2 Day Rift Valley Birding Safari Naivasha Nakuru Baringo Bogoria

Nairobi pick up starts at 6:30 AM.

Pick up 6:30 AM and drive to lake Naivasha, a peaceful freshwater lake fringed by papyrus and fever-tree forests. Naivasha offers superb close-up birding and light walking safaris among free-roaming wildlife. For your first two activities;

Boat Ride: Excellent for waterbirds, hippos, and fish eagles.

Crescent Island Nature Walk: Close-range viewing of plains game and ground birds.

Bird Highlights:

• African Fish Eagle (fish-hunting displays)
• Goliath Heron
• Pied, Giant & Malachite Kingfishers
• African Jacana
• Red-knobbed Coot
• Great & Long-tailed Cormorants
• Numerous waders and marsh species

Wildlife Highlights:

• Hippos (seen during the boat ride)
• Giraffes, zebras & impalas on Crescent Island
• Waterbuck & wildebeest (depending on movement)

After lake Naivasha, you will drive to Nakuru for lunch

One of Kenya’s most diverse parks. The lake attracts flamingos while the woodlands and grasslands support large mammals and birds of prey. Here you will enjoy a late afternoon to evening Birding & wildlife game drive through lakeshore, forest, and open savannah habitats

Bird Highlights:

• Lesser & Greater Flamingos
• Great White Pelican (often in hundreds)
• Yellow-billed & Marabou Storks
• Black-winged Stilt
• Grey Crowned Crane
• Hamerkop
• Eagles: Martial, Verreaux’s, Tawny
• Woodland species: Rüppell’s Robin-chat, Bearded Scrub Robin

Wildlife Highlights:

• White & Black Rhinos (top highlights)
• Rothschild Giraffes
• Lions & leopards (occasionally spotted)
• Buffalos, zebras, impalas & elands
• Waterbucks and warthogs throughout the park

Overnight at Nakuru

Depart Nakuru at 6:00AM and Drive to Lake Baringo, an ornithologist’s paradise with over 450 bird species, plus impressive reptile life and unique arid-land species. Here you will enjoy a boat ride in search of crocodiles, hippos, and birdlife.

Bird Highlights:

• Hemprich’s & Jackson’s Hornbills
• Goliath Heron
• Pygmy Falcon
• Bristle-crowned Starling
• White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
• Verreaux’s Eagle (near cliffs)
• African Skimmer (occasional)

Wildlife Highlights:

• Nile crocodiles
• Hippos
• Rock hyrax (around cliffs)
• Monitor lizards
• Occasional sightings of gazelles and camels in surrounding dry lands

Drive from Baringo to Bogoria, the drive takes roughly one & a half hours. Bogoria is adramatic semi-desert landscape famous for its hot springs and massive gatherings of Lesser Flamingos, sometimes numbering in the millions. Here, you will enjoy a Birding game drive and a short walk around the hot springs area (with caution)

Bird Highlights:

• Huge concentrations of Lesser Flamingos
• Greater Flamingos (mixed flocks)
• Pied Avocet
• Black-necked & Little Grebes
• Cape Teal
• African Spoonbill
• Chestnut-banded Plover

Wildlife Highlights:

• Greater kudu (in the surrounding hills)
• Dik-diks along the dusty trails
• Warthogs
• Small mammals adapted to arid habitat
• Spectacular geothermal features (geysers, hot springs)

Depart Lake Bogoria with a break for lunch arriving in Nairobi between 6 & 7PM