9 to 28 February 2020 R Ally Director, Fred Gallagher, Has Planned a Route That Avoids the Crowds and Visits Some of the More Exclusive Game Reserves

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9 to 28 February 2020 R ally Director, Fred Gallagher, has planned a route that avoids the crowds and visits some of the more exclusive game reserves. Exhilarating drives give us amazing views of snow- capped mountains, including Kilimanjaro, and take us through wildlife-rich plains and grasslands where we can expect to see elephants, giraffes, cape buffalo, lions and hippos, as well xplore some of the world’s great game as hundreds of different birds. Plenty of tests and regularity E viewing areas via an exhilarating East sections are on the menu to ensure a competitive edge, but the pace ensures there will be plenty of time to enjoy leisurely African expedition. dining in style and see the abundant game in fascinating • Almost 4000 kilometres of driving landscapes. • 15 days of driving and 5 rest days • Regularity sections and tests

Diverse wildlife, varied landscapes and cultural scenes via spectacular drives across teeming game reserves and national parks. Top notch safari lodges and luxury hotels on an adventure for both amateur and experienced crews. First rally outside Europe? Hakuna Matata (Swahili for “No Problem”). Image: shutterstock.com For full, up to date, route notes see: 9 to 28 February 2020 www.rallytheglobe.com

oute notes: Day 3: Tsavo West to Amboseli 1953 was the inspiration for the test and regularity section, then Arusha at the foot of Mount Meru. We cross the spectacular Shetani original East African Safari Rally. refreshments at Nyaru. Passing A welcome dinner Day 19: Arusha to Taita Lava Flow and approach the The sign marking the Equator is a Lake Nakuru and more pink on board a traditional Samburu A circuit of Mount Meru before Kenya Pipeline Road - Africa’s must see, before the pleasant run flamingos and Rift Valley lake, Lake Bogoria R Arab sailing Dhow Kenya lunch in Moshi in the foothills of highest mountain, Kilimanjaro, into our home for two days, the Naivasha, is our home for the two in Mombasa Creek follows Mount Kilimanjaro. We re-enter should be visible on our left. A Mount Kenya Safari Lodge. nights - look out for hippos. Nanyuki Scrutineering at our beachside Lake Naivasha Kenya at the Taveta border post passage control at Sopa Lodge hotel. Day 7: Nanyuki to Samburu Day 11: Lake Naivasha to Masai to follow the track of the Voi – then onto the Amboseli Game We drive through the Nyambeni Mara Serengeti Taveta railway which was hotly Day 1: Mombasa to Watamu Reserve, renowned as one of the Amboseli Hills for an early lunch at A climb up the Mau Escarpment fought over during the First A gentle introduction to Africa as finest places in the world to see Leopard Lodge in the Meru to around 3000 metres before Lake Manyara Watamu World War. Main Time Control we head north through extensive herds of elephant. Late lunch is National Park. Mid-afternoon a slow descent to Narok and Mombasa at Taita Hills Lodge before a sisal plantations. Our first followed by a game drive. Tanzania regularity test the rejoining the sees us arrive at the splendid the Loita Plains, gateway to the short drive through the Wildlife Indian Ocean coast at Kilifi for Day 4: Amboseli to Karen Samburu reserve for two nights Masai Mara. Game will become Sanctuary to Salt Lick. Transition day heading north in a top-notch safari lodge. abundant as we make our way to lunch. Over-nighting at a luxury our lodge on the edge of the 600 Day 20: Taita to Mombasa towards Kenya’s capital Nairobi. our luxury lodge on the banks of hotel on the stunning Watamu Day 9: Samburu to Lake Bogoria metre deep Ngorongoro Crater. Driving through sisal plantations Our luxury hotel looks out over the Mara River. Beach. We briefly join the grandly to the isolated rock at Rukanga the Ngong Hills made famous by Day 17: Ngorongoro to Lake named Trans-East African Day 13: Masai Mara to Serengeti our final regularity follows and Day 2: Watamu to Tsavo West the movie Out of Africa. Manyara Highway then head west through Descending the Oloololo a passage control at Mackinnon We follow the course of the A gravel section around the Day 5: Karen to Nanyuki open country past Wamba. escarpment we cross into Road on the Nairobi to Mombasa Galana River inland to Tsavo East crater and great views over Lake A passage control commands Overnight halt at Lake Bogoria Tanzania. A regularity section, highway. To avoid the traffic National Park and onto gravel, Magadi. Followed by a beautiful a spectacular viewpoint over with its hot springs and pink Fort Ikomo and the Serengeti into the city we will have a final or murram as it is known in East drive to Lake Manyara, which the Great African Rift Valley. flamingos. National Park end the day. passage control section. The Africa. Expect to see elephants Ernest Hemingway claimed to be Skirting Lake Naivasha, we Gala Prize-Giving Dinner is in a and giraffes ahead of lunch at Day 10: Lake Bogoria to Lake Day 15: Serengeti to Ngorongoro “the loveliest lake in Africa”. leave the main road at Gilgil. A fabulous restaurant overlooking Voi Safari Lodge. Passage control Naivasha A relaxed start through the picturesque valley takes us to Day 18: Lake Manyara to Arusha Mombasa Creek from where we at Man Eaters (lions did just A spectacular driving day. God’s Serengeti, refreshments at Lake lunch at Nyahururu, known in More murram roads today to the set off three weeks previously. that to workers on the Nairobi- Highway with spectacular views Ndutu. Passage control at the colonial times as Thomson’s Masai town of Lolkisale. Lunch Mombasa railway in 1898)! of the Rift Valley, the Kenyan Olduvai Museum discovery place Falls. Afternoon tea at Treetops is taken at the Safari Camp We hope you can join us! The overnight lodge provides Fluorspar Mine with a valley road of the world’s earliest human where Princess Elizabeth became before a regularity section on the excellent game viewing. that equals any Alpine pass. A remains. Then a glorious drive to Queen in 1952. Her coronation in Simanjiro Plains. Overnighting in Subject to change Images: shutterstock.com

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