BOAB
090 - Turkana Via Chalbi Desert (8 Days)
Day
1: Nairobi – Samburu After
breakfast, you will be picked up from your Nairobi hotel. Thereafter
depart Nairobi for Samburu Game Reserve via Nanyuki town, lunch
enroute. On arrival, set up camp. Dinner and overnight at the
campsite which is set on the upper banks of the Ewaso Nyiro river
which rises in the Aberdares and drains in the Lorian Swamp north
of Shaba.
Day
2: Samburu. Morning
and afternoon game drives in Samburu with a lunch and leisure
break at the camp in the mid afternoon. Samburu is home to rare,
drought animals that go for long periods of time without water
these include the reticulated giraffle, grevy's Zebra, the blue-shanked
Somali ostrich, gerenuk (or giraffe gazelle) and the Beisa Oryx.
The vegetation her in desert rose, desiccated grass and acacia
trees or bushes. The Samburu nomadic tribe who are distant cousins
to the Masai inhabits this area. All meals and overnight at the
campsite.
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Day
3 Samburu – Marsabit After
breakfast, depart for Marsabit National Park via the singing wells
of the Boran people who form a long chain and sing and ululate
in their mother tongue as they fetch water and water their livestock
simultaneously. Proceed to Marsabit for an afternoon game drive
in the park. Elephants, buffalo and kudu can be seen next to the
Marsabit Lodge at the water filled crater. Marsabit is an oasis
and extinct volcano, which is densely forested on the upper slopes
while the lower slopes are scorched and dry. The park is home
to jumbo elephants and was home to Ahmed, the elephants' whose
statue is outside the National Museum in Nairobi who was one of
the largest elephants ever seen in Kenya . Access to some parts
of the park is hampered ever seen in Kenya . Access to some parts
of the park is hampered b extensive dense forest and undergrowth.
All meals and overnight at the campsite.
Day
4: Marsabit - Kalacha After
breakfast make your way past the lava flows to Kalacha, a small
settlement at the edge of the Chalbi Desert where you will camp
for the night. Mara.
Overnight at Mara Safari Club.
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Day
5: Kalacha – Lake Turkana After
breakfast, depart for Loiyangalanik, the name used for the southeastern
shore of Lake Turkana, arriving in the mid afternoon, across the
Chalbi Desert cannot be crossed in wet weather as the whole of
it becomes a shallow lake but alternative roads are available
around the north and south. Rest of the day at leisure, dinner
and overnight at the campsite.
Day
6: Lake Turkana A
full day at leisure by the lake. Swimming is not permitted, as
the lake's waters are crocodile infested. At extra cost, you can
visit the village of the El Molo tribesmen who are said to be
the smallest tribe in Africa . All meals and overnight at the
campsite.
Day
7: Lake Turkana Maralal After
breakfast, depart Loiyangalani for Maralal, which is the administrative
center for the Samburu people. The town is used as a transit point
enroute to or from Lake Turkana . Lunch will be served enroute.
Dinner and overnight at the campsite.
Day 8 Maralal- Nairobi After
breakfast, depart for Nairobi , lunch enroute. You will stop at
the scenic Thompson Falls , which are named after Joseph Thompson,
one of the first European explorers who walked from Mombasa to
Lake Victoria in the 1880's. Arrive in the mid-afternoon.
