Day 1 Arrive Nairobi, Kenya
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, you are met by our local representative and transferred to your downtown hotel for a welcome rest. The Stanley Hotel
Day 2 Samburu National Reserve
Depart after breakfast and drive north via Nanyuki and Mt Kenya. After lunch at Trout Tree you continue to Samburu National Reserve. Rugged and remote, this wildlife reserve provides some of the best and most colorful game viewing in the country. Afternoon game drive, returning to the lodge at sunset. Sarova Shaba Lodge(BLD)
Day 3 Samburu National Reserve
Morning and afternoon game drives in the Samburu National Reserve. Sarova Shaba Lodge (BLD)
Day 4 Aberdares / Mount Kenya
Early morning game drive in the reserve returning to the lodge for a late breakfast and check out. Then drive to the Aberdare Mountains, situated in the shadow of Mt Kenya, Kenya's highest mountain. Arrive at your tree hotel in time for lunch. Afternoon at leisure to observe game coming to the waterhole. Mountain Lodge (BLD)
Day 5 Lake Nakuru National Park
Depart after breakfast and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, famous as the home to thousands of lesser and greater flamingo. This park also provides sanctuary for Rothschild giraffe, rhino and leopard. After lunch you go on an afternoon game drive. Kigio Wildlife/Lion Hill (BLD)
Day 6 Maasai Mara National Game Reserve
Depart after breakfast and drive via Narok to the Maasai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. Arrive in time for lunch at your lodge. Afternoon game drive until sunset. Sarova Mara Camp (BLD)
Day 7 Maasai Mara National Game Reserve
Consider an optional balloon safari (extra cost). Early morning and afternoon game drive in search of the Big Five. The Maasai Mara is world famous for big game. Together with the adjoining Serengeti it is one of the only places in the world where it is still possible to see vast herds of grazing animals. And attracted by those huge herds are the predators - lion, leopard, cheetah and more. However, a visit to the Mara is not only about seeing the "Big 5," it's also home to a wide variety of birds. In the River Mara there are hundreds of hippos and some crocodiles sunning themselves on the banks. Sarova Mara Camp (BLD)
Day 8 Amboseli National Park
Depart after breakfast and drive to Nairobi, Kenya's colorful capital city (5 hours drive). After lunch, proceed to Amboseli, with an afternoon game drive enroute. Ol Tukai Lodge/Amboseli Serena (BLD)
Day 9 Amboseli National Park
Arid looking as Amboseli National Park is, it has, historically, supported both game and the Maasai that kept their herds of cattle here. It is thanks to the waters that run off Africa's greatest mountain that the apparently dry Amboseli, Kenya's first game sanctuary is able to support its wildlife. Mount Kilimanjaro broods high over Amboseli, generally cloaked by clouds but appearing in all its snow-shrouded magnificence from time to time. Kilimanjaro was once part of Kenya, but on the marriage of Kaiser Wilhelm of Germany Queen Victoria gifted it to her beloved grandson, whose colony Tanzania then was, as the perfect wedding present. The mountain now provides water for the park, wonderful views and, of course, the most glorious background for animal photography.
The grasslands in the park can be undeniably lovely when made verdant by the rains and the three major swamps could star in a dinosaur movie. The swamps on the east of the park attract wildebeest, zebra and antelope with the predators that live off them, chiefly lion which tend to be easy to view here. In the south, Enkongo Narok swamp attracts hippos to the larger pools and plenty of buffalo, buck, and teeming birdlife including the jacanas that pick their way elegantly and carefully. Giraffe are here and in areas still sufficiently treed there are leopard. Cheetah, caracal, and civet may be seen. Ol Tukai Lodge/ Amboseli Serena (BLD)
Day 10 Nairobi • Depart
Depart after breakfast and drive to Nairobi, Kenya's colorful capital city. On arrival you will be dropped off at a city center hotel or transferred to the airport for your onward flight. (B)
Notes:
Airfare is not included in the tour price.
Departures 2008: Every Sunday from Nairobi.
Single supplement: $100-1000
Price Includes:
- Accommodation with private facilities;
- Meals as noted (B-bkst, L-lunch, D-dinner);
- Professional driver/guide;
- Transport in 4x4 Landcruiser;
- Game drives and activities as noted;
- Park entrance and conservation fees;
- Airport transfers as detailed;
- Bottled water in the vehicle;
- Temporary membership in Flying Doctors Society.
Price does not include:
- Flights – call for a quote;
- Travel insurance;
- Tips, porterage, beverages, items of personal nature such as laundry, phone calls, etc.
- Fees for passport, visas;
- Airport departure taxes;
- Any other item not mentioned in the itinerary.
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Africa
Kenya
Wildlife Viewing
Cultural Journey
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