Breakfast in the hotel.   This day is dedicated to exciting excursions around the city of Nairobi as you acclimatize to the Kenyan weather and environs!

Nairobi Safari Walk – “The Closest you can get to the Wild”

With its raised wooden boardwalk that allows for uninterrupted views of the animals, the Safari Walk is a show case for Kenya’s Parks and Reserves, allowing visitors to discover what they can expect to see across the country. Visitors can see at a close range, a sample of the country’s rich animal life including the rare bongo, white rhino and albino zebra as well as big cats (Lion, Leopard and Cheetah) antelopes and primates.

The Giraffe Centre

‘AFEW’ A creation of Kenyan conservation organization means “Africa Fund for Endangered Wildlife was founded in 1979. It was founded by the late Mr. John David (Jock) Leslie-Melville in order manage and monitor the trans location of the endangered Rothschild Giraffe from Soy area to the AFEW Centre. While on an excursion tour of Giraffe center you will come close to the tallest mammal of the world, feed it, kiss it, stroke it or even pose for a photo besides it.

Its already time for lunch and you can choose to have it the nearby Tambo Restaurant or drive back to the hotel for an afternoon at leisure to relax and enjoy the hotel facilities.

Nairobi Serena Hotel / Fairmont The Norfolk / Movenpick Hotel & Residences / Tamarind Tree Hotel

Breakfast in your hotel.  08:00hrs Meet up with our representative at your Hotel Lobby.  After introductions to your dedicated Safari Driver Guide and a pre-safari briefing, depart via the Great North Road, through the famed Kenyan Central Highlands to the Equator Point just before Nanyuki Town for a brief stopover.

Here, the locals perform a water demonstration to qualify the position of the equator and for a small tip you will be awarded an ‘equator certificate’.  Drive on to the nearby 110,000-acre Ol Pejeta Wildlife Conservancy, which lies on the Laikipia plains.  Enjoy a game viewing drive en-route to Sweetwaters Serena Camp your home for the next two nights.  

Lunch in the Camp followed by an afternoon at leisure to enjoy the facilities at the Camp that include a swimming pool.  16:00hrs enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive in the Conservancy.

All meals and Overnight at Sweetwaters Serena Camp

Full day in the Conservancy with morning and afternoon game viewing drives.  Host to all the members of the ‘Big Five’ (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard), the conservancy has a higher wildlife-to-area ratio than any Kenyan national park and is one of only four private game conservancies to have been founded in Kenya.

At the forefront of the Kenyan conservancy program, the conservancy boasts the largest Black Rhino Sanctuary in East Africa, hosts the only Chimpanzee Sanctuary in Kenya, and shelters large numbers of rare and endangered species.

All meals and overnight at Sweetwaters Serena Camp

After an early breakfast in the camp, check-out and drive to Lake Nakuru skirting the Aberdare Mountain ranges to Nyahururu falls for a photo-stop. Still known to many as Thomson’s Falls, its waters fall 237‑feet making it the country’s highest water fall.   Enjoy magnificent views of the Great Rift Valley Escarpment en-route to arrive at your lodge in time for check-in and lunch.

16:00hrs Depart for a game viewing drive in the park.  Known all over the world for its flamingoes, it’s alkaline and is recognized as being one of the natural wonders of the world. Lake Nakuru is now a rhino sanctuary, harboring a population of over 40 black and over 60 white rhinos, but the flamingos, of course, have always been the main attraction. At times there may be almost 2 million flamingos in the residence, forming a stunningly beautiful deep pink band around the edge of the lake shore.

Waterbuck are usually sighted along the lake shore, and this is the home of the Rothschild’s giraffe. Baboon, impala, buffalo, monkeys, warthog, impala, reedbuck and eland are also resident here.  

Return to the lodge to refresh for dinner and overnight.

 All meals and overnight at Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge / Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge

After an early breakfast in the lodge, depart driving down the eastern wall of the Great Rift Valley, your driver guide will stop at strategic viewpoints for photography where you will come out and view the escarpment and take photos.

Optional: Masai Village “Manyatta” visit en-route to Masai Mara:

Maasai Cultural Village

You have probably seen them in photos or videos with very colorful attires. The Maasai tribe are nomads in nature and still maintains their traditional way of life. You will always find them wearing the traditional attires which are either red, purple, and blue patterns of the Maasai shukas.  During the visit, you will not only interact with them but also get a glimpse of their traditional way of life.   The Masai Tribe live in small mud-thatched houses known as Manyatta.  They will break into dance; you will get an amazing experience singing and dancing along. There is room for you to join the dance and measure how high you can jump! 

You will also get the opportunity to enter the houses made of sticks, mud, cow dung, grass, urine, and ash.

Drive on to Masai Mara Game Reserve to arrive at your lodge/camp in the early afternoon for check-in and lunch.

16:00hrs Depart for an afternoon game drive in the reserve. You’ll see lots of elephants here often in large herds, as well as – if you’re lucky – leopard, cheetah and rhino.   All of the Big Five are residents. You’re sure to see the African buffalo. Get the cameras ready, charge the batteries and enjoy yourself!

18:00hrs Return to the lodge/camp to refresh for dinner.

Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Safari Lodge / Sarova Mara Game Camp / Ashnil Mara Camp  

Full day in the Mara with morning and afternoon game viewing drives daily in the Reserve.   Certainly the most frequented game reserve in Kenya, Masai Mara is a magnificent landscape of open plains bisected by the Mara River and its tributaries, and punctuated by marshes and forests.  As the northern tip of the vast Serengeti ecosystem, the Mara hosts the spectacular seasonal migration of many thousands of Wildebeest, Zebras and attendant predators.

This evening, you will be hosted to a Sundowner Cocktail at a location within the vast game reserve. Mesmerise at the breathaking views of the Mara plains and the african sun as it goes to sleep!

All meals and overnight at Mara Serena Safari Lodge / Sarova Mara Game Camp / Ashnil Mara Camp  

07.30hrs, after breakfast in the lodge/camp, check out and drive to Nairobi to arrive in time for a farewell lunch at the renowned Carnivore Restaurant hosted by Afio Mai Africa Safaris!

The Carnivore is a meat specialty restaurant.  At the restaurant, whole joints of meat, lamb, pork legs, exotic meats, sausages, chicken livers and wings and even crocodile are skewered on traditional Masai swords and roasted over a huge charcoal pit!

Later transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your home bound International flight. 

Day Room/s can be arranged at a supplement fee on request.

A Memorable Honeymoon Safari Experience!!