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.
