After breakfast, we enter Nairobi NP as soon as the  gates open, and spend a full morning exploring this gem of a park right  on the outskirts of this huge city. Here we have a chance to sight a  range of big mammals including most of the “big 5”. This park is  especially good for lions and giraffes, sometimes even against the  high-rises of downtown Nairobi! There is also the abundant and colorful  bird life typical of the African Savannah. After lunch, we head down  into the Great Rift Valley. In the late afternoon, we arrive at another  of Kenya’s gems the lake Nakuru National Park. Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Woodlands lodge.

With a full day to explore Nakuru, we will focus on  rhinos. Both white and black rhinoceros occur here in good numbers, and  one can often find these prehistoric beasts drinking with a haze of  flamingos for an awesome photographic backdrop. There is also bountiful  antelope, and good chances at lion and leopard. On the bird front, are  1000s of pelicans, storks, herons, flamingoes, and shorebirds. The  adjacent woodlands hold their own set of species like barbets,  woodpeckers, honeyguides, and starlings. Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Woodlands lodge.

After a final morning in Nakuru, we head towards Lake  Naivasha, a stunning Rift Valley Lake full of birds and mammals. A  leisurely boat trip on the lake in the afternoon will provide plenty of  photographic opportunities of mammals and birds at very close quarters.  Here we will wander amongst the many giraffes, waterbuck, and gazelles  that feed on the lake shores. There are few predators here and the tame  animals offer phenomenal photographic opportunities.

Hippopotamus lounge in the languid waters, Pied Kingfishers, herons,  and storks frequent every secluded bay, and flotillas of pelicans pass  by loafing crocodiles. Before we know it our several hours on the water  will be over. Lake Naivasha will give us amazing chances to photograph  African Fish-Eagles in flight. Lake Naivasha will give us amazing  chances to photograph African Fish-Eagles in flight (Ken Behrens).  Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Kongoni lodge.

Lake Naivasha is a picnic and camping spot and a bird  watcher’s paradise. During your safari, you will have a chance to visit  Hell’s Gate National Park which has over 100 species of birds including  vultures, Verreaux’s Eagles, augur buzzard, and swifts.  African  buffalo, zebra, eland, hartebeest, Thomson’s gazelle, and baboons are  also common. The park is also home to klipspringer antelope and  Chanler’s mountain reedbuck. You will also visit Crescent Island Game  Park a peninsular and is accessible by boat from East or West as well as  by road for guided walk amongst animals. Crescent Island has an  abundance of animals including Giraffe, Hippopotamus, Buffalo,  Waterbuck, Wildebeest, Zebra,Impala, Python, Mongoose, Jackal etc.  Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Kongoni Lodge

The boat trips on Naivasha are so good that we are  going to do another one on this morning! There will be different light, a  slightly different mix of species, and undoubtedly a lot of great new  photo opportunities. In the late morning, we leave the Rift Valley and  head west, reaching the Masai Mara area by evening. Dinner and overnight  at Masai Mara Base Camp Lodge

The Mara, the northern portion of the magnificent  Serengeti system, offers spectacular vistas over flat-topped acacia and  grassy plains riddled with ungulates and other animals. We’ll spend  three full days in the reserve looking for East Africa’s famous Lions,  Leopards, Cheetahs, African Elephants, gazelles, and other wildlife.  However, bird photography does not take a back seat, and we should be  rewarded with views of many large raptors and vultures that gather at  the kills, as well as storks, Kori Bustard, Southern Ground-Hornbill,  and other species that suffer from disturbance outside these large  protected areas. Other highlights may include Rufous-bellied Heron,  Saddle-billed Stork, Temminck’s Courser, Sooty Chat, and Schalow’s  Turaco. There is never a dull moment in the Mara. Often it’s a matter of  choosing which amazing photo opportunity to take advantage of…  elephants on one side of the vehicle, and a teed-up barbet on the other!  Dinner and overnight at Masai Mara Base Camp Lodge

Though Maasai Mara National Reserve is famously known  as one of the most important wildlife safari destination to do game  viewing safari not knowing that also hosts with big diversity of unique  bird species such as the Ostriches, Kori bustard many more others. It is  so honouring Maasai Mara National Reserve to be one of best Kenya bird  watching destination with high population of bird species in relation to  other Kenya national parks. Most of travelers who have visited Maasai  Mara on their birding safari tour wonder a lot about the uniqueness of  birds spotted around.

Travelers who enjoy visiting Kenya birding safari destination, Maasai  Mara National Reserve would be your stopping destination point of the  journey. And this is because it haven with diversity of unique bird  species and some of the number to be spotted include; Unique Ostriches,  Kori bustard, Hamer kop ,Marabou ,Handed Ibis , Sacred Ibis , Rappel  Vulture , Egyptian Vulture, African fish Eagle, Tawny Eagle, secretary  bird, Sooty chat, yellow billed stork , Great Egrets ,Long tailed car  mount ,Woolly necked stork ,Tabora cist cola, Swahili sparrow ,silver  bird ,Rufous bellied heron ,Red-throated fit, Lazy cist cola ,Giant king  fisher, Africa wool owl , Abdi’s stork , African fin foot , Hooper and  wood hoopoes, horn bills ,barbets and tinkers birds, honey guides, brown  throated sand Martin , spur winged goose , Egyptian Goose , Comb Duck ,  Northern pintail , Red billed teal , white-faced whistling duck ,  African spoonbill ,Glossy Ibis , Marabou stork , Little white stork ,  African Open bill stork , Yellow-billed stork , purple Heron ,  Dwarf  Bittern , Common squacco-Heron , Rufous bellied Heron , Goliath Heron ,  Black headed Heron and many others which can be encountered on Maasai  Mara National Reserve –birding tour. Dinner and overnight at Masai Mara Base Camp Lodge.

After a couple hours of photography around our lodge,  we’ll head towards Nairobi, where we’ll end the trip, undoubtedly laden  down with myriad excellent images, and the memories to match!