10 DAYS NAIROBI,ABERDARE,OL PEJETA,LAKE NAKURU & MAASAI MARA

ITINERARY AT A GLANCE

Detailed Itinerary:

10 Days / 09 Nights
(03 Nights Nairobi/ 01 Night Aberdare /01 Night Ol-Pejeta/01 Night Nakuru /03 Nights Mara)

DAY 1: NAIROBI

On arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will clear with immigration,collection of luggage and through to the customs area before arriving at the Arrivals lounge. Here you will find our driver guide who will transfer you to your hotel for Overnight. Spend your evening at leisure.Overnight at Sarova Stanley or Similar Hotel on Bed and Breakfast Basis

DAY 2: NAIROBI-ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK

After your breakfast, check out from the hotel. Leave Nairobi and journey north, passing near Thika, which boasts the world’s third largest pineapple plantation and home to Delmonte, past Karatina, with its colorful market. Soon you will be at Nyeri, one of Kenya’s major towns and provincial headquarters. Travel overland through plantations of coffee and tea to the Aberdare National Park, nestled on the slopes of Mweiga Hill. Arrive in time for your lunch at Outspan hotel, then you proceed to your tree hotel where you will spend the night watching different animals as they come to visit the floodlit waterholes and Salt licks. Spend your evening at leisure.[Dinner & Overnight at Treetops Lodge or Similar Hotel on Full Board Basis]

DAY 3: ABERDARE NATIONAL PARK- OL PEJETA CONSERVANCY

This morning after your breakfast, check out from your lodge and drive off to Nanyuki. Brief rest at the Equator point. It is only at this imaginary line that a fascinating phenomenon known as the Coriolis effect occurs. The effect has to do with how water behaves at the equator, depending on which hemisphere you are standing on. If you are standing to the south of the equator line on the southern hemisphere, the water tends to move in an anti-clockwise manner. If you stand to the north, you will notice the water moving in a clockwise direction. If, on the other hand, you are standing at the equator itself, the water shows no movement. Arrive in time for early lunch at your lodge. Depart at 1200 Hours for to visit the chimp sanctuary (Ol Pejeta Conservancy). It is home to the endangered Chimpanzee species, many are babies and orphans rescued from Central African countries where the trade in bush meat (meat from chimps killed by illegal forest loggers and sold to unsuspecting customers).
The sanctuary is also home to buffaloes, the white rhino, giraffes, baboons, zebra, other plains game, lions, cheetah and elephant. Have a Game drive enroute as you go back to your lodge for dinner. Spend the evening at leisure.[Dinner & Overnight at Sweet Waters Serena Tented Camp or Similar Camp on Full Board Basis]

DAY 4: SWEETWATERS GAME RESERVE-LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast drive to Nakuru. Have a stop over at Nyahururu falls for a photo-stop and lunch at Thompson falls lodge. There after continue to Lake Nakuru for and Afternoon game drive until evening.
[Dinner & Overnight at Sarova Lion Hill lodge or Similar Hotel on Full Board Basis]

DAY 5: LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK- MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE 

This morning after breakfast, you will check out from your hotel and your driver guide will be waiting for you at the hotel lobby as you depart for Maasai Mara Reserve and into the domain of the Maasai, Kenya’s cattle-herding nomads determined to preserve their traditions. The Mara is magnificent, home to Kenya’s richest concentration of wildlife, and regarded by many travelers as an essential stop on any tour of Africa. Three days here will only scratch at the surface of the wonders of the Mara. On arrival at Mara check-in and have your lunch. Have an afternoon game drive following your lunch and siesta and return to the camp for overnight.[Dinner & Overnight at Sarova Mara Tented Camp or Similar Camp on Full Board Basis]

DAY 6: MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE

You will be picked up at 0600 hours for your early morning Game drive. Then you drive back to the Camp for your breakfast. The rest of the morning will be spend at leisure. At 1600 hours further game drive in search of more game in this vast reserve returning to the lodge at sunset.Game drives are flexible, with the option of going out with picnic lunch boxes to spend entire day in the park, or you can choose to have early morning and late afternoon game drives.[Dinner & Overnight at Sarova Mara Tented Camp or Similar Camp on Full Board Basis]

DAY 7: MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE

Today after an early breakfast, you will have a morning game drive and return to the camp for lunch. The afternoon, spend at your own leisure enjoying the camp’s facilities.Optional on this day is to visit a local Masai village (Manyatta) in between the two game drives, (at a cost of US$20 per person) or an Early Morning Hot Air ballon flight accompanied by a bush breakfast at an extra cost.[Dinner & Overnight at Sarova Mara Tented Camp or Similar Camp on Full Board Basis]

 DAY 8: MAASAI MARA- NAIROBI

After breakfast, you will check out from your camp and have a game drive en route as you depart for Nairobi. Stop en route at the Great Rift Valley for its stunning views. You can take photos. On your way down the escarpment, before the city of Mai Mahiu, you can have a view of the Italian Chapel. This Catholic chapel was built in 1942 by Italian prisoners of War. It’s is a cute little place and makes a good place to stop by and visit as you travel through the Rift Valley on the way to Naivasha. The Italian prisoners built the road in this treacherous environment and as a sign of compassion for their hard labour, they were allowed to build a small catholic church. Arrive in time for lunch Carnivore Restaurant. Then proceed to your hotel for Overnight.[Overnight at Sarova Stanley  or Similar Hotel on Full Board Basis]

Spend your day at leisure. Perhaps shopping.[Overnight at Sarova Stanley  or Similar Hotel on Full Board Basis]

DAY 9: DEPARTURE

This morning after breakfast, Check out from your hotel and get transferred to the Airport for your outbound flight.

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