Ndovu Kenya Safari
Day 01: NAIROBI
Arrive Jomo Kenyatta Airport and transfer to the hotel. Remainder of the day free. Transfer at 19.00 hrs for dinner at Carnivore Restaurant.
Overnight: Nairobi Safari Club / Similar
Day 02: NAIROBI – SAMBURU
After breakfast drive to Samburu Game Reserve arriving in time for lunch at Samburu Sopa Lodge/Similar. Afternoon game drive. Animals commonly seen are elephants, lions, cheetahs, Grevy’s zebras, giraffes, gerenuks, buffalos, Oryx, grants gazelles, dikdiks and waterbucks. There are over 350 varieties of birds. These include the famous Somali Ostriches (distinguished by their unique purple/blue legs during mating season), kingfishers, humming birds, eagles, guinea fowls and vultures.
Dinner and Overnight: Samburu Sopa Lodge / Similar.
Day 03: SAMBURU – ABERDARES
After breakfast drive to the Aberdares arriving in time for lunch at Outspan Hotel/Similar. Afternoon transfer in the lodge’s vehicles to Treetops Lodge/Similar, a unique tree lodge tucked away in the Aberdares Rain forest. Elephant and other game, including the endangered black rhino and the rare bongo, frequent the lodge’s flood-lit water‑hole and salt lick.
Note: Only a small overnight bag is required at TREETOPS. The rest of the luggage is stored at the Outspan at no cost. Warm clothing is advisable as nights tend to be chilly.
Dinner and Overnight: Treetops Lodge/Similar
Day 04: ABERDARES – LAKE NAKURU
Early morning wake up call at Treetops. Transfer back to Outspan Hotel for breakfast. After breakfast retrieve your stored luggage and rejoin your driver guides. Depart and drive to Nyahururu falls for a photo-stop. Still known to many as Thomson’s Falls, its waters fall 237‑feet making it the country’s highest. Continue on south-westerly direction into the Great Rift Valley and check in to your lodge in Lake Nakuru National Park. Lunch in the lodge then there will be time to settle in. In the afternoon explore Lake Nakuru National Park on your game viewing drive. The park, coloured by a shimmering flamingo pink from thousands of the beautiful birds lining its shores, is a popular place with visitors as well as locals. Waterbuck are usually sighted along the lake shore, and this is the home of the Rothschild’s giraffe. Baboon, impala, buffalo, monkeys, warthog, impala, reedbuck and eland are also resident here. However, the main attractions are the rhinos. The park is a designated rhino sanctuary and it is one of the best places in Kenya to observe them. Both black and white Rhinos thrive here. Besides the greater and lesser flamingoes, the park is home to many other species including, the Great crested Grebe, the black necked Grebe, little Grebe, Pelicans, Cormorant, African Darter, Egyptian Geese, night Heron, Fish Eagle, grey Heron, Marabou stork, Sacred and Hadada Ibis.
Dinner and overnight: Lake Nakuru Lodge / Lake Naivasha Sopa / Similar
Day 05: LAKE NAKURU – MASAI MARA
Full buffet breakfast in the lodge. Depart and proceed to Masai Mara National Reserve and check in to Mara Sopa Lodge/Similar. After settling in, set out for an afternoon game viewing drive in the reserve. Masai Mara is a magnificent landscape of open plains bisected by the Mara River and its tributaries, and punctuated by marshes and forests. Certainly the most frequented game reserve in Kenya, this 650 sq kilometer reserve supports the highest density of game to be seen anywhere. During the seasonal migrations, Masai Mara is home to up to a million wildebeest and an equally impressive number of zebras that move into the area from neighboring Serengeti National Park, in Tanzania. The reserve is home to all the “big five” and it is also possible to observe; baboon, eland, ostrich, bat-eared fox, jackal and cheetah. The rivers abound with hippos and crocodiles.
Dinner and Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge/Similar.
Day 06: MASAI MARA
Enjoy the entire day in the Masai Mara wild with early morning and afternoon game drives. All meals in the lodge.
Dinner and Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge/Similar.
Day 07: MASAI MARA – NAIROBI
After breakfast drive to Nairobi arriving at The Jacaranda Hotel/Similar. Lunch not included. In the evening transfer to The Carnivore Restaurant for dinner. After dinner transfer back to your hotel.
Overnight: Nairobi Safari Club / Similar
Day 08: NAIROBI – AMBOSELI
After breakfast drive to Amboseli arriving in time for lunch at Oltukai Lodge/Similar. Afternoon game drive. A game drive through Amboseli takes you across this vast lakebed ‑ often dry, but still very swampy in some areas. Amboseli is best known for its great herds of elephant ‑ you’ll often find many of them standing knee‑deep in the water, spraying themselves to keep cool. But there’s a lot of other game here too ‑ cheetah, buffalo, giraffe, many types of gazelle and other plains game ‑ and it’s all set against the amazing backdrop of majestic Mount Kilimanjaro showing all its glory.
Dinner and Overnight: Ol Tukai Lodge/Similar.
Day 09 : AMBOSELI – NAIROBI & DEPART
After breakfast drive to Nairobi. Depending on clients flight departure time transfer to the airport. End of our services.
PRICE: On Enquiry
Price includes:
- Accommodation and meals as specified in the itinerary
- Park entrance fees to all parks and reserves featured in the itinerary
- Transportation in a chauffeur driven six seater mini-bus with pop-up roof for easy game viewing & photography
- Game viewing drives as per the itinerary
- All arrival and departure transfers
- Services of our professional English speaking driver guide on safari
- 02 bottles of 500ml of mineral water per person per day.
- All Government taxes and levies
- 24 hours stand-by contact number.
- Added Security measure is each seat has a seat-belt
- Two-way long range high frequency radio communication in each vehicle.
Price Does Not Include:
- International flights
- Tips for the driver and porterage
- Visas
- All items of personal nature e.g. telephone call bills, fax/email bills etc, Any other item(s) not included in our itinerary.
- Flying doctors coverage: USD 35 per person
- Covers you within Kenya for a period of 14 days. In the eventuality of a medical emergency, you will be airlifted to Nairobi where you will be taken to a good hospital. Hospital bills are born by the patient.