This safari takes you through Kenya’s diverse landscapes and ecosystems. Start in Nairobi, the vibrant capital, before heading to Meru National Park, known for its untouched wilderness and unique wildlife. Continue to Soysambu Conservancy or Lake Nakuru, a haven for flamingos and rhinos. Conclude in the iconic Masai Mara, renowned for the Big Five, vast savannahs, and dramatic wildlife spectacles. This journey offers an excellent blend of urban charm, conservation highlights, and world-class wildlife experiences.
Arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where you will be met by our Safaris representative and driver/guide for briefing and transfer to your Nairobi Hotel for an overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Breakfast
Accommodation: Panafric Hotel / Similar
Early breakfast at the hotel. Depart Nairobi heading north through the lush Kikuyu farmlands with coffee, wheat and horticulture farms among other plantations. Pass the Equator and the cool central highlands and descend to the wildlife rich northern Savannah woodlands. You will pass the scenic Meru forest before snaking up the Nyambene Hills. Descend into the Meru conservation area, checking in at your hotel in time for lunch and an afternoon game drive.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Ikweta Safari Camp / Similar
Full day in the Meru National Park with both morning and evening game drives or a full day in Meru National Park with picnic lunch in the wild.
Meru National Park is one of Kenya’s least visited reserves, despite having a great deal to offer. The area is most famous as the place in which Elsa, the famous lioness, was returned to the wild.
Off all the Kenya parks Meru presents the widest variety of landscapes and habitats. Forest, swamp and savannah are pierced by a number of rivers all rising on Mount Kenya and all destined to reach the Tana River which forms the park’s lower boundary. In this marvelous sanctuary a great variety of wildlife exists. All the ‘Big Five’ are present and the park is one of the best in which to locate cheetah and leopard. High precipitation levels means that the area is covered in thick grass, jungle and marsh, sometimes making game hard to spot. On the other hand, this only adds to Meru National Parks’ wild, untamed atmosphere.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Ikweta Safari Camp / Similar
After breakfast, depart from Meru driving into the central highlands. You will pass by the Thompson falls and drive down the scenic rift valley escarpment before finally checking into the Soysambu conservancy in time for lunch.
Soysambu Conservancy is pristine wilderness area. Featuring volcanic hills, rolling plains, and dense acacia woodlands, the Conservancy also includes a substantial part of Lake Elementeita, the ancestral home of 1.2 million flamingos and their attendant cast of pelicans, cormorants, waders and storks. Within the shelter of the crater, wander large herds of buffalo, within the acacia thickets graze the rare Rothschild’s giraffe, and across the plains bound an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of plain’s game. Long protected from the impact of mass-tourism, the Conservancy also provides sanctuary for a wide range of predators, including the shy and secretive leopard.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Sleeping Warrior Lodge / Similar
Depart from the Soysambu Conservancy after breakfast heading for the Soysambu conservancy and head for Lake Nakuru National Park. The Lake Nakuru ecosystem comprises of the lake, surrounded by mainly wooded and bushy grasslands. The park supports a wide ecological diversity with Flamingos (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds being the major attractions of the area. The ecosystem provides for about 56 different species of mammals including the white rhino and buffaloes and a variety of terrestrial birds numbering nearly 450 species. Lunch will be at lake Nakuru. Return to your lodge early afternoon for a well deserved rest.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Sleeping Warrior Lodge / Similar
Early breakfast and depart your camp heading for the Masai Mara National Reserve. You will drive into Masai land passing through the Kedong and Suswa plains making a stop over at the Masai town of Narok. Continue towards the Masai Mara arriving ion time for lunch and an afternoon game drive.
This is probably one of Kenya’s most visited reserve with an extraordinary density of animals including the Big five and many other varieties of plains game. The Mara River cuts through the Mara and Serengeti eco systems giving life to the both reserves finally pouring out into the Lake Victoria.
Impressive and most notable is the wildebeest, zebra and gazelle instinct led migration from the Serengeti in Tanzania to the Masai Mara in Kenya. This journey is coupled by numerous obstacles which makes it even more magnificent.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Ashnil Mara Luxury Camp / Similar
Spend two complete days in the Masai Mara options of having Morning and evening game drives or full day game drives. This Masai Mara reserve is famous for the vast herds of migrating wildebeest which culminates with the grand finale crossings at the crocodile infested Mara River. This is an annual spectacle led by biological instincts in search of greener and fresher pastures.
Meal Plan: Full Board
Accommodation: Ashnil Mara Luxury Camp / Similar
Breakfast and leave the Masai Mara. Enjoy extra game viewing in and out of the park as you drive through the plains and the floor of the Great Rift Valley arriving in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi early afternoon where your Kenya Wilderness Safari ends.
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Airport transfers
Full board accommodation (B, L, D) while on safari
Bed and Breakfast in City Hotel
PRIVATE transport
Game drives on a safari customized Land Cruiser
Park entrance fees to all quoted Game Reserves
Services of a professional English speaking safari driver guide
Applicable Government taxes
International flights
Additional sightseeing or deviation from the itinerary
Items of a personal nature such as; laundry, phone calls
Tip for driver guides and porters
Drinks/beverages during meals
Beautiful Samburu, our African Savannah Adventure - We have travelled previously on safari with African Savannah Holidays and this year we chose to visit the semi arid Samburu Region in northern Kenya. We stayed at Ashnil Samburu... read more Camp and at Samburu Intrepids Camp chosing to fly from Wilson Airport in Nairobi in order to avoid a 6 hour road trip into the bush, the flight was just 45 minutes. Camps were very good with a preference for Ashnil and wildlife in Samburu was excellent. Paul Mgubwa is Director, his service was first class, our guide James Maina was excellent, he was a patient driver and had respect for the animals we saw. Our safari overall was a good one, quite hot 32 degrees at times but its a dry heat so was not uncomfortable.
All of our arrangements from meet and greet in Nairobi through to departure was extremely well organised, we had a fabulous safari and felt we were in really good hands throughout. Sincere thanks Paul we would certainly recommend you to friends wishing to try a safari, it was all that we wanted, just perfect.
Nairobi National Park - Wonderful experience! We went for a safari in Nairobi National Park. Professional and friendly driver, nothing was too much trouble for him. We were picked up from our accommodation, spent... read more day in national park, had a late lunch and came back to our accommodation. From the start to the end it was a fantastic experience.
End to End Excellence with Heart - I went on my lifelong dream trip to Africa with my brother and four friends in October 2024. I was introduced to Paul at the Travel and Adventure Show... read more in Los Angeles by a friend who is an extensive traveler and a very satisfied customer of African Savannah Holidays. From the moment I met Paul, I knew I would put my dream vacation in his hands.
Working with him could not be easier. He listened carefully to my long “wish list” and my budget considerations; then prepared an itinerary that met every wish with thoughtful care. His communication was always professional, prompt, concise, and friendly.
He met us upon arrival bearing gifts, and provided an orientation of our three weeks in detail. It included Kenya, Amboseli National Park, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro Crater, Olduvai Gorge, Serengeti, Masai Mara, and finally Zanzibar. Every single aspect of this trip exceeded our expectations: friendly, charming, and informative guides, lodgings that frankly blew me away, food, and the hot air balloon ride. Every day was so exciting and yet, every following day was better than the last.
Our guides knew just where to take us so that we had encounters with four of the Big Five- with the black rhino as the hold out, and we were moved by the experience of being in the wild with all the magnificent animals. At times, we were alone with lions, cubs, cheetahs, leopards, giraffe, baboons, elephants, hippos, and birds we have never seen before! Being there in Africa’s spring meant that we not only saw babies, but it was also not crowded, the temperature was moderate, and there were no mosquitos!
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