7 Day Best of Kenya Safari
Kenya

The Best of Kenya safari is a 7 day safari featuring three of the most famous wildlife areas in East Africa, namely Amboseli, Samburu and Masai Mara National Parks. It offers a diverse variety of species including all the well known big game animals. Travel between the parks is by air to avoid long road journeys. Accommodation is in luxury tented camps and all game drives are in 4x4 safari vehicles (not vans).

Departures daily from Nairobi.  By road from Nairobi to Porini Camp and then flights from Amboseli to Samburu, Mara and back to Nairobi.

Duration: 6 nights / 7 days, Daily Departures

Itinerary:

Day 1:  Depart Nairobi and drive to Selenkay Conservancy (a 3 hour journey of 102 miles), arriving at Amboseli Porini Camp before lunch.  Afternoon tea, followed by an escorted walk with Maasai warriors to a village to get an insight into their fascinating culture and way of life. Return to camp for a shower, dinner and overnight.

Day 2: After an early breakfast, drive to Amboseli National Park for a morning game drive within the Park to see the elephants at close quarters, followed by a picnic lunch.  In the afternoon you will return to Porini Camp for a rest and then an evening game drive in Selenkay Conservancy, ending with a sundowner at a scenic spot.  Return to Porini Camp for dinner after which there will be a night game drive using a spotlight to seek out some of the nocturnal animals such as aardvarks (antbears), serval cats, bat-eared foxes and possibly even the elusive leopard.  Overnight Porini Camp.

Day 3:  Early breakfast and then drive into Amboseli park and on to the airstrip to fly to Samburu, arriving by 1 pm for lunch at Samburu Intrepids, where you will stay for 2 nights. Afternoon game drive in Samburu Reserve.

Day 4:  Morning and afternoon game drives in Samburu and overnight at Samburu Intrepids.

Day 5:  Early morning game drive and than after breakfast you will fly from Samburu to the Mara to stay the next 2 nights at Mara Porini Camp. In the evening you will take a game drive to explore the area around the camp and to seek out the wildlife for which the Mara is famous.

Day 6:  A full day in the Mara with a picnic lunch when you can expect to find lions as well as many of the other species found in the Mara which include leopard, cheetah, hyena, elephant, rhino, topi, eland, wildebeest, zebra, hippo and buffalo.

Day 7: Transfer to the airstrip for the 11am flight back to Nairobi, arriving around 12.15pm.  

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