9 DAYS KENYA SAFARI BUCHUMA
Overview
DURATION
Kenya Safari 9 Days 8 Nights
ROUTING
Nairobi – Lake Nakuru (1) – Masai Mara (2) – Lake Naivasha (1) – Amboseli (2) – Tsavo West (1) – Tsavo East (1) – Nairobi or Beach Extension
SAFARI OVERVIEW
On this 9 Days safari with Quest Holidays DMC, discover the natural beauty of Kenya, experience the finest game viewing, and explore six of Kenya’s iconic safari areas: Lake Nakuru National Park, Masai Mara National Reserve, Lake Naivasha, Amboseli National Park, Tsavo West National Park and Tsavo East National Park.
Safari Highlights
- Watch the tens of thousands of flamingos that flock to the shores of Lake Nakuru
- Visit Masai Mara, a land of breathtaking vistas, abundant wildlife, and endless landscapes
- Take a boat safari in Naivasha and enjoy bird watching, eagle feeding and hippo viewing.
- Encounter herds of large tusked elephants and view Africa’s tallest mountain in Amboseli.
- Tour home to Man eaters, magnificent scenery, and the Mzima Springs in Tsavo West
- Watch large herds of the red-dusted Elephants at the “Theatre of the Wild” in Tsavo East.
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Exclusive safari for you
- This is a private safari for you and your exclusive party
- You can change travel dates, upgrade accommodations, and customize the itinerary.
- Transportation is using a customized 4 x 4 Safari Land Cruiser for your comfort
- Your dedicated private safari guide will bring unrivaled knowledge to your safari and ensure your African adventure goes beyond your wildest expectations.
Included/
- Meet and greet in Nairobi
- Pick up from Nairobi airport on Day 1
- Drop off at the airport on the last day
- Private Transportation in a private 4 x 4 land cruiser
- Vehicle with pop-up roof for photography
- Guaranteed window seat
- Services of a professional safari guide (English). * Language specific guide drivers are available upon request (French, German, Italian, Spanish, Chinese & Japanese)
- All park entrance fees
- Memorable game-viewing drives in Kenya's renowned parks
- Accommodation in Kenya safari lodges and tented camps
- All meals (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner) while on safari
- One way first class train ticket (Voi to Nairobi) on the last day
- Complimentary Bottled water provided in the vehicle while on safari
- Complimentary Authentic Branded Safari Hat and safari essentials pack
- Complimentary AMREF Flying Doctors Medical Evacuation cover while on safari
- All government taxes
- Free Wi-Fi in featured hotels
- 24-hour stand-by contact number and support
Excluded
- Kenya Electronic Travel Authorization (eTA) application
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour (Email victor@questholidaysdmc.com to arrange for this)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, additional visa fees, etc.)
- International flight
- Government-imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees,
- Tips (Tipping guideline for safari guide US$10 00 pp per day)
- Masai Mara – Hot Air balloon safari, Maasai tribe village tour, Guided bush walks and more
- Amboseli National Park – Guided bush walks, sundowner, bush meals, Hot Air balloon safari
Tour Plan
JAMBO! Karibu Kenya
This morning a customer care representative from Quest Holidays DMC will meet you at Nairobi’s Airport (JKIA) or your city hotel. After a short briefing on the events ahead, greet our expert safari guide and depart Lake Nakuru National Park. Arrive and embark on a game-viewing drive before being transferred to your safari lodge or tented camp for lunch. Relax at leisure in the afternoon then venture back to the park for another game-viewing experience until dusk.
Lake Nakuru is famously known for its large flocks of flamingos, which gather along the shores to feed on the abundant algae. The lake is also a significant breeding ground and stopover for many species of birds and has been designated a UNESCO World Heritage Site. The park hosts one of the largest black rhino concentrations in the country. Other Indigenous mammals seen in the park include the spotted hyena, lion, leopard, hippopotamus (in the north-eastern corner), rock hyrax, bat-eared fox, wildcat, golden cat, Bohor reedbuck, defassa waterbuck, colobus monkey, Rothschild’s giraffe, and white rhinoceros.
Overnight - Lake Nakuru National Park
Meals Included - Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Game viewing, park fees, private transport (4x4 Landcruiser), bottled water
Your drive now takes you to the Masai Mara, Kenya’s most famous wildlife reserve. Arrive and embark on a game-viewing drive as you are transferred to your lodge or tented camp for lunch. You will have some time to relax before heading out for a game-viewing drive until sunset. Masai Mara, also known as the “Jewel of Africa,” is inhabited by many of Africa's most popular wild animals, including lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, cape buffalo, and rhinoceros, as well as giraffes, hippos, hyenas, Nile crocodiles, wildebeest, zebra, gazelles, antelopes, and more.
Overnight - Masai Mara National Reserve
Meals Included - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Game viewing, park fees, private transport (4x4 Landcruiser), bottled water
Spend the day exploring Masai Mara. During the game drive, our knowledgeable safari guide will introduce you to life in the savanna and share their infinite knowledge about African wildlife. The wildlife viewing is superb throughout the year. Observe massive crocodiles basking in the sun, see the graceful hippos wallowing in muddy water, and catch the antics of mischievous monkeys overhead. Watch, too, as the African savannah elephants roam along the forest edge and spot cheetahs in the open savannah eyeing off their next meal. The yearly wildebeest migration (July to September) coming through the park is one of the world’s most amazing wildlife spectacles.
Overnight - Masai Mara National Reserve
Meals Included - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Game viewing, park fees, private transport (4x4 Landcruiser), bottled water
Today we depart for Lake Naivasha. Arrival for lunch at your hotel. In the afternoon, take a Boat Safari at Lake Naivasha, the highest lake in the Rift Valley. Fringed by papyrus and with the extinct Mount Longonot as a backdrop, this is a wonderful place to watch and photograph birds. The waters themselves are home to wallowing hippopotamuses.
You will also visit Crescent Island Game Sanctuary. Easily combined with the Boat Safari, a visit to the Crescent Island offers a rare chance to literally walk with the animals. The island sanctuary isn't home to any predators, so you can safely trade the safari car for your own two feet as you wander alongside zebras, giraffes, and wildebeest!
Overnight - Lake Naivasha
Meals Included - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Boat safari, Walking Safari at Crescent Island Game Sanctuary, private transport (4x4 Landcruiser)
This morning drive to Amboseli National Park. Arrive at the park and embark on a game viewing drive as you are transferred to your safari lodge or tented camp for lunch. Spend the afternoon on game viewing drive until sunset.
A scenic park in its own right, Amboseli is synonymous with two particular things – majestic herds of elephant and glorious views of Mount Kilimanjaro with its impressive Uhuru Peak soaring to 19,341 feet. Waters running down from Mount Kilimanjaro create perennial swamps and wetlands that are a feature of the park, and draw the dense concentration of elephants which number over 1000. The park is also home to more than 50 other mammal species, including lion and cheetah, plus herds of zebra, wildebeest and their predators.
Overnight - Amboseli National Park
Meals Included - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Game viewing, park fees, private transport (4x4 Landcruiser), bottled water
Enjoy your day on morning and afternoon game drives, crisscrossing the landscape in search of elephants, zebras, and wildebeests along the saltpan trails. Climb The Observation Hill, which allows an overall view of the whole park especially the swamps which are a center of activity for elephants, hippos, buffaloes, and abundant water birds. The surrounding flat grasslands are home to grazing antelopes. Prepare for predator sightings, as opportunistic animals begin roaming the plains in search of prey. Spotted hyenas, as are jackals, warthogs, olive baboons, and vervet monkeys, are plentiful.
Overnight - Amboseli National Park
Meals Included - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Game viewing, park fees, private transport (4x4 Landcruiser),bottled water
Leave Amboseli and depart for Tsavo, Kenya’s oldest national park dating to 1948. The joint mass of Tsavo West and Tsavo East National Parks forms one of the largest national parks in the world totalling nearly 22,000 square kilometres. Tsavo West offers magnificent game viewing wildlife attractions include elephant, rhino, hippos, lions, cheetah, leopards, buffalos, diverse plant and bird species including the threatened corncrake and near threatened Basra Reed Warbler. The savannah ecosystem comprises of open grasslands, scrublands, and acacia woodlands, belts of riverine vegetation and rocky ridges including the Poacher's Lookout where visitors can see the teeming herds in the plains below.
Overnight - Tsavo West National Park
Meals Included - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Game viewing, park fees, private transport (4x4 Landcruiser),bottled water
Start your day by visiting the biggest attraction in Tsavo West; Mzima Springs. With luck, you’ll see the unforgettably comic tip-toeing of an underwater hippo, or the sinuous, streamlined stealth of a crocodile in motion, as well as the blue swirl of large fish.
Cross over to the neighbouring Tsavo East National Park. On arrival, embark on a game viewing drive as you are transferred to your lodge or tented camp for lunch. Spend the afternoon at leisure followed by an afternoon game viewing drive in the park.
The sight of dust-red elephant wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with the midnight blue waters of palm-shaded Galana River is one of the most evocative images in Africa. The park forms the largest protected area in Kenya and is home to most of the larger mammals, vast herds of dust –red elephant, Rhino, buffalo, lion, leopard, pods of hippo, crocodile, waterbucks, lesser Kudu, gerenuk and the prolific bird life features 500 recorded species.
Overnight - Tsavo East National Park
Meals Included - Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Other Inclusions - Game Viewing. Underground Hippo and Fish Watching at Mzima Springs , private transport (4x4 Landcruiser)
After breakfast, check out from your safari lodge and bid farewell to Tsavo East National Park. You will be transferred to Voi Train Terminus. Board the morning train at 0955hrs to Nairobi arriving at 1410hrs. You will be met and transferred to the airport for your international flight back home.
Drop off - Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Wilson Airport, or Nairobi Hotel
Meals Included - Breakfast
Optional Beach Extension
Alternatively, board the afternoon train to Mombasa at 1200hrs arriving at 1400hrs. Upon arrival at Mombasa Train Terminus, our guide will meet you and assist with a transfer to your beach hotel in Mombasa’s famous beaches, Diani beach, Watamu or Malindi beaches.