Safari Kifaru
Day 1: Nairobi
Arrive at Jomo Kenyatta Airport,. Warmly welcomed by our representative outside customs and immigration hall.
You will be assisted with your bags and proceed to your hotel. If time permits, you will have a tour briefing at the hotel lobby ready to start your city tour proper in the morning. Dinner and overnight stay.
Tamarind Tree Hotel is ideally located just 5 km to the southwest of Nairobi within the spacious Carnivore grounds and it’s iconic Carnivore Restaurant. The hotel offers easy access to all parts of the city, it’s a national park, as well as to the country’s many diverse attractions via the neighbouring Wilson Airport and Southern Bypass. The nearby Langata and Karen suburbs are among the liveliest and most popular in Nairobi with world-class shopping malls and excellent restaurants. Tamarind Tree Hotel is perfect for both the business and leisure traveller. The hotel’s world-class amenities will ensure your meetings are effortless and successful, whilst their outstanding leisure facilities and genuine service ensure that all guests experience the very best of Tamarind hospitality.
TAMARIND TREE HOTEL (HB – Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 2: Nairobi (city tour of Nairobi)
Have breakfast at the hotel.
09h00: Today, we will visit the nearby Karen Blixen Museum and the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage.
12h15: Transfer to Giraffe Centre. Once done, return to your hotel for lunch.
The afternoon is at leisure to relax and enjoy the hotel facilities. Dinner and overnight stay.
Activities:
Karen Blixen Museum
The Karen Blixen Museum was once the home of the Danish author Karen Blixen. The renowned author made famous by the release of the Oscar winning movie ‘Out of Africa’, based on Karen’s autobiography of the same title. The museum displays many pieces of the author’s furniture and has a splendid view of the Ngong Hills, immortalized in Karen Blixen’s opening line, “I had a farm in Africa at the foot of the Ngong Hills.”
The Karen Blixen Museum is open to the public every day, with guided tours on offer. The museum shop features handicrafts, posters, postcards, the movie ‘Out of Africa’, as well as books and other Kenyan souvenirs.
The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust
Founded in 1977 by Dr Dame Daphne Sheldrick D.B.E, in honour of the memory of her late husband, famous naturalist and founding Warden of Tsavo East National Park, David Leslie William Sheldrick MBE, the DSWT claims a rich and deeply rooted family history in wildlife and conservation. Born from one family’s passion for Kenya and it’s wilderness, the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is today the most successful orphan-elephant rescue and rehabilitation program in the world and one of the pioneering conservation organisations for wildlife and habitat protection in East Africa.
To date the Sheldrick Wildlife Trust has successfully hand-raised over 244 infant elephants and has accomplished its long-term conservation priority by effectively reintegrating orphans back into the wild herds of Tsavo, claiming many healthy wild-born calves from former-orphaned elephants raised in care.
Giraffe Centre
The African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Kenya (A.F.E.W. Kenya) also known as the Giraffe Centre is a non-governmental, non-profit making organization, which was founded by Betty and Jock Leslie-Melville in 1979. This was in a bid to save the endangered Rothschild Giraffe, which had lost its natural habitat in Western Kenya to agriculture and there were only 130 left in the wild. Funds were raised and 4 herds of the Rothschild giraffes were moved to 4 parks namely Lake Nakuru National Park, Mwea Game Reserve, Ruma National Park and Nasalot Game Reserve.
TAMARIND TREE HOTEL (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 3: Nairobi – Amboseli National Park (250 kms – 4 hours drive)
07h30: We set off early for Amboseli National Park, situated at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. Enter through the remito gate and have a game drive en route to your lodge. Arrive and check in, followed by lunch.
Brief rest.
15h00: Depart for an afternoon game drive in the park. Return to the lodge before sunset for dinner and overnight stay.
Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge is located near Mount Kilimanjaro in the heart of Kenya’s Amboseli National Park. The lodge offers 92 rooms which feature complimentary Wi-Fi, 24-hour room service and a private balcony. Hotel facilities include a swimming pool and sundeck, a gift shop, spacious interior bar with terrace, a campfire bar and bush BBQ area. Guests can also enjoy guided walks, bird-watching walks, dinner in the bush and Maasai dance performances in dedicated exterior bush BBQ area.
AMBOSELI SERENA LODGE (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 4: Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge, Amboseli National Park
This morning you will have an early morning, mid morning and afternoon game drives. Meals and overnight stay will be at the lodge.
It is possible to have a sundowner for a supplement of US$ 30 per person
AMBOSELI SERENA LODGE (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 5: Amboseli ✈Nairobi (1 hour flight) ✈ Samburu National Reserve (1 hour flight)
Have very early breakfast and check out.
Transfer to the airstrip for your schedule safarilink flight to Wilson airport, Nairobi, departing at 08h30. Land at 09h30 then connect to your Safarilink schedule flight to Kalama airstrip in Samburu National Reserve, departing at 10h20.
You will land at 11h30. Met by our driver-guides then transfer to the camp.
Arrive in time for check-in, followed by lunch. 15h00: Depart for a game viewing drive in the reserve until sunset.
Return to the camp in time for dinner and overnight stay.
Ashnil Samburu Camp sits in Buffalo Springs Game Reserve which takes its name from an oasis of crystal clear water at the western end of the reserve. It is separated from Samburu National Reserve by Ewaso Nyiro River and is less hilly and dense yet equally very attractive.
ASHNIL SAMBURU CAMP (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 6: Samburu National Reserve
Breakfast at the camp and depart for a morning game drive.
Return to the camp before its too hot. Relax and later have lunch.
Have an afternoon game drive in the reserve. Return to the camp before sunset.
Dinner and overnight stay.
ASHNIL SAMBURU CAMP (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 7: Samburu ✈Masai Mara (1 hour 30 minutes) Game viewing drive
Have very early breakfast and check out.
Transfer to the airstrip for your schedule safarilink flight to Masai Mara National reserve, departing at 09h30.
You will land at 11h00. Met by your driver guides then set off on a game drive en route to the lodge.
Arrive in time for check in, followed by lunch. 15h00: Depart for a game viewing drive in the reserve until sunset.
Return to the lodge in time for dinner and overnight stay.
Secreted deep within the Masai Mara National Reserve, the Mara Serena Safari Lodge is the ultimate safari destination. Set high on a bush-cloaked hill, embraced by arcing vistas and washed by a sea of richly rolling grasslands, it stands centre-stage to one of Africa’s most dramatic wildlife arenas and has a ringside seat for the greatest wildlife show on Earth, the legendary migration of the wildebeest. Drawing its inspiration from the traditional Maasai cultural motif of a cluster of domed, mud-colored huts encircled by a “Boma” of brushwood, the Mara Serena offers a rare blend of raw African splendor and sumptuous sophistication. The essentially ethnic décor also draws on a vibrant colour-palette of sun-burst colors, embellished by a unique selection of Maasai art to create the look and feel of a traditional bush encampment. The lodge features individual rooms, each with their own balcony and view of eternity, a sky-blue swimming pool and a spectacular restaurant, overlooking a water hole where a fantasia of creatures collect to drink.
MARA SERENA SAFARI LODGE (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 8: Masai Mara National Reserve (Game viewing drive)
Have a full day game drive in the reserve with picnic lunch. It is possible to also have 2 game drives and have a hot lunch at the lodge. Meals and overnight stay will be at the Mara Serena Safari Lodge.
MARA SERENA SAFARI LODGE (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 9: Masai Mara National Reserve
Have a full day game drive in the reserve with picnic lunch. It is possible to also have 2 game drives and have a hot lunch at the lodge. Meals and overnight stay at the Mara Serena Safari Lodge.
MARA SERENA SAFARI LODGE (FB – Lunch, Dinner, bed & Breakfast)
Day 10: Masai Mara – Nairobi ( 285 km and about 5 to 6 hours drive)
Have an early breakfast at the lodge then check out. Drive back to Nairobi via the town of Narok and via the rift valley.
Arrive in time for a late lunch at the Ole Sereni Hotel. Transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
(It is possible to fly from Masai Mara to Nairobi. This has been quoted separately).
~End of our Services, wishing you a great safari experience~