Explore on foot with Masai Guides
This holiday is a walking safari trek with local Masai on a traditional hiking safari in the remote Loita Hills, one of Kenya's last tracts of genuine wilderness. Rarely visited by outsiders, a Loita Hills trek offers an exclusive and exciting addition to your stay at Leleshwa Safari Camp.
Your adventure begins with a privately guided hike through the homeland of the Maasai Purko clan, guided by tribesmen whose homeland includes the Loita Hills. Spend 3-6 days discovering the 200km2 Sacred Forest filled with cedar, podo, and strangler figs, waterfalls, and spectacular birdlife. The area is inaccessible to vehicles, and the wilderness is relatively untouched. Some 2,000 colobus monkeys roam the trees, and you're also likely to see or find evidence of elephant, buffalo, baboon, bushbuck, bush pig, leopard, and hyena.
Your private guided hiking safari features a route custom-tailored to your physical abilities and interests. It's an adventure to thrill even the most seasoned safari-goer!
Day 1: Nairobi – Ndarara - Walking in Loita Hills
Leave Nairobi at 10 a.m., drive through the dramatic landscape stopping at Rift Valley viewpoint for a brief photo session, then proceed to Maji Moto to arrive at Ndarara Manyatta in good time for lunch.
Day 2: Ndarara - Letukunyi - walking safari
Have an early breakfast, then leave Ndarara for Letukunyi. Walk through the scattered bushes and explore the beautiful Loita Hills in the Nguruman Escarpment through the forests where you see striking black and white colobus monkeys. You may see leopards or bushbucks as you visit various secret waterholes. Dinner and overnight at Letukunyi camp.
Day 3: Letukunyi - Morinjo Campsite - walking safari
Leave Letukunyi camp early in the morning for an enjoyable walk before the sun is too hot. You will pass Narosora for lunch to buy what might be out of stock. After an hour or two proceed to Morinjo for dinner and overnight at the campsite.
Day 4 Morinjo - Enkutoto - walking safari
After breakfast, leave Morinjo. Walk through the forest this is one of the few remaining true-forested wilderness areas in East Africa. The walk will take you 5-6 hours. Dinner and overnight at Enkutoto campsite.
Day 5:Enkutoto - campsite-Njoroi campsite - walking safari
After a late breakfast, leave Enkutoto not too early and walk leisurely for 4-5 hours to Njoroi campsite for dinner and overnight. In this camp an excellent view of the environs that encompass the Ngong hills, the two soda Lakes in the Great East African Rift Valley Lake Magadi in Kenya, and Lake Natron across the Kenya-Tanzania border on a clear day.
Day 6: Njoroi campsite - Nairobi
Descend the escarpment after breakfast. You will pass through small farms on the way to Nguruman town and onward back to Nairobi via Lake Magadi and the Olorgasaile prehistoric site. You will arrive in Nairobi in the afternoon.