The game drive experience
Our radio-linked game-drive vehicle is equipped with reference books, bush craft kit and plentiful cold drinks and is manned by a trained safari professional. The vehicle accommodates 7 persons. Children are welcome.
The Ol Pejeta Conservancy is unique in that it offers the highest ratio of game to area of any reserve or national park in Kenya. And, because it is privately owned, it also offers activities that are not allowed in the national parks and reserves, such as night game drives. So abundantly populated is the conservancy that every game drive offers the possibility of sightings of elephants, lions, rhinos and hippos and the virtual certainty of sightings of giraffes, zebras, gazelles, warthogs and buffalos. Visitors can also enjoy such varied scenic areas as; the elephant swamp, the hippo hide, the oryx plains and the winding reaches of the Ewaso Nyiro River.
More than just a game drive
- Offering much more than the archetypal game drive, your trip can also take in an insight into Kenya's heritage at the Ereri Multi-Cultural Community Manyatta, the common home of a group of Pokot, Turkana and Maasai people; or a visit to the Chimpanzee Sanctuary, or the Ol Pejeta Conservancy Centre,
- Timings: game drives are scheduled for 6.30 am, 9 am and 4 pm.
- A full day's game drive
- For those who would like to experience ALL that this extraordinarily diverse Conservancy has to offer at their own pace, a full-day's game drive is recommended.
Note: guests may return to camp for lunch or request a picnic lunch.
Timing: 6.30 am, 9am and 4pm
Night game drives
Because the Conservancy is a private reserve, it is not restricted by the usual rules that apply to the national parks, where night game drives are not normally permitted. A uniquely specialised activity, a night game drive is the ultimate safari luxury. Night is the exclusive domain of such hunters as lions and leopards, and the only time when you may catch a glimpse of such elusive nocturnal creatures as aardvarks and bush babies. Typically, safari vehicles will be equipped with a powerful hand-held lamp, which can be used to sweep the bush for likely sightings. Amongst the many creatures you can expect to see are: aardvarks, bat-eared fox, porcupines, bushbabies, bushbucks, mongoose, genet cats and a number of nocturnal birds.
Timings: The drive takes around 2 hours departing 7-9pm or 9-11pm.
