to the wildlife including leopards, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, antelopes, etc. Samburu’s diverse wildlife tend to cluster close together near the life-giving Ewaso Ng’iro river which meanders through the reserve, leaving a trail of lush pastures for the reserve’s thousands of wild game species.

After 3-hour game drive, you will head back to your camp for a snack and thereafter a cultural tour experience at Samburu village where you will interact with and learn about the fascinating local people in this area.

The cattle, goat and camel-herding Samburu people are closely related to the Masai and they also wear similar traditional dress of blankets and beads and maintain a very similar lifestyle. You will discover more about their nomadic way of life, and participate in the numerous activities that define a typical Samburu homestead.

These include goading cattle into pens, making traditional ornaments and milking goats. The activities at this stop last for 2 hours, after which you will return to the camp in time for your dinner and overnight stay.

Accommodation

Luxury: Samburu Game Lodge

Midrange: Ashnil Samburu Camp

Budget: Samburu Riverside Camp

 Samburu -Nairobi

On your last day, you have breakfast at the camp and prepare for your departure at 8:30 am by road en route to Nairobi. You will branch off at Nanyuki sports club for lunch and thereafter drive to Nairobi for overnight stay at your hotel or airport for your flight back home