Kenya Safaris: 8 DAY KENYA ADVENTURE FAMILY SAFARI

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ITINERARY AT A GLANCE

ITINERARY DETAILS

Departure - Daily on request based on 2, 4, 6 Pax

Day 1 Nairobi
On arrival you will be transferred to Macushla House, a quaint private house in a quiet suburb of Nairobi. The house offers gorgeous gardens with a pool and lovely living areas. Today, relax by the pool and recover from the overnight flight. Meals and overnight at Macushla House (LDBB)

Day 2 Masai Mara Game Reserve
Feeling refreshed, you will visit the Giraffe Centre for endangered Rothschild giraffe, followed by the Daphne Sheldrick Wildlife Trust (as featured in BBC's Elephant Diaries). After lunch, fly to a delightful fenced camp in the Masai Mara with spacious tented accommodation. An introductory nature walk with a naturalist is followed by an offroad game drive. Meals and overnight at Siana Intrepids Camp (FB )

Day 3 Masai Mara Game Reserve
After early breakfast, we visit the Masai tribe and then continue onto a full-day game drive in the game-rich reserve. Enjoy a delicious picnic lunch under an acacia tree. Meals and overnight at Siana Intrepids Camp (LDBB)

Day 4 Masai Mara Game Reserve
Today, take an optional balloon safari or partake in another full-day game drive. Our professional driver/guide will introduce you to the magnificent birds of Kenya. Return to camp before sunset for an exhilarating bush dinner (minimum 6 persons necessary). Meals and overnight at Siana Intrepids Camp (LDBB)

Day 5 Laikipia /Sabuk
Today, take a charter flight to Laikipia region, facing Mt. Kenya. Here, perched high above the Ewaso Nyiro River lies a most delightful lodge with only 5 exquisite cottages open to the wilderness. Sabuk Lodge is a fun place for families, with lots of wilderness activities on offer and a great host to look after you. It specializes in guided camel treks led by the Masai, which allow you to experience the real African wilderness where elephants, buffalo and lion roam freely. You may stay in fly camps by the river, great for bonding, or return to the lodge for the night. Other activities include game drives, nature walks, river swims, fishing, sundowners, village visits and just chilling out. Whatever you do, Sabuk is a superb family retreat that offers great variety and relief to the children after the daily intensive game drives of the Masai Mara. In our opinion, this family safari combined with a beach holiday provides just about the most perfect family holiday in Kenya. Meals and overnight at Sabuk Lodge (LDBB)

Day 6 Laikipia /Sabuk
Full day in Sabuk with morning and afternoon game drives with other activities. Meals and overnight at Sabuk Lodge (LDBB)

Day 7 Laikipia /Sabuk
Full day in Sabuk with morning and afternoon game drives with other activities. Meals and overnight at Sabuk Lodge (LDBB)

Day 8 Depart
After breakfast, take a charter flight to Nanyuki and connect with your scheduled flight to Nairobi. You may extend you stay with a beach holiday, or tonight you will be transferred to the airport for your flight back home. An optional dayroom at Macushla House is recommended. A tour representative will reconfirm your flights and assist at check-in.

Included flights:
One way scheduled flight Nairobi - Masai Mara
Charter flight Masai Mara - Sabuk
Charter flight Sabuk - Nanyuki
Scheduled flight Nanyuki - Nairobi

ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION

Macushla House
The peaceful and charming Macushla House is located in Langata, a wealthy suburb west of Nairobi, close to the Nairobi National Park, the Ngong Hills, the Karen Blixen Museum, Daphne Sheldrick's Elephant Orphanage and the Giraffe Centre. This immaculate six-bedroom house at the edge of an indigenous forest is like a private home and provides excellent facilities, food and personalized service in comfortable surroundings.

Open beamed ceilings, natural woodwork, log fires and a private study give the house a unique country-house flavour. Fabulous wholesome meals are prepared with care and attention using the freshest of ingredients and served in the intimate dining room or by the swimming pool. Traditional English Tea with scones can be taken in the garden or the bar, which has a large selection of alternative types of drinks. The airy bedrooms with ensuite bathrooms have large windows, which overlook the natural gardens of Macushla. Macushla allows you to get away from the city and enjoy the peace and tranquility of the countryside.

Siana Intrepids Camp
Fringed by marshes and surrounded by ghostly fever trees, Siana Intrepids Camp is situated on the eastern edge of the Masai Mara National Reserve. Built on a site chosen by 1950's game warden, Major Lyn Temple-Boreham, this grand-scale tented camp was established in partnership with the neighboring Masai, who continue to graze their cattle in harmony with the wildlife.

Perfectly recapturing the romance of the early pioneers, Siana Intrepids Camp possesses a tranquil atmosphere, with generous safari-style tents and shady trees offering complete privacy in the lush, unspoiled setting. A convivial dining area offers hearty cuisine, while the pool is an irresistible oasis on hot days. Activities are centered around game viewing excursions into the Masai Mara in the company of experienced guides, bush walks with resident naturalists and night drives with spot lights in search of nocturnal wildlife. Elephant and leopard hides off wonderful viewing opportunities of these animals and more besides. Birdlife is prolific and with expert Masai naturalists on hand up to a hundred species may be seen in one day. Hot air balloon excursions provide breathtaking wilderness vistas.

Sabuk Lodge Laikipia
Sabuk Lodge is utterly charming. Perched high above the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River in Kenya's Laikipia district, close to Mt. Kenya, this delightful lodge with only five spectacular open-fronted cottages is the most perfect place in Africa for recuperation, relaxation, wilderness walks and camel safaris.

Sabuk is home to Simon Evans, a Professional Safari Guide specializing in camel treks across the beautiful, unspoiled Laikipia country, which is fast growing into a haven for exclusive lodges and eco-tourism in Africa. When not guiding clients, Simon lives with his family in a beautiful cottage on the premises, which has provided the inspiration for Sabuk's appealing open-plan architecture.

The thatched central living area, where guests wine, dine and relax while overlooking the river gorge, is stunningly designed and furnished using local materials and artifacts. In the sitting areas, expansive platforms built into stone walls contain huge khanga-clad mattresses and cushions for guests to relax on, while comfy chairs and sofas provide additional sitting. A convivial bar in one corner adds great character and is the source of wine, cold beer or soft drinks which all are included in the price. A wooden deck with a small fireplace extends to the edge of the cliff from where the views of the gorge and the river are mesmerizing.

A long, wide wooden dining table in the adjacent area, masterfully fabricated from trees destroyed by elephant, plays host to most enjoyable dinner parties. All meals are generous and healthy, with particular emphasis on fresh ingredients. At breakfast, expect 3 varieties of fruit, meusli, porridge, yogurt, almost any type of egg with bacon and sausage and the best Kenyan coffee. Lunch and dinner are exceptional too.

Each of Sabuk's 5 cottages is built into the cliff overlooking the river and fashioned out of local materials, twisted wood and stone boulders with great ingenuity. Each room is unique: Cottage No 1. is ideal for children and contains 4 large beds which can accommodate up to 6 children; another cottage has a loft and a bath overlooking the gorge, while the one next door has an outside bath and a shower! The honeymoon suite has its own fireplace while its neighboring cottage has an outdoor platform made from sisal where one can enjoy an open-air siesta! Each cottage is unique and enchanting.

Sabuk's scenery of hills, kopjes, riverine forest and dense acacia bush is compelling and hides a variety of game; Greater Kudu, Reticulated Giraffe, Buffalo, Impala, Elephant, Warthog, Klipspringer, Zebra, Eland, DikDik, Waterbuck, Lion, Leopard, Hyena and several other smaller mammals. Sabuk offers game drives, horse riding, bird watching but above all it is a renowned walking venue, especially with camels. Guided short or long walks, depending on your stamina, are undertaken over the hills or along the river and accompanied by excellent picnic or sundowner stops at scenic spots. Highly recommended is a night out with camels and a full entourage of Masai and Ndorobo staff, sleeping in fly camps by the river. This is when you can experience the real magic of the Africa bush. In the evening, a gentle fire burns on the banks of the river, delicious meals cooked by the Ndorobo staff on improvised stoves are washed down with wine under the stars and experiences of the day are exchanged late into the African night.

For the more adventurous, there are 3 to 6 day camel safaris also available, which guide you in the footsteps of that great Africa explorer, Wilfred Thesiger. Each trip is tailor-made to suit the group and is suitable for children, who can ride camels, walk, swim and fish in the river, or learn special bushcraft skills from the local guides, some of whom are ex-poachers turned conservationists.