Day 1 Fly USA to
Nairobi (Via Europe)
Day 2 Arrive Nairobi
On arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel.
Kenya's capital is cosmopolitan, lively, interesting and pleasantly
landscaped. Its central business district is handily compact and
it's a great place to tune into modern urban African life.
Originally little more than a swampy watering hole for Maasai
tribes, Nairobi grew with the advent of the railway and had became a
substantial town by 1900. Five years later it succeeded Mombasa as
the capital of the British protectorate. Today it's the largest city
between Cairo and Johannesburg.
Accommodation: 1 night – refer to ‘Hotels’ section for detailed
information.
Superior
Sarova Stanley
Hotel
Day 3 Nairobi to
Shaba Game Reserve
Transfer by road to Shaba Game Reserve. Arrive in time for a late
lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive.
Situated in Central
Kenya off the Uaso Nyiro River, Shaba Game Reserve is the natural
habitat for the Grevy zebra, reticulated giraffe, and gerenuk, only
found in this part of Kenya. There are also herds of elephant,
plenty of lions, cheetah, crocodile, and hundreds of species of
birds and other game.
Accommodation: 2 nights – refer to ‘Hotels’ section for detailed
information.
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Sarova Shaba
Day 4 Shaba Game
Reserve
A small
gem in the wildlife wilderness, this reserve takes its name from a
cone of volcanic rock. Shaba is one of Kenya's most pristine game
reserves, with untouched scenery and other unspoiled splendors.
Day 5 Shaba Game
Reserve to Mt. Kenya National Park
Drive to Mount Kenya and enjoy lunch followed by afternoon and
evening game viewing.
Mount Kenya plays a
crucial role in the life of the country being Kenya’s single most
important permanent watershed and her largest forest reserve. The
fertile soils of its lower slopes also sustain the growth of the
nation’s richest farmlands whilst much of its vegetation is globally
unique.
Accommodation: 1 night – refer to ‘Hotels’ section for detailed
information.
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Serena Mountain Lodge
Day 6 Mt. Kenya National Park to Lake Nakuru National Park
This
morning you will leave Mount Kenya and drive to Lake Nakuru. Arrive
in time for lunch, and then enjoy an afternoon game drive. Lake
Nakuru is famous for the myriad flocks of flamingoes, which
frequently form a stunning pink ribbon along the edges of the lake.
The best place to
view the birds is from Baboon Cliff, where you can look out over the
dazzling fringe of pink around the lake's shores. Despite over 400
species of birdlife having been recorded here, the park also plays
host to herds of buffalo, waterbuck, impala, Rothschild giraffe, and
leopard and a defined area of the park has now been designated a
rhinoceros sanctuary. The park now has
more than 25 rhinos, one of the largest concentrations
in the country. Waterbuck are very common and both the Kenya species
are found here. Among the predators are lion and leopard, the latter
being seen much more frequently in recent times. The park also has
large sized python snakes that inhabit the dense woodlands, and can
often be seen crossing the roads or dangling from trees.
Accommodation: 1 nights – refer to ‘Hotels’ section for detailed
information.
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Sarova Lion Hill Lodge
Day 7 Lake Nakuru
National Park to Masai Mara
Depart
on a drive along the floor of the Rift Valley. Maasai can be seen
going about their normal chores in the sheer vicinity of wildebeest,
zebra and gazelle. Arrive in time for lunch, and enjoy an afternoon
game drive in the Masai Mara.
When it comes to
game viewing, there is nowhere in Africa richer in wildlife or more
eventful in encounters than the Mara. A pristine wilderness of
haunting beauty, it promises its visitors a profusion of wildlife,
prolific bird life and the unprecedented opportunity of catching up
with all the members of the ‘Big Five’ in one morning. The scenery
is a classic mix of African imagery; miles of lion gold grasslands,
shoals of lilac-misted hills, a meandering river, acres of
thorn-bush and mile upon mile of undulating wilderness.
Accommodation: 2 nights – refer to ‘Hotels’ section for detailed
information.
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Sarova Mara
Day 8 Masai Mara
National Reserve
Enjoy a
full day in the Mara with two game drives included. The area offers
wonderful scenery and an abundance of big game.
Known as the ‘greatest show on earth’ the
annual migration of
up to one and a half million animals between the dry plains of
Tanzania and the lush grasslands of Kenya has featured as an annual
event on Earth’s calendar for the past two million years. And it’s
still as extraordinary, enlightening and exciting an event as ever.
Taking place around the months of August and September the migration
is a spectacle, both comic and tragic, that features the epic
journey of vast herds of wildebeest between the grasslands of Kenya
and Tanzania – flanked by a carnival of other herbivores and stalked
by a ruthless pack of predators. As a vivid portrayal of the
violence of the concept, ‘survival of the fittest’, this is a
spectacle, not always for the faint-hearted, that goes beyond
memorable and into momentous.
Day 9 Masai Mara to
USA
Travel back to Nairobi for your departure flight (Via Europe).
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