Itinerary
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 and Lunch. After lunch you will enjoy an afternoon Boat ride at the Lake Naivasha.
Meals and overnight in Naivasha.
Day 4: Naivasha – Lake Nakuru National Park
After breakfast, you will leave for Lake Nakuru National park, which is approximately 2 hours’ drive. You will check in at the Hotel and later enjoy a Game drive. After lunch you will have an evening game drive and later back to the hotel.
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 5: Lake Nakuru National Park – Masai Mara National Reserve
After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive. 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 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 6: 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 7: – Masai Mara – Naivasha
After an early game drive, breakfast and check out, you will bid Mara Khaheri. You will have a stop at Narok town for shopping. Our representative will drive you to Naivasha, which is approximately 6 hours’ drive. Arrive at your pre-booked hotel in time for lunch. Have lunch; check in and rest.
Meals and overnight in Naivasha.
Day 7: – Naivasha – Amboseli National Park
After breakfast, our representative will drive you to Amboseli National Park which is approximately 6 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 – 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 9: Tsavo West National Park – Tsavo East National Park
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 3 hours’ drive. Check in, have lunch and have a Game drive. Relax a bit before doing an evening drive to a different site in the park.
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 10: Tsavo East National Park – Malindi Marine Park.
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 an afternoon Tour of the Malindi Marine Park and enjoy a Glass Boat ride which enables one to see the Marine life. If you 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.
Meals and overnight in Malindi.
Day 10: Malindi – Mombasa
After breakfast, you will check out, have a Malindi Old town city tour and a visit to Vasco Dagama Pillar. Later, you will depart for Mombasa. On your way, you will visit Gede Ruins and the butterfly farm in Watamu. You will have lunch in Watamu. On arrival at Mombasa, You will be transferred to your beach hotel for check in and rest.
Dinner and overnight in Mombasa.
Day 11: 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 12: Mombasa to Diani
After breakfast and check out, our representative will drive you to Diani which is approximately 5 hours’ drive. On arrival, you will check in to your pre booked hotel, have lunch and spend the rest of the day at leisure.
Meals and overnight in Diani.
Day 13: 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 Diani.
Meals and overnight in Diani.
Day14: 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 15: 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
This cost Includes:
- 14 night’s accommodation in 4 and 5 star hotels
- Return Airport/Hotel transfers
- Transport throughout the tour
- All entrance fees as per itinerary
- All meals
- Services of an English-speaking guide
- Welcome kit
- 1 mineral water per day
- Boat rides in Lake Naivasha and Malindi Marine Park
- 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 Canada
- Extra drinks
- medical coverage and insurance
- Any other thing not mentioned above.
