Nairobi - Meru National Park
Arrive Nairobi Airport by a morning flight, meet and greet by our ever smiling driver guide ready to take you for the safari, after a short briefing, start your safari and drive direct to Meru National park where we will arrive in time for lunch, after a short rest we will get down to game drives in the park. Meru National Park is wild and beautiful. Straddling the equator and bisected by 13 rivers and numerous mountain-fed streams, it is an especially beautiful area of Kenya. It has diverse scenery from woodlands at 3,400ft (1,036m) on the slopes of Nyambeni Mountain Range, north east of Mt. Kenya, to wide open plains with meandering riverbanks dotted with doum palms. We will come back in the evening for dinner and overnight at Ikweta Safari camp.
- Main Destination:
- Meru National Park
- Accommodation:
- Ikweta Safari Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Meru National Park
After breakfast, we will do full day game drives in Meru National park. Over 300 species of birds have been recorded, including: Red-necked falcon, Heuglins courser, brown-backed woodpecker, sunbirds Peter’s Fin foot, inhabiting the Murera and Ura Rivers; Pel’s Fishing Owl, kingfishers, rollers, bee-eaters, starlings and weavers. The Park is most famous as the setting for Joy Adamson’s book “Born Free”, the story of the Adamson’s life and research amongst lion and cheetah. “Elsa” the lioness was the most well-known and her grave is marked here. Look out for lion, elephant, cheetah, leopard black rhino. In the mid 1980’s, the Park suffered from poaching, however KWS armed wildlife security patrols have driven out the poachers and the elephant population has stabilized with breeding herds settling down.
- Main Destination:
- Meru National Park
- Accommodation:
- Ikweta Safari Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Meru National park - Aberdare National park
After breakfast, drive to Aberdare National Park, this highland National Park offers a variety of landscapes, from swampland bamboo and fern forests to waterfalls and rivers. We proceed to the beautiful lodge. The Ark check in in time for lunch, after lunch, you will enjoy the rest of the afternoon and evening at the lookout corridor from which you may observe animals at the waterhole close-by. At night, the waterhole will attract special like rhinos, lions and leopards seek to get some water. Dinner and overnight stay in the lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Aberdare National Park
- Accommodation:
- The Ark
- Meals & Drinks:
Aberdares - Lake Nakuru National Park
After our delicious breakfast, we will check out and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park. Here we visit Lake Nakuru as the most well-known lake of the Rift Valley. For being famous all over the world for its flamingos, the lake is one of the natural wonders of the world. At times there are up to 2 million flamingos at the lake which form a beautiful pink ribbon around the shore. In addition to seeing this amazing scenery. We also have a good chance of seeing rhinos and leopards. From our lodge we have a magnificent view over the lake the lake.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Nakuru National Park
- Accommodation:
- Lake Nakuru Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Lake Nakuru - Masai Mara National Reserve
After an early safari and breakfast, we drive to the Masai Mara National Reserve considered as one of the largest and most beautiful protected areas of Kenya and reveal the originality of Africa. Arrive and check in at Enkoroko Mara camp time for lunch. After lunch we will have some time to relax before we embark on the first game drive through the savannah landscape of the Masai Mara Game Reserve, with a good chance to track down the Big Five (elephant, buffalo, lion, rhino, leopard).
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Enkorok Mara Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Masai Mara National Reserve
After breakfast, we will do full day game drives in the Masai Mara National Reserve. This park is famous for its savannah landscapes and its wildlife concentration per square km. The prospects are good to observe all those fascinating animals that can usually only be seen in numerous nature documentaries. We will have a picnic at a site in the Mara River, bordering the Serengeti. The river is part of the Masai Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which is particularly known for the largest wildlife migration on earth in the world. Every year, Wildebeests, zebras and antelopes form huge animal trains cross the brown, foaming river full of crocodiles.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Enkorok Mara Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Masai Mara - Loita Hills
Breakfast then depart and head to the hilly landscape of Loita Hills arriving in time for lunch after which you will do an orientation tour of the camp. A guided walk with Masai warriors through the game rich area (walking time approx. 3 hrs.). In a Manyatta (Masai village) we will get to know the traditional lifestyle of the community which is probably the best known in East Africa. For a couple of hours, we will experience the daily lives of the Masai community and get to know about the clothing that is perfectly adapted to nature, their food, house construction, alternative medicine and religion as well as their social structure. Dinner and overnight at the camp.
- Main Destination:
- Loita Hills (Mountain Range)
- Accommodation:
- Maji Moto Eco Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Loita Hills
Full day activities will be organized for you in this day, you will start with the morning trekking of the Loita hills, and this trek gives you a very nice view of the entire area. Come back for lunch then in the afternoon you will relax at the camp before descending to the Majimoto village with an option of foot or bike, in this village you will learn more about the lifestyles of the people. Come back for dinner and overnight at the camp.
- Main Destination:
- Loita Hills (Mountain Range)
- Accommodation:
- Maji Moto Eco Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Loita Hills - Lake Naivasha - Hell's gate National Park
Today we proceed to Lake Naivasha, arrive at Lake Naivasha Country club where we have lunch. Afterwards, we continue our journey to the smallest National Park of Kenya: Hell’s Gate N.P. Situated between Naivasha Lake and the volcanoes Longonot and Suswa, it is a breathtaking volcanic landscape. Different wild animals and bird species are resident here and experienced rangers accompany us on foot through gorges, along cliffs and hot springs to places from which we may observe giraffes, zebras, buffalos and antelopes (walking time approx. 3 hours). In the evening, we enjoy the sundown at Naivasha Lake and watch the animals from the lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Hell’s Gate National Park
- Accommodation:
- Muthu Lake Naivasha Country Club
- Meals & Drinks:
Lake Naivasha - Nairobi
After breakfast, we drive to Nairobi. Here we have lunch at the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden, the former administration house of the Danish author Karen Blixen, where we will have lunch. Karen Blixen was known for the film adaptation of her novel "Africa, alluring dark world" and "Out of Africa" with Meryl Streep and Robert Redford in the lead roles. From there we go to the airport where you take your onward flight.
- Main Destination:
- Nairobi (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: