15 Days in Kenya Including Diani beach

DAY 1

NAIROBI

JAMBO! Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, you will be met by Classic Journeys Africa Customer Care Representative who will assist you with the transfer to your hotel. Before checking in at hotel, he will brief you on your program ahead and introduce the Driver Guide who will be with you throughout the safari.

Accommodation: Tamarind Tree Hotel – Nairobi

Meals: Breakfast

Day 2

AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

This morning you will drive to Amboseli National Park which is famous for its large elephant population roaming across the vast grassy plains, the big five, and the majestic views of Mt. Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa among other species of flora and fauna.

Arrive at Amboseli in time for lunch at Ol Tukai Lodge, which is one of the best spots in the world to watch elephant with the backdrop of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. Ol Tukai and the surrounding Amboseli National Park are best described ‘as a home for the Gods’. The lodge is Eco-rated for having excellent outdoor and indoor facilities with its unique collection of African art.

Enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive in the park. You drive through across this vast lake bed, often dry but swampy in some areas. We have a lot of game here like cheetah, buffalo, giraffe, gazelles and herds of elephants all set against the amazing back drop of majestic Mount Kilimanjaro showing all its

Accommodation: Ol Tukai Lodge

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 3

AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

Full day spent viewing game starting with a morning and afternoon game drive. Weather permitting, the clouds will shear off, leaving you with a mesmerized by the majesty of Mt. Kilimanjaro and its gleaming snow-caped peaks offering a good photographic scenery coupled with animals on the ground. Its harbors elephants, buffaloes, hippos, lions, cheetah, hyenas, jackals, gazelles, wildebeest, warthogs. In between game drive, you will relax by the pool side followed by lunch.

Later after your afternoon game drive, you will have an optional stopover at Masai Boma (extra payment) or head back to the lodge to relax at the swimming pool.

Accommodation: Ol Tukai Lodge

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 4

Ol Pajeta

After breakfast at your lodge, you will check out, have a game drive enroute as you head to Ol Pajeta Conservancy. The conservancy is a sanctuary for apes including chimpanzees, houses the largest black rhino in Kenya with over 100 remaining black rhino and two remaining white rhinos in the world. Arrive in time for lunch at Serena Sweet waters camp, located within the sprawling Ol Pajeta Conservancy. One of Kenya’s most noteworthy conservancies and home to the big five. The camp offers an elegant retreat amid the breathtaking natural beauty of the conservancy. The camp has 56 tents inclusive of standard wing and the deluxe Morani wing, designed with charming thatched roofs, solid floors and interior canvas.

You will have an afternoon game drive in search of the ‘Big Five’. Watch a parade of elephant, giraffe, zebra and impala come to drink at the camp’s floodlit waterhole and saltlick. Optional activities abound, you may choose to go on a night drive in search of nocturnal species, go on a nature walk or join a rhino patrol with experienced armed rangers to find and monitor black rhino. This you will also visit the 200-acre Chimpanzee sanctuary that has been set up here. Dinner and overnight at Serena Sweetwater’s camp.

Accommodation: Serena Sweetwater’s Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 5: SAMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE

After breakfast, you will drive north of the equator to 'Born Free' country where Joy and George Adamson raised Elsa the lion cub in the wild and beautiful Shaba National Reserve which along with Buffalo Springs is part of the area known as 'Samburu'.

Arrive in time for lunch at the luxurious Ashnil Samburu camp, which is framed by the spectacular backdrop of the mighty Olokwe Mountain and sitting alongside the Ewaso Nyiro river. A stay here gives you an unrivalled access to game viewing. The waters of the great Ewaso Nyiro river draw wildlife in great numbers to its banks, creating an oasis of green.

Spend the afternoon discovering the unique wildlife of the reserve, which is famous for its elephants and lions. Return to the lodge in time to relax before dinner in the restaurant which is raised on timbered stilts overlooking the Ewaso Nyiro River.

Accommodation: Ashnil Samburu Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 6

SAMBURU NATIONAL RESERVE

After breakfast, you will leave for a full day safari in the reserve. Irrigated by the river, which is home to numerous hippo and crocodiles Shaba offers sanctuary to large herds of elephant, healthy numbers of lion, leopard, cheetah, plentiful plains game, reticulated giraffe, rare Beisa Oryx, kudu and gerenuk. It is also one of the few reserves in which you can see the Grevy’s zebra (rather than the more common Burchell's zebra found elsewhere) and the critically endangered wild dog. Offering 100 species of birds, the reserve is also home to the rare blue-shanked Somali ostrich.

Alternatively, have a Masai village visit before heading back to your camp for dinner and overnight.

Accommodation: Ashnil Samburu Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 7

LAKE ELEMENTAITA

This morning, you will drive to the great rift valley, have a stop-over at Thompsons fall in Nyahururu, Laikipia have your lunch at panari resort and later enjoy a scenic view of the falls from above. The water flowing the falls, makes it easy for hippos to swim. Upstream from the falls is one of the highest hippo pools in Kenya.

You shall continue with your drive to “dust place” a soda lake in the Great Rift valley. The lake is between Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha on Soysambu Conservancy.

The conservancy is home to well-known species of birds such as pelican and the flamingo, has one of the highest densities of game such as colobus monkey. lunch at the luxurious Lake Elementaita Serena

DAY 8

LAKE ELEMENTAITA

After breakfast, you will depart for a safari in Kenya's first and largest rhino sanctuary where sightings of both black and white rhino are almost guaranteed and where you have a higher-than-average chance of spotting a leopard. Other wildlife includes; lion, hippo, the rare Rothschild's giraffe, Colobus monkey, numerous plains game and 450 species of birds.

Have an afternoon visit to Lake Naivasha, an ideal place for boat ride and a bird lovers paradise. Expect to see a haven of birds in addition to Giraffes, Zebras and hippos on the shore. Afterwards, proceed for a walk to Crescent Island famous for the film “Out of Africa”. You will encounter wildlife such as hippos, zebra, giraffes, and birds such as spoonbills, heron.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Elementaita Serena Camp.

Accommodation: Lake Elementaita Serena Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 9

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

After breakfast, you shall leave the camp and drive to the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve, backdrop to ‘the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth’, the annual migration of over one million wildebeest. Arrive in time for lunch at Loyk Mara Camp, which is situated in one of the most picturesque places of Olare conservancy on the bank of river Ntiakitiak which boarders the Masai lands and Masai Mara Game Reserve. After lunch, you will depart for an afternoon game drive in Kenya’s most popular reserve.

Arrive back in camp in time for campfire cocktails and dinner.

Overnight: Loyk Mara

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 10 & 11

MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Your day will be spent on safari in Africa’s richest wildlife viewing arena. Historically teeming with wildlife, the Mara hosts Kenya’s largest lion prides and elephant herds. Other predators include leopard, cheetah and spotted hyena; while in the Mara River you will see fat pods of hippo and vast Nile crocodiles.

Other highlights include giraffe tops, gazelle, zebra, buffalo and over 550 species of birds.

Spend the afternoon on safari in Kenya’s most popular reserve. Alternatively, have Visit to Masai mara village and get learn the Masai culture at an extra cost.

Arrive back in camp in time for campfire cocktails and dinner.

Overnight: Loyk Mara Camp

Meal Plan: Full Board

DAY 12

DIANI

After breakfast, you will be transferred to Ol Kiombo Airstrip for your flight (Mombasa Air) to Diani. Upon arrival at Ukunda Airstrip, you will be met by our classic journey representative. He will brief you and afterwards transfer you to the Luxurious Baobab Beach Resort, which lies on a cliff-top, overlooking the famous Diani Beach, 38km from Mombasa. Set within 80 acres of indigenous forest in Kenya’s South Coast

Dinner and overnight stay at Baobab Beach Resort.

Overnight: Baobab Beach Resort

Meal Plan: Half Board

DAY 13 & 14: DIANI

Breakfast at the hotel and later spend the rest of the day at leisure enjoying the hotel facilities and unwinding at the beach. The beach is in the south coast and has been crowned Africa’s leading beach destination.

Spend your day relaxing on the beach or by the pool, exploring the local village or taking part in activities offered which you can arrange directly with the hotel, (e.g., snorkeling. Scuba diving, spa treatment and swimming with dolphins, etc.)

Diani Beach is located 30km south of Mombasa, the beach is surrounded by the warm Indian Ocean, with countless beach resorts. Rolling white sands perfect for sunbathing, jet skiing, crystal clear water for snorkeling and an abundance of wildlife to discover such as black and white colobus Monkey and aquatic plants such as coral Reefs.

Overnight: Baobab Beach Resort

Meal Plan: Half Board

DAY 15

BAOBAB BEACH RESORT

After breakfast, have your morning at leisure. Transfer to Mombasa Airport for your onward travel. END OF OUR SERVICES.

Say good bye to the wonderful guide and promise to join us on another expedition!