DAY 01
Arrive in Nairobi | Southern Sun, Mayfair
On arrival, transfer to your hotel to relax ahead of your safari adventure. The Norfolk is something of a Nairobi icon. The Southern Sun's unique architecture echoes an Out of Africa theme, and offers visitors the opportunity to enjoy authentic African hospitality while being provided with services and amenities of an international standard.
DAY 02
Samburu Game Reserve | Samburu Sopa Lodge
Transfer to Wilson Airport for your scheduled flight to Samburu Game Reserve. Upon Landing, you will be met and transferred to Samburu Sopa Lodge, which perches on a hill inside the reserve with far-reaching views and rooms housed in traditional Samburu cottages. After Lunch head out for the afternoon game drive in this wilderness park. Tonight there’ll be a welcome dinner for you and your group
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 3
Full Day - Samburu | Samburu Sopa Lodge
Head out with your group into the Samburu reserve on morning and afternoon game drives. Lesser visited than its more southerly neighbours, this relatively small reserve’s arid landscape is home to ‘dry country’ animals rarely found outside the park. Its ‘special five’ are the long-necked gerenuk, Somali ostrich, Grevy’s zebra, beisa oryx and reticulated giraffe.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 4
Aberdare Range | The Ark
After Breakfast, take your scheduled flight to the Aberdare Ranges. The Aberdare National Park was created in 1950 to protect the forested slopes of the ancient Aberdare Range, with wildlife ranging from elephant and lion to the black and white Colobus monkey and beautiful but lesser-sighted bongo – a horned antelope with distinctive white stripes. Once you reach Aberdare you’ll check in at the Aberdare Country Club in order to transfer to its unique sister property, The Ark, which will be your viewing perch for the night. In the heart of the Aberdare National Park, The Ark’s design is based on Noah’s Ark. It overlooks a floodlit waterhole and salt lick, attracting wildlife day and night. Four viewing decks with balconies allow up-close wildlife viewing without even leaving your accommodation. There’s also a ground-level photo hide and an on-call viewing service to ensure that you don’t miss a thing. Rooms are known as ‘cabins’, set over three ‘decks’.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 5
Naivasha / Nakuru | Loldia House
Have breakfast before your flight to Loldia Airstrip. At Loldia House you’ll experience the life of Kenya’s early settlers. Loldia House is an ideal spot to relax, taste the pleasures of Kenyan country life and explore the Great Rift Valley. There are beautiful views of the dormant volcano, Mount Longonot. Wild animals roam free on the farm and in the evenings hippo munch quietly by the waterside. It is also conveniently located for day trips to the famous Lake Nakuru National Park where you shall proceed to for your afternoon Game Drive before returning to Loldia House for Dinner and Overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 6
Masai Mara Game Reserve | Angama Mara Camp
After breakfast, set off from the Loldia Airstrip for the Maasai Mara – home to the Big Five, big cats, and a whole host of other wildlife amongst its rolling plains and open savannah. Upon arrival, you will be whisked away with a game drive enroute to Angama Mara. Located high above the floor of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Angama Mara overlooks Kenya’s Maasai Mara, considered by many as the loveliest game reserve on the continent. Sitting snugly across three kopje’s of the escarpment, the third kopje is perhaps most well-known as the site of many of the most memorable scenes from the film Out of Africa.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 7
Masai Mara Game Reserve | Angama Mara Camp
This may be the last day of your safari, but it could be the most thrilling as today there’s the opportunity to take a hot-air balloon safari to gain a whole new perspective of the Maasai Mara. This is our most highly recommended optional experience in Kenya. Wake early and watch as the balloon is prepared, then take flight and drift upwards as the sun rises; the bright pink-orange haze visible for miles across the vast savannah and the wildlife roaming below you. This will be followed by an impressive Champagne breakfast that will be set up for your group wherever you land. Then head out on morning and afternoon game drives into the heart of this wildlife-rich reserve – a fitting end to an exciting safari.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
DAY 8
Depart Nairobi | Fairmont The Norfolk (dayroom)
Fly to Nairobi, where a dayroom awaits until your international flight.
Meals: Breakfast