This 5-day safari takes you through Southern Kenya towards the Amboseli National Park, which lies in the shadows of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain and Tsavo National Parks - one of the wildest places left on Earth. The safari can also be customized to start at Kenyan coast ending in Nairobi.
Pick up from your Nairobi hotel/residence or Nairobi airport at 7:00am. Depart for Amboseli National Park via the Nairobi-Mombasa road and enjoy a drive via typical African savanna country dotted with local homesteads and colorful Masai herdsmen grazing their cattle. We will arrive at the lodge with enough time to settle in before lunch with a little time to relax before we head out for our evening game drive between 1600hrs to 1830hrs. We explore one of Kenya's most popular tourist parks for the opportunity to see animals against the backdrop of Africa's highest mountain, Kilimanjaro. The elephants are the kings of the park, no doubt, they are fond of the swamp areas in the park, where they share the cool waters with the hippos and hide beneath the papyrus.
Today we rise early for breakfast and leave the camp with our picnic lunch boxes ready for a great full day adventure. The park is home to a large resident population of Burchell’s zebras. Other herbivores include Thomson’s and Grants gazelles, buffalo, warthog, Maasai giraffe, impala, water buck and dik-dik. Baboons and Vervet monkeys inhabit the scarce woodlands. Carnivores are represented by lions, spotted hyenas, wild cats, jackals, caracals and cheetahs. With regards to birds, more than 400 species of birds have been registered, among which outstand pelican, flamingo, kingfisher, African fish eagle, ibis, secretary bird, crowned crane, grey and Goliath herons, cattle egret, black-winged stilt, little grebe, Egyptian goose, martial.
Rise up early for breakfast, check out and depart Amboseli National Park for Tsavo West National Park via the Shetani lava flow. We will arrive at camp with enough time to settle in before lunch with a little time to relax before we head out for our evening game drive between 1600hrs to 1830hrs. Tsavo West is wetter and topographically more varied with some of the most beautiful scenery in the northern reaches of the park. Highlights here are Mzima Springs, a series of natural springs with large populations of hippos and crocodiles, Chaimu Crater, and a great spot for spotting birds of prey. Wildlife is not as easy to see in Tsavo West because of the dense vegetation, but the beautiful scenery more than compensates.
Rise up early for breakfast, check out and depart Tsavo West National Park for Tsavo East National Park. We will arrive at camp with enough time to settle in before lunch with a little time to relax before we head out for our evening game drive between 1600hrs to 1830hrs. Tsavo East National Park is famous for photo-worthy sightings of large elephant herds rolling and bathing in red dust. The palm-fringed Galana River twists through the park providing excellent game viewing and a lush counterpoint to the arid plains. Other highlights here include the Yatta Plateau, the world's longest lava flow, Mudanda Rock, and the Lugard Falls, which spill into rapids and crocodile-filled pools.
You spend this last morning in the Tsavo East National Park admiring the unspoiled Africa as you prepare for a drop off to your Mombasa/Diani/Malindi hotel or residence bringing to an end what we hope shall be a safari of your lifetime. We hope to welcome you back to magical Kenya! And as we say here, ?Karibu Tena?.