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Kenya Wildlife and Birdlife Photography Tour

July 21, 2019 - July 30, 2019

| $200 - $8750

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Kenya is a country of diverse, rich habitat. The "Big Five" - African Animals found in Kenya Kenya is also blessed with a great number and variety of birds within its borders. The famous Maasai Mara is like no other place in Africa; the density of wildlife in the Maasai Mara is a photographer’s dream. As part of the workshop, we will not only visit Maasai Mara, but we will also visit 2 lakes where the bird habitat is diverse and we will get a chance to see it up close. The workshop will also aim to see migrating Wildebeest, Zebra, Giraffe, Antelope, Hippo, Elephant, and of course the Maasai Mara’s famous big cats. All in all, this safari will produce life-long memories and the images that you will enjoy for years to come. Its a dry season during July and August as these are the coldest months. Temperatures vary significantly per region because of their difference in altitude. Daytime temperatures are usually around 23°C/73°F. Although we might get a few early morning showers, they will dry up in a min or two and the days are long with sunrise at approximately 6:40am and sunset around 6:50pm. From the moment the exploration begins in Nairobi until it ends 10 days later in Nairobi, all costs are included – transportation in a 4x4 with one person per row and maximum 3 people in a car, food, drinks (excluding alcoholic beverages), and luxury accommodation based on a twin sharing basis. If you have any special dietary requirements, please make sure to let us know at the time of booking and it will be taken care of. Packed lunches will be taken to the field.

Birds - Superb Sterling, Helmated Guinea Fowl, Pied Crow, Tawny Eagle, Bronze Sunbird, Oriole, Red Headed Weaver, Speckled Pigeon, Common Scimitarbill, Spekes Weaver, Marabou Stork, Hilde Brant Sterling, White Browed Sparrow Weaver, Blue Eared Glossy Sterling, Red Bill Hornbill, Crowned Plover, Laughing Dove, Green Wood Hoopoe, Speckled Mouse Bird, Baglafetched Weaver, Yellow Billed Duck, Shrike, Martial Eagle, Lilac Breasted Broller, Black Headed Heron, Lesser Cormorant, Long Tail Cormorant, Pied Kingfisher, Yellow Billed Stork, Pied Wagtail, Saddle Billed Stork, African Fish Eagle, Maasai Ostrich, White Bellied Bustard, Kori Bustard, Augur Buzzard, Drongo, Hadada Ibis, Ring Neck Dove, Ruppells Griffon Vulture, White Backed Vulture, Lappet Faced Vulture, Common Bulbul, Pale Chanting Goshawk, African Green Pigeon, Silver Checked Hornbill, Rattling Cisticola , Brown Snake Eagle, Dark Chanting Goshawk, Ant Eater Chat, Wattled Plover, Ruppells Longtailed Starling, Spur Winged Plover, Egyptian Goose, Grey Breasted Spur Fowl, Common Shrike, Secretary Bird, Grassland Pipit, Hammerkop, Short Toed Snake Eagle, Crowned Crane Bird, African Jacana, Grey Backed Shrike, Pigmy Falcon, Two Banded Courser, Black Smith Plover, Common Green Shank, Malachite Kingfisher, Long Toed Plover, Yellow Necked Spur Fowl, White Headed Buffalo Weaver, Ficshers Sparrow Lark, Fischer Sparrow Lark, Little Bee Eater, Gray Headed Kingfisher, Gray Back Shrike, Glossy Ibis, Squacco Heron, Ruff, Fulvous Whistling Duck, Spoonbill, Wire Tailed Swallow, Knob Billed Duck, Collared Pratincole, Bateleur Eagle, Silver Cheeked Hornbill, Lesser Flamingo, Immature Yellow Billed Stork, Shanks, Kittlitzs Plover, Black Winged Stilt, African Skimmer, Purple Swamp Hen, Black Crake, Common Red Shank, Common Moorhen, Winding Cisticola, Reed Warbler, Hottentot Teal, Collared Pranticole, African Gray Hornbill, Northern White Crowned Shrik, Yellow Rumped Seed Eater, Babbler, Southern Blue Capped Cordon Blu, Greater Kestrel, Temmineck’s Courser, Rufus Napped Lark, Yellow Throated Sandgrouse, Red Billed Buffalo Weaver, African Harrier Hawk, Magpie Shrike, Cut Throat Finch, Rufus Sparrow Weaver, Silver Bird, African Hoopoe, Crested Lark, Gray Breasted Spur Fowl, Coqui Francolin, Two Banded Plover, Ruppell’s Long Tailed Starling, D’arnaud’s Barbet, Pearl Spotted Owlet, White Browed Coucal, Green Shank, Red Billed Duck, Black Chested Snake Eagle, Immature Black Chested Snake Eagle, Lizard Buzzard, Spotted Thick Knee, Senegal Plover, Chestnut Bellied Sandgrouse, Ashy Starling, Red Billed Hornbill, Namaqua Dove, Fishers Love Birds, Red Billed Ox Pecker, Scrub Robin Chat, Tawney Eagle, Variable Sunbird

Animals – Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, Rhinoceros, Buffalo, Zebra, Wildebeest, The African Wild Dog, African Civet, Large-Spotted Genet, Banded Mongoose, Black-Backed Jackal, Common Jackal, Bat-Eared Fox, Spotted Hyena, Striped Hyena, Aardwolf, Common Baboon, Vervet Monkey, Sykes Monkey, Common Eland, Greater Kudu, Lesser Kudu, Bongo, Sitatunga, Bushbuck, Thompson's Gazelle, Grant's Gazelle, Gerenuk, Impala, Bohor Reedbuck, Mountain Reedbuck, Black & White Colobus Monkey, Bushbaby, Roan Antelope, Sable Antelope, Oryx, Fringe-Eared Oryx, Beisa Oryx, Common Waterbuck, Defassa Waterbuck, Common Wildebeest, Hartebeest, Topi, Klipspringer, Steenbok, Common Duiker, Kirk's Dik-Dik, Hippopotamus, Warthog, Giant Forest Hog, Aardvark, Cape Clawless Otter, Spotted-Necked Otter, Scrub Hare, Squirrel

Dates: 21-July-2019 until the 30-July-2019

Duration: 9 Nights / 10 Days

Participants: Maximum 6 Photographers plus leaders

Start: Nairobi, Kenya

Finish: Nairobi, Kenya

Leader: Vinay Mote

Trip Highlights: Big Cats, Birds, Game drive everyday covering golden hour time for Sunrise and Sunset(except arrival and departure day), 4x4 Landcruiser, One person per row, Riverfront Accommodation in Maasai Mara, All accommodation is luxurious with full board, Unlimited Supply of Water, Includes Maasai village visit, Small group size and Includes domestic flight.

Investment: $6,500 USD (Full Price $8,500 USD)

Single Supplement: $750 USD extra on top of above mentioned price.

Payment Terms: Deposit to secure your place is $1,500 USD and the balance is due 90 days before the commencement of the workshop.

Arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transfer to Nairobi Hotel.

On arrival, airport pickup to your hotel is arranged for you. We will visit Giraffe centre and Sheldricks elephant orphanage however it depends on your flight arrival time. In case you feel like relaxing , you can do so at your Hotel.

Accommodation: La Maison Royale, Nairobi

Includes: Airport pickup, Lunch, Dinner (Full Board) and Unlimited Bottled Mineral Water

Day 2(22 July) - Nairobi to Samburu

Early breakfast at 06.30hrs and depart for Samburu national park, arriving in time for lunch.

Post lunch I’ll share a few camera settings required for our first game drive which should enable you to enjoy the journey and also take photographs with ease.

We will stay late till sunset in order to get images at evening golden hour, this has been specially arranged so that we can get photographs in different light.

Game Drive – Late afternoon till Sunset

Accommodation: Samburu Game Lodge