The best of Kenya in 10 days
Day 1: Arrival Nairobi. Upon arrival at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport you will find our driver guide waiting for you with a big sign reading your name and assist you with your luggage to the waiting car and drop you at the hotel according our agreement. ( budget ** , mid range *** or luxury ****) If you arrive with a morning flight and you want to do an excursion in the afternoon this can be organised at extra cost.
Day 2: Nairobi > Masai Mara. You will be picked up around 8.00 am from your hotel and commence the drive to Mara via the great rift valley view point where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the rift valley. Lunch will be picnic on the way. In the afternoon after you check in ( campsite or lodge) depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve . Dinner and overnight at the campsite or lodge according our agreement. ( camping safari or private lodge *** or **** )
Day 3: Masai Mara National Reserve Spend the full day exploring Mara in search of the Big Five. You will have picnic lunches as you scale the Mara beauty sited at the banks of Mara river.
Optional: In the evening visit the Masai village for a Masai cultural tour.( $ 20) Learn about the Masai community and interact with the local Masai people. A overnight at the Masai village can be organized upon request. A balloon safari at $ 450 per person can be organized early morning on this day then proceed with the normal program. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. ( July – October) Dinner and overnight at the campsite or lodge *** or ****.
Day 4: Masai Mara National Reserve. After breakfast enjoy the second full day game drive in the reserve. Dinner and overnight at the campsite or lodge.
Day 5: Masai Mara > Lake Nakuru National Park You will have the last early morning game drive in Mara Reserve followed by breakfast. Thereafter commence the drive to Nakuru. Dinner and accommodation at the budgethotel or lodge.
Day 6: Nakuru > Naivasha National Park. You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7.00 am straight to the park. Its a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which forms part of the Big Five. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos . The game drive lasts 3 hours, after which you depart on a 3-hour drive back to Naivasha to arrive in time for lunch at your hotel/lodge. After lunch, you will go to hell’s gate for biking safari. For those not interested in the bike tour they can stay in the car. You will later go for an hour boat ride on Lake Naivasha for bird watching and hippo viewing. Dinner and overnight at the budgethotel or lodge.
Day 7: Naivasha > Hell’s Gate > Amboseli. After breakfast y we will pick you up from the hotel in the morning drive to Hell’s Gate National Park. Once at the Park, you have the option of a game drive in a safari vehicle or take bikes into the park. Cycling in the Park is a great adventure as you get to ride the bikes for 7 Kilometers before resting at a ranger’s post. After a brief stop at the rangers post you leave the bike and start a walking safari. Enjoy the spectacular views of the gorge. Thereafter we continue this great adventure by driving to Amboseli National park which is famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, which dominates the landscape, and open plains. Arrive with more game drive proceeding to your camp. Dinner and overnight at the campsite or lodge/ luxury tented camp.
Day 8: Amboseli National Park. Early morning game drive later return back to campsite/ lodge for breakfast. After breakfast full day spend in the park with packed lunch in search of its popular residents like the well known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo with a view of Mt Kilimanjaro . Dinner and overnight at the campsite or lodge.
Day 9: Amboseli > Nairobi. Early morning game drive later return to the campsite/ lodge for breakfast. After breakfast check out Amboseli and drive to Nairobi for lunch. Dinner and overnight in budgethotel or midranged/luxury hotel.
Day 10: Nairobi Giraffe Center, Elephant Orphanage.
After breakfast our driver will come to pick you at 8.00 am to tour Giraffe Center and Elephant Orphanage then after lunch enter Kazuri Beads Factory to buy gifts then be dropped back at your hotel or if requested at the airport for your flight home or for a beach holiday in Mombasa (or Zanzibar).
This safari can be booked as a private camping or lodge safari. For the lodge safari there is a choice or mid range or luxury lodges optional in combination with luxury tented camps.
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