Safari Overview
This thrilling safari adventure takes in Kenya’s most evocative parks where you marvel at the immense plains of the Maasai Mara, discover and explore the wonders of the unique Lake Nakuru and Samburu National Reserve, and be amazed at a new wildlife cast in the Aberdares Forest. It is all magical, unique, beautiful, and more importantly awe inspiring, this Kenya safari tour offers unique experiences: the very best Kenya has to offer.
On this Kenya tour, traverse the best parks and game sanctuaries with exciting landscape, culture and immense wildlife. On this tour, you get to see all the big five and much more.
This range from the stunning spectacle of Mount Kilimanjaro and the largest herds of elephants in Kenya. Amboseli offers a small and compact safari experience with bountiful wildlife easily found congregating around swamps and dried out lake beds. Just gaze at watching elephants roam beneath Mount Kilimanjaro even as the sunrises and sets.
The Aberdares National Park is in the forested slopes of the Aberdare Mountains and offers a surreal safari experience. Altitude exceeds 7,000 feet which means giant forest hogs waddle in small groups, eland skip away from the trees, while the strikingly red bongo emerges from the bamboo forest. In these dense trees, wildlife can’t be spotted from a distance. Overlooking a waterhole and salt lick, the Ark Lodge provides a continual procession of Aberdare’s residents. At Aberdaes, you listen to the sounds and predict the arrivals. Likely, an elephant herd bulldozes its way through, while tree hyrax and large spotted genet silently turn up from nowhere, they all come to you.
Samburu in the northern Kenya, offers wilderness that has forever remained untouched and unspoiled. Here, Wildlife is concentrated around the Ewaso Ng’iro River; large elephant herds wade into the water, gazelle and zebra try to avoid the crocodiles, and the big cats are easily spotted. With two days in Samburu you’ll also get acquainted with some of Kenya’s rarer animals, like long-necked gerenuk, beisa oryx, and diminutive dik-diks.
Chimpanzees at Sweetwaters offers a combination of amazing wildlife and stunning views across the open plains guarantees you an unforgettable safari experience. Sweetwaters is located within the is situated in the heart of a privately owned game reserve, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, surrounded vibrant plains, and gazing out onto the glacial peaks of Mount Kenya. At this unique sanctuary, watch the animal world unfold from your private verandah; buffalos wander past, giraffes silhouette against the mountain backdrop, and regal black rhinos offer an unforgettable sight. The reserve has both a chimpanzee and rhino sanctuary, and is justifiably proud of how it has been able to rebuild the populations of these animals.
Flamingos at Lake Nakuru and then end up at Lake Naivasha with hippos snorting and over 400 species of birds abound. Moving through the Great Rift Valley, the tour features the sublime Lake Nakuru and its flamingo filled shores from game drives to perfect vantage points with sundowner cocktails. You will witness this quintessential park which is also an impressive white and black rhino sanctuary in Kenya.
The legendary Maasai Mara. On this tour, you get to see all the big five and much more. In Maasai Mara, over two million mammals migrate here during the annual great wildebeest migration, and that’s in addition to the abundant resident numbers who stay all year round. You get to see lion prides laze in the shades in the afternoon sun. Cheetah and Leopard can easily be seen out on a hunt. The vast grassland plains are hidden beneath giant herds of zebra and wildebeest, indeed, you are always in the middle of nature as your mesmerize at the Kenya safari experience.
Accommodations
- Start/End: Nairobi
- Status: Open all-year round
- Amboseli – 2 Nights: Ol Tukai Lodge/Kibo Safari Camp
- Aberdares – 1 Night: The Ark Lodge
- Samburu – 2 Nights: Samburu Intrepids Camp/Samburu Sopa Lodge
- Sweetwaters – 1 Night: Sweetwaters Tented Camp
- Lake Nakuru – 1 Night: Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge/Flamingo Hill Tented Camp
- Lake Naivasha – 1 Night: Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge/Crescent Camp
- Maasai Mara – 3 Nights: Ashnil Mara Camp/Mara Leisure Camp
Option 1; Luxury Ol Tukai Lodge, The Ark Lodge, Samburu Intrepids Camp, Sweetwaters Tented Camp, Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge, Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge & Ashnil Mara Camp
Option 2; Mid-range Kibo Safari Camp, The Ark Lodge, Samburu Sopa Lodge, Sweetwaters Tented Camp, Flamingo Hill Tented Camp, Crescent Camp & Mara Leisure Camp Notes:- • Rates are per person in USD • Accommodation is subject to availability
Trip Highlights
- Visit Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Samburu National Reserves
- Witness the Big 5 and other mammals in their natural habitat
- Witness stunning spectacle of Mt Kilimanjaro and the largest herds of elephants in Kenya
- Visit the forested slopes of the Aberdare Mountains in Aberdares National Park
