Out of Africa Safari

Experience an Out of Africa safari in Kenya. Game drives at the world famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve, home to the Wildebeest Migration Spectacle. Visit the magnificent Amboseli National Park; here you’ll be wowed by the panoramic views of Mount Kilimanjaro and the large herds of elephants. This safari will also take you to Tsavo West and East National Parks (Land of Lava, Springs and Magical Sunsets). You’ll also get to explore the Great Rift Valley at the Lake Nakuru National Park.

Day 1: Arrive in Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi

Upon your arrival in Kenya’s capital, you’ll be met by our Tours representative and transferred by private vehicle to your hotel. Depending on the time of your arrival, you can go on below optional city excursions: –

• Visit to the Karen Blixen Museum (once home to the author of the evocative “Out of Africa” book).
• Giraffe Centre; which protects the highly endangered Rothschild’s giraffe.
• David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust; an orphanage for young elephants.
• Nairobi National Park; the only wildlife national park in the world that is located within a city.

Lunch and dinner on own basis. Overnight at your hotel. Meal plan Bed & Breakfast.

Day 2: Nairobi – Tsavo East National Park (land of man-easters Lions)

Early pick up from your hotel, drive to Tsavo East National Park, which is renowned for its large numbers of elephants and the famous man-eating lions. Lunch enroute to the lodge/camp. Later in the afternoon more game drive at the park, dinner and overnight at the camp/lodge. Meal plan full board.

Day 3: Full Day in Tsavo East National Park

Today we spend the day exploring the national park with early morning game drive and afternoon game drive. Enormous elephant red herds around the Voi Gate, visit Galana River, the most scenic Lugards Falls, the Mundanda Rock and Aruba Dam. All meals and overnight at your lodge/camp. Meal plan full board.

Day 4: Tsavo East – Tsavo West (Land of Lava, Springs & Magical Sunsets)

Early morning game drive return to your lodge for breakfast, after breakfast leave Tsavo East for Tsavo West Game en route to your lodge/camp. Check in and have lunch. In the afternoon, visit the rhino sanctuary and return to the lodge/camp where there is usually a leopard trap and if you are lucky, you will see it. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp. Meal plan full board.

Day 5: Full Day in Tsavo West National Park

Two game drives are scheduled for this day, a morning and an early evening game drive. The extensive diverse habitats offer ideal area to search for pride of Lions, Buffaloes, Cheetahs, Giraffe, Zebras, Hippos and Wildebeests. Mzima Spring, underground water seepage from Chyulu hills is a good place to watch the Hippos and which are water source for Mombasa Town. Shetani Lava Flow and Ash cones, which is an example of recent volcanic eruption. The Movie Ghost and the Darkness was shot here. There is also a wealth and diversity of birds’ species.

All meals and overnight at your lodge/camp. Meal plan full board.

Day 6: Tsavo West – Amboseli (Home of the African Elephant & Mt. Kilimanjaro).

Early morning breakfast. After breakfast check out with game en-route. Leave Tsavo West for Amboseli National Park. You will arrive at Amboseli with a short game drive in time for lunch. Afternoon more game in Amboseli park which lies at the floors of Mount Kilimanjaro. Mount Kilimanjaro offers scenic backgrounds for photography. Elephants, Lions, Cheetah, Buffalo etc. can be seen at the swamp area and open plains.

Later dinner and overnight at your camp/lodge for dinner and overnight. Meal plan full board.

Day 7: Full Day in Amboseli National Park

Early morning game drive and later return to the lodge for breakfast. After breakfast full day spent in the park with packed lunch in search of its popular residents like the well-known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo with a view of Mt Kilimanjaro. Later return to your camp/lodge for dinner and overnight. Meal plan full board.

Day 8: Amboseli – Lake Nakuru National Park (A beautiful wildlife haven)

Early breakfast at your camp then depart Amboseli National Park for Lake Nakuru National Park with lunch in Nairobi. Afternoon explore Lake Nakuru National Park which is famous for the spectacular pink flamingos that gather on its salt encrusted shores as well as for other bird species including African fish eagles and pelicans.

The woodland and grassland surrounding the soda lake are home to an abundance of wildlife including hippo, lion and the rare Rothschild giraffe. Lake Nakuru is also one of Kenya’s Rhino Sanctuaries and large numbers of white and black Rhinos are regularly seen, along with good sightings of Leopard. After a sundowner at a scenic point, we head back to the camp for dinner and overnight at the camp. Meal plan full board.

Day 9: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara Game Reserve (Land of Wildebeest Migration)

After breakfast at the camp, we set off towards the stunning scenery of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley. Drive through the Great Rift Valley to the world-famous Maasai Mara National Reserve – The jewel of Kenyan game reserves – offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. The drive will pass through Narok (The capital town of Masai people).

Maasai Mara is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. Arrive for lunch at your lodge/camp. Afternoon game drive until sunset. Meals and overnight at the camp. Meal plan full board.

Day 10 & 11: Continue your Maasai Mara Adventure

You’ll continue with your adventure in the Maasai Mara. Today, you’ll experience the whole spectacle of the Mara plains by going on both morning and afternoon game drives. Alternatively, you can opt to depart with lunch boxes and spend the entire day on game drives in the park.

The Mara is the northern extension of the Serengeti and its rolling plains are home to hundreds of plains game together with predators that patiently lie in wait for them. If you are lucky, you can spot a lion chasing after an antelope or zebra. Still, there are plenty of attractions in the park. Visit the Mara River to watch hippos & crocodiles and the great wildebeest migration (this phenomenon takes places from July to October).

You can make your visit in Maasai Mara even more eventful & memorable by visiting some of the local Maasai communities living nearby. Get to learn about their customs and way of life. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. Meal plan full board.

Day 12: Nairobi & Onwards

After breakfast, breakfast and drive back to Nairobi arriving in the afternoon. Lunch at the Carnivore restaurant and then transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your international flight back home.