9 DAY - KENYA IN STYLE  (Book Now)

Day 1: NAIROBI

On arrival into JKIA you will be met and transferred to your Hotel located in Nairobi’s heart. The Norfolk Hotel has played a leading role in Kenya's colourful history, and continues to be Nairobi's finest and best-known luxury hotel. The town and later the modern city of Nairobi grew up around The Norfolk hotel, which still has its own private tropical gardens. The hotel is still the traditional starting point for safaris and the Lord Delamere Terrace is modern Nairobi's most famous meeting place, where drinks and light meals are served continuously from morning till midnight.

Accommodation - The Norfolk Hotel

Day 2: NAIROBI - MERU NATIONAL PARK (B / L / D)

From Nairobi you will be whisked away to Meru National Park, staying at Elsa’s Kopje, which is almost invisible to the eye as you approach its home on Mughwango Hill. It blends into the rocky crags of the “kopje” (small hill), built above the site of George Adamson’s original campsite. Every cottage is the ultimate ‘room-with-a-view’, uniquely designed and crafted, incorporating the natural features of the rocky hillside. Each cottage has spacious double or twin beds with en suite, elegantly appointed bathrooms. There is an open bar, lounge and dining room with an exceptionally inviting infinity pool overlooking the Meru plains. After lunch at the lodge, you will set out for an afternoon game drive in Meru National Park.

Accommodation - Elsa’s Kopje

Day 3: MOUNT MERU NATIONAL PARK (B / L / D)

Rise early and take a morning game drive before breakfast when wildlife is at its most active. A relatively small park, Meru is part of big protected area along the Tana river, which also encompasses the Kora National Park and several other National Reserves. Popular within the park are large herds of elephants, reticulated giraffes, buffalos, hippos and cheetahs. On the odd occasion the shy white rhino will make an appearance with today’s number estimated at around 40 within the area. Leopards have also been spotted, but like always are hard to spot.

Lunch can be taken at a picnic site or back at the lodge. Nevertheless, late afternoon you will set out on another game drive. With vegetation quite dense in many parts of the park, it means you’ll never know what’s around the corner – making this beautiful park quite thrilling!

As evening light approaches you will return to the lodge for a scrumptious dinner and some refreshing sundowners.
 

Accommodation - Elsa’s Kopje

Day 4: MOUNT MERU NATIONAL PARK - AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK (B / L / D)

Take a scheduled flight back to Nairobi. Fulfil your appetite at the Carnivore restaurant before transferring to Amboseli National Park on an afternoon shared charter flight.

Amboseli is best known for its unrivalled views of Kilimanjaro and the local elephant population. There are over 1000 elephants in the parks eco-system, featuring some of the largest in Africa.

You will stay at Tortilis Camp, which is named after the flat-topped, umbrella thorn tree, the Acacia Tortilis, and is situated in one of Amboseli's areas of Acacia Tortilis woodland. Game drives, walks, sundowners and bush meals take place both in the park, and within a private 30,000-acre game concession. The tents are all large and spacious, with king or twin beds, elegant en suite bathrooms. There is a main lounge, bar and dining area, all exquisitely built with natural materials and thatched roofs, with magnificent views of Kilimanjaro.

Accommodation - Tortilis Camp 

Day 5: AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK (B / L / D)

A traditional bush breakfast awaits for you in the morning before the first game drive of the day. Without a doubt, Amboseli is a photographer’s paradise with the snows of Kilimanjaro, white and crystalline forming a majestic backdrop to one of Kenya’ most spectacular displays of wildlife – lion, elephant, rhino, cheetah buffalo and a host of plain’s game.

Returning back to the lodge for lunch, you will then proceed to the plains late afternoon for further game viewing. But its just not all about this parks incredible game, there is an assortment of other activities to choose from including hiking, bird watching and walking safaris. Visitors can also learn about the culture and way of life of the indigenous Masai population through homestead visits.

Choose to have dinner inside the lodge, or underneath the great starry African sky with the chorus of the bush quietly humming in the background.

Accommodation - Tortilis Camp 

Day 6: AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK - MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE (B / L / D)

Leave the magic of Amboseli behind and transfer to the Masai Mara Game Reserve, renowned for some of best game viewing in the world. Transferring on a scheduled flight you will arrive just in time for lunch at Sanctuary’s Olonana. This award-winning tented camp is situated on a private stretch of the Mara River, at the foot of the impressive Siria Escarpment close to where the famous last scene from "Out of Africa" was filmed. Located close to the border with Tanzania, the game concentration is high - and during the annual wildebeest migration, the action happens right on the camp's doorstep.

Gain a quick glimpse of what’s on offer for the next three days, as you take an afternoon game drive through the reserve.

Accommodation - Olonana Tented Camp

Day 7: MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE (B / L / D)

Rise early and take the option of a balloon safari across the Masai Mara. Take off in the crisp morning air, only to experience a game-viewing adventure with an entirely different perspective. As you silently float across the plains, forest and rivers for approximately an hour, your journey comes to end back on land but accompanied with a fully cooked champagne breakfast.

After an inspiring morning, take a game drive through the reserve. Otherwise return to camp to enjoy many of its luxuries including a library, a pool and even an organic garden where much of the food served in camp is grown. And who could forget the mini-spa where guests can experience traditional African remedies alongside French marine therapies from Thalgo.

Lunch can be taken in Sanctuary Olonana's main dining room and veranda command views over a dramatic stretch of the Mara River. See, and hear, the family of noisy hippos who colonise the banks below the camp. Experience first hand the sheer scale of the annual wildebeest migration across East Africa.

Afternoon game drive and your quintessential sundowners finish off what has been without a doubt an exciting day in the Mara.

Accommodation - Olonana Tented Camp

Day 8: MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE (B / L / D)

Depending on the time of year, we set out early morning for the breathtaking spectacle of ‘the greatest wildlife show on earth’, the awe inspiring annual migration of the wildebeest. The Mara is technically an extension of Tanzania’s renowned Serengeti National Park, but its rolling grasslands, meandering rivers and towering escarpments an endless amount of game viewing. Home to a wide variety of animals, the Mara is also famous for its Big Five. For the bird lovers there are over 450 species that have been identified in the Masai Mara Ecosystem. Depending on the game drive we’ll drive back to the lodge for a late lunch, only to return again to the reserve’s open plains late afternoon for more game viewing and sundowners in the bush.

Accommodation - Olonana Tented Camp

Day 9: MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE - NAIROBI (B)

It may be the last day of safari however your game viewing does not stop. After breakfast, experience an on-route game drive to the airstrip. Transfer to Nairobi on a scheduled flight for connection of your onward international flight.

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