14 Days Across Kenya: A Wildlife Odyssey to Remember

Arrive at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. After proceeding through immigration and customs, you will be met by our guide who will brief you on your safari.

Have breakfast and drive to Nairobi National park in the morning which is approximately a 20 minutes drive from the hotels. Animals in Nairobi National park include lions, leopards, zebras, rhinos, wildebeests and other species including a wide range of birds. Here you will spot four of the big five, with the exception of the elephant.

One of the other attractions you will visit is the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage where you can adopt an Elephant Orphan.

You can also visit Karen Blixen Museum home of the famous novelist Karen Von Blixen. The museum contains many of its original pieces with pieces donated by the creators of the movie "Out of Africa" or The Giraffe Centre.

Dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

Depart Nairobi after breakfast.

Drive through the white highlands farms, cross the Equator line and experience the beautiful views of Mt. Kenya and the Great Rift Valley as you head to Sweetwaters private ranch, close to Mount Kenya.

After a buffet lunch at the ranch, head out for a game drive where you will get a chance to see elephants, rhinos, giraffe, zebra and antelopes. Sweetwaters has a Chimpanzee Sanctuary which you will also visit.

Head back for dinner and an overnight stay at your hotel/lodge or camp.

Have breakfast then drive to Samburu National Reserve.

Arrive at the Samburu National Reserve, in time for lunch, where you will spot crocodiles along the sun-baked banks of the Ewaso Ng'iro River.

Head out for an afternoon game drive at the park.

Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge/camp.

Early morning game drives enable you to see wild animals in the cool of the morning along other species of birds. You'll be on the lookout for Samburu's special "Big Five" – rare sightings of Beisa oryx, gerenuk, Grévy's zebra, Masai ostrich, and reticulated giraffe (Somali giraffe).

Further game drives after breakfast will allow you to see rhinos, lions, giraffes, eland, buffaloes, impalas, zebras, and other wild animals.

Lunch at the lodge followed by an afternoon game drive at the park to wind up the visit.

Dinner and overnight at stay at the lodge/camp

Breakfast and drive across the white highland farms and the equator to view the spectacular Thompson Falls in Nyahururu.

Drive across The Great Rift Valley and stop at the view point to view the valley. Coffee and Tea plantations will be seen on your way to Lake Nakuru, another shallow Soda Lake, which has been described as “an ornithologist paradise and one of the world’s most magnificent sights”.

Lunch at Thompson falls then drive to L. Nakuru national park arriving in the afternoon just in time for the 4.00pm game drive which enables you to see variety wild animals and different species of birds in the park.

Dinner and overnight stay at lodge/camp.

Early breakfast at the lodge and have a full day of activities in Naivasha.

ACTIVITY OPTIONS IN NAIVASHA:
Drive to the Hells gate national park with stops at view points to marvel at the scenic Great Rift Valley escarpment. Hell’s Gate is one of Kenya's smaller national parks, which can be explored on foot or using a bicycle. You can also take a nature walk at the shores of the lake and a boat-ride to view Hippos, Buffalo, Waterbuck, Antelope, Giraffes and Zebra among others.

1 hour boat ride in L.Naivasha to see hippos that share the lake with different species of birds, imposing antelope, long-necked giraffes, and countless other animals that seeks sustenance from the lake. This boat ride may also include a visit to Cresent Park, an animal sanctuary in the middle of Lake Naivasha.

Dinner and overnight at lodge/camp.

Breakfast and drive across The Great Rift Valley to Maasai Mara National Reserve. Arrive in time for lunch at your hotel/lodge then head out for an afternoon game drive.

Head back to your hotel/lodge for an overnight stay.

Options:
You may take an early morning hot air balloon ride to see millions of wildlife migration from the air USD $450 per person or visit a traditional Maasai village (from $35 per person) to get to know their cultures, traditions and very authentic way of life.

Full days in Maasai Mara with unlimited game drives which involves early morning, mid-morning, and evening game drives.

We'll search for grazing giraffes, speedy antelopes and hippos, but our most sought-after sightings are of Africa's Big Five – the five most fierce and dangerous animals on the continent: African buffalo, black rhinos, bush elephants, leopards and lions.

There's more: the Great Migration. This annual event is considered the Eighth Wonder of the World, and for good reason: every year, millions of wildebeest (gnu) and hundreds of thousands of zebra thunder across Tanzania's Serengeti and into the Maasai Mara, comprising the largest land animal migration in the world.

Have dinner and overnight stay at the lodge/camp

Early breakfast and depart Mara Game drives en route to Nairobi arriving in the afternoon. We'll have stop over lunch.

Dinner and overnight stay at the Hotel.

This day begins with early breakfast in Nairobi followed by a drive to Amboseli National Park which in the South-Eastern part of the country, bordering Tanzania.

Amboseli National park is well known for its large herds of African elephants. Arrive in time for lunch at the lodge.

Head out for an afternoon game drive where you may get a chance to spot huge herds of Wildebeests and many other animals including giraffes, buffaloes, zebra, hippos, impala, water buck, lions, monkeys, zebras , baboons, hyenas, antelope and many other different kinds of wild animals and different species of birds including the Ostrich.

Dinner and overnight stay at lodge/camp.

Early morning game drive around the park with the beautiful view of Africa’s tallest snow capped mountain, Mt. Kilimanjaro (19340ft).

The park provides vantage view of the majestic mountain with its snowcapped peaks easily seen. Further game drives take us deeper into the Amboseli which is well known for the elephant herds that occupy these plains.

Head back to your hotel/lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Early morning breakfast and depart for Tsavo West National Park via the Chyulu hills and the Shetani lava flow.

Enter Tsavo West National Park at Chyulu gate then begin a game drive starting with the Mzima springs where you have a chance to see hippos, fish and crocodiles. The spring produces over one million litres of water underground from the nearby Chyulu hills.

After visiting the Mzima Springs, check in at Kilaguni Serena Lodge/Ngulia around 1.00 pm time for lunch where you can relax until 4.00 pm.

Head out for another evening game drive where you visit the rhino sanctuary and have a chance to see black rhinos.

The game drive goes on till 6.30 pm where you drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Early breakfast at the lodge and check out. Drive back to Nairobi game with game drives en-route.

Drop off at JKIA in time for your flight back home or back to your hotel in Nairobi.