Kenya Safari Trip, Kenya Tour Cost

This Kenya Safari opens and recaptures everything that Kenya was, and is. You will experience outstanding game viewing, incomparable scenery, and one of the most treasurable experiences of your traveling life. Kenya has the most popular and spectacular of all game parks in whole of Africa. The Serengeti, in the local Maasai tribe vernacular means “wide, open and endless plains”.

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Summary of this 13-day Magical Kenya:
• Accommodation: Lodges
• Activities: Game Drives and cultural interpretations
• Destinations: Aberdare National Park, Samburu National Park and the Maasai Mara

What to expect from this Safari:

Game drives on this 3 day Masai Mara safari tour will allow you to search for game such as Lion, Cheetah, Elephant, Buffalo and many more. You will also get to see Kenya’s spectacular Great Rift Valley, home to about 30 active and semi-active volcanoes and many hot springs.

Day 1: Nairobi
Met by Prostem Safaris Staff and transfered to your hotel for rest and overnight stay. Afternoon visit to Karen Blixen's homestead.

Day 2: Aberdare
This early morning walking tour of Nairobi and a visit to the National Museum. You'll enjoy lunch at the hotel. In the afternoon the safari begins with a drive north through Kikuyu land. A stop will be made at Kenya's largest open-air market at Karatina. Dinner and overnight at a lovely country club in the highlands.

Day 3: Aberdare
The day is spent game viewing in the Aberdare National Park, one of the few highland rainforest parks in East Africa. Safari through the thick forests where there are elephant and rare animals like colobus and suni, before emerging onto the tundra above the tree line. This is a beautiful area and a picnic lunch will be taken by one of the areas many spectacular waterfalls. You’ll drive down through the bamboo forests for a candlelit dinner in the country club.

Day 4: Samburu
Cross the equator, this morning, then visit the benevolent womens organization, the Nanyuki Weavers. Head to the hotel for lunch. The afternoon's drive is one of the most spectacular in Africa: in less than 40 minutes you descend from the highland forests of Mt. Kenya onto the Great Northern Frontier, a semi-arid landscape reminiscent of America's southwest. Game view into Samburu National Park, for dinner and overnight in the camp.

Day 5: Samburu
At Samburu a great river creeps through the desert making the veldt bloom. You'll see abundant game, including many rare animals not seen elsewhere in East Africa, like the Grevy’s zebra and reticulated giraffe. There are many lion and cheetah, and the birdlife is outstanding. Larsen's is the only intimate, exclusive camp in this popular national park.

Day 6: Masai Mara Safari Kenya

A spectacular morning flight that flies right over the flamingo lakes of the Great Rift Valley arrives Kenya's best park, the Maasai Mara, in time for lunch. For three nights you'll enjoy the Mara's most lavish camp set along the great Mara River. The spacious tents include king beds set on hand-carved mounts from the area's teak. After the game drive, enjoy sundowners then dinner.

Day 7: Masai Mara

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At a particular time of the year the Mara provides some of the best game viewing in Africa during the Great Migration. This is when about a half million white bearded gnu (wildebeest) enter the Mara from the adjacent Serengeti. The Serengeti has dried up, and the Mara being wetter and higher, is still growing the important nutrient grasses. Much, of course, depends upon the weather, but usually this is an outstanding time for game viewing, here.

Day 8: Manyara

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After a final morning game viewing, you drive to Nairobi. via Nairobi, and on to Lake Manyara on the Great Rift Valley. Immediately after you arrive, Jim’s drivers in Tanzanian landrovers will take you into Lake Manyara National Park. Famous for its Lions-in-the-trees, there are many Elephant and unbelievable amounts of birds. Dinner and overnight at Hoopoe’s Camp, perched right on the escarpment overlooking Manyara.

Day 9: Ngorongoro

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After breakfast you continue to Ngorongoro Crater, stopping at a fabric market in the little town of Karatu enroute. For the next 2 nights you’ll stay at one of Tanzania’s most exclusive properties, Crater Lodge. Except for the view of the world’s 8th natural wonder, lunch and dinner will make you think you’re in Europe. Descend the crater for an afternoon game drive, returning to the lodge for an elegant evening.

Day 10: Ngorongoro
You are taken down into the crater before dawn, when the light is best for photography and the chances of seeing some of the last-free ranging Black Rhino are best. The hundred sq. mile crater is a wildlife paradise. More than 20,000 animals live here, including unusually tame Eland, several types of Hyaena, and a great array of birds found particularly near its central lake. The density of Lion is higher here than anywhere else in East Africa. Return to the lodge for a late lunch. This afternoon you can relax, or join your guide on a short hike through the hills of Maasai land.

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Day 11: Tarangire
Morning drive to Tarangire National Park on the other side of Lake Manyara. This is a large park, and the tour arrives at the northern entrance in time for lunch. The afternoon is spent game viewing down to the lovely camp, Swala. For 2 nights you’ll enjoy this exclusive camp, tucked far away from the tourist circuit. There are only 8 luxury tents. After dinner, enjoy a brandy on the deck overlooking the waterhole frequented by Elephant.

Day 12: Tarangire
Being the ideal time for Tarangire, a park defined by its great sand rivers. More than 4000 Elephant migrate into the park to dig in the rivers for water. These are not the approachable Elephant of the sort you will have seen in Samburu, but aggressive tuskers that live most of their life on the Maasai steppe far away from human habitation. The park is also known for its Leopard, and its superb stands of Baobab forests. Meals are provided and you stay overnight at Swala camp.

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Day 13: Nairobi
After breakfast you return to Arusha to begin the series of flights that return you to Nairobi. Following the mid-afternoon arrival, you’ll be transfered to your hotel. Afterwards, you’ll be privately transfered to the airport for the journey home.