Tracking black rhino on foot at Ol Pejeta or seeing them from the vehicle at Lake Nakuru, Tsavo West and Meru. Fewer than 1,000 are left in Kenya, and the conservancies will tell you exactly how they are doing.
Each of these is somewhere we run tracking Black Rhinos, with its own page.
Kenya
Tsavo West is the handsome half of Tsavo — hills, lava flows and green scrub instead of flat red plain. Mzima Springs pushes fifty million gallons of clear water out of the ground every day, and an underwater chamber lets you watch hippo and crocodile from below the surface. The rhino sanctuary here is one of the few places in Kenya to see black rhino.
Kenya
Ol Pejeta is a working conservancy on the Laikipia plateau with Mount Kenya behind it. It holds the largest black rhino population in East Africa, the last two northern white rhino on earth, and a chimpanzee sanctuary. Because it is private land, you can track rhino on foot and drive at night — neither of which a national park allows.
Kenya
A shallow soda lake ringed by acacia and yellow-barked fever trees, fenced right around — which is why it works as a rhino sanctuary. Both black and white rhino are here in numbers, along with Rothschild's giraffe and the lions that have taken to climbing trees. It is ninety minutes from Naivasha and slots into almost any Kenya route.
Kenya
Meru is where Elsa the lioness of Born Free was raised and released. It is well watered, green and almost empty of other vehicles — thirteen rivers, doum palms, and a rhino sanctuary inside the park. For a traveller who has done the Mara and wants wilderness without a crowd, this is the answer.
Tanzania
A collapsed volcano twenty kilometres across with twenty-five thousand animals living on the floor of it, walled in by a six-hundred-metre rim. It is the one place in East Africa where seeing all of the Big Five in a single morning is an ordinary outcome rather than a lucky one.
Prices are per person. Any of these can be adjusted to give the activity more time.
8 Days
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6 Days/5Nights.
Embark on a conservation journey with our Tracking Black Rhino Experiences in the wilderness of Kenya and Tanzania. Join our expert guides in the quest to observe these magnificent creatures in their natural habitats. Learn about conservation efforts and contribute to the preservation of black rhinos. Join us for a rhino tracking adventure, where each footprint in the sand becomes a step towards wildlife protection and appreciation.
Follow the trails of black rhinos in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy or the Ngorongoro Crater, where these elusive creatures find sanctuary. Our experienced guides provide insights into the behavior and ecology of black rhinos, highlighting the importance of conservation efforts. Participate in tracking exercises, learn about anti-poaching initiatives, and witness these magnificent creatures thriving in their natural environments. Our Tracking Black Rhino experiences are more than wildlife encounters; they're opportunities to actively contribute to the protection of an endangered species and support ongoing conservation efforts.
Say so when you get in touch and we will build the route around it, rather than squeezing it in on an afternoon when the light is wrong.
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