Classic Bespoke and Intimate Safari 2024

DAY 1

ARRIVAL /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.

Your accommodation is a delightful, good-value guest hotel, in a very quiet, pleasant location Karen, and has been popular with our travellers for many years. The house having only six rooms makes it easy – if you're a solo traveller, or just like mixing – to meet others and share experiences. The pool is lovely on a hot afternoon and the always-open bar and excellent menu of snacks and main dishes are fine assets.

Overnight Macushla House

Bed and Breakfast

http://macushla.biz/

DAY 2

NAIROBI EXCURSIONS

After breakfast and a short briefing by your guide start off your Nairobi excursions where you will visit the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage which has a nursery and rehab center for infant elephants that have lost their families, as well as the occasional rhino, zebra and other wildlife. Daphne was the first person to successfully raise an orphan infant elephant, discovering a formula that has now been used widely. The widow of the famous naturalist and warden of Tsavo from 1948 to 1976, David Sheldrick, Daphne has dedicated her life to conservation. These infants are eventually released into the wild at Tsavo East National Park and end up in the care of other orphans who have been successfully reintroduced to the wild.

Lunch will be served at Carnivore Restaurant famous for its mouthwatering charcoal grilled barbeque before proceeding to the AFEW Giraffe Center, visit a nature center run by the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife. An elevated observation walkway allows you to get face to face with 18-foot-tall Rothschild’s giraffes. In 1974 Jock Leslie-Melville, grandson of a Scottish earl, and his wife Betty founded the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW) and proceeded to move five babies of the highly endangered Rothschild giraffe to their property where they have been successfully reared and have since produced their own offspring. Betty chronicled these events in her book, Raising Daisy Rothschild.

Visit Karen Blixen Museum famed by the Oscar winning movie ‘Out of Africa’, finally visit the Kazuri beads factory /optional shopping in Karen before proceeding back to your hotel for overnight.

Overnight Macushla House

Half Board

DAY 3

MASAI MARA

This morning after breakfast you will be transferred to Wilson where you will fly on AirKenya to the Mara departing at 0845hrs to arrive Mara at 1015hrs.Transfer to your camp for lunch and check in with a game viewing en route. You will then spend the afternoon at leisure before going for an evening game drive till dusk when you return to your camp.

Your accommodation Eagle View Camp is located on an escarpment, with sweeping views that overlook the Koiyaki Plains, a natural salt lick and watering hole all providing a common hunting site for predators and unique game viewing perspectives. With this modern eco-camp, we invite you to gaze towards the future of sustainable tourism.

The camp overlooks a natural waterhole where the wild animals come to drink. The area is one of Africa’s prime game viewing destinations with all year-round abundant wildlife as well as home to the highest population of lions in Africa.

Overnight Eagle View Camp

Full Board, mineral water, Airstrip, transfers, shared game drives, night game drives and guided walking safari

DAY 4

MASAI MARA

Enjoy private game viewing drives in the main Mara reserve. The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savannah- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.

Overnight Eagle View Camp

Full Board, mineral water, Airstrip, transfers, shared game drives, night game drives and guided walking safari

https://www.basecampexplorer.com/kenya/hotels/eagle-view/

DAY 5

MASAI MARA

Your day will be spent on safari in the private Naibosho Conservancy part of Mara Reserve. 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.

Take the opportunity to fly over the Mara in a Hot air Balloon at an extra cost. The balloon package includes a champagne breakfast in the wild! If you can spare the money, viewing abundant game afloat a balloon is an unforgettable experience. Alternatively visit a Masai village and get learn the Masai culture at an extra cost.

Overnight Eagle View Camp

Full Board, mineral water, Airstrip, transfers, shared game drives, night game drives and guided walking safari

https://www.basecampexplorer.com/kenya/hotels/eagle-view/

DAY 6

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast this morning you will be transferred to Naibosho Airstrip at 0910hrs where you will fly Migori arriving at 0930hrs. Upon arrival at Migori you will have a 30 minute road transfer to Isebania Immigrations and customs office then clear with the Immigration officials. At 1045hrs you will depart from Tarime airstrip arriving Serengeti at 1120hrs where your Tanzania guides will be eagerly waiting for you. You will be transferred to your camp with a game viewing en route. Lunch will be at your camp followed by relaxation. Later enjoy an afternoon classic safari supper in the Serengeti National Park.

Overnights: Mara Under Canvas

Tanganyika Wilderness Camp- http://twctanzania.com

DAY 7

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

After breakfast, enjoy game driving (meals taken in true safari style ‘in the bush’) in the vast and sensational Serengeti, which covers 14,763 sq km of endlessly rolling savannah. Venue for ‘the greatest wildlife show on Earth’, the annual migration of over one million wildebeest, the park is also renowned for its lions, cheetahs, zebras, giraffes and plains game. Overnight at the camp.

Overnights: Mara Under Canvas

Tanganyika Wilderness Camp- http://twctanzania.com

DAY 8

NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA

This morning depart to the famous Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area (NCCA), which features rolling plains, lakes, craters, mountains and dormant volcanoes. Stopping en route at Ol Duvai Gorge. Known as the ‘Cradle of Mankind’, this is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world. Pioneered by famous paleontologists Louis and Mary Leakey in the 1950s it offers a glimpse into life two million years ago enjoy picnic lunch boxes enroute. Arrive at your camp; enjoy an afternoon at leisure with an optional visit to the Masai village to learn about their unique culture.

Overnight Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp

Full Board Accommodation

https://www.tortiliscamps.com/ngorongoro-tortilis-camp

DAY 9

NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA

After breakfast, descend into the ‘8th Wonder of the World’, a unique biosphere that has remained virtually unchanged since the dawn of time. Enclosed within its towering walls are grasslands, swamps, forests, saltpans, a fresh water lake and a glorious variety of birdlife. Here too are all the members of the ‘Big Five’ (lion, elephant, rhino, leopard and buffalo) as well as a large cast of plains game and one of Africa’s densest populations of predators. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor before climbing back up to the lodge in time for relaxation before dinner.

Your accommodation is in the middle of the Tanzanian wilderness and is something people find difficult to imagine. But you will find it here! Its name comes from the nearby Ngorongoro Crater, one of the natural wonders of the world and from the distinctive tortilis tree of the Serengeti. The tortilis spreads its branches like an umbrella, offering shelter – an appropriate name for a camp where you will find every available comfort, together with the warmest of welcomes. At Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp you will enjoy an unforgettable, unparalleled ambience, a sense of being ‘right there’ in the heart of Mother Nature. Relax and reflect on the excitement of the day; dine and sleep beneath African skies, and enjoy a truly unforgettable safari camp experience

Overnight Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp

Full Board Accommodation

https://www.tortiliscamps.com/ngorongoro-tortilis-camp

DAY 10

DEPARTURE

Drive to Arusha. Following lunch at Arusha Coffee Lodge spend time doing last minute shopping for souvenirs, later you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight back home and hope to see you in the near future!

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