12
Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Safari
(12
Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Safari is a popular
road safari covering the varied landscapes of Kenya’s
mountainous region, lakeland and iconic savannah plains
all in one tour. See the beautiful scenery of the Lake
Naivasha, Sweetwaters, Lake Nakuru, Samburu, Mt. Kenya
Safari Club and the Masai Mara Game Reserve)
Waterbuck
at Lake Naivasha
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Chimpanzee
at Sweetwaters |
 Masai
Mara Game Reserve
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12 Days/ 11 Nights
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12
Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Safari
is a delightful journey for travelers with limited time
away from home yet who desire an in-depth safari experience.
Devoted exclusively to Kenya, in less than two weeks
we touch upon nearly all of the region’s highlights,
while enjoying exceptional wildlife throughout. Two
flights expedite travel between locations and make the
most of our time in each reserve. We start in Nairobi
at Nairobi Serena or the Norfolk Hotel with
a city tour, Karen Blixen Museum and the giraffe Centre.
Our
adventures in the bush begin with spectacular
Lake Naivasha then followed by a visit to Lake
Nakuru National Park. Awaiting us at our next stop is
a sheltered oasis, clustered around a waterhole and
set in the pristine calm of its own private reserve:
Sweetwaters Tented Camp.
Samburu
Game Reserve follows next. Wild and rugged,
Samburu is fiercely beautiful with its arid savannahs
watered by the lovely Uaso Nyiro River. The Mount
Kenya Safari Club, our next sojourn, might
well be one of the most gracious establishments in Kenya,
with a colorful past to boot!
And
its setting is truly magnificent. The grand main building
gleams white against the green sweep of surrounding
lawns, while the idyllic swimming pool reflects the
forested evergreen foothills rising up to the clouds
and peaks of Mount Kenya in the distance.
The
best is yet to come still, on safari in the Masai
Mara. An un spoilt wilderness of haunting beauty,
it promises 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.
When
it comes to game viewing, there is nowhere richer in
wildlife or more eventful in encounters. Part of the
vast Serengeti plains, this is the legendary Africa
of our dreams where spectacular events take place.
12 Days/ 11
Nights Kenya Highlights Safari Summary Itinerary
Day
1: Nairobi
arrival
Day
2: Nairobi Day Excursion
Day
3: Nairobi — Drive to Lake Naivasha
Day
4: Lake Naivasha — Drive to Lake Nakuru
National Park
Day 5: Lake Nakuru — Drive to
Ol-Pejeta Sweetwaters Game Sanctuary
Day
6: Ol-Pejeta Sweetwaters Sanctuary
Day
7: Sweetwaters — Drive to Samburu Game
Reserve
Day
8: Samburu Game Reserve
Day
9: Samburu — Drive to Mt Kenya safari
Club
Day10:
Mt Kenya safari Club — Fly Masai Mara
Game Reserve
Day
11: Masai Mara Game Reserve
Day
12: Masai Mara — Fly Nairobi
12
Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Safari Price
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12
Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Safari Prices
Include:
• First aid kit
•
2 game drives per day
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Boat Ride on Lake Naivasha
•
Entrance into Crescent Island
•
Radio calls for easy communications
•
Safari library with wildlife guidebooks
•
Ice chests with complimentary beverages
•
African Spice Safaris Designer Safari Hat
•
Services of professional safari driver/ guide
•
Dinner at Carnivore Restaurant on the last day
•
Game Reserve and National Park entrance fees
•
Meet and greet upon arrival and departure in Nairobi
•
Arrival and departure transfers in Nairobi and Masai
Mara
•
Entrance into the Giraffe Manor (Rothschild Giraffe
Sanctuary)
•
Entrance to the Karen Blixen Estate and Museum (Out
of Africa)
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2 Overnights at the Norfolk Hotel or Nairobi Serena
on a bed & breakfast basis
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Guaranteed a window seat and easy access to pop-up roof
hatch for each member
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2 Time saving domestic flights: Mt. Kenya Safari Club
to Masai Mara & Mara to Nairobi
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Multiple daily game viewing in Custom Safari vehicle,
driven by accomplished non-smoking driver guides private
12
Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Safari Prices
Exclude:
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Applicable airport taxes
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Lunch & Dinner on the Last Day
•
Visa expenses (allow US Dollars 50 per person)
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Gratuity for all Porters and Waiters & driver guides
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Membership in the Flying Doctors medical services
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Gratuity for your expert and professional Driver Guide
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Optional: Visit to authentic Masai village for cultural
exchange (30 US Dollars per person)
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Personal items such as soft drinks, alcohol, juices
etc phone calls, gratuities and souvenirs
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Optional: Hot air balloon ride over savannah in the
Masai Mara (470 US Dollars per person)
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Personal expenses such traveling insurance (medical,
accident, cancellation ,lost Baggage, etc.) excess baggage
fee, communication charges that include, laundry, emails,
faxes and phone calls beverages including luxury champagne,
luxury spirits, beer, wines, soft drinks, and juices,
water during meals
12
Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Detailed
Safari Itinerary
Day
1: Nairobi
arrival
On
arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport Nairobi,
you will be met by your Safari Director who will accompany
you to the venerable InterContinental Hotel or the New
Stanley Hotel. Welcome to Nairobi, the City in the Sun!
Today Kenya’s capital and a busy metropolis Africa’s
center of commerce and finance, Nairobi is only as old
as its railway and slightly older than the century.
Nairobi
means “place of cold water” in the Masai
language and used to be a resting place on the slave
route between the interior of East Africa and Mombasa,
the former capital. Situated 100 miles south of the
Equator, and 300 miles west of the Indian Ocean at an
elevation of 5,500 feet, Nairobi’s pleasant climate
has been an important factor in its booming success.
The
nights are cool, the days are warm, the temperature
rarely exceeds 75 degrees and humidity is low. Karibi!
In Swahili means welcome... When your flight touches
down in Nairobi, your hotel room is available the minute
you walk through the hotel’s door.
Meal
Plan {Bed & Breakfast}
View
of Nairobi Central |
Karen
Blixen Museum
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The Giraffe Centre |
Day
2: Full Day Nairobi City Tour
The
name alone conjures up images of dashing characters
and romantic adventurers, and today we feel the intrigue
that has seduced travelers for centuries. Exciting special
events are planned. After breakfast, a Safari Briefing
answers questions and creates excitement.
You
have the option of joining us for an orientation walk
of the neighborhood around our hotel. Next is lunch
at the New Rangers Restaurant, which is located outside
of the city and overlooks a scenic bush area. You'll
enjoy traditional Kenyan dishes and have the chance
to see various game animals wandering in the bush below.
We
travel to the nearby town of Karen to visit the museum
dedicated to Karen Blixen, who wrote Out of Africa under
her pen name Isak Denisen. The Kikuyu people she wrote
about with great affection are still one of Kenya’s
major ethnic groups.
The
Danish writer, as you may know, “had a farm in
Africa, at the foot of the Ngong Hills.” Here
she lived from 1914 to 1931. The Danish government gave
the beautiful house to the country of Kenya upon its
independence, and today it is a museum furnished with
much of her original period furniture and open to visitors.
This is a fascinating peek into the lives of early Kenya
settlers.
To
add a touch of African nature to today’s encounters
with African culture, we stop in at the Giraffe Center,
where you can get close to these towering animals and
photograph them. “Giraffe Manor,” a beautiful
Tudor-style manor house, was built in 1932. In 1974,
Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville purchased it and relocated
five orphaned and rare Rothschild giraffe here. Over
the years they have thrived, and now have their own
young.
We also visit the Kazuri Bead Factory, where ceramic
beadwork jewelry made by local craftspeople is on display.
Afterwards, we return to our hotel for some time to
relax and a leisurely dinner.
Overnight at the InterContinental Nairobi or
similar
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
3: Nairobi – Lake Naivasha & Crescent
Island Wildlife Sanctuary
Next,
we overland to papyrus-fringed Lake Naivasha, a cool
and peaceful escape from Nairobi’s big-city bustle.
Our first stop is at Elsamere Home were we have Tea,
Coffee or Hot chocolate as we learn more about the home.
This
is the former home of the late Joy Adamson who, together
with her husband George, became world famous for their
pioneering conservation work and relationship with the
Lioness Elsa, as told in her best-selling book and subsequent
film: Born Free.
Joy
Adamson wrote the following: "For years I had been
looking for a house where George and I could live. Eventually
I found a place that seemed to combine all we wished
for. It would be impossible to imagine a more attractive
site for a home. We decided to call our home Elsamere."
With
over 400 species of bird, this freshwater lake is a
birding Paradise. Along the lake’s fabled waters,
we are bound to see some of the area’s more intriguing
species—hippos, giraffes, buffalo and even the
arboreal colobus monkey.
Lake
Naivasha lies in the Great Rift Valley and the name
derives from the local Masai name Nai'posha, meaning
"rough water" because of the sudden storms
which can arise. After lunch we visit Crescent island
— a private sanctuary, where you can walk beneath
yellow-barked acacias (yellow fever trees) in search
of giraffes, wildebeest , impala , dikdiks, thompson’s
and grant’s gazelles, elands, waterbucks and countless
bird species.
Oh,
and there are some rather gigantic pythons too! We are
allowed to walk with the animals since all were introduced
during the filming of Out of Africa. An optional boat
ride on the lake reveals many water bird species and
schools of Hippos.
Overnight
at Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge or similar
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
4: Overland to Lake Nakuru
National Park
After
a delicious breakfast, we travel overland to Lake Nakuru
National Park for a full day game viewing experience.
The spectacular alkaline Lake is famously known as the
feeding ground of both lesser and greater flamingos.
This
National park, which is fenced all round is a sanctuary
for birds, Rothschild giraffes and both black and white-rhinos.
Other mammals in abundance include Waterbucks, Buffalos,
Gazelles, Lions, Baboons and the elusive Leopards sometimes
seen sleeping on the horizontal branches of the “Fever
trees”.
Lunch
will be served at your lodge located in the game park,
offering its own local specialties, served with fresh
produce from the region.
Overnight at Sarova Lion Hill or similar
Meal Plan{Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Lake
Naivasha Fresh Waters
|
 Lake
Nakuru Flamingos
|
 Sweetwaters
watering hole
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Day
5: Lake Nakuru – Ol-Pejeta
Sweetwaters Game Sanctuary
This
morning we drive to Nyahururu and proceed northeast,
driving through the Great Rift Valley to Sweetwaters
Tented Camp. Sweetwaters land, the Ol Pejeta Conservancy
and its sumptuous ranch were once the private domain
of famed multi-millionaire, Adnan Kashoggi.
We
visit the Chimpanzee Sanctuary, a charming haven established
by the Jane Goodall Institute to provide sanctuary to
orphaned chimps, and the specially protected and fenced
refuge of black rhino with its stunning forty specimens!
In fact Sweetwaters boasts excellent game viewing with
the highest ratio of game to area of any park or reserve
in Kenya.
Moreover, the camp has its own private waterhole and
saltlick so we’ll be guaranteed unprecedented
close encounters. Whether its day or night game drives,
camel trekking, lion tracking, al fresco dining or relaxing
by pool, Sweetwaters is bound to delight.
Overnight at Sweetwaters Tented Camp
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
6: Discover Sweetwaters Tented Camp
Today
we enjoy a game drive to the secluded heart of Ol Pejeta
Ranch and Rhino Reserve. Here at the reserve these magnificent
beasts are given sanctuary from those who would take
their lives in order to sell their horns. And here too,
the Jane Goodall Institute offers the Chimpanzee Sanctuary,
where you will truly enjoy meeting the primates face-to-face.
The
reserve provides a fascinating opportunity to study
and learn about the rhinos, and to experience them up
close. Ol Pejeta Ranch overlooks one of the busiest
waterholes in the area…elephant, giraffe, waterbuck,
gazelle and the big cats all come here to drink.
It
is fascinating to see the variety of plains game that
risk receiving too much notice from a predator in order
to enjoy the bounty of the waters! We return to our
camp for another superb dinner and dream-laden evening’s
sleep.
Overnight
at Sweetwaters Tented Camp
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
7: Sweetwaters to Samburu
National Reserve
After
an early breakfast, your private custom safari cruiser
takes you overland to Kenya’s northern frontier.
Wild and rugged, Samburu is fiercely beautiful with
its arid savannahs watered by the lovely Uaso Nyiro
River.
It
is also one of Kenya’s most protected areas and
home to species only found north of the equator, from
the Reticulated Giraffe, Somali Ostrich to Grevy’s
Zebras and Beisa Oryx’s.
We also enjoy the beautiful Samburu Intrepids Camp,
our luxurious hostelry set beneath a canopy of acacia
trees. This luxury lodge has been designed to recreate
the romance and charm of an East African safari as undertaken
in the early years of the 20th century.
Situated
on the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River along with the
many crocodiles and leopards, the lodge is rustic yet
sophisticated and captures the rhythms of riverside
life.
Making
full use of native materials and artwork, all guest
rooms are located in wooden thatched cottages surrounded
by lush gardens. Each cottage has a private verandah
overlooking the river so that the crocodiles can be
seen feeding.
Overnight
at Samburu Intrepids Camp
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
8:
Explore the Shaba National Reserve
Full
English breakfast and buffet luncheons are served in
a comfortable dining atmosphere under the shade of the
native trees. The hotel has 62 rooms, with a superb
swimming pool surrounded by thatched umbrellas and sunny
skies.
Game
drives and bird-watching safaris are extra special here
in Samburu with over a hundred species of birds can
be spotted. With its backdrop of rocky outcrops and
prominent Mountain ranges to the North, it’s Doum
Palm trees and Riverine forest, Samburu National Reserve
has an exotic feel in it.
Overnight
at Samburu Intrepids Camp
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
9:
Drive to the famous Mt. Kenya Safari Club
Today
we drive to Isiolo and continue by road south to Mount
Kenya Safari Club—reminiscent of the English countryside—to
the Mount Kenya Safari Club.
Sprawled
on the slopes of majestic Mount Kenya, this historic
club offers luxury and relaxation, including such activities
as golf, trout streams, horseback riding and tennis,
as well as a charming animal orphanage. Our upgraded
accommodations are in the original cottages of the club’s
founders or in riverside bungalows.
Overnight at Mount Kenya Safari Club
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
10: Fly to Masai Mara Game Reserve
Excitement
and expectations build as we fly to the Masai Mara,
Kenya today with its myth-like stories of bountiful
wildlife. And here we find the Old Africa of the movies,
with rolling grasslands dotted by acacia trees and sweeping
plains teeming with wildlife.
No
matter how much you have thought about Africa, this
is more than you expected. We take a short game drive
en-route to the Siana Springs Tented Camp, Perched on
the saddle of a hill, the Mara Serena Safari Lodge has
one of the most spectacular views imaginable across
the vast plains, forests and rivers that make up the
Masai Mara – one of the world’s richest
wildlife sanctuaries.
The
hotel has been designed to mirror a traditional Masai
village or Manyatta and all the guest rooms are located
in individual domed huts grouped in a circular manner.
Each hut has its own private balcony with views that
stretch over the vast African landscape.
Here, our game drives are rousing exploits in the company
of guides who regale us with bush lore, educate us on
conservation and entertain us with tall tales.
Masai
Mara is famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest’s
migration and is home of the Big Five: Lion, Elephant,
Leopard, Buffalo and Rhino. Residents among the Park's
are: Masai Giraffe, Eland, Klip Springer, Dik-dik and
thousand of plain game including Impala, Zebra, Topi,
both Thomson's and grants Gazelles.
Overnight at Siana Springs Tented Camp
Meal
Plan{Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
11: Discover Masai Mara Game Reserve
Today
we get a closer look at the Mara during two extensive
game runs. On the plains are enormous herds of grazing
animals plus predators—cheetah and black-manned
lion— hiding amidst acacia trees. The sheer enormity
of the Masai Mara offers endless opportunities for excitement
and is home to an incredible variety of wildlife.
Manyatta is a village or home of the Masai people. The
Masai guarding his cattle is an enduring and proud figure
across the plains of East Africa. Livestock represents
status, wealth and livelihood to these ancient people.
In between game drives you will thoroughly enjoy a visit
to a Masai village, learning about their tribal social
systems, customs and the place of the Masai people in
today’s Africa.
The residents live in their Manyatta, or village, much
as they have for centuries and you will have an opportunity
to see the interior of these mud-hut homes, spotless
and unadorned, contrasted with the Masai themselves,
bedecked with brilliantly colored beads and cloths.
The
bright smiles and warmth of the tribe once considered
among the fiercest warriors on earth will surely win
your heart. This afternoon an extensive game run is
planned.
Overnight
at Siana Springs Tented Camp
Meal
Plan{Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}
Day
12: Fly back to Nairobi. Depart for home
One
long, last look over the savannah and after breakfast,
we board our flight to Nairobi. You then enjoy a lunch
at one of Nairobi’s local restaurants and following
perhaps a visit to a favorite shop or two.
Dinner
is planned at the famous Carnivore restaurant and then
you proceed to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
and your flight home.
Meal
Plan{Breakfast}
Booking
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Days/ 11 Nights Kenya Highlights Safari to Lake Naivasha
Sweetwaters, Lake Nakuru, Samburu, Mt. Kenya Safari
Club and Masai Mara - Kenya
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