Our student and school trips offer valuable learning experiences and lots of fun through various learning activities. In Kenya, education tourism or educational safaris refers to 'any tour programme in which participants travel to a location as a group with the primary purpose of engaging in a learning experience directly related to the location'. It is comprised of several sub-learning types including ecotourism, heritage tourism,cultural tourism, agro-tourism, and student / study exchanges between educational institutions. The main objective of this eco-safari is to expose students to the beauty of Africa - the adventure, the cultures, the diverse ecosystems and to give them an opportunity to be happy with only a few of the comforts of the normal western living.
The second purpose of the educational trip is to expose foreign students to new ecological setups, cultures and ecosystems as well as take students back to the cradle of humanity - not just to civilizations past, but to where humanity began, the cradle of mankind. By being involved in this particular trip, the students will not only view the people and lifestyles of one of the most vibrant countries in Africa, they will also have the chance to view some of the most endangered ecosystems in the world and learn about measures taken by the authorities to contain this trend. This trip is a true blend of people and nature. Learn More >
Safari Itinerary: Kenya Educational Safari Tour (15 Days)
Day 01 - Nairobi - Boulevard Hotel
Arrival at Nairobi's Jomo Kenyatta Airport, met and greeted in our traditional style by our uniformed AfriChoice! representatives, transfer to your city hotel. Balance of the day on a city orientation tour featuring a guided walking city tour, a visit to elephant orphanage where you have the opportunity to see the feeding and care of baby elephants which are either orphaned, abandoned or sick. After lunch drive to Butterfly Center where you will be taken to a guided tour to see butterfly rearing and different species of butterfly. A visit to Giraffe center where you have an opportunity to feed the giraffes from your own hands and later the Karen Blixen museum to learn about the achievements of Karen who lived for a short while in Kenya. Enroute to our hotel, we enjoy a walk at the Nairobi's Safari walk. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, included, Boulevard Hotel
DAY 02: Day Visits - Nairobi and its Suburbs
Visit one local university / college. Sit in classes, meet and get to know some Kenyan college students. A visit to a little village outside Nairobi or Visit the Nyumbani children's home for the orphaned and the Sick. We return to our hotel this afternoon for a thorough tour briefing. Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner included, at Boulevard Hotel
Day 03: Day Visits - Lake Magadi
Lake Magadi is located in the southern Kenya. This 104 sq. km soda lake is completely surrounded by vast natural salt flats. These sweltering hot plains prevent animals from reaching the alkaline lake at its center. For this reason, thousands of flamingo descend on the lake each year to nest on elevated mud mounds at the lake's edge safe from any potential predators. Freshwater springs at the Lake's shore attract a host of other birds. A journey to Magadi is like to enter another world. The baking salt plains stretch into horizons of shimmering heat haze, while the shallow lake heaves with the pink waves of nesting flamingo. The other worldly atmosphere is compounded by the intense heat and the isolation. A guided tour to Magadi Soda company one of the largest producer of Soda Ash in Africa is also conducted. ( Picnic Lunch is served ). Drive back to Nairobi. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, included, Boulevard Hotel
Day 04: Day Visits - Ostrich Farm Kitengela.
A visit to Ostrich farm with a guided tour to the farm enables you to learn about Ostrich rearing from an egg to a fully grown Ostrich. Ostrich products are available for sale. A complimentary ostrich feather and sample of ostrich fillet are some of the most interesting things worth the visit but much fun to a booed swimming pool and ostrich racecourse. Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner, included, Boulevard Hotel
Day 05: On Safari - Naromoru - Mau Mau caves, Mt. Kenya, Kikuyu Culture
After breakfast we pass through coffee and pineapple plantations to the slopes of Mt. Kenya arriving at Lunchtime. Afternoon walk to exciting village tours, bird watching, forest studies, Kikuyu cultural folklore and close walk to Mau Mau historic caves, that help you visualize the struggle our freedom fighters went through. Dinner and overnight at the Mountain Rock Hotel (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 06: On Safari - Nanyuki - Sweet Waters - Chimpanzee Sanctuary
After breakfast, pass the Equator where a proof demonstration of zero degrees latitude is performed and head to Sweetwater's Wildlife Sanctuary a beautiful private game reserve and home to rare species such as besia oryx, reticulated giraffe and black rhino. This very special 23,000 acre wildlife sanctuary was originally established to protect and breed highly-endangered Chimpanzees and Black Rhinos. In 1994 the Jane Goodall Institute established the Sweetwater's Chimpanzee Sanctuary within the game reserve and moved a large group of chimps here from the unstable situation in their native West Africa. A game drive reveals the full range of African wildlife including lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant and hippo. Visit up close with the wildlife orphanage and observe chimps at this Sanctuary. Late afternoon depart for Nakuru via Thompson's falls the beautiful waterfall and head to Nakuru arriving late in evening. Overnight at a Nakuru Town Hotel with Private Facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 07: On Safari - Baringo / Bogoria Day Trip
Take a day trip to both Lakes Baringo and Bogoria. You will have a one-hour boat ride with the spectacular scenery of stunning bird life, hippos and crocodiles. There is considerable geothermal activity with hot springs and geysers around the shoreline of Lake Bogoria. Occasionally, huge numbers of flamingos come to feed here, adding to the already famous bird life in the area, also a very good chance of photographing the unusually tame greater kudu. After the day trip drive back to Nakuru. Overnight at a Nakuru Town Hotel with Private Facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 08: On Safari - Nakuru - Park Full Day Disposal.
After breakfast we have a day tour to this lake that offers one of the world's most spectacular wildlife sights, a brilliant pink flamingoes as far as the eye can see. When conditions are right, between one and two million lesser and greater flamingos feed around the shores of the shallow soda lake, together with tens of thousands of other birds. The best place to view the birds is from Baboon Cliff where you will have a picnic lunch. Looking out over the dazzling fringe of pink around the lake's shores. Here you will also see warthog, waterbuck and large numbers of impala. Other slightly shyer residents include buffalo, Rothschild giraffe, eland, lion, leopard and black rhino. It goes without saying that this is a bird watchers paradise. Overnight at a Nakuru Town Hotel with Private Facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 09: On Safari - Naivasha - Elsemere + Crater Lake Sanctuary
Morning visit to Elsmere, Former home of the late Joy Adamson and his husband who became world famous for their pioneering conservation and relationship with the lioness Elsa as seen in the film" BORN FREE". A visit reveals many of Joy's paintings, which still decorate the house. A guided tour and film are shown. After lunch drive to Crater Lake which offers an evocative step back in time - to a bygone era of elegance and romance, in a wilderness untouched by the modern world with a private game sanctuary at a homely environment. Crater Lake offers classic escapes including painting, astrology,as well as ornithological outings to what must be one of the most Beautiful small lakes in creation. Overnight at a Naivasha Lake Shore campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 10: On Safari - Hells Gate-Full Day Activities - Walks, Rock Climbing
This excursion offers a stunning variety of animals. The bird life too is prolific. The Trail starts at Fishers Tower, the entranceway to Ol Njorowa Gorge. The backdrop to this tower is the dramatic cliff of columnar basalt, which forms the walls of the Gorge. This one-day trail follows the floor of the gorge, the walls climbing steeply on both sides. This two-hour walk through the gorges is fascinating where you wash your hands under a small waterfall and sometimes you find the water too hot to handle. Its very soft, soapy feel to it and a rather unpleasant Sulphury smell. Much fun in the wild. This is the only park in Kenya you can walk or cycle. A tour to Olkaria Geothermal power station will be conducted. Overnight at a Naivasha Lake Shore campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 11: On Safari - Naivasha Farms - Horticulture and Flower Farms
A full day to the flower farms which are in the area with huge green houses stretch over many kilometres supply all of Europe with flowers and fresh vegetable, which are airlifted from Nairobi. A guided tour to the farms will be conducted. Overnight at a Naivasha Lake Shore campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 12: On Safari - Naivasha - Masai Mara
After breakfast drive to Masai Mara where the largest concentration of animals is found. Masai Mara the vast, open grasslands of the Serengeti-Mara are home to over 3 million large mammals. An afternoon game drive in the Masai Mara you have a very good chance of seeing all the major Plains animals including lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhino, hyena, cheetah, jackal, warthog and many species of antelopes. Overnight in Masai Mara Game Reserve Campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 13: Masai Mara Game Reserve
Full day game viewing in Masai Mara Game Reserve. The vast, open grasslands of the Serengeti-Mara are home to over 3 million large mammals. These include over 1.4 million wildebeest, which migrate in an enormous, straggling herd each year between the southern part of the Serengeti to the northern part and back again. With them move other herbivores such as gazelles and zebra, also looking for the best grass. Along the way they provide food for big predators such as lions, leopards and cheetahs.
The first sight of Masai Mara Game Reserve is owesome. Here we learn and see first hand the intricate web of dependency that binds the different animal species together. Each of the animals has adapted to its own niche and to the other animals that surround it. Here we see Nature at its most subtle and, sometimes, most cruel as each animal struggles to survive and reproduce. On our morning and afternoon game drives in the Masai Mara we have a very good chance of seeing all the major plains animals including lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhino, hyena, cheetah, jackal, warthog and many species of antelope. Picnic lunch across tree studded grasslands and rolling hills. Overnight in Masai Mara Game Reserve Campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 14: Masai Mara Game Reserve
Early morning wildlife observations. Go on a guided walk into the Ngama Hills accompanied by armed rangers and Warden. After lunch at the camp, drive to a Manyatta. Spend the afternoon at the Manyatta where you learn about various Maasai cultural activities such as dances, weaponry, and also listen to stories on the family set-up, social stratification and taboos told by the locals. This afternoon we get a brief introduction to a Ranger's Course from a resident Game Warden. Overnight in Masai Mara Game Reserve Campsite with basic facilities (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Included)
Day 15 - Back to Nairobi, Departure
After breakfast drive to Nairobi, Kenya's colourful capital city. Lunch at the famed Carnivore Restaurant where you have an excellent opportunity to sample African Dishes. Carnivore Barbecue Experience is also described as 'Meat Eaters Paradise' and is the Africa's Greatest Eating Experence! After lunch, transfer to your hotel or Jomo Kenyatta Airport for your onward arrangements. AfriChoice! airport representative will re-confirm your onward flight, and assist you at check-in. Those taking the 5 days coastal extension to Amboseli, Tsavo and Mombasa will be left behind. Details are available on request.
NOTES: Eco-Safaris and Eco-Tourism Education in Kenya
Eco Safaris and Tours are Nature based Educational Tours suitable for ecology students' field courses and involves visiting natural areas with the objectives of learning, studying or participating in activities that do not bring negative effects to the environment; whilst protecting and empowering the local community socially and economically. Our foreign student and school trips offer valuable learning experiences and lots of fun through the various bush activities like guided bush walks, wildlife lectures, biking, safaris and more.
We expose students to new and stimulating situations which help to build confidence in young people, both now and for their future. Our experience in organizing trips and visits for students, especially to Kenya, cannot be equalled. Safety is paramount in all our activities and thorough risk assessments and contingency plans are an integral part of our organization. Our eco-tours gives the participating students a unique opportunity to learn and conserve nature.
When you mention sports and Kenya, the large number of world class distance runners immediately comes to mind. Kenyans have traditionally performed well in international track competitions. Football (soccer) is played throughout the country from small villages to large cities. East Africa is known for its sports activities starting from athletics, deep sea fishing, golfing, football, cricket, hockey, basketball and others Safaris undertakes transport, tours and safaris, pre and post sports activities. These we undertake from Nairobi, Eldoret and Kisumu Airport. We Provide tailor made arrangements for athletes who want to sample training in Eldoret - Kipchoge Keino athletics training center and the Nandi Hills which produce the Kenyan world athletes.
Athletics Events / Long Distance Running in Kenya
Kenya is known worldwide as the athlete country of the world. AfriChoice organizes trips to various athletic events in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. The most renowned athletic event in Kenya is the annual Standard Chartered Marathon which attracts marathoners from all over the world. The other tours which we organize is the visits to athlete centers which include:- the Kipchoge Keino training center in Eldoret and participation of the physically impaired individuals in the world special selection Olympic games which are held annually at Moi international sports Center - Kasarani In the year 2007 we will participate in the IAAF athletic event in Mombasa. We are also participants in the HIV/AIDS marathon in Kisumu organized by Richard M. Brodsky Foundation.
Golfing in Kenya - Golf Championship Safaris
Kenya has a number of beautifully scenic golf courses at various altitudes from Sea Level right up to the nine-hole Molo course at 2740m (8989ft). Windsor Golf and Country club is one of the attractions and The Railway golf club in the center of Nairobi city. The most recent is the Great Rift Valley Lodge and Golf Resort in Naivasha which apart from golf also offer a variety Conferences, Meetings & Incentives in Kenya
of activities for adventurous guests, including Game and Bird walks with our resident guides, Fishing and Boating on Lake Naivasha. The oldest is the Royal Nairobi Golf Club. The "Royal" title was bestowed on the Nairobi Golf Club in 1935 by King George V. Other golf courses include the Muthaiga and Karen Golf Clubs each with championship courses .While in Lake Victoria region, we will organize your golfing sports at the Nyanza Golf club. In Mombasa, Golf enthusiasts will be at home at the Mombasa, Nyali and the Leisure Golf Club.
White Water Rafting in Kenya
This is a popular event in Kenya and Uganda. While in Kenya, we organize this event on River Tana at Sagana. We will organize to pick your group from Nairobi in the morning and drive you to River Tana where this sporting activity takes place in Kenya. We will supervise the occasion and pick you after the event back to Nairobi. Sagana River is famous for the event. Conferences, Meetings & Incentives in Kenya
Horseback Riding Events in Kenya
Our horseback riding safaris in Kenya are without a doubt the most exciting and adventuresome of all the AfriChoice rides. Strong riders, confident at all paces on broken terrain riding athletic horses will be in their element here. The opportunity to see big game and interact with wild animals on splendid horses is thrilling. Sometimes in the Masai Mara huge herds of wildebeest and zebra extend as far as the eye can reach. The opportunity to see picturesque native tribesmen whose culture is dramatically different from ours in remote areas unspoiled by frequent tourist visits is fascinating. The Laikipia rides around the snow capped peak of Mt. Kenya traverses several large ranches (up to 100,000 acres) which were carved out of the wilderness a century ago by white settlers. There are many similarities to the cattle ranches of the Rocky Mountain West. The wild game has been well preserved on these huge ranches although there are sometimes difficult interactions between game and cattle.
Men and Women Football & Volley Ball Sports in Kenya
Football is a renowned sport worldwide. Currently, women football tournaments are gaining ground as the most exiting and thrilling in the tourism industry. AfriChoice takes tourists to both events and also organizes village or rural football events by engaging the youth busy and not doing other irrelevant activities which would be detrimental to their health and well being e.g. HIV AIDS. We also organize HIV awareness football tournaments which make the youth in the rural areas/ villages aware of the epidemic. We urge our clients during the tours to donate balls for football, boots and uniforms, not to mention the trophies.
Kenya has two main international sports centers namely:- Moi International Sports Center - Kasarani and Nyayo National Stadium. From these sports centers, international events take place annually. They also house swimming pools and gym activities.
Bull Fighting Events in Western Kenya
These are a recent tourist attraction in western Kenya. It pulls tourists to western Kenya as an event of its own nature in Kenya and East Africa as a whole. AfriChoice organizes the participation of these events among other tour itineraries to western Kenya and Kakamega forest. This event is usually done in the early morning before mid-day since the event is performed before mid day. We include this tour with the tour of Kakamega forest and the crying stone within the area.
Swimming and Water Sports in Kenya
These includes but not limited to; deep sea fishing, scuba diving & snorkeling, yachting, water surfing in Indian Ocean and Lake Victoria. The East African Coast is a paradise for beach sports which include; deep sea fishing and water surfing in Indian Ocean. The Kenya coast harbors the best hotels which undertake the activities of scuba diving and snorkeling. AfriChoice undertakes the arrangements and bookings for these activities in Mombasa, Dar es Salaam and Zanzibar. Lake Victoria is another place for water surfing and deep sea fishing which is done from the Lake Victoria islands namely: - Mfangano, Takawiri and Rusinga Islands.
AfriChoice has arrangements with the management of these Islands, lodges and hotels and has contract rates for the same activities. Swimming is so popular in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania to an extent that most schools have incorporated swimming classes. The under 15 and the under 10 in lower primary sections have swimming classes on a weekly basis. Swimming is gaining momentum as a tourist sport and many foreigners participate in this sport every year. Contests are held in Nairobi, Kampala and Dar es Salaam mostly.
Biking and Cycling Sports Sports in Kenya
Bicycle riding competition is so popular in western Kenya and in Mombasa. The famous Boda Boda riding contest is conducted along the Lake Victoria villages and beaches to create awareness in HIV/AIDS which has embedded the health in these areas. The most important events are conducted by the health NGO's and the Ramogi Oginga Odinga Foundation mainly in Kakamega and Kang’o Kajaramogi during the annual festival at the home of the late Ramogi Oginga Odinga.
Special Olympics and Sports Events in Kenya
This takes place at the Moi International Sports Center - Kasarani annually. It is a special Olympic event in that all the disabled persons are given a chance to exercise their sports skills and are awarded by being selected from this event to represent Kenya in the International special Olympic competitions. The sports include: - football for both men and women who are physically impaired, netball, volleyball, swimming, tennis, handball, hockey and others. The whole country converges annually to select the best that represent Kenya internationally in the Special Olympics.
The Maralal International Camel Derby in Kenya
This is an annual international event held mid year just outside of Maralal town; The World famous Maralal International Camel Derby was inaugurated in 1990 as a sporting event, with the added advantage of sensitizing the pastoral communities of the camel as a key environmental tool in combating the degradation of the environment.
It is Africa's best known and most prestigious camel race, attracting both local and international competitors. The event is a major draw for spectators as well as racers, and the competition is fierce. With its growing popularity and addition of cycle races which have U.C.I. (Geneva) recognition, this exciting event draws a wide attendance including a cross section of farming communities, ranchers, national and international press, television crews, would be participants and spectators from overseas, school groups and adventure lovers from all over Kenya and beyond.
The proceeds go to the Samburu Handicap Education and Rehabilitation Programme (SHERP). This project addresses the problem of education and rehabilitation of the handicapped children in Samburu District. Currently the Programme offers assistance to 112 disabled children but has no visible source of financial assistance and relies on the help of NGO’s, self help groups, Government of Kenya and private contribution to encourage the empowerment of persons with disabilities.
International Marathon Events in Kenya
This is the latest tourist attraction in Kenya. The most famous is the Standard chartered Marathon which is conducted by the Standard Bank annually. The race usually starts in Nairobi and it incorporates every individual both physically impaired, the blind, the normal office executive and lately the tourists from foreign countries.
Mombasa is an Island town, the second-largest city in Kenya lying next to the Indian Ocean and has a major port and an international airport. The distance from Nairobi to Mombasa is 500 kilometers while the flight duration is only 45 Minutes)
Mombasa City Tour (Tour Duration: Half Day)
Mombasa City Tour Half Day takes you to Mombasa Town the second largest city in Kenya, which is on the island, diverse and intriguing population, women in dark bui-bui or wrapped in brilliant multicolored kanga, a visit to Fort Jesus, the old town, Baobab forest, Elephant Tusks and Akamba Woodcraft.
On the tour, you will visit the following historical and cultural places: the Fort Jesus, the Mwembe Tayari open-air market, the local bazaars, handicraft carvers, walk through the famous curvy alley-roads and the business district.
Depart from your beach hotel in the morning and drive to Mombasa. Begin the tour with a visit to the Baobab forest along Mama Ngina Drive before proceeding to Fort Jesus Museum built by the Portuguese at the end of the 16th century. It dominates the entrance to Mombasa Harbor and commands good views over the Old Town. The Fort is now a national monument and houses an interesting museum.
Walk through Mombasa the second largest city in Kenya and which is located on an island. It is a steamy, tropical, low-rise city with asymmetrical streets, languid pace, and a diverse and intriguing population. It is mostly a Swahili town and women can be seen chattering by in dark bui-bui or wrapped in brilliant multicolored kanga.
Mombasa is also a port and a commercial center and has a long and complex history. Walk through the streets of Old Town up to the Old Port to see the Dhows. The old town is a maze of narrow streets, mosques and crowded buildings, some with impressive carved doors or intricate balconies.
Later visit the Mackinon market, Elephant Tusks and Indian Temple before proceeding to Akamba Woodcraft at Changamwe where you can see the craftsmen at work and select your carvings at the lowest price you can ever get in the world. Afterwards, transfer back to your hotel.
Kenya bird watching travel is one of the best adventure holidays in Kenya. Bird watching holidays in Kenya is an interesting tour to consider due to the rich flora in Kenya, habouring more than1090 bird species, with at least eight of these species being endangered. This is a mixture of both migrant and immagrants. Around11 species of these birds have a local breeding population too, mainly from Russia , Eastern Europe, the middle East and Siberia . Another 60 species migrate regularly within the African tropics or from the republic of Madagascar .
Day 1: Airport pick up – Nairobi hotel
Meet and greet services by your adventure guide, transfer to your Nairobi hotel, then head out for an orientation tour brainstorming at the birds gallery in Nairobi museum. Dinner and overnight in a Nairobi hotel.
Day 2: Nairobi - Lake Magadi
After breakfast proceed southern Kenya with a picnic Lunch en-route to Lake Magadi located deep in the heart of Southern Kenya's Masai land. The lake covers an area of 104 sq. km Soda Lake and is completely surrounded by vast natural salt flats. These plains prevent the animals from reaching the alkaline lake at its center, thousands of flamingos descend on the Lake each year to feed on the algae and crustacea at the lake's shore safe from any potential predators such as Fish eagle. Freshwater springs at the Lake 's shore attract a host of other birds like the specialty of this lake the Chestnut Banded Plover, Common Sandpiper, Common Greenshank, Wood Sandpiper and other water birds. Later in the afternoon, the safari returns to Nairobi arriving late evening. Dinner and Overnight at your Hotel.
Day 3: Nairobi - Lake Naivasha
After breakfast, the tour departs Nairobi for a scenic drive through the great North road to Lake Naivasha , a fresh-water lake in the great rift valley. Stop en-route at the viewpoints of the Great Rift Valley for stunning views arriving Lake Naivasha by early morning for bird walk before time for lunch at. Lake Naivasha being a fresh water lake on the Rift floor is home to an incredible variety of bird species. Over 450 species have been recorded here. An afternoon option of either a boat ride or a visit to Hell's Gate National Park before returning for dinner and overnight in your hotel.
Day 4: Lake Naivasha - Lake Nakuru
The adventure tour departs Naivasha for Lake Nakuru Park , regarded as the greatest World ornithological spectacle. This holiday destination is famous for its millions of pink flamingoes, arriving Lake Nakuru for a game drive before checking-in at Nakuru Chester hotel for lunch. The common species here are Lesser and Greater Flamingoes, African fish Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Green Wood Hoopoes, Cliff Chat, Great White and Pink Backed Pelicans plus other intra- African Migrants. Dinner and Overnight in Nakuru budget hotel.
Day 5: Lake Nakuru whole day
Spend the whole day bird watching at the park with picnic lunches at the picnic site. You will have the chance to see the elusive Leopard. In the afternoon we have some time to relax before embarking on our late afternoon game drive to try and capture what was not seen during the day, a typical bird watching holiday program. Dinner and Overnight in a budget hotel.
Day 6: Lake Nakuru - Lake Baringo
Depart in the morning after breakfast for Lake Baringo , another famous bird watching safari destination, arriving in time mid - morning bird walk before time for Lunch. Lake Baringo is fresh water lake and it has its own share of bird life species like the White Faced Scopes Owl, Brimstone Canary, Bristol Crowned Starling, Goliath Heron, Little Weaver, Jackson's and Hemprich's Hornbill. After a relaxed lunch, descend down on to the cliffs to look for the white faced Scopes owl, Black throated barbet and mouse collared tit, dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Lake Baringo - Samburu
Leave Baringo after breakfast and head to Samburu, a place of endless skies, dust-red plains and palm-fringed rivers, Samburu National Reserve is a unique Kenya safari destination whose heat-scorched scrublands extend all the way to the jade-green waters of Lake Turkana and beyond.
The species of birds here are Somali and white throated bee-eaters, golden pipit, vulturine guinea fowl, White headed Mouse bird, Buff Crested Bustards, Black capped Social Weaver, Donaldson-Smith's Sparrow Weaver, Golden Breasted Starling among other dry land species. Meals and overnight in Samburu camping safari.
Day 8: Samburu
Spend the whole day bird watching at the park. In the afternoon we have some time to relax before embarking on our late afternoon game drive to try and capture what was not seen during the day. Meals and overnight in Samburu camping safari.
Day 9: Samburu - Mt. Kenya
Spend the whole day of your birding safari in this Montane forest region with high chances of seeing rare species like; Green Ibis, Lesser Spotted Eagle, Harrier Hawk, Rufous Sparrow hawk, Ayre's Hawk Eagle. Black stork, Red Fronted Parrots, Green Ibis Common snipe, Mountain Buzzard, Bronze napped pigeon Mountain white-eye, Abbots Starling, Sharpe's Starling, Mountain Oriole and Thick-billed seed-eater. Dinner and Overnight in your hotel.
Day 10: Mt. Kenya - Nairobi
After breakfast, we drive back to Nairobi with lunch en-route.
End of your birding safaris Kenya.
Full Day Nairobi City Tour
Half Day Excursion to Karen Blixen Museum, Giraffe Manor, Daphne Elephant Orphanage
A Nairobi excursion where you spend a wonderful half day at the historical Karen Blixen museum (Out of Africa) and with giraffes and baby elephants! Visiting the Giraffe Manor and the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage.
Karen Blixen Museum
A Short tour to the home of the pioneer coffee farmer, Karen Blixen - of "Out of Africa" fame, is now preserved as a museum. A visit to this museum provides an opportunity to step back in time and gain an insight into this remarkable woman's life. Views of the Ngong Hills can be admired from the beautifully landscaped gardens of the museum.
The Karen Blixen museum is one of a number of very interesting regional museums and archeological and prehistoric sites of the National museums of Kenya, and it continues to be an immensely popular tourist attraction with the same words ' I dreamt of Africa' Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. (Itinerary continues after the gallery.)
David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage
ome close to elephant calves! Daphne Sheldrick As part of the David Sheldrick Conservation Foundation rehabilitates baby elephants and other wildlife here at her home just outside of Nairobi National Park. These babies have lost their mothers to poaching, death, injuries, on getting lost in the wild or other tragedies. Daphne and her dedicated staff raise them to be released back into the wild when they are ready. It's worth visiting and see humanitarian care to the wildlife and the heart it takes to care. They charge a small entrance fees instead you can buy a souvenir or donate for the conservation.
Giraffe Manor
The Giraffe Manor Africa's pride of international celebrity. Since its founders, Jock and Betty Leslie-Melville, rescued a baby giraffe named Daisy from a heavily-poached area of western Kenya in 1974, their home has become a household name among wildlife lovers world-wide - and Daisy a star in her own right. Today, Daisy's home has been opened to the world - and provides what is felt is the very best place to begin or end your safari or if in a conference or transit it worth coming close to wildlife from the bustle of the city where you feed giraffes with your own hands and have the closest touch. Other animals include the tortoise, warthog and a parrot.
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Nairobi National Park Day excursion (4 hours)
Nairobi National Park Kenya's first ever National Park is a unique and unspoilt wildlife haven within sight of the city's skyline. Rhino, buffalo, cheetah, zebra, giraffe, lion and plenty of antelopes and gazelles can be seen roaming in this open plains country with a section of highland forest as well as stretches of broken bush country, deep, rocky valleys and gorges with scrub and long grass. Ornithologists catch with over 300 bird species including the Secretary bird, crowned cranes, vultures, peckers and many more
10:00 hrs: Pick up from Fairview Hotel for Sheldrick Orphanage, Giraffe center and Karen Blixen Museum.
13:30 hrs: Stop over for Lunch at a place of your choice – Tour Guide will recommend.
1400hrs: Depart for Nairobi National park after Lunch.
1445hrs: Arrive at the Nairobi National park for the game drive/park Formalities.
1445hrs - 1700hrs: After the game drive spend some time at the Safari Walk.
1800hrs: Depart the park and head back to Fairview for overnight marking the end of your Nairobi City tour.
Full Day Rate $565.00 per person
Rate Includes:
Full day Transportation and driver's allowance.
All entrance fees to the various areas as shown in the Itinerary.
Game drive in Nairobi National Park.
Lunch at Carnivore Restaurant.
Not Included:
All items of personal Nature.
