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Kenya Vacation Flying Package https://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/tour/kenya-vacation-flying-package/ Fri, 21 Sep 2018 08:15:11 +0000 http://www.authentickenyanconnection.com/?post_type=tour&p=5247 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 – Samburu

After breakfast, you will check out and you will have a morning flight to Samburu. Our representative will transfer you to your pre-booked hotel. You will check in and refresh. After lunch, you will enjoy game drives around the Reserve.

Dinner and overnight will be at Samburu Shaba Game lodge.

 

Day 4: 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 5: Samburu – 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 6: Ol pejeta Conservancy – Masai Mara National Reserve

After an early breakfast, you will have a morning game drive at the conservancy. You will then check out and get transferred to Nanyuki for your flight to Masai Mara National Reserve. On arrival, you will be transferred to lodge, 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 7: 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 8: Masai Mara National Reserve

This day will be spent at leisure with optional game drives and meals at the lodge. 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 9: Masai Mara National Reserve – Amboseli National Park

After an early game drive, breakfast and check out, you will bid Mara Khaheri. Our representative will transfer you to catch your flight to Amboseli National Park. On Arrival, you will be transferred to 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 10: 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 11: Amboseli National Park – Mombasa

After breakfast, you will have a morning Game Drive. You will then check out and get transferred to catch your flight to Mombasa. On arrival, you will be transferred to your pre-booked beach hotel. You will check in at the hotel, have lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 12: 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 13: Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park – 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 Mombasa.

Meals and overnight in Mombasa.

 

Day 14: 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 15: 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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