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Lake Turkana Safaris, Lake Turkana
Expeditions, Lake Turkana Camping Safari, Jade Sea
The Greatest Turkana Expedition - 9 Days
Day 1: Nairobi – Lake Nakuru
After breakfast, leave your Hotel and drive via Lake
Bogoria with picnic lunch before you drive to Lake
Baringo camp site.
Day 2: Lake Baringo – Maralal – South Horr
After breakfast leave Baringo for Maralal with your
picnic lunch en route. Take a short walk in this
beautiful town before proceeding via Losiolo which is on
the edge of the Great Rift Valley to Baragoi for dinner
and overnight stay at South Horr campsite.
Day 3: South Horr – Lake Turkana
Depart from the campsite after breakfast to Lake Turkana
to arrive at El – Molo campsite for lunch, which is on
the shores of Lake Turkana. Rest of the day is spent at
leisure by the Jade Sea. Dinner and over night stay in
the camp.
Day 4: Lake Turkana
Visit the El Molo village after breakfast and get back
to the campsite for lunch. Rest in the afternoon and go
for fishing or swimming if crocodiles permit. Meals and
overnight in the camp.
Day 5: Turkana – Maralal
Leave Lake Turkana for Maralal with a picnic lunch en
route. Dinner and overnight in Maralal.
Day 6: Maralal
Drive to Suguta Valley observation point and later
descend to the bottom of the valley where you have trek
with Samburu guides to visit their villages and the
surrounding environs (4-5 hrs) and return to the camp
for dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Maralal – Samburu
After breakfast drive to Samburu National Reserve in the
northern side of Mount Kenya. Arrive at the camp and
thereafter proceed on an evening game drive. Meals and
overnight stay at the camp.
Day 8: Samburu
Full day spent in Samburu viewing animals like Elephant,
Giraffe, Zebra, Lion, Leopard, Gerenuk, Oryx and others
plus numerous bird species. Overnight in the camp.
Day 9: Samburu – Nairobi
After early morning game drive leave Samburu via Mt
Kenya to arrive in Nairobi in the evening.
Turkana via Chalbi Desert- 8 Days
This rugged 1,900 kilometer is usually done in a
purposely-built truck that takes you up into the heart
of the Northern Frontier District. You will traverse
along some of Africans most adventurous roads, see
beautiful mountain forest surround on all sides by hot
desert, eventually arriving in the Jade Sea (L.
Turkana). You will se great variety of tribes and cross
the Chalbi Desert if dry. During rains, it becomes an
enormous shallow lake.
Day 1: Nairobi –Samburu
Depart Nairobi in the morning heading north via the
shoulder of Mt. Kenya to Samburu Game Reserve.
Accommodation in our semi-permanent campsite beautifully
set under a canopy of trees or pitch tents on the Ewaso
Nyiro River.
Day 2: Samburu
Morning and afternoon game viewing in Samburu. Elephant
abound the park. You may also see Lion, Reticulated
Giraffe, Gerenuk, Grevy’s Zebra and the Beisa’s Oryx.
Dinner and overnight in your campsite.
Day 3: Samburu-Marsabit
We head north again along the Trans-African highway to
Marsabit, which is an extinct volcano heavily forested
on its upper slopes. After setting up camp, we will
visit the lodge inside the National park. You may see
Elephant, Buffalo and the Greater Kudu as the lodge is
situated on the edge of a water filled crater. We do not
go further into the park as thick forest hampers the
progress of large vehicles and viewing is difficult.
Day 4: Marsabit – Kalacha
We visit Marsabit town and another volcanic crater
before making our way back into the desert and lava
flows. We camp at Kalacha, a small settlement on the
edge of Chalbi desert.
Day 5: Kalacha – Lake Turkana
We depart early crossing the Chalbi Desert. The desert
cannot be crossed if wet but there are alternative roads
around the North and South. We arrive at our semi
permanent beach campsite just outside Loiyangalani soon
after lunch. Here we have our traditional Turkana huts
with a cool breeze blowing from the lake for use if
available otherwise we pitch tents in alternative
campsite. Indeed otherwise a perfect place to relax
protected from the searching sun and heat characteristic
of the harsh climate of this remote area.
Day 6: Lake Turkana
We spend the day relaxing and bathing only interrupted
by a short boat excursion to visit the surrounding
areas. In addition, we visit Loiyangalani and the
community settled there, while in the evening we may
visit one of the Turkana Manyattas for traditional
dances under a star studded sky at an extra cost if
clients wish.
Day 7: Lake Turkana – Maralal
We journey via South Horr and Baragoi to Maralal,
another forested area. The Samburu abound in their
red-ochre.
Day 8: Maralal – Nairobi
Heading south again via Laikipia plains and Thomson’s
Falls (Nyahururu) we drive back into Nairobi by mid
afternoon.
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