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Privately Guided Safaris, Kenya: Amboseli (Elephants & Kilimanjaro) + Tsavo + Mombasa

Kenya: Amboseli + Tsavo East + Diani Beach - Private Guide
Privately Guided Safaris Kenya Amboseli Elephants Kilimanjaro Tsavo Mombasa
10 NIGHTS FROM:
$3,520
Per person sharing
Scheduled flights quoted separately
KPE10M
• Privately Guided Safaris, Kenya
• Amboseli National Park
• Big-5 Game Drives
• Elephants
• Mount Kilimanjaro
• Tsavo East Game Reserve
• Bird Watching
• Mombasa
• Snorkelling & Fishing
• Indian Ocean Beaches

On privately guided safaris in Kenya you will travel from Nairobi to Amboseli, famous for its elephants & views of Mount Kilimanjaro, continuing through Tsavo National Park to the beaches of Mombasa. Travel at your own pace with your own driver/guide. Ideal for photography, birding & family groups. Afterwards relax on beautiful Diani Beach. English speaking guide, all game drives & park fees included.

Day 1
You will be met at Nairobi Airport and transferred to your hotel in this bustling city.
 
Check in and relax in your warm and friendly African surroundings.
Day 2
This morning we visit the Giraffe Centre. Founded by Betty & Jock Leslie-Melville to save the endangered Rothschild Giraffe from extinction, this centre plays an important role in educating Kenyan school children on the country's wildlife and environment. It also allows visitors to come into close contact with the world's tallest species, including the opportunity to feed a gorgeous giraffe.
 
We continue to the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage (open only from 11 to 12 noon). It took Daphne Sheldrick 28 years of trial and error to perfect the milk formula and complex husbandry required to rear orphaned African elephants, during the period that her husband was warden of Kenya's largest elephant sanctuary in Tsavo East National Park. Since then this sanctuary has gone on to save the lives of many orphaned elephant calves.
 
Afterwards enjoy a game drive in Nairobi National Park. This was the first national park created in Kenya and, despite its relatively small size and close proximity to the skyscrapers of the city, it boasts a large and varied wildlife population. Animals migrate to this park during the dry season, as it offers them a permanent source of water. You can hope to see lion, buffalo, leopard and rhino - but not elephant as the park is not large enough to sustain them. You can also see giraffe, zebra, eland, impala, Grant's gazelle, Thomson's gazelle, warthog and ostrich in the woodlands and open plains, and hippo in the Mbagathi Athi River which is lined with fever and acacia trees. The park also has a very successful rhino sanctuary. A picnic lunch is included today.
 
Note: Visits to Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage can only be booked 90 days in advance and are subject to availability (maximum 100 visitors per day).
Day 3
We depart early from Nairobi this morning for the scenic 4-hour drive to Amboseli National Park, travelling in a safari jeep with pop-up roof for game viewing.
 
Situated in southern Kenya, if the weather is clear this national park offers magnificent views of Mount Kilimanjaro in neighbouring Tanzania.
 
Check into your lodge for lunch, before enjoying an afternoon game drive across the vast lake bed in this wildlife reserve. Amboseli is best known for its great herds of elephant - you'll often find many of them standing knee deep in the water, spraying themselves to keep cool - but there is a lot of other game here including cheetah, buffalo, giraffe, many types of gazelle and other plains game.
Day 4
Today enjoy game viewing in Amboseli National Park, renowned for its large herds of elephants and where the local people are mainly Maasai.
 
In the early morning it is wonderful to see Mount Kilimanjaro hovering above the clouds. If the clouds clear, wildlife photography against this dramatic backdrop is particularly rewarding. With its dramatic contrast between dry savanna, fresh water swamps, salty plains and acacia forests, this sanctuary offers a fantastic array of wildlife. You should see buffalo, black and white rhino, zebra, wildebeest and much more - as this low rainfall area is one of the best game viewing regions in the whole of Kenya.
 
Amboseli is also a haven for birding due to its many different habitats. Depending on the amount of rain that has fallen, you will find various water loving birds or other species on the salty plains. You can also hope to see a Martial eagle or Lappet-faced vulture.
 
Depending on the location of your lodge, you will either depart after breakfast with a picnic lunch for a full day of game viewing, or return to your lodge for lunch followed by another game drive in the afternoon.
Day 5
This morning we leave Amboseli and drive 4.5-hours to Tsavo East National Park.
 
Enjoy more game viewing as we continue to our lodge in this great national park, which is divided into an eastern and western section by the railway line and national road and is one of the oldest and largest wildlife conservation areas in Kenya. As the park is unfenced, animals migrate freely across both sectors.
 
Along the way we can stop at Voi where, if it is open, we can visit the Elephant Relocation Centre that resettles youngsters reared at the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Nairobi.
 
Afterwards check into your safari lodge and enjoy the unique atmosphere of the Kenyan bushveld.
 
Note: To gain admission to the Voi Relocation Centre, you need to produce proof that you have fostered an elephant on the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage website.
Day 6
Today is devoted to game viewing with your guide in the eastern sector of Tsavo National Park, with morning and afternooon game drives. At over 7,000 square miles (11,747 square km), this vast national park is the largest in Kenya.
 
The flat open grasslands of Tsavo East offer easy game viewing, with animals attracted by its dams and the Galana River which flows through it. Wildlife is diverse with particularly good elephant sightings, as large herds roam freely between Tsavo and Amboseli. Lion, buffalo, leopard and wild dog are present and plains game is plentiful - including giraffe, zebra, the small dik-dik, Grant's gazelle, kudu, waterbuck, bushbuck, eland, oryx, wildebeest, vervet monkey and baboon. Hippos and crocodiles can be seen in the rivers and dams and keep an eye out for smaller animals such as the hyrax, mongoose, monitor lizard, chameleon and tortoise. There is also a great variety of birdlife including hornbills, guineafowls, francolins, ostrichs, shrikes, larks, pipits and many raptors - both resident and migrant.
Day 7
Enjoy a final early morning game drive in Tsavo National Park before your 5-hour transfer to Diani Beach on the south coast.
 
Check into your hotel situated on the shores of the sparkling Indian Ocean and relax in your warm beach surroundings.
Days 8 To 10
At leisure to relax and soak up the sun on warm Diani Beach.
 
Enjoy the lush tropical gardens of coconut trees, fan-shaped travellers palms and the vibrant blooms of hibiscus, bougainvilleas and frangipani - as well the splendid coastline. Various watersports are available, as well as many optional activities such as a snorkelling trip to Kisite Marine Park and Wasini Island, Mombasa city tour, scuba diving, deep sea fishing and golf.
 
Note: Please be aware that there will be hawkers on the beach, trying to sell you excursions and trinkets. Don't be taken in by them and simply say 'No' very firmly. They are not allowed in the grounds of  your hotel.
Day 11
Transfer 2-hours by road and local ferry to Mombasa Airport for your flight home.
 
Note: All inclusive programmes stop after check-out at 10 am, so you will need to pay for any food or drink consumed after this time.