10 DAYS KENYA FAMILY SAFARI

10 Days Kenya Family Safari

10-Days Kenya Family Safari is suitable for all families especially those travelling with children. Enjoy family-friendly accommodation, great wildlife viewing throughout with age-appropriate children’s activities as well as interactive learning and cultural experiences along the way. Guided by our very own talented and professional driver guides who are very passionate of what they do and are very good animal spotters, you are guaranteed to enjoy each unique park in the itinerary with the diversity each destination in the itinerary has to offer! 

 

Safari Highlights

• High chance of seeing all the big five
• Visit Ol pejeta where you can view the only two remaining northern white rhino in the world and also the only place in Kenya chimpanzees are found.
• View wildlife from the comfort of the lodge in Aberdare
• Visits on of the best wildlife reserve in Africa, masai mara
• Private safari with your safari vehicle and personal driver guide.
• Luxury accommodation facilities.
• Private safari with own driver guide

Brief Itinerary

Day 1: Pick up from Nairobi and head to Ol Pejeta Conservancy with a stop at the Equator marker.

Day 2: Spend a full day at Ol Pejeta Conservancy with optional activities such as guided nature walks, camel riding and a night game drive.

Day 3: Leave Ol Pejeta and head to Aberdare National Park.

Day 4: Spend a full day in Aberdare National Park.

Day 5: Check out and head to Lake Nakuru National Park.

Day 6: Spend a full day in Lake National Park

Day 7: Leave Lake Nakuru and head to Masai Mara Game Reserve.

Day 8: Spend a full day game viewing in Masai Mara.

Day 9: Leave Mara and head to Lake Naivasha where you’ll tour Hell’s Gate National Park.

Day 10. Departure

 

 

PARKS TO BE VISITED

1. OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY. Ol Pejeta conservancy is the largest black rhino sanctuary in east Africa. 
2. ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK. Aberdare National Park is home to a great number of wildlife that would serve to interest any traveler. 
3. LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK. Lake Nakuru national park has over 400 bird species making it a bird watchers paradise. The park is famous for the flocks of the greater and lesser Flamingo that gather around the lake numbering around 2 million, which turns the lake pink. 
4. MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE  No where in Africa is wildlife more abundant like in the Masai Mara national reserve. It is one of the best destinations in the world for wildlife viewing in their natural environment.
5. LAKE NAIVASHA Lake Naivasha is a beautiful freshwater lake found in the Great Rift Valley.
6. HELLS GATE NATIONAL PARK. The park is a remarkable quarter of the Great Rift Valley with Spectacular sceneries.

 

 Safari Itinerary

Day 1. Ol Pejeta conservancy

Depart Nairobi in the morning and be driven to Ol Pejeta conservancy via Thika road superhighway. You may have an optional brief stop at Nanyuki town equator marker. Here you can take photos and be shown how the north and south poles have magnetic power and how its visible with the water experience (Coriolis effect). Arrive in time for lunch. After short rest you will proceed for a late afternoon game drive round this fascinating park returning to the camp for dinner and overnight.

• Accommodation at Serena Sweetwater’s Tented Camp.
• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 2 . Ol Pejeta conservancy

Spend a full day at this private sanctuary with morning and afternoon game drives. Other optional activities include guided nature walks, camel riding and a night game drive.  Overlooking a floodlit waterhole, your camp offers visitors the opportunity to watch and photograph animals in their natural habitat.

• Accommodation at Sweetwater’s Tented Camp.
• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
  

Day 3: The Ark, Aberdare National Park
After breakfast depart Ol Pejeta for Aberdare Country Club arriving in time for lunch. After lunch you will be transferred to sister lodge The Ark for an overnight of floodlit game viewing. Set in the heart of the Aberdare National Park, this unique game lodge overlooks a floodlit waterhole and salt lick which attracts a host of wildlife – elephant, rhino, leopard, bushbuck and occasionally an elusive bongo or giant forest hog.

• Accommodation at The Ark Lodge
• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 4. Aberdare National Park

After breakfast, you will be transferred back to Aberdare country club where you will have game drives. You might have a chance to sight the rare Bongo and African gold cat. Bongo is the largest forest antelope and one of the endangered species in Kenya. Other breathtaking place to visit within the park is Chania Waterfalls and Karuru waterfall. The beauty of the park is further increased by the ridges and river valleys which offer mountain photographers with opportunity like no other. Other activities provided at extra cost include nature work, birding , bush culinary experience etc.

•  Accommodation at Aberdare country club
• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 5. Lake Nakuru

After breakfast drive down to the floor of The Great Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National Park, making a brief stop at Thomson Falls, and arriving Sarova Lion Hill Lodge in time for lunch. After lunch and short rest you will have an afternoon game drive in the park. Besides the flamingos that the lake is famous for, there are approx. 400 other species of birds visiting the lake. Also, many species of game call this park home including the introduced Rothschild’s giraffe, black and white rhino, waterbuck, reedbuck, lion, buffalo, leopard, baboon and many species of plains game.

• Accommodation at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge
• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 6. Lake Nakuru

During this day you will have morning and afternoon game drives in this wonderful park full of wildlife. Other attractions include baboon cliff, lion hill and Makalia water falls. The park also has different plant species include the biggest euphorbia forest in Africa, yellow acacia, shrubs etc. Return to the lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight stay. Other activities provide at an extra cost include spa, pool activities like water pole, drawing and coloring, Badminton, soccer, board games etc.

• Accommodation at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge
• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7. Nakuru- Maasai Mara

Depart Lake Nakuru in the morning and drive to Masai Mara game reserve. At around midday, you will enter Masai Mara game reserve and have a short en route game drive as you head to your lodge inside the reserve. After lunch and a short rest, embark on your afternoon game drive. In the evening you will retire to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Accommodation at Sarova Mara Game camp
• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 8. Maasai Mara

After a scrumptious breakfast you will head out for a full day of game viewing in Masai Mara with packed lunch. A balloon safari can also be arranged on this day at an extra cost. After viewing of wildlife, you have an option of visiting a cultural Masai village as you drive back to the camp. In the evening enjoy sun tinged sundowner.

Activities available at the lodge at an extra cost include ozone kids club meant for children, nature walks etc.

• Accommodation at Sarova Mara Game camp
• Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 9. Maasai- Lake Naivasha

After breakfast you will be driven to Naivasha. On arrival, you will have lunch. After lunch and brief rest, you will be taken to hell’s gate national park where you will have guided nature walk among wild life. You will also have option of boat rides in the lake at an extra cost. The park has a variety of wildlife. Giraffe, eland, hartebeest, buffalo and other small gazelles and antelopes are common in the grassy plains. Also available but rarely seen are lions, cheetahs and leopards. Back to the lodge in the evening.

• Accommodation at Lake Naivasha country club
• Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 10. Nairobi
Depart the lodge after breakfast and be driven to Nairobi. On arrival, you will be hosted for lunch at the famous carnivore restaurant before being dropped at your hotel or the airport.

• Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch

 

COST INCLUDES

• Full board accommodation on safari
• Meals as stipulated within the itinerary
• All park entry fees.
• Scheduled game drive
• Vehicle park entry fees
•  Safari land cruiser with popup roof
• Service of a tour guide
• Bottles of water during safari
• Government Taxes
• Emergency medical evacuation cover

COSTS EXCLUDED

• Tips and gratitude
• International airfares
• Visas
• Soft drinks and local beers
• Maasai village visit@ $30 per person
• Hot air balloon@ $450 per person

                  

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