Arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and after clearing with Immigration and Customs formalities, proceed to the International arrivals area where you will be warmly met by a representative of Berleen Safaris and you will be transferred to Eka Hotel.
Nairobi is Kenya’s capital city. In addition to its urban core, the city has Nairobi National Park, a large game reserve which is home to giraffe, zebra lion and many others. Next to it is a well-regarded elephant orphanage operated by the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Nairobi is also often used as a jumping-off point for safari trips elsewhere in Kenya or East Africa.
Eka Hotel is conveniently located just a short distance from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and the City Centre. The hotel has been designed to offer contemporary comfort, convenience and efficiency. All rooms are air-conditioned and equipped with TV with satellite connection, plug-and-play panels, direct-dial international telephone, high-speed internet access, mini bar, safety deposit box and tea-and-coffee-making station. Facilities include restaurants, including the internationally renowned Spur Restaurant, bars, a gym, an outdoor swimming pool, a business centre and various meeting venues.
Spend the rest of the evening at leisure. Dinner will be on own arrangement.
Eka Hotel
Breakfast will be served at your hotel. Proceed for excursions in Nairobi.
10:30hrs: Pick up from the hotel and transfer to the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage.
11:00hrs: Public hour visit to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s elephant orphanage, meet them as they return from the bush and talk to their keepers to learn more about this worthwhile project and the importance of the elephant in Africa’s conservation efforts. The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s elephant Orphanage is a small charity, established in 1977 by the late Dr. Dame Daphne Sheldrick to honor the memory of her husband, famous Naturalist, David Sheldrick, the founder Warden of Tsavo East National Park in Kenya. For over 25 years Kenya born the late Daphne lived and worked alongside her late husband and during that time she raised and rehabilitated back into the wild orphans of misfortune from many different wild species, including elephants aged two and upwards.
Followed by a visit to Giraffe Centre which offers the unique experience of hand-feeding these gentle giants at eye level from a raised platform, while watching the warthogs below snuffle around looking for titbits.
Proceed for lunch at Tamambo Restaurant or any other recommended restaurant in Karen (lunch will be payable direct). Then visit the Karen Blixen Museum which offers a glimpse of typical colonial life in Kenya. The house was once the centre piece of a farm owned by Danish Author Karen and her Swedish Husband, Baron Bror von Blixen. The museum gained international fame with the release of the Oscar winning film ‘Out of Africa’, which is based on Karen’s life.
Time permitting you may visit Kazuri bead factory or Utamaduni Craft Center and buy some souvenirs.
Return to your town hotel in the evening for dinner and overnight. Dinner on this day will be payable direct too.
Eka Hotel
(Meals: Breakfast)
Breakfast will be served at your hotel. Today we depart early in order to get to Samburu game reserve in time for lunch, check in followed by lunch.
After lunch you will embark on your first game drive in the reserve. Search for rare game only found north of the equator, such as the reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, Beisa Oryx, Gerenuk and Somali ostrich. Samburu lies in the vast, hot and arid Northern Kenya and is adjacent to Buffalo Springs and Shaba National Reserves.
Return in the evening to your camp for dinner and overnight.
Ashnil Samburu Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Spend the day game viewing in Samburu with both morning and afternoon game drive. All meals will be served at the camp.
The Ewaso Nyiro River is the lifeline for the people and animals in the area and crocodile share the banks with elephant, lion, buffalo and even the elusive leopard. The Samburu tribe, just like the Maasai, has retained their traditional way of life and still practices their ancient customs.
Evening return to your camp for overnight
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Visit to a Samburu Manyatta to see how the tribe lives in this harsh surrounding.
Ashnil Samburu Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
This morning after an early breakfast we depart to Olpejeta Conservancy. Continue with your journey arriving at your camp in time for lunch. Relax after lunch before going on a game viewing drive in the conservancy.
Return for dinner and overnight.
Serena Sweetwater’s Tented Camp is located in the private Ol Pejeta Conservancy, renowned for its rhino conservation success. The camp is built around a waterhole which attracts a wide variety of game during the day and at night. The main area was once a colonial farm and the restaurant is housed in the former manager’s house along with a bar and lounge with cosy log fire and a swimming pool nearby.
Sweetwaters Tented Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Last early morning game drive in Olpejeta Conservancy. Drive to Mbweha Camp to arrive in time for lunch. Afternoon game drives in search of wildlife in Lake Nakuru National Park.
Mbweha Camp is nestled up against the southern border of Lake Nakuru National Park with beautiful views over the Eburru and Mau ranges. The Rustic lava-stone cottages with thatched roofs are surrounded by euphorbia candelabra, yellow barked acacia and other indigenous trees
Mbweha Safari Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
After breakfast, drive through the Rift Valley floor to Masai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. Arrive for lunch at your lodge .Enjoy afternoon game viewing drive in this vast and expansive reserve teeming with game. Mara game reserve is famous for her big five; the most sought after in the early 20th century, when Kenya was a hunters’ paradise. These include the lion, Cape buffalo, the savanna elephant, black rhino and the elusive leopard. The vast savanna grasslands as far as the eye can see is home to impalas, masai giraffe, waterbuck, wart hog, Thompson & grand gazelle, topi, the resident wildebeest among many others. Dinner at your camp.
Tipilikwani Luxury Mara Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Spend another day game viewing in this wildlife haven.
Your driver guide will plan your days with you, which can be as active or as leisurely as you wish. You may decide to spend the whole day in the park with picnic lunches or enjoy a morning game drive and return to the camp for a leisurely lunch and time to relax before going out game viewing again in the cooler hours of the afternoon.
Masai Mara is one of Africa’s greatest wildlife reserves. Acacia dotted plains, tree-lined rivers and woodlands are abundant with wildlife and an array of birdlife. Game viewing is spectacular year round; you may see a pride of lions stalking their prey, observe a herd of elephant and their fascinating social structure, or see pods of hippo wallowing in the rivers. The Mara plays host to one of the natural wonders of nature – The Great Wildebeest Migration. An estimated two million animals migrate in a year-round pattern through Tanzania and Kenya, following the rain.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY INCLUDED: Maasai Village visit for cultural experience
During your stay, you will visit a traditional Maasai village. The Maasai are proud pastoralists and warriors.Spend time in the “Manyatta” and immerse yourself in one of earth’s oldest cultures. The ladies and children will entertain you with traditional songs and while at the village see how they go about their daily lives in a very traditional way like making fire with stones and sticks!
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY EXCLUDED : Balloon Safari over the Mara plains followed by a champagne breakfast.
Meals and overnight at your camp.
Tipilikwani Luxury Mara Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Breakfast at your camp. After breakfast you will drive with packed lunches to Isebania border where you will swap the vehicle at the border after clearing with immigration and continue with the safari with our Tanzanian driver guide who will be waiting for you at the border. The journey to Serengeti is a long haul journey and may take minimum 10 hours drive. We recommend the clients fly on this leg if possible.
After the vehicle swap you will proceed to Serengeti and check in at your camp. Time permitting you will do your game drive in the park.
Ole Serai luxury Kogatende camp is strategically located within the northern (Kogatende) area of the famous Serengeti National Park in Tanzania and is set amidst the most prime areas of the Serengeti following the path of the great migration, sparsely inhabited by large Acacia as well as Tortilis Tree’s and is home to several species of wildlife that reside in this area year round due to catchments of water bodies around the area. Due to the Campsite’s ideal location, the great spectacle of the world-famous annual migration can be witnessed almost as close as to the camp’s doorsteps – since the site lies along one of the main migratory corridors/routes, which the wildebeest use during their Great Migration going to and fro the North and South of the Serengeti.
Dinner and overnight at the camp.
Ole Serai Luxury Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Breakfast at the camp.
Spend another day in Serengeti National Park. You can opt to go on a full day game drive with packed lunches or morning and afternoon game drive. You are free to discuss this with your safari guide on best timings for game.
The name ‘Serengeti’ comes from the Maasai language and means ‘endless place’ The vast open savannahs and wooded grasslands are home to large predators like lion, leopard, cheetah, herds of buffalo, elephant, giraffe and also to a host of plains game and a wide variety of birdlife. The Serengeti / Ngorongoro Conservation area plays host to the Great Wildebeest Migration which is one of the natural wonders of the animal world – millions of wildebeest and zebra migrate in a year round pattern through Tanzania and Kenya and in the early months of each year the short grass plains in this area provide the perfect setting for the calving season where hundreds of calves are born.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with a champagne breakfast.
Ole Serai Luxury Camp
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro Crater with a brief stop at the Olduvai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn on human evolution. The resident guide will provide an on-site talk on the interpretation of the gorge. Continue to Ngorongoro making brief stops along the way to admire the breath-taking beauty of the vista unfolding before you as you continue to your lodge. Lunch and dinner are at your lodge with the afternoon left to relax, unwind or participate in optional activities offered by the lodge.
Ngorongoro Crater has the largest unbroken caldera in the world. It has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Eight million years ago, the Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano but its cone collapsed, forming the crater that is 610 meters deep, 20 kilometres in diameter, and covers an area of 311 sq. km. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds. With the exception of impala and topi (due to fierce competition with the wildebeest) and the giraffe (because there is not much to eat at tree level), almost every species of African plains mammal lives in the crater, including the endangered black rhino, and the densest population of predators in Africa. The birdlife, which includes the flamingo, is mainly seasonal, and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.
Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Breakfast will be served at the lodge.
After breakfast we descend some 610 metres into the crater, which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise, for a full day of game-viewing drive with picnic lunch. Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world teams with an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Prides of lions, herds of Cape buffalo, rhino, giraffes, golden & black-backed jackal, zebra, cheetah, leopard and the spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plains. Unmatched for its natural variety & breath-taking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exist inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area, also a home to hundreds of bird species, refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor. Return late afternoon to your lodge. Enjoy dinner and overnight.
Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
(Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
Breakfast will be served at the Lodge. After breakfast depart to Arusha. The journey to Arusha will take approximately 03 hours drive. Our safari guide will take you to a restaurant in Arusha where you can have lunch (payable direct) you will then be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your outbound flight.
Berleen Safaris look forward to hosting you!!!
Arrival transfer from / to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Bed & breakfast accommodation in Nairobi
Full Board accommodation while on safari.
Park entry fees.
Packed lunch from Tipilikwani Mara Camp
Maasai village visit
Services of a professional English Speaking guide-driver
Unlimited supply of drinking water in the safari vehicle only
Unlimited game viewing drives.
Use of our safari equipped minivan while on safari.
Complimentary Flying doctors’ temporary memberships cover for evacuation only for your entire period in East Africa.
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It is recommended that you subscribe to Adequate Travel Insurance for the entire duration of your safari time.
We can base the quote in a Safari Equipped Landcruiser upon request at an extra supplement.