CKC 101: Nairobi Amboseli Mt. Kenya Lake Nakuru Masai Mara

 

  Day 1

Arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport where you will be met by our representative and you are transferred to Mayfair Holiday Inn for overnight.

 

Meal Plan: Bed and breakfast
Accommodation: Mayfair Holiday Inn

 

 

  Day 2

After breakfast, your private vehicle with expert driver/guide will collect you from your hotel and drive to the Amboseli National Park, a three-and-half hours drive. Your driver will provide you with information on the geology, ecology, animals and peoples that you pass along the way. You will arrive in time for lunch at the Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge.
 

Amboseli is a small National Park of 392 square km, but amazingly rich is both flora and fauna. Famous world researchers on elephant are based here.

Amboseli is most famous for its photographs of elephant with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background. The mountain is situated on the boundary of the park and Amboseli National Park is certainly one of the finest locations for spotting the mountain.

The elephants are a major attraction in Amboseli. The bull elephant here have some of the largest tusks in Kenya. The elephants are generally found in larger herds than most other areas, and are surprisingly relaxed around safari vehicles, allowing excellent photography.
Buffalo, zebra, giraffe, gazelle and other plains game are plentiful in the park and hippos live in the open waters and swamp channels.

You will spend the afternoon game driving through the park before dinner and overnight at the Amboseli Serena Lodge.
 

 

Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Amboseli Serena Lodge

 

 

  Day 3

All day is spent in Amboseli. You will enjoy a morning and an afternoon game drive.

 

Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Amboseli Serena Lodge

 

 

  Day 4

After breakfast, your guide will drive you to Mt Kenya National Park through Nairobi. You will have lunch at Carnivore Restaurant. The drive to Mount Kenya will take you through the outskirts of Nairobi; pass by Thika, made famous by Elspeth Huxley's biographies. You will arrive late in the afternoon and have some time to relax before you have your dinner at Mountain Lodge.
 

Hidden in a quiet glade within Mount Kenya Forest, Mountain Lodge offers the ultimate window on wild Africa.
From the privacy of your room, you will view magnificent creatures drawn to the waterhole. Elephant, buffalo, rhino and waterbuck are common sights.
 

 

Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Mountain Lodge

 

 

  Day 5

After breakfast, you’ll be collected by your driver/guide and to drive to the Great Rift Valley and Lake Nakuru National Park. Arriving in time to check-in at the Lion Hill Lodge, a delightful lodge with beautiful views and friendly staff. You will enjoy stunning views from this lodge over this alkaline lake with its famous flamingos. Enjoy lunch and an afternoon drive in the Park.
 

Nakuru is most famous for its concentrations of both Greater and Lesser Flamingo who feed upon the blue green algae with which the lake abounds. Up to one million flamingos turning the entire lakeshore to pink.
Large numbers of Pelicans can also be seen on the southern and eastern shores. There are over 400 varieties of birds to spot.

Dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
 

 

Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Lion Hill Lodge

 

 

  Day 6

After breakfast, you will drive to the magnificent Masai Mara where you will have lunch at Keekorok Lodge. Located to the south of Nairobi, and bordering Tanzania, the Masai Mara forms part of the huge Serengeti eco-system. The Mara spreads over 1510 square km of rolling plains, sudden rocky outcrops, and green winding rivers.
 

Masai Mara
Each year, between July and September, the Mara hosts the spectacular
Wildebeest Migration, one of the natural wonders of the world. Hundreds of thousands of wildebeests move across the open plains in an endless stream stretching from horizon to horizon. This movement is fascinating as predators like lion, leopard, cheetah and wild dogs, who rely on the herd for food, closely follow the herd.

You will have an afternoon game viewing drive until sunset when you will return to the Lodge.
 

 

Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Keekorok Lodge

 

 

  Day 7

Wake up early in the morning to enjoy a game drive before returning for breakfast and a relaxing morning at the Lodge. Enjoy lunch followed by an afternoon game drive & dinner. This day you have a chance to witness the sunrise over the Masai Mara from a Hot Air Balloon, an optional extra that you should not miss.

 

Meal Plan: Full board
Accommodation: Keekorok Lodge

 

 

  Day 8

Breakfast at your lodge and leave the Mara for the journey back to Nairobi. You will have a free afternoon for shopping. Dinner at Carnivore Restaurant before you are transferred to Jomo Kenyatta Airport for departure.