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888.658.7102 [email protected] www.deeperafrica.com Elephant Walk DAY-BY-DAY ITINERARY Classic safari with private guide Elephant Walk focuses on and supports the majestic elephant as the species faces a fight for survival in the face of ivory poaching and habitat loss. Visit the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust that raises, rehabilitates and helps transition orphaned Kenyan elephants back into the wild. See how these baby elephants connect with their caretakers in the Nairobi orphanage and how they prepare for reintegration back into wild at the Ithumba compound in Tsavo National Park. Meet researchers in elephant-dense Amboseli National Park. Connect to this deeply emotional, intelligent and sentinent species who exhibit “leadership...survival, and...concepts that are not supposed to be applied to animals: patience, loyalty, love, and joy.” –Cynthia Moss, Amboseli Elephant Research Project Welcome to Deeper Africa Of Africa Collection Camp/Out ©Satao Wildlife encounters, at once spontaneous and beyond imagination, result from our in-depth knowledge of seasonal wildlife migrations and patterns. Our guides possess a lifetime of African karlore and all the skills of a master tracker.i It’s bunbeing in the perfect place at the perfect time. i As a worldwide team with vast experience, we provide you with exceptional personal service. We attend to every detail. We help you learn about Africa’s important conservation issues. Arrive in Africa fully prepared and ready to explore. We believe that localsana African communities must benefit and prosper from the conservation and enjoyment of Africa’s wildlife. They ensure the future. Your dollars protect wildlife and wild lands, as well as support and nurture local small businesses that in turn support our safari business. Your dollar makes change. Experience wondrous wildlife, enjoy local culture and discover more about the vibrant people and complicated politics unique to Africa. We love this wild continent. classic safaris with Deeper Africa ENDLESS WILDERNESS, GREAT GUIDES & SPECTACULAR WILDLIFE VIEWING Its all about the wildlife. We’ll get you to the best locations during the right seasons. Learn animal identification, tracking and spotting skills. Accommodations are comfortable and the food is delicious. Come with us and discover the brilliance and serenity of Africa in the company of experts who can give you a closer look, a richer taste, and a deeper understanding of an astonishing landscape. DA ITINERARY SCHEDULE ELEPHANT WALK Safari schedule at a glance International flight #1 International flight #2 Kanzi Ya Camp/Campi ©Ithumba Departs: TBD Arrives: TBD Departs: TBD Arrives: NBO Day 1 & 2: Days 7 & 8: Arrival in Nairobi, Kenya Drive within Tsavo East National Park Overnights at Ole Sereni Overnights at Satao Camp Days 3 & 4: Day 9: Bush flight to Amboseli National Park Bush flight to Nairobi for international flights Overnights at Tawi Lodge Day room at Ole Sereni Days 5 & 6: Bush flight to Tsavo East National Park Overnights at Ithumba Camp 888.658.7102 DAYS 1 & 2 OLE SERENI | NAIROBI ELEPHANT WALK ©Jaime Steffen Lutz Steffen ©Jaime DAYS 1 & 2 Ole Sereni Nairobi National Park Wildlife viewing Activities included Get your checklist ready Keep your camera close Baboons, Buffalo, Cheetahs, David Sheldrick Crocodiles, Giraffes, Hippos, Wildlife Trust Elephant Leopard, Lions, Ostriches, orphanage visit Rhinos, Wildebeests, Zebras Upon clearing customs at Jomo Kenyatta International orphaned elephants live, play and learn together under Airport in Kenya’s bustling capital city of Nairobi, a the compassionate watch of their inspiring human driver awaits you holding a Deeper Africa sign with caretakers, who prepare them to return to the wild. your name on it. He will transport you to the Ole Watch elephant feedings and mud baths and meet Sereni Hotel, overlooking Nairobi National Park, a elephants less than two years of age. Most exciting, conservation area on the southern side of the city serving if you sponsored an orphan, meet your baby elephant as a sanctuary for many wildlife species including rhinos, in person. giraffes and elephants. It is also home to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Includes: Breakfast, Dinner The Sheldrick Orphanage adopts baby elephants Wi-fi, Swimming Pool who have lost their mothers to poaching. These Private guide & private vehicle 888.658.7102 DAYS 3 & 4 TAWI LODGE | AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK ELEPHANT WALK Wildlife viewing Activities included Get your checklist ready Keep your camera close Elephants, Buffalo, Wildlife viewing DAYS 3 & 4 Crocodiles, Gazelles, Hiking Giraffes, Hippos, Hyenas, Cultural exchange Jackals, Lions, Mongoose, Ostrich, Warthog, Tawi Lodge Wildebeest, Zebras Amboseli National Park ©Tawi Lodge/New African Lodge/New Territories ©Tawi Elephants celebrate birth, have lifelong friendships, and mourn the death of family members. Depart for small yet spectacular Amboseli National understand the complex communication and social Park in southern Kenya, known for its elephants. Meet networks within elephant families. With park and learn about these intelligent and sentient elephants, researchers, tourists and support of the local Maasai and view a variety of wildlife in the park’s plains, acacia people, Amboseli’s elephant population is one of the rare woodland, savannas, marshes and lake swamps. few that has lived relatively undisturbed. The population has slowly increased since the late 1970s. Visit the Moss Research Station, where Cynthia Moss, author of Echo of Elephants, and her Amboseli Elephant Tawi Lodge, on a 6,000 acre private conservancy run Research Project (AERP) team have spent more than in conjunction with the African Wildlife Foundation, 40 years studying some 1,500 elephants in 50 families. offers incredible views of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Through research, training, community outreach and public awareness, AERP works to ensure the long-term Includes: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner conservation and welfare of Africa’s elephants, and to Swimming Pool, Private guide & private vehicle 888.658.7102 DAYS 5 & 6 ITHUMBA CAMP | TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK ELEPHANT WALK Wildlife viewing Activities included Get your checklist ready Keep your camera close Elephants, Buffalo, Cheetah, Wildlife viewing Crocodiles, Gerenuk, David Sheldrick Giraffes, Hippos, Hyenas, Wildlife Trust elephant Kudu, Lions, Ostrich, orphanage visit Waterbuck, Zebras DAYS 5 & 6 Ithumba Camp Tsavo East National Park ©Ithumba Banda/David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Wildlife Sheldrick Banda/David ©Ithumba Depart for Tsavo East National Park to stay in The following visitation times act as a guideline: Sheldrick’s Ithumba compound. Accommodations are 6am - 8am: at the stockades simple and elephants are close. Learn more about the 11am - 1pm: at the midday mud-bath reintroduction program—many elephants have gone 4pm - 6pm: at the stockades on to join wild herds in the area. Young elephants that Tsavo East is one of the world’s biodiversity strongholds aren’t yet ready to rejoin the wild stay with their keepers and provides great wildlife viewing, tracking and here. Greet the young elephants as they return to the birdwatching in bush grasslands, open plains, acacia stockades to sleep. scrub and woodland ecosystems. The seasonal Tiva The stockades are a short drive from camp. Fostering River, fringed by beautiful trees and flowing only during one of Sheldrick’s elephants includes the opportunity rainfall further upstream, is a must-see, as is Lesalau to visit and spend as much time with the orphans as Dam, Ithumba’s seasonal dam. desired. Their schedule varies daily. Includes: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner Private guide & private vehicle 888.658.7102 DAY 7 & 8 SATAO CAMP | TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK ELEPHANT WALK Wildlife viewing Activities included Get your checklist ready Keep your camera close Elephants, Buffalo, Cheetah, Wildlife viewing Crocodiles, Gerenuk, Giraffes, Hippos, Hyenas, Kudu, Lions, Ostrich, Waterbuck, Zebras DAYS 7 & 8 Satao Camp Tsavo East National Park ©Duncan Willetts/Satao Camp/Out Of Africa Collection Camp/Out Willetts/Satao ©Duncan Satao Camp provides delicious food, quality service females and bullied by other males. But here, maneless and is one of the best places to view passing elephants lions exist in all resident prides and this does not put from the comfort of camp. View the wild herds roaming the lions at a disadvantage. Requiring less water to cool freely throughout Tsavo here and watch the close bonds themselves, they can travel longer and farther in search between the family members. of females and prey. Tsavo prides are made up of single males with 4 to 10 adult females each, larger than the The southern area of the park provides an opportunity Serengeti’s prides. to see many other wildlife species, particularly the unique Tsavo lion, which neither look nor behave like Includes: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner their Serengeti cousins. Adult males often lack a mane Private guide & private vehicle which would normally cause them to be shunned by 888.658.7102 DAY 9 OLE SERENI | NAIROBI & INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL ELEPHANT WALK ©Kia Lodge©Kia ©Campi Ya Kanzi Ya ©Campi DAY 9 Ole Sereni Flights & International Travel After breakfast, depart with a picnic lunch to the bush Flight #1 (Day 9) airstrip in Tsavo West National Park for your flight back to Nairobi. Stop by Mzima Springs—a series of Departs | Nairobi, Kenya four natural springs hosting populations of hippos, Arrives | TBD crocodiles and a variety of fish species. A Deeper Africa driver awaits you at Wilson
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