Activities

Day 1: NAIROBI

Upon arrival in Nairobi, you are met by our representative and transfer to the House of Waine for your overnight stay. Booking on bed and breakfast basis.

Overnight stay: House of Waine

Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast

Day 2: NAIROBI

After your breakfast you will depart for Daphne Sheldrick’s Elephant Orphanage at the edge of Nairobi National Park, which is a nursery and rehab center for infant elephants that have lost their families as well as rhino and occasionally zebras and other wildlife.

Proceed to the AFEW Giraffe Center near Giraffe Manor where you may hand-feed the Rothschild giraffe that live here. Thereafter, you will have lunch at the Karen Blixen Coffee Gardens followed by a visit of the Karen Blixen Museum. Later in the evening you will be transferred back to your hotel where you will spend the night. Dinner at an extra cost.

Overnight: Hemingways Hotel, Nairobi (Executive Room)

Meal Plan: Bed and breakfast

Day 3: NAIROBI – AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

Transfer to Wilson Airport in Nairobi, will you will catch your flight to Amboseli. This flight departs Nairobi at 0730hrs to arrive Amboseli National Park at 0805hrs. Upon arrival at the Amboseli airport, reception and transfer to the Tortilis Camp with a morning game drive enroute; on the way, you’ll pass local Masai villages and Amboseli’s grounds. After you unpack, settle in and have lunch you’ll set off on your first major game drive.

With Mt. Kilimanjaro as its backdrop, Amboseli is considered one of Kenya’s most scenic national parks, and the wildlife that it offers is equally as spectacular as its grounds. Amboseli is best known for its elephants, so keep your eyes open for these spectacular beasts. You’ll wrap up your day with a sundowner, a night game drive back to the camp and dinner followed by a cocktail of your choice by a camp fire, where you can tell stories, talk to other travelers and listen to the sounds of the Bush at night. Return to camp and overnight.

Overnight stay: Tortilis Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

Day 4: AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

After coffee, tea and breakfast pastries, you’ll drive through the bush for a full morning of game viewing. Following lunch at camp or a picnic in the park, you’ll spend your afternoon at leisure. In the early evening you may go on another game drive, stop for a sundowner and find out more about nocturnal animals, such as aardvarks, serval cats, caracals, bat-eared foxes and African wild cats. Return to camp for overnight.

Overnight stay: Tortilis Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

Day 5: AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK – LOISABA WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY

Collect your bags and transfer to Amboseli airstrip for your flight back to Wilson airport in Nairobi, where you will connect with your flight to Loisaba Wilderness Conservancy in time for check in at the Loisaba Star beds. The flight departs Amboseli at 0815Hrs to arrive Nairobi at 0850Hrs. Then connect to the departure flight from Nairobi at 0915Hrs to arrive Loisaba airstrip at 1045Hrs.  After you unpack, settle in and have lunch, you’ll set off on your first game drive on Loisaba’s rugged grounds. You’ll pass by the river, the lifeblood of the park, and watch the animals that surround it. After the evening game drive, you’ll stop for a sundowner and back to your lodge, where you’ll have dinner followed by gin & tonics around a campfire.

As Loisaba Conservancy lies just off the equator we have the most beautiful night skies. Unique to Loisaba, the Starbeds are an African adventure in themselves – handcrafted four-poster beds which sit on wheels, are rolled out onto raised wooden platforms so that guests can sleep under the endless African night sky. With beautiful brass fittings, the bathrooms allow you to keep your eye on the beautiful dam.

Overnight stay: Loisaba Star beds

Meal Plan: Full Board

Day 6: LOISABA WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY

We spend a full day in the Loisaba Wilderness Conservancy on morning and afternoon game drive. The Loisaba Wilderness Conservancy is also an ideal place for bird watching. There are many things to do while in the conservancy e.g. horseback riding, bush walks, mountain-biking, night and day game drives e.t.c

Loisaba is a 57,000-acre wildlife conservancy and working ranch located in Northern Laikipia, Kenya, East Africa. The two permanent rivers and abundant permanent springs make Loisaba attractive to wildlife throughout the year. The previous owners the Ancilotto family, who bought the land in the early 1970’s, managed it as a low impact cattle ranch and tourist destination with a vision to keeping this wilderness intact for wildlife and future generations. Count Ancilotto achieved this largely by leasing the land in 1997 to a group of young Kenyans and an American Investor who created the Loisaba brand and managed it as a successful conservation, tourism and ranching business until December 2014, when The Nature Conservancy facilitated the purchase of the property by the Loisaba Community Trust.

Overnight stay: Loisaba Star beds

Meal Plan: Full Board

Day 7: LOISABA WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY – MASAI MARA NATIONAL GAME RESERVE

Collect your bags and transfer back to the Loisaba airstrip for your flight to the Masai Mara game reserve. Upon arrival at the Masai Mara airstrip, reception and transfer to the Sand River Mara Camp. After you unpack, settle in and have lunch, you’ll set off on your first game drive, where you’ll see the Mara’s vast, rolling plains and some of the most sought-after wildlife in Africa. (The Mara is known for its abundance of wildlife: lions, elephants and giraffe are just a few examples.) You’ll wrap up your day with a sundowner then back to the camp for dinner.

Sand River camp is sat inside the Masai Mara Reserve, where the game is rich and plentiful all year round. Its name, Sand River, is derived from the river in which the camp sits on, which facilitates a lovely view from your tent. Returning after a day of exciting game drives, guests are assured to arrive back at camp to a little piece of luxury… with comfortable rooms, a wonderful cuisine and friendly service… and as part of the Elewana collection, you would expect no less.

Overnight stay: Sand River Mara Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

Day 8 & 9: LOISABA WILDERNESS CONSERVANCY: MASAI MARA NATIONAL GAME RESERVE

Wake up before sunup and have some muffins and coffee, before you take a morning game drive. You’ll see how still and quiet the Bush is at dawn and watch it begin to stir as the sun comes up. You’ll return to camp for a late brunch; then you’ll have the option to take a safari, on-foot, to a local Masai Village, where you’ll be exposed to Masai traditions and nomadic culture.

Head back to camp for lunch followed by a siesta, and finish up your day on an evening game drive, taking in another African sunset.

Overnight stay: Sand River Mara Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

Day 10: DEPART

Early morning transfer to the balloon safari site, a highly-recommended optional excursion. You’ll have the chance to see lions, elephants, buffaloes, hippos, crocodiles, countless species of birds and vast, African plains from above.

Afterward you’ll have breakfast and champagne in the middle of the Mara.

You’ll then take a game drive back to the camp, where you’ll have lunch before checking out and transfer to the airstrip for your departure flight back to Nairobi where you will be met by another of our representative for a transfer to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in time for your departure flight back home/onward travel