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Day 1
Pick up at Nairobi airport. Drive to Sagana. Camp for the night with good facilities, but eat at the restaurant. Target bird: Hinde´s Babbler
Day 2
Drive to Castle Forest Lodge at the foothills of Mt. Kenya. Camp for the night. Eat at restaurant. Target birds include: Black-collared, Black-throated, Grey and Chestnut-throated Apalis, Northern and Eastern Double-collared Sunbird, Tacazze Sunbird, Oriole Finch, Streaky and Thick-billed Seed-eater, Kandt´s Waxbill, Mountain Buzzard, Hartlaub´s Turaco, White-bellied Tit, Tullberg´s Woodpecker, White-headed Wood-Hoopoe, White-bellied Tit, Kikuyu White-eye, Brown Woodland Warbler, Blue-headed Coucal, Olive Ibis, Red-fronted Parrot, Waller´s and Abbot´s Starling, Abyssinian Thrush, Brown-capped Weaver, Hunter´s Cisticola, Rüppel´s Robin-Chat, Yellow-whiskered and Slender-billed Greenbul, Red-rumped Swallow, Reichenow´s Seed-eater, Cinnamon-chested Bee-eater, Olive-breasted Greenbul, Cinnamon Bracken Warbler, Mountain Oriole, Bar-tailed Trogon and Scaly Spurfowl
Day 3
Full day in Castle Forest, same sleeping and food arrangements and same target birds
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Day 4
Morning birding in Castle Forest, then head for Samburu National Park, Bird from the entrance to the camp ground. Bush camping, with some facilities. Cook food ourselves. Target birds includes: Northern Red-billed and Eastern Yellow-billed Hornbill, Black-cheeked Waxbill, Fan-tailed Raven, Somali Sparrow, Taita Fiscal, Golden-breasted and Fischer´s Starling, Somali and White-throated Bee-eater, Rufous Chatterer, Lichtenstein´s Sandgrouse, White-headed Mousebird, Donaldson´s Smith´s Sparrow Weaver, Grey Wren-Warbler, Eastern Violet-backed Sunbird, Somali Bunting, Acacia Tit, Black-capped Social Weaver, Vulturine Guineafowl, White-bellied and Buff-crested Bustard, Northern Crombec, Pygmy Batis, Abyssinian Scimitarbill, Rosy-patched Bushshrike, Foxy and Singing Bush Lark and Grant´s Wood-Hoopoe.
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Day 5
Cross the river in to Buffalo Springs National Park, drive to Naro Moru, camp at night, eat at restaurant, Good facilities. Target species Buffalo Springs: Many as the day before, but in addition: Somali Ostrich, Somali Courser, Magpie Starling, Red-winged Lark and D`Arnaud´s Barbet. Stop on the way for Boran Cisticola. Afternoon birding in Naro Moru. Target birds: Red-fronted Parrot, African Citril, White-bellied Tit, Bronzy and Tacazze Sunbird (Not any real new targets here, but a necessary stop on the way to the next destination.)
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Day 6
Morning birding at Naro Moru (if needed) and then we drive to Lake Baringo. We stop at the Cape Eagle-Owl (Mackinder´s) on the way. Just west of Naro Moru, we bird on a dirt road and can pick up birds like Anteater Chat and Pectoral-patched Cisticola. Once in Lake Baringo, we will stay at Robert´s Camp. A nice camp by the shore of the Lake it self. Good facilities and we will eat at the restaurant. Target Birds for Lake Baringo includes: Northern Masked, Golden-backed and Little Weaver, Northern Red Bishop, Jackson´s and Hemprich´s Hornbill, Acacia Tit, Pale Prinia, Bristle-crowned, Rüppel´s and Magpie Starling, Mouse-collared Penduline-Tit, Three-streaked Tchagra, Northern Puffback, Brown Babbler, Slender-tailed Nightjar, Northern White-faced Owl, Greyish Eagle-Owl, Beautiful Sunbird, Three-streaked Tchagra, Brown-tailed Rock-Chat, Hunter´s Sunbird, Grey Wren-Warbler, Pink-breasted Lark, Fan-tailed Raven, Northern Crombec, Black-headed Lapwing, White-billed Buffalo-Weaver, Spotted Palm Thrush + many more
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Day 7
Full day in Lake Baringo, same Sleeping and eating arrangement, same target list.
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Day 8
Morning birding Lake Baringo, then drive to Kakamega Forest. stop at the Western wall of the Great Rift Valley and look for White-crested Turaco. We stay in a small lodge in Kakamega and food will be prepared. Target species includes: Brown-chested Alethe, Equatorial Akalat, Scaly-breasted Illadopsis, Red-tailed Bristlebill, Dusky Tit, Stuhlmann´s Starling, Turner´s Eremomela, Great Blue Turaco, Jameson´s and Brown-throated Wattle-eye, Sharpe´s Drongo, Mackinnon´s Fiscal, Yellow-spotted, Yellow-billed, Double-toothed and Grey-throated Barbet, White-winged Flufftail, Snowy-crowned, Grey-winged and Blue-shouldered Robin-Chat, Uganda Woodland Warbler, Black-faced Rufous Warbler, Petit´s Cuckooshrike, Red-headed Malimbe, Thick-billed Honeyguide, Green-throated and Green-headed Sunbird, Pink-footed Puffback, Olive-green Camaroptera, Buff-spotted, Brown-eared, Speckle-breasted and Yellow-crested Woodpecker, Blue-headed Bee-eater, Red-headed Bluebill, Black-billed, Brown-capped and Vieillot´s Black Weaver, African Blue Flycatcher, White-tailed Ant-Thrush, Lühder´s and Bocage´s Bush-Shrike, Yellow-throated Leaflove, Kakamega, Joyfull, Slender-billed, Toro-olive, Ansorge´s and Cabanis´s Greenbul, Grey-headed Nigrita, Black-and-white casqued Hornbill, Northern Black Flycatcher, Black-faced and White-chinned Prinia, Chubb´s Cisticola, White-headed Saw-wing, Western Oriole, African Thrush and African Shrike Flycatcher + more.
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Day 9
Full day birding in Kakamega Forest
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Day 10
Full day birding in Kakamega Forest
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Day 11
Morning birding in Kakamega Forest, then drive to Kisumo, camp and eat at restaurant. Target birds includes: Winding and Carruther´s Cisticola, Slender-billed, Northern Brown-throated and Black-headed Weaver, Swamp Flycatcher, Red-chested Sunbird, Greater Swamp Warbler, Black-headed and Papyrus Gonolek, Papyrus Canary, White-winged Swamp and papyrus Yellow Warbler and African Citril.
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Day 12
Boat ride from camp in the morning, same target species, drive to Lake Naivasha. Bird the afternoon around camp, No special targets
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Day 13
Leave camp early, go to Kinangop Plateau, sleep in a small camp at the foothills of Aberdere national Park. Target species includes: Golden-winged Sunbird, Quailfinceh, Kikuyu White-eye, Wing-snapping and Stout Cisticola, African Citril, Sharpe´s Longclaw, Yellow-crowned Canary and Jackson´s Widowbird
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Day 14
Drive up to Aberdere National Park. Target birds include: Jackson´s Spurfowl, Moorland Chat, Aberdere Cisticola, Slender-billed Starling, Hunter´s Cisticola, Mountain Yellow Warbler, Abyssinian Thrush, Golden-winged and Scarlet-tufted Sunbird.
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Included in the price: All transport, lodging, food, water, park fees and guide fees.
Not included: Flights and alcoholic beverages.
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