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Kenya Amboseli Safari(3)

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3 Days Amboseli Safari

Day 1: Nairobi/Amboseli
You will be picked up from your hotel (Nairobi) by your safari guide to drive south through Masai Country via Namanga on the Kenya-Tanzania border and on to Amboseli.
The park lies some 240kms. South-east of Nairobi very close to the Tanzania border. The snow capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro rising above a saucer of clouds dominates every aspect of Amboseli. On arrival, you will check in and settle in the Lodge and time permitting proceed for a short game drive. Dinner and overnight at the camp/lodge.

Day 2: Amboseli
You will take an early morning pre-breakfast game drive. Semi-arid acacias and grasses papyrus sedges in the swamp lands. Fifty-six species of mammal including baboon, vervet monkey, lion, cheetah, elephant, zebra, hippo, black rhino, Masai Oryx, wildebeest, gerenuk, impala and gazelle. More than 425 bird species have been recorded. Return to the lodge for breakfast. After having your breakfast proceed for further game drive. Birdlife in Amboseli is prolific so you will take a birding trip in the afternoon returning to lodge for Dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Amboseli/Nairobi
After breakfast in the morning, leave lodge for the last game drive, then depart Amboseli National Park for Nairobi in the afternoon.
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Masai Mara Camping(3)

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3 Day Masai Mara Camping:

Day 1: Nairobi/Masai Mara Game Reserve
Leave Nairobi and drive through the Great Rift Valley on to Kenya’s premier wildlife reserve. This journey takes you south along the floor of the Great Rift Valley. Have lunch enroute and then climb the western wall entering Serengeti Plains.
In the afternoon we will arrive in the Masai Mara Reserve, and check in at the Camp/Lodge. After checking in, you will go for an early evening game drive returning to the Camp for dinner and overnight.

Day 2: Wildlife Viewing
The varied wildlife and natural environment come together to provide a spectacular safari experience. The entire area of the park is nestled within the enormous Great Rift Valley that extends from the Mediterranean Sea to Mozambique.

Endowed with unique species, the reserve provides outstanding wildlife. The famous Mara is renowned for its great herd of plain’s, game, black manned lion, leopard and cheetah. A full day game viewing across the rich, tree studded grassland and rolling hills. Dinner and overnight at the Camp site.

Day 3: Mara/Nairobi
Have breakfast before taking a visit to a watering hole while on a morning game drive, a perfect time and place for wildlife photography. Depart for Nairobi with lunch enroute, arriving in the late afternoon.

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Red Elephant Safari(2)

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2 Day Red Elephant Safari:

Day 01:
You will be picked from your Beach Hotel by your driver/guide and depart by road to Tsavo East National Park. It is considered one of the world’s biodiversity strongholds, and its popularity is mostly due to the vast amounts of diverse wildlife that can be seen. Most of the park consists of semi-arid grasslands and savanna.
Once in Tsavo East National Park, proceed for your mid-morning game drive to view game such as giraffe, buffalo and elephants as you head for lunch at your lodge/camp. Lunch at Camp/lodge. Proceed for a late afternoon game drive returning to Camp/lodge for dinner and overnight at Voi Wildlife Lodge or similar.

Day 2:
Proceed for an early morning pre-breakfast game drive, the ideal time so see a wide range of African wildlife and bird life including birds of prey in Tsavo East returning to the lodge for breakfast. After breakfast, have a short game drive enroute to the gate for return journey to Mombasa with a drop off at your beach hotel.

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Lake Bunyonyi Island Tour(3)

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3 Days Lake Bunyonyi Island Tour:

Day 1:
On arrival in Entebbe, you will be met and assisted by your driver-guide who will drive you to Lake Bunyonyi which lies in south western Uganda between Kisoro and Kabale close to the border with Rwanda. You will make a brief stop over at Mpambire Drum makers and the Equator Line along the road, for souvenirs and photograph opportunity. Make another stopover to have lunch in Mbarara at Agip Motel and proceed to Kabale. On reaching Kabale, visit the Bakiga Museum and then proceed, reaching Lake Bunyonyi late in the evening. Dinner and overnight stay at Habuharo Island Camp/ Arcadia Cottages/Bunyonyi Overland Resort.

Day 2: Visit Local communities/Canoe ride
Have breakfast take a visit the unique Batwa and Abaheesi (black smiths) communities, or to the Bukora Cave. In the evening you can choose to go for a boat ride, canoeing or go for a cycling tour of the area, taking in Orugano rain Forest with its flora and fauna, and some community tourism through interaction with the Batwa(pygmies) who inhabit parts of the forest and its environs. Dinner and overnight stay at Habuharo Island Camp/ Arcadia Cottages/Bunyonyi Overland Resort.

Day 3: Return to Kampala
After breakfast, return to Kampala making brief stopovers at interesting places. You will make a brief stopover in Kabale town and driving to Kampala to catch your flight back home.

Masai Mara Safari(4)

admin — Fri, 14 Nov 2008 09:38:19 +0000

4 Days Masai Mara and Nakuru Safari

Day 1: Nairobi – Masai Mara
Depart Nairobi for Masai Mara Game reserve, one of the best reserves to see wildlife in East Africa and probably in Africa. The unrivalled natural beauty and wildlife concentration offers wildlife enthusiasts a thrilling opportunity to experience Kenya’s Diversity. On arrival you will settle in the Camp/lodge and in the afternoon proceed for a game drive. Dinner and overnight at the Camp/Lodge.

Day 2: Masai Mara
In the morning you will go for a game drive in this well protected reserve. This is a home of wildebeest, Impala, elephant, gazelle, buffalo, lion, leopard, and the rhino. In the evening there is the opportunity to learn about the Masai and their way of life with a talk about their rich culture and an option to join them in traditional dancing. It is an amazing experience.

Day 3: Masai Mara/Lake Nakuru
After breakfast depart for Lake Nakuru. Lake Nakuru National Park is famous for a large population of pink flamingos. Lake Nakuru boasts a sizeable population of rhinos, both black and white, Impala, waterbuck and buffalo. The more sociable white rhino is a common sight seen grazing on the open plains. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge/Hotel.

Day 4: Nakuru Nairobi
After having your breakfast, proceed for a game drive. Lunch, followed by departure for Nairobi arriving in mid or late afternoon.

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Masai Mara safari(5)

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5 Days Nakuru/Masai Mara safari:

Day 1: Nairobi-Lake Nakuru
At 09:00 hours, drive from Nairobi for a journey south along the floor of the Great Rift to the ornithological paradise for Lunch (picnic lunch en-route). This afternoon, enjoy game and bird viewing in nearby Lake Nakuru National Park. Dinner and overnight at Lion Hill Lodge.

Day 2: Lake Nakuru/ Lake Baringo
After breakfast leave Lake Nakuru for Lake Baringo making a stopover near Lake Bogoria to see the hot springs and geysers. Flamingos can be viewed while exploring this area by foot. Then continue to Lake Baringo, a fresh lake with over 450 species of Birds. This afternoon, enjoy a guided bird walk or take a boat trip to view hippos, birds which inhabit this lake. From here we drive back to Nakuru for dinner and overnight at Lion Hill Lodge.

Day 3: Nakuru-Mara
After breakfast depart for Masai Mara. The famous Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains’ game, black-maned lion, leopard and cheetah, but also contains numerous elephant and virtually every type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. All meals and overnight at the Mara Sopa Lodge

Day 4: Masai Mara
Explore this unique park which reforms the northern part of the Serengeti National Park. Take a morning game drive viewing across the rich, tree studded grasslands and rolling hills. Afternoon optional nature walk or a visit to a Masai village. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge.

Day 5: Mara-Nairobi
Enjoy very early morning game drive before breakfast. After break fast at the camp, leave Masai Mara for Nairobi. Picnic lunch en-route.
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Kenya Birding Safari(8)

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8 Days Bird watching Safari:

Day 1: Nairobi - Lake Elementaita
Drive to Lake Elementaita which lies east of Lake Nakuru and is surrounded by private ranching land. Soysambu Wildlife Sanctuary gives visitors a chance to spend time on the shores of this previously inaccessible alkaline Rift Valley lake, home, at certain times of year, to thousands of lesser and greater flamingo, Kenya’s only breeding population of Great White Pelicans and a myriad of other water birds.
On arrival go for a mid morning bird walk to try and identify available species like the Feral lovebird, Avocet, Klaas’ cuckoo, Glossy ibis, Black heron, Red billed Teal, Black tailed godwit among others before time for lunch at Lake Elementaita Lodge. Later this evening watch for birds around the lodge environs before time for Dinner. Dinner and overnight at Lake Elementaita Lodge.

Day 2: Lake Elementaita - Lake Naivasha
Depart from Elementaita for a scenic drive through the Great North road to Lake Naivasha arriving by mid-morning for bird walk before time for lunch at Lake Naivasha Lodge. On arrival enjoy a guided bird walk to study the birds of the region such as herons, fish eagles, ospreys, black crakes, and lily-trotters. Dominated by the shadow of Mt. Longonot, few lakes in the world have a more commanding or spectacular setting than Naivasha. Take an excursion to the Elsa mere Center. Activities include reliving the experience of Joy Adamson and Elsa while viewing “Born Free.” Lake Naivasha being on the Rift floor is home to an incredible variety of species. Over 450 species have been recorded here. Dinner and overnight stay at Lake Naivasha Lodge.

Day 3: Lake Naivasha - Hell’s Gate National Park
Enjoy very early morning guided bird watching before breakfast. Return to lodge for breakfast and relaxation. In the afternoon, visit the dramatic Rift Valley Park; Hell’s Gate National Park, which is a breeding ground for vultures in Kenya such as Lammergeyer vultures. The park is home to a wide variety of bird and animal life. Zebras, Thomson’s gazelle and baboons are all common and you may encounter the occasional cheetah, leopard or ostrich. Dinner & overnight tonight will be served at Lake Naivasha Lodge.

Day 4: Hell’s Gate National Park - Lake Nakuru National Park
After breakfast depart for Lake Nakuru National Park to enjoy game and bird viewing trip. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Lake Nakuru Lodge.

Day 5: Lake Nakuru National Park
A full day at Lake Nakuru includes morning and afternoon game drives in the park. Lake Nakuru is perhaps most famous for over one million greater and lesser flamingos that gather at the lake during various times of the year. In addition, the tens of thousands of the other birds make this an ornithologist’s paradise. Dinner and Overnight stay will be at Lake Nakuru Lodge.

Day 6: Lake Nakuru - Masai Mara
There is a morning drive across the Rift Valley down to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Masai Mara is actually the northern portion of the Great Plains ecosystem in the neighboring Tanzania called Serengeti. After having lunch, you will depart with your driver guide for an afternoon game drive in search of the big five. As sun starts to edge dip into the horizon it will be perfect time to photograph the beautiful Mara rolling plains. Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge.

Day 7: Masai Mara Birding Safari
An early morning birding game drive after breakfast will be our perfect start of another unforgettable and memorable birding day in Africa. With picnic lunch en-route you spend your day in Mara Plains trying to identify and record the over 450 species record in this reserve. Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge.

Day 8: Masai Mara - Nairobi
After breakfast, proceed for a game drive then depart for Nairobi arriving in time for lunch. Have lunch at leisure and thereafter you will be transferred to the airport in time for your International departure flight.
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Masai Mara Safari(7)

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7 Days Mara/Nakuru/Amboseli/Samburu Safari:

Day 1: Nairobi/Masai Mara
Leave Nairobi for the enchanting, awe-inspiring land of the world-renowned Masai Game Reserve. This is an amazing journey south along the floor of the Great Rift Valley. Lunch at Narok and then climb the western wall entering Hemingway Country: ‘Serengeti plains’. Arrive late afternoon in the Masai Mara game Reserve. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge/Keekorok Lodge.

Day 2: Masai Mara
Early morning game drive before the dawn is perfect start for the day. Masai Mara is the reason why people come to Kenya in the first place. One look is enough to explain its appeal. This is classic African savanna, with the shear destiny of wildlife is amazing. Return to the lodge for lunch Explore this unique park by taking an afternoon wildlife drive in search of Buffaloes, Leopard, Cheetah, Elephants and other plain’s game. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge/Keekorok Lodge.

Day 3: Masai Mara Wildlife
Full day game viewing in the Mara with an option nature walk or visit to a nearby Masai Village. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge/Keekorok Lodge.

Day 4: Mara – Nakuru
Experience the beauty and diversity of the great Masai Mara as you embark on exciting morning wildlife drive. Leave Masai Mara for Nakuru National Park having lunch enroute. Once in Nakuru enjoy an afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight is at Lion Hill Sarova Lodge.

Day 5: Nakuru – Amboseli
Have breakfast, leave Nakuru for Nairobi and transfer to Amboseli having lunch enroute. The afternoon unfolds numerous wildlife-viewing opportunities, including: the area’s massive elephant population as well as giraffe lions and cheetahs. The wildlife experience continues the next morning as participants are treated to even more of Amboseli National Park’s wonderment – zebra and wildebeest.

Day 6: Amboseli Wildlife
Witness the breathtaking beauty of Kilimanjaro while enjoying morning and afternoon game drives through the Amboseli National Park. Lunch, dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge.

Day 7: Amboseli – Nairobi
An early morning game drive is followed by breakfast. Return to Nairobi late in the evening.

Masai Mara Balloon Safari

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Masai Mara Balloon Safari

Balloon Safari over the game filled plains and riverine forest of the Masai Mara Game Reserve is an enchanting experience. The unique perspective gives a much truer and mind blowing sense of the huge expanses of bush.

You start early from your Lodge or camp for the launch site, ready to take off with the dawn watching out for all plain’s game. On reaching the launch site you will be briefed about your Safari by your pilot.

Taking off as the sun rises, you will drift quietly above the plains, rivers and forests while gazing at spectacular scenery. The beauty of the landscape when the rising sun’s bright orange colors are displayed, the elephants at the water pool, and the gazelles and zebras scampering away, just if it was their first time to witness an alien object in the sky.

The Balloon flight lasts approximately one hour. Landing is followed by a full Champagne type breakfast prepared for you in the bush. You return to your lodge or camp by road arriving back mid morning.

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Mountain Kenya Climbing(5)

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Mt. Kenya Climbing – Naro Moru Route:

Day 1: Nairobi/Naro Moru
Depart from Nairobi driving south towards the cool slopes of Mt. Kenya. Cross the Equator and arrive at Nanyuki hotel/ Lodge in time for Lunch. Relax and enjoy the scenery while sorting and organizing personal equipment for the mountain trek

Day 2: Naro Moru/Met Station
After breakfast, leave the lodge and drive to the main gate (Naromoru Gate). From the gate start ascending the mountain through the rain forest to Met station. The going is easy, and it’s pleasant walking through the forest. Dinner and overnight at Met Station.

Day 3: Met Station/Mackinders Camp
After breakfast, head uphill on the track and pass the radio mast on your right. The track turns into a path and after trekking for a while you’ll reach the end of the forest belt and enter moorland. This area is known as the Vertical Bog. Continue ascending to Mackinder’s Camp for dinner and overnight.

Day 4: Mackinders Camp/Met Station
Up relatively early (3:00am), start hiking to get to the summit of Point Lenana via Austrian Hut. From Austrian hut you get outstanding views: north- east up to the summit of Point Lenana, with the area on the left (west) of the main south- west ridge usually a snow field covering the Lewis Glacier; west, across the Lewis Glacier itself, to the steep south east face of Newlion; and south east, down into the Hobley Valley, with Gallery Tarn over to the left (north) side of the valley. After Point Lennana, descend down to Met Station for dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Met Station/Nairobi
After breakfast, descend the last bit of the mountain from Met Station via Naro Moru gate for a short drive to Naro Moru town for lunch and to catch transport to Nairobi which marks the end of your safari.
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