International airfare from North American gateways can be purchased inclusive of internal air and include private transfers.

DAY 1 - Thursday Arrive Nairobi

On arrival at Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport you will be met by a Lion World Tours representative and transferred to your Nairobi Hotel.

Overnight at The Tribe Hotel on a bed and breakfast basis. African Pride Tribe Hotel brings you into a world of hip, chic design with an emphasis on detail and luxury. The hotel's many suites extend this level of luxury and are unrivalled in their sense of elegance and class. Every room is a testament of world class comfort and functionality while offering a cultural journey through hand-picked arts, crafts and furnishings from the farthest corners of Africa. This experience is accentuated only by the hotel's public spaces with design elements at every glance. Situated in the up-market Gigiri suburb of Nairobi, the hotel is attached to the trendy Village Market shopping and recreation complex, East Africa's largest all-in-one concept centre which features over 150 shops, restaurants and services. The complex is also less than a mile from the United Nations headquarters, the US and Canadian embassies and other diplomatic and non-governmental agencies. The world class Muthaiga Golf Club is a five minute drive away, as are a range of other activities.
OVERNIGHT: The Tribe Hotel

DAY 2 - Friday Nairobi

After breakfast you will visit the Karen Blixen Museum and Giraffe Centre as well as the Daphne Sheldrick Orphanage. Return to your hotel where you will have an opportunity to enjoy some souvenir shopping at the Maasai Market in the Village Market shopping centre. The Karen Blixen Museum & Giraffe Centre lies on the foot of Ngong Hills. Made famous in the film 'Out of Africa' the Karen Blixen Museum is located in the house where Karen Christence Blixen-Finecke lived from 1914 to 1931. It is a beautiful old colonial house that along with the gardens have been restored to their former glory, with furniture, artefacts and photographs from her days as a pioneer coffee farmer. It is situated in appropriately named Karen, about 20 minutes from the centre of Nairobi.

Afterwards, continue to the nearby Giraffe Centre to see families of the rare endangered Rothschild giraffe. The Giraffe Center cares for the rare endangered Rothschild giraffe. Visitors can have a close and personal interaction with the Giraffe. The Center is a non-governmental, non-profit making organization, which was founded in a bid to save the endangered Rothschild Giraffe, which had lost its natural habitat in Western Kenya to agriculture. There were only 120 left in the wild. Today the Rothschild Giraffe population in Kenya is about 500.

Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage is located in the Nairobi Game Park in Nairobi. Daphne Sheldrick is a Kenyan author and conservationist. Daphne and her team have been raising and reintegrating orphaned elephants into the wild for over 30 years. It was originally started by Daphne's husband David Sheldrick, and the work was taken over by her after his death. The park itself is too small to sustain any adult elephants, but they take in orphaned baby elephants from all over Kenya. Having completed their two milk dependent years, these orphans, along with the human family of keepers who replace the lost elephant family, grow up in the Tsavo National Park, where they mingle freely and at will with the wild herds and eventually become fully integrated back into the wild community.

The Village Market is the largest Shopping, Recreation and Entertainment destination in East Africa. True to its African inclination, The Village Market bubbles with ethnicity every Friday. The shopping center hosts a plethora of African artefacts at their Maasai market an ethnic fusion event that attracts not less than 350 craftsmen. On display is an array of traditional African pieces of art, done and made to celebrate the satisfactions and traditions of Africans.

This evening enjoy the local flavour of the country at a Home hosted dinner.
OVERNIGHT: The Tribe Hotel
MEALS: Breakfast, Dinner

DAY 3 - Saturday Nairobi/Samburu

Today we drive from Nairobi to the Samburu National Reserve. Rugged and remote, this wildlife reserve provides some of the best and most colorful game viewing in the country. Lunch will be at your Camp. Thereafter depart on an afternoon game drive.

Dinner and overnight at Samburu Intrepids Camp.

Samburu boasts the most unusual fauna of all East Africa’s major savannah reserves. There is the densely striped Grevy’s zebra (twice as heavy as the more familiar Burchell’s zebra), the reticulated giraffe (neat, geometrically marked coat), the regal Beisa oryx and a comically long-horned race of the Grant’s gazelle.

The most unique of them all is the Gerenuk or antelope giraffe, distinguished by its extraordinarily distended neck and freakishly small head.

Samburu Intrepids is a luxury-tented camp in the midst of the rugged and savagely beautiful semi arid desert of northern Kenya. Located in the Samburu National Reserve on the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River, the camp offers unique game viewing on the fringes of this river - an incongruously luxuriant ribbon through the surrounding dry scrub.

This luxurious tented camp offers 27 modern tents with a private view over the wildlife-rich riverbanks. The spacious tents boast the very latest in luxury camping, with soft four-poster beds, handsome mahogany closets and writing desks, and en suite bathrooms with steaming hot showers. The main dining room opens onto an outdoor dining terrace where buffet breakfasts are served overlooking the river. Buffet luncheons and candlelight dinners are served on an elevated deck amidst the high shade trees.
OVERNIGHT: Samburu Intrepids Camp
MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 4 - Sunday Samburu

Go on twice-daily game drives with resident guides. The camp’s location, deep inside the reserve, guarantees close encounters with the region’s wildlife, including elephant, lion, leopard, and Samburu’s famous ‘unique five’ - the rare reticulated giraffe, long-necked gerenuk antelope, Somali ostrich, Grevy’s zebra, and majestic Beisa Oryx. A riparian forest fringes the Ewaso Nyiro River - an incongruously luxuriant ribbon through the surrounding dry scrub. A unique activity on offer at Samburu is the camel back safaris (optional for own account)
OVERNIGHT: Samburu Intrepids Camp
MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 5 - Monday Samburu/Mount Kenya

After breakfast, drive to the Mount Kenya Safari Club situated in the shadow of Mt Kenya, Kenya's highest mountain. You will arrive there in time for lunch. The rest of the day will be spent at leisure, enjoying the clubs facilities, such as horse riding, golf, swimming etc.

You may also visit the animal orphanage managed by the neighboring ranch and the William Holden Foundation. Access to the orphanage is located next to the main gate and the Art Gallery (optional, for own account).

With magnificent views of majestic Mount Kenya, the Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club Resort's 120 luxuriously appointed hotel rooms, set in over 100 acres/40 hectares of landscaped gardens offer a unique blend of comfort, relaxation and adventure. Originally the retreat of movie star and Club founder, William Holden, the Club's illustrious former members have included Winston Churchill and Bing Crosby.
OVERNIGHT: Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club
MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 6 - Tuesday Mount Kenya

Today we drive to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, also in the Mount Kenya region. Arrival will be in time for lunch. Thereafter depart on an afternoon game drive, where you will have the opportunity to visit the famous Jane Goodall Chimpanzee Sanctuary. Return to your camp for dinner and overnight at Sweetwaters Tented Camp.

Because of political unrest in Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo, renowned primatologist Jane Goodall established the Jane Goodall Chimpanzee Sanctuary at Sweetwaters in Kenya. Although chimpanzees are not native to Kenya, those at the sanctuary appear to be thriving. Goodall rescued all of them from very cruel conditions in Uganda and Rwanda, where their number in the wild had dwindled from over three million to about one hundred fifty thousand. The chimpanzee sanctuary is incorporated within the Ol Pejeta Conservancy and is the only place in Kenya where this highly endangered and remarkably intelligent species can be seen.

Sweetwaters Tented Camp lies in the heart of privately owned Sweetwaters Game Reserve, enjoying magnificent views across the game-studded plains to the snowcapped peaks of Mount Kenya. Accommodation is provided in luxuriously appointed tents, set under thatch, with en-suite facilities and private verandah. All Sweetwaters tents are covered by a thatch roof and are cool even during the hottest day. Within the quaint, original farmhouse is the dining room, bar and reception with its superb accommodation, personal service, first class cuisine and outstanding array of activities. Overlooking a floodlit waterhole, the camp offers visitors an unforgettable opportunity to watch and photograph animals in their natural habitat.
OVERNIGHT: Sweetwaters Tented Camp
MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 7 - Wednesday Mount Kenya/Masai Mara

After breakfast transfer to Nanyuki Airstrip for your scheduled flight to Masai Mara National Reserve. Upon arrival at the airstrip you will be met by vehicles from Mara Intrepids Camp and transfer to your camp with a game drive en route.

Lunch and afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight at Mara Intrepids Camp.

Set above a sweeping bend in the Talek River at the confluence of the Maasai Mara's four game main viewing areas, Intrepids Tented Camp enjoys one of the most spectacular locations in the reserve. With 30-luxury tents widely spread across a large riverside site, it ensures guests have optimum privacy and peace. Each tent is furnished in the classic style of the grand African safaris, with large four-poster beds and handsome furniture. Each tent sits on a shady platform, with sweeping views over the riverbanks where a wide variety of animals come to drink. The Camp is a short drive from the Mara River, where more than a million wildebeest and zebra make their perilous migration crossing every July and August. For the remainder of the year, the camp offers some of the world's finest game viewing, with large local populations of plains game, elephants, rhinos, buffalos, and all the big cats.
OVERNIGHT: Mara Intrepids Camp
MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 8 - Thursday Masai Mara

Early morning and afternoon game drives in the reserve.

Meals and overnight at Mara Intrepids Camp

The Masai Mara National Reserve offers wonderful scenery of breathtaking vistas, panoramas of vast rolling plains, hills and woodland groves, well watered by the lovely Mara River. The Mara is home to the largest population of lions in Kenya; these magnificent beasts spend most of the day sleeping in the shade of Acacia Trees. The waters of the Mara River are home to crocodiles and pools of hippo, while the woodlands and forests are favored by leopard and elephant.

The open savannah areas play host to the plains’ game. All of the “Big Five” - Lion, Rhino, Buffalo, Elephant and Leopard - are here, as well as cheetah, hippo, hartebeest, gazelle, topi, antelope, zebra and many other animals. The Mara is also noted for its abundance of lions - particularly the superb black manned males.

OVERNIGHT: Mara Intrepids Camp
MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 9 - Friday Masai Mara

Spend another day of early morning and late afternoon game viewing in the Masai Mara.

The wildlife is abundant and the gentle rolling grasslands ensure that animals are never out of sight. Birds, too, are prolific. The great herds of shuffling elephants browse among the rich tree-studded grasslands with an occasional sighting of a solitary rhino. Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, topi and eland and many more species of plains' game offer a rich choice of food for the dominant predators; lion, leopard and cheetah which hunt in this pristine wilderness. In the Mara River hippos snort and grumble, while seemingly drowsy crocodiles sunbathe on the river banks, waiting with subtle cunning for prey at which to strike with lightning swiftness. But this richness of fauna, this profusion of winged beauty and the untouched fragility of the landscape, are all subordinate to the Mara's foremost attraction, the annual Great Migration of the wildebeest, which are relentlessly tracked by predators as they migrate in a clockwise fashion over 1,800- miles/2900-km each year in search of rain-ripened grass.
OVERNIGHT: Mara Intrepids Camp
MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

DAY 10 - Saturday Masai Mara/Nairobi/Depart

After an early morning game drive, transfer to the airstrip for your scheduled flight to Nairobi. Upon arrival you will transfer to your Nairobi hotel for a dayroom and relaxation at the Fairmont Norfolk Hotel. Later, you will be transferred to the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden for a late lunch. Then transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your departure flight.

The Karen Blixen Coffee Garden oozes colonial charm. Set in what used to be Karen Blixen’s old coffee farm estate, is the delightful Tamambo Restaurant. The beautiful gardens are a great place to enjoy the peace and quiet of rural Africa.

On week-ends and holidays, live music groups play Jazz and traditional and modern music, in a relaxed atmosphere among the comfortable surroundings; a long open veranda, suede chairs, large open fireplaces (great for cold wet days) in a decor reminiscent of days gone by. Butterflies and birds are seen around the gardens among the sweet smelling frangipani and brightly colored bougainvillea.

Return home with a lifetime of memories!

MEALS: Breakfast, Lunch

Samburu Intrepids Camp

Fairmont Mt. Kenya Safari Club

Sweetwaters Tented Camp

Mara Intrepids Camp

The Tribe Hotel