6 Days Elephant and rhino highlight safari

6 days elephant and rhino highlight safari explores  ol pejeta Meru national park  the home of rhinos and Samburu for the African elephant safari experience. Learn more  about the savanna elephant and the endangered black and white rhinos. Off to the beaten track safari to Meru National Park which gives you the real authentic safari feeling away from the crowds. A diverse park with a high land forest and a semi-arid lower plain dotted with termite mounds. The adjacent Nyambene hills are a catchment area and give rise to 13 rivers which flow through the Park and drain into Kenya’s longest river, the Tana. This gives the park a diversity in the avian life with over 400 bird species recorded. There is a rhino sanctuary giving you the opportunity to see this iconic beast. Lions leopards and cheetahs are the big cats here and big herds of buffalo ensure the predators survive. The beautiful lesser Kudu can be spotted here, caracals and not forgetting the amazing landscapes with the Mount Kenya in the shadows. The 6 days elephant and rhino highlight safari further takes you to Samburu game reserve. A Semi-arid paradise with the Ewaso Ng’iro bisecting the Buffalo springs and Samburu game reserve. The river attracts big herds of elephants especially during the dry season, the endangered grevys zebra seek shade in the doum palms that line the river banks. Enjoy as the elephants cross the river and mud bath to keep their skins in top condition. Samburu is also one of the best places to spot the elusive leopard. The unique Samburu five, Somali ostrich, reticulated giraffe, grevys zebra gerenuk and the oryx are highlights. On early mornings you can get the striped hyena lions and cheetahs. On the last two nights we spend at the olpajeta conservancy right at the equator. This is one of the best places to see both the back and white rhino in East Africa. It is also the last home for the critically endangered Northern white rhinos. You have an opportunity to ride with the rhinos in the endangered species enclosure where you get up close the raining two northern white rhinos. There is a blind rhino Baraka located at Morani center and here you can get up close and feed him. There is also the chimpanzee sanctuary which you can visit and learn more about a species that we share a close DNA with.