The best safari trip in Kenya

Welcome to Kenya!

 Pick up from the Airport and drive to Aberdare’s National Park. The Park is in the Central Highlands of Kenya west of mountain Kenya providing a habitat for elephants, black rhinos, leopards, spotted hyenas, olive baboons, black and white columbus monkeys, buffalos, warthogs and bushbucks among others. Rare sightings include those of the Giant Forest hog, bongo, golden cat, serval cat, African wild cat, African civet cat and the blue duiker. Thereafter you will be transferred to the Ark Lodge where you will spend the rest of the day on the lookout for animals visiting the waterhole. The lodge is set in the heart of the park and overlooks a floodlit waterhole and salt lick, which attracts a host of awesome wildlife.
Dinner and overnight at Ark Lodge.

Have breakfast and transfer to drive to Olpejeta Ranch.
This is a private conservancy located between the foothills of the Aberdares and the magnificent snow-capped Mount Kenya. The Ol Pejeta Conservancy boasts an astounding variety of animals, including the “Big Five” (the endangered black and white rhino, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and lion), Grevy’s zebra, Jackson’s hartebeest, cheetah, and chimpanzee. Afternoon game drive in search of animals till evening and return for dinner and overnight at Sweet Waters Serena Camp.

Have breakfast and an en-route game drive. Transfer to Thompson Falls for a stopover, the Equator and the Great Rift Valley Viewpoint.
Drive to Lake Nakuru National Park and arrive for lunch followed by an afternoon game drive. The Park is regarded by avid birders as the greatest World ornithological spectacle on the Earth and is currently a Rhino sanctuary. The birdlife here is world renown some of which include White Pelicans, Plovers, Egrets and Marabou Stork. Lake Nakuru boasts the most spectacular of Africa’s bird sights – enormous flocks of pastel pink flamingos, as well as other bird species. Here you have wonderful opportunities for photography as masses of pink bodies glide above the reflection of blue water. Your afternoon game drive takes you through the lush green park that surrounds the lake. It is also one of the very few places in Africa to see the white Rhino and rare Rothschild Giraffe.
Dinner and overnight at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge.

Have breakfast and a game drive. Transfer to Lake Naivasha arriving for lunch. In the afternoon, Get the chance to see Lake Naivasha, the second biggest freshwater lake in the Rift Valley. Take a boat ride and on to crescent Island for bird watching and a brief walking safari among the wildlife. The shores host abundant birdlife including pelicans, cormorants and fish-eagles with their haunting cry.
Back to the hotel to rest and get ready for Shabbat.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Sawela Lodge.

A relaxing day and rest at the hotel on the shores of Lake Naivasha. Enjoy the large lawns, free-ranging animals in the area, stunning lake view, walking tours, a swimming pool, and other hotel services.
You can order high-quality Shabbat meals (Includes challahs, fish, salads, meat, and wine that will come to your hotel).

Have breakfast and depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve, seen by many as the jewel of Kenya’s park. This is Kenya’s number one park and is always on every tourist’s “Must See List”. Full of life with various types of animals and birds, Masai Mara is the climax of every safari in Kenya. Its rolling grasslands and acacia savannah have time and again been captured on film with the movie “Out of Africa” being the most famous. Masai Mara is home to the “Big Five” (Elephant, Buffalo, Lion, Leopard and Rhino) and over 450 bird species.

The climate is gentle, rarely too hot and well spread rainfall year-round. Apart from the big five, the Masai Mara is most famous for the annual migration of over a million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle etc. from the Serengeti in northern Tanzania crossing the Mara River into Kenya in search of fresh feeding grounds, which takes place in late July to September. During this crossing, hundreds of animals are swept away by the first moving Mara River and others are killed by the ferocious African Crocodiles. This crossing gives true meaning to the phrase “Survival of the fittest”.

Even when the annual wildebeest migration is quiet, the Mara offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa, great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands of elands, buffaloes, impalas and Grant’s gazelles. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Mara River, while cheetahs prowl the plains.

Arrive at Ashnil Mara Camp for check-in & lunch. In the afternoon head out with your driver and start spotting nature at its best, exploring wildlife and as the sun starts to edge dip into the African horizon it will be the perfect opportunity for you to capture the beautiful Mara landscape on film. Dinner and overnight at  Ashnil Mara Camp.

Morning breakfast at the camp and afterward head out with your packed lunch boxes and spend the day in the reserve as you explore and experience nature in its raw form; the landscape is breathtaking with its network of roads specially constructed for game viewing. Break for lunch at a picnic site before you continue spotting wild animals until late afternoon when you return to the camp for freshening up and dinner.
All meals and overnight at Mara Ashnil Camp.

Rise up early in the morning and have a warm cup of tea/coffee. Drive out at 6.30 AM and have a morning Game drive. During this time, chances are you can spot many animals because of the cool temperature thus the animals will not be hiding in the bushes and are still active.
Continue with the exploration of the Masai Mara until around 9.30 AM when you return to the Camp for a breakfast. In the afternoon, head out with the driver for an afternoon game drive and for visiting the Masai Tribe. Return to Mara Ashnil Camp in the evening for rest, dinner, and overnight at the Ashnil Mara Camp.

Have breakfast and an en-route game drive. Transfer to Nairobi and visit the Masai Market then drop off at the airport for your night flight home.