5 Amazing Road Trips Across Kenya

5 Amazing Road Trips Across Kenya  : Road trips are well known as the memory-making machines, with the perfect hustle and bustle, that over comes the feeling of spending hours in the luxury safari vehicle, through travelling the entire Kenya Safari while taking the breathtaking sites, and associating with a variety of the people you come along with, this is done while using the cameras, the good smart phones while taking the best moments as you commit some of the memories to your travelling. The Road trips are the most super-friendly safari guides and of which Kenya as a country contains a variety of them as included;

Nairobi to the Aberdare Ranges in Nyandarua.

From Nairobi, you drive along the Kenya’s moist iconic highway that is the Thika Superhighway. The road passes through a few small towns before you get to Thika. Here there are less landscapes to see in this short drive, as it introduces you to some of the Kenya’s prestigious institutions of the higher learning, including Kenyatta University and the Jomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technology. Then from Thika the road trip safari proceeds straight to Nyeri, where you can spot the Aberdare Ranges from a distance, but if you want to observe them very well you drive on to the Aberdare Ranges which are 4000 meters above the sea level.

The Aberdare ranges are such a haven to the various animal species including the elephants, buffalos, leopards, black rhinos and many others, here if you want to do game viewing it is possible through a bit challenging which needs at least a 4WD. Here you can also spot the Kinangop Plateau, Lake Naivasha, and Mau Escarpements.

The Nairobi to the Aberdare Ranges takes you a distance of 200 kilometers, 4 hours and the routes are Nairobi to Thinka to Nyeri to Aberdares.

Nairobi to the Kisumu Impala Sanctuary in Kisumu.

The road trip to Nairobi then Kisumu is a bit a thrill-filled one, because they are next to one another as this is the best road trip. As you’re driving from Nairobi-Naivasha highway, you can be able to spot the Great rift Valley that have got the most amazing attraction. As you drive you will also be able to view the Lake Naivasha if you’re lucky.

As well the Lake Elementaita is a another great attraction here, the lake is known as the birding haven, and if you reach here and you have enough time, you can do a stop over as you can be able to watch a variety of the bird species and also the shaggy landscape. The lake lies between Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha.

In those three, Lake Nakuru is the most famous in Kenya with a vast number of the pink flamingos, as these can be watched from a distance as they create a pink blanket on the lake’s surface, Lake Nakuru is also a home to the another unmissable landscape that is Menengai Crater, you can extend your safari to the west to Kericho the famous place for the tea plantations.

From there the rest of the journey is a gentle descent to the lake side city to Kisumu, you can also exceed to Kisumu Impala sanctuary which is haven for the impalas mostly but also other animal species can be found.

Nairobi to Kisumu Impala Sanctuary takes you a distance of 350 kilometers and 6 hours then the routes used are Nairobi to Naivasha to Nakuru to kericho then to Kisumu.

Nairobi to Voyager Ziwani in Tsavo National Park.

The most recommended road Kenya safari is the Nairobi to Voyager Ziwani, as this is awesome consisting of raveling through the Nairobi streets before joining the famous Mombasa road, which gets you to Emali. As you drive from Nairobi to Voyager Ziwana you expect the full experiences. So as you drive out of Nairobi along Mombasa road, some of the expectations are such as the Maasai Market at Uchumi capital Centre and the Ice Rink at the Panari Resort and so also glimpse the Nairobi National Park, but from the distance.

As you drive and getting close to Voyager Ziwani, you will be welcomed by the views of Mount Kilimanjaro, the location makes the tourists to enjoy the nature of the area, on the side there is the Sante River which flows through the camp, as it is excellent to spot the hippos, crocodiles, turtles and many others. To experience this magical safari on the road trip you can choose working with a local tour operator that offers all the best inclusive holiday packages of Kenya, 5 Amazing Road Trips Across Kenya .

Nairobi to Voyager Ziwani takes you 280 kilometers that takes you 4 and a half hours and the routes used are Nairobi to Emali to Tsavo.

Nairobi to the Mara Intrepid in Maasai Mara National Reserve.

The road trip safari from Nairobi to Maasai Mara National Reserve you view the Mai Mahiu viewpoint, where you spot the Great Rift Valley. The view point is located amidst the Mau Escarpments that makes the area so unique. From there you can proceed to the Narok town to where you will have to exit the main highway and again proceed to Narok-Sekenani road, from there you will creating a way to enter the reserve as your navigating the way to the Mara intrepid that are located close to the Mara River, along the Great Migration Route especially if you do your road trip in the period between July and October, there you will be able to spot millions and millions of the wildebeest crossing the Mara River.

Then the Maasai Mara National Reserve in the most Kenya’s favorite located in the southwestern plains of Kenya, in Narok County. Not only has the wildebeest the Maasai Mara had great number of the wildlife, with a variety of the animal species and the bird species without forgetting the big 5 in the reserve.

From Nairobi to the Mara Intrepids in Maasai Mara National Reserve takes you around 260 kilometers, then 5 hours and the routes are Nairobi to Mai Mahiu to Narok then to Maasai Mara National Reserve.

Nairobi to Samburu National Reserve in Samburu.

This is one way of exploring the northern part of Kenya, this road takes you through using the Thika Road and getting to Thika town, and then you take the Kenol-sagana-Karatina road and then drive to Nyeri town and go to Nanyuki which well famous for its huge ranches and wildlife sanctuaries.

From there you can drive to Isiolo takes you an hour, because it is 50 km to Samburu. The Ewaso Nyiro River bounds Samburu National Reserve to the south, ariver that gives the arid landscape, as you can as well spot the a quite number of the special five or the northern rare animal species like Gerenuk, Restricted giraffe, Grevy zebra, Beisa Oryx, Somali Ostrich, the Ewaso Nyiro separates Samburu National Reserve from another point of interest the Buffalo Springs National Reserve.

From Nairobi to Samburu National Reserve takes you  355km and 5 hours and the routes to use are Nairobi to Nyeri to Nanyuki to Isiolo and then to Samburu.