After breakfast, we start the long journey driving via Baragoi and South Horr to arrive at our semi–permanent beach campsite. Lake Turkana is the largest desert lake in the world and extends for 288 kilometers up to the Ethiopian-Kenyan border surrounded by volcanic rock and desert. Dinner and overnight stay in Loiyangalani Bandas based.

The day is spent relaxing and you may visit the local or hire a boat to visit the surrounding area (at an extra cost). In addition, you may visit Loiyangalani and the community settled there while in the evening visiting the Turkana Manyattas [optional] for traditional dances at an extra cost. You can visit the El Molo — the smallest ethnic group in Kenya, numbering just over 1000. Turkana, formerly L. Rudolf, is now named after one of the ethnic groups who live on its shores and it is in this area that Richard Leakey uncovered the two-million-year-old fossils of homo erectus.  This pre-historic site is now known as the “Cradle of Mankind”. The lake has a remarkable blue –green color. This is a result of algae particles, which shift with changes of the wind and light, so that the water surface shifts from blue to grey to fabulous jade. The lake is home to the largest population of Nile crocodiles in the world.  If the weather permits, you can take a short sunset boat ride to the surrounding areas. Dinner and overnight stay at the Bandas camp.

After an early breakfast, cross the Chalbi desert (if dry) via North Horr towards Kalacha. If it rainy, use another route avoiding the desert. Kalacha is a small settlement on the edge of the Chalbi Desert inhabited by the Gabbra people (pluralists particularly attached to their camels). Here, you can enjoy an evening sunset, swim at the campsite or watch a Gabbra performance in the evening (optional cost) (windy night).

Break camp in the early morning and head South towards Marsabit (meaning place of cold); an astonishingly cool, green and hilly oasis rising high above the dry heat of the surrounding desert lands. On the way, stop to enjoy views of the massive of Redo crater and desert landscape. The area is home to the local Rendille and Samburu people abundant in their bright red outfits, beads and earrings. This will be a cold night. After setting up camp, visit the lodge inside the National park and, weather permitting, drive up to Lake Paradise and Little Lake. Here, an indigenous forest and a desert come together to create one of the most compelling landscapes on earth. Elephants and Greater Kudu abound. The dense forest in the park is also home to a variety of birds. 

Depart early morning along the trans-African highway towards Samburu with lunch on the way. Take an afternoon game drive at Samburu National Reserve.  Take accommodation is in a semi-permanent campsite, beautifully set under a canopy of trees or pitch tents on the edge of Ewaso Nyiro River (meaning Brown in Samburu). Cold showers are available, which are amazingly refreshing in the hot, dusty climate.

The day is spent viewing game in the park. Samburu is part of a lava plain that includes a diverse landscape of thorn scrub, red dirt, dried river beds, broken volcanic rock, steep hills, and rocky outcroppings. The region is home to the rare Grévy’s zebra, the Gerenuk Antelope, Somali Ostriches and the shy Oryx. Elephants and crocodiles are guaranteed sightings. This is a great location for excellent bird watching, with numerous varieties of weaverbirds and the martial eagle. Leopard sighting is also a special feature here especially in the morning. Dinner and overnight stay at the campsite.

Take an early Morning game drive, then return to the camp for the main breakfast, before checking out and proceeding back to Nairobi with a stopover for lunch in Nanyuki. Arrive in Nairobi late afternoon.