7 days

USD5450

TASTE OF KENYA

Our "Taste of Kenya" will enable you to explore and discover the very best of Kenya's diverse wildlife locations, view spectacular landscapes and stay in the most elegant lodges offering sumptuous accommodation and exclusive dining. At the same time view huge variety of wildlife in secluded places in open-sided 4x4 safari vehicles accompanied by experienced guides. This unique safari will take you the heart of Africa where wildlife live harmoniously with nature, game viewing is extraordinary and creates unforgettable memories.

Day 1

Day 1: Wilson/Tsavo West National Park

Depart Wilson Airport_ Nairobi on a scheduled flight to Tsavo West National Park. This magnificent park is located southeast of Kenya between Nairobi and Mombasa and offers excellent game viewing. Tsavo comprises of rugged wilderness, savannah ecosystem of open grasslands, scrublands, acacia woodlands and belts of riverine vegetation. Arrival transfer to Finch Hatton's Tented Lodge for refreshments and check in to your luxurious cottage. Finch Hatton's is affectionately named after Denys Finch Hatton one of Kenya’s greatest adventurers. Finch Hatton's hospitality has become synonymous with fine dining, exemplary service and outstanding safaris and combines its love for Tsavo with world-class hotel facilities. After sumptuous lunch it’s time for game viewing in Tsavo West National Park. Tsavo West is Kenya’s oldest and largest national park dating back to 1948. It's six times the size of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve and larger than a number of European countries. The park borders Kenya’s Chyulu National Park and Tanzania’s Mkomazi National Park as well as various game sanctuaries, wildlife conservancies and group ranches.

FINCH HATTONS LUXURY TENTED LODGE

Day 2

Day 2: Tsavo West National Park

Accompanied by your experienced camp guide, explore Tsavo West National Park with unrivalled full views of Mount Kilimanjaro in the background. Tsavo West is home to incredible, very diverse and spectacular habitats and mountainous landscapes that include the famous Chyulu Hills to the north. Chyulu range comprises of volcanic lava rock and ash which is too porous to allow rivers to flow. Instead rain water percolates through the rock and may spend 25 years underground before emerging 50 kilometres away at Mzima Springs. Visit Mzima which is a series of four natural water springs to the west of the park and is one of Tsavo's most popular wildlife attractions owing to resident populations of hippos and Nile crocodiles. Tsavo West offers some of the most magnificent game viewing in the world and is home to huge herds of "red elephants "of Tsavo. These elephants just appear red due to constantly dustbathing with the park’s fine red volcanic soil. Tsavo is also home to rhino, hippos, lions, cheetah, leopards, antelopes, giraffe, buffalos and diverse plant and birds.

Finch Hattons Luxury Tented Lodge

Day 3

Day 3: Tsavo West/Lewa Downs

After breakfast you will be transferred back to the airstrip to catch scheduled flight back to Nairobi. At Wilson Airport connect another flight to Lewa Wildlife Conservancy. Lewa Conservancy has been an exclusive safari destination for many years. It was made famous when Britain’s Prince William proposed to Catherine Middleton there in 2010. It's considered to be one of the greatest conservation success stories in the world and is a model for sustainable wildlife conservation and tourism. The conservancy is also famous for the Safaricom Marathon an annual event held every year to raise funds for the Conservancy’s environmental conservation initiatives. Met upon arrival at the airstrip by your driver guide and with a short game drive on the way, you will be transferred to Lewa Safari Camp for check in. This beautiful safari camp is spread out along a hillside overlooking to vast wilderness. Buffet lunch is served in the open-air dining room next to the swimming pool area. Relax in your cottage and enjoy amazing views before embarking on afternoon game drive with your dedicated safari guide in open-sided 4x4 safari vehicle.

LEWA SAFARI CAMP

Day 4

Day 4: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Today enjoy game drives in Lewa Conservancy which sprawls over Laikipia plains and is a prolific wildlife conservancy popular with celebrities, conservationists, writers and photographers. Visitors to this award-winning conservancy are privy to some of the most spectacular wildlife viewing that Kenya has to offer. The landscape that Lewa covers includes mountainous areas, open grasslands and river valleys where over 350 bird and 70 mammals live in. Wildlife in Lewa is both diverse and abundant and includes many rare species such as reticulated giraffe, black and white rhino and the largest resident population of Grevy’s Zebra. Guests here enjoy frequent leopard, jackal, cheetah and lion sightings. Lewa serves as safe refuge for the critically endangered Black Rhino and Grevy’s Zebra. Other activities include horseback riding, night game drives, and walking safaris accompanied by Maasai guides. Those seeking the most ultimate adventure of their lives have access to an open-cockpit biplane. This gives unmatched eagle’s eye view of the conservancy, wildlife and otherwise inaccessible gorges.

Lewa Safari Camp

Day 5

Day 5: Laikipia/Maasai Mara

After breakfast you will be transferred to the airstrip for your scheduled direct flight to Maasai Mara Game Reserve, the highlight of your trip and the most outstanding wildlife sanctuary in Africa. Arrival transfer to Entim Mara Camp which is a high-quality luxury safari camp with sweeping views across the entire Maasai Mara Ecosystem. Entim is designed to give you the friendliest, most intimate, luxury safari camp experience and the best wildlife safari in the Mara. The camp's luxurious tented suites are beautifully designed, spacious, and tastefully furnished. Entim is located inside the reserve and overlooks the Mara River. One of the Great migration crossing points is right in front of the camp and guests are privileged to view crossings from their tents during the annual wildebeest migration season. Game viewing at Entim is superb courtesy of the panoramic location right inside Maasai Mara Game Reserve. This reserve boats of the highest density of free-roaming wild animals in Africa and offers the most captivating wildlife experience. Game drives in open-sided 4x4 safari vehicles will enable you to easily sight lions, elephants, jackals, hyenas, leopards, giraffe, waterbucks, buffalo, rhino and all kinds of antelopes.

Entim Mara

Day 6

Day 6: Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Whole day game drive with picnic picnic lunch in Maasai Mara which is the most outstanding safari destination in Kenya where over 450 species of animals have been recorded. Maasai Mara is a magnificent landscape of open plains bisected by the Mara River and its tributaries and punctuated by marshes and forests. This world famous wildlife sanctuary is renowned for its huge population of lions, is home to all the “Big 5” and supports the highest density of wildlife to be seen anywhere. Easily seen here are lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant. Visit Mara River where thousands of wildebeest and zebra are attacked by crocodiles as they attempt to cross this mighty river during the annual "Great Migration" which is today one of the world’s most spectacular natural events. Each year nearly two million wildebeest and accompanying large numbers of zebra, and smaller numbers of Grant's gazelle, Thompson's gazelle, eland and impala trek from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara and back again in search of fresh grazing. Following on their heels are the predators of the savannah, lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.

ENTIM MARA

Day 7

Day 7: Maasai Mara/Nairobi/Depature

Early this morning witness spectacular sunrise over the endless rolling plains of Maasai Mara as you drive from the camp and embark on your last game drive. This will give you a chance to view lion, cheetah or leopard hunting in the early hours of the morning before daybreak. The diversity, variety and abundance of wildlife in the Mara is both magical and unbelievable. After breakfast you will be transferred to OL Kiombo Airstrip for your scheduled flight back to Nairobi arriving at mid-day. Our Guest Services Representative will be pick and drop you either at your Nairobi Hotel or at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) for your departure flight.
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Includes

  • Safari arrangements and itinerary as outlined above
  • Rooms/tents whole safari with ensuite facilities
  • Welcome Meet & Greet Services
  • Fullboard meals (Breakfast, lunch & dinner) on safari
  • Scheduled game drives in open-sided 4x4 safari vehicles
  • Services of experienced and knowledgeable driver guides
  • Mineral water while in safari vehicle
  • The following flights: Wilson/Tsavo West/Wilson, Wilson/Lewa Downs, Lewa/Maasai Mara & Mara/Wilson Airport
  • All park entrance fees
  • All wildlife conservation fees
  • All Government taxies and levies
  • Flying Doctors Cover while on safari
  • Fully equipped First Aid Kit in the safari vehicle

Not included

  • International flights
  • Entry Visa fees
  • Covid-19 PCR tests
  • Tips for safari driver guide & other gratuities & porterage
  • Shopping, wood carvings and crafts
  • Items of personal nature e.g. telephone bills,
  • Travel & Medical Insurance
  • Trip Cancellation & Baggage Insurance
  • Any other items not mentioned in the itinerary
  • Laundry service
  • Inoculations
  • Soft drinks, wine & beer & spirits
  • Visit to Maasai Village/Manyatta
  • Balloon safari @ USD $ 400.00 per person

Price Guide

Prices are per person sharing in USD and this trip is available all year round. Current price is based on accommodation as indicated above and is subject to availability at the time of booking.

Pls contact us by email, telephone or whatsapp for an exact quotation and itinerary based on your requirements, preferences, travel dates, international flights, special offers and availability. 

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