Daily Departures

  This indulgent, Kenyan adventure compacts Kenya's three most diverse wildernesses into a short flying safari, with three 3-night stands. This allows you to truly savor an area by getting to know it. The program uses only small, boutique luxury camps where a stay is often remembered for the camp as well as the game. And at such private locations a number of unique activities are included, like game walks, night drives, camel excursions and village visits.

Experience the traditional scrubland of Tsavo, to the semi-arid desert of Samburu, and finally to Kenya's greatest park, the Maasai Mara. At each location you're met by the camps' own staffs and vehicles and ensured of the type of intimate and unmatched experience that only guides and drivers who spend their lives in one place can provide.

The prices include: ** Meals as detailed in brackets following each day's description below; ** Five local flights: Nairobi to Tsavo East; Tsavo East to Nairobi, Nairobi to Samburu, Samburu to the Mara, and the Mara back to Nairobi; ** All park entrance fees, VAT and other government taxes; ** Comprehensive pre-trip material with discount coupons for travel gear and equipment. Additional expenses not included: - Meals not included; - All beverages; - Requisite visas and other travel preparations like inoculations; - Tipping.

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You will be personally met and privately transferred to Nairobi's legendary Norfolk Hotel, whenever you arrive. Optional sightseeing can be arranged or you might inquire once you arrive. Nairobi's modern metropolis offers a great range of fine dining.  [no meals]

This morning you will fly south from Nairobi into legendary safari country, the great Tsavo National Park. The flight lands in Tsavo West, where you'll be met by a private safari vehicle, specially outfitted for game viewing with a pop-top roof to ensure sun protection. You'll travel immediately to Mzima Springs, a famous Tsavo lake fed by crystal clear waters running off Mt. Kilimanjaro. Enjoy a walk around the lake as you view crocodiles, monkeys and hippos. Return to the popular Kilaguni Lodge for lunch, and in the afternoon you game view through Tsavo West to Tsavo East national park, to begin three luxurious days at the elegant Galdessa Camp. Dinner and overnight in camp.  [b-l-d]

With your private safari vehicle, you're in charge of how you'd like to game view. You can go out all day with picnics or return frequently to camp for meals. Tsavo is Kenya's biggest park and it has its biggest elephant, and you're certain to encounter them. But you'll also see the cats, buffalo, zebra, giraffe and much more. Your camp is one of the most beautiful and intimate in all of Kenya, and many guests enjoy time just spent in camp, relaxing along the beautiful Galana River. Meals and overnight at Galdessa Camp.  [b-l-d]

Attractions near camp include the great Lugard Falls where some of Kenya's largest crocodile live. The camp also offers optional game walks in addition to your included game drives. Meals and overnight at Galdessa Camp.  [b-l-d]

Private charter flight to Nairobi, where you connect to the morning flight to Nanyuki, the airport for the famous Mt. Kenya Safari Club. You'll be privately met and transferred to the Club for lunch, with accommodations in the prestigious River Suites. The Club is now a part of the Fairmont Hotel family, and the new renovations at the resort rival those Fairmont is undertaking in Dubai and Montreal. The afternoon is free and there is a wide range of activities available to you, from golf to horse riding and fly fishing. The resort offers a range of unique spa treatments as well. Dinner and overnight at the club.  [b-l-d]

The morning is free at the club. After lunch your driver/guide will have arrived from Tsavo to continue your journey north into Kenya's Great Northern Frontier. Your first stop is the nearby Nanyuki Weavers, where you'll be introduced to one of Kenya's most successful self-help projects. Here nearly a 100 single moms have learned how to weave gorgeous articles from the area's prime wool, and they are all for sale. Continue on a magnificent drive around Mt. Kenya onto the windswept desert. At first you might wonder what on earth you're doing in this desolate land where you see at first nothing but camels and red-draped herdboys. Then you arrive the Ewaso Nyiro River and the desert blooms into the grand Samburu National Park. Game view through the park to the boutique Larsen's Camp for dinner and overnight.  [b-l-d]

Game viewing is at your discretion, although your driver/guide will have the most current information about the whereabouts of the animals. In Samburu you'll see all the big game, but many rare and beautiful animals are found only here. This includes the reticulated giraffe and Grevy's zebra. Along the river are crocodiles and usually large families of elephant. There will be time if you like to ride a camel or visit a Samburu village. Meals and overnight at Larsen's Camp.  [b-l-d]

Your camp is the finest in Samburu, a small complex of less than 20 Moroccan tents that billow over a spacious hotel room of every convenience. You look out over the Ewaso Nyiro River, where a never-ending parade of Africa unfolds. There is a small swimming pool and raised lookout hide. The gourmet dining rivals the finest establishments in Kenya. The entire complex sits under towering acacia trees filled with monkeys. Meals and overnight at Larsen's Camp.  [b-l-d]

Your faithful driver/guide delivers you to the Samburu airstrip this morning, then bids you goodbye as you begin the final part of your journey. Your flight skims past the glaciers of Mt. Kenya and over the flamingo-filled Rift lakes and lands in Kenya's finest park, the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. You'll be met by a Landrover and guide and taken into Sala's Camp for lunch. In the afternoon you begin your game viewing in this expansive wilderness packed with game. Dinner and overnight in camp.  [b-l-d]

Game drives are available to you as you wish, and some go out for long periods with picnics while other guests prefer to return to camp for meals. The intimacy of your own private tent replete with all its modern conveniences makes an ideal place to just rest and relax. The setting along the river with its towering trees draws animals right into camp! Meals and overnight at Sala's Camp.  [b-l-d]

After a final morning of game viewing you return to the airstrip for the late morning flight scheduled to arrive Nairobi at noon. You will be personally met and privately transferred to the Norfolk Hotel where your room is available for as long as you may need it. Later this evening your transfer agent will return to take you to the airport for the overnight departures to Europe.  [b- - ]

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During your time in the Maasai Mara you can optionally book a hot air balloon ride over the herds as well as a village visit. On this last day you'll be able to roam far and wide, if you like, in search of the Mara's great herds. At any time of the year the Mara is a hotbed of activity and the region has the highest density of cats found in Africa. The famous black-maned lion of the Mara is the star of most African television specials! Meals and overnight at Sala's Camp.  [b-l-d]