8 days Kenya Safari

After your breakfast you will depart for Daphne Sheldrick’s Elephant Orphanage at the edge of Nairobi National Park, which is a nursery and rehab center for infant elephants that have lost their families as well as rhino and occasionally zebras and other wildlife.

Proceed to the AFEW Giraffe Center near Giraffe Manor where you may hand-feed the Rothschild giraffe that live here. Later, you will have lunch at Blixen’s Cottages followed by a visit to the Karen Blixen Museum and Kazuri Beads Factory before returning to the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage for an evening private visit that. Donations are encouraged for this visit.

Later in the evening you transfer back to your city hotel.

 Overnight Stay: Tamarind Tree Hotel

Meal Plan: Bed and breakfast

0800hrs. After your breakfast at the hotel, you will be met again by your driver guide with whom you will depart to the privately-owned 24,000-acre reserve, Ol Pejeta Conservancy where your drive ends and another adventure begins at your luxurious tented camp with magnificent views of Mt. Kenya. On the way you will stop the equator line. Arrive in time for check in and lunch at the Sweetwaters Serena Camp followed by afternoon an afternoon at leisure before going for an evening game viewing drive.

One of only four private wildlife reserves in Kenya, your under-canvas experience includes wildlife drives in search of the ‘Big Five’. Watch a parade of elephant, giraffe, zebra and impala come to drink at the camp’s floodlit waterhole and saltlick. Optional activities abound, you may choose to go on a night drive in search of nocturnal species, go on a nature walk or join a rhino patrol with experienced armed rangers to find and monitor black rhino.

During your stay here, you will also visit the 200-acre Chimpanzee sanctuary that has been set up here. Although chimps are not indigenous to Kenya, the aim of the project, initiated by Lonrho East Africa, Kenya Wildlife Services and the Jane Goodall Institute, was to set up a colony where chimps could be introduced, rehabilitated and taught to fend for themselves in an area similar to their natural living conditions. Priority is given to orphaned and abused chimps. The Sanctuary currently has 27 chimps, including two babies born in the Sanctuary. There is also a new Visitor's Information Center at Morani's Boma. While here, you will be treated to a guided walking safari. At an optional cost, you can enjoy camel safaris, and horse-back riding.

Overnight stay: Sweetwaters Serena Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

0700hrs. After an early breakfast, you will go for a morning game drive until around 0930hrs when you will return to your camp for check out and drive to southwards to Lake Naivasha where you will arrive in time for check in and lunch at the Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort. You will then spend the afternoon at leisure before going for boat ride on the lake and a visit if the Crescent Island Park. The Park where you walk with the Animals!

There is just one “Crescent Island Game Park”. Located on Lake Naivasha, Kenya in the Great Rift Valley. There are more animals per acre than any other Kenyan Park,hence many film companies have been to the Island to film the herds of Wildebeeste, Waterbuck, Zebra and Gazelle. They are not fenced to allow the wildlife on the mainland to come in as they lose their habitat to development and the ever-increasing population. Hippo graze all over us at night then sleep under the acacia or rest in the water by day. The giraffe who were born on the Island return to give birth; sometimes you see three generations at a time. Hyena come to hunt at night but are not resident on the island, the many python who do live here can be seen occasionally with a kill. Groups of Buffalo come and go but they are always monitored.

From the top of the hill there is a 360-degree view across the Lake from Longonot to Hell’s Gate to the Mau Escarpment to Eburu and onto the Aberdares.  Walking along the ridge in the golden hour before sunset whilst watching the animals grazing with the water shimmering beyond, is what Africa is all about. Take a boat back to the lodge.

Overnight stay: Naivasha Sopa Resort

Meal Plan: Full Board

0800hrs. Today, after your breakfast, you will depart for a full day trip north to the Lake Bogoria National Reserve which is a beautiful place with the pink cloud of flamingoes and the geysers bubbling with the most spectacular hot water volcanic springs. Much more is the fascinating phenomenon of the hot springs, an indication that molten rock does not lie far below the earth's surface.

Lunch shall be served at the Lake Bogoria Spa Resort followed by an afternoon game drive then later return to your lodge in Lake Naivasha.

Overnight stay: Naivasha Sopa Resort

Meal Plan: Full Board

0700hrs. After your breakfast, you will depart for a morning visit of the Hells Gate National Park for some cycling or game drive until around 0930hrs when you return to your lodge for check out and pick your lunch boxes, the depart for the Masai Mara National Game Reserve.

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.

On arrival in the Masai Mara National Game Reserve, you will have an evening game drive until dusk when you check in at the Loyk Luxury Mara Camp.

Overnight stay: Loyk Luxury Mara Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

You will not want to miss a single moment of your day in the Masai Mara, so we suggest an early wake-up call this morning.  The early morning game drive often offers you the very best chance to see an excellent variety of wildlife on the move in the cool of the dawn.  The Mara offers such an abundance and variety of wildlife that you will be surprised and thrilled around just about every corner!  The reserve is particularly known for its Big Cats, and Lion in particular are commonly sighted.  The rest of the Big Five are also in attendance and you have a good chance of seeing Buffalo, Elephant, Rhino and even the elusive Leopard.  Birders will enjoy the large numbers of raptors, including several species of Vulture.

If your budget will permit, you can opt to swop the early morning game drive for a Hot-air Balloon excursion, a really unforgettable hour spent drifting over the plains of the Mara just as the sun tentatively peeks over the horizon.  Your flight will be followed by a champagne breakfast in the bush on touch-down.

After your game drive or balloon safari you will return to the camp where you have the rest of the day to relax and prepare for your afternoon game drive.  Perhaps you can go for a guided Nature Walk or just relax as you enjoy the facilities at the camp. Another alternative to this would be to spend the whole day with a game drive with picnic lunches being served in the wild and return to your camp later in the evening.

Overnight stay: Loyk Luxury Mara Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

After breakfast, you will at 0900 hrs depart for Nairobi with an early game drive enroute to arrive in time for a farewell lunch at the renowned Carnivore Restaurant.

The Carnivore is the ultimate 'Beast of a Feast’ A variety of meat including ostrich, crocodile and camel, t is roasted over charcoal and carved at your table. Delicious side dishes and an exceptional array of sauces complement this fixed price feast that also includes soup, a selection of desserts and Kenyan coffee. Set in attractive tropical gardens, the service and the décor are outstanding. The Carnivore since its inception has played host to over 2 million customers from across the globe including numerous celebrities. In fact the Carnivore visitors book read like a global who is who! Whole joints of meat - legs of lamb and pork, ostrich, rumps of beef, sirloins, racks of lamb, spare ribs, sausages, chicken wings, skewered kidneys, even crocodile, and other tasty morsels - are roasted on traditional Masai swords over a huge, spectacular charcoal pit that dominates the entrance of the restaurant.

Later in the evening, you will be transferred back to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in time for your departure flight for an onwards.