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Kenya Safari & Lake Malawi holiday
- COUNTRY:
- Kenya, Mozambique
- LOCATION:
- Lake Malawi
- DEPARTURES:
- This trip can depart at any time to suit your requirements. It follows a set itinerary and you are likely to be with other people during the trip.
- PRICE:
- From US $6,840 (EU €4,970) - US $7,640 (EU €5,552) (11 days)
- MORE INFO:
- Price is per person, based on 2 adults sharing 1 room for 10 nights. Single Supplement $905. Children (8-12years) pay 60% if sharing with 2 adults; If sharing with 1 adult the adult pays single supp and child pays 60%; 2 children in own tent /room75% of adult rate each. Minimum 2 Adults. Closed 16Apr-31 May 2011.
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Kenya safari & Lake Malawi holiday
Porini safari camps - Kenya: Amboseli, Laikipia, Mara
The Porini Safari Camps offer visitors the experience of staying in small, high quality low impact safari camps located in exclusive community-owned wildlife conservancies in some of the finest big game areas in Africa. Here you will escape from the crowds and experience the African wilderness without the presence of other tourist vehicles and with the personal attention of qualified safari guides.
Nkwichi lodge - Mozambique
A hidden hand-built lodge on the dazzling Mozambique shores of Lake Niassa. A rare chance to savour an unspoilt corner of real Africa. Explore on foot, by canoe, in sailing dhows. Laze in a hammock above a secluded cove. See for yourself how responsible tourism supports local people and their timeless surroundings. Sugar-white ''squeaking' sands, washed by clear fresh water teeming with tropical fish.
- Amboseli, the best place in Kenya to see elephants at close range and wonderful views of Kilimanjaro.
- Selenkay Conservancy (adjacent to Amboseli), walk with Maasai warriors & night game drives
- Ol Pejeta Conservancy, the largest rhino conservancy in East Africa in a vast tract of wilderness within the Laikipia area, overlooking snow-capped Mount Kenya. Elephant, rhino, lion and leopard all present.
- The Mara, famous for the spectacular wildebeest migration between the end of June and early October every year and excellent for lion and cheetah.
- Relaxing, swimming and snorkelling on the pristine beaches at Nkwichi Lodge
- Exploring the Manda Wilderness Area on foot or by boat
Price includes: Road transfer from Nairobi to Amboseli Porini Camp, all internal Flights, Amboseli Porini for 2 nights, Amboseli park fees and conservancy fees, Porini Rhino Camp for 2 nights including all park /conservancy fees. 2 nights Porini Lion Camp, park fees and conservancy fees included. All game drives in 4x4 vehicles, full board and free house wines, beer and soft drinks. 1 night at Holiday Inn on Bed & Breakfast with return airport transfers. International Flight: Nairobi – Lilongwe return, Return Charter flight from Lilongwe to Likoma Island. Return Boat transfer Likoma Island to Nkwichi Lodge and 3 nights at Nkwichi Lodge on a full board basis (all meals and non-motorised activities).
Day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Pickup from airport or hotel and transfer by safari minibus to Amboseli Porini Camp (a 4 hour journey of 102 miles), arriving at Porini Camp before lunch. Following afternoon tea, you will be escorted on a walk by Maasai warriors to a village to get an insight into their fascinating culture and way of life. Then take a game drive in the conservancy followed by a sundowner at a scenic spot overlooking Kilimanjaro. Night game drive and return to camp for dinner and overnight |
| Day 2: | Awake to the noisy calls of the birds. After an early breakfast, we drive through the bush on our private track into Amboseli National Park, for a full morning of game viewing. Following a picnic lunch in the park, we return to Porini Camp later in the afternoon. In the evening you will go on a game drive in Selenkay Conservancy, stopping for a sundowner at a scenic viewpoint, followed by a night game drive to look for nocturnal animals such as aardvarks, serval cats, caracals, bat-eared foxes, African wild cats, and other species. Return to camp for dinner and overnight. |
| Day 3: | Early breakfast and then drive through Amboseli park to the airstrip for the 0945 Safarilink flight to Wilson, connecting onto the 1020 flight to Nanyuki, arriving at 1240. You will be met at the airstrip and transferred to Porini Rhino Camp, located in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy, in the foothills of Mount Kenya. Lunch and afternoon tea in camp and then head off to look for rhino with your driver-guide in the camp’s 4x4 safari vehicle. Return to Porini Rhino Camp for dinner and overnight. |
| Day 4: | Full day in Ol Pejeta with game drives and walking activities from camp. Overnight Porini Rhino Camp. |
| Day 5: | Depart Porini Rhino Camp and fly from Nanyuki on the 09.45 Safarilink flight to Mara arriving at 11.00. You will be met and transferred to Porini Lion Camp. Lunch and afternoon tea in camp and then go on a game drive or escorted walk followed by a sundowner and night drive with spotlight. Return to Porini Lion Camp for dinner and overnight. |
| Day 6: | Full day in the Maasai Mara National Park with picnic lunch. Overnight Porini Lion Camp. |
| Day 7: | Final early morning game drive and then depart on the 11.00 Safarilink flight to Wilson arriving back to Nairobi at 12.15. Met on arrival and transfer to Holiday Inn Hotel for 1 night on Bed & Breakfast. |
| Day 8: | Picked up from the Holiday Inn and transfer to Nairobi Airport for your flight to Lilongwe. On arrival connect onto the Internal Flight Lilongwe to Likoma and a Boat Transfer to Nkwichi Lodge. Settle into your Nkwichi Lodge, which will be your home for the next three nights. |
| Days 9-10: | Spend the days relaxing, swimming and snorkelling on the pristine beaches at Nkwichi Lodge or explore the Manda Wilderness Area on foot or by boat |
| Day 11: | Today you will depart Nkwichi Lodge, return boat transfer and flights back to Nairobi to connect for flight back home. |
How this holiday makes a difference
Community
Nkwichi lodge is built out of local materials, in a sustainable way and fits in unobtrusively beside the lake. Great care is taken with the use of chemicals for washing etc. and they are using naturally decomposing "long-drop" toilets. Stays at the lodge therefore help provide local employment, funds for well-needed local priorities such as education, transport and medical care, whilst also giving the traveller a wonderful welcoming glimpse of life in rural Africa. Visitors can enjoy the fact that they have contributed in conserving the wildlife and habitat that they see, as well as assisted the local people who are so keen to interact with people from the rest of the world.
The lodge aims to provide guests with a special stay in a unique place. Carefully introducing international tourism to a beautiful yet undeveloped part of Mozambique, it offers many local people an alternative income to subsistence farming and fishing, whether through direct employment, the production of food and supplies for the Lodge, or the preserving the unspoilt environment.
Environment
The Porini camps are run on environmentally sound principles, specially designed to have minimum impact, with no permanent structures, using solar power for electricity and heating water with special eco-friendly sustainable charcoal briquettes.
In Amboseli and Mara, the conservancies are owned by the local Maasai communities and the camps are operated and managed with the objective of creating income and providing benefits for the local people so that they can gain from participating in tourism.
Wildlife and community is at the core of the Porini ethos. Guests enjoy being looked after by Maasai from the local community, who work in the Camps and also have been trained as fully qualified Guides. Attention is not just on the Big 5 but the smaller wildlife and birds, giving guests a much more rounded safari experience. Guides have strict guidelines on viewing animals and spend time at each sighting, rather than racing round to tick off the list.
The local Maasai communities have set aside the Selenkay Conservancy and more recently the Ol Kinyei Conservancy as reserves for wildlife, and in return receive an income from tourism activities. This is used to fund community projects such as schools and water supplies. Employment opportunities have also been provided for the local Maasai people in both conservancies as game rangers, trackers, and camp staff. Apart from the management and Head Cook, all other staff in the camps and Conservation Areas are members of the local community.
The 70 kms of roads in the Selenkay Conservation Area were constructed using local labour so that members of the community gained employment. Forty scattered Maasai homesteads have a family member earning an income from working in Selenkay. As a result of the establishment of the Conservation Area, wildlife numbers have recovered significantly in recent years and elephants are now seen frequently after an absence of nearly 20 years. Selenkay Conservation Area lies in the heart of Maasailand, well off the beaten track. It has not been visited by tourists until very recently. The animals are truly wild and tend to behave more naturally than those in the parks, which are often habituated to the presence of vehicles.
Ol Pejeta Conservancy is a 90,000 acre wildlife conservancy situated between the foot hills of the Aberdares and the magnificent snowcapped Mount Kenya. Ol Pejeta Conservancy boasts an astounding variety of animals including the non-indigenous chimpanzees and the big 5 (the endangered black rhino, leopard, elephant, buffalo and lion). The combination of amazing wildlife and stunning views across the open plains of Ol Pejeta guarantees an unforgettable safari experience.
Olare Orok Conservancy: The 20,000 acre Olare Orok Conservancy borders the Masai Mara Game Reserve is home to an abundance of animals including the Big Cats for which the Mara is famous. Olare Orok has vast open savannah plains that are teeming with wildebeest during the migration period and has several resident prides of lion as well. The Olare Orok Conservancy is exclusive to the 3 camps and minibus vans are not permitted so the only vehicles are the few 4x4 safari vehicles from the 3 camps offering visitors an exceptional wildlife experience
