Itinerary

Day 1: Nairobi

On arrival in Nairobi you will be met and transferred to the Norfolk Hotel to relax from the long journey.


Day 2 & 3: Amboseli National Park

After an early breakfast you will be collected from your hotel and transferred to Wilson airport for your schedule flight to Amboseli. The scheduled flight departs Nairobi at 7.30 am and arrives into Amboseli National Park around 8.10 am. Upon arrival at the airstrip, you are be met by your guide and take a game drive en route to your camp. After lunch and a siesta, you depart on a game drive or a walking safari, returning to camp late afternoon. Overnight at Tortilis Camp. All meals soft drinks, beers, house wines, guided walks, bush breakfast, sundowners and laundry.

Enjoy varied game viewing and with the chance to spend time following the matriarchal elephant herds from the luxury of open sided safari Land Rovers; or walk with a trained Maasai guide, sip sundowners on top of Kitirua hill as the sun sets coloring the snows of Kilimanjaro pink, bush breakfasts out on the plains or a visit to one of the Maasai manyattas (villages) to meet the Maasai women, watch the Morans (young warriors) dance and experience their age-old existence. All meals soft drinks, beers, house wines, guided walks, bush breakfast, sundowners and laundry.


Day 4 & 5: Meru National Park

After breakfast, you catch the morning scheduled flight to Meru via Nairobi. On arrival in Meru you’ll be met by your guide and transferred to camp. After lunch and time to relax, the remainder of the day will be spent on a game drive or walking safari or enjoying any of the other activities offered here. Meru is vast with arid, open plains dotted with Doum Palms and Baobab trees and lush vegetation along 13 rivers, like green ribbons, bisecting the Park. Activities include game drives in open-sided safari Land Rovers, driven by knowledgeable driver-guides, all members of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association. Guided walks are led by a Professional Safari Guide and accompanied by a Ranger. Other attractions include bush breakfasts and sundowners and visits to the Tharaka tribal village on the Southern Boundary of the Park. Overnight Elsa’s Kopje. Includes all meals soft drinks, beers, house wines, guided walks, bush breakfast, sundowners and laundry.


Day 6 & 7: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

After breakfast you are transferred about 2.5 hours to Lewa Private Reserve. On arrival you will be met by a driver guide with a game drive en route to the camp. After lunch and perhaps a siesta, enjoy an evening game drive. Overnight Lewa Safari Camp. Spend the day exploring the private 65,000 acre wildlife conservancy of the Lewa Wilderness Trust. The conservancy is home to about 10 percent of Kenya’s black rhino population, and the single largest population of Grevy’s zebra in the world. Lewa re-invests all the profits generated from tourism (including profits from Lewa Safari Camp ) into its core programs. When you visit Lewa, you will help thousands of people from different backgrounds and cultures to improve their lives, and give their children a future, at the same time as ensuring Africa’s wildlife has a stable home. Overnight Lewa Safari Camp. Includes all meals, local spirits, house wine, beer and soft drinks, bush breakfast, laundry service and day game drives with guided bush walks.Includes all meals, local spirits, house wine, beer and soft drinks, bush breakfast, laundry service and day game drives with guided bush walks.


Day 8: Maasai Mara Game Reserve & Olare Orok Conservancy

After an early morning game drive and breakfast before returning to the airstrip for the scheduled flight to the Maasai Mara. Flight departs Samburu at 0915hrs and arrives into the Maasai Mara at 1045hrs. Upon arrival you will be met by camps vehicles and be taken for lunch, followed by afternoon of game activities. Overnight at Mara Plains Camp. Includes all meals, laundry, soft drinks, beers, house wines & non-luxury spirits, guided walks and day & night game drives.


Day 9 & 10: Maasai Mara Game Reserve & Olare Orok Conservancy

Mara Plains is one of just three camps currently operating within the Olare Orok Conservancy, which boasts the region’s lowest vehicle density, no mini-buses and only one guest room per 700 acres, so it is possible to avoid the high tourist density of the Masai Mara Game Reserve proper. No other camp in the greater Masai Mara Game Reserve or Olare Orok Conservancy has the privilege of traversing opportunities of Mara Plains Camp. Guests are able to traverse three areas from Mara Plains; Olare Orok Conservancy at 30,000 acres, Mara North Conservancy at 80,000 acres and Masai Mara Game Reserve at 375,000 acres. Mara Plains offers possibly the widest range of activities anywhere in the greater Masai Mara – game drives, quality night drives, nature walks with armed guides, balloon safaris (at extra cost), authentic local village visits and unrivalled access to superior wildlife habitat. Spend the next two two exploring this remarkable eco-system. Overnights Mara Plains Camp. Includes all meals, laundry, soft drinks, beers, house wines & non-luxury spirits, guided walks and day & night game drives.


Day 11: Depart

Early morning game activity followed by breakfast, then depart on a scheduled flight back to Nairobi. Flight departs Masai Mara at 11:00 am and arrives into Nairobi at 12:15. On arrival at Nairobi Wilson Airport you will be transferred to your city center hotel or to the International airport to meet your departing flights. Breakfast.

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