On arrival into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport you are met by Safari Trails Airport Representative
as you disembark off the flight, you will be assisted through immigration and customs. After collecting your luggage you will be transferred to your hotel. Overnight at your hotel.
Overnight at hotel.
Day
2
Nairobi – Tree Hotel
After breakfast, leave Nairobi in the morning to Nyeri, a small but fast growing town in the heart of the coffee growing
and dairy farming area in the so-called former White Highlands of Kenya. After a sumptuous lunch at the base hotel, the
tour leaves for a tree hotel where the evening is spent watching succession of animals that emerge from the forest and
descend on floodlit water hole and salt lick, scuffling and jostling for a good vantage position. At night if you want to
remain awake and watch the show-the Elephants may engage in a show of strength with each other but even they
would be reluctant to challenge the rhino. The herbivores keep their distance from these two competitors. In the case of
Mountain Lodge you arrive directly at the lodge for lunch.
Meals and overnight at a Tree hotel.
You are required to pack an overnight Bag when you transfer to the Ark or Treetops for the night.
Day
3
Aberdare to Mt. Kenya Safari Club.
Breakfast at the Lodge. Morning drive to the magnificent Mount Kenya Safari Club nestled in the foothills of snowcapped
Mount Kenya. Its sprawling colonial design was influenced by the late actor William Holden, who founded the
Club in 1959 with two of his friends. His love for Africa led him to make Kenya his second home for over twenty-five
years. On the way to the Mt. Kenya Safari Club, we stop over at the equator for the Coriolis Demonstration. Lunch at the
club. Afternoon is spent at leisure.
The club has over the years attracted legions of internationally renowned members and guests from the world of politics,
film and theatre. Sir Winston Churchill and Lord Mountbatten were members, and enjoyed sojourns at the club, as have
legends Clark Gable and John Wayne, and more recent celebrities such as Robert Redford, Sean Connery and
Catherine Deneuve. You too will receive the star treatment as you settle into your suite or cosy cottage.
Pay a visit and do not miss the animal orphanage operated by the William Holden Wildlife Foundation. Here wildlife
foundlings are raised with great care and many are quite tame. It is an opportunity to get close to some wild creatures
that despite a struggle have managed to survive.
Dinner and overnight at Mount Kenya Safari Club.
Day
4
Mt. Kenya – Nakuru
After breakfast drive via Nyahururu (Thompson’s Falls) at an altitude of 7,738 feet. The falls are named after the Scots
explorer Joseph Thompson who was the first European to discover the falls in 1884. Then comes the descent into the
Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National park for lunch at one of the hotels. An afternoon drive in the park to enjoy the sight of
pelicans bathing in the fresh water streams which terminate in Lake Nakuru. Since there is no existing drainage, Lake
Nakuru is alkaline, the perfect place for flamingos to feed on the blue-green algae. The greater flamingo attains a height
of about 4.26 feet, its plumage is almost white with a pale pink, black tipped beak. It is the lesser flamingo that has the
more exotic color. About 2.72 ft. in height, with a rosy plumage and dark red, black tipped beak. Lake Nakuru National
Park has a great variety of bird life which includes the Egyptian goose and a variety of ducks that come from Europe to
winter. This park is truly a bird watchers paradise. The game animals include hippo, waterbuck, gazelles, colobus
monkeys, buffalo, leopard and the Rothschild giraffe. The park is also a sanctuary for the white rhino. This park has an
abundance of acacia trees, both yellow barked (fever tree) the umbrella-topped acacia and the candelabra cactus.
All meals and overnight at a lodge/ camp in Nakuru.
Day 5
Nakuru – Masai Mara
After breakfast, drive across the plains to arrive at the Masai Mara National Reserve in time for lunch.
An afternoon drive will doubtless offer a sight of the black-manned lion for which the Mara is famous, sheltering from the
heat. This park has a large concentration of wildlife big and small. The Masai Mara is at the bottom of the Rift Valley.
There is a definite change in vegetation. The trees on the slopes resemble gnarled olive trees, later their place is taken
by flat-topped acacia.
Meals and overnight at a lodge/ camp in Mara.
Day 6
Nakuru – Masai Mara
A full day of game viewing and exploring in this Kenya’s finest reserve or alternatively a morning game drive followed by
an afternoon swim in the cool water of the hotel swimming pool. You may witness the lion making a kill or a leopard
enjoying the meal he had dragged up the tree with him. The vegetation is mostly savanna type with forested areas near
the rivers and of course the dwarf acacias to cater for the giraffes. More than 60 species of animals are found here and
countless bird species, this includes the Masai ostrich and the secretary bird. This is where the great migration of the
wildebeest takes place.
Meals and overnight at a lodge / camp in Mara.
Day 7
Masai Mara – Nairobi; Depart Nairobi
On arrival into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport you are met by Safari Trails Airport Representative
as you disembark off the flight, you will be assisted through immigration and customs. After collecting your luggage you will be transferred to your hotel. Overnight at your hotel.
