KENYA: 12 Days in the african Bush

KENYA: 12 Days in the African Bush with 4 Days on a Camel Walk

The Best of Kenya & Tanzania: Twelve Days

Bush Homes and Safari Camps: two weeks

KENYA and TANZANIA: Lodges and Seasonal Camps

Itinerary Extensions

4th & 5th Saturday/ Sunday Feb, 2012

Leave home and travel over the weekend via London (or Amsterdam), arriving on Sunday in Kenya. We will be at Jomo Kenyatta Airport in Nairobi to meet you on arrival and, once the brief formalities are completed, to take you to a hotel. Giraffe Manor is a  a small and most unusual hotel, standing on a hundred acres in Karen, some ten miles out of town.  The Rothschild giraffe rehabilitation programme was started here and so the large garden has plenty of visiting giraffe. Wake up the next morning in an upstairs bedroom, eye to eye with a breakfasting Rothschild's giraffe and a lovely view of the Ngong Hills in the background. Exploring the Manor grounds can be fun, with several of these giraffes to contend with, as well as warthogs and monkeys.

6th, 7th & 8th Feb., 2012
THREE NIGHTS, PRIVATE CAMP, LOLDAIGA RANCH

Leaving Nairobi this morning you would catch a schedule flight to Nanyuki where your guides will meet you to start your great adventure. Between Mount Kenya and the Mukogodo Forest is the Laikipia Plateau.  Enormous privately owned ranches filled with an exotic mix of wild animals and livestock occupy this great space. Loldaiga Ranch, a great tract of land covering the good part of a small mountain range and undoubtedly the most beautiful and least developed of the northern ranches. The whole 50,000 acres here, while a serious working cattle ranch, is also effectively a large private sanctuary where elephant and most other wild animals can be readily seen. Explore the grasslands and hillsides on foot as well as by car. The bird life around the dams and river courses is fabulous with about 300 species to be seen. Exquisite scenery with the cedar-covered hilltops circling big open grassy plains and much of what one sees is against the beautiful backdrop of Mount Kenya. 

9th & 10th Feb, 2012
TWO NIGHTS DELORAINE HOUSE, RIFT VALLEY

Driving around the northern tip of the Aberdare Range, into the lush farmland below the forest, our road today takes us along the floor of the Rift Valley and to Deloraine. Built in 1920 by Lord Francis Scott, a prominent early settler, this house is one of the grandest examples of colonial architecture in the country. Accommodating up to ten people in the style of earlier centuries, it looks out over magnificent gardens boasting a croquet lawn and secret walks. The food is excellent with home grown vegetables and the wine flows freely at table. It is set in the middle of a five thousand acre farm, high up on the slopes of Londiani Mountain, a forest and bamboo shrouded volcano. There are dozens of horses here; the farm and the mountain providing more than adequate countryside to explore.

A few miles is Lake Nakuru National Park, with its millions of flamingos, pelicans and other bird life, together with a healthy amount of both black and white rhino, buffalo, gazelles, zebra, baboon and even the occasional lion and leopard.

Your middle day could be spent gameviewing here and a picnic lunch under the shade of the yellow barked acacia forests.

11th, 12, 13th & 14th Feb., 2012   
FOUR NIGHTS PRIVATE CAMP MASAI MARA 

A full morning’s drive through the emerald hills of the tea-growing district before reaching the vast rolling plains of Masailand and the endless herds of game for which the Mara is famous. This is where you will re-join your camp (the staff having packed up the many tons of equipment, loaded it onto the lorry and moved it a few hundred miles over the preceding couple of days). Here the game viewing is always amazing and the chance of seeing a big cat in action is good. Patience is often rewarded with the incredible sight of lions springing from cover onto their prey or a cheetah racing along (at sixty mph.) hard on the heels of a fleet-footed gazelle. Sharp-eyed spotters on the roof of each vehicle increase the chance of such sightings. Amongst these teeming numbers of buffalo, topi, zebra, and gazelle are the Masai with their great herds of cattle. Evening walks beside our rocky stream are filled with the sounds and smells of Africa; scampering baboons and the loud snorting of impala, the thrill of getting close to elephant on foot and listening to their gentle rumblings. End each day with a fine dinner at a candlelit table, a glass of wine, pleasant stories by the fireside and then to bed with the roar of lions.

Feb 15th, 2012

Wake up early for your last breakfast in camp, and then catch a schedule flight back to Nairobi for some last minute shopping and dinner with us at home, before catching your onward flight.

The cost of this safari will be US$ 8900 per person with a minimum of 3 guests

1. These are suggested arrangements and can be readily varied to suit your preferences and requirements. Accommodation and activities mentioned above are subject to availability. Prompt commitment, by payment of deposit, ensures all bookings and guides’ services are secured immediately.
2. There are two optional excursions from the Mara; a hot air balloon flight and a flying visit to Lake Victoria for fishing. Advance booking is required.
3. Visas are required for entry into Kenya and malarial tablets are essential.

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Robin Hurt Safaris (K) Ltd. P.O.Box 24988, Karen, Nairobi, Kenya Tel: (254-2) 882826, 882268,884068 Tel: (254) 882328 (After Office hours) Fax: (254-2) 882939 E-mail: info@robinhurtphotosafaris.com

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