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A 5 nights/6 days journey combining two of Kenya’s most exciting properties in the Wild North: the elegant and luxurious Saruni Samburu and the rugged, authentic Saruni Rhino.
Suggested Itinerary Overview
| Accommodation | Destination | Nights | Basis | Room Type |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Boma Nairobi | Nairobi | 1 | HB | Superior Room |
| Saruni Samburu | Samburu National Reserve | 2 | FB | Luxury Villa |
| Saruni Rhino | Sera Community Conservancy | 2 | FB | Luxury Villa |
After arrival at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, we’ll be met by a Jumanji staff and driven to the Boma Hotel in Nairobi where we shall spend the night.
Meal Plan: Dinner
Accommodation: The Boma Hotel
Today early morning you will transfer you to Wilson Airport for your domestic flight to Samburu, arriving at Samburu an hour later, where your guide will meet you and transfer you to the lodge, or take you on a game drive.
Afternoon game drive in Kalama Conservancy exploring over 200,000 acres of pristine wilderness in total privacy and sundowners with a breathtaking view.
Prepare for a communal or private in-room dinner of delicious Italian-inspired dishes back at the lodge before heading to bed early in preparation for your early start.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Saruni Samburu
Early morning game drive and bush picnic breakfast in Samburu National Reserve to seek out the ‘Samburu Special Five’: the reticulated giraffe, the Grevy zebra, the beisa oryx, the Somali ostrich and the gerenuk, all rare species that occur only in this part of the country, and look for its well-known larger wildlife including elephants, lions and leopards.
Head back to the lodge for a light three-course lunch and to relax for the afternoon, enjoying a dip in our infinity pools and a complimentary half-hour Back & Neck massage at the Samburu Wellbeing Space.
Evening game drive in Kalama Conservancy ending with a bush dinner under the stars in the middle of the wilderness, and a night drive back to the lodge.
Enjoy Samburu warriors dancing, candles and fire under the vast African skies, make this a truly magical experience, and one of the highlights of your stay.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Saruni Samburu
Following a lie-in and a hearty breakfast, depart Saruni Samburu accompanied by our Samburu guides, driving two hours northwest to visit the Reteti Elephant Sanctuary in nearby Namunyak Conservancy (visit payable & bookable in advance).
Arrive in time for the noontime feeding session of the elephants and other animals in residence. Learn all about their special milk formulas, ask the elephant keepers your questions and watch with joy as the hungry ellies come racing out for their bottles!
After some further observation time as the ellies play, bathe and go about their day, head towards Saruni Rhino, a 2-hour’s drive away in Sera Conservancy, stopping in a picturesque spot for a picnic lunch on the way.
Arrive in camp, or head straight to the Rhino Sanctuary to start your exhilarating on-foot tracking adventure taking place late afternoon as the temperature lowers. Drive to within a short distance of the endangered black rhino, leaving the vehicle on foot to track the rhino in the safety of a guide and a ranger. Communication between rangers allow you to track as many rhinos as possible in the allotted time.
After an exhilarating, ‘up close and personal experience, game drive back to camp where a lantern-lit bush dinner awaits you in the idyllic setting of the dry riverbed, as the night sounds reverberate around you.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Saruni Rhino
Leave early morning with a picnic breakfast on a game drive to the nearby Fifty Wells (Kisima Hamsini) or the Singing Wells, where you will witness Samburu pastoralists watering and singing their uniquely recognised songs to their livestock at a series of natural wells, bringing water up from the depths as they have done for centuries. (Wells are seasonal).
Birders and non-birders alike will delight in the incredible spectacle that is thousands upon thousands of sand grouse dipping to take water in the natural wells and waterholes throughout Sera Conservancy, a truly astounding sight and sound show.
Return to camp and enjoy a refreshing dip in the cooling waters of the natural rock infinity pool overlooking the dry riverbed surrounded by swaying doum palms as monkeys chirrup and play along. Enjoy lunch in the shade of Swara House, with breath-taking views of a waterhole frequently visited by herds of elephants and other wildlife and birdlife.
Relax after lunch in the cool of your stone cottage (‘banda)’ reclining on your very own beach clubstyle, sandy verandah watching the waterhole. For the adventurous thrill-seekers embark on a 2nd round of rhino tracking by returning to the Sanctuary to re-live the experience.
Bush ‘lugga’ dinner under the star-lit African skies before heading to bed for your last night in the remote wilderness of Kenya’s northern frontier.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Saruni Rhino
Following breakfast in camp, or equipped with a picnic breakfast, leave early morning from Saruni Rhino for your departing onward flight to the Mara or back to Nairobi.
On the drive back to Kalama, enjoy one last time the incredible wildlife which call this immense community-owned and run conservancy home.
Exact time dependent on time of departing flight from Kalama or Oryx airstrip.
Note:
A subscription to a medical evacuation insurance policy is available from AMREF flying doctors at US $18 per person for up to 2 (Two) emergency medical evacuations valid for 30 days. To subscribe, each traveler must possess a valid travel insurance policy. Terms and conditions apply.
The management of Jumanji Africa Safaris Ltd reserves the right to find alternative accommodation in the same class as earlier booked by the client should the need arise. This however will be done in consultation with the client.
