8 Days Sky Safari Kenya Connoiseur
At a glance
An 8 days safari with more than a hint of adventure - from the rugged and beautiful wilds of Meru National Park, to the rolling plains of Loisaba Conservancy and its offering of exciting safari activities, to the spectacle of nature’s greatest theatre, the Masai Mara National Reserve.
Detailed trip itinerary
Day 1: Nairobi, Hemingways Hotel (Halfboard)
Welcome to Kenya! You shall arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where upon arrival, you will be welcomed and met by your SkySafari representative and chauffeured to your hotel in Nairobi.
Your 1 night stay at Hemingways Nairobi is on half board basis and drinks (excluding premium drinks).
- 45 high-ceilinged suites, 43 Junior Suites
- Excuisite Dining & Bar Lounge
- Serenity Spa & Treatments
- Conference Facilities and Meeting Rooms
- Swimming Pool
- VIP Transfers
This 45-suite boutique hotel elevates the standard of luxury for travellers in the region. Beautiful in its symmetry and flooded with natural light, this plantation-style property is airy and spacious. Each of our 80m² suites have a private balcony overlooking the iconic silhouette of the Ngong Hills, a magical view which can also be enjoyed over sundowners at the Bar.
Lofty, expansive rooms with vast, bright en-suite bathrooms and large private terraces are characteristic of the hotel’s wonderful sense of space and use of natural light. There are 45 high-ceilinged suites, two of which are penthouse style Presidential Suites and 43 Junior Suites culminating in vaulted beams. Muted colors and textured fabrics in ecru and taupe create an ambiance of contemporary-chic while subtle touches of brass, mahogany and leather bear reference to the classic elegance of vintage East Travel Styles Beyond the balustrade of your private balcony, we’ve chosen for you a view of The Green Hills of Africa, as described in Hemingway’s novel. Each of our Suites is named after a famous person or place associated with Kenya, travel, writing and exploring.
Savour dishes for every appetite at Hemingways Nairobi – hearty breakfasts with pastries and bread, freshly baked in our bakery every day, traditional English afternoon teas with delicious scones and classic finger sandwiches, our special In-House made pasta and our signature Josper oven – an indoor barbeque to produce the finest steaks. We offer light bites to be enjoyed in the bar, on the terrace or at the pool and our 24 hour in room dining service offers guests the chance to relax in their suite in complete privacy.
Our Executive Chef focuses on simply cooked free-range products using the freshest ingredients sourced directly from Kenyan farms. Throughout your stay at Hemingways Nairobi, our chefs are at your service so if you can’t find what you are looking for on any of our menus nothing is too much trouble to prepare.
Day 2: Meru National Park, Elsa Kopje (Fullboard)
Breakfast at Hemingways Nairobi. Check-out and transfer to Wilson Airport Nairobi, gateway to the flying safaris in Kenya. Time to board the SkySafari Executive Grand Caravan. Your SkySafari will now take to the Air! The plane will take you to Meru National Park located in the region of Mount Kenya. The Elsa’s Kopje Team will welcome you and you will be transferred to the Lodge, where lunch will be served. You will be offered a massage for pure relaxation, or alternatively go on a game drive. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
Your stay at Elsa’s Kopje is for 2 nights in a Cottage Suite, and is on all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, bush activities and drinks – excluding premium drinks).
- Game Drives
- Day excursion to the Tana river
- Rhino Sanctuary visit
- Guided walks
- River fishing
- Swimming pool
- Bush breakfast & sundowners
- Massages
- Cultural visits
- Honeymoons & Weddings
Unashamedly romantic and beautifully styled, Elsa’s Kopje is sculpted into Mughwango Hill, above the site of George Adamson’s original camp where he raised and released orphan lions, long before conservation became fashionable. Each cottage is crafted around the rocks, with a large bedroom, open sitting room, veranda and spacious bathroom, each with breathtaking views.
Guests can enjoy inimitable seclusion in the vast expanse of Elsa’s Kopje, boasting 870km² , the equivalent of 215,000 acres, of authentic African landscape. The park offers a thriving rhino sanctuary, and is famous for large elephant herds, hippo, lion, and birdlife; Meru National Park is recognised as having more diversity of animal species than any other park in East Africa.
The rugged and remote Meru National Park was rescued from oblivion thanks to Elsa’s Kopje, an environmental award-winning, boutique lodge. Winner of the Good Safari Guide’s ‘Best Safari Property in Africa’ award, Elsa’s Kopje is widely renowned as one of the most elegant lodges in Africa.
Elsa’s Kopje was designed and built by Stefano Cheli, officially opened by Dr. Richard Leakey (Director of Kenya Wildlife Service at the time), and Virginia McKenna of Born Free fame in 1999. One of the most beautiful parks in Kenya, Liz & Stefano included Meru National Park on most of their mobile tented safaris.
Meru is a lot less busy than some of Kenya’s more popular parks, and has an unspoilt feel. All of the Big Five are present. Elephant and buffalo are very common, and there is an enclosed rhino sanctuary containing both black and white rhino. The park is extremely scenic with tall doum palms growing along the park’s many watercourses. Meru is home to the Big Five. Elephants migrate through the park and big herds can sometimes be encountered. Big cats are more difficult to spot, but it isn’t rare to have a sighting all to yourself. Northern Kenya specials include beisa oryx, reticulated giraffe, and the odd-looking gerenuk. The rare Grevy's zebra occurs alongside the more common Burchell's zebra.
Full List of Mammals found in Meru National Park
- Aard-wolf
- African Buffalo
- African Civet
- African Dormouse
- African Elephant
- African Hare
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Ant Bear
- Banana Bat or African
- Banded Mongoose
- Beisa Oryx
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black-backed or Silver-backed
- Black-faced Vervet
- Blue Duiker
- Blue or Sykes’ Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Burchel’s or Common Zebra
- Bush Baby
- Bush Duiker
- Bush or Large-spotted Genet
- Bush Pig
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Cane Rat
- Caracal
- Cheetah
- Clawless Otter
- Coke’s Hartebeest or Kongoni
- Common Waterbuck
- Dwarf Mongoose
- East African Hedgehog
- East African Red Squirrel
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- False Vampire Bat
- Flat-headed Free-tailed Bat
- Genet
- Gerenuk
- Giant Rat
- Giant White-toothed shrew
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Greater Galago
- Grevy’s Zebra
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Jackal
- Kirk’s Dik-Dik
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Large Grey Mongoose
- Leopard
- Lesser Ground Pangolin
- Lesser Kudu
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Lion
- Marsh Mongoose
- Naked Mole Rat
- Neumann’s or Small-spotted
- Olive Baboon
- Oribi
- Pale-bellied Fruit Bat
- Patas Monkey
- Pipistrelle
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Reticulated Giraffe
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval
- Side-striped Jackal
- Spectacled Elephant Shrew
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spring Hare
- Square-lipped or White Rhino
- Steinbok
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Striped Hyaena
- Suni
- Tree Hyrax
- Unstriped Ground Squirrel
- Warthog
- White Rhinoceros
- White-bellied Free-tailed Bat
- White-bellied Tomb Bat
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Yellow-winged Bat
- Zorilla
With more than 300 species recorded, Meru is an excellent birding destination. It has several northern Kenya specials, including the impressive Somali ostrich, Boran cisticola and vulturine guineafowl. The noisy yellow-necked spurfowl is very common and the sought-after Hinde’s babbler can sometimes be spotted as well. The rivers running through the park offer the right habitat for Pel’s fishing-owl, the elusive African finfoot and the localized golden palm weaver as well as more common water birds.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- Afr4ican Finfoot
- African Black Duck
- African Black Kite
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Marsh Owl
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Sand Martin
- African Scops Owl
- Angola Swallow
- Ashy Cisticola
- Ashy Flycatcher
- Augur Buzzard
- Banded Martin
- Bare-eyed Thrush
- Barred Owlet
- Barred Warbler
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black-backed Puff-back
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Blackcap Warbler
- Black-capped Social Weaver
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Blackhead Plover
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-necked Weaver
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Black-throated Wattle-eye
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed Wagtail
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Parrot
- Brown-backed Woodpecker
- Brown-headed Tchagra
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher
- Brown-throated Barbet
- Buffalo Weaver
- Buff-backed Heron or Cattle Egret
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Buff-crested Bustard
- Bunting
- Bunting
- Button Quail
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow Lark
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chestnut-fronted Shrike
- Chestnut-headed Sparrow Lark
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted Rock
- Collared Sunbir
- Common Sandpiper
- Crested Francolin
- Crombec
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Cut-throat
- D’Arnaur’s Barbet
- Didric Cuckoo
- Donaldson-Smith’s Nightjar
- Drongo
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky Nightjar
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Emerald-spotted Wood D
- Europan Nightjar
- European Bee-eater
- European Black Kite
- European Common Wheatear
- European Cuckoo
- European Golden Oriole
- European Hoopoe
- European Kestrel
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Marsh Warbler
- European Nightingale
- European Rock Thrush
- European Roller
- European Sand Martin
- European Sedge Warbler
- European Spotted Flycatcher
- European Swallow
- European Willow Warbler
- Fan-tailed Raven
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fiscal Shrike
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fischer’s Starling
- Fischer’s Straw-tailed Whydah
- Flappet Lark
- Gabar Goshawk
- Garden Warbler
- Giant Kingfisher Rare
- Golden Weaver
- Golden-breasted Starling
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Great White Egret
- Greater Honeyguide
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey Tit
- Grey Wren Warbler
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-capped Warbler
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Silverbill
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Grosbeak Weaver
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Hooded Vulture
- Indigo-bird
- Issabelline Wheatear
- Jameson’s Fire Finch
- Kaffir Rail
- Kenya Crested Guinea-fowl
- Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Kori Bustard
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Layard’s Black-headed Weaver
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Swift
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Martial Eagle
- Masked Weaver
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Morning Warbler
- Mottled Swift
- Mourning Dove
- Mouse-coloured Penduline Tit
- Namaqua Dove
- Narina’s Trogon
- Northern Brownbul
- Northern Brubru
- Northern Pied Babbler
- Northern White-tailed Lark
- Nubian Nightjar
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Nyanza Swift
- Olive-tree Warbler
- Orange-bellied Parrot
- ove Pel’s Fishing Owl
- Painted Snipe
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Swift
- Palm-nut Vulture
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Parrot-billed Sparrow
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-breasted Lark
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Nightjar
- Puff-back Shrike
- Purple Grenadier
- Pygmy Falcon
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Pygmy puff-back Flycatcher
- Red and Yellow Barbet
- Red Bishop
- Red-backed Scrub Robin
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Hornbill
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-capped Robin Chat
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Apalis
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-necked Falcon
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Redwing Bush Lark
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring-necked Dove
- Rosy-patched Shrike
- Ruff
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Ruppell’s Long-tailed Starling
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddlebill Stork
- Scaly Babbler
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Scimitar-bill
- Secretary Bird
- Senegal Plover
- Shikra
- Singing Bush Lark
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- Somali Bee-eater
- Somali Golden-breasted
- Somali Ostrich
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Spotted Morning Warbler
- Spotted Stone Curlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Spring passage migrant
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stone chat
- Stork
- Straight-crested Helmet Shrike
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Taita Fiscal
- Tawny Eagle
- Temminck’s Courser
- Three-banded Plover
- Three-streaked Tchagra
- Thrush Nightingale or Sprosser
- Tiny Cisticola
- Tropical Boubou
- Two-banded Courser
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Violet Wood Hoopoe
- Violet-backed Starling
- Vitteline Masked Weaver
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Vulturine Guinea-fowl
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
- Water Dikkop
- Wattled Starling
- Waxbill
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Bustard
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Robin Chat
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- White-crowned Shrike
- White-faced Scops Owl
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-headed Vulture
- White-naped Raven
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed
- Wood Sandpiper
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-billed Hornill
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Yellow-rumped Seed-eater
- Yellow-spotted Petronia
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 3: Meru National Park, Elsa Kopje (Fullboard)
Your best chance of spotting game is early in the morning or late afternoon, so rise early and head off into the wilderness. After a morning filled with excitement return to the lodge to relax and to enjoy the peaceful surroundings. Explore more of Meru National Park on a game drive with sundowner drinks served overlooking the park, before returning to the lodge in time for dinner.
Day 4: Laikipia Plateau, Loisaba Tented Camp (Fullboard)
Enjoy a brisk nature walk and enjoy the views from up the hill which forms the Kopje (or small rocky outcrop) that Elsa's is built on. Enjoy the rest of the morning at leisure before lunch will be served overlooking Meru National Park. After lunch you will board the SkySafari aircraft for a 40-minute flight to the Loisaba Conservancy – Laikipia. The team from Loisaba Tented Camp will warmly welcome you and take you on a game drive en-route to the camp where you will arrive in time for drinks and dinner. Your stay at Loisaba Tented Camp is for 2 nights in a Standard Tent, and is on all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, bush activities and drinks – excluding premium drinks). Subject to availability guests can spend one night at Loisaba's Star Beds
- Guided bush walks
- Game Drives
- Fishing
- Horse Riding
- Maasai Cultural Experiences
- Camel Safaris
- Mountain Biking
- Anti-Poaching Unit
- Sundowners
- Bush Meals
- Swimming Pool
Perched on the edge of an escarpment, Loisaba Tented Camp is designed to capitalize on unhindered views across Laikipia's mottled landscape all the way to Mt Kenya. All accommodations and main areas enjoy a breathtaking vantage point over an expansive panorama. African-themed sophistication and style is the flavour of Loisaba Tented Camp. Spacious and airy tents are custom-built with large floor-to-ceiling doors and windows, high ceilings and polished wood floors. The tent suites are adorned in chic Africana furniture with a modern European twist.
The inviting main areas of Loisaba Tented Camp include a large open dining area, separate open lounge and bar, a large wooden decking area for outside dining, relaxing and enjoying the view, and one of Africa's most picturesque infinity pools. Loisaba is a 57,000 acre conservancy within Laikipia County that is owned by Loisaba Community Trust, a Kenyan Trust incorporated under the Perpetual Succession of Trustees Act, and is committed to wildlife and ecological conservation. The Loisaba mission is to protect and enhance critical wildlife diversity, abundance and habitat in the Loisaba landscape, which sits on the western edge of one of Kenya’s most important elephant movement corridors, while concurrently supporting sustainable livestock production and improving the lives of neighbouring communities.
Visitors to Loisaba are offered a myriad of activities to experience the wildlife and landscape on many different levels. Loisaba boasts a fleet of brand new custom-designed Land Rover Our Africa Safari Vehicles for game driving both day and night. Other activities include horse-riding, camel-trekking, guided bush walks, fishing, mountain biking, cultural visits to Samburu villages and visits to the anti-poaching sniffer dogs.
Laikipia is a mid-altitude plateau, which formerly consisted of community and ranch land. It has been turned into a patchwork of private game reserves, with vast ranches where cattle and wildlife live alongside each other. This is prime Big Five territory at the base of snow-capped Mount Kenya. It is also home to many indigenous communities including the Laikipia Maasai and Samburu. Laikipia Plateau offers excellent wildlife-viewing opportunities. All of the Big Five are easy to find and the sightings of both black rhino and white rhino are unsurpassed. All big cats are well habituated, and the park is home to the only viable wild dog population in the northern hemisphere. Night drives come with an excellent chance of seeing nocturnal creatures such as genet, bushbaby and aardvark.
Full List of Mammals found in Laikipia Plateau
- Aardvark
- Aardwolf
- Acacia
- African Buffalo
- African Dormouse
- African Elephant
- African Hedgehog
- Bat-Eared Fox
- Beisa Oryx
- Black-Backed Jackal
- Black-Necked Rock Hyrax
- Brook’s Gecko
- Brown House Snake
- Bush (Common) Duiker
- Bush Pig
- Bushbuck
- Bush-Rat
- cacia Grassl
- Cape Clawless Otter
- Cape Wolf Snake
- Caracal
- Cent Pins
- Central African Rock Python
- Cheetah
- Climbing Mouse
- Common (Small-Spotted) Genet
- Common Mouse
- Common Warthog
- Common Zebra
- Crested Porcupine
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Eland
- Elementeita Rock Agama
- Five-Lined Skink
- Flat-Snouted Wolf Snake
- Gerenuk
- Grant's Gazelle
- Greater Kudu
- Grevy's Zebra
- Guenther’s Dikdik
- Helmeted Terrapin
- Hippopotamus
- Impala
- Jackson's Hartebeest
- Kenya Dwarf Gecko
- Klipspringer
- Leopard
- Leopard Tortoise
- Lesser Elephant Shrew
- Lineolate Blind Snake
- Lion
- Map Coverage
- Map Coverage
- Multimammate Rat
- N. Stripe-Bellied Sand Snake
- Narrow-Footed Woodland Mouse
- Nile Monitor
- Nor hem HeadquaHem
- Ochre Bush (Tree) Squirrel
- Olive Baboon
- Olive Sand Snake
- Peter’s Writhing Skink
- Pouched Mouse
- Prince Ruspoli’s Gecko
- Puff Adder
- Ran Headqua
- Ratel (Honey Badger)
- Red-Headed Rock Agama
- Reticulated Giraffe
- rtilis Flat
- Ruppell’s Agama
- Scrub Hare
- Senegal Galago (Lesser Bushbaby)
- Serval Cat
- Short-Necked Skink
- Shrew (Three Species)
- Side-Striped Chameleon
- Slender Mongoose
- Slender or Graceful Chameleon
- Southern Long-Tailed Lizard
- Speke’s Sand Lizard
- Spiny Mouse
- Spiny Mouse
- Spotted Bush/Wood Snake
- Spotted Hyena
- Steinbuck
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Striped Hyena
- Striped Skink
- SUBORDER Serpentes (SNAKES)
- Suguta Boma
- Sundevall’s Writhing Skink
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- Tatera (Naked-Soled) Gerbil
- Tatera (Naked-Soled) Gerbil
- Thomson's Gazelle
- Tropical House Gecko
- Unstriped Grass Rat
- Unstriped Ground Squirrel
- Variable Skink
- Vervet Monkey
- White-Tailed Mongoose
- Wild Cat
- Wild Dog
- Yellow-Spotted (Bush) Hyrax
- Zorilla
More than 350 recorded species makes Laikipia Plateau a great birding destination – this includes many north Kenya specials. The variety in habitats reflects in the variety in birdlife ranging from arid ground dwelling birds like sandgrouse to colorful forest species such as turacos and grassland species such as bustards. Raptors are well represented as well. The Laikipia Plateau offers good bird watching throughout the year, but the best time is from November to April when the migrants from Europe and north Africa are present. This partly coincides with the Wet season, when many species can be seen in breeding plumage as they are nesting. Some lodges are closed in April, May and November due to heavy rain. The best time for general wildlife viewing is from July to September and January to March.
- Abyssinian nightjar
- African finfoot
- Black-faced sandgrouse
- Buff-crested bustard
- Crowned eagle
- Donaldson-Smith's nightjar
- Egyptian vulture
- Four-banded sandgrouse
- Hartlaub’s bustard
- Hartlaub's turaco
- Lesser kestrel
- Lichtenstein’s sandgrouse
- Martial eagle
- Ostrich
- Pallid harrier
- Red-footed falcon
- Silvery-cheeked hornbill
- Slate-coloured boubou
- Sooty falcon
- Southern white-faced owl
- Spotted palm-thrush
- Verreaux’s eagle
- Von der Decken’s hornbill
- Vulturine guineafowl
- Abbott's Starling
- Abdim's Stork
- Abyssinian Crimsonwing
- Abyssinian Ground-Hornbill
- Abyssinian Ground-Thrush
- Abyssinian nightjar
- Abyssinian Owl
- Abyssinian Roller
- Abyssinian Scimitarbill
- Abyssinian Thrush
- Abyssinian Wheatear
- African Bare-eyed Thrush
- African Black Duck
- African Black-headed Oriole
- African Broadbill
- African Citril
- African Crake
- African Cuckoo
- African Cuckoo-Hawk
- African Darter
- African Dusky Flycatcher
- African Emerald Cuckoo
- African finfoot
- African Firefinch
- African Fish-Eagle
- African Golden Oriole
- African Golden-Weaver
- African Goshawk
- African Grass-Owl
- African Gray Flycatcher
- African Gray Hornbill
- African Gray Woodpecker
- African Green-Pigeon
- African Harrier-Hawk
- African Hawk-Eagle
- African Hill Babbler
- African Hobby
- African Jacana
- African Marsh-Harrier
- African Openbill
- African Palm-Swift
- African Paradise-Flycatcher
- African Penduline-Tit
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Pipit
- African Pitta
- African Pygmy Kingfisher
- African Pygmy-Goose
- African Rail
- African Sacred Ibis
- African Scops-Owl
- African Silverbill
- African Skimmer
- African Snipe
- African Spoonbill
- African Stonechat
- African Swamphen
- African Swift
- African Thrush
- African Wood-Owl
- African Yellow-Warbler
- Allen's Gallinule
- Alpine Swift
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Amur Falcon
- Angola Swallow
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- ar-tailed Godwit
- Ashy Cisticola
- Ashy Flycatcher
- Augur Buzzard
- Ayres's Hawk-Eagle
- Baglafecht Weaver
- Baillon's Crake
- Banded Martin
- Banded Parisoma
- Banded Prinia
- Banded Snake-Eagle
- Bank Swallow
- Barn Owl
- Barn Swallow
- Barred Long-tailed Cuckoo
- Barred Warbler
- Bar-tailed Trogon
- Basra Reed Warbler
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bat-like Spinetail [x]
- Bearded Vulture
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Beautiful Sunbird
- Black Coucal
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Cuckooshrike
- Black Goshawk
- Black Heron
- Black Kite
- Black Sawwing
- Black Stork
- Black-and-white Mannikin
- Black-backed Puffback
- Black-bellied Bustard
- Black-bellied Firefinch
- Black-bellied Plover
- Black-bellied Starling
- Black-bellied Sunbird
- Black-billed Weaver
- Black-capped Social-Weaver
- Black-cheeked Waxbill
- Black-chested Snake-Eagle
- Black-collared Apalis
- Black-crowned Night-Heron
- Black-crowned Tchagra
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Black-fronted Bushshrike
- Black-headed Apalis
- Black-headed Gull
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Paradise-Flycatcher
- Black-headed Weaver
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-necked Weaver
- Blacksmith Lapwing
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-tailed Oriole
- Black-throated Apalis
- Black-throated Barbet
- Black-throated Wattle-eye
- Black-winged Bishop
- Black-winged Kite
- Black-winged Lapwing
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue Quail
- Blue-billed Teal
- Blue-capped Cordonbleu
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-headed Coucal
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Booted Eagle
- Boran Cisticola
- Brimstone Canary
- Bristle-crowned Starling
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronze Sunbird
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Brown Babbler
- Brown Parisoma
- Brown Snake-Eagle
- Brown Woodland-Warbler
- Brown-backed Scrub-Robin
- Brown-backed Woodpecker
- Brown-capped Weaver
- Brown-chested Alethe
- Brown-chested Lapwing
- Brown-crowned Tchagra
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher
- Brown-tailed Chat
- Brubru
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Buff-crested Bustard
- Buff-spotted Flufftail
- Buffy Pipit
- Bush Pipit
- Cabanis's Greenbul
- Cape Crow
- Cape Eagle-Owl
- Cape Robin-Chat
- Cape Teal
- Cape Wagtail
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover
- Caspian Tern
- Cattle Egret
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow-Lark
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chestnut-fronted Helmetshrike
- Chestnut-headed Sparrow-Lark
- Chestnut-throated Apalis
- Chinspot Batis
- Chubb's Cisticola
- Cinnamon Bracken-Warbler
- Cinnamon-breasted Bunting
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
- Collared Pratincole
- Collared Sunbird
- Common Bulbul
- Common Buzzard
- Common Chiffchaff
- Common Cuckoo
- Common Greenshank
- Common House-Martin
- Common Nightingale
- Common Ostrich
- Common Quail
- Common Redshank
- Common Redstart
- Common Ringed Plover
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Scimitarbill
- Common Snipe
- Common Swift
- Common Waxbill
- Coqui Francolin
- Corn Crake
- Crested Francolin
- Crested Guineafowl
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Croaking Cisticola
- Crowned Eagle
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Lapwing
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- Dark Chanting-Goshawk
- D'Arnaud's Barbet
- Delegorgue's Pigeon
- Denham's Bustard
- Desert Cisticola
- Desert Wheatear [x]
- Dideric Cuckoo
- Doherty's Bushshrike
- Donaldson-Smith's Nightjar
- Dusky Turtle-Dove
- Dwarf Bittern
- Eared Grebe
- Eastern Black-eared Wheatear [x]
- Eastern Chanting-Goshawk
- Eastern Double-collared Sunbird
- Eastern Mountain Greenbul
- Eastern Nicator
- Eastern Olivaceous Warbler
- Eastern Paradise-Whydah
- Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird
- Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Eleonora's Falcon
- Emerald-spotted Wood-Dove
- Ethiopian Swallow
- Eurasian Blackcap
- Eurasian Curlew
- Eurasian Golden Oriole
- Eurasian Hobby
- Eurasian Hoopoe
- Eurasian Kestrel
- Eurasian Marsh-Harrier
- Eurasian Moorhen
- Eurasian Nightjar
- Eurasian Reed Warbler
- Eurasian Scops-Owl
- Eurasian Sparrowhawk
- Eurasian Spoonbill
- Eurasian Wigeon
- Eurasian Wryneck
- European Bee-eater
- European Honey-buzzard
- European Roller
- Evergreen-forest Warbler
- Fan-tailed Grassbird
- Fan-tailed Raven
- Fischer's Lovebird
- Fischer's Sparrow-Lark
- Fischer's Starling
- Flappet Lark
- Fork-tailed Drongo
- Four-banded Sandgrouse
- Fox Kestrel
- Foxy Lark
- Freckled Nightjar
- Friedmann's Lark
- Fulvous Whistling-Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Gambaga Flycatcher
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey
- Giant Kingfisher
- Glossy Ibis
- Glossy-backed Drongo
- Golden Palm Weaver
- Golden Pipit
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Golden-breasted Starling
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Goliath Heron
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Gray Apalis
- Gray Crowned-Crane
- Gray Cuckooshrike
- Gray Heron
- Gray Kestrel
- Gray Wagtail
- Gray Wren-Warbler
- Gray-backed Fiscal
- Gray-capped Warbler
- Gray-headed Bushshrike
- Gray-headed Kingfisher
- Gray-headed Nigrita
- Gray-headed Silverbill
- Gray-headed Social-Weaver
- Gray-hooded Gull
- Grayish Eagle-Owl
- Gray-olive Greenbul
- Gray-rumped Swallow
- Gray-throated Barbet
- Great Cormorant
- Great Crested Grebe
- Great Egret
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great Snipe
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
- Great White Pelican
- Greater Blue-eared Starling
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Honeyguide
- Greater Kestrel
- Greater Painted-Snipe
- Greater Spotted Eagle
- Greater Whitethroat
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Woodhoopoe
- Green-backed Camaroptera
- Green-backed Honeyguide
- Green-backed Twinspot
- Green-backed Woodpecker
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Green-winged Teal
- Grosbeak Weaver
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Hartlaub's Bustard
- Hartlaub's Turaco
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Hemprich's Hornbill
- Highland Rush Warbler
- Hildebrandt's Francolin
- Hildebrandt's Starling
- Hinde's Pied-Babbler [x]
- Holub's Golden-Weaver
- Hooded Vulture
- Horus Swift
- House Sparrow [i]
- Hunter's Cisticola [i]
- Hunter's Sunbird
- Icterine Warbler
- Imperial Eagle
- Intermediate Egret
- Isabelline Shrike
- Isabelline Wheatear
- Jack Snipe
- Jackson's Francolin
- Jackson's Hornbill
- Jackson's Widowbird
- Jameson's Firefinch
- Kandt's Waxbill
- Kenrick's Starling
- Kenya Rufous Sparrow
- Kikuyu White-eye
- Kittlitz's Plover
- Klaas's Cuckoo
- Knob-billed Duck
- Kori Bustard
- Lanner Falcon
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Laughing Dove
- Lemon Dove
- Lesser Blue-eared Starling
- Lesser Cuckoo
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Gray Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Jacana
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lesser Masked-Weaver
- Lesser Moorhen
- Lesser Spotted Eagle
- Lesser Striped Swallow
- Lesser Swamp Warbler
- Levaillant's Cisticola
- Levaillant's Cuckoo
- Lichtenstein's Sandgrouse
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Rock-Thrush
- Little Sparrowhawk
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Little Weaver
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-billed Pipit
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-legged Buzzard
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Long-tailed Widowbird
- Long-toed Lapwing
- Maccoa Duck
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Madagascar Cuckoo
- Madagascar Pratincole
- Magpie Starling
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Malachite Sunbird
- Malagasy Pond-Heron
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Owl
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Marsh Warbler
- Martial Eagle
- Mbulu White-eye
- Meyer's Parrot
- Mocking Cliff-Chat
- Montagu's Harrier
- Moorland Chat
- Moorland Francolin
- Mosque Swallow
- Mottled Spinetail
- Mottled Swift
- Mountain Buzzard
- Mountain Gray Woodpecker
- Mountain Wagtail
- Mountain Yellow-Warbler
- Mourning Collared-Dove
- Mouse-colored Penduline-Tit
- Moustached Tinkerbird
- Namaqua Dove
- Narina Trogon
- Northern Anteater-Chat
- Northern Brownbul
- Northern Carmine Bee-eater
- Northern Crombec
- Northern Double-collared Sunbird
- Northern Fiscal
- Northern Gray-headed Sparrow
- Northern Grosbeak-Canary
- Northern Pied-Babbler
- Northern Pintail
- Northern Puffback
- Northern Red-billed Hornbill
- Northern Shoveler
- Northern Wheatear
- Northern White-faced Owl
- Northern Yellow White-eye
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Nyanza Swift
- Olive Ibis
- Olive Sunbird
- Olive-tree Warbler
- Orange Ground-Thrush
- Orange-winged Pytilia
- Oriole Finch
- Osprey
- Ovambo Sparrowhawk
- Pacific Golden-Plover
- Pale Flycatcher
- Pale Prinia
- Pale White-eye
- Pallid Harrier
- Pallid Honeyguide
- Palm-nut Vulture
- Pangani Longclaw
- Parrot-billed Sparrow
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Pel's Fishing-Owl
- Pennant-winged Nightjar
- Peregrine Falcon
- Pied Avocet
- Pied Crow
- Pied Cuckoo
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-breasted Lark
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Martin
- Plain Nightjar
- Plain-backed Pipit
- Pringle's Puffback
- Purple Grenadier
- Purple Heron
- Purple-throated Cuckooshrike
- Pygmy Batis
- Pygmy Falcon
- Quailfinch
- Quail-plover
- Rameron Pigeon
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red-and-yellow Barbet
- Red-backed Scrub-Robin
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-bellied Parrot
- Red-billed Buffalo-Weaver
- Red-billed Duck
- Red-billed Firefinch
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-capped Robin-Chat
- Red-cheeked Cordonbleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-chested Flufftail
- Red-collared Widowbird
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Cisticola
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-footed Falcon
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Parrot
- Red-fronted Prinia
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Bluebill
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red-necked Falcon
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Tit
- Red-tufted Sunbird
- Red-winged Francolin
- Red-winged Lark
- Red-winged Starling
- Reichard's Seedeater
- Reichenow's Seedeater
- Retz's Helmetshrike
- Ring-necked Dove
- River Warbler
- Rock Martin
- Rock Pigeon
- Rock-loving Cisticola
- Ross's Turaco
- Rosy-patched Bushshrike
- Rosy-throated Longclaw
- Ruff
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rufous-breasted Sparrowhawk
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Rufous-necked Wryneck
- Rufous-tailed Rock-Thrush
- Rufous-tailed Scrub-Robin
- Rüppell's Griffon
- Rüppell's Robin-Chat
- Rüppell's Starling
- Saddle-billed Stork
- Saker Falcon
- Scaly Chatterer
- Scaly Francolin
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Scarce Swift
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Scissor-tailed Kite
- Secretarybird
- Sedge Warbler
- Semicollared Flycatcher
- Senegal Coucal
- Senegal Lapwing
- Sharpe's Longclaw
- Sharpe's Starling
- Shelley's Francolin
- Shelley's Starling
- Shikra
- Shining Sunbird
- Short-eared Owl [x]
- Short-tailed Lark
- Siffling Cisticola
- Silverbird
- Silvery-cheeked Hornbill
- Singing Bushlark
- Singing Cisticola
- Slate-colored Boubou
- Slender-billed Greenbul
- Slender-billed Starling
- Slender-tailed Nightjar
- Small Buttonquail
- Somali Bee-eater
- Somali Bunting
- Somali Crombec
- Somali Fiscal
- Somali Ostrich
- Somali Short-toed Lark
- Somali Tit
- Sombre Greenbul
- Sombre Nightjar
- Sooty Falcon
- Southern Black-Flycatcher
- Southern Ground-Hornbill
- Southern Pochard
- Southern Red Bishop
- Southern White-faced Owl
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Speke's Weaver
- Spot-flanked Barbet
- Spotted Crake
- Spotted Eagle-Owl
- Spotted Flycatcher
- Spotted Morning-Thrush
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Thick-knee
- Spur-winged Goose
- Spur-winged Lapwing
- Squacco Heron
- Standard-winged Nightjar
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Steppe Eagle
- Stone Partridge
- Stout Cisticola
- Straw-tailed Whydah
- Streaky Seedeater
- Streaky-breasted Flufftail
- Striated Heron
- Striped Crake
- Striped Flufftail
- Striped Kingfisher
- Sulphur-breasted Bushshrike
- Superb Starling
- Tacazze Sunbird
- Taita Falcon [i]
- Taita Fiscal
- Tambourine Dove
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny Pipit
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck's Courser
- Temminck's Stint
- Thick-billed Seedeater
- Three-banded Courser
- Three-banded Plover
- Three-streaked Tchagra
- Thrush Nightingale
- Tiny Cisticola
- Tree Pipit
- Tropical Boubou
- Trumpeter Hornbill
- Tufted Duck
- Tullberg's Woodpecker
- Upcher's Warbler
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux's Eagle
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
- Village Indigobird
- Village Weaver
- Violet Woodhoopoe
- Violet-backed Starling
- Vitelline Masked-Weaver
- Von der Decken's Hornbill
- Vulturine Guineafowl
- Wahlberg's Eagle
- Wahlberg's Honeyguide
- Wailing Cisticola
- Waller's Starling
- Water Thick-knee
- Wattled Starling
- Western Citril
- Western Yellow Wagtail
- Whimbrel
- Whinchat
- Whiskered Tern
- White Helmetshrike
- White Stork
- White Wagtail
- White-backed Duck
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Bustard
- White-bellied Canary
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- White-bellied Tit
- White-billed Buffalo-Weaver
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Crombec
- White-browed Robin-Chat
- White-browed Sparrow-Weaver
- White-crested Turaco
- White-eyed Slaty-Flycatcher
- White-faced Whistling-Duck
- White-fronted Bee-eater
- White-headed Barbet
- White-headed Buffalo-Weaver
- White-headed Mousebird
- White-headed Sawwing
- White-headed Vulture
- White-headed Woodhoopoe
- White-necked Raven
- White-rumped Shrike
- White-rumped Swift
- White-starred Robin
- White-tailed Crested-Flycatcher
- White-tailed Lark
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-throated Robin
- White-winged Tern
- White-winged Widowbird
- Williams's Lark
- Willow Warbler
- Winding Cisticola
- Wing-snapping Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wood Warbler
- Woodchat Shrike
- Woolly-necked Stork
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Yellow-billed Barbet
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker
- Yellow-billed Stork
- Yellow-breasted Apalis
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Yellow-crowned Canary
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-necked Francolin
- Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird
- Yellow-spotted Bush Sparrow
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
- Yellow-vented Eremomela
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
- Zebra Waxbill
- Zitting Cisticola
Day 5: Laikipia Plateau, Loisaba Tented Camp (Fullboard)
Great way to view the stunning diversity of Loisaba is on foot. You will be accompanied on your early morning walking safari by traditional Samburu guides whose knowledge of local flora, fauna, culture and history is unmatched. Return to camp for a late breakfast and a refreshing swim.
Lunch will be served at camp before you set off on a game drive in search of the elusive wild dog or try and spot the rare Grevy’s zebra, Beisa Oryx or the Greater Kudu. If you prefer, try your hand at fishing in the river or visit the resident ant poaching team with its two sniffer dogs. Sundowner drinks will be served out in the wilds of Africa whilst your chef prepares mouth-watering snacks live on the BBQ. Arrive back at the camp for a Dinner under the Stars.
Day 6: Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Sand Rivers Mara Camp (Fullboard)
After a restful night’s sleep another day full of activities awaits. Your guide will take you on a game drive; the adventurous can explore Loisaba Conservancy on camel-back (optional). A full breakfast is laid out in the bush before you return to camp. After lunch you will be transferred to the Loisaba airstrip for your SkySafari flight to the world renowned Masai Mara National Reserve where the team from Sand River Masai Mara National Reserve will warmly welcome you. Enjoy a game drive en-route to this remote Camp where you will arrive in time for sundowner drinks and dinner. Your stay at Sand River Camp in Masai Mara National Reserve is for 2 nights in a luxury safari tent, and is on all-inclusive basis (includes all meals, bush activities and drinks – excluding premium drinks).
- Game Drives
- Guided bush walks
- Sundowners and Bush meals
- Cultural Exchanges
- Swimming Pool
- Balloon rides
- Visit to a local school supported by Land & Life Foundation
Situated on a secluded and picturesque site, Sand River Masai Mara replicates the heyday of exclusive permanent tented camps of the late 1920’s. The interior fixtures and furnishings mirror this period perfectly, reminding all who visit of those countless Hollywood movies that have paid homage to a classic era of African adventure.
Sand River Masai Mara is an ideal destination, at any time of the year, for those wishing to enjoy exceptional game-viewing. The National Reserve is best known for its large concentrations of big cats, such as leopard, cheetah and, of course, lion. Even the dramatic arrival of the Annual Migration merely adds to an already abundant resident wildlife that awaits discovery.
Sand River Masai Mara comprises of 16-tented accommodations - including 1 family tent - each divided into two separate but adjoining campsites, with each area possessing its own designated dining and public areas, thereby creating an increased sense of exclusivity and privacy.
Sand River Masai Mara will continue to demonstrate all the qualities that have made the Elewana Collection the premier choice in East Africa. With carefully crafted interior designs, exceptional standards of service, and a sublime and carefully chosen location providing optimal access to the wildlife, Sand River Masai Mara will surely become the standard to surpass.
The Masai Mara is one of Africa’s most famous parks. The wildlife viewing is superb throughout the year. The grassy plains and regular rainfall supports a huge population of herbivores, in turn attracting many predators. All three big cats are relatively easy to see. The yearly wildebeest migration coming through the park is one of the world’s most amazing wildlife spectacles.
The Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is home to the annual wildebeest migration where 2.5 million wildebeest, zebra and gazelles follow the rains in search of new grass. They make their way from the Serengeti to the Masai Mara somewhere around July and August, and usually arrive in September. The crossing of the Mara River along the way is one of the highlights of this spectacular event. They slowly head back into Tanzania around October.
Full List of Mammals found in Maasai Mara Game Reserve
- Aard-wolf
- African Bufallo
- African Civet
- African Dormouse
- African Elephant
- African Hare
- African Palm Civet
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Ant Bear
- approach the race robertsi with
- Banana Bat or African Pipi-
- Banded Mongoose
- Bat-eared Fox
- beeste
- Black and White Colobus
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black-backed or Siver-backed
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Blue Duiker
- Blue or Sykes’ Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Burchell’s or Common Zebra
- Bush Baby
- Bush Duiker
- Bush or Large-spotted Genet
- Bush Pig
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Cane Rat
- Cheetah
- Clawless Otter
- Coke’s Hartebeest or Kongoni
- Defassa Waterbuck
- Dwarf Mongoose
- East African Hedgehog
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- False Vampire Bat
- Genet
- Giant Forest Hog
- Giant Forest Squirrel
- Giant White-toothed Shrew
- Golden Jackal
- Grant’s Gazelle Some examples
- Greater Galago
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Jackal
- Kenya Mole Rat
- Kirk’s Dik-Dik
- Klipspringer
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Large Grey Mongoose
- Leopard
- Lesser Ground Pangolin
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Lion
- Marsh Mongoose
- Masai Giraffe
- Mongoose
- Monkey
- Neumann’s or Small-spotted
- Olive Baboon
- Oribi
- outward growing horns
- Pale-bellied Fruit Bat
- Patas Monkey
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Red Duiker
- Red-tailed or White-nosed
- Roan Antelope
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval Cat
- Side-stripped jackal
- Slender or Black-tipped
- Spectacled Elephant Shrew
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Straw-coloured Fruit Bat
- strelle
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Stripped Hyaena
- Suni
- Thompson’s Gazelle
- Topi
- Tree Hyrax
- Unstriped Ground Squirrel
- Warthog
- White-bearded Gnu or Wilde-
- White-bellied Free-tailed Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Yellow-winged Bat
- Zorilla
The Masai Mara isn’t one of Kenya’s birding hotspots. However, with more than 500 bird species recorded, this isn’t a bad place to mark off a lot of Kenya’s savannah species from your bird list. The park is particularly rich in raptors with 57 species present. Bateleurs can often be seen soaring above the grassy plains and predator kills are a good place to find up to six species of vultures scavenging. Migratory birds are present from November to April.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- African Black Duck
- African Black Kite
- African Broadbir
- African Crake
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Finfoot
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Golden Oriole
- African Goshawk
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Hobby Rare
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Marsh Owl
- African Penduline Tit
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Rock Martin
- African Sand Martin
- African Scops Owl
- African Snipe
- African Thrush
- African Wood Owl
- along Mara River
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Angola Swallow
- Anteater Chat
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Ashy Flycatcher
- Augur Buzzard
- Banded Harrier Eagle One
- Banded Martin
- Banded Tit-warbler
- Bare-faced Go-away-bird
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Birds often attracted by knockin
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black and White Mannikin
- Black and White-casqued
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black Flycatcher
- Black Rough-wing Swallow
- Black-bellied Bustard Rarer
- Black-billed Barbet Uncommon
- Black-billed Weaver Un-
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Blackcap Bush Shrike
- Blackcap Warbler
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Black-headed Gonolek
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Puff-back
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-headed Weaver
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-necked Weaver
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-winged Bishop
- Black-winged Plover Uncom-
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue Quail
- Blue Swallow
- Blue-breasted Bee-eater
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed Coucal
- Blue-headed Wagtail and races
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Boehm’s Spinetail
- Brimstone Canary
- Bristle-bill In riverine forest
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Parrot
- Brown throated Barbet
- Brown Tit-warbler
- Brown-backed Woodpecker
- Brown-chested Wattled Plover
- Brown-headed Tchagra
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher
- Buffalo Weaver
- Buff-backed Heron or Cattle
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Button Quail
- Cape Quail
- Cape Rook
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover Numbers vary
- Cassin’s Honeyguide Inhabits
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
- Collared Sunbird
- common in riverine forest
- Common Sandpiper
- Coqui Francolin
- Crested Francolin
- Crested Guinea-fowl
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Crombec
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hawk-eagle
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Cuckoo Falcon
- D’Arnaud’s Barbet
- Dark Chanting Goshawk
- Didric Cuckoo
- Double-toothed Barbet
- Drongo
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky Nightjar
- Eastern Grey Plaintain-eater
- Egret
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Emerald Cuckoo
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- European Bee-eater
- European Black Kite
- European Black Stork
- European Common Snipe
- European Common Wheatear
- European Corn Crake
- European Cuckoo
- European Golden Oriole
- European Grey Wagtail
- European Hobby
- European Hoopoe
- European House Martin
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Nightingale
- European Nightjar
- European Rock Thrush
- European Roller
- European Sand Martin
- European Sedge Warbler
- European Spotted Flycatcher
- European Swallow
- European Whinchat
- European Whitethroat
- European Willow Warbler
- every few records
- Fan-tailed Warbler
- Fan-tailed Widow-bird
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fiscal Shrike
- Fischer’s Greenbul
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Flappet Lark
- Forested areas
- found in euphorbia trees
- Freckled Nightjar Fr
- from year to year. Sometimes
- Gabar Goshawk
- Gaboon Nightjar
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey Teal
- Giant Kingfisher
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Great Snipe
- Great Sparrow Hawk
- Greater Honeyguide Common.
- Greater or White-eyed Kestre
- Great-spotted Cuckoo
- Green Coucal or Yellowibill
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper Found on
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Green-backed Twin-spot
- Green-headed Sunbird
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Cuckoo Shrike
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey Kestrel
- Grey Tit
- Grey Woodpecker
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Grey-capped Warbler
- Grey-crested Helmet Shrike
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Negro Finch
- Grey-headed Silverbill
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Grey-headed Sparrow
- Grey-rumped Swallow
- Grey-throated Barbet
- Gross-beak Weaver
- Ground Hornbill
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Hartlaub’s Bustard
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Hildebrandt’s Francolin
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Holub’s Golden Weaver
- Honey Buzzard
- Hooded Vulture
- Hornbill
- Hottentot Teal
- in bush country
- Indigo-bird
- Issabelline Wheatear
- Jackson’s Bustard
- Jackson’s Widow-bird
- Kittlitz Plover
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Knob-billed Duck
- Kori Bustard
- Lammergeyer Rare visitor
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Lemon-rumped Tinkerbird
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Purple-banded Sunbird
- Little Ringed Plover Uncom-
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Swift
- Little Weaver
- Lives in creeper festooned
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-billed Pipit
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Martial Eagle
- Masai Ostrich
- Masked Weaver
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Mottled Swift
- Mountain Wagtail
- Mourning Dove
- Moustached Warbler
- Namaqua Dove
- Narina’s Trogon
- Night Heron
- Northern Brubru
- Northern Pied Babbler
- Northern White-tailed Lark
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Olive Pigeon
- Olive Sunbird
- open plains
- Open-bill Stork Uncommon
- Osprey Rare
- Ovampo Sparrow Hawk
- Painted Snipe
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Pale Flycatcher
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Swift
- Pangani Longclaw
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Parasitic Weaver Rare:
- passage migrants
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Pel’s Fishing Owl
- Peregrine
- Pied Crow
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Nightjar
- Plain-backed Pipit
- plains
- Pratincole
- Puff-back Shrike
- Purple Grenadier
- Pygmy Falcon
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Quail Finch
- Rare White-rumped Swift
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red and Yellow Barbet
- Red Bishop
- Red –eyed Dove
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Duck
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Hornbill
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-breasted Wryneck
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-capped Robin Chat
- Red-cheeked Cordon Bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-fronted Barbet Inhabits
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Quelea
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-naped Widow-bird
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Chater
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Tit
- Redwing Bush Lark
- Reichenow’s Weaver
- Reserve
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ring-necked Dove
- River
- Robin Chat
- Rock Bunting
- Rocky outcrops
- Ross’s Turaco Recorded in
- Rosy-breasted Longclaw
- Rosy-patched Shrike
- Ruff
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Ruppel’s Long-tailed Starling
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork
- Scaly Francolin Forest
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Schalow’s Turaco Not
- Schalow’s Wheatear
- Scimitar-bill
- Secretary Bird
- Senegal Coucal In western
- Senegal Plover
- Shelley’s (Grey-wing) Francolin
- Shikra
- Silverbill
- Silverbird
- Singing Bush Lark
- Singing Cisticola
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Speckled-fronted Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Morning Warbler
- Spotted Stone Curlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Sprosser
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stork
- Stout Cisticola
- Straight-crested Helmet Shrike
- Streaky Seed-eater
- Striped Kingfisher
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Swallow
- Tambourine Dove
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck’s Courser
- Than Hartlaub’s Bustard
- Three-banded Plover
- tree in riverine forest
- Tree Pipit
- Tropical Boubou
- Two-banded Courser
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Vieillot’s Black Weaver
- Violet-backed Starling
- Vitteline Masked Weaver
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Honeyguide Inhabits
- Water Dikkop Occurs
- Wattled Plover
- Wattled Starling
- Wattle-eye Flycatcher
- Well’s Wagtail
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Bustard
- White-bellied Canary
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- White-breasted Tit
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Robin Chat
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- White-crowned Shrike
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
- White-faced Scops Owl
- White-fronted Bee-eater
- White-headed Barbet
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-headed Rough-wing
- White-headed Vulture
- White-naped Raven
- White-spotted Pygmy Crake
- White-tailed Nightja
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-winged Scrub Robin
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed
- Wood Sandpiper
- Woodland Kingfisher
- Wooly-necked Stork Rare
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow White-eye
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Yellow-billed Barbet In forest
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Yellow-rumped Seed-eater
- Yellow-spotted Barbet
- Yellow-spotted Petronia
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
- Yellow-whiskered Greenbul
Day 7: Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Sand Rivers Mara Camp (Fullboard)
Early breakfast, followed by a full day of game viewing in the Masai Mara National Reserve. A picnic hamper lunch will be served out in the wilds. Stop at an authentic Masai village to interact and learn about the customs and culture of this colourful tribe back to the camp for a farewell dinner.
Day 8: Fly Nairobi
Bush breakfast followed by game drive, back to Camp for lunch. Mid-afternoon, you will be transferred back to the Keekorok airstrip for your flight to Wilson Airport Nairobi.
Your SkySafari Representative will welcome you upon arrival. You will be chauffeured to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport; before arriving there we will stop at one of Nairobi’s restaurants where dinner will be served. You will arrive at the airport in time for your outbound flight.
End of the safari.
Tour Inclusions
Pick up from Jomo Kenya International Airport on arrival to Hemingways Hotel Nairobi.- All flights as per the itinerary
- Transfer to any of the Nairobi City CBD hotels for dinner and to the airport for onward flight
- Full board accommodation as per the itinerary
- All activities as per the itinerary
- All reserve fees
- 3 game drives in a day in a 4WD land cruiser both side open as per the itinerary
- All transfers
- All our transport has insurance
- 2 litres of mineral water per day per person
Tour Exclusions
Drinks- Any of excursions while in Zanzibar Island
- Gratuities for the service
- Yellow fever vaccination
- Visa of USD 50.00 as at year 2020
- Things of personal use
Easter & Christmas Surcharges
A surcharge would be charged per person per night on Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Easter Monday and on 24th 25th, 26th, 31st December and 1st January. The Surcharge would be confirmed at the time of booking for clarity purposes.
For optimal enjoyment of your safari, we urge you to carry the following:
All weather firm shoe pair, short and dress to use during the day, trouser for use in the evenings with long sleeved shirt, sweater or jacket, hat, swimming costume, sunglass, camera, binocular, sun protection cream and insect repellent spray or cream.
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