10 DAYS BEST OF KENYA FLYING SAFARI
Our Private Essence of Kenya Safari is one of our private safaris designed to suit specific luxury safari needs and flexible to meet your schedules. You will have your own safari guides for game drives and would allow much privacies needed for the tour.
Arrival at Nairobi International Airport. Meet and greet by your driver guide and proceed to your Hotel. Have briefing about the trip and enjoy your stay in Nairobi. Meals and overnight at Villa Rosa Kempinski
Breakfast and departure from your Hotel for a quick transfer to Wilson Airport. Your flight leaves at 8:30 and should put you in Samburu Park in just under 90 minutes. From above, you’ll take in the fields and forest of Kenya, look for the snow-capped peak of Mt. Kenya.
Touching down at an airstrip close to the park, you’ll be met by your first driver/guide who will greet you with a private, open-sided 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep. Hop aboard and let’s head to the park. Meals and overnight at Ashnil Samburu Camp
While on safari we like to get up early to appreciate the day’s soft morning light playing upon the fields and watch the wildlife awaken into the new day. Breakfast and proceed on full day game drive. This will be a full day at the park to go on as many game drives as you wish. Or, you may want to set aside some relaxation time at your accommodation.
Just discuss with your driver/guide how you’d like to plan your day. As we safari through the park your guide will find the best spots to see the park’s many elephants and we’ll also be on the lookout for lion, buffalo, zebra, giraffe, and antelope. Samburu is famous for several unusual and endangered species not seen in other parks. We’ll take care to spot special wildlife like Somali ostrich, Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, and Beisa oryx.
During our day we can also visit two nearby reserves Shaba and Buffalo Springs, with their much greener fields, and track the wildlife there. Picnic lunch boxes can be used. Meals and overnight at Ashnil Samburu Camp
Let’s get up early to enjoy another game drive around the park before we head off to Ol Pejeta Conservancy. It’s an easy drive, taking us to the cooler regions near Mt. Kenya and Laikipia. Ol Pejeta is a versatile park featuring unusual sanctuaries along with a wonderful variety of animals. Besides being home to the big cats and the rare African wild dog, the park is also a sanctuary for rhinos and chimpanzees.
The Sweetwaters Sanctuary is the only spot in Kenya where you can see chimpanzees in their natural state. These orphaned and rescued chimps are carefully nurtured back to health and live out their lives in a large, natural enclosure. The nearby refuge for rhinos is one of the largest in East Africa, harboring over one hundred of the great endangered creatures and absolutely worth a visit.
Meals and overnight at Sweetwaters Serena Tented Camp
The day is yours to do as you wish; go on game drives or mix it up with perhaps a bicycle safari or some downtime at your accommodation. While on our game drives we’ll take advantage of the conservancy’s diverse wildlife population and track for the big cats but also impala, giraffe, baboon, jackal, foxes, and hyena. We can also enjoy other unique activities not found in the national parks talk with your guide about going on a dramatic night safari. Or, leave the Jeep and hop on a bike for a cycling safari through the conservancy.
It’s a great day for a flight safari, so let’s get up, perhaps take another game drive through the park and head out to the airstrip for our 10:30 am flight to the Masai Mara. We’ll say goodbye to our guide as we board the plane for the one-hour flight to the great park. Most visitors only see the Masai Mara from ground level but you’ll get to take in the sight of its broad savannahs from the air.
You’ll land at a nearby airstrip where your second safari guide will welcome you with an open-side 4 x 4 Land Cruiser. And we’re off to the park! Before, the park will present as immense green rolling hills, decorated with the signature acacia trees Africa is so famous for. This is a truly dense eco-system and you won’t have to wait long before spotting wildlife – large or small. Sightings of lions and other big cats are quite common thanks to the many prides that inhabit the park. But you’ll also discover elephant, rhino, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, antelope, and so much more over our three-day span in the park.
Meals and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge
Breakfast and prepare for your Masai mara safari. You’ll want to be up early to take in this great park and its immense displays of wild animals. Talk with your driver/guide about various areas of the park and what you can expect to see there. You certainly should go down to the Mara River, site of the Great Migration from June through October.
Here you’ll witness one of the most unbelievable displays of wildlife on the planet. Hundreds, thousands even tens of thousands of wildebeests, zebras, and gazelle pour into the park from the neighboring Serengeti on their yearly trek searching for sustenance in the form of food and water. Waiting for this onslaught of grazers is a distinct coterie of predators. Crocodiles awaiting in the Mara River and then throughout the reserve, entire collections of big cats waiting for their prey. This is the natural world where each species behaves according to its preordained genetic code – predator and prey. If you’d like to watch this amazing drama from above, take advantage of our optional early morning hot air balloon safari. You’ll float over the park and the Great Migration, witnessing the world come alive with great fleets of wildebeest stretching out to the horizon.
Use picnic lunches, Meals and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge
Breakfast and prepare for departure to Amboseli. You’d like to revisit some of your favorite viewing spots like the Mara River. Take advantage of our last morning for some final game drives through the great park. We’ll enjoy lunch at our Mara accommodation, then it’s time to pack up and head back to the airstrip for the next leg of our journey, the 14:00 hrs. (2:00 pm) flight to Amboseli Park. You’ll take leave of your second driver/guide as you climb into the plane for the scenic one-hour flight to Amboseli.
On the way, you’ll catch sight of the towering flanks of Africa’s largest peak, Mt. Kilimanjaro. Touching down at your third airstrip, you’ll feel like an experienced explorer as you pull up to your third guide and 4 x 4 Jeep. Pile in and head to your safari lodge or tented camp. We’ll have time for a game drive before dinner and get a good introduction to the park. Looking toward the southern border, you can’t miss Mt. Kilimanjaro standing guard over Amboseli. It’s the perfect backdrop for the many freeranging elephants you’ll see on your stay here. Toward evening look to the great mountain as the clouds shrouding its snowy peak may lift, revealing an iconic vision of Africa.
Meals and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge
Breakfast and prepare for a full day in Amboseli. You’ve been on safari for over a week, so you’ve become used to rising with the birds and the wildlife emerging into the new day. Mt. Kilimanjaro is especially beautiful in the morning light and you can
soak up the lovely sight while enjoying breakfast. As at Ol Pejeta and the Masai Mara, you have a full day for game drives and any relaxing time you’d like to schedule in.
But now let’s explore this vibrant park, humming with all the big game like lions as well as giraffe, zebra, warthog, baboon, monkey, and hippos.
Meals and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge
It’s our last day on safari, so let’s treasure this final early game drive before breakfast. And perhaps a last glimpse at Kilimanjaro from the ground before we head off to the nearby airstrip for our 8:15 am flight back to Nairobi. We’ll say goodbye to the park and our guide as we board the plane for our short trip back to Wilson Airport and proceed to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport-End of tour and our Services
- The special 5 of Samburu
- Elephants
- Spotted Hyaena
- Rhino
- Cheetah
- Buffalo
- Ostrich
- Warthog
- Hyrax
- Lion
- Leopard
- Giraffe
- Wildebeest
- Thomson Gazelle
- Zebra
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Three Pax
Four Pax
Five Pax
Six Pax
Tour Price Includes
- Transport in a custom-designed 4×4 Safari Land Cruiser with Wifi
- Services of a professional English-speaking guide driver
- All park entrance fees
- Luxury Full board accommodation while on safari (breakfast, lunch and dinner and laundry)
- Bottled water, Soft drinks, Local beer and selected wines that are included at your lodge
- Arrival and departure Airport transfers
- Regional wine and beer at mealtimes, vehicles stocked with soft drinks and bottled water
- Local Flights
Not Included In the Tour Price
- Tips to your guides, hotel or other encounters while on safari (Tip your guide from $20 per day)
- Travel insurance, Telephone expenses and Upmarket wines
- Additional sight-seeing or deviation from the safari itinerary
- Any item not mentioned as included in the safari package
