Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi

On arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Representatives of Dream Kenya Safaris, your hosts in Kenya eagerly await your arrival. Thereafter transfer to your hotel in Nairobi, Kenya’s colorful capital city to check in to your city hotel. The rest of the day or evening is spent at leisure.

Meals: Bed and Breakfast

Accommodation: Tamarind Tree Hotel

Day 2: Samburu Game Reserve

After breakfast we depart north via Nanyuki for the Samburu Game Reserve set in the rugged, semi-arid northern region of Kenya, with spectacular scenic landscape. Arrive in time for lunch, a short siesta then head out for an afternoon game viewing drive.

Samburu is visited by large herds of Elephants, drawn by the promise of water. In the dry season, the elephants use their tusks to dig deep into the dry riverbeds, unearthing precious water. These waterholes then become a focal point for other wildlife. The Samburu region is the best place to find several endemic Northern species, including the Gerenuk due to her long neck, the beisa Oryx, the reticulated giraffe, the Somali ostrich and Grevy’s Zebra. Samburu is also an ornithological paradise, home to many birds including local species such as the Palm Nut Vulture and the Vinaceous Dove. Leopards are often seen at dusk. The Samburu culture is a truly fascinating one, sharing a great deal of ancestral and linguistic ties to the Maasai. The entire Samburu region is a place of breath taking and magical beauty, a place where the vision of a deep red sunset silhouetting the doum palms along the river as a leopard emerges to hunt brings the perfect end to a day on safari. Enjoy dinner and overnight at your camp.

Meals: Full board

Accommodation: Samburu Intrepid camp

Day 3: Full day in the Samburu Game Reserve

Enjoy morning and afternoon game viewing in both Samburu and Buffalo Springs game reserves. Leopards are often seen at dusk. The Samburu culture is a truly fascinating one, sharing a great deal of ancestral and linguistic ties to the Maasai. Enjoy meals and overnight at your camp.

OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Visit to Samburu Manyatta to see how the tribe lives in Samburu.

Meals: Full board

Accommodation: Samburu Intrepid camp

Day 4: Nanyuki Mount Kenya Area

After breakfast you set off to Nanyuki and the Aberdare arriving at your lodge for lunch.

Floating high on the flanks of Kenya’s highest mountain and secreted deep within her largest forest reserve, the lodge offers not only the champagne-clarity of mountain air, the tranquility of the forest and a colorful cavalcade of wildlife but also the chance of scaling the icy peaks of Africa’s second-highest mountain. You can awake to the trumpeting of elephant, fall asleep to the symphony of the African night. Enjoy dinner and overnight at your hotel.

Please note: A warm jacket/sweater and a good pair of hiking boots is highly recommended.

Meals: Full board

Accommodation: Aberdare country club

Day 5: Lake Nakuru National Park

After breakfast you depart for Lake Nakuru National Park with a brief stop at Thompson’s Falls for a breath-taking view of the great scenery. You arrive at your camp in time for lunch.

This afternoon we depart on a game viewing drive circumventing Lake Nakuru. The lake is situated in the heart of the Rift Valley and is one of Kenya’s most famous soda lakes. Some of the interesting places to visit include the baboon cliff, the lion hill and the Mau escarpment. Over 300 bird species have been recorded here. This park also provides sanctuary for the endangered Rothschild giraffe, black and white rhino and the elusive leopard.

Enjoy dinner and overnight at the Lodge.

Meals: Full board accommodation

Accommodation: Mbweha Safari Camp

Day 6: Masai Mara National Reserve

A hearty early morning breakfast then drive to the Masai Mara National Reserve, offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. You arrive at the intimate, Camp to a very warm welcome for lunch, some chill time before the next adventure. This afternoon is the moment you have been longing for – you depart on an exciting game viewing drive. The Rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeest, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted & stripped hyena, the rhino, topi, burchelle’s zebra, the Maasai giraffe among many others. The Mara game reserve is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve. You return to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Meals: Full board (Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner)

Accommodation: Basecamp Mara Tented Camp

Day 7: Full day in the Masai Mara National Reserve

After a sumptuous breakfast, depart for a full day adventure. Be on the look-out for the big five that Masai Mara is famous for and that may have eluded you on your previous game drives; these include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard, and the black rhino. You may even be so lucky to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill! Return to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: Basecamp Mara

Day 8: Nairobi

This morning enjoy your breakfast then check-out. Unbelievable but true, your good bush moments have come to an end. Your guide driver will transfer you to the Carnivore restaurant for lunch (if time allows) then drop you at the Jomo Kenyatta International airport for your onward flight.

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch

INCLUSIONS

• Arrival transfer from/ to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
• Bed & breakfast board accommodation in Nairobi
• Full Board Accommodation while on safari
• Park Entry Fees
• Unlimited supply of drinking water in the safari vehicle while on safari
• Services of professional English-Speaking guide-driver.
• Unlimited game viewing drives
• Use of a custom designed pop-up roof Safari Land Cruiser while on safari
• Complimentary AMREF Flying Doctors Medical Evacuation cover while on safari.

EXCLUSIONS

• All personal expenses – laundry, telephones, soft & alcoholic drinks, tips to Camp Staff, and gratuity to Guide/Drive
• Any items not expressly specified in the itinerary.
• Any optional services listed as optional in the safari program.
• Comprehensive travel insurance cover
• International flight, passport & visa fees

OPTIONAL ACTIVITIES:

Balloon Safari

Today’s adventure begins just before dawn. Flames from the hot air balloon burners light the darkness as the crew inflate their craft. First, pink tongues of sunlight flicker across the skies and the hot air balloon fills then rises. Suspended in a basket beneath the rainbow-colored canopy, you are off for a game-viewing adventure with an entirely different perspective. Apart from the occasional hiss of the burners, a lion’s roar, elephants crashing through the bush, baboons perched in the tips of the trees startled and screeching to see something above them, the flight above the Masai Mara Plains is magically silent. At the end of the flight, the passengers are treated to a champagne breakfast in the bush, complete with flowers. China and crystal are set out on the table that is placed under a convenient acacia tree. The finishing touch to the flight is a game drive back to the camp, and the possibility of seeing the same pride of lions, or herd of elephants that had been viewed while ballooning. A flight certificate is issued on completion of the balloon safari. Back at Camp enjoy a sumptuous lunch and a well-deserved rest.

MASAI VILLAGE VISIT

You may opt to visit a traditional Maasai Manyatta (off the beaten track) and experience the culture of this world-famous community. The Masai still live as they did for centuries -interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as you learn about their customs and traditions.