[ Sweetwaters Serena Camp, Samburu Sopa Lodge, Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge, Mara Sopa Lodge, Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge, Amboseli Sopa Lodge ]
At a glance
This safari combines 5 of the best national parks in Kenya as above, the largest stock of animals in Africa being in the Masai Mara National Reserve. Samburu National Reserve is home to lions, leopards, the rare and unusual reticulated giraffe, not to mention hundreds of types of birds and other animals. It belongs to those who really want to venture in Kenya safari for lots of wildlife encounter, culture experience and without being in early but to fully explore the country extensively.
Detailed trip itinerary
Day 1: Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Sweetwaters Serena Camp (Fullboard)
You will be picked up from your hotel of your choice in Nairobi City or upon your arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) early in the morning before 07:00 to commence for about four hours travel to Ol Pejeta Conservancy where you will arrive time for game viewing to the camp for relaxation then lunch.
The Conservancy boasts the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa, and in 2013 reached a population milestone of 100 black rhino. It also houses the two remaining northern white rhino in the world, who were moved here from Dvůr Králové Zoo in the Czech Republic. The Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary is situated here, and provides a haven for orphaned, abandoned and rescued chimpanzees. It is the only place in Kenya where these great apes can be seen.
In the afternoon game drive from 15:30 would take you close as possible to these rare wildlife in the conservancy reverting for dinner and overnight in the camp at 18:30. A view of close Mount Kenya from Ol Pejeta Conservancy is frequently seen except when is overcast day.
- Game Drives - Day & Night
- Bush Walks
- Visit the Chimpanzee Sanctuary
- Swimming Pool
- Cultural Visits
- Private Waterhole + Night Viewing Bar
- Conference Room
- Wedding Planning + Honeymoon Venue
- Gift Shop, Business Center, Wi-Fi
- Baby Sitting Services
- 24Hrs On-Call Medical Services
- Camel treks, guided nature treks, bird spotting
Embrace the awe-inspiring natural beauty of your surroundings, and set the stage for a visit you won’t soon forget. Located within the sprawling Ol Pejeta Conservancy, one of Kenya’s most noteworthy conservancies and home to the ‘Big Five’ (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard), Sweetwaters Serena Camp offers a holiday experience unlike any other.
Framed by picturesque views of Mount Kenya, Serena Sweetwaters tented accommodation offers a tranquil respite in the wild, with ensuite bathrooms, free Wi-Fi and a private balcony or veranda. Begin or end your day with a delicious meal and superb views at our light-filled restaurant, enjoy a guided game drive on the conservancy, indulge in a massage in our treatment room or simply relax by the pool. With a dedicated event venue, modern facilities and exceptional planning services, Sweetwaters Serena tented camp is one of central Kenya’s most stunning destinations for weddings and corporate retreats with a difference. The unparalleled location in Ol Pejeta Conservancy facilitates exploration and discovery of the spectacular wildlife for which this region is famous. We look forward to helping you create cherished memories at Sweetwaters Serena Camp.
Ol Pejeta is one of the prime sanctuaries of Laikipia Plateau and all of the Big Five are present. Its highlights include the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa; a population of southern white rhino; a refuge for the last two northern white rhino left in the world; and Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, housing orphaned and abandoned chimpanzees.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy offers excellent wildlife-viewing opportunities. All of the Big Five are here and sightings of both black rhino and white rhino are common. It has some of the highest predator densities in the region, and aside from the big cats, there is a chance of seeing wild dogs. Other endangered species here include the beisa oryx, Jackson's hartebeest and Grevy's zebra.
Full List of Mammals found in Ol Pejeta Conservancy
- Aardvark
- African Ground Squirrel
- African Wild Cat
- Ankole Cattle
- Black Rhino
- Bush Duiker
- Caracal
- Chimpanzee
- Common Warthog
- Eland
- Leopard
- Lion
- Olive/Anubis Baboon
- Patas Monkey
- Savanna Elephant
- Senegal Bushbaby
- Sengi sp.
- Serval
- Southern White Rhino
- Steinbuck
- Striped Hyaena
- Tree Hyrax
- Vervet Monkey
With more than 500 species recorded, Ol Pejeta Conservancy is a bird-watcher's paradise. Early morning and afternoon bird walks can be organized at the lodges (maximum six people), but on game drives, the main focus tends to be on large animals so it might be worth booking a private vehicle if bird watching is your main interest.
- Abdim's Stork
- African Black Duck
- African Goshawk
- African Grass Owl
- African Green Pigeon
- African Harrier-Hawk
- African Hawk-Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Open-billed Stork
- African Scops Owl
- African Snipe
- Bateleur
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Kite
- Black Stork
- Black-chested Snake Eagle
- Black-headed Heron
- Blacksmith Lapwing
- Black-winged Lapwing
- "Black-winged Kite"
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- BUttonQUaiLS
- Caspian Plover
- CHaRaDRiifoRmeS: turnicidae
- Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater
- Collared Pratincole
- Common Buttonquail
- Common Greenshank
- Common Kestrel
- Common Ostrich
- Common Quail
- Common Redshank
- Common Sandpiper
- Common Swift
- Crested Francolin
- Crowned Lapwing
- Dusky Turtle Dove
- Eastern Chanting Goshawk
- Egyptian Goose
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- Eurasian Hobby
- Eurasian Marsh Harrier
- European Bee-eater
- Gabar Goshawk
- Great Egret
- Great White Pelican
- Greater Kestrel
- Grey Crowned Crane
- Grey Heron
- Grey-headed Gull
- Harlequin Quail
- Helmeted Guineafowl
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Hottentot Teal
- Intermediate Egret
- JaCana
- Kittlitz's Plover
- Klaas's Cuckoo
- Knob-billed Duck
- Lanner Falcon
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Laughing Dove
- Lesser Kestrel
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Swift
- Long-crested Eagle
- Maccoa Duck
- Martial Eagle
- Meyer's (Brown) Parrot
- Montagu's Harrier
- Mottled Swift
- Namaqua Dove
- Northern Shoveler
- Nyanza Swift
- Pallid Harrier
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pennant-winged Nightjar
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Red-billed Teal
- Red-eyed Dove
- Reed (Long-tailed) Cormorant
- Ring-necked Dove
- Rüppell's Vulture
- Scaly Francolin
- Scissor-tailed Kite
- Senegal Lapwing
- Shelley's Francolin
- Shikra
- Speckled Mousebird
- Spotted Eagle-Owl
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steppe Eagle
- Striated Heron
- Tawny Eagle
- Temminck's Courser
- Three-banded Plover
- Verreaux's Eagle-Owl
- Vulturine Guineafowl
- Western Cattle Egret
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- White-breasted Cormorant
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-winged Tern
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Stork
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
Day 2: Samburu National Reserve, Samburu Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
Early after breakfast you would depart at 8:00 to Samburu National Reserve where you would arrive time for lunch. The whole afternoon from 15:30 game drive would follow until time for dinner and overnight in Sopa Samburu Lodge at 18:30.
- Bar Lounge
- Nature Walks
- Game Drives
- Sundowners
- Swimming Pool
- Bush Dining
Located inside the Samburu National Reserve in Northern Kenya, Samburu Sopa lodge is built atop high ground allowing panaromic views of the vastness of Samburu shrub land and the hills beyond. The lodge is built to reflect the architectural heritage of the local communities whose sons and daughters make up the majority of the work force at the lodge. Fifteen cottages, each with two bedrooms are built in an arch formation on either side of the public areas to surround the waterhole but leaving a wide gap to allow the animals free movement to the water.
Samburu is the most popular reserve in northern Kenya. Wildlife viewing is good, and most big safari animals are easily spotted. The arid environment is home to a variety of north Kenya specials – both birds and mammals. A village visit to a nearby Samburu homestead is a worthwhile activity. Samburu offers great wildlife viewing and four of the Big Five are present. Rhinos are absent, but big herds of elephant cross the reserve. Of the big cats, leopards are very rewarding with some habituated individuals giving high-quality sightings. Most interesting are the northern Kenya specials including beisa oryx, lesser kudu, reticulated giraffe, Grevy's zebra and the odd-looking gerenuk.
Full List of Mammals found in Samburu National Reserve
- Aard-wolf
- African Buffalo
- African Civet
- African Dormouse
- African Elephant
- African Wild Cat
- Aftrican Hare
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Banana Bat or African
- Banded Mongoose
- Bat-eared Fox
- Beisa Oryx
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black-backed or Silver-backed jackal
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Blue Duiker
- Blue or Sykes’ Monkey
- Burchell’s or Common Zebra
- Bush Baby
- Bush Duiker
- Bush or Large-spotted Genet
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Caracal
- Cheetah
- Clawless Otter
- Common and Defassa
- Common Waterbuck
- Dwarf Mongoose
- East African Red Squirrel
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- False Vampire Bat
- Gerenuk
- Golden Jackal
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Greater Galago
- Grevy’s Zebra
- Guenther’s Dik-dik
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Intermediates between
- Kirk’s Dik-dik
- Klipspringer
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Large Grey Mongoose
- Leopard
- Lesser Kudu
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Lion
- Marsh Mongoose
- Mongoose
- Naked Mole Rat
- Neumann’s or Small-spotted Genet
- Olive Baboon
- Pale-bellied Fruit Bat
- Pipistrelle
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Red Duiker
- Reticulated Giraffe
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval
- Side-striped Jackal
- Slender or Black-tipped
- Spectacled Elephant Shrew
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Striped Hyaena
- Tree Hyrax
- Unstriped Ground Squirrel
- Warthog
- Waterbucks
- Whie-bellied Tomb Bat
- White-bellied Free-tailed Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Yellow-winged Bat
- Zorilla
There have been more than 390 bird species recorded in Samburu and Buffalo Springs national reserves. The reserves protect a variety of habitats, home to different bird species including arid acacia savannah, scrub and gallery forest alongside the Uaso Nyiro River. The dry, open country offers very rewarding birding opportunities and boasts a number of northeast African dry-country species shared with Ethiopia and Somalia, such as vulturine guineafowl, Somali bee-eater and golden-breasted starling.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- African Barn Owl Single record
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Hawk Eagle Rare
- African Hoopoe
- African Marsh Owl
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Rock Martin
- African Sand Martin
- African Scops Owl
- Angola Swallow
- Arrow-marked Babbler
- Ashy Cisticola
- Ashy Flcatcher
- Banded Martin
- Banded Tit-warbler
- Bare-eyed Thrush
- Barred Warbler
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black Rough-wing Swallow
- Black-backed Puff-back
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Black-breasted Glossy Starling
- 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-throated Wattle-eye
- Blue-capped Cordon-bleu
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-eared Starling
- Blue-faced Waxbill
- Blue-headed Wagtail and races
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Booted Eagle Rare visitor
- Bristle Crowned Starling
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronze-winged Courser
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Parrot
- Brown-breasted Barbet
- Brown-hooded Kingfisher
- Brown-throated Barbet
- Buffalo Weaver
- Buff-backed Heron or Cattle Egret
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Buff-crested Bustard
- Bunting
- Button Quail
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Carmine Be-eater
- Caspian Plover
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chestnut-backed Sparrow Lark
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chestnut-headed Sparrow Lark
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted Rock
- Collared Sunbird
- Common Sandpiper
- Cream-coloured Courser
- Crested Francolin
- Crombec
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Cut-throat
- D’Arnaud’s Barbet
- Didric Cuckoo
- Donaldson-Smith’s Nightjar
- Donaldson-Smith’s Sparrow
- Drongo
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky Nightjar
- Dwarf or Lesser Brown-necked
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Emerald Cuckoo
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- Ethiopian Swallow
- European Bee-eater
- European Black Kite
- European Common Wheatear
- European Cuckoo
- European Golden Oriole
- European Hobby Spring
- European Hoopoe
- 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 Willow Warbler
- Fan-tailed Raven
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fire-fronted Bishop
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fischer’s Straw-tailed Whydah
- Flappet Lark
- Freckled Nightjar
- Gabar Goshawk
- Garden Warbler
- Giant Kingfisher
- Golden Pipit
- Golden Weaver
- Golden-breasted Starling
- Goliath Heron
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Great White Egret
- Greater Honeyguide
- Greater or White-eyed Kestrel
- Great-spotted Cuckoo
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Heron
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey Tit
- Grey Woodpecker
- Grey Wren Warbler
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Silverbill
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Grey-headed Sparrow
- Grey-rumped Swallow
- Hadada Ibis
- Half-collared Kingfisher
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Heuglin’s Bustard
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Honey Buzzard
- Hooded Vulture
- Hunter’s Sunbird
- Indigo-bird
- Issabeline Wheatear
- Jameson’s Fire Finch
- Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Kori Bustard
- Lammergeyer
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Layard’s Black-headed Weaver
- Leser Spotted Eagle Rare
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Swift
- Little Tawny Pipit
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-billed Pipit
- Long-crested Hawk Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Magpie Starling
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Martial Eagle
- Masked Weaver
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Mottled Swift
- Mourning Dove
- Mouse-coloured Penduline Tit
- Namaqua Dove
- Narina’s Trogon
- Night Heron
- Northern Brownbul
- Northern Brubru
- Northern White-tailed Lark
- Nubian Nightjar Uncommon
- Nubian or Lappet-faced
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Nyanza Swift
- Olive Thrush
- Olive-tree Warbler
- Open-bill Stork
- Orange-bellied Parrot
- Osprey
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Pale Flycatcher
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Swift
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Pennant-wing Nightjar
- Peregrine
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-breasted Lark
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Nightjar
- Pratincole
- Purple Grenadier
- Pygmy Falcon
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Pygmy Puff-back Flycatcher
- Rattling Cisticola
- Raven
- Red and Yellow Barbet
- Red-backed Scrub Robin
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Hornbill
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-capped Chat
- Red-capped Lark
- 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
- Robin Chat
- Rosy-patched Shrike
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Ruppell’s Long-tailed Starling
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork
- Scimitar-bill
- Secretary Bird
- Senegal Plover
- Shikra
- Shining Sunbird
- Silverbill
- Silverbird
- Singing Bush Lark
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- Smaller Black-bellied Sunbird
- Somali Bee-eater
- Somali Fiscal
- Somali Golden-breasted Bunting
- Somali Ostrich
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Morning Warbler
- Spotted Stone Curlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Steel-blue Whydah
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stone Partridge
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Swahili Sparrow
- Swallow-tailed Kite
- Taita Fiscal
- Tambourine Dove
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck’s Courser
- Three-banded Plover
- Three-streaked Tchagra
- Thrush Nightingale or Sprosser
- Tiny Cisticola
- Tropical Boubou
- Two-banded Courser
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Verreaux’z Eagle
- Violet-backed Starling
- Vitelline Masked Weaver
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Vulture
- Vulturine Guinea-fowl
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Water Dikkop
- Wattled Starling
- Waxbill
- Weaver
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Go-away-bird
- White-breasted Tit
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Robin Chat
- White-browed Sparrow Weaver
- White-crowned Shrike
- White-faced Scops Owl
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-headed Mousebird
- White-headed Vulture
- White-naped Raven
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-throated Robin
- White-winged Scrub Robin
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-Billed Stork
- Wooly-necked Stork
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow White-eye
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-billed Hornbill
- Yellow-billed Oxpecker
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Yellow-rumped Seed-eater
- Yellow-spotted Petronia
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
- Yellow-vented Eremomela
Day 3: Samburu National Reserve, Samburu Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
You would depart to the wilderness after tea or coffee and a snack at 16:30 for early morning game drive and revert back for breakfast at 08:30 followed by another game drive until time for lunch. After a rest you would leave for evening game drive at 15:30 until time for dinner and overnight in the lodge at 18:30 hours.
Day 4: Lake Nakuru National Park, Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
After full breakfast you would depart at 08:00 to Lake Nakuru National Park where you would arrive time for lunch. The entire afternoon from 15:30 would be spend in this highly populated park with some of the world endangered spices of white and black rhinoceros, other many animals and birds like the flamingos, pelicans and many more habitants resorting to overnight in the lodge at 18:30
- Game Drives
- Bar Lounge
- Baby sitting facilities
- Conferences & Meetings
- Nature Walks
- Swimming Pool
- Wheelchair Accessible Rooms
- Weddings & Special Events
- Sundowners
- Personal Mini-Bars
Located on a range of hills that form the western limits of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, the lodge offers spectacular views over the vastness of Africa. The lodge also overlooks Lake Nakuru and its surrounding National Park, one that is a paradise for bird watchers and wildlife lovers alike. Lake Nakuru National Park is mainly a wooded and bushy grassland with a wide ecological diversity and characteristic habitats that range from the lake waters to the escarpment and ridges.
A multitude of animals and birds can be found in Lake Nakuru National Park, including white and black rhinos and the rare Rothschild’s giraffes. The lounge, bar and dining room have extensive sheltered outdoor terraces. The infinity swimming pool overlooks the lake and has a pool bar. Board games are available and there is a gift shop and wi-fi. Nature walks are a wonderful way to appreciate the locality.
Scenic Lake Nakuru is Kenya’s most popular national park. The park’s main feature is a large, shallow lake supporting great birdlife, including big flocks of pelicans and variable flocks of flamingos. The lake was once famous for its flamingos, however, since 2012, conditions have become unfavorable for these birds and most have moved to other Rift Valley lakes.
Full List of Mammals found in Lake Nakuru National Park
- Aard-wolf Rare
- African Buffalo Rare
- African Civet
- African Dormouse
- African Hare
- African Mouse-eared Bat
- African Trident Bat
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Ant Bear
- Banana Bat or African
- Bat-eared Fox
- Black and White Colobus
- Black-backed or Silver-backed Jackal
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Blue or Sykes’ Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Burchell’s or Common Zebra
- Bush Baby
- Bush Duiker
- Bush or Large-spotted Genet
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Cane Rat
- Chanler’s Reedbuck
- Cheetah
- Defassa Waterbuck
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- False Vampire Bat
- Genet
- Giant Rat
- Giant White-toothed Shrew
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Kenya Mole Rat
- Kirk’s Dik-dik
- Klipspringer
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Leopard
- Lesser Ground Pangolin
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Long-eared Leaf-nosed Bat
- Marsh Mongoose
- Mongoose
- Neumann’s or Small-spotted
- Olive Baboon
- Pipistrelle
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger Rare
- Rock Hyrax
- Rothschild’s Giraffe
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Serval
- Side-striped Jackal
- Slender or Black-tipped
- Spectacled Elephant Shrew
- Spotted Hyaena
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Thompson’s Gazelle
- Tree Hyrax
- White-bellied Tomb Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Yellow-winged Bat
- Zorilla
Lake Nakuru is a great birding destination with more than 500 species recorded. The soda lake is a birding hotspot and supports a lot of birdlife, including large flocks of pelicans. Unfortunately, flamingos are no longer the drawcard here as unfavorable conditions have driven many of them to other Rift Valley lakes. Nakuru is also one of the best places in Kenya to see the striking, long-tailed widowbird. There is a good variety of raptors including Verreaux’s and long-crested eagle.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Nightjar
- African Barn Owl
- African Black Kite
- African Citril
- African Crake
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Golden Oriole
- African Goshawk
- African Hobby
- African Hoopoe
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Marsh Owl Rare
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Pochard
- African Rock Martin
- African Sand Martin
- African Scops Owl
- African Skimmer
- African Snipe
- African Spoonbill
- African Wood Owl Rare
- Allen’s Gallinule
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Angola Swallow
- Anteater Chat
- Ashy Flycatcher
- Augur Buzzard
- Avocet
- Banded Martin
- Banded Tit-warbler
- Bat Hawk Rare
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Beautiful Sunbird
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black Cockoo Shrike
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Rough-wing Swallow
- Black-backed Puff-back
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Black-cap Warbler
- Black-cheeked Waxbill
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-throated Wattle-eye
- Black-winged Plover
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed Wagtail
- Booted Eagle
- Brimstone Canary
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Tit-warbler
- Brown-backed Woodpecker
- Brown-headed Tchagra
- Buffalo Weaver
- Buff-backed Heron or Cattle Egret
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Bunting
- Button Quail
- Cape Grass Owl Rare
- Cape Quail
- Cape Rook
- Cape Wigeon
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- CaspianPlover
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted Rock
- Cliff Chat
- Collared Sunbird
- Common Sandpiper
- Coqui Francolin
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Curlew
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Cut-throat
- D’ Arnauds Barbet
- Didric Cuckoo
- Drongo
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dwarf Bittern Rare
- 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 Hobby
- European Hoopoe
- European House Martin
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Nightjar
- European Pintail
- European Rock Thrush
- European Roller
- European Sand Martin
- European Sedge Warbler
- European Shoveler
- European Spotted Flycatcher
- European Swallow
- European Teal
- European Whinchat
- European White-throat
- European Wigeon
- European Willow Warbler
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fiscal Shrike
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fulvous Tree Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Gadwall Rare
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey Teal
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Goliath Heron Rare visitor
- Great Snipe
- Great Sparrow Hawk
- Great White Egret
- Great-crested Grebe
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Honeyguide
- Greater or White-eyed Kestrel
- Greater Swamp Warbler
- Great-spotted Cuckoo
- Green Coucal or Yellow-bill
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Cuckoo Shrike
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Heron
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey Plover
- Grey Woodpecker
- Grey Wren Warbler
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Grey-capped Warbler
- Grey-crested Helmet Shrike
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Gull
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Sparrow
- Grey-rumped Swallow
- Ground Hornbill
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hadada Ibis
- Half-collared Kingfisher Rare
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Hildebrandt’s Francolin
- Holub’s Golden Weaver
- Honey Buzzard
- Hooded Vulture
- Horus Swift
- Hottentot Teal
- Indigo-bird
- Issabeline Wheatear
- Jackson’s bustard
- Jackson’s Widow-bird
- Kaffir Rail
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Knob-billed Duck
- Lanner
- Laughing Dove
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Flamingo
- Lesser Grey Shrike Spring
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lesser Moorhen
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Bittern Uncommon
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-billed Pipit
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Maccoa Duck
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Malachite Sunbird
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Martial Eagle
- Masked Weaver
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Moorhen
- Mosque Swallow
- Mottled Swift
- Mouse-coloured Penduline Tit
- Namaqua Dove
- Narina’s Trogon
- Night Heron
- Northern Brubru
- Northern White-tailed Lark
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Nubian Woodpecker
- numbers
- Nyanza Swift
- Olive Thrush
- on Baboon Rock cliffs
- Painted Snipe
- Pallid Harrier
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Parrot-billed Sparrow
- passage migrant
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Pennant-wing Nightjar
- Peregrine
- Pied Crow
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-breasted Dove
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Nightjar
- Pratincole
- Puff-back Shrike
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Grenadier
- Purple Heron
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Quail Finch
- Rattling Cisticola
- 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-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red-naped Widow-bird
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Redshank
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Pipit
- Red-throated Tit
- Red-winged Starling
- Reef Heron Two examples in
- Reichenow’s Weaver
- Rey-headed Silverbill
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ringed Plover
- Ring-necked Dove
- Robin Chat
- Rosy-breasted Longclaw
- Ruff
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-backed Mannikin
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Rufous-naped Lark
- Ruppel’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork
- Sandy Plain-backed Pipit
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Schalow’s Wheatear
- Scimitar-bill
- Secretary Bird
- Silverbill
- Singing Cisticola
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Speckle-fronted Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Speke’s Weaver
- Spotted Creeper Rare
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Stone Cerlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Spur-wing Goose
- Spurwing Plover
- Squacco Heron
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stonechat
- Stout Cisticola
- Streaky Seed-eater
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Swallow
- Tambourine Dove
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck’s Courser
- Temminck’s Stint
- Three-banded Plover
- Thrush Nightingale or Sprosser
- Tinkling Cisticola
- Tree Pipit
- Tropical Boubou
- Tufted Duck
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Verreaux’s Eagle Pair resident
- Violet-backed Starling
- Viteline Masked Weaver
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
- Wattled Starling
- Waxbill
- Well’s Wagtail
- Whiskered Tern
- White Pelican
- White Stork
- White-backed Vulture
- White-bellied Bustard
- 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 Rare
- White-faced Tree Duck
- White-fronted Bee-eater
- White-headed Rough-wing
- White-headed Vulture
- White-nape Raven
- White-necked Cormorant
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-throated Robin Rare
- White-winged Black Tern
- White-winged Scrub Robin
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed Stork
- Wood Sandpiper
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow White-eye
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Yellow-rumped Seed-eater
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 5: Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Mara Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
This day you will switch gears to Masai Mara National Reserve to arrive in the lodge time for lunch and the afternoon from 15:30 afternoon game drive covering parts of Masai Mara National Reserve with chances of spotting resident wild game like the black Rhino and cats reverting back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Game Drives
- Bush Dining
- Bird Watching
- Nature Walks
- Hot air balloon safaris
- Card & Board games
- Bar Lounge
- Outdoor boma dining area
- Swimming pool
- Gift shop
- Conference facilities
Located high on the slopes of the Oloolaimutia Hills, Masai Mara Sopa Lodge was one of the first safari lodges to be built in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, a reason why its gardens and trees are so lush and mature. All the buildings follow the design of traditional African round houses with conical roofs, and these stretch along the line of the hills with the impressively large public area buildings and the swimming pool at their centre.
The Lodge comprises 50 Guest Cottages with two bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms, 6 of which feature 2 larger luxurious Suites, and one decadent Honeymoon Suite. Built Masai-style with rustic thatch roofs and spread out along the hilltop, features include mosquito nets, an electronic safe and private verandah. A restaurant, bar and lounge encircle a huge fireplace at the main lodge where wide glass doors open on to a swimming pool and sun terrace. Dinners are served buffet-style with a wide selection of traditional fare.
Nairobi National Park has a good variety of wildlife. Apart from elephants, most big safari animals are present. There is a very good chance of seeing rhino. White rhino are easiest to spot as they graze on the open plains, but the park is one of Kenya’s most successful sanctuaries for black rhino, which like to keep hidden in the thickets.
Full List of Mammals found in Nairobi
- Short-snouted Elephant Shrew
- Marsh Mongoose
- Impala
- East African Hedgehog
- Dwarf Mongoose
- Thompson’s Gazelle
- Giant White-toothed Shrew
- Slender or Black-tipped
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Rousette Fruit Bat
- Mongoose
- Bushbuck
- Epauletted Fruit Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Eland
- White-bellied Tomb Bat
- Aard-wolf Rare
- African Buffalo
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Spotted Hyaena
- False Vampire Bat
- Striped Hyaena
- African Hare
- Yellow-winged Bat
- Cheetah
- Cane Rat
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Caracal
- Porcupine
- Banana Bat or African
- African Wild Cat
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Pipistrelle
- Serval
- Bush Squirrel
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Lion
- Spring Hare
- Angola Free-tailed Bat
- Leopard
- African Dormouse
- White-bellied Free-tailed Bat
- Ant Bear
- Giant Rat
- Greater Galago
- Tree Hyrax
- Kenya Mole Rat
- Bush Baby
- Rock Hyrax
- African Palm Civet
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Black Rhinoceros
- African Civet
- Sykes’ Monkey
- Burchell’s or Common Zebra
- Neumann’s or Small-spotted
- Olive Baboon
- Hippopotamus
- Genet
- Black and White Colobus
- Warthog
- Bush or Large-spotted Genet
- Masai Giraffe
- Coke’s Hartebeest or Kongoni
- Hunting Dog
- White-bearded Gnu or Wildebeest
- Chanler’s Reedbuck A small
- Black-backed or Silver-backed
- Jackal
- Bush Duiker
- Defassa Waterbuck
- Bat-eared Fox
- Klipspringer
- Zorilla
- Suni
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Steinbok
- Clawless Otter
- Kirk’s Dik-dik
- Common Waterbuck
With over 500 bird species recorded, Nairobi NP probably gives Kenya’s capital the longest bird list of all cities in the world. The park’s substantial area of undisturbed grassland is of great importance for species such as the restricted-range Jackson’s widowbird, which breeds here regularly after good rains. Other grassland birds include ostriches, secretary birds and bustards. Nairobi NP is a popular birding destination and it’s easy to book a full or half day guided birding trip at short notice.
- African finfoot
- Bat hawk
- Black-faced sandgrouse
- Boran cisticola
- Buff-crested bustard
- Golden palm weaver (E)
- Golden-breasted starling
- Grant’s wood-hoopoe
- Hinde's pied babbler (E)
- Martial eagle
- Northern pied babbler
- Palm-nut vulture
- Pel’s fishing-owl
- Rufous chatterer
- Saddle-billed stork
- Somali bee-eater
- Somali ostrich
- Taita fiscal
- Vulturine guineafowl
- Yellow-necked spurfowl
- Somali Ostrich
- Red-necked Falcon
- Little Grebe
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed Stork
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- African Darter
- Sacred Ibis
- European Kestrel
- Black-headed Heron
- Hadada Ibis
- Lesser Kestrel
- Buff-backed Heron
- African Black Duck
- Pygmy Falcon
- Cattle Egret
- Egyptian Goose
- European Black Kite
- Great White Egret
- Secretary Bird
- African Black Kite
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Green-backed Heron
- White-backed Vulture
- Steppe Eagle
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Tawny Eagle
- Hamerkop
- White-headed Vulture
- Wahlberg’s Eagle
- White Stork Egyptian Vulture
- African Hawk Eagle
- Abdim’s Stork
- Hooded Vulture
- Martial Eagle
- Lanner
- Long-crested Eagle
- Marabou Stork
- European Kestrel
- Lizard Buzzard
- Saddlebill Stork
- Lesser Kestrel
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Scimitar-bill
- Bateleur
- Lichtenstein’s Sandgrouse
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- Augur Buzzard
- Speckled Pigeon
- African Marsh Owl
- African Fish Eagle
- Red-eyed Dove
- African Scops Owl
- Palm-nut Vulture
- Mourning Dove
- White-faced Scops Owl
- Steppe Buzzard Uncommon
- Ring-necked Dove
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Winter visitor
- Laughing Dove
- Barred Owlet
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Namaqua Dove
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Shikra
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- Pel’s Fishing Owl Occurs along
- Gabar Goshawk
- Green Pigeon
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- European Cuckoo
- Europan Nightjar
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Dusky Nightjar
- Pallid Harrier
- African Cuckoo
- Donaldson-Smith’s Nightjar
- European Marsh Harrier
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Nubian Nightjar
- Black Cuckoo
- Plain Nightjar
- Great Spotted Cuckoo
Day 6: Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Mara Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
Very early in the morning at 05:15 sumptuous breakfast will be ready then at 05:45 depart for your full day long hunt of the wild game in the Maasai Mara National Reserve (Narok) and Maasai Mara National Reserve (Trans Mara) depending on the availability of the game. Lunch will be at a designate place under a tree in raised plain area or by the riverbank. There is a somewhat almost primal joy about eating a meal in the raw wilderness of the African savannah whose views are framed by stunning landscapes and magnificent wildlife.
Packed or Picnic Lunch: Usually arranged during a full day game outing in the reserve so that one does not have to go back to the lodge or camp for lunch, the meal itself is in the form of packed lunch boxes which are provided by your camp or lodge by prior arrangement the night before to allow them adequate time to prepare the meal boxes. Though the meal itself is typically simple though satisfying, the often scenic setting in the wild makes this a truly memorable meal. Most of lodges and camps in wilderness provide this meal at no extra cost in lieu of lunch in their respective restaurants.
Game viewing game drives shall continue reverting back time for dinner and overnight in the lodge at 18:30.
Day 7: Lake Naivasha, Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
This day of the Kenyan Safari you will wake up for breakfast then depart at 07:00 to Lake Naivasha Crescent Camp where you would arrive for lunch. In the afternoon from 15:30 you would have a tour of the lake by motorised boat to see the resident aquatic animals like the hippopotamus, fishes like the tilapia, resident birds and you proceed to the tour Crescent Island touring by foot guided by armed game rangers. This island is a home of a home animals like major antelopes, common zebras, maasai giraffes and many more then tour a tour by bat back to the Lake Naivasha Crescent Island for dinner and overnight at the camp 18:30.
- 45 high-ceilinged suites, 43 Junior Suites
- Excuisite Dining & Bar Lounge
- Serenity Spa & Treatments
- Conference Facilities and Meeting Rooms
- Swimming Pool
- VIP Transfers
Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge is located on the southern shore of Lake Naivasha. The lodge is part of Sopa Lodges. It is set on 150 acres characterized by acacia bushes and trees. Animals such as giraffes, waterbucks, Vervet and Colobus monkeys, and hippos roam the lodge making for an authentic wilderness experience whilst enjoying all the comforts a modern lodge has to offer.
The lodge was designed with the preservation of nature in mind. Most buildings were built around the trees and bushes instead of clearing such flora. This led to unique designs for the buildings as well as various amenities being spread out in patches across the 55 acres.
Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge has 21 cottages with each having 2 ground floor rooms and 2 upper floor rooms adding up to 84 rooms. 6 of the 21 cottages have interconnecting rooms which makes them ideal for families. 2 of the rooms are wheelchair accessible. The rooms have either king-size or queen-size beds. Stone walls with creepers and bougainvilleas are quintessential to the design of the cottages.
All rooms have large frontal windows, TVs, mini-bars, hairdryers, telephones, electronic safes, tea and coffee making facilities, and spacious, open-air verandas. Some rooms have sunken bathtubs.
Fresh-water Lake Naivasha, only 80km (50 miles) from Nairobi, is a bird-watcher’s paradise. It is also the most beautiful of Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes with its fringing banks of feathery-headed papyrus, secluded lagoons and channels, blue water-lilies and the Crescent Island Wildlife Sanctuary. Water birds exist in great variety and abundance.
Full List of Mammals found in Lake Naivasha
- Aard-wolf
- African Buffalo Hell’s Gate
- African Civet
- African Hare
- African Mole Rat
- Bat-eared Fox
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Bush Duiker
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Chanler’s Reedbuck
- Clawless Otter
- Coke’s Hartebeest
- Common Zebra
- Defassa Waterbuck
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Hippopotamus
- Impala
- Jackals
- Kirk’s Dik-dik
- Klipspringer Hell’s Gate
- Large-spotted Genet
- Marsh Mongoose
- Masai Giraffe
- Olive Baboon
- Porcupine
- Rock Hyrax
- Serval
- Small-spotted Genet
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Thompson’s Gazelle
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Zorilla
Fish Eaglesand Ospreys are resident, herons and egrets are well represented, Lily-trotters, Purple Galinules, Red-knobbed Coots and Black Crakes are common. African Marsh Harriers and the three migrant Harriers are often seen sailing just above the reed beds, hunting the little Hyperolius tree frogs which form the bulkof their diet.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- African Black Duck
- African Black Kite
- African Cuckoo
- African Darter
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana or Lily-trotter
- African Kestrel He
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Marsh Owl
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Porchard
- African Skimmer
- African Snipe
- African Spoonbill
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Anteater Chat
- Augur Buzzard
- Avocet
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black Heron Rare visitor
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-necked Grebe
- Black-necked Weaver
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-tailed Godwit
- Black-winged Plover
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed Coucal
- Blue-headed Wagtail
- Brimstone Canary
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Tit-warbler
- Buff-backed Heron or
- Bunting
- Cape Quail
- Cape Wigeon
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover
- Cattle Egret
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted Rock
- Collared Sunbird
- Common Sandpiper
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Curlew Sandpiper
- Didric Cuckoo
- Drongo
- Dusky Nightjar
- Dwarf Bittern
- Egyptian Goose
- Egyptian Vulture
- Emerald Cuckoo
- Emerald-spotted Wood Dove
- European Bee-eater
- European Black Kite
- European Black Stork Rare
- European Common Snipe
- European Cuckoo
- European Hobby
- European Kestrel
- European Marsh Harrieer
- European Nightjar
- European Pintail
- European Roller
- European Shoveler
- Fiscal Shrike
- Fischer’s Lovebird Common
- Fulvous Tree Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Garganey Teal
- Giant Kingfisher
- Glossy Ibis
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Golden-winged Sunbird
- Goliath Heron
- Great Snipe
- Great White Egret
- Great-crested Grebe
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Honeyguide
- Greater or White-eyed Kes
- Greater Swamp Warbler
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Heron
- Grey Woodpecker
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Grey-capped Warbler
- Grey-headed Gull
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Ground Hornbill
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Hell’s Gate
- Hell’s Gate
- Helmeted Guinea Fowl
- Hildebrandt’s Francolin
- Holub’s Golden Weaver
- Hooded Vulture
- Horus Swift
- Hottentot Teal
- Indigo-bird
- Kaffir Rail
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Knob-billed Duck
- Lammergeyer
- Lanner
- Lappet-faced Vulture
- Laughing Dove
- Lesser Black-backed Gull
- Lesser Flamingoes
- Lesser Grey Shrike
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel
- Lesser Spotted Eagle
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Maccoa Duck
- Madagascar Bee-eater
- Malachite Kingfisher
- Malachite Sunbird
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Martial Eagle Rare visitor
- Masai Ostrich
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Moorhen
- Mottled Swift
- Night Heron
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Nyanza Swift
- Olive Thrush
- Open-bill Stork
- Osprey
- Painted Snipe
- Pallid Harrier
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisti
- Peregrine
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Pratincole
- Purple Gallinule
- Purple Grenadier
- Purple Heron
- Pygmy Goose
- Pygmy Kingfisher
- Quail Finch
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red-billed Duck
- Red-billed Fire Finch
- Red-billed Oxpecker
- Red-billed Quelea
- Red-breasted Wryneck
- Red-capped Lark
- Red-cheeked Cordon-bleu
- Red-chested Cuckoo
- Red-eyed Dove
- Red-faced Crombec
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red-wing Starling
- Reichenow’s Weaver
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ringed Plover
- Ring-necked Dove
- Robin Chat
- Ruff
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Rufous-na
- Ruppell’s Vulture
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork Rare visitor
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Schalow’s Wheatear
- Scimitar-bill
- Secretary Bird
- Spasmodic visitors only
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Spectacled Weaver
- Speke’s Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spurwing Plover
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steppe Buzzard
- Steppe Eagle
- Stork
- Streaky Seed-eater
- Striped Kingfisher
- Superb Starling
- Tambourine Dove
- Tawny Eagle
- Temminck’s Courser
- Temminck’s Stint
- Three-banded Plover
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Wattled Starling
- Waxbill
- Well’s Wagtail
- Whiskered Tern
- White Pelican
- White Stork
- White-backed Duck
- White-backed Vulture
- White-breasted Tit
- White-browed Coucal
- White-browed Robin Chat
- White-eyed Slaty Flycatcher
- White-fronted Bee-eater
- White-headed Vulture
- White-necked Cormorant
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-winged Black Tern
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed
- Wood Sandpiper
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Yellow-rumped Canary
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 8: Amboseli National Park, Amboseli Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
You would depart to south of Kenya after breakfast at 08:00 and cruise to arrive time for lunch in the lodge. All afternoon would be spend on leisure in the lodge, dinner and overnight in the lodge.
- Game Drives
- Bush & outdoor dining
- Nature walks
- Bar lounge
- Restaurant
- Swimming Pool
- Outdoor dining terrace
- Gift shop
- Cultural Visits
- Conference facilities
Set in 200 acres of private land, and with a rustic charm all of its own, the lodge nestles in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro which, at almost six thousand metres, is Africa’s highest and most famous snowcapped mountain. It was this region of Kenya that, in the 1930’s, inspired Ernest Hemingway’s unforgettable stories ‘The Snows of Kilimanjaro’ and ‘The Short, Happy Life of Francis Macomber’ which were turned into more than successful feature films in the late 1940’s due to their renowned actors. All forms of wildlife still abound in this wilderness which continues all the way to the Amboseli National Park, an easy twenty minute drive away from the lodge.
Amboseli is often called the ‘Land of Giants’ – due to the impressive elephants here carrying massive tusks. The animals are set against breathtaking vistas of Mt Kilimanjaro, which makes an awesome backdrop to the small park. Aside from elephants, many plains animals are easy to spot. Fantastic photo opportunities are possible, and early mornings are best for clear views of Kilimanjaro.
Full List of Mammals found in Amboseli National Park:
- Aard-wolf
- African Buffalo
- African Civet
- African Dormouse
- African Elephant
- African Hare
- African Wild Cat
- Angola Free-tailed Bat Inhabits
- Ant Bear
- Banana Bat or African
- Banded Mongoose
- Bat-eared Fox
- Black Rhinoceros
- Black-backed or Silver-backed Jackal
- Black-faced Vervet Monkey
- Blue or Sykes’ Monkey
- Bohor Reedbuck
- Burchell’s or Common Zebra
- Bush Baby Frequents acacia
- Bush Duiker
- Bush or Large-spotted Genet
- Bush Squirrel
- Bushbuck
- Caracal
- Cheetah
- Coke’s Hartebeest or Kongoni
- Common Waterbuck
- Dwarf Mongoose
- East African Hedgehog
- Eland
- Epauletted Fruit Bat Attracted
- False Vampire Bat Colonies
- Fringe-eared Oryx
- Gerenuk
- Giant White-toothed Shrew
- Golden Jackal The rarest of the
- Grant’s Gazelle
- Hippopotamus
- Hollow-faced Bat
- Hunting Dog
- Impala
- Kenya Mole Rat
- Kirk’s Dik-Dik
- Klipspringer
- Lander’s Horseshoe Bat
- Large Grey Mongoose
- Leopard
- Lesser Kudu
- Lesser Leaf-nosed Bat
- Lion
- Marsh Mongoose
- Masai Giraffe
- Neumann’s or Small-spotted Genet
- Pipistrelle
- Porcupine
- Ratel or Honey Badger
- Red Duiker
- Rock Hyrax
- Rousette Fruit Bat Attracted
- Serval
- Short-snouted Elephant Shrew
- Side-striped Jackal
- Slender or Black-tipped Mongoose
- Spectacled Elephant Shrew
- Spotted Hyena
- Spring Hare
- Steinbok
- Striped Ground Squirrel
- Striped Hyena
- Thompson’s Gazelle
- Tree Hyrax
- Unstriped Ground Squirrel
- Warthog
- White-bearded Gnu or Wildebeest
- White-bellied Free-tailed Bat
- White-bellied Tomb Bat
- White-tailed Mongoose
- Woodland
- Yellow Baboon
- Yellow-bellied Bat
- Yellow-winged Bat Hangs in
- Zorilla
Amboseli is a good birding destination and more than 420 species have been recorded here. The swamps are great for water-associated birds such as egrets, herons, pelicans and crowned cranes. Large numbers of flamingos may be present in the Wet seasons (March to May and October to December). The grassland areas offer some interesting ground birds such as Hartlaub’s bustard and the localized Pangani longclaw. The acacia woodland holds some dry country specials such as steel-blue whydah, white-bellied go-away bird and the Von der Decken’s hornbill.
Below is a complete list of most common birds, resident and migrant, that can be found in Amboseli National Park.
- Abdim’s Stork
- Abyssinian Scimitar-bill
- Acacia woodland
- African Black Kite
- African Darter
- African Fire Finch
- African Fish Eagle
- African Golden Oriole
- African Hawk Eagle
- African Hoopoe
- African Jacana
- African Marsh Harrier
- African Marsh Owl
- African Penduline Tit
- African Pied Wagtail
- African Pochard
- African Rock Martin Occurs
- African Sand Martin
- African Scops Owl
- African Snipe
- African Spoonbill
- Amethyst Sunbird
- Angola Swallow
- Anteater Chat
- Augur Buzzard
- Avocet
- Banded Martin
- Banded Tit-warbler
- Bare-eyed Thrush
- Barred Warbler
- Bat Hawk
- Bateleur
- Bearded Woodpecker
- Beautiful Sunbird (black-belrace)
- Black and White Cuckoo
- Black Crake
- Black Cuckoo
- Black Cuckoo Shrike
- Black Rough-wing Swallow
- Black-backed Puff-back
- Black-bellied Bustard
- Black-breasted Apalis
- Blackcap Warbler
- Black-cheeked Waxbill
- Black-chested Harrier Eagle
- Black-faced Sandgrouse
- Black-faced Waxbill
- Black-headed Heron
- Black-headed Oriole
- Black-headed Tchagra
- Black-lored Babbler
- Black-necked Weaver
- Black-shouldered Kite
- Blacksmith Plover
- Black-throated Wattle-eye
- Black-winged Stilt
- Blue-capped Cordon Bleu
- Blue-cheeked Bee-eater Un-
- Blue-eared Glossy Starling
- Blue-headed and Yellow Wagtail
- Blue-headed Coucal
- Blue-naped Mousebird
- Booted Eagle
- Brimstone Canary
- Broad-billed Roller
- Bronze Mannikin
- Bronzy Sunbird
- Brown Harrier Eagle
- Brown Parrot
- Brown-headed Tchagra
- Brown-throated Barbet
- Buffalo Weaver
- Buff-backed Heron or Cattle Egret
- Buff-bellied Warbler
- Buff-crested Bustard
- Bunting
- Button Quail
- Capped Wheatear
- Cardinal Quelea
- Cardinal Woodpecker
- Caspian Plover
- Chestnut Sparrow
- Chestnut Weaver
- Chestnut-bellied Sandgrouse
- Chin-spot Flycatcher
- Cinnamon-breasted Rock
- Cliff Chat Occurs on
- Collared Sunbird
- CommonSandpiper
- Coqui Francolin
- Crested Francolin
- Crimson-rumped Waxbill
- Crombec
- Crowned Crane
- Crowned Hawk Eagle
- Crowned Hornbill
- Crowned Plover
- Cuckoo
- Curlew Sandpiper
- D’Arnaud’s Barbet
- Didric Cuckoo
- Drongo
- Dusky Flycatcher
- Dusky Nightjar
- Dwarf Bittern
- 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 Golden Oriole
- European Hobby Uncommon
- European Hoopoe
- European Kestrel Winter visitor
- European Marsh Harrier
- European Nightingale
- European Nightjar
- European Pintail
- European Rock Thrush
- European Roller Sometimes
- European Sand Martin
- European Sedge Warbler
- European Shoveler
- European Spotted Flycatcher
- European Swallow
- European Whinchat
- European White-throat
- European Willow Warbler
- Fan-tailed Widow-bird
- Fawn-coloured Lark
- Fiscal Shrike Namanga area
- Fischer’s Sparrow Lark
- Fischer’s Starling
- Fischer’s Straw-tailed Whydah
- Flappet Lark
- Fulvous Tree Duck
- Gabar Goshawk
- Garden Warbler
- Garganey Teal
- Giant Kingfisher Uncommon
- Glossy Ibis Rare visitor
- Golden-breasted Bunting
- Goliath Heron
- Grasshopper Buzzard
- Great Reed Warbler
- Great White Egret
- Greater Flamingo
- Greater Honeyguide
- Greater or White-eyed Kestrel
- Greater Swamp Warbler
- Great-spotted Cuckoo
- Green Pigeon
- Green Sandpiper
- Green Wood Hoopoe
- Green-backed Heron
- Greenshank
- Green-winged Pytilia
- Grey Flycatcher
- Grey Heron
- Grey Hornbill
- Grey Plover
- Grey Tit
- Grey Woodpecker
- Grey Wren Warbler
- Grey-backed Camaroptera
- Grey-backed Fiscal
- Grey-capped Warbler
- Grey-headed Bush Shrike
- Grey-headed Kingfisher
- Grey-headed Silverbill Frelied
- Grey-headed Social Weaver
- Grey-rumped Swallow
- Grosbeak Weaver Swamp
- Ground Hornbill
- Gull-billed Tern
- Hadada Ibis
- Hamerkop
- Harlequin Quail
- Harrier Hawk
- Hartlaub’s Bustard
- Helmeted Guinea-fowl
- Heuglin’s Courser
- Hildebrandt’s Starling
- Holub’s Golden Weaver
- Honey Buzzard Rare visitor,
- Hooded Vulture
- Horus Swift
- Hottentot Teal
- Hunter’s Sunbird
- in varying numbers
- Indigo-bird
- Issabeline Wheatear
- Jackson’s Bustard
- Jameson’s Fire Finch
- Kaffir Rail
- Kenya Grosbeak Canary
- Kenya Violet-backed Sunbird
- Kittlitz’s Plover
- Klaas’ Cuckoo
- Knob-billed Duck
- Kori Bustard
- Lanner Visitor in small
- Laughing Dove
- Layard’s Black-headed Weaver
- Lesser Flamingo Flamingos
- Lesser Grey Shrike Passage
- Lesser Honeyguide
- Lesser Kestrel Winter visitor
- Levaillant’s Cuckoo
- Lilac-breasted Roller
- Little Bee-eater
- Little Bittern
- Little Egret
- Little Grebe
- Little Ringed Plover
- Little Sparrow Hawk
- Little Stint
- Little Swift
- Lizard Buzzard
- Long-billed Pipit
- Long-crested Eagle
- Long-tailed Cormorant
- Long-tailed Fiscal
- Long-tailed Nightjar
- Madagascar Bee-eater Visitor
- Madagascar Squacco Heron
- Malachite Kingfisher Uncommon
- Marabou Stork
- Mariqua Sunbird
- Marsh Sandpiper
- Martial Eagle
- Masai Ostrich Not uncommon
- Masked Weaver
- Montagu’s Harrier
- Moorhen
- Mosque Swallow
- Mottled Swift
- Mourning Dove
- Namaqua Dove
- Night Heron
- Northern Brownbul
- Northern Brubru
- Northern Pied Babbler
- Northern White-tailed Lark
- Nubian or Lappet-faced Vulture
- Nubian Woodpecker
- Nyanza Swift
- Oldoinyo Orok
- Olive Sunbird
- Olive Thrush
- Open-bill Stork
- Orange-bellied Parrot
- Osprey Rare visitor
- Painted Snipe
- Pale Chanting Goshawk
- Pallid Harrier
- Palm Swift
- Paradise Flycatcher
- Paradise Whydah
- Parasitic Weaver
- Parrot-billed Sparrow
- Pearl-spotted Owlet
- Pectoral-patch Cisticola
- Peregrine Visitor in small
- Pied Crow
- Pied Kingfisher
- Pied Wheatear
- Pink-backed Pelican
- Pink-breasted Lark Confined
- Pin-tailed Whydah
- Plain Nightjar
- Pratincole
- Purple Grenadier
- Purple Heron
- Pygmy Falcon Most frequent
- Pygmy Kingfisher In scrub and
- Quail Finch
- Rattling Cisticola
- Red and Yellow Barbet
- Red-back Scrub Robin
- Red-backed Shrike
- Red-billed Duck
- 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-faced Crombec
- Red-fronted Barbet
- Red-fronted Tinkerbird
- Red-headed Weaver
- Red-knobbed Coot
- Red-rumped Swallow
- Red-tailed Shrike
- Red-throated Tit
- Red-winged Starling
- Reichenow’s Weaver
- Richard’s Pipit
- Ringed Plover
- Ring-necked Dove
- Robin Chat
- Rosy-patched Shrike
- Ruff
- Rufous Chatterer
- Rufous Sparrow
- Rufous-bellied Heron
- Rufous-crowned Roller
- Ruppel’s Vulture
- Ruppell’s Long-tailed Starling
- Sacred Ibis
- Saddle-bill Stork Resident in
- Scaly-throated Honeyguide
- Scarlet-chested Sunbird
- Schalow’s Wheatear Found
- Scimitar-bill
- Secretary Bird
- Senegal Plover
- Shelley’s (Greywing) Francolin
- Shikra
- Silverbill
- Silverbird
- Singing Bush Lark
- Slate-coloured Boubou
- South African Black Flycatcher
- Southern Banded Harrier Eagle
- Speckled Mousebird
- Speckled Pigeon
- Speckled-fronted Weaver
- Spectacled Weaver
- Speke’s Weaver
- Spotted Eagle Owl
- Spotted Morning Warbler
- Spotted Redshank
- Spotted Stone Curlew
- Spotted-flanked Barbet
- Spur-winged Goose
- Squacco Heron
- Steel-Blue Whydah Dry bush
- Steppe Buzzard Winter visitor
- Steppe Eagle
- Stork
- Straight-crested Helmet Shrike
- Streaky Seed-eater
- Striped Kingfisher
- Striped Swallow
- Sulphur-breasted Bush Shrike
- Superb Starling
- Swahili Sparrow
- Swallow
- Taita Falcon Rare visitor. Has
- Taita Fiscal Dry bush country
- Tambourine Dove
- Taveta Golden Weaver
- Tawny Eagle
- Tawny-flanked Prinia
- Temminck’s Courser
- Than Peregrine
- Three-banded Plover
- Thrush Nightingale or Sprosser
- to arid bush areas
- Tropical Boubou Undergrowth
- Tufted Duck Rare winter
- Two-banded Courser
- Variable Sunbird
- Verreaux’s Eagle Owl
- Violet-backed Starling
- Vitelline Masked Weaver
- Von der Decken’s Hornbill
- Vulturine Guinea-fowl
- Wahlberg’g Eagle
- Wahlberg’s Honeyguide
- Water Dikkop
- Wattled Starling Often perch
- Waxbill
- White Pelican
- White Stork
- White-backed Duck
- 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-faced Scops Owl
- White-faced Tree Duck
- White-headed Buffalo Weaver
- White-headed Rough-wing
- White-headed Vulture
- White-naped Raven
- White-necked Cormorant Un-
- White-rumped Swift
- White-throated Bee-eater
- White-throated Robin
- White-winged Black Tern
- White-winged Scrub Robin
- White-winged Widow-bird
- Winding Cisticola
- Wire-tailed Swallow
- Wood Ibis or Yellow-billed
- Wood Sandpiper
- Wooly-necked Stork
- Yellow Bishop
- Yellow White-eye
- Yellow-bellied Eremomela
- Yellow-bellied Waxbill
- Yellow-billed Duck
- Yellow-billed Egret
- Yellow-billed Hornbill
- Yellow-crowned Bishop
- Yellow-fronted Canary
- Yellow-necked Spurfowl
- Yellow-rumped Seed-eater
- Yellow-spotted Petronia
- Yellow-throated Longclaw
- Yellow-throated Sandgrouse In
- Yellow-vented Bulbul
Day 9: Amboseli National Park, Amboseli Sopa Lodge (Fullboard)
This day you would wake up at for a full breakfast and depart with packed lunch at 05:45 for full day game drive in Amboseli National Park which is at the bulk of Mount Kilimanjaro with obvious chance of seeing the giant mountain if weather permits. You shall revert for dinner and overnight to the lodge arriving at 18:30.
Day 10: Transfer Nairobi/Kenya Coast
This day you would depart at 08:00 to Nairobi City too arrive in the Carnivore Restaurant for lunch then later be dropped at Nairobi City for your further scheduled destination.
Dropping to Kenya coast is also possible with a stopover on the way at Voi town for lunch but more recommended to fly instead to Kenya coast since the drive would be KM 460. Flying would be at extra coast.
Leg of lamb, pork, ostrich, rump of beef, sirloin, rack of lamb, spare ribs, sausages, skewered kidneys, even crocodile
Meats are roasted on traditional maasai swords over a huge charcoal pit that dominates the restaurant's entrance. The rough-hewn beams combine the rustic feel of a rural setting with that of a medieval banqueting hall.
The Carnivore doesn't conform to the familiar restaurant traditions. First, the soup of the day along with a plate of home baked bworn bread and butter are served. Then, an army of carvers move table to table, swords laden carving juicy cuts onto sizzling cast-iron plates. Accompanying the meat feast is a selection of salads, vegetable side dishes and sauces
The feeding frenzy doesn't stop until you declare defeat by lowering the white paper flag perched atop the central tray. This is then followed by dessert and coffee. The full meal including the soup course is at a set price. A vegetarian menu is also offered.
Experience the house cocktail, the 'dawa' - medicine or magic potion in swahili. Based on a famous Brazilian drink, enjoy it delivered on a portable tray by the medicine man fittingly named Dr. Dawa
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.