NAIROBI DAY TOUR: LAKE NAIVASHA, CRESCENT ISLAND, HELL’S GATE

Overview

Day tour itinerary

Enjoy 3 Different Safari types in One Day

Starting from/returning to Nairobi area hotels. We’ll pick you up from your hotel for a private journey to three beautiful parks. Your full-day safari is in the comfort of a pop-top Natural world 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep

Ever sailed past hippos? How about trekking amongst zebras and giraffe? Or bicycling past impalas and buffalo? On this amazing one-day tour you’ll get to do all that and more.

Hidden Treasure Africa Safaris will transport you to three special parks for a boat safari, a guided walking safari, and one of the most unique safaris in Africa, a bicycle safari!

You can’t get any closer to the wildlife than this. Imagine riding alongside a gazelle – that’s a story you’ll never forget and love to share. So, get ready for a fun, animal-filled adventure.

Hell’s Gate National Park

Your expert driver/guide will pick you up at 7:00 am to begin the short (little over 2 hours) drive to Hell’s Gate Park. Along our route we’ll pass the majestic Rift Valley escarpments, towering above us.

At Hell’s Gate National Park, you can Drive, Hike, Bike, or Climb. The experience is sensational!

Hell’s Gate has two gates that visitors use – the main Elsa Gate and the Olkaria Gate. The latter also serves the Olkaria Geothermal Station which is located inside the National Park.

Our first park is named for the great steamy clouds and geothermal hot pools that distinguish this unusual place. You’ll marvel at Hell’s Gate National Park’s stunning cliffs, rock towers, extinct volcanoes, and breathtaking gorges.

Hiking and cycling are encouraged here, and we’ll do a bit of both. We’ll trek through Hell’s Gate Gorge, a steep, red sandstone formation cut by water and time. Walking through this narrow canyon, we’ll spot the unique volcanic remnants called Fischer’s and Central Towers.

Thanks to Fischer’s Tower, the Central Tower, and the park’s gorge, amazing scenery will surround you. Fischer’s Tower came to be as a result of volcanic activity that occurred 35 million years ago. It was later named after a German explorer named Gustav Fischer, and it is now one of the park’s many popular rock-climbing sites.

And we’ll go on a cycling safari. Riding over the savannah, past towering cliffs we’ll look for giraffe, buffalo, zebra, hartebeest, gazelle and possibly hyena. What a fun way to experience the wildlife!

Attractions

• Spectacular scenery including the towering cliffs, water-gouged gorges, stark rock towers, scrub-clad volcanoes, and belching plumes of geothermal steam make it one of the most atmospheric Parks in Africa.
• Wildlife  viewing
• Raptor nesting in cliffs
• Hot springs
• The Olkaria Geothermal Station
• The Mervyn Carnelley Raptor Hide
• Tourist circuits, nature trails
• Health spa

Then we’re on to Lake Naivasha for a buffet lunch at the Naivasha Sopa Resort.

Lake Naivasha

Arriving at Lake Naivasha you’ll appreciate the park’s rich contrast of forest, dormant volcanoes, spectacular gorges, and, of course, the mountain lake. After lunch, we’ll take a water safari and enjoy views of Hippos and the nearby wildlife grazing at the shore. Don’t be surprised to see buffalo, zebra, eland, and impala look up as you sail by.

The lake and its forests also delight visitors with a rich display of birdlife. Keep an eye out for woodpeckers, cuckoos, shrikes and raptors such as hawks and the African fish eagle. The nearby papyrus swamps host jacanas, herons, and kingfishers.

Crescent Island Game Sanctuary

Our final park is a private game sanctuary where we’ll take a guided walking safari. Crescent Island Sanctuary boasts more animals per acre than any other park in Kenya. You are certain to trek by diverse herds of wildlife – wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, giraffe, and gazelle amongst them.

Hippos are also known to graze all about the island and you’re sure to spot pelicans, cormorants, and fish eagles.

The island is not fenced, and the animals are free to roam to and from the mainland… much like yourselves.

It’s been a full day – three parks, three safaris, and dozens of animals. Now relax as your driver/guide escorts you on the quick trip back to Nairobi.

Your Guide. For your journey, you’ll be guided, hosted, and looked after by your own experienced driver/guide.

Transportation between parks and game viewing will be in our private Natural world 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep – this vehicle is the safari standard with its higher seating and rugged all-wheel drive.

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