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will please you with serious, competence, the whole in relaxation.
YES, we have a particular
safari for you!!! The program... do it yourself! It is simple. Would you like a brochure ? You still haven't understood!! I don't have any!!! My travel philosophy is simple-it's YOUR safari!!!
In other words, your desires plus my experience equal your adventure. Tell me what you want, how many people and the number of days you intend to stay in Kenya and I will create your unique encounter with East Africa.
The cost will vary according to your choice of safari, but the lowest package starts from USD 300 per person per day.
It is great of you to have the will to visit Kenya, and everything will be done so that you could appreciate each minute of this trip. First, it is your trip: everything will happen according to your wishes and to your own tempo!
Your trip will be “à la carte”. I shall welcome you on arrival at Nairobi Airport and I shall accompany you all along the safari in a friendly and relaxed atmosphere at your tempo. The bush aircraft, a six seat Cessna 206, equipped for all terrains, it is fully part of the safari, and I manage to make every flight a wonder. You will fly the plane, you will hols the joystick each one in his turn on the co-pilot seat and perhaps when you are back home, you will enrol for a course in a flying school!
As soon as landed in the very reserve’s heart, a 4-wheel drive vehicle with an opening top for photo-safaris will await you for the discovery of wildlife. In addition, the all terrain aircraft will enable you to have astonishing meetings with Masais and other tribes, depending on places visited. Circuits will be embellished with nice walks and visits of bush villages and local markets.
If you wish to undertake activities such as quad, motorcycle, rafting, Kite-surf, sailing, flight on micro light, everything is possible.
Apart from safaris, I use my micro lights for animal counting and to shoot documentary films. Thereby, I know well wildlife migration tracks.
Day 1 : Transfer to Wilson Airport at the famous Flying-Club of East Africa; relax and take-off towards Samburu; 1h20 wonderful flight passing round the Easter side of Mount Kenya. A 4-wheel drive will wait our landing on the Samburu bush airstrip to take us on safari to Bedouin Camp or Elephant watch. Settling at the top first class tented camp, Karen Blixen style, looking down upon the magnificent Ewaso_Ngiro River and the scene of animals quenching their thirst in it. This shallow river, fed by waters flowing out of Mount Kenya and Aberdare Massif, is not an impediment for elephants who cross it frequently.
Located at an altitude of 1300 meters, this Reserve offers its dry steppe spangled with thorny arbores cent trees where acacias prevail and by with reticulated giraffes.
Orange ochre sceneries are beautiful with their valleys, hills, canyons and forests. Lunch and relax in the “tented camp” located in a splendid beauty spot from where it is pleasant to watch below animal life, such as large elephant or buffalo herds aiming at the river. There, you can also see crocodiles, although less numerous since the February 1992 drought, and varants.
Around 16h00, we shall proceed to a second safari in the Reserve along the river until sunset, in search of reticulated giraffes, Grevy zebras, leopards (with some luck), forest elephants and all typical game of semi-barren environments, such as Oryx, gerenuk, Cape town eland, dik-dik , kudu, buffalo and crescent cobe which never runs far from water edge, mongoose, land squirrel. Drink in the middle of the bush, at the highest point during sunset while Mount Kenya stands out on a flaming horizon. Sundowners in the bush. Supper and night at the tented camp.
Day 2 : Early wake-up and safari in the 4-wheel drive, with breakfast in the bush in the Samburu Reserve, amazing thanks to its biodiversity. By the morning end, return to the tented lodge, lunch, relax and around 16h00, back on safari up to the sunset.
Day 3 : Before or after breakfast, walk with Samburu warriors who will let you into the secret of how to follow the footprints of animals by interpreting traces on the sand. Drink, relax and back to the bush plane for a wonderful 1h20 safari flight to Navaisha, passing through the spectacular Ololokue, the Samburu god’s house, N’doto hills and Nanyuki. Stop over in Nanuyki for refuelling. Lunch in Nanyuki to taste the local dish: trout in a wonderful restaurant built in a tree. Take-off towards Naivasha for another 0h45 flight. If meteorological conditions are good, we shall cross the Aberdare range of mountains through a more than 10000 feet high valley where superb waterfalls hurl down in a set of moistly forests, of bamboo copses and open heath. Landing on Lake Naivasha shore, populated with a large amount of different birds. Installation in the very tasteful top class lodge, either Dodo’s tower or Chui camp, in a private sanctuary. Drink, relax, swimming pool, and according to the time of arrival, safari either on foot or in 4-weel drive. Back to the lodge, drink and supper by the fireplace (we’ll then be at around 1800 meters high). Night in the lodge.
Day 4 : Not too early wake-up; safari on foot and in 4-weel drive in the “Hell's gate” canyon. We’ll be in the cartoon “the King Lion”, when the king falls from the Rift cliffs… all plans were drawn just here. Lunch and at around 15h30, proceeding for a safari full of unexpectations during which we’ll fondle a cheetah. At the end of the day, aperitif in the middle of the bush to behold the dusk taking possession of the bush around an open fire. Back to the lodge while appreciating a night safari , supper and night in the lodge.
Day 5 : Wake-up with a hot drink according to your choice and ride in a boat on Naivasha Lake. Breakfast with style on the shore within a gorgeous scenery. Little foot safari. Lunch at the lodge, relax, swimming pool and take-off towards Masai-Mara Reserve; taking opportunity of a 0h50 flight to make a small safari with views starting with high forested table-lands, ending on savannah plains. Installation in a good standing tented lodge, Ilkeliani camp, relax, drink, supper and night in the tented lodge.
Day 6 : Today, we get up early, we swallow a hot tea and leave the place to fly in the basket of a hot air balloon over the superb fauna of Mara; landing and breakfast in the bush followed by a safari.
Masai-Mara is the prolongation of the Tanzanian Serengeti and the seat of migrations of gnus, Burchell zebras, elephants, Thompson and Grant gazelles, impalas, Kirk dik-diks, harnessed guibs, topis, buffalos, watterbuck, masai giraffes, elands, wildebeests, jackals and various felines. The Misaim-Mara Reserve (1530 esq.) is a world in itself…
Back to the tented camp, rest, lunch and around 16h00 departure for another safari in 4-weel drive with a personal touch till the night, in search of felines. Supper and night at the tented lodge.
Day 7 :At 6h00 an early morning tea is swallowed and at 6h30 safari with personal touch in 4-weel drive in search of felines and other game. Breakfast in the middle of the bush and safari. Back to the lodge for lunch. At around 13h00 take-off towards Shompole for a fantastic 1h00 flight, which should remain a great-unexpected event and one of the best recollections of your Kenya, trip.
We’ll pass the rift valley, just at the Tanzanian boarder, south of the Nguruman escarpment culminating at around 3000m which we just over flew and we’ll dive in the rift valley while the magnificent Natron lac appear to us, this magnificent. We will then fly at lower altitude toward Little Shompole lodge and we’ll land in the middle of nowhere. It will be hot. 4x4 will wait for us and transfer to this unique lodge, and you’ll relax on your private swimming pool overweening a fantastic panorama. Sundowners, supper and night, in your private suite.
Day 8 : After breakfast, safari on 4x4 and on foot, return to the lodge, refreshing time in the pool, lunch in your suite and around 15h00, take-off towards Amboseli for a fantastic 1h00 flight, which will be an other great-unexpected event. We shall also over fly Magadi Lake with its sumptuous colours, the low alkaline waters of which house a numerous avifauna : pelicans, egrets, storks and flamingos. Landing in the bush at the heart of the Rift Valley (altitude 600m) at the foot of the Nguruman escarpment. We’ll also over flight of the unapproachable Eastern part of the Rift Valley, and later the Amboseli moors with its elephants on Kilimanjaro foundation. Landing and settling in a very beautiful renovated lodge, Amboseli Sopa, you’ll have the presidential suite. Relax, swimming pool, drink on a rising ground where Hemingway himself use to relax, looking down upon the bush. Supper. Night in the lodge.
Day 9 : Early wake-up, early morning hot tea and takeoff at sunrise for an hour flight full of unexpected moments towards the top of Kilimanjaro. This is an other magic moment to fly along the Africa’s roof. Then going down for a small superb safari over elephant herds in Amboseli moors unapproachable by land and landing in the heart of the reserve where a 4-wheel drive is waiting for us. We shall take up position near one of the elephant migration tracks while we take a noteworthy breakfast. Then safari ; according to your wishes back to airplane;
Amboseli is not like the other game parks and the omnipresence of the highest African mountain on which Amboseli offers a lofty view is much for that. However, this is not the only reason: in Amboseli a beautiful light reigns and gives to the Nature a peculiar clearness. It is probably due to alkaline boundlessness of the dried ghost lake, to whirlwinds, which lift white dust, to gigging mirages, to misty stretches, and to green emerald moors furrowed by elephants. Over flight the reserve with another look. Lunch at the lodge, relax, swimming pool during the hot hours in the reserve. Around 16H00, we’ll start on foot, escorted by some of my Masai friends; one of them is proficient in medicinal plants. Direction their village and we will explain you all about our conservation work, including Masai welfare, in close collaboration with them.
Return to the lodge, sundowner at a wonderful viewpoint, supper and night at the lodge.
Day 10 : Breakfast and various activities. According to your departure time from Kenya, We’ll take off for one hour of a nice flight back to Nairobi with your head full of beautiful remembrances.
PRICE IN USD per participant (Supposing all the lodge chosen are available).
2 P. : 9.065
3 P. : 7.510
4 P. : 6.735
5 P. : 6.280
Included :
- Full board accommodation
- Four wheel drive trips with driver
- Entrance fees into the game parks
- Meals in Nairobi
- Transportation by air in bush plane during safari
- Drinks ordered by the safari leader
- Tips
- Your guide and pilot
- Transfers to and from Nairobi and airports
- Balloon flight
Non included :
- Personal expenses
- Visa fees
- International flight
- First or last night in Nairobi, accordingly to your Arrival/Departure date
