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Day 01
- Nairobi - Boulevard Hotel
Arrival at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport, met and greeted
in our traditional style by our uniformed AfriChoice!
representatives, transfer to your city hotel. Balance
of the day on a city orientation tour featuring a guided
walking city tour, a visit to elephant orphanage where
you have the opportunity to see the feeding and care of
baby elephants which are either orphaned, abandoned or
sick. After lunch drive to Butterfly Center where you
will be taken to a guided tour to see butterfly rearing
and different species of butterfly. A visit to Giraffe
center where you have an opportunity to feed the giraffes
from your own hands and later the Karen Blixen museum
to learn about the achievements of Karen who lived for
a short while in Kenya. Enroute to our hotel, we enjoy
a walk at the Nairobi's Safari walk. Breakfast, Lunch
& Dinner, included, Boulevard Hotel
DAY 02:
Day Visits - Nairobi and its Suburbs
Visit one local university / college. Sit in classes,
meet and get to know some Kenyan college students. A visit
to a little village outside Nairobi or Visit the Nyumbani
children's home for the orphaned and the Sick. We return
to our hotel this afternoon for a thorough tour briefing.
Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included, at Boulevard Hotel
Day 03:
Day Visits - Lake Magadi
Lake Magadi is located in the southern Kenya. This 104
sq. km soda lake is completely surrounded by vast natural
salt flats. These sweltering hot plains prevent animals
from reaching the alkaline lake at its center. For this
reason, thousands of flamingo descend on the lake each
year to nest on elevated mud mounds at the lake's edge
safe from any potential predators. Freshwater springs
at the Lake's shore attract a host of other birds. A journey
to Magadi is like to enter another world. The baking salt
plains stretch into horizons of shimmering heat haze,
while the shallow lake heaves with the pink waves of nesting
flamingo. The other worldly atmosphere is compounded by
the intense heat and the isolation. A guided tour to Magadi
Soda company one of the largest producer of Soda Ash in
Africa is also conducted. ( Picnic Lunch is served ).
Drive back to Nairobi. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner,
included, Boulevard Hotel
Day 04:
Day Visits - Ostrich Farm Kitengela.
A visit to Ostrich farm with a guided tour to the farm
enables you to learn about Ostrich rearing from an egg
to a fully grown Ostrich. Ostrich products are available
for sale. A complimentary ostrich feather and sample of
ostrich fillet are some of the most interesting things
worth the visit but much fun to a booed swimming pool
and ostrich racecourse. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner,
included, Boulevard Hotel
Day 05:
On Safari - Naromoru - Mau Mau caves, Mt. Kenya, Kikuyu
Culture
After breakfast we pass through coffee and pineapple plantations
to the slopes of Mt. Kenya arriving at Lunchtime. Afternoon
walk to exciting village tours, bird watching, forest
studies, Kikuyu cultural folklore and close walk to Mau
Mau historic caves, that help you visualize the struggle
our freedom fighters went through. Dinner and overnight
at the Mountain Rock Hotel (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 06:
On Safari - Nanyuki - Sweet Waters - Chimpanzee Sanctuary
After breakfast, pass the Equator where a proof demonstration
of zero degrees latitude is performed and head to Sweetwater's
Wildlife Sanctuary a beautiful private game reserve and
home to rare species such as besia oryx, reticulated giraffe
and black rhino. This very special 23,000 acre wildlife
sanctuary was originally established to protect and breed
highly-endangered Chimpanzees and Black Rhinos. In 1994
the Jane Goodall Institute established the Sweetwater's
Chimpanzee Sanctuary within the game reserve and moved
a large group of chimps here from the unstable situation
in their native West Africa. A game drive reveals the
full range of African wildlife including lion, leopard,
cheetah, elephant and hippo. Visit up close with the wildlife
orphanage and observe chimps at this Sanctuary. Late afternoon
depart for Nakuru via Thompson's falls the beautiful waterfall
and head to Nakuru arriving late in evening. Overnight
at a Nakuru Town Hotel with Private Facilities (Breakfast,
Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 07:
On Safari - Baringo / Bogoria Day Trip
Take a day trip to both Lakes Baringo and Bogoria. You
will have a one-hour boat ride with the spectacular scenery
of stunning bird life, hippos and crocodiles. There is
considerable geothermal activity with hot springs and
geysers around the shoreline of Lake Bogoria. Occasionally,
huge numbers of flamingos come to feed here, adding to
the already famous bird life in the area, also a very
good chance of photographing the unusually tame greater
kudu. After the day trip drive back to Nakuru. Overnight
at a Nakuru Town Hotel with Private Facilities (Breakfast,
Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 08:
On Safari - Nakuru - Park Full Day Disposal.
After breakfast we have a day tour to this lake that offers
one of the world's most spectacular wildlife sights, a
brilliant pink flamingoes as far as the eye can see. When
conditions are right, between one and two million lesser
and greater flamingos feed around the shores of the shallow
soda lake, together with tens of thousands of other birds.
The best place to view the birds is from Baboon Cliff
where you will have a picnic lunch. Looking out over the
dazzling fringe of pink around the lake's shores. Here
you will also see warthog, waterbuck and large numbers
of impala. Other slightly shyer residents include buffalo,
Rothschild giraffe, eland, lion, leopard and black rhino.
It goes without saying that this is a bird watchers paradise.
Overnight at a Nakuru Town Hotel with Private Facilities
(Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 09:
On Safari - Naivasha - Elsemere + Crater Lake Sanctuary
Morning visit to Elsmere, Former home of the late Joy
Adamson and his husband who became world famous for their
pioneering conservation and relationship with the lioness
Elsa as seen in the film" BORN FREE". A visit
reveals many of Joy's paintings, which still decorate
the house. A guided tour and film are shown. After lunch
drive to Crater Lake which offers an evocative step back
in time - to a bygone era of elegance and romance, in
a wilderness untouched by the modern world with a private
game sanctuary at a homely environment. Crater Lake offers
classic escapes including painting, astrology,as well
as ornithological outings to what must be one of the most
Beautiful small lakes in creation. Overnight at a Naivasha
Lake Shore campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast,
Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 10:
On Safari - Hells Gate-Full Day Activities - Walks, Rock
Climbing
This excursion offers a stunning variety of animals. The
bird life too is prolific. The Trail starts at Fishers
Tower, the entranceway to Ol Njorowa Gorge. The backdrop
to this tower is the dramatic cliff of columnar basalt,
which forms the walls of the Gorge. This one-day trail
follows the floor of the gorge, the walls climbing steeply
on both sides. This two-hour walk through the gorges is
fascinating where you wash your hands under a small waterfall
and sometimes you find the water too hot to handle. Its
very soft, soapy feel to it and a rather unpleasant Sulphury
smell. Much fun in the wild. This is the only park in
Kenya you can walk or cycle. A tour to Olkaria Geothermal
power station will be conducted. Overnight at a Naivasha
Lake Shore campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast,
Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 11:
On Safari - Naivasha Farms - Horticulture and Flower Farms
A full day to the flower farms which are in the area with
huge green houses stretch over many kilometres supply
all of Europe with flowers and fresh vegetable, which
are airlifted from Nairobi. A guided tour to the farms
will be conducted. Overnight at a Naivasha Lake Shore
campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Included)
Day 12:
On Safari - Naivasha - Masai Mara
After breakfast drive to Masai Mara where the largest
concentration of animals is found. Masai Mara the vast,
open grasslands of the Serengeti-Mara are home to over
3 million large mammals. An afternoon game drive in the
Masai Mara you have a very good chance of seeing all the
major Plains animals including lion, leopard, buffalo,
elephant, rhino, hyena, cheetah, jackal, warthog and many
species of antelopes. Overnight in Masai Mara Game Reserve
Campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Included)
Day 13:
Masai Mara Game Reserve
Full day game viewing in Masai Mara Game Reserve. The
vast, open grasslands of the Serengeti-Mara are home to
over 3 million large mammals. These include over 1.4 million
wildebeest, which migrate in an enormous, straggling herd
each year between the southern part of the Serengeti to
the northern part and back again. With them move other
herbivores such as gazelles and zebra, also looking for
the best grass. Along the way they provide food for big
predators such as lions, leopards and cheetahs.
The first sight of Masai Mara Game Reserve is owesome.
Here we learn and see first hand the intricate web of
dependency that binds the different animal species together.
Each of the animals has adapted to its own niche and to
the other animals that surround it. Here we see Nature
at its most subtle and, sometimes, most cruel as each
animal struggles to survive and reproduce. On our morning
and afternoon game drives in the Masai Mara we have a
very good chance of seeing all the major plains animals
including lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhino, hyena,
cheetah, jackal, warthog and many species of antelope.
Picnic lunch across tree studded grasslands and rolling
hills. Overnight in Masai Mara Game Reserve Campsite with
basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 14:
Masai Mara Game Reserve
Early morning wildlife observations. Go on a guided walk
into the Ngama Hills accompanied by armed rangers and
Warden. After lunch at the camp, drive to a Manyatta.
Spend the afternoon at the Manyatta where you learn about
various Maasai cultural activities such as dances, weaponry,
and also listen to stories on the family set-up, social
stratification and taboos told by the locals. This afternoon
we get a brief introduction to a Ranger's Course from
a resident Game Warden. Overnight in Masai Mara Game Reserve
Campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Included)
Day 15
- Back to Nairobi, Departure
After breakfast drive to Nairobi, Kenya's colourful capital
city. Lunch at the famed Carnivore Restaurant where you
have an excellent opportunity to sample African Dishes.
Carnivore Barbecue Experience is also described as 'Meat
Eaters Paradise' and is the Africa's Greatest Eating Experence!
After lunch, transfer to your hotel or Jomo Kenyatta Airport
for your onward arrangements. AfriChoice! airport representative
will re-confirm your onward flight, and assist you at
check-in. Those taking the 5 days coastal extension to
Amboseli, Tsavo and Mombasa will be left behind. Details
are available on request.
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Meet and Greet Services with airport assistance
International Airfares 
Membership to AMREF's Flying Doctors Emergency Evacuation
Programme*
