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Kenya Private Tour: Lake Nakuru + Masai Mara + Amboseli + Tsavo Safari Holiday

Grand Kenya: Masai Mara + Amboseli + Tsavo + Diani Beach

10 NIGHTS FROM:

$5,734

Per person sharing

Scheduled flights quoted separately

KPN14N

• Kenya Private Tour

• Lake Nakuru

• Birding

• Masai Mara Game Reserve
asai Mara

• Big Five Photography

• Lake Naivasha

• Amboseli

• Mount Kilimanjaro

• Tsavo Safari Holiday

• Mombasa Coast

This comprehensive Kenya private tour explores the wildlife of this fascinating country in depth, travelling with your own driver guide. Visit Lake Nakuru, Masai Mara, Lake Naivasha, Amboseli & Tsavo Game Reserves, before relaxing on the Mombasa coast on this safari holiday. Ideal for special interests such as birding & photography. English speaking guide, all transfers, park fees & game drives included.

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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 leave Nairobi early this morning and drive 5-hours across the scenic Great Rift Valley to the Masai Mara, travelling in a safari jeep (with pop-up roof for game viewing).

We pass through Kenya's fertile highlands and head down the rift escarpment on a road built by Italian prisoners during World War II. Look for the charming chapel they built at the foot of the escarpment. We pass the impressive Longonot earth satellite station and head across the valley to Narok, before reaching the Masai Mara in time for lunch.

Masai Mara National Reserve is named after the Maasai people and the Mara River that divides the park. It is famous for its exceptional population of game and the annual migration of zebra and wildebeest from the adjoining Serengeti National Park. This phenomenon occurs every year from July to October (although exact timings cannot be guaranteed), when game migrates along a circular route from the plains of the Serengeti to the Masai Mara and back again in search of fresh pastures, followed by hungry predators - most notably lions and hyena.

After your first game drive, check into your lodge in this magnificent wildlife sanctuary.

Day 4

Today is dedicated to game viewing on the open plains of the world famous Masai Mara National Reserve with your driver/guide.

We set off early each morning, when game viewing conditions are at their best, to view the abundant wildlife of this region. Return to the lodge to rest in the heat of the day, before setting off again in the late afternoon for another game drive.

Nestled within the enormous Great Rift Valley, the Masai Mara is famous for its many prides of lions, packs of hyena and other predators - as well as huge herds of wildebeest, which number over one million, zebra and giraffe. All the Big Five can be seen here, as well as numerous other species including the Thomson's gazelle, topi, kongoni, impala, roan antelope and hippo. The nocturnal bat-eared fox, rarely found elsewhere in Kenya, also inhabits this park as well as the endangered cheetah and black rhino.

Bird watching is also excellent with over 450 different species. These include the Marabou stork, Secretary bird, Crowned crane, Ostrich, Brown snake eagle, Black-chested snake eagle, Bateleur, Martial eagle, African paradise flycatcher, Red-fronted & White-headed barbet, Black-faced go-away bird, Woodland kingfisher, Violet-backed starling, Black cuckoo-shrike and various species of larks, cisticolas, vultures, hornbills and so much more.

Day 5

Today we travel 5-hours from the Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha, a fresh water lake in the heart of the spectacular Great Rift Valley.

We drive across the "breadbasket" of Kenya, where acres of wheat and barley cover the landscape towards Narok, the district headquarters of this part of Maasailand. As we traverse the vast plains on the floor of the Rift Valley, keep an eye out for herds of giraffe and gazelle, before we head up towards Mai-Mahiu and on to Lake Naivasha.

On arrival enjoy a 1-hour boat ride on the lake, with the opportunity to see hippo and some of the 400 different bird species found here.

Day 6

Today we drive 1.5-hours for an excursion to explore the wildlife of beautiful Lake Nakuru National Park (with picnic lunch included).

A soda lake on the floor of the Rift Valley, at certain times of the year Lake Nakuru is home to over 400 different bird species. The lake is also a haven for certain endangered species including the Rothschild giraffe and black and white rhino.

In addition to its significant population of rhino and giraffe that are attracted to its salt waters, Lake Nakuru offers sanctuary to a wide variety of other wildlife - including herds of buffalo, lions, zebra, giraffe, monkeys, baboons, Thomson’s gazelle, Grant's gazelle, impala, eland, ostrich and more.

Many resident and migrant birds wade in its shallow salt waters - including Lesser and Greater flamingos, Great white pelicans, Marabou storks, Grey-headed gulls, Garganey and Northern shovelers and a variety of egrets, plovers and terns. In the surrounding trees you can hope to see a Chin-spot batis, Green-backed camaroptera, Yellow-breasted apalis, Northern puffback, Buff-bellied warbler and many others. Occasionally birds of prey can also be seen.

Day 7

A full day on the road today as we leave Lake Naivasha and travel 6.5-hours to Amboseli National Park (with picnic lunch included), arriving in the late afternoon.

Situated in southern Kenya, if the weather is clear this national park offers magnificent views of Mount Kilimanjaro in neighbouring Tanzania.

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 8

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 9

This morning we leave Amboseli and drive 4.5-hours to Tsavo West National Park.

The road passes the rugged Chyulu Hills with their striking landscapes of ancient volcanic craters and cones and 60-mile (100 km) Shetani lava tube - the longest in the world.

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.

Check into your safari lodge and enjoy the unique atmosphere of the Kenyan bushveld.

Day 10

After an early breakfast and a game drive en route to the gate, we leave Tsavo West and continue to Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary arriving in time for lunch.

This private conservancy is situated between Tsavo West and Tsavo East national parks.

After lunch enjoy a short siesta, before participating in another game drive in the late afternoon.

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