Day 1 Depart Nairobi around 0700, for the 5 hour drive towards Samburu National Park. Reasonable class II and III rapids so suited for learning the paddle skills required to run the bigger rapids next day. Superb bird life all around, particularly the kingfishers, heron and weavers, and quite a lot of the smaller game as well. Four course evening meal, plenty of cold drinks and the evening around a camp fire. After a leisurely breakfast and having packed up and loaded the camp onto the Rovers, we continue down river.
Crocodile are a certainty, hippo less frequent.
During the afternoon we will exit the gorge we've been in all morning, out onto the plains. From here to our selected campsite its all calm water. Shaba N.P. Minor rapids, interspersed with calm sections leads one into another section of gorges. Longer and more demanding than on the upper section. This superb section is followed by several sections of calm water, again interspersed with more, though shorter sections, of exciting class III white water.