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KENYA Loisaba Conservancy Lewa/Mt. Kenya Ol Pejeta Conservancy Maasai Mara Nairobi Amboseli Serengeti

Ngorongoro Mt. Kilimanjaro Conservation Area

Kenya has long been a flocks of flamingos that top destination for safari fringe its shores. The region seekers. Showcasing a wealth is also a sanctuary for rhinos of wildlife, each ecologically and leopards. diverse national park has its Discover the beauty of own allure. The private ranches Amboseli, famous for its and conservancies further dramatic views of the snow- expand the amount of land capped Mount Kilimanjaro and Kenya has dedicated to wildlife its large tusked elephants. conservation and are often partnerships between the Lauded for its groundbreaking local Maasai landowners and rhino rehabilitation efforts, private safari camps. The result Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is a destination that delivers is one of our absolute favorite meaningful and enriching places to visit. It offers an cultural experiences as well unforgettable combination as exclusive and spectacular of unspoiled beauty, superb wildlife viewing. game viewing and responsible tourism. Horse, camel and Kenya’s many iconic geological walking safaris are a few of features include Mount the activities on offer at Lewa Kenya, the second-highest that provide a more intimate peak in Africa, and the Great perspective of this region. Rift Valley, whose rivers, lakes and valleys provide homes for The arid Samburu is another the region’s wildlife. northern gem stretching along the Ewaso Nyiro River. It The Maasai Mara is the most is home to elephants and large popular and renowned safari predators such as lions, as well destination in Kenya, where as the rare northern specialist huge herds of wildebeests species the Grevy’s zebra, the travel across the plains during Somali ostrich, the reticulated the annual Great Migration. giraffe, the gerenuk and the This is one of the greatest beisa oryx. spectacles in the natural world, making it the perfect “Out of Eastern Kenya is bordered by Africa” experience. Taking a the warm Indian Ocean and hot air balloon flight over the white sandy beaches. Rich Mara is a bucket-list adventure with aquatic life, it makes that should not be missed. the perfect place to end an exciting safari and enjoy a bit Kenya’s lakes are a bird lover’s of rest and relaxation. paradise. Lake Nakuru is best known for the massive

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• Visit Kenya’s first community run and managed elephant orphanage • Search for the endangered black and white rhino in Kenya’s oldest National Park • Experience the untamed beauty of the Mara and the pristine wilderness of the northern frontier

Maasai Mara wildlife

This safari adventure Meet your expert ranger for a wells to observe the warriors Day Maasai Mara game drive and start exploring the as they chant and collect water Observe the Mara’s cycle of life combines two prime conservancy’s dramatic landscape. for their cattle. Co-existing with slowly unfold. Sit quietly for hours wildlife regions and You’ll be delighted by the varied the wildlife, this semi-nomadic observing a day in the life of a wildlife that can be spotted here. pastoralist tribe are an intrinsic part pride of Mara lions. Drive along the invites the traveler to Be sure to watch for leopard, wild of this remote wilderness. (BLD) banks of the Mara River and listen dog and reticulated giraffe. (BLD) Sarara Treehouses to vocal hippos as they emerge participate in Kenya’s Sarara Treehouses Day Namunyak Wildlife and then sink back below the conservation success story. Day Namunyak Conservancy/Maasai Mara waters’ surface. Large troops of olive Wildlife Conservancy Fly to the magical Maasai Mara and baboons can be seen grooming Day Arrive Nairobi, Kenya Namunyak is home to the Reteti your luxurious tented camp. The one another as their infants play Jambo na Karibu! Welcome to Elephant Sanctuary. On today’s visit Mara is the ancestral home to the and explore. There is no better way Nairobi, or the “place of cool waters” you are paired with an elephant Maasai people and has the greatest to fall asleep than being serenaded in the Maasai language. After a keeper and given a behind the and most diverse concentration by the sounds of nature. (BLD) warm welcome, you’ll be driven to scenes tour of the sanctuary. Watch of wildlife in Africa today. After Governors’ Il Moran Camp your boutique lodge located on the the elephants as they receive their settling in, embark on a game Day Maasai Mara/Depart bottles and play in the mud, all the drive with your ranger. (BLD) edge of Nairobi National Park. (D) Soak up your last morning on safari The Emakoko while learning valuable skills so Governors’ Il Moran Camp before returning to Nairobi. This that they might be re-introduced Nairobi Day Maasai Mara afternoon, enjoy a bit of last minute Day into the wild. Cap off the day Each day in the Mara will be shopping and lunch. A dayroom Enjoy a morning game drive with a night game drive in search dramatically different as you take is at your disposal until you are followed by touring in the sprawling of nocturnal species. (BLD) game drives with your expert transferred to the airport for your capital city of Nairobi. (BLD) Sarara Treehouses The Emakoko rangers. Lions, leopards, cheetahs, international departure flight. (BL) Day Namunyak large numbers of elephants and Nairobi/Namunyak Day Wildlife Conservancy other plains game, countless birds Wildlife Conservancy Immerse yourself in the culture of and smaller animals frequent the Your safari takes off with a flight to the Samburu people. During the Mara’s tree-flecked grasslands. (BLD) the Namunyak Wildlife Conservancy dry season visit the unique singing Governors’ Il Moran Camp in the northern frontier of Kenya.

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• Walking safari in Amboseli • Picnic lunch in Lake Manyara National Park • Scenic flight between parks

Tortilis Camp Lewa Safari Camp game drive

This safari captures the very Day Nairobi/Amboseli Day Amboseli/Lewa Day Lewa Wildlife Your safari takes off with a flight Wildlife Conservancy Conservancy best of Kenya and Tanzania to Amboseli National Park. Upon Fly north to Lewa Wildlife Immerse yourself in this wilderness. and is the most likely route checking into your tented camp, Conservancy on Mt. Kenya’s Take a closer look at the smaller meet your expert ranger for an slopes. Meet your ranger and start animals when you take a nature for observing the Great afternoon game drive. Capture exploring the conservancy’s diverse walk. Observe a well-frequented Migration of wildebeests photos of some of Africa’s largest ecosystems. You’ll be delighted water hole and watch the wildlife elephants with the snowcapped by the varied wildlife that can as they drink in a designated and zebras as they cross the Mt. Kilimanjaro as the backdrop. be spotted here — 70 different pecking order. Visit a local Cap off your day with traditional mammals and some 350 species Samburu community or learn great plains of East Africa. sundowners as you marvel of birds. Be sure to watch for the about Lewa’s many conservation at views of Africa’s highest endangered Grevy’s zebra and projects. In the evening, gather Day Arrive Nairobi, Kenya mountain in the twilight. (BLD) reticulated giraffe. Tonight, raise your around a cozy log fire and share Jambo na Karibu! With a warm Tortilis Camp glass to the views of Mt. Kenya. (BLD) your day’s adventures. (BLD) Swahili welcome, you’ll be Lewa Safari Camp Lewa Safari Camp transferred to your boutique Day Amboseli hotel. Spend the rest of Rise with the animals for your zyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzyzy your day as you please. game drive — you may catch up AFTER DAY 5 Hemingways Nairobi with the big cats, full after their Depending on the month of travel, night’s hunt. Watch for wildebeests, choose between the following: zebras, impalas and warthogs, and see how many of the 300 species of birds you can spot. (BLD) The The Tortilis Camp Maasai Mara Serengeti OPTION or OPTION Best July through Best December November through June

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The Maasai Mara The Manor at Ngorongoro crater oor luncheon OPTION Best July through November Day Maasai Mara Day Maasai Mara/ Day Ngorongoro Crater Awaken with the animals to Arusha, Tanzania Descend some 2,000 feet to Day Lewa Wildlife join your morning game drive. Cross the border with a flight to explore Ngorongoro’s sprawling Conservancy/Maasai Mara Keep a lookout for black-maned Arusha, where you’ll be met on crater floor. Designated a The adventure continues as you lions, leopards and cheetahs arrival and transferred to your UNESCO World Heritage Site, take flight to the Maasai Mara, returning from their night’s lodge, a peaceful retreat tucked this unique biosphere is home Kenya’s premier game reserve. Your hunt. Explore the bends of the within a coffee plantation. Relax to numerous herds of elephant, traditional safari camp is located traversing river where hippos and explore as you please. (BLD) large prides of lions, leaping along the Sand River, where over and crocodiles spread out in their Arusha Co ee Lodge gazelles, and countless zebras and a million wildebeests and zebras favorite feeding grounds. (BLD) wildebeests. Watch the amusing make their migration crossing Day Arusha/ Sand River Masai Mara Ngorongoro Crater antics at the hippo pool. (BLD) every year. With your camera ready, The Manor at Ngorongoro Explore magical Lake Manyara, meet your ranger and take off on Day Maasai Mara with seasonal pink-hued flamingos a game drive across the reserve’s Spend the day with various game- Day Ngorongoro/Depart and some 400 species of birds grasslands. You’ll be amazed by viewing activities. Greet the sunrise After a short flight to Arusha, you’ll lining its shore. Your ranger the herds of plains game and with an optional hot air balloon enjoy lunch and a place to relax will seek out the park’s fabled wide variety of wildlife. (BLD) ride or visit a traditional Maasai at a reserved hotel day room until tree-climbing Manyara lions Sand River Masai Mara homestead. After dinner, gather transferring to the airport for your and blue monkeys to round out around the campfire and share onward arrangements. (BL) your favorite memories of the day your photo gallery. Continue with your safari companions. (BLD) on to your beautiful lodge near Sand River Masai Mara the Ngorongoro Crater. (BLD) The Manor at Ngorongoro

60 #AFRICANTRAVELCARES Breakfasts, Lunches and Dinners as indicated (BLD). The Serengeti Serengeti zebras OPTION Best December through June on to your beautiful lodge near 2 million wildebeests, half a to spectacular locations of the Ngorongoro Crater. (BLD) million Thomson’s gazelles and a outstanding natural beauty Day Lewa Wildlife The Manor at Ngorongoro quarter million zebras gather for where you can observe the Conservancy/Arusha, Tanzania their annual migration. (BLD) wildlife at your leisure. Back Day Serengeti Migration Camp or Serengeti Pioneer Camp Cross the border with a flight to Ngorongoro Crater at camp with the animals Arusha, where you’ll be met on roaming around at night, your Descend some 2,000 feet to Day Serengeti arrival. Continue on to your lodge, immersion in the wildlife is like explore Ngorongoro’s sprawling Depart early for your first game a peaceful retreat tucked within living a dream for even the most crater floor. Designated a drive of the day. Collect a gallery a large coffee plantation. Relax experienced of travelers. (BLD) UNESCO World Heritage site, this of striking images as the morning and explore as you please. (BLD) Serengeti Migration Camp or Serengeti Pioneer Camp unique biosphere is home to unfolds: a lioness relaxing after Arusha Co ee Lodge numerous herds of elephants, her morning hunt, alert elephants Day Serengeti/Depart Day Arusha/ large prides of lions, leaping guarding their young and herds After a short flight to Arusha, you’ll Ngorongoro Crater gazelles, and countless zebras and of wildebeests grazing alongside enjoy lunch and a place to relax Explore magical Lake Manyara, wildebeests. Watch the amusing zebras and gazelles. Relax at at a reserved hotel day room until with seasonal pink-hued flamingos antics at the hippo pool. (BLD) camp before setting out for your transferring to the airport for your and some 400 species of birds The Manor at Ngorongoro afternoon game drive. (BLD) onward arrangements. (BL) lining its shore. Your ranger Serengeti Migration Camp or Serengeti Pioneer Camp Day Ngorongoro Crater/ will seek out the park’s fabled Serengeti Serengeti tree-climbing Manyara lions Day Continue on to the great Serengeti, During morning and afternoon and blue monkeys to round out the “endless plains” in the Maasai game viewing activities, your your photo gallery. Continue language, where more than ranger continues to lead you

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AFRICAN TRAVEL’S ADDED BENEFITS

• Feed a giraffe at breakfast • Adopt and visit an orphaned elephant • Private game drive vehicle while in the Serengeti

Maasai guides at Mara Bushtops

This quintessential East Day Nairobi/Maasai Mara Fly to a private conservancy in the African safari roams the fabulous Maasai Mara. Meet your game-rich grassy plains ranger and take off on an afternoon drive. It is the presence of the Big of Kenya’s Maasai Mara Five and a huge supporting cast of and Tanzania’s Serengeti mammals, reptiles and bird life that makes a wildlife safari unforgettable. in search of predators and Return to camp for sundowners and a sumptuous dinner. (BLD) prey. Unique locations and Mara Bushtops lodging are followed by a Day Maasai Mara blissful seaside stay on the Every day in the Maasai Mara is different, with a never-ending exotic island of Zanzibar. showcase of untamed nature. Enjoy morning and afternoon game Day Arrive Nairobi, Kenya viewing in open safari vehicles. After a warm welcome, you’ll be When the sun sets, nature shuffles its driven to your exclusive boutique deck, and a night game drive often hotel, set in a private giraffe reveals new players and dramas sanctuary within Nairobi. (D) under the moonlit skies. (BLD) Gira e Manor Mara Bushtops Day Nairobi Day Maasai Mara Share your breakfast with the resident Embrace the languid rhythm of the Rothschild giraffes as they pop their bush. Get close to nature on a guided long necks through the windows in walk with your ranger and Maasai search of a treat. This afternoon, visit spotter. Listen closely as your spotter the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust and provides insight into the tracks its pioneering Orphan’s Project for a and plant life around you. (BLD) visit with your foster elephant. (BLD) Mara Bushtops Gira e Manor

Gira e Manor

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Kilindi Zanzibar

Day Maasai Mara/Serengeti game drives. Return to camp for Day Zanzibar Day Zanzibar After breakfast, continue by air a soothing soak in your hot tub, The day is at your leisure to relax Enjoy another day at leisure to Tanzania’s great Serengeti, then settle down to an evening of and enjoy the resort’s pool and on this magical island, where where lions stroll, leopards good food and conversation as the spa facilities. Take a stroll through the fusion of Arab, African and lounge, and giraffes, gazelles sun sets over the savanna. (BLD) Stone Town, a UNESCO World European cultures has created a and zebras keep a watchful eye Roving Bushtops Heritage site, and browse the colorful pace of life and tapestry on their surroundings. (BLD) Day Serengeti/Zanzibar bustling markets. Sail to Prison of architecture and heritage. (BD) Roving Bushtops Today you will fly off to the Island on a traditional wooden Kilindi Zanzibar dhow, an ideal place to sunbathe Day Serengeti spice island of Zanzibar. The Day or snorkel with giant turtles. (BD) Explore the open plains of the turquoise waters of the Indian Zanzibar/Depart Kilindi Zanzibar Serengeti wilderness on early Ocean and fragrant tropical On this day you are transferred morning and late afternoon air await your arrival. (BD) to the airport for your ongoing Kilindi Zanzibar flight arrangements. (B)

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