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Your Kenya luxury holiday beings on your arrival in Nairobi, where you will be received at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport after you finish the immigration formalities. After an early breakfast, you will be driven towards Tsavo West National Park, travelling south, across the extensive Athi Plains. We reach Finch our campsite Hatton’s luxury tented camp, in time for lunch. Lying at the foot of the Chyulu Hills, one of the youngest volcanic ranges in the world, the camp has been styled to replicate the privileged safaris of the famous ‘white hunters’ of the colonial period. Denis Finch Hatton, the best-known of them all, and the model for Robert Redford’s role in ‘Out of Africa’, was renowned for the splendour of his camps, which featured cut crystal, silver-service and superb cuisine. The 35 acres area that make up the Finch Hatton’s of camp area today are unfenced, allowing lion, buffalo, elephant, giraffe and plains game to come and go as they wish. Hippo and crocodiles live in the three huge pools on the site and the hippos often graze around the tents. After lunch, enjoy your first game drive in the magnificence of Tsavo West, which is one of the largest game park’s in the world, before returning for relaxation on your private verandah, perhaps a swim in the luxury pool, and a sumptuous silver-service dinner in the lodge’s elegant dining room.
The full day will be spent on a safari tour of Tsavo West National Park. Both morning and afternoon game drives are offered. There are wonderful short visits to the famous Mzima Springs Hippo Pools and the Shetani Lava Flows, planned for the day. Tsavo West National Park is located in the Coast Province of Kenya. The park covers an area of 9,065 sq km (square kilometers). Tsavo offers some of the most magnificent game viewing in the world – vast herds of dust-red elephant, fat pods of hippo, giant crocodile, teeming herds of plains game, a fantasia of bird life and some magical flora. The lush, hippo-inhabited pools of Mzima Springs, fed daily by 250 million litres of water gushing from the lava flows of the Chyulu hills, provide an oasis of green, an under-water hippo-viewing chamber, two nature trails and some unique picnic spots. Sundowners can enjoy a drink or two, followed by dinner.
We leave Finch Hatton’s camp soon after breakfast and drive through Tsavo West to Amboseli National Park.
Amboseli National Park, is in the Kajiado District, Rift Valley Province in Kenya. It was formerly known as Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve. The park, spread over 392 sq km, is flanked by the majestic Mt Kilimanjaro in the backdrop, that adds to the beauty of the place.
Check into the ultra-luxurious Tortillis Tented Camp, our abode for next two days. The camp enjoys soaring views of the legendary snows of Kilimanjaro and has its own waterhole, which attracts large number of animals, particularly the elephants. After lunch enjoy your first game drive in Amboseli National Park with the chance of spotting large herds of elephant and plentiful plains game. On returning back in camp, you may like to take a swim or visit the camp’s ‘Bush Spa’. As the sun sets, enjoy exclusive sundowners overlooking Mount Kilimanjaro, followed by dinner.
You may start the day with an early morning optional guided nature walk before or after breakfast. Alternatively take a morning game-drive in the park, which is an International Biosphere Reserve featuring the dried-out lakebed of prehistoric Lake boseli, rolling savannah and lush green swamps. The plains offer numerous antelopes, spotted hyenas, jackals, warthogs, olive baboons, vervet monkeys and the chance of spotting a lion, leopard or cheetah. Observation Hill, a conical peak, which is easily climbed, offers stunning views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
After lunch (which can be taken as a picnic lunch on safari should you prefer), take another game-drive or a guided nature walk – or both – all are inclusive. Alternatively, you have the optional visit to an authentic Maasai village with displays of dance, song and cultural pursuits. Sundowners, which can be taken on safari or in the camp’s Rondavel Bar, are followed by dinner.
After breakfast, we drive to Nairobi and have lunch at the world-famous Carnivore Restaurant, before taking an afternoon flight from Nairobi’s Wilson Airport to the Masai Mara National Reserve. On landing, you will be met by your safari vehicle and driver, who will take you to Governors Tented Camp. The first tented camp to be established in the Mara, Governors’ stands on the banks of the famous Mara River. First opened in 1972, it stands on the site of Teddy Roosevelt’s camp, where he entertained aristocracy, stars and royalty.
After lunch, relax or take a game-drive in this world-famous reserve. Masai Mara National Reserve spreads out for about 1,510 sq km. It has the Serengeti Park on the south, the Siria escarpment to the west and Maasai pastoral ranches to the north, east and west. Offering an abundance of herbivores, the Mara makes the ideal hunting ground for Kenya’s famous ‘big cats’ and hosts her largest population of lions. It also offers the best chance of spotting a leopard in the wild. Other predators include cheetah and spotted hyena. Sundowners can be taken in camp, or in a scenic location, and are followed by dinner.
With the next two days in the Mara, your options are wide. Morning and afternoon game drives are offered as well as various optional activities such as a guided nature walks or ornithological tours. Lunch can be taken ‘on safari’ if you wish, as can sundowners. Dinner is served in camp.
Historically teaming with wildlife, the Mara is famous for the large herds of elephant and buffalo that meander its plains; also for the fat pods of hippo that wallow in its mud-brown rivers. Other stars include the distinctive Masai giraffe, plum-coloured topi, Coke’s hartebeest, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelle, zebra, impala, Kirk’s dik-dik, bushbuck, waterbuck and red duiker. The Reserve also boasts plentiful Nile crocodile, monitor lizard, baboon, vervet, blue and red-tailed monkeys, nocturnal bush babies, and tree hyrax. There are over 550 resident and migratory species of birds.
After an exhilarating Kenya luxury safari, transfer to the airstrip for your flight back to Nairobi’s Wilson Airport, where you will be met and escorted either to a city hotel or direct to the international airport (depending on your flight schedule).
Requires a spirit of adventure and some degree of fitness, as the trip might consist of many activities or long journeys. These adventures involve walking, trekking, hiking, cycling, rafting, sea kayaking, or driving for long hours, at times for up to six to eight hours a day at a steady pace. The maximum altitude is 3000m, so it requires you to be reasonably physically fit because you may be travelling in extreme weather conditions. The trips are usually 6 to 12 days in duration.
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