ON PAINTING ODYSSEY TO KENYA
Imagine drawing your favorite animal with a backdrop of Africa? This trip will give you an opportunity to draw and paint your favorite flora and fauna. On these trips, you will be accompanied by a reputable artist who will share the techniques that go with great painting. To give you enough time to paint and enjoy these trips will limit the places to be visited and maximize in giving you enough time to paint and draw your subject.
On this trip you will get to visit some of the best kept secret of Kenya’s parks each offering something unique. The trip has been not only created for painters but also to nature lovers. You will be exposed to the different painting options that the country has to offer.
To give you a great painting ambience, we have identified great locations that will allow you to paint without worrying about your safety or hassles. Most of the properties that we will be using are set on the edge of the wildlife parks and reserves. This will allow us to get out of our vehicle and concentrate with our painting while within wildlife reach. Options to game drive will be there for all who would like to do their drawing within the parks and reserves.
PARKS AND RESERVES TO BE VISITED
Samburu & Buffalo Springs National Reserves
* Altitude: 2,500-4,000 Ft
* Area Samburu: 104 Sq. Kms.
* Area Buffalo Springs: 131 Sq. Kms
* Distance from Nairobi: 343 Kms.
* Scenic beauty, rivers & forest
* Leopard, hippo, elephant, lion
* Permanent Springs
* Rich cultural inheritance
The two reserves offer some of the greatest scenic landscapes and unique vistas of rounded and rugged hills and undulating plains. The scenery was so impressive the Joy Adamson deiced to retreat to this park and draw. Meals and overnight at Sarova Shaba or equivalent.
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LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK.
* Altitude: 4,000 – 5,767 Ft
* Area: 188 Sq. Kms.
* Distance from Nairobi: 157 Kms.
* Over 400 species of birdlife
* Over 1 million lesser and greater Flamingoes
* Plentiful & easy gameviewing:
* Leopard, White and black Rhino
* Picturesque landscape & Yellow Acacia
Lake Nakuru is world famous for, and was created a National Park, to protect its stunning flocks of lesser flamingo, which literally turn its shores pink.
MAJOR ATTRACTIONS
* Flamingo (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds including a variety of terrestrial birds numbering about 450 species in total.
* Mammals: 56 different species including white rhinos.
* View-points: Lion hill, Baboon cliff and Out of Africa
* Hills: Enasoit, Honeymoon, Lion hill ridge etc.
* Waterfalls: Makalia
* Unique vegetation: About 550 different plant species including the unique and biggest euphorbia forest in Africa, Picturesque landscape and yellow acacia woodlands.
MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
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* Altitude: 5,000 Ft
* Area: 1,510 Sq. Kms.
* Distance from Nairobi: 275 Kms.
* Annual wildebeest Migration
* Exceptional Game Viewing: Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, Elephant
* Mara River Hippo Pools
* Traditional Maasai Culture
* Views across the Plains and Rolling Hills
The Masai Mara National Reserve is probably the most famous and most visited Reserve in the world. An impressive feature is the annual migration of wildebeests, zebras and gazelles from the plains of the Serengeti that cross the Tanzanian border and rivers to reach the Mara’s grasslands from late June, tracked by predators: lion, leopard, cheetah, and hyena, and circled by vultures as their journey unfolds. Their dramatic river crossings are a reality for tourists visiting in early July-August.
AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
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Amboseli lies immediately North West of Mt. Kilimanjaro, on the border with Tanzania. Amboseli is famous for its big game and its great scenic beauty – Mt Kilimanjaro dominates the landscape and offers great photographic and painting background landscape to the elephants pictures.
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