KENYA CAMPING SAFARI

Kenya camping safari can be an exciting package when combined with game drives.A Kenya camping safari is one of the most appealing safaris packages. Most game parks and reserves offer camping facilities. The best of all is Maasai Mara Game Reserve which has several camping spots and it’s an out most attraction.
Camping at Maasai Mara offers you a close proximity with the big five wild animals including lions, elephants, buffaloes. Its natural settings give you an insight into nature’s best provisions. Not to forget mentioning the nocturnal noises made by these animals and the spectacular African at night sky.
An early morning game drive from a camping site will reveal to you the most hidden secrets of Maasai Mara. If you are lucky enough, you will easily meet any of the big cats clearing off a meal from a hard hunt the night before. Sweet melodies from hundred of bird species will fill your ear, as the warm African sun appears far away in the horizon.
Apart from Maasai Mara other game parks that provide camping, include; Lake Nakuru National Park. This is a world renowned birding haven that is also a home to many other game animals including the Giraffe, zebra, buffaloes, the white rhino elands, lions, leopards, baboons, warthogs and hundreds of Thompson’s gazelle. A camping safari at Lake Nakuru is a scene from paradise. One of its camping spot is just opposite Makaria falls, and this is where hundreds of buffaloes come to quench their thirst early in the morning.
The mischievous monkeys and baboons play around the camping site, and the nights are filled with the roaring of lions which come to hunt at night. An early morning game drive is not just perfect. A ride round the vapour filled lake will reveal to you thousands upon thousands of flamingos, pelicans, storks, ducks, ibises and other birds. From a distance you will see huge cape buffaloes grazing lazily along the shores of the lake while the rays of the morning sun starts heating the lake.
For a panoramic view of the lake, a drive to the baboon creek before breakfast will give you a bird’s eye view of the park. Here among the rocks, multi-colored lizards will be seriously peeping at you, but long enough for you to give them a shoot.
There are hundreds of camping spots in Kenya. But the bottom line is, a Kenya safari is lifetime experience period!