LAIKIPIA PLATEAU, LAKE BARINGO, MAASAI MARA NATIONAL
RESERVE CAMPING SAFARI, 9 DAYS
LAIKIPIA PLATEAU, LAKE BARINGO, MAASAI MARA NATIONAL
RESERVE CAMPING SAFARI . This is classic camping safari with scheduled small group
departures. You’ll travel off the beaten path, to pristine
areas of Kenya seldom visited by other tourists. Camping at Laikipia private game reserve and in the Maasai Mara are in
the grand tradition of the safari camps of yesteryear.
Day 1 – ARRIVE NAIROBI
On arrival in Nairobi you will be met by a safari
representative and transferred to the Hotel to rest.
Day 2 – LAIKIPIA PLATEAU
This morning you will be picked up by your tour guide and
depart by road to the Laikipia plateau, a regions between
the North Kenya deserts and the aberdare mountain Range. You
will go through the beautiful Kenya Highlands passing Kikuyu
farms, and some of Kenya’s famous coffee plantations. Enjoy
a picnic lunch en-route and arrive at Mugie camp mid
afternoon.
The Laikipia plateau is comprised of vast game and cattle
ranches covering 9000sq kms. This wildlife sanctuary is home
to the biggest elephant population in Kenya, over 2000
strong. Laikipia was made famous by kuki Gallma’s book, “ I
dreamed Africa”. Cheli & Peacock camp is on a ranch called “
Mugie”, 50,000 acres of wilderness. This wilderness has
plains, valleys, and acacia and olive forest. The ranch is
completely private.
The camp is on the edge of an escarpment overlooking the
plains in front, and wild olive forest behind. At an
attitude of 1,700mt(5,600ft), it get’s cool at night, and
warm during the day. The camp is hosted and the food is
cheli peacock’s world- renowned home style Italian cooking!
Herds of zebra, eland, elephant hartebeest, the rare
caracal. Night game drives are exciting, with excellent
chance of seeing aardvark and aardwolf. Clients can game
drive, walk and camel ride through herds of animals!
Overnight- mugie Ranch (L,D)
Day 3/4 – LAIKIPIA / MUGIE RANCH
To spend two more days exploring this beautiful region.
Overnight – Mugie Ranch (BLD)
Day 5 – LAKE BARINGO
After breakfast depart with your guide, driving down the
Eastern wall of the great rift valley to lake Baringo.On
arriving at the lakeshore you will board a motorboat and
travel across the lake to isla camp, arriving in time for
lunch. Overnight – Island Camp (BLD) or similar.Baboons in
maasai mara game reserve
Day 6– LAKE BARINGO
Island camp has a spectacular setting on its own island, in
the middle of Lake Baringo, with lovely view over the lake
to the Karbarnet hills in the west and Laikipia to the east.
Baringo is an Ornithologist’s paradise, and the incredible
variety of colourful birds on a bird walk will make an
amateur birder out of any safari goer. A boat trip to visit
the hippos and crocodiles, and watch the fish eagles dive
for fish, a great experience, or just relax at the pool.
Overnight-Island Camp (BLD)
Day 7/8 – MAASAI MARA NATIONAL GAME RESERVE
EARLY DEPARTURE WITH A PICNIC FROM BARINGO DRIVING DOWN THE
rift valley via the tea highlands of Kerio to the Mara,
arriving at the camp in the afternoon. Kenya’s premiere game
reserve and wilderness area the “Maasai Mara”is the northern
section of the great Serengeti/Mara ecosystem. The fertile
Mara plain supports an enormous amount of plains game and
their predators – a wildlife spectacle unrivalled anywhere
in the world. Sometime between July and October the Mara is
host to the great wildebeest and Zebra converge on the lush
Mara grasslands in their millions.
Cheli & peacock Mara Camp is in the middle of this 3600sq.
km wilderness. The camp is in the protected koyiaki
wilderness area, away from lodges. In order to preserve this
special area the camp seasonal and its completely dismantled
3 months per year. The camp is hidden in a groove of
Warburgia ugandensis overlooking the plains At an altitude
of 1700m(5600ft),it gets cool at night and warm in the day.
Overnight – C&P’s classic camp (BLD) or Similar
Day 9 – NAIROBI/END OF SAFARI
After breakfast and a final game drive en route to the
airstrip, you will take the mid-morning Kenya flight back to
Nairobi. You will have a day room at the Mayfair Court Hotel
where you can refresh. The afternoon is at leisure to relax
by the pool or for last minute souvenir shopping. You can
have an early dinner on your own, before you are met and
transferred to JKIA for your flight back home.
EXTRAS – KENYAN COAST
After the experience of the bush, try relaxing on Kenya’s
beautiful and little visited coast.
NECTON
SAFARIS AND TRAVEL 
