Day 1: Nairobi

On arrival in Nairobi you will be met and transferred to the Norfolk Hotel to relax from the long journey.

The Norfolk Hotel

The Norfolk Hotel has played a leading role in Kenya's colorful history, and continues to be Nairobi's finest and best-known hotel. The town and later the modern city of Nairobi grew up around The Norfolk , which still has its own private tropical gardens. The hotel is still the traditional starting point for safaris and the Lord Delamere Terrace is modern Nairobi's most famous meeting place, where drinks and light meals are served continuously from morning until midnight. The Norfolk was expanded in 1999 and subsequently renovated in time for its centennial, which it celebrated in 2004. The hotel now offers accommodations in 168 guest rooms and suites, a heated outdoor swimming pool, health club with gym, sauna and steam room, beauty salon, book shop and gift shops. All guest rooms are luxuriously furnished, have plush carpeting and deep velour soft furnishings. The guest rooms all have bedside lamps, dressing tables, and built-in wardrobes, besides luggage racks. Every room has a telephone and telephone directory, direct dialing facilities, a television linked to satellite dish, electrical mosquito repellent and air conditioning. Back-up generators in the hotel allow for 24-hour electricity.

Day 2 & 3: Amboseli National Park

After an early breakfast you will be collected from your hotel and transferred to Wilson airport for your schedule flight to Amboseli. The scheduled flight departs Nairobi at 7.30 am and arrives into Amboseli National Park around 8.10 am. Upon arrival at the airstrip, you are be met by your guide and take a game drive en route to your camp. After lunch and a siesta, you depart on a game drive or a walking safari, returning to camp late afternoon. Overnight at Tortilis Camp. All meals soft drinks, beers, house wines, guided walks, bush breakfast, sundowners and laundry.

Enjoy varied game viewing and with the chance to spend time following the matriarchal elephant herds from the luxury of open sided safari Land Rovers; or walk with a trained Maasai guide, sip sundowners on top of Kitirua hill as the sun sets coloring the snows of Kilimanjaro pink, bush breakfasts out on the plains or a visit to one of the Maasai manyattas (villages) to meet the Maasai women, watch the Morans (young warriors) dance and experience their age-old existence. All meals soft drinks, beers, house wines, guided walks, bush breakfast, sundowners and laundry.

Tortilis Camp

Tortilis Camp lies in unspoiled woodland on the edge of Amboseli National Park. The main lodge is open sided, where guests can relax and gaze out towards the soaring snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro. Luxury thatch roofed tents are scattered among acacia and comprise of a stone veranda, elegant bathrooms, king size beds and many traditional decorations. The tents are large, the emphasis is on service and comfort. Each tent leads from a bedroom with expansive king-size or generous twin beds, through a dressing area into modern bathrooms with pressured hot showers and flush toilets. Each tent is raised up on a wooden deck and sheltered by a makuti (thatched) roof overhanging a large verandah, ideal for an early afternoon siesta. This is a great place to start a safari, relax and acclimatize. The food is part of the charm: North Italian traditional recipes from the owner’s family cookbook, complimented by delicious salads and herbs grown in the camp’s own garden.

Day 4 & 5: Meru National Park

After breakfast, you catch the morning scheduled flight to Meru via Nairobi. On arrival in Meru you’ll be met by your guide and transferred to camp. After lunch and time to relax, the remainder of the day will be spent on a game drive or walking safari or enjoying any of the other activities offered here. Meru is vast with arid, open plains dotted with Doum Palms and Baobab trees and lush vegetation along 13 rivers, like green ribbons, bisecting the Park. Activities include game drives in open-sided safari Land Rovers, driven by knowledgeable driver-guides, all members of the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association. Guided walks are led by a Professional Safari Guide and accompanied by a Ranger. Other attractions include bush breakfasts and sundowners and visits to the Tharaka tribal village on the Southern Boundary of the Park. Overnight Elsa’s Kopje. Includes all meals soft drinks, beers, house wines, guided walks, bush breakfast, sundowners and laundry.

Elsa's Kopje

Elsa’s Kopje is a luxurious oasis in the wilds of Meru National Park. Elsa’s Kopje was named after Elsa the lioness made famous by George and Joy Adamson in the film ‘Born Free’, released into the wild here in Meru. The word Kopje means ‘small hill’. The lodge blends into the hillside of Mughwango Hill, site of George Adamson’s original camp. The 9 stone and thatch guest cottages are crafted around the natural features of the hill. Paved paths, lit by lamps at night, lead from each cottage to the comfortable open bar, lounge and dining room. There is a sense of space, style and pure relaxation. The ultimate ‘pool with a view’ looks out across the plains, perfect for chilling out after a game drive or guided walk in the bush. Every cottage is uniquely designed. The generous double or twin beds are romantically swathed in netting. The bathrooms are sumptuous: showers or baths made out of stone, modern flush toilets, bidets and double basins.

Day 6 & 7: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

After breakfast you are transferred about 2.5 hours to Lewa Private Reserve. On arrival you will be met by a driver guide with a game drive en route to the camp. After lunch and perhaps a siesta, enjoy an evening game drive. Overnight Lewa Safari Camp. Spend the day exploring the private 65,000 acre wildlife conservancy of the Lewa Wilderness Trust. The conservancy is home to about 10 percent of Kenya’s black rhino population, and the single largest population of Grevy’s zebra in the world. Lewa re-invests all the profits generated from tourism (including profits from Lewa Safari Camp ) into its core programs. When you visit Lewa, you will help thousands of people from different backgrounds and cultures to improve their lives, and give their children a future, at the same time as ensuring Africa’s wildlife has a stable home. Overnight Lewa Safari Camp. Includes all meals, local spirits, house wine, beer and soft drinks, bush breakfast, laundry service and day game drives with guided bush walks.Includes all meals, local spirits, house wine, beer and soft drinks, bush breakfast, laundry service and day game drives with guided bush walks.

Lewa Safari Camp

Lewa Safari Camp has a stunning location within Lewa wildlife / rhino conservancy, with outstanding game viewing, and spectacular views to Mt. Kenya to the south and arid lowlands to the north. Each of the 12 tents has a thatched roof, verandah and full en suite bathroom, very much in the ‘Lewa’ style. The central areas have exquisite gardens with a large sunny verandah and swimming pool to enjoy during the day, and cozy log fires in the lounge and dining room for the more chilly evenings.

Day 8: Maasai Mara Game Reserve & Olare Orok Conservancy

After an early morning game drive and breakfast before returning to the airstrip for the scheduled flight to the Maasai Mara. Flight departs Samburu at 0915hrs and arrives into the Maasai Mara at 1045hrs. Upon arrival you will be met by camps vehicles and be taken for lunch, followed by afternoon of game activities. Overnight at Mara Plains Camp. Includes all meals, laundry, soft drinks, beers, house wines & non-luxury spirits, guided walks and day & night game drives.

Mara Plains Camp

Imagine a camp set right in the heart of some of the greatest predator country in Africa. That is Mara Plains Camp, located on the northern border of the Masai Mara Game Reserve in the Olare Orok Conservancy. Rarely a night passes without lion roaring nearby, while leopard are regularly found to wander through the camp and cheetah have established territories on the savannah off the main area. Mara Plains Camp is a small, high quality, seven-roomed camp under canvas and on raised decks with sweeping views across Kenya’s notable savannahs. It is among the smallest and most personal camps in the Mara region.

Day 9 & 10: Maasai Mara Game Reserve & Olare Orok Conservancy

Mara Plains is one of just three camps currently operating within the Olare Orok Conservancy, which boasts the region’s lowest vehicle density, no mini-buses and only one guest room per 700 acres, so it is possible to avoid the high tourist density of the Masai Mara Game Reserve proper. No other camp in the greater Masai Mara Game Reserve or Olare Orok Conservancy has the privilege of traversing opportunities of Mara Plains Camp. Guests are able to traverse three areas from Mara Plains; Olare Orok Conservancy at 30,000 acres, Mara North Conservancy at 80,000 acres and Masai Mara Game Reserve at 375,000 acres. Mara Plains offers possibly the widest range of activities anywhere in the greater Masai Mara – game drives, quality night drives, nature walks with armed guides, balloon safaris (at extra cost), authentic local village visits and unrivalled access to superior wildlife habitat. Spend the next two two exploring this remarkable eco-system. Overnights Mara Plains Camp. Includes all meals, laundry, soft drinks, beers, house wines & non-luxury spirits, guided walks and day & night game drives.

Day 11: Depart

Early morning game activity followed by breakfast, then depart on a scheduled flight back to Nairobi. Flight departs Masai Mara at 11:00 am and arrives into Nairobi at 12:15. On arrival at Nairobi Wilson Airport you will be transferred to your city center hotel or to the International airport to meet your departing flights. Breakfast.

Land Cost - 2012
Dates Per Person Double Single Supplement
March 15-April 21 $6316.00 $636.00
January 3-March 14, May 25-June 21, October-December 15 $7738.00 $1032.00
June 22-September 30 $8222.00 $1118.00
Not available April 22-May 24; please call for an alternative itinerary.

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