SAFARI SIMBA

Full Itinerary

Day 1/2: Amboseli National Park
Jambo! Welcome to Africa! In the morning at 08.30 hrs pick up from your hotel in Nairobi or at Jomokenyatta International Airport.

Leave Nairobi, crossing the industrial area, to reach the arid Athi Plains, near the town of Kajiado. A dry scrub country, dotted with thorny Umbrella Acacias, announces one’s arrival into the African savannah. After crossing the frontier town of Namanga, on the border with Tanzania, the semidesertic landscape leads to the Amboseli National Park. Game drive at 16.00 pm.

Amboseli is an enormous volcanic plateau, dominated by the majestic peaks of the eternally snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro.

Amboseli is justly famous for its big game and scenic beauty. Kilimanjaro is the highest single mountain in the world (5895 m) and the tallest part of Africa. It is ever present in the background on a clear day.

Game viewing is particularly easy in this Park. There is a permanent concentration of animals in the area centred around the dry salt lake at Ol Tukai.

Amboseli is noted for its now dwindling black rhino population. Although the park is almost totally eroded and dry there are several marshes and swamps, whose waters attract an extensive assortement of wildlife: gazelles, impalas, gerenuks, zebras, wildebeest, buffalos and lions, giraffes, among others, finding solace in this harsh country. Cheetah are frequently seen and there are hippos in the swamps.

However, the biggest attraction of the park are the elephants, ambling along in huge herds with the incomparable Mount Kilimanjaro as a backdrop.
Birds are numerous and a special attraction in the lake and marsh area.

ACCOMODATION: Amboseli Lodge
Mealplan: LDB

Day 3: Nairobi - Aberdares

After breakfast ride back to Nairobi where we take lunch. After lunch we proceed to Aberdares/The Ark for gameviewing. Dinner and overnight in the famous Treetops, a tree lodge nesteled high up in the Aberdares Forest. The game can be viewed from the many balconies overlooking the water hole and salt lick. Dinner and overnight.

ACCOMODATION: Treetops

Mealplan: DB

Day 4: Lake Nakuru
After breakfast we continue the safari to Lake Nakuru for lunch and afternoon gamedrive.
Dinner and overnight in Naivasha.

ACCOMODATION: Naivasha Lodge

Mealplan: DB

Day 5/6: Masai Mara
Today continue your safari adventure into the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Arrive in time for lunch and a late afternoon game viewing drive.

Enjoy two full days of morning and late afternoon game drives, with afternoons spent relaxing on the hotel grounds. On one of the mornings you may opt for optional an early morning balloon safari (extra cost: $400 per person) over the Mara Plains, which includes a bubbly champagne breakfast upon landing. Or take an early morning game drive followed by breakfast at the hippo pool. Return to the lodge, where you have the remainder of the morning at leisure before lunch and a late afternoon game drive.

ACCOMODATION: Mara Serena/Mara Leisure Camp
Mealplan: LDB

Day 7: Nairobi

After breakfast drive back to Nairobi and arrive in time for lunch, then transfer to the airport for your flight back home or any other destination.

PLEASE NOTE:

- the hotels mentioned in the itinerary can be replaced by any other hotel of your choice

- when in Nairobi we will, on your request, book for lunch or dinner in the famous Carnivore restaurant.