PLAN YOUR SAFARI TO OL KANJAU TENTED SAFARI CAMP
There are many specialist African safari agents and Nairobi based tour operators who can help you plan and book a personalized safari to Kenya's best wildlife destinations. Since it is your safari, the most crucial items needed to guide the planning process are ones that only you know best.
We suggest that you answer each of five basic questions, and by taking this active role in safari planning what seems like a difficult challenge will become straightforward, even simple, and eventually most satisfying.
FIVE BASIC SAFARI PLANNING QUESTIONS:
- When to come to Kenya?
- How many days do I have for my Kenya safari?
- Who will come with me on safari?
- What are our (my) special interests, goals, aims and activities on this safari to Kenya?
- How many different safari destinations should be included?
It would be easy to lengthen this list, but answers to these questions will get you started.
The best safari destinations are ones that produce the highest level of satisfaction for you in Kenya's wildlife rich areas and which are still uncrowded by too many other visitors.
A good safari destination needs a minimum of three full days to appreciate. An excellent safari destination needs more time, particularly if it is possible to extend your range using fly camps to gain access to remote special features.
If your emphasis includes wildlife photography and animal watching, the total amount of time that you have to capture those special moments will be the most limiting factor.
Again, an excellent safari destination will have dramatic topography and scenery, lots of wildlife and birds, special wildlife populations, as well as vibrant traditional culture. The setting will not only be exclusive and comfortable, but will be graciously hosted with excellent professional guidance.
Once you have found all of these ingredients in a near perfect destination, be sure you allow time enough to make the most of it before you move on.
MAP REFERENCES EXPLAINED BELOW:
A. SOUTHEAST KENYA is the home region of Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp. It includes Greater Amboseli, the Chyulu Hills, as well as Tsavo West and Tsavo East National Parks. The region is dominated by Mt. Kilimanjaro and the extensive Maasai owned group ranches of Kajiado District. It is the largest wildlife rich area of Kenya.
B. MAASAI MARA in Narok District of Southwest Kenya together with Tanzania's Serengeti make up a single ecosystem defined by the migratory herds of white bearded wildebeeste. In terms of total wildlife numbers the Mara is Kenya's foremost safari region.
C. THE LAKES OF KENYA'S GREAT RIFT VALLEY including Magadi, Naivasha, Nakuru, Bogoria, Baringo and Turkana are the original home of our species, Homo sapiens, and is thus the landscape where it first paid us to be intelligent tool users. The Rift Valley Lakes are also home to flocks of migratory water birds including flamingoes.
D. MOUNT KENYA AND THE LARGE SCALE RANCHES OF LAIKIPIA DISTRICT lie just north of the Equator in Central Kenya and are the home of Kenya's best developed network of privately owned wildlife reserves. Laikipia includes the home range of the Kenya hartebeeste and the Grevy's zebra.
E. SAMBURU DISTRICT AND BEYOND is a vast rangeland region of traditional pastoral people who have established many community wildlife reserves adjacent to the forested islands of Kenya's scenic and arid north.
F. KENYA'S COASTAL ZONE is an historic area that developed extraordinary cultural richness from over a thousand years of monsoon driven trade from Arabia, India and China. The coast is a wonderful place to relax at the beginning or end of any wildlife safari.
G. NORTHERN TANZANIA'S SAFARI REGIONS include the Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Tarangire, Kilimanjaro and Mokomazi, and these can all connect via Arusha or Kilimanjaro International Airport. Scheduled flights and road transfers between Arusha, Namanga, and Nairobi make it quite possible to include both Tanzania and Kenya components in the same safari. Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp is an ideal link destination between Kenya and Tanzania.
YOUR SAFARI
A very personal safari can be developed by deciding which of these regions and which of their many distinct destinations will most complement the time you want to spend amongst the elephants, other wildlife, and Maasai people at Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp.
Since time itself is the most important limiting factor on any Kenyan safari, don't dilute your experience with too many locations for the time available, and don't waste any time on long road transfers between safari components. Even if you have just a week in Kenya you can have a very satisfying safari experience.
You could easily spend all of that time at Ol Kanjau Tented Safari Camp. Each year we invite professional wildlife photographers to lead an 8 day photographic safari in Greater Amboseli. Each additional day at Ol Kanjau is another chance to capture even better images from wide screen Africa.
When only a little time in Kenya is available, such a focussed experience at OL Kanjau can be particularly satisfying when combined with another exciting travel component from outside of Kenya. For example, trekking amongst mountain gorillas in Uganda or Rwanda, or getting lost in Tanzania's vast Serengeti, or simply warming up again after a climb to the roof of Africa, Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Scheduled flights and and road transfers between Arusha, Namanga and Nairobi make it quite possible to plan Tanzania and Kenya components in the same safari. Ol Kanjau is an ideal link destination
SOME RECOMMENDED WEBSITES:
Elephant voices.org, MaasaiMaracount.org, Elephants! Steve Bloom.com, Elephant Trust.org, Save the Elephants.org, Kenya Weather Forecasts on Yahoo! Weather .com and Kenyan Breaking News on Google News.
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