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3 Days Masai Mara World Wonder https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/3-days-masai-mara-world-wonder/ Sun, 01 Dec 2019 12:02:13 +0000 https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5781

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Ol Pejeta Conservancy Tour https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/ol-pejeta-conservancy-tour/ Sun, 01 Dec 2019 11:55:43 +0000 https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5778

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Purely Kenya Safari Tour https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/purely-kenya-safari-tour/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:59:40 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5259 Day 1: Arrival Nairobi

Depending on the timings of your international flight, on arrival at JKIA, our representative will meet you and do some introduction and briefs, Later you will be transferred to your pre-booked hotel, and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and Overnight will be in Nairobi.

 

Day 2: Nairobi

After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Nairobi National park where you will have a morning game drive. At around 1100hrs you will visit The David Sheldrick National Wildlife Trust. This is an orphan-elephant rescue organization, devoted to conserving East Africa’s wildlife and habitats. Founded in 1977 by Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick in honor of her late husband and famous Warden of Tsavo East National Park, David Sheldrick, the trust is one of the most successful elephant and rhino rescue programs in the world.

You will proceed with your tour to the giraffe Centre. This centre protects the highly endangered Rothschild’s giraffe, combines serious conservation with enjoyable activities. You can observe, hand-feed or even kiss one of the giraffes from a raised wooden structure, which is quite an experience. You may also spot warthogs snuffling about in the mud, and there’s an interesting self-guided forest walk through the adjacent Gogo River Bird Sanctuary.

Board your van and continue to Karen Blixen Museum. You will have lunch here. If you loved the movie Out of Africa, you’ll love this place. This museum is the farmhouse where author Karen Blixen lived between 1914 and 1931. She left after a series of personal tragedies, but the lovely colonial house has been preserved as a museum. The museum is set in expansive gardens, and is an interesting place to wander around after the tour.

In the evening you will have dinner at the Bomas of Kenya with cultural dance entertainment. You will later be transferred to their hotel.

Overnight will be at Wildebeest eco Camp Nairobi

 

Day 3: Nairobi – Naivasha – Hells Gate National Park.

After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Hell’s Gate National Park in Naivasha, which is approximately 2 hours’ drive. Named for the intense geothermal activity within its boundaries, the Hell’s Gate National Park is a remarkable quarter of the Great Rift Valley. Spectacular scenery including the towering cliffs, water-gouged gorges, stark rock towers, scrub clad volcanoes and belching plumes of geothermal steam make it one of the most atmospheric Parks in Africa. Hell’s Gate is an ideal venue for a day trip from Nairobi where, in addition to the bio-diversity that includes raptors, visitors can enjoy mountain biking, rock climbing and a natural spa. In the afternoon, you will be driven back to your hotel for check in, late Lunch and rest. You will also have a boat ride in Lake Naivasha.

Meals and overnight in Naivasha.

 

Day 4: Naivasha – Masai Mara

After breakfast, you will check out and your adventure to the Masai Mara will begin. It is approximately 6 hours’ drive. On arrival at the lodge you will check-in and have late lunch. You will have an evening game drive around the park and later back to the hotel.

Meals and overnight in Masai Mara.

 

Day 5: Masai Mara National Reserve

You will have an early morning game drive,  this being the best time to see animals as they roam the plains feeding before the heat of the day sends them to the shades, return to the lodge for a late buffet breakfast.  The rest of the morning will be spent at leisure with lunch till afternoon where you will visit a Masai Village and a Masai School.  The Mara is the ancestral home of the ancient warrior people – the Maasai.  Fiercely proud and self- reliant, traditionally pastoral nomads, who have clung to their ancient way of life; living in harmony with their environment and the wildlife, together with their cattle, with whom they share a strong, almost mystical bond.  Their houses are called Manyatas. This will be an interesting opportunity for you to learn their lifestyles.

Meals and overnight in Masai Mara.

 

Day 6: Masai Mara National Reserve.

This day will be spent at leisure with meals at the hotel and optional Game Drives.

Considered to be the jewel and highlight of any Kenyan safari, you’ll be enchanted by the diversity of animals, and topography.  In late spring, the grazers mainly wildebeest, cross the river bordering Tanzania with Kenya and travel north to the Maasai Mara for the green grasses.  Of course, the predators follow.  Here there are sightings of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, hyena, warthog, wildebeest, and zebra, just to name but a few.

Meals and overnight in Masai Mara.

 

Day 7: Masai Mara National Reserve – Lake Nakuru

After an early game drive, breakfast and check out, you will bid Mara Khaheri. You will have a stop at Narok town for shopping and lunch. Our representative will drive you to Lake Nakuru National Park, which is approximately 8 hours’ drive. Arrive at your pre-booked hotel, check in and rest.

Meals and overnight in Nakuru.

 

Day 8: Lake Nakuru National Park

After Breakfast, you will have a full day game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park with parked lunch. You will enjoy a park drive and famous Fabulous Flamingo with a population of over 1.5 million birds, the Rhinos and Buffalos and many more other animal spices. Drive back to the Hotel for refreshing and dinner.

Dinner and Overnight at Lake Nakuru.

 

Day 9: Lake Nakuru – Mt Kenya National Park

You will have an early morning game drive. After breakfast, you will check out and our representative will drive you to Mt Kenya National Park 6 hours’ drive. You will have lunch at Nanyuki town.

Later you will have game drives in Mt Kenya National Park where you will have clear views of the famous Mt. Kenya. Climbing to 5,199 meters, Mount Kenya is the second tallest mountain in Africa. The scenery surrounding this designated World Heritage Site is breath-taking. It is pristine wilderness with lakes, tarns, glaciers, dense forest, mineral springs and a selection of rare and endangered species of animals, high altitude adapted plains game and unique montane and alpine vegetation. Visitors can enjoy mountain climbing, camping and caving with the mountain’s rugged glacier-clad peaks providing the perfect backdrop.

Dinner and Overnight at Naromoru River Lodge

 

Day 10: Mt. Kenya National Park – Ol Pejeta Conservancy

After breakfast, you will travel to Ol Pejeta Conservancy where you will check into your tented camp and have lunch.

Your afternoon game drive will be done at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a haven for orphaned chimps that was established by the Jane Goodall Institute. Ol Pejeta has the highest ratio of game to area of any park or reserve in Kenya and it offers a great game viewing experience, camel tracking, lion tracking and al fresco dining.

Dinner and overnight stay at the Sweet Waters Serena Camp

 

Day 11: Olpejeta Conservancy – Samburu National Reserve / Buffalo Springs / Shaba National Reserve

After an early breakfast, you will have a morning game drive at the conservancy. You will then check out and start off your journey to Samburu National reserve. The journey will take approximately 3 and half hours. You will have late lunch after check in. the rest of the day will be spent at leisure with an evening game drive.

Dinner and overnight will be at Samburu Shaba Game lodge.

 

Day 12: Samburu National Reserve / Buffalo Springs / Shaba National Reserve

You will have a pre breakfast game drive. After breakfast, the rest of the day will be spent in the 3 in 1 reserve. At lunch hour, our representative will transfer you to the hotel for lunch. Then later embark on game viewing drives.

Samburu National Reserve is situated on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River in Kenya. This means plenty of water, trees and shade to attract wildlife like elephant, lion, giraffe and zebra from the surrounding savannah plains. Leopards are also regularly spotted. Samburu Game Reserve is situated in the hot and arid fringes of Kenya’s vast Northern Frontier District.

The area is home to the Samburu tribe, pastoral relatives of the Masai. Samburu Reserve as a safari destination has rugged and dramatic landscape, the Ewaso Nyiro River runs along the southern boundary. You will have an hour or two to meet the community by visiting one of their villages.

Dinner and Overnight will be at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

 

Day 13: Samburu National Reserve / Buffalo Springs / Shaba National Reserve – Nairobi

After an early morning game drive, you will have breakfast at the lodge. You will check out of the lodge and our representative will drive you to Nairobi which is approximately 8 hours’ drive. You will have lunch at Thomsons Falls Lodge.

On arrival, you will check in and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Dinner and Overnight in Nairobi

 

Day 14: Nairobi – Amboseli National Park

After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Amboseli National Park which is approximately 4 hours’ drive. Arrive at your pre-booked Safari Lodge in time for lunch. Have lunch; check in and rest. Later enjoy an evening game viewing drive in the park.

Meals and overnight in Amboseli.

 

Day 15: Amboseli National Park

This day will be spent at Amboseli National Park with Game drives around the park and meals at your lodge.

The park is home to the huge herds of the African Elephant. The park also plays host to lions, buffaloes, the elusive leopard, wildebeest, giraffes, zebras, a variety of antelopes and other smaller plains game. During the dry season it is semi-arid terrains and during the wet season, the seasonal “Amboseli Swamp” becomes home to many species.

Meals and overnight in Amboseli.

 

Day 16: Amboseli National Park – Tsavo West National Park

Early morning game drive Get back to the Hotel for breakfast. After breakfast, check out and depart for Tsavo West National Park which is approximately 4 hours’ drive. You will arrive just in time for lunch. Check in, have lunch and later have an evening game drive.

From the sight of fifty million gallons of crystal clear water gushing out of from the under parched lava rock that is the Mzima Springs  to the Shetani  lava flows, Tsavo West is a beautiful, rugged wilderness. The savannah ecosystem comprises of open grasslands, scrublands, and Acacia woodlands, belts of riverine vegetation and rocky ridges including the Poacher’s Lookout where visitors can see the teeming herds in the plains below. Tsavo West offers some of the most magnificent game viewing in the world and attractions include elephant, rhino, Hippos, lions, cheetah, leopards, Buffalos, diverse plant and bird species including the threatened corncrake and near threatened Basra Reed Warbler.

Meals and overnight in Tsavo West.

 

Day 17: Tsavo West National Park – Tsavo East National Park

After breakfast you will be driven to Tsavo East National Park, which is 2 to 3 hours’ drive. Check in and have a park drive before getting back to the Hotel for Lunch. Relax a bit before doing an evening drive to a different site in the park.

You will stop at Aruba Dam (main water body) for game viewing and photo taking. Later drive around the Tsavo River watching the animals’ drinking water and feeding. You can relax by pool watching the animals coming by the nearby water to quench their thirst.

Meals and overnight will be at Ashnil Aruba Camp.

 

Day 19: Tsavo East National Park

This day will be spent at Tsavo East National Park with Game drives around the park and meals at your lodge.

The sight of dust-red elephant wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with the midnight blue waters of palm-shaded Galana River is one of the most evocative images in Africa. This, along with the 300 kilometer long Yatta Plateau, the longest lava flow in the world, make for an adventure unlike any other in the Tsavo East. The park forms the largest protected area in Kenya and is home to most of the larger mammals, vast herds of dust –red elephant, Rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard, pods of hippo, crocodile, waterbucks, lesser Kudu, gerenuk and the prolific bird life features 500 recorded species.

Meals and overnight in Tsavo East.

 

Day 20: Tsavo East National Park – Nairobi

After breakfast, you will have a morning Game Drive. You will check out of the hotel. Our representative will drive you to Nairobi which is approximately 7 hours’ drive. Check in at the hotel, have lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 21: Nairobi – Departure

Depending on your international flight timings, our representative will take you to the airport to catch your flight back home. This will mark the end of your adventurous Kenya experience.

 

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Kenya Purely Coast Vacation https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/kenya-purely-coast-vacation/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:55:31 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5257 Day 1: Nairobi – Arrival

Depending on the timings of your international flight, on arrival at JKIA, our representative will meet you and do some introduction and briefs, Later you will be transferred to your pre-booked hotel, and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and Overnight will be in Nairobi.

 

Day 2: Nairobi – Malindi

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airport for your pre-booked flight to Malindi. On arrival our representative will meet and greet you. Later you will have a Malindi city tour and Malindi Museum Tour. Later you will be transferred to your pre-booked hotel for check in, lunch and overnight.

Dinner and Overnight in Malindi.

 

Day 3: Malindi

After breakfast, you will tour the Malindi Marine Park and enjoy a Glass Boat ride which enables one to see the Marine life. If they love swimming can also do some snorkeling in the Marine Park.

You will also be able to see coral garden.” From swimming Indian Ocean coastline provides the perfect getaway. The park is endowed with magnificent resources such as fringing reefs, coral gardens in the lagoons, sea grass beds, mangroves, mudflats, marine mammals, turtles and various species of shorebirds. Beach walks in this veritable paradise.

After lunch, you will proceed to visit the Vasco da Gama pillar. Later, you will visit The Crocodile farm in Malindi.

The rest of the day will be spent at leisure.

Dinner and Overnight in Malindi.

 

Day 4: Malindi – Watamu

After breakfast, you will check out of the hotel and depart for Watamu. You will visit Gede Ruins, the butterfly farm and Watamu Marine National Park. Later you will be transferred to hotel for check in and overnight.

Dinner and Overnight in Watamu.

 

Day 5: Watamu – Kilifi

After an early breakfast, you will visit The Arabuko Sokoke reserve. Later return to hotel for lunch and check out. Our representative will transfer you to Kilifi, check in to your pre-booked hotel for overnight.

Dinner and Overnight in Kilifi.

 

Day 6: Kilifi

This day you will have full day tour in Kilifi. You will visit Mnarani Ruins Museum, Jumba la Mtwana, Takaungu and Kilepwa Island.

Meals and Overnight in Kilifi.

 

Day 7: Kilifi – Mombasa

After Breakfast, you will check out and start your journey to Mombasa. You will visit Haller Park and in the afternoon visit Wild Water. Later you will be transferred to hotel for check in and overnight.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 8: Mombasa

After breakfast, you will have a Mombasa city tour and a visit to Fort Jesus. Later you will visit The Mombasa Marine Park, “the allure of natural beauty”. Its blue waters are ideal for wind surfing, water skiing, snorkeling and diving. They also provide a home to a colorful variety of marine species including crabs, starfish, stone fish, cucumbers sea urchins, corals, turtles, sea grasses and interesting migratory birds including crab plovers.

After lunch you will visit Wild Waters where you will engage in water slides.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 9: Mombasa – Chale Island

After Breakfast you will check out, and our representative will transfer you to Chale Island for relaxation and Overnight. You will arrive in time for lunch, check in and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and overnight in Chale.

 

Day 11: Chale – Diani

After Breakfast you will check out, and our representative will transfer you to Diani for relaxation and Overnight. You will arrive in time for lunch, check in and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and overnight in Diani.

 

Day 12: Kisite Mpunguti – Wasini Island

After breakfast you will visit KisiteMpunguti Marine Park, the home of the Dolphin. Unspoiled, beautiful and sun kissed, the Kisite Marine Park was established to protect the scenic islands and special habitats of a wide range of endemic marine animals and breeding migratory birds. It lies in the coral gardens south of Wasini Island and encompasses three small coral rag forest islands, each with considerable areas of fringing reef. Kisite is one of the most rewarding snorkeling locations at the coast. Visitors can also enjoy bird watching, diving and of course, sunbathing.

Later you will visit the Wasini Island which is within the Marine Park. Here you will have a chance to interact with Wasini community and learn a bit about their culture. You will have lunch at Wasini.

You will also visit the Slave caves. They are vast and some portions are filled with fruit and insect feeding bats. Shimoni caves are reputed to extend 5 km inland connecting to the 3 sister’s caves. These caves served for centuries as ‘Kayas’ or sacred sites of worship and sanctuary for the local community. Later in the 18th and 19th century, the caves are also believed to have served as the holding areas for the thousands of captured slaves who were in transit to the infamous Arabian slave markets of Zanzibar.  You will later be transferred back to your hotel in Diani.

Meals and overnight in Diani.

 

Day 13: Diani – Nairobi

After your breakfast you will leave all the breezes, the beach, and buffets, the palms to travel back to Nairobi via one hour flight. On arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel for refreshment. Later, our representative will take you to Carnival restaurant for your last dinner. Later you will be taken to your hotel.

Overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 14: Nairobi Departure

Depending on your international flight timings, our representative will take you to the airport to catch your flight back home. This will mark the end of your adventurous Kenya experience.

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Ol Pejeta Conservancy Weekend Getaway https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/ol-pejeta-conservancy-weekend-getaway/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:49:25 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5255 Day 1: Nairobi – Ol Pejeta Conservancy

Pick up at Nairobi and drive to Nanyuki. We will have a couple stopovers along the way at the scenic spots for photos. Arrive at hotel in time for lunch. In the afternoon proceed for a game drive at Ol Pejeta conservancy. Later return to the hotel for dinner and overnight.

Ol Pejeta has the highest ratio of game to area of any park or reserve in Kenya and it offers a great game viewing experience, camel tracking, lion tracking and al fresco dining.

Dinner and overnight stay at the Sweet Waters Serena Camp.

 

Day 2: Ol Pejeta Conservancy – Nairobi

Have breakfast at the hotel, check out and head for a morning game drive. After the game drive drive to Nanyuki town for shopping. Return to Nairobi. You will arrive in Nairobi late in the afternoon. This will mark the end of your adventurous Tour.

 

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Nairobi and Central Kenya Tour https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/nairobi-and-central-kenya-tour/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:36:43 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5251 Day 1: Arrival Nairobi

Depending on the timings of your international flight, on arrival at JKIA, our representative will meet you and do some introduction and briefs, Later you will be transferred to your pre-booked hotel, and spend the rest of the day at leisure. In the evening you will have dinner, music and entertainment at Carnivore Restaurant, which is among the top 100 Restaurants in the World. Later you will be transferred to your hotel.

Overnight will be at Wildebeest eco Camp Nairobi.

 

Day 2: Nairobi – Lake Magadi

After breakfast, you will be driven to Lake Magadi via Magadi road. You will have a stop at Olorgesailie pre-historic museum for site seeing on the excavations and tools used by early man. Drive to the Lake view point: Hike and view the lake. Bird watching at the bird’s rock Drive to the hot springs; you can bath and dip yourself in the hot massaging water. The hot springs serve as a key attraction to many visitors to Magadi. This is a natural basin curved depression on the ground with bubbling hot waters. The water is believed to have medicinal value to the skin curing ailments such as skin rushes, pimples and acne, dry skin conditions and also helps in strengthening the bones in the body. A late evening or early morning bath is a thrilling massage-like, best experience one can have.

Drive to the sports club for lunch. Relax and cool off the heat; you may shower/swim. In the evening you will drive back to Nairobi. You will have Dinner at Masai Lodge

Overnight will be at Wildebeest eco Camp Nairobi.

 

Day 3: Nairobi

At around 1030hrs you will visit The David Sheldrick National Wildlife Trust. This is an orphan-elephant rescue organization, devoted to conserving East Africa’s wildlife and habitats. Founded in 1977 by Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick in honor of her late husband and famous Warden of Tsavo East National Park, David Sheldrick, the trust is one of the most successful elephant and rhino rescue programs in the world.

You will proceed with your tour to the giraffe Centre. This centre protects the highly endangered Rothschild’s giraffe, combines serious conservation with enjoyable activities. You can observe, hand-feed or even kiss one of the giraffes from a raised wooden structure, which is quite an experience. You may also spot warthogs snuffling about in the mud, and there’s an interesting self-guided forest walk through the adjacent Gogo River Bird Sanctuary. You will also visit Mat Bronze for shopping and viewing. Matbronze has one of the largest display of wildlife bronzes in Africa. Over six hundred pieces, ranging from cuff-links to life size crocodiles. From cute cub footprints to large lion track trays. You will have a stop at Kazuri beads for shopping and viewing.

Board your van and continue to Karen Blixen Museum. You will have lunch here. If you loved the movie Out of Africa, you’ll love this place. This museum is the farmhouse where author Karen Blixen lived between 1914 and 1931. She left after a series of personal tragedies, but the lovely colonial house has been preserved as a museum. The museum is set in expansive gardens, and is an interesting place to wander around after the tour.

Later you will visit Mamba Village. Mamba Village Nairobi Crocodile Farm Day Tour takes you to the Mamba Village Nairobi situated an estimated 13 kilometers away from Kenya’s capital city – off the Lang’ata – Karen road. This is a great place to see crocodiles, ostriches, giraffes, and even rabbits in Nairobi.

In the evening you will have dinner at the Bomas of Kenya with cultural dance entertainment. You will later be transferred to their hotel.

Overnight will be at Wildebeest eco Camp Nairobi.

 

Day 4: Nairobi City Tour & Nairobi National Park

Breakfast at Safari Park Hotel at KICC, You will have a KICC Rooftop tour. You will have a Nairobi City Tour. Nairobi is a city, financial capital, administrative capital, province and the capital of Kenya. The main languages spoken here are Swahili and English. There are many churches, mosques and temples where people of different faiths go to worship. Some of the places you will see are Parliament, mausoleum, Nairobi National museum, KICC among others.

You will be transferred to hotel for check in and lunch.

In the afternoon, our representative will drive you to Nairobi National park where you will have a morning game drive. Wide open grass plains and backdrop of the city scrapers, scattered acacia bush play host to a wide variety of wildlife including the endangered black rhino, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, buffaloes, giraffes and diverse birdlife with over 400 species recorded. Visitors can enjoy the park’s picnic sites, three campsites and the walking trails for hikers. You will also visit Animal Orphanage and Safari Walk.

Later you will be transferred to the hotel.

Dinner and Overnight at Sentrim Boulevard Hotel

 

Day 5: Fourteen Falls & Rapids Waterfalls

You will have breakfast at Tribe Hotel. After breakfast, you will departs in the morning from Nairobi and drive north some 45 km from the city centre to arrive at Blue Posts Hotel, established in 1908 as a stopover for white settlers who farmed and lived in central Kenya. Once at fourteen falls, a local guide will lead you down a rocky path to the near side base of the falls where you get a boat for crossing the river. Fourteen Falls derives the name from their 14 distinct waterfalls on the broad section of the famous Athi River.
The experienced boat guides use a long pole, guiding the boat on a leisurely ride downstream, back upstream and across the river to a rocky bank on the far side. The view of the falls from the boat is extraordinary! You may spend a couple of hours strolling around the rocks at the base of the Falls and enjoy the fresh air, breathtaking view and local flora.

Later you will drive to Rapids Waterfalls located at the Sagana Rapids Camp. It is a camp that offers a range of services including white water rafting, ziplining and camping. They are located in Sagana Town along Murang’a Road. Here you will have lunch and engage in various water activities.

In the evening our representative will transfer you to the hotel for check in and overnight.

Dinner and Overnight at Naromoru River Lodge

 

Day 6: Mt Kenya National Park & Tea Plantation

After breakfast, you will visit a tea farm around Mt Kenya, where you will have a chance to learn about tea planting and if lucky participate in tea picking. You will also have a village tour and see how the people in Mt, Kenya region live.

Later you will have game drives in Mt Kenya National Park where you will have clear views of the famous Mt. Kenya. Climbing to 5,199 meters, Mount Kenya is the second tallest mountain in Africa. The scenery surrounding this designated World Heritage Site is breath-taking. It is pristine wilderness with lakes, tarns, glaciers, dense forest, mineral springs and a selection of rare and endangered species of animals, high altitude adapted plains game and unique montane and alpine vegetation. Visitors can enjoy mountain climbing, camping and caving with the mountain’s rugged glacier-clad peaks providing the perfect backdrop.

Dinner and Overnight at Naromoru River Lodge

 

Day 7: Naro moru – Nyahururu – Nairobi

After breakfast, you will check out and drive back to Nairobi. You will have lunch at Thompson Falls Lodge where you will get a chance to view the Thompson Falls and have a photo session.

Dinner and Overnight will be at Wildebeest eco Camp Nairobi

 

Day 8: Nairobi – Departure

After Breakfast, depending on your international flight timings, our representative will take you to the airport to catch your flight back home. This will mark the end of your adventurous Kenya tour.

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5 Days Tsavo East and West Tour Package https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/5-days-tsavo-east-and-west-tour-package/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 07:34:27 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5235 Day 1: Nairobi – Tsavo West National Park

Depart Nairobi for Tsavo West National Park which is approximately 6 hours’ drive. You will arrive just in time for lunch. Check in, have lunch and later have an evening game drive.

From the sight of fifty million gallons of crystal clear water gushing out of from the under parched lava rock that is the Mzima Springs  to the Shetani  lava flows, Tsavo West is a beautiful, rugged wilderness. The savannah ecosystem comprises of open grasslands, scrublands, and Acacia woodlands, belts of riverine vegetation and rocky ridges including the Poacher’s Lookout where visitors can see the teeming herds in the plains below. Tsavo West offers some of the most magnificent game viewing in the world and attractions include elephant, rhino, Hippos, lions, cheetah, leopards, Buffalos, diverse plant and bird species including the threatened corncrake and near threatened Basra Reed Warbler.

Meals and overnight at Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge.

 

Day 2: Tsavo West National Park – Taita Hills Game Sanctuary

After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive. Come back for check out and our representative will drive you to Tsavo East National Park, which is approximately 2 hours’ drive.

After check in and lunch, you will spend the sometime at leisure. Thereafter you will have a Game drive. We will tour the sanctuary for wildlife until1830hrs when we return to our lodge.

Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary is a privately owned wildlife sanctuary in Kenya located in the Coast Province in Taita-Taveta District approximately 220 kilometers from Mombasa. Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary covers an area of 280,000 acres (1,100 km2), and is adjacent to Tsavo West National Park and the LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary. It hosts Cape buffalo, Elephant, Leopard, Masai lion, Masai Giraffe, Zebra, Hartebeest, Impala, Waterbuck, Thomson’s gazelle, lesser kudu, dik-dik, and other smaller animals, including a great diversity of bird life.

Dinner and Overnight at Taita Hills.

Day 3: Taita Hills Game Sanctuary – Tsavo East National Park

Arise early and have a cup of coffee and head out for an early morning game drive by 0630hrs. We will tour this park for animals against the back drop of a Kenyan sunrise a true blessing to view. Thereafter we will return to the lodge by 0830hrs for a full breakfast. After breakfast, you can freshen up and we check out of the lodge and have a small game drive while we exit the park by 1100hrs. Our representative will drive you to Tsavo East National Park, which is approximately 3 hours’ drive. Check in and spend the day at leisure with lunch at the lodge. Later you will have an evening Game Drive.

Dinner and overnight at Ashnil Aruba Camp

 

Day 4: Tsavo East National Park

This day will be spent at Tsavo East National Park with Game drives around the park and meals at your lodge.

The sight of dust-red elephant wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with the midnight blue waters of palm-shaded Galana River is one of the most evocative images in Africa. This, along with the 300 kilometer long Yatta Plateau, the longest lava flow in the world, make for an adventure unlike any other in the Tsavo East. The park forms the largest protected area in Kenya and is home to most of the larger mammals, vast herds of dust –red elephant, Rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard, pods of hippo, crocodile, waterbucks, lesser Kudu, gerenuk and the prolific bird life features 500 recorded species.

Meals and overnight at Asnil Aruba Camp

 

Day 5: Tsavo East National Park – Nairobi

After breakfast, you will have a morning Game Drive. You will check out of the hotel. Our representative will drive you to Nairobi which will mark the end of your adventurous tour.

 

Cost per person is @USD 1420 (based on 2 people travelling)

Cost Includes:

  • Accommodation as per the itinerary
  • Meals on full board basis
  • Transport in a pop up roof Tour Van
  • Game drives in the parks
  • Services of an English-speaking Tour Guide
  • Mineral water during the tour

 

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Jambo Kenya Tour https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/jambo-kenya-tour/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 06:56:37 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5230 Jambo Kenya Tour!

Day 1: Nairobi – Arrival

Depending on the timings of your international flight, on arrival at JKIA, our representative will meet you and do some introduction and briefs, Later you will be transferred to your pre-booked hotel, and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and Overnight will be in Nairobi.

 

Day 2: Nairobi

After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Nairobi National park where you will have a morning game drive. At around 1100hrs you will visit The David Sheldrick National Wildlife Trust. This is an orphan-elephant rescue organization, devoted to conserving East Africa’s wildlife and habitats. Founded in 1977 by Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick in honor of her late husband and famous Warden of Tsavo East National Park, David Sheldrick, the trust is one of the most successful elephant and rhino rescue programs in the world.

You will proceed with your tour to the giraffe Centre. This centre protects the highly endangered Rothschild’s giraffe, combines serious conservation with enjoyable activities. You can observe, hand-feed or even kiss one of the giraffes from a raised wooden structure, which is quite an experience. You may also spot warthogs snuffling about in the mud, and there’s an interesting self-guided forest walk through the adjacent Gogo River Bird Sanctuary.

Board your van and continue to Karen Blixen Museum. You will have lunch here. If you loved the movie Out of Africa, you’ll love this place. This museum is the farmhouse where author Karen Blixen lived between 1914 and 1931. She left after a series of personal tragedies, but the lovely colonial house has been preserved as a museum. The museum is set in expansive gardens, and is an interesting place to wander around after the tour.

In the evening you will have dinner at the Bomas of Kenya with cultural dance entertainment. You will later be transferred to their hotel.

Overnight will be at Wildebeest eco Camp Nairobi.

 

Day 3: Nairobi – Naivasha – Hells Gate National Park.

After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Hell’s Gate National Park in Naivasha, which is approximately 2 hours’ drive. Named for the intense geothermal activity within its boundaries, the Hell’s Gate National Park is a remarkable quarter of the Great Rift Valley. Spectacular scenery including the towering cliffs, water-gouged gorges, stark rock towers, scrub clad volcanoes and belching plumes of geothermal steam make it one of the most atmospheric Parks in Africa. Hell’s Gate is an ideal venue for a day trip from Nairobi where, in addition to the bio-diversity that includes raptors, visitors can enjoy mountain biking, rock climbing and a natural spa. In the afternoon, you will be driven back to your hotel for check in, late Lunch and rest.

Meals and overnight in Naivasha.

 

Day 4: Naivasha – Elementaita

After Breakfast, Enjoy boat rides on Lake Naivasha with chances of seeing Hippos and lots of birds. You will later check out of the hotel and travel to Lake Elementaita. You will check in, have lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and overnight in Naivasha.

 

Day 5: Lake Elementaita – Lake Nakuru

Enjoy an early morning walk along Lake Elementaita with great chances of seeing lots of water birds. Visit the hot springs and return to the camp for breakfast.

After breakfast depart for Lake Nakuru National Park, which is approximately 2 hours drive. You will arrive in time for lunch, check in and spend the rest of the day enjoying Game Drives around the spectacular park.

Lake Nakuru National Park located in the Great Rift Valley. On the floor of the Great Rift Valley, surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland, lies the beautiful Lake Nakuru National Park. Visitors can enjoy the wide ecological diversity and varied habitats that range from Lake Nakuru itself to the surrounding escarpment and picturesque ridges. Lake Nakuru National Park is ideal for bird watching, hiking, picnic and game drives.

Meals and overnight in Nakuru.

 

Day 6: Lake Nakuru – Lake Bogoria

After an early breakfast at the Lodge, you will have a morning gane drive. After check out, you will set out for our fifth leg of the safari, which takes you to Lake Bogoria located inside Lake Bogoria National Reserve. It is approximately 3 hours’ drive from Nakuru.You will arrive just in time for lunch at the hotel. The rest of the day will be spent at leisure.

Dinner and Overnight will be at Lake Bogoria Spa Resort.

 

Day 7: Lake Bogoria

After breakfast, this day will be spent exploring Lake Bogoria National Reserve – a saline water shallow located at the northern region of the Kenyan Rift, 25 kilometers south of Lake Baringo, on a game drive and walk around this spectacular lake in the heart of an arid landscape. The soda lake attracts massive flocks of flamingos and is often carpeted in pink, due to the high concentrations of flamingoes. Animal found in Lake Bogoria National Reserve include: Greater Kudu, Burchell’s Zebra warthogs, Forest hog Impala, Klipspringers, Cape buffalo, Patas Monkeys among others. Predators include genet, serval cat, cite and white tailed mongoose and cheetah.

You will also have a chance to see the Tugen traditional artifacts and have a unique and thrilling experience with the resident traditional dancers.

The western shore has hot springs and spouting geysers, spurting steam and bubbling geothermal pools. Fresh water springs at the lake edge attract an abundance of birds and wildlife. You will have lunch at the hotel.

Lake Bogoria geysers and hot springs are the major attractions which are at the central basin of the lake. Later in the evening you will return to the hotel.

Dinner and overnight will be at Lake Bogoria Spa Resort

 

Day 8: Lake Bogoria – Lake Baringo

After Breakfast, our representative will drive you to Lake Baringo, a fresh water Rift Valley lake, famous for its magnificent bird life. Lake Baringo is well known for two of its waters’ residents–Hippo and Crocodile. Hippos are seen in the lake on boat trips, and at Lakeside lodges and camps. They are seen also seen at night grazing the lawns.

You will check in and have lunch. The rest of the day will be spent exploring Lake Baringo and its surrounding.

Meals and Overnight at Lake Baringo

 

Day 9: Lake Baringo – Nakuru

After breakfast, you will depart for Nakuru.  You will arrive in time for lunch, check in and spend the rest of the day at leisure. This will be a good chance to do shopping in Nakuru town.

Meals and overnight in Nakuru

 

Day 10: Nakuru – Thomson Falls

After early breakfast, drive to Thomson’s falls through Nakuru and stop briefly at Subukia Rift Valley view at the Equator point. Later proceed to Thomson’s Falls arriving for lunch at Thomsons Falls Lodge. Afternoon at relaxation by these 83 feet falls as you marvel at this natural wonder.

You will have the opportunity to explore the enchanting waterfalls that attract colorful birds and provide good photographic opportunities.

Other Activities to partake include: A nature walk to the base of Thomson Falls, Take a walk to Hippo point to look at the hippos up close, Trout fishing, a popular base for high altitude training, used by international athletes, Waterfalls attract colorful birds and provide good photographic opportunities.

You can relax on the lawn chair of the Thomson Falls Lodge, while reading your book, a nature trail at the base of the falls and through the gorge, is a safe haven for the endangered colobus monkeys, baboons and small animals.

Dinner and overnight at Thomson Falls Lodge

 

Day 11: Nyahururu – Mt Kenya

After breakfast, you will start your journey to Mt Kenya National park which is approximately 5 hours’ drive. You will have lunch at Nanyuki town.

Later you will have game drives in Mt Kenya National Park where you will have clear views of the famous Mt. Kenya. Climbing to 5,199 meters, Mount Kenya is the second tallest mountain in Africa. The scenery surrounding this designated World Heritage Site is breath-taking. It is pristine wilderness with lakes, tarns, glaciers, dense forest, mineral springs and a selection of rare and endangered species of animals, high altitude adapted plains game and unique montane and alpine vegetation. Visitors can enjoy mountain climbing, camping and caving with the mountain’s rugged glacier-clad peaks providing the perfect backdrop.

Dinner and Overnight at Naromoru River Lodge

 

Day 12: Mt Kenya – Ol Pejeta

After breakfast, you will travel to Ol Pejeta Conservancy where you will check into your tented camp and have lunch.

Your afternoon game drive will be done at the Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a haven for orphaned chimps that was established by the Jane Goodall Institute. Ol Pejeta has the highest ratio of game to area of any park or reserve in Kenya and it offers a great game viewing experience, camel tracking, lion tracking and al fresco dining.

Dinner and overnight stay at the Sweet Waters Serena Camp.

 

Day 13: Ol Pejeta Conservancy – Samburu

After an early breakfast, you will have a morning game drive at the conservancy. You will then check out and start off your journey to Samburu National reserve. The journey will take approximately 3 and half hours. You will have late lunch after check in. the rest of the day will be spent at leisure with an evening game drive.

Dinner and overnight will be at Samburu Shaba Game lodge.

 

Day 14: Samburu National Reserve / Buffalo Springs / Shaba National Reserve

You will have a pre breakfast game drive. After breakfast, the rest of the day will be spent in the 3 in 1 reserve. At lunch hour, our representative will transfer you to the hotel for lunch. Then later embark on game viewing drives.

Samburu National Reserve is situated on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River in Kenya. This means plenty of water, trees and shade to attract wildlife like elephant, lion, giraffe and zebra from the surrounding savannah plains. Leopards are also regularly spotted. Samburu Game Reserve is situated in the hot and arid fringes of Kenya’s vast Northern Frontier District.

The area is home to the Samburu tribe, pastoral relatives of the Masai. Samburu Reserve as a safari destination has rugged and dramatic landscape, the Ewaso Nyiro River runs along the southern boundary. You will have an hour or two to meet the community by visiting one of their villages.

Dinner and Overnight will be at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

 

Day 15: Samburu – Sagana

After an early morning game drive, you will have breakfast at the lodge. You will check out of the lodge and our representative will drive you to Sagana Rapid Camp which is approximately 5 hours’ drive. You will arrive just in time for lunch, check in and refresh.

In the afternoon, you will drive to Rapids Waterfalls located at the Camp. It is a camp that offers a range of services including white water rafting, ziplining and camping. They are located in Sagana Town along Murang’a Road. Here you will engage in various water activities.

Meals and Overnight will be at Rapids Camp Sagana

 

Day 16: Sagana – Fourteen Falls – Nairobi

After breakfast at the camp, you will start your journey to Nairobi, which is approximately 2 hours drive. You will stop at The Fourteen Falls. Once at fourteen falls, a local guide will lead you down a rocky path to the near side base of the falls where you get a boat for crossing the river. Fourteen Falls derives the name from their 14 distinct waterfalls on the broad section of the famous Athi River. The experienced boat guides use a long pole, guiding the boat on a leisurely ride downstream, back upstream and across the river to a rocky bank on the far side. The view of the falls from the boat is extraordinary! You may spend a couple of hours strolling around the rocks at the base of the Falls and enjoy the fresh air, breathtaking view and local flora.

You will arrive Nairobi in the afternoon. After check in and late lunch, you will have an optional city tour. The rest of the day will be spent at leisure in preparation for more adventure. This is a good time to do shopping and rejuvenate you.

Dinner and overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 17: Nairobi – Masai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast, you will check out and your adventure to the Masai Mara will begin. It is approximately 8 hours’ drive. On arrival at the lodge you will check-in and have late lunch. You will have an evening game drive around the park and later back to the hotel.

Considered to be the jewel and highlight of any Kenyan safari, you’ll be enchanted by the diversity of animals, and topography.  In late spring, the grazers mainly wildebeest, cross the river bordering Tanzania with Kenya and travel north to the Maasai Mara for the green grasses.  Of course, the predators follow.  Here there are sightings of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, hyena, warthog, wildebeest, and zebra, just to name but a few.

Meals and overnight in Masai Mara.

 

Day 18: Masai Mara National Reserve

You will have an early morning game drive,  this being the best time to see animals as they roam the plains feeding before the heat of the day sends them to the shades, return to the lodge for a late buffet breakfast.  The rest of the morning will be spent at leisure with lunch till late afternoon where you will visit a Masai Village and a Masai School.  The Mara is the ancestral home of the ancient warrior people – the Maasai.  Fiercely proud and self- reliant, traditionally pastoral nomads, who have clung to their ancient way of life; living in harmony with their environment and the wildlife, together with their cattle, with whom they share a strong, almost mystical bond.  Their houses are called Manyatas. This will be an interesting opportunity for you to learn their lifestyles.

Meals and overnight in Masai Mara.

 

Day 19: Masai Mara National Reserve – Nairobi

After an early game drive, breakfast and check out, you will bid Mara Khaheri. You will have a stop at Narok town for shopping and lunch. Our representative will drive you to Nairobi, which is approximately 8 hours’ drive. Arrive at your pre-booked hotel, check in and rest.

Meals and overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 20: Nairobi – Amboseli National Park

After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Amboseli National Park which is approximately 4 hours’ drive. Arrive at your pre-booked Safari Lodge in time for lunch. Have lunch; check in and rest. Later enjoy an evening game viewing drive in the park. The park is home to the huge herds of the African Elephant. The park also plays host to lions, buffaloes, the elusive leopard, wildebeest, giraffes, zebras, a variety of antelopes and other smaller plains game. During the dry season it is semi-arid terrains and during the wet season, the seasonal “Amboseli Swamp” becomes home to many species.

Meals and overnight in Amboseli.

 

Day 21: Amboseli National Park

This day will be spent at Amboseli National Park with Game drives around the park and meals at your lodge.

The park is home to the huge herds of the African Elephant. The park also plays host to lions, buffaloes, the elusive leopard, wildebeest, giraffes, zebras, a variety of antelopes and other smaller plains game. During the dry season it is semi-arid terrains and during the wet season, the seasonal “Amboseli Swamp” becomes home to many species.

Meals and overnight in Amboseli.

 

Day 22: Amboseli National Park – Tsavo West National Park

Early morning game drive Get back to the Hotel for breakfast. After breakfast, check out and depart for Tsavo West National Park which is approximately 4 hours’ drive. You will arrive just in time for lunch. Check in, have lunch and later have an evening game drive.

From the sight of fifty million gallons of crystal clear water gushing out of from the under parched lava rock that is the Mzima Springs  to the Shetani  lava flows, Tsavo West is a beautiful, rugged wilderness. The savannah ecosystem comprises of open grasslands, scrublands, and Acacia woodlands, belts of riverine vegetation and rocky ridges including the Poacher’s Lookout where visitors can see the teeming herds in the plains below. Tsavo West offers some of the most magnificent game viewing in the world and attractions include elephant, rhino, Hippos, lions, cheetah, leopards, Buffalos, diverse plant and bird species including the threatened corncrake and near threatened Basra Reed Warbler.

Meals and overnight in Tsavo West.

 

Day 23: Tsavo West National Park – Taita Hills Game Sanctuary

After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive. Come back for check out and our representative will drive you to Tsavo East National Park, which is approximately 2 hours’ drive.

After check in and lunch, you will spend the sometime at leisure. Thereafter you will have a Game drive. We will search the sanctuary for wildlife until1830hrs when we return to our lodge.

Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary is a privately owned wildlife sanctuary in Kenya located in the Coast Province in Taita-Taveta District approximately 220 kilometers from Mombasa. Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary covers an area of 280,000 acres (1,100 km2), and is adjacent to Tsavo West National Park and the LUMO Community Wildlife Sanctuary. It hosts Cape buffalo, Elephant, Leopard, Masai lion, Masai Giraffe, Zebra, Hartebeest, Impala, Waterbuck, Thomson’s gazelle, lesser kudu, dik-dik, and other smaller animals, including a great diversity of bird life.

Dinner and Overnight at Taita Hills.

 

Day 24: Taita Hills Game Sanctuary – Tsavo East National Park

Arise early and have a cup of coffee and head out for an early morning game drive by 0630hrs. We will search this park again for animals against the back drop of a Kenyan sun rise. Thereafter we will return to the lodge by 0830hrs for a full breakfast. After breakfast, you can freshen up and we check out of the lodge and have a small game drive while we exit the park by 1100hrs. Our representative will drive you to Tsavo East National Park, which is approximately 3 hours’ drive. Check in and spend the day at leisure with lunch at the lodge. Later you will have an evening Game Drive.

Dinner and overnight in Tsavo East.

 

Day 25: Tsavo East National Park

This day will be spent at Tsavo East National Park with Gamedrives around the park and meals at your lodge.

The sight of dust-red elephant wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with the midnight blue waters of palm-shaded Galana River is one of the most evocative images in Africa. This, along with the 300 kilomtere long Yatta Plateau, the longest lava flow in the world, make for an adventure unlike any other in the Tsavo East. The park forms the largest protected area in Kenya and is home to most of the larger mammals, vast herds of dust –red elephant, Rhino, buffalo, lion, and leopard, pods of hippo, crocodile, waterbucks, lesser Kudu, gerenuk and the prolific bird life features 500 recorded species.

Meals and overnight in Tsavo East.

 

Day 26: Tsavo East National Park – Mombasa

After breakfast, you will have a morning Game Drive. You will check out of the hotel. Our representative will drive you to Malindi which is approximately 4 hours’ drive. Check in at the hotel, have lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 27: Mombasa

After breakfast, you will have a Mombasa city tour and a visit to Fort Jesus. Later you will visit The Mombasa Marine Park, “the allure of natural beauty”. Its blue waters are ideal for wind surfing, water skiing, snorkeling and diving. They also provide a home to a colorful variety of marine species including crabs, starfish, stone fish, cucumbers sea urchins, corals, turtles, sea grasses and interesting migratory birds including crab plovers.

After lunch you will visit Wild Waters where you will engage in water slides.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 28: KisiteMpunguti

After breakfast you will visit KisiteMpunguti Marine Park, the home of the Dolphin. Unspoiled, beautiful and sun kissed, the Kisite Marine Park was established to protect the scenic islands and special habitats of a wide range of endemic marine animals and breeding migratory birds. It lies in the coral gardens south of Wasini Island and encompasses three small coral rag forest islands, each with considerable areas of fringing reef. Kisite is one of the most rewarding snorkeling locations at the coast. Visitors can also enjoy bird watching, diving and of course, sunbathing.

Later you will visit the Wasini Island which is within the Marine Park. Here you will have a chance to interact with Wasini community and learn a bit about their culture. You will have lunch at Wasini.

You will also visit the Slave caves. They are vast and some portions are filled with fruit and insect feeding bats. Shimoni caves are reputed to extend 5 km inland connecting to the 3 sister’s caves. These caves served for centuries as ‘Kayas’ or sacred sites of worship and sanctuary for the local community. Later in the 18th and 19th century, the caves are also believed to have served as the holding areas for the thousands of captured slaves who were in transit to the infamous Arabian slave markets of Zanzibar.  You will later be transferred back to your hotel in Mombasa.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 29: Mombasa – Nairobi

After your breakfast you will leave all the breezes, the beach, and buffets, the palms to travel back to Nairobi via one hour flight. On arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel for refreshment. Later, our representative will take you to Carnival restaurant for your last dinner. Later you will be taken to your hotel.

Overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 30: Nairobi – Departure

Depending on your international flight timings, our representative will take you to the airport to catch your flight back home. This will mark the end of your adventurous Kenya experience.

 

The cost per person sharing is:

 

The above cost includes:

  • Accommodation throughout the tour
  • All meals throughout the tour
  • Park entrance fees in all areas of interest
  • Transport throughout the tour
  • Return flights to Mombasa
  • All transfers
  • Services of a professional tour guide
  • Game viewing drives

 

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3 Weeks Kenya Experience https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/3-weeks-kenya-experience/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 06:51:21 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5226 Day 1: Arrival Nairobi

Depending on the timings of your international flight, on arrival at JKIA, our representative will meet you and do some introduction and briefs, Later you will be transferred to your pre-booked hotel.

Dinner and Overnight will be in Nairobi.

 

Day 2: Nairobi

After breakfast you will have a Nairobi City Tour. You will also visit the National Museums of Kenya.

After Lunch, our representative will drive you to Nairobi National park where you will have a game drive for the rest of the afternoon.

Meals and overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 3: Nairobi

After breakfast, at around 1000hrs you will visit The David Sheldrick National Wildlife Trust. This is an orphan-elephant rescue organization, devoted to conserving East Africa’s wildlife and habitats. Founded in 1977 by Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick in honor of her late husband and famous Warden of Tsavo East National Park, David Sheldrick, the trust is one of the most successful elephant and rhino rescue programs in the world.

You will proceed with your tour to the giraffe Centre. This center protects the highly endangered Rothschild’s giraffe, combines serious conservation with enjoyable activities. You can observe, hand-feed or even kiss one of the giraffes from a raised wooden structure, which is quite an experience. You may also spot warthogs snuffling about in the mud, and there’s an interesting self-guided forest walk through the adjacent Gogo River Bird Sanctuary.

You will then visit the Karen Blixen Museum. If you loved the movie Out of Africa, you’ll love this place. This museum is the farmhouse where author Karen Blixen lived between 1914 and 1931. She left after a series of personal tragedies, but the lovely colonial house has been preserved as a museum. The museum is set in expansive gardens, and is an interesting place to wander around after the tour.

You will be driven to Bomas of Kenya to be entertained with cultural dances. You will later be transferred to your hotel.

Meals and overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 4: Nairobi – Masai Mara National Reserve

Your adventure to the Masai Mara will begin in Nairobi. At 0745hrs our representatives will meet you for a short briefing and immediately after begin your journey at around 8.30am. You will drive to Masai Mara through the Great Rift Valley. It is approximately 8 hours’ drive from Nairobi to Masai Mara. You will have a brief stop-over at the view point to be explained on how the Rift Valley was formed and thereafter, proceed with your journey. Masai Mara is considered to be the jewel and highlight of any Kenyan safari.  You’ll be enchanted by the diversity of animals, and topography.  In late spring, the grazers mainly wildebeest, cross the river bordering Tanzania with Kenya and travel north to the Maasai Mara for the green grasses.  Of course, the predators follow.  Here there are sightings of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, hyena, warthog, wildebeest, and zebra, just to name but a few. On arrival at the lodge you will check-in and have late lunch. Later you will have evening game drives through the park in search for the Bi Five.

Dinner and Overnight at Masai Mara.

 

Day 5: Masai Mara National Reserve

You will have an early morning game drive,  this being the best time to see animals as they roam the plains feeding before the heat of the day sends them to the shades, return to the lodge for a late buffet breakfast.  The rest of the morning will be spent at leisure with lunch till afternoon where you will visit a Masai Village and a Masai School.  The Mara is the ancestral home of the ancient warrior people – the Maasai.  Fiercely proud and self- reliant, traditionally pastoral nomads, who have clung to their ancient way of life; living in harmony with their environment and the wildlife, together with their cattle, with whom they share a strong, almost mystical bond.  Their houses are called Manyatas. This will be an interesting opportunity for you to learn their lifestyles.

Dinner and Overnight at Masai Mara

 

Day 6: Masai Mara National Reserve – Nairobi

After an early game drive, breakfast and check out, you will bid Mara Khaheri. You will have a stop at Narok town for shopping and lunch. Our representative will drive you to Nairobi, which is approximately 8 hours’ drive. Arrive at your pre-booked hotel, check in and rest.

Meals and overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 7: Nairobi – Amboseli National Park

After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Amboseli National Park which is approximately 4 hours’ drive. Arrive at your pre-booked Safari Lodge in time for lunch. Have lunch; check in and rest. Later enjoy an evening game viewing drive in the park. The park is home to the huge herds of the African Elephant. The park also plays host to lions, buffaloes, the elusive leopard, wildebeest, giraffes, zebras, a variety of antelopes and other smaller plains game. During the dry season it is semi-arid terrains and during the wet season, the seasonal “Amboseli Swamp” becomes home to many species.

Meals and overnight in Amboseli.

 

Day 8: Amboseli National Park.

Full Day in Amboseli with game drives early in the morning and in the evening. The park is home to the huge herds of the African Elephant. The park also plays host to lions, buffaloes, the elusive leopard, wildebeest, giraffes, zebras, a variety of antelopes and other smaller plains game. During the dry season it is semi-arid terrains and during the wet season, the seasonal “Amboseli Swamp” becomes home to many species of birds.

Dinner and overnight at Amboseli.

 

Day 9: Amboseli National Park – Tsavo East National Park

After an early breakfast, you will bid Amboseli goodbye and depart for Tsavo East national park. It is one of the national parks of Kenya that is well known for its unique safari experience. It has been one of the oldest parks of Kenya, since it was found in 1948. There is another side to this park which is known as the Tsavo West, the reason why it was divided into east and west was because of a railway passing between these two sides. Also, it is well known as the largest park of Kenya as it covers thousands of kilo meters of land and has almost four gates. It’s the biggest park in Kenya.

After check in and late lunch at the lodge, you will make game drive slowly, looking for lions, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, gazelles, antelopes and different kind of birds. You will stop at Aruba Dam (main water body) for game viewing and photo taking. Later drive around the Tsavo River watching the animals’ drinking water and feeding. Later drive to lodge and spend the rest of the day at leisure. You can relax by pool watching the animals coming by the nearby water to quench their thirst.

Dinner and overnight will be at the Lodge.

 

Day 10: Tsavo East National Park

This day will be spent at leisure with optional game drives at the park.

Meals and Overnight at Tsavo East

 

Day 11: Tsavo East National Park – Malindi

After an early breakfast at the lodge, you will check out and start your journey towards Malindi. On arrival, you will check in, have late lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Dinner and Overnight at Malindi.

 

Day 12: Malindi

After breakfast, you will visit the Malindi Marine Park, “the coral garden.” From swimming with zebra fish to windsurfing, this beautiful slice of Kenya’s Indian Ocean coastline is provides the perfect getaway. The park is endowed with magnificent resources such as fringing reefs, coral gardens in the lagoons, sea grass beds, mangroves, mudflats, marine mammals, turtles and various species of shorebirds. Visitors can also enjoy glass bottom boat rides, snorkeling, camping and beach walks in this veritable paradise.

In the afternoon you will visit the Vasco da Gama pillar.

Meals and Overnight in Malindi.

 

Day 13: Malindi – Watamu

After Breakfast and check out, you will have a Malindi city tour with time for shopping. After lunch, you will visit the crocodile farm in Malindi, Gede Ruins and the butterfly farm in Watamu. Later you will be transferred to your Watamu hotel for check in and overnight.

Dinner and Overnight at Watamu.

 

Day 14: Watamu – Mombasa

After breakfast, you will depart for Mombasa. On arrival, you will have a city tour and a visit to Fort Jesus. You will be transferred to your hotel for check in.  The rest of the day will be spent at leisure at your beach hotel.

Dinner and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 15: Mombasa

After Breakfast you will have a Mombasa city tour. Later you will have a Fort Jesus Tour. After Lunch you will have a visit to Wild Water where you will engage in Water slide activity.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa

 

Day 16: Mombasa – Diani

After breakfast, you will visit the Mombasa Marine Park, “the allure of natural beauty”. Its blue waters are ideal for wind surfing, water skiing, snorkeling and diving. They also provide a home to a colorful variety of marine species including crabs, starfish, stone fish, cucumbers sea urchins, corals, turtles, sea grasses and interesting migratory birds including crab lovers. You will later be transferred to the hotel for check out. You will proceed to Diani, check in and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Dinner and Overnight in Diani.

 

Day 17: Kisite Mpunguti

After breakfast, you will visit Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park, the home of the Dolphin. Unspoiled, beautiful and sun kissed, the Kisite Marine Park was established to protect the scenic islands and special habitats of a wide range of endemic marine animals and breeding migratory birds. It lies in the coral gardens south of Wasini Island and encompasses three small coral rag forest islands, each with considerable areas of fringing reef. Kisite is one of the most rewarding snorkeling locations at the coast. Visitors can also enjoy bird watching, diving and of course, sunbathing.

Later you will visit the Wasini Island which is within the Marine Park. Here you will have a chance to interact with Wasini community and learn a bit about their culture.

You will also visit the Slave caves. They are vast and some portions are filled with fruit and insect feeding bats. Shimoni caves are reputed to extend 5 km inland connecting to the 3 sister’s caves. These caves served for centuries as ‘Kayas’ or sacred sites of worship and sanctuary for the local community. Later in the 18th and 19th century, the caves are also believed to have served as the holding areas for the thousands of captured slaves who were in transit to the infamous Arabian slave markets of Zanzibar.  You will later be transferred to your hotel.

Dinner and overnight in Diani.

 

Day 18: Diani

This day will be spent at leisure enjoying the sandy, beautiful Diani Beach.

Meals and Overnight will be in Diani.

 

Day 19: Shimba hills National Reserve

After breakfast, you will visit the Shimba Hills National Reserve, “The Sable Antelope Paradise” where you will have game drives. As one of the largest coastal forests in East Africa after Arabuko – Sokoke Forest, this reserve is rich in flora and fauna and hosts the highest density of African elephant in Kenya. Other animal species found in the area are Sable antelope, elephant shrew, bushy tailed mongoose and other small mammals like fruit bats. The forest is an important bird area and is endowed with forest birdlife while the grasslands hold localized species such as red-necked-Spur fowl, Croaking Cisticola and Zanzibar Red Bishop.

The rest of the day will be spent at leisure

Meals and Overnight will be in Diani.

 

Day 20: Diani – Nairobi

After your breakfast you will leave all the breezes, the beach, and buffets, the palms to travel back to Nairobi. On arrival, you will be transferred to your hotel for refreshment. Later, our representative will take you to Carnival restaurant for your last dinner. Later you will be taken to your hotel.

Overnight in Nairobi.

 

Day 21: Departure

Depending on your international flight timings, our representative will take you to the airport to catch your flight back home. This will mark the end of your adventurous Kenya experience.

 

The cost of the above package will be USD per person sharing based on 10 people travelling

This cost Includes:

  • 20 night’s accommodation
  • All transfers
  • Transport throughout the tour
  • All entrance fees as per itinerary
  • All meals as per itinerary
  • Services of an English-speaking guide
  • Welcome kit
  • 1 mineral water per day
  • Game drives as per the itinerary
  • All tours and transfers as mentioned in the itinerary

 

This cost excludes:

  • Items of personal nature
  • Return International flight from Germany
  • Extra drinks
  • medical coverage and insurance
  • Any other thing not mentioned above.
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3 Days Samburu National Reserve Tour https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/3-days-samburu-national-reserve-tour/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 06:47:52 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5224 Day 1: Nairobi – Samburu National Reserve / Buffalo Springs / Shaba National Reserve

Your adventure will start early in the morning at around 0730hrs. Our representative will meet you at the agreed meet up point and brief you. You will start off your journey to Samburu National reserve. The journey will take approximately 8 and half hours. You will have lunch en-route. On arrival you will check in and the rest of the day will be spent at leisure with an optional evening game drive.

Dinner and overnight will be at Samburu Shaba Game lodge.

 

Day 2: Samburu National Reserve / Buffalo Springs / Shaba National Reserve

You will have a pre breakfast game drive. After breakfast, the rest of the day will be spent in the 3 in 1 reserve. At lunch hour, our representative will transfer you to the hotel for lunch. Then later embark on game viewing drives.

Samburu National Reserve is situated on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River in Kenya. This means plenty of water, trees and shade to attract wildlife like elephant, lion, giraffe and zebra from the surrounding savannah plains. Leopards are also regularly spotted. Samburu Game Reserve is situated in the hot and arid fringes of Kenya’s vast Northern Frontier District.

The area is home to the Samburu tribe, pastoral relatives of the Masai. Samburu Reserve as a safari destination has rugged and dramatic landscape, the Ewaso Nyiro River runs along the southern boundary. You will have an hour or two to meet the community by visiting one of their villages.

Dinner and Overnight will be at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

 

Day 3: Samburu National Reserve / Buffalo Springs / Shaba National Reserve – Nairobi

After an early morning game drive, you will have breakfast at the lodge. You will check out of the lodge and our representative will drive you to Nairobi which is approximately 8 hours’ drive. You will have lunch at Thomsons Falls Lodge.

You will arrive in Nairobi in the evening. This will mark the end of your adventurous journey.

Cost per person is @USD 820 (based on minimum 2 people travelling)

Cost Includes:

  • 2 nights’ accommodation
  • Meals on full board basis
  • Transport in a pop up roof Tour Van
  • Game drives in the park
  • Services of an English-speaking Tour Guide
  • Visit to a Masai Village
  • Mineral water during the tour

 

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