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Overview

Aberdares-Kenya Day trek – Satima Summit Via Shamata and Rhino Gates

This Aberdares-Kenya Day trek – Satima Summit Via Shamata and Rhino Gates takes you to the most famous game reserve in Africa which is known for its great game drives and it is home to over 5 million animals which roam its savannahs including lions, cheetahs, leopard, hippos, rhinos, elephants, buffalos, giraffes, crocodiles, reedbucks, waterbucks, baboons, zebras, wildebeests, cokes hartebeests, topi among many other animals. Masai Mara Game Reserve is also known for the Wildebeest Migration, which is one of the “Seven New Wonders of the World” If there is a safari you should go on, this has it be it. The Masai Mara and the Serengeti National Park together form what no other reserve or park in Africa can. No where in the world is there a movement of animals as immense as the wildebeest migration, over two million animals migrate from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to the greener pastures of the Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya during July through to October.

The migration has to cross the Mara River in the Masai Mara where crocodiles will prey on them. This is one of the highlights as the animals try and cross the Mara River alive.

Itinerary

DAY 1: NAIROBI TO RHINO GATE OUT SHAMATA GATE

Leave Nairobi at 6.30am and drive for 3 hours to Nyeri. Here link up with the guide and porters and then drive to the KWS Park headquarters where you will be assigned a ranger to escort you to the mountain. Drive towards Nyahururu then turn off to the Rhino gate. Register and keep driving for 12km to Chebuswa or the Twin Peaks (3,365m). Park the vehicle at some point and start walking. From this point, animal trails ascend up the lower moorlands normally covered with alpine giant heather, which sadly gets ravaged by forest fires from time to time, leaving behind charred sticks. As you work your way further southwards, this vegetation gradually gives way to tussock grass in marshes. Breathtaking landscapes soon unfold ahead as interesting rock formations including the Dragon’s Teeth come into view, standing tall on the plateau. Depending on your level of fitness, it takes about 2 hours to trek from the Twin Peaks to the Dragon’s Teeth. As you climb higher past these rocks on marshes, the trail contours along ridges until Satima comes into view. A short steep climb gets you to the summit at 4,000m taking about 3 to 4 hours and 8km from the Twin Peaks.
Walk back to the Shamata gate for the vehicle pick up and drive back to Nairobi to reach late in the evening.

Includes

  • Transport from Nairobi to the park and transfer back after the trek
  • Mountain services
  • Guide, porters and cook
  • Tents and sleeping mats
  • Armed KWS ranger escort for 5 days
  • Camping and park fees and other government taxes
  • All food on the mountain (vegetarian or non-vegetarian with lots of fruit)
  • Services of an English-speaking guide

Excludes

  • Tips to porters, guides and cook
  • Sleeping bags and items of personal nature

Cost of Safari

LOW SEASON(JANUARY TO JUNE) $
HIGH SEASON (JULY TO DECEMBER) $

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