Kenya Safari Highlights - 9 Days

Arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where our guide will meet and assist you to your vehicle, followed by a transfer to your city hotel.

Assistance with check-in formalities followed by a pre-safari briefing from your guide. The rest of the day will be at leisure. 

Breakfast will be served  early and you will meet your tour guide by 7:30 am for your south-easterly journey toward Amboseli National Park.

Arrive at your lodge for check-in and then lunch. 

In the afternoon, you will go for a game drive in the park to see some animals and then return to your lodge for rest and overnight.

You will have game drives in the morning and evening with the rest of the day relaxing at your lodge or enjoying a swim. There is also an option for a near full-day game drive with packed lunch.

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Located at the foothill of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Amboseli enjoys stunning views of Mt. Kilimanjaro with good weather and clear skies and has several lakes and swamps that attract several wildlife and bird species. Lions, Hippos, Cheetahs, black-backed Jackals, Zebras, and several bird species including the Kori Bustard (the heaviest flying bird).

As you explore Amboseli, you will have great views and backdrops of Africa's tallest mountain - Kilimanjaro, just across the border in Tanzania. The snow capped peaks often provides a perfect background for Africa's most iconic wildlife photos on safari.

After an early breakfast, you will leave Amboseli for Aberdare National Park in central Kenya highlights on a scenic drive via Nairobi.

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You will have lunch on the way, and arrive in Aberdare in the afternoon - ready to rest and go for an evening game drive. 

This evening and night, game viewing will be from the comfort of a specially raised bunker as you watch animals visit the lodge’s floodlit water hole and salt lick. 

You will be transferred back to your base hotel after breakfast. Check out by 1000 hrs and drive to the nearby Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy. Check-in at Serena Sweetwater’s Camp followed by lunch from 1230 hrs.

You will then enjoy game drives in the vast Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Ol Pejeta, which is a private game-rich conservancy, holds some of the highest predator densities in Kenya.

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The Conservancy, which is host to all the members of the ‘Big Five’ (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo, and leopard), has a higher wildlife-to-area ratio than any Kenyan national park and is one of only four private game conservancies to have been founded in Kenya.

At the forefront of the Kenyan conservancy program, the conservancy boasts the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa including “Baraka” the male, blind black rhino, hosts the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Kenya, and shelters large numbers of rare and endangered species.

After breakfast, check out by 0800 hrs and embark on a south-westerly drive, skirting the Aberdare Mountain ranges and driving down the floor of the Great Rift Valley towards Lake Nakuru National Park with a short stopover at the Stunning Nyahururu (Thompson Falls).

Check-in is followed by lunch at your lodge. You will enjoy an afternoon game drive on the shores of the Alkaline Lake Nakuru as well as around the park.

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This will give you opportunities to spot Buffaloes, Rhinos, Rothschild Giraffes, Baboons, Spotted Hyenas, Leopards, Lions, Water Bucks, Elands, Pelicans, and Egyptian Goose among several others, and if lucky, the lesser Flamingos that this park is world-famous for until 1800 hrs.

Breakfast will be served. Check out by 0730 hrs and drive to the Masai Mara.

Check-in is followed by lunch at your lodge. Afternoon game drive from 1600 hrs which marks the beginning of the amazing Masai Mara game viewing experience. Dinner and overnight stay at your lodge.

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Early morning and late afternoon game drive in search of the BIG 5; Lion, Buffalo, Elephant, Rhino, Leopard, and several other animals including Impalas, Gazelles, Wildebeests, Hyenas, Topis, Zebras, Elands, Jackals, Giraffes and hundreds of bird species.

Rest of the time at leisure in your lodge. All meals and overnight stay at your lodge.

Breakfast will be served from 0630 hrs. Check out by 0730 hrs and drive back to Nairobi.

Optional Lunch will be served at a restaurant followed by a transfer to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your onward evening flight.