Kenya Wildlife Safari

Your guide will meet you in the evening at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. From the airport, you’ll ride to your Nairobi lodging for a night of rest (with an option for a late evening meal not included in the fee).

The group will leave Nairobi, passing through the coffee and tea farms of the central highlands and check into the Naromoru River Lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, the group will visit Kambi Primary School where Muthoga, one of your guides, attended school as a child. Here you will tour the school, have tea with the headmaster, and leave a donation of some much-needed school supplies. After, enjoy an evening walk along the Naromoru River. Spend the night at the Naromoru River Lodge near the base of Mount Kenya.

After breakfast, you’ll visit Kenya's exotic Samburu National Reserve. The reserve lies on the Ewaso Nyiro River where lions and leopards are regularly seen (from a safe distance). Tonight you’ll stay at the Samburu Game Lodge.

Today you will get a chance to see African mammals at dawn and dusk. During the day, you will have the chance to relax by your hotel’s pool or take a stroll around town. Before your evening reserve adventure you'll visit a Samburu village where you can experience the dancing, fire making, beadwork, and company of these distant cousins to the Maasai.

After breakfast you’ll visit Sweetwater’s Sanctuary and some of Jane Goodall's chimpanzee refugees. You’ll observe rhino and warthogs. There may even be a chance to see some of the 'big five' (lion, elephant, Cape buffalo, leopard and rhinoceros). Overnight accommodations will be at the Pelican House.

Leave early for Lake Nakuru, stopping along the way to explore Thomson's Falls for lunch and take in this 243 ft scenic waterfall on the Ewaso Ng'iro River. Continue to Nakuru to visit a market and stay overnight at the Flamingo Hill Tented Camp.

After breakfast your group will go for a game drive near Lake Nakuru National Park, where you’ll see rhino, giraffe, baboon, and birds in their most active state. After lunch, you’ll enjoy a boat cruise on the Crater Lake among flamingos and colobus monkeys. Visit the Elsamere Conservation Centre, where the story of Joy Adamson's Born Free is told.

Start your day in the city of Narok to meet up with social entrepreneur Hellen Nkuraya, your Maasai liaison. Tour Narok, pick up some gifts for your Maasai hosts and then continue on to Hellen's boma. As part of the Maji Moto Project, Hellen has created a girl's school, a widows’ village, and a tourist camp at the base of the Loita Hills just an hour from the Masai Mara National Reserve. The camp introduces visitors to Maasai culture and life on the African savannah. The camp has simple but comfortable huts/cabins.

After hot tea and breakfast, your group will join our Maasai hosts for activities such as taking livestock out to graze, blessing ceremonies, or warrior training. Walk down to visit the local school before heading off to the Maasai Mara Reserve–this is the Africa that you've seen in pictures. Rolling plains stretch as far as you can see and provide sightings of all the "big five" African mammals.

In the morning, you’ll visit the Mara river, walk a few steps into Tanzania and trek along the riverbanks. Today, you may take a full-day game drive or choose shorter drives in the morning and afternoon.

Your group will head back to Nairobi stopping for scenic vistas of the fertile Great Rift Valley along the way. You will select a location for your lunch (not included in the fee), with assistance from your guide. For dinner, you’ll enjoy a feast at Carnivore Restaurant (rated in the top 100 in the world). You'll have a chance to taste local game and drink dawas, the perfect closure to an amazing African adventure!

On this last day, you’ll visit the Wildlife Trust Giraffe Center and experience the Nairobi market. You will select a location for your lunch (not included in the fee), with assistance from your guide. For dinner, the group will dine at a traditional "nyama choma" restaurant before catching your evening flight.