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Day 1: Nairobi
‘Jambo’! Welcome to Africa. On arrival meet our representative who will escort you to the New Stanley Hotel. In the afternoon you visit Karen Blixen Museum and later Langata Giraffe Center where you have an opportunity to feed the giraffes from your own hands.

Overnight: Stanley Hotel

 

Day 2: Nairobi - Amboseli National Park
Early morning pick up from your Nairobi Hotel and flight to Amboseli National Park. A game drive brings you to Amboseli Porini Camp in time for lunch. Following afternoon tea, you will be escorted on a walk by Maasai warriors to a village to get an insight into their fascinating culture and way of life. Return to Amboseli Porini Camp for a shower, dinner and overnight. At the end of this safari day enjoy a sundowner from a scenic viewing point.

Overnight: Amboseli Porini Camp
Meal plan:  Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 3: Amboseli National Park
After an early breakfast, drive to Amboseli National Park for a morning game drive within the Park, followed by a picnic lunch. Return to Amboseli Porini Camp for dinner, after which there will be a night game drive using a spotlight to seek out some of the nocturnal animals such as aardvarks, serval cats, bat-eared foxes among others.

Overnight: Amboseli Porini Camp
Meal plan:  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 4: Amboseli National Park - Meru National Park
Awake to the natural sounds and calls of the local birdlife. After breakfast transfer to the airstrip, flight to Wilson Airport Nairobi and onwards to Meru National Park. On arrival you will be met by a safari guide and taken to Offbeat Meru Camp. After lunch relax in the early afternoon at the poolside before going on an early evening game drive.

Overnight: Offbeat Meru Camp
Meal plan:  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 5: Meru National Park
Full day of game viewing on foot or in one of the custom open sided safari Land Rovers. Try an early morning guided walk in the bush to work up your appetite for a delicious breakfast. Or take an extended gamedrive to the banks of the Tana River to view the hippos and crocodiles ending with late afternoon sundowners on the river banks before a game drive home.

Overnight: Offbeat Meru Camp
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 6: Meru National Park - Samburu National Reserve
Breakfast at Offbeat Meru Camp. A Driver will transfer you to the airstrip for your short flight to the arid plains of Samburu National Reserve, where you spend the night at Elephant Bedroom Camp on the banks of the life-giving Uaso Nyiro River. The afternoon game drive offer close encounters with some of Africa's most charismatic beasts, from majestic elephant and muscular buffalo to sleek oryx, gerenuk and reticulated giraffe.

Overnight: Elephant Bedroom Camp
Meal plan:  Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 7: Samburu National Reserve
This morning you will be awakened early and after some coffee or tea and biscuits, depart at dawn on an early morning game drive. After your drive you will return to the camp for breakfast. After lunch and time to relax and do some serious bird-watching, you will depart on a late afternoon game drive when again the light is prefect for photography. Return to the camp early evening in time for drinks around the camp fire and dinner.

Overnight: Elephant Bedroom Camp
Meal plan:  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 8: Samburu National Reserve - Maasai Mara National Reserve
A morning flight brings you from Samburu to the Maasai Mara. Kenya's premier game reserve and scene of the worlds greatest wildlife spectacle - the annual wildebeeste migration. Even without the migration the Mara is a natural showpiece, with huge herds of elephant and buffalo in the riverine forests and gazelles, zebras, lions and leopards on the sweeping grasslands. Lunch at Tipilikwani Camp followed by a game drive in the Mara.

Overnight: Tipilikwani Camp
Meal plan:  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 9: Maasai Mara National Reserve
This morning awaken to the sounds of birds in these endless rolling plains dotted with acacia trees, the scheduled morning and afternoon game drives provides you with an excellent opportunity to photograph the abundant wildlife in this seemingly limitless game reserve. You may opt to enjoy an early morning hot air balloon safari (extra cost) which give you a bird's eye view of the Mara plains and the winding Mara and Talek rivers before landing to a magnificent champagne breakfast.

Overnight: Tipilikwani Camp
Meal plan:  Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 10: Maasai Mara National Reserve - Nairobi
After a last early morning gamedrive and breakfast say goodbye to the Mara and return to Nairobi by 1100 hrs scheduled flight Mara - Wilson Airport. We will transfer you to your city hotel or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Meal plan: Breakfast