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Kenya wildlife camping safari
- COUNTRY:
- Kenya
- LOCATION:
- Amboseli National Park, Masai Mara
- DEPARTURES:
- 2011: 22 Oct, 17 Dec
- PRICE:
- From £1075 (8 days)
- MORE INFO:
- Price includes:1nt Wildebeest Camp in Nairobi, 6nts camping in 2-man dome tents with high density mattress, 6 days full board, 1 day breakfast, mineral water, transport in 4x4 safari vehicle with roof hatches, transfer trailer, driver/guide, camp staff/cook, park fees.
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Kenya wildlife camping safari
You'll start with a night in Nairobi - but it's unlike any hotel you can imagine! You'll stay at Wildebeest Camp, a permanent tented camp with deluxe safari tents set in peaceful tropical gardens, home to hundreds of varieties of plants and birds. Just 2km from the city centre's shops and markets, it's the ideal place to start to commune with nature before we take you off for six days of unbeatable game viewing. But if the birds and plants aren't enough for you, you could choose to make it yours and get a head start on the ele watching, with a trip to Daphne Sheldrick's elephant orphanage. Or visit the giraffe centre or the Karen Blixen museum.
For the next six nights you'll camp in private conservancy areas bordering game parks, sleeping in two-man domed tents, on high density mattresses, and travel in comfortable 4x4 safari vehicles. Your driver is also your expert guide, and you will be cared for by camp staff at each location, while the cook will travel with you, keeping you well fed. You'll enjoy dinners around the campfire under the stars, swapping safari stories as the night sounds of the African bush echo around you.
You'll enjoy an evening game drive in the Selenkay Conservation Area, a truly wild, Maasai-owned 15,000 acre private game reserve within the Amboseli ecosystem. And we'll take you to Amboseli National Park, where you can get some great views of Kilimanjaro. But, of course, Amboseli is best known for its game - especially elephants, and we'll get you good and close to these magnificent creatures.
Then you will travel to the Masai Mara, one of the most famous wildlife regions in the world, and the site of the world’s largest mass land migration, with around 2 million animals making the long and arduous journey from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Around July-October the reserve is packed with wildebeest, zebra and the big cat predators that they attract, but even outside of the migration period the game viewing is still magnificent with the Mara being one of the best places in Africa for excellent big cat sightings of lion, leopard and cheetah.
Featured highlights:
- Day and evening game drives and guided walks in varied terrain.
- Get close to the elephants of Amboseli, the big cats of the Mara.
- Views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
- Visit to a traditional Maasai village.
- Comfortable mobile camping with driver/guide and camp staff/cook.
Is it for you?
This is a participation mobile camping safari, staying in 2-person dome tents with high density mattress. This is a great trip for those who want to experience varied game viewing away from the crowds.
Best times to go
Kenya is a great year round destination, but do be aware that the long rains usually arrive in late March and last till the beginning of May. There is also a short rainy season in November.
Day-by-day itinerary
| Day 1: | Depart Home. Overnight flight. |
| Day 2: | Nairobi (Sat). Arrive in Nairobi, where you'll be met and transferred to Wildebeest Camp. |
| Day 3: | Amboseli (Sun). Picked up from your hotel and transferred to the Selenkay Conservation Area in the Amboseli ecosystem (about 4 hours) stopping en route to buy your choice of drinks for the next 3 days and arriving for a late lunch at camp. All meals and mineral water are provided in camp. Take a rest after lunch and then go out on an afternoon game drive to explore the Selenkay Conservancy. All the big cats have been seen in the Conservancy as well as elephants and a wide range of species including large numbers of giraffes, zebra, and antelopes. There are also less common animals to be seen such as the long-necked gerenuk gazelle, lesser kudu and African wildcat. This is a truly wild area of Maasailand which is only open to a limited number of visitors in order to protect the habitat and conserve the wildlife. Dinner and overnight in the camp at Selenkay. |
| Day 4: | Mount Kilimanjaro, elephants & Maasai village (Mon). After an early breakfast spend the morning on a game drive in the Selenkay Conservancy and an escorted nature walk with Maasai guides, returning to camp for lunch. In the afternoon you will visit a nearby Maasai Village where you will get to known more about the way of life of a Masai before enjoying a night game drive with a spotlight to seek out the nocturnal animals as you head back to camp in the dark. Dinner and overnight in camp at Selenkay. (B,L,D) |
| Day 5: | Amboseli National Park (Tue). Early breakfast and then drive through the bush into Amboseli National Park for a full day there with good views of Kilimanjaro and close-up observation of elephants, as well as many other species. Return to camp in Selenkay Conservancy later in the afternoon after a picnic lunch. Dinner and overnight in the camp at Selenkay. (B,L,D) |
| Day 6: | Masai Mara (Wed). After breakfast drive out of the Conservancy and back to Nairobi to transfer to Wilson Airport to catch the afternoon light aircraft flight to the Mara, arrivinglate afternoon. Upon arrival at the airstrip in the Mara you will be transferred to the mobile camp in Ol Kinyei Conservancy and shown to your tent, before heading out on an evening game drive in the conservancy to see some of the wildlife for which the Mara is famous. Return to camp for dinner and overnight. (BLD) |
| Day 7: | Ol Kinyei Conservancy (Thu). Wake up at dawn and enjoy an early game drive in the conservancy on the look out for the big cats, returning to camp for a late breakfast followed by an escorted nature walk and then lunch. In the afternoon enjoy another gamedrive in the Ol Kinyei Conservancy with a night drive as you head back to camp driving in the dark with a spotlight for the chance to see the nocturnal animals. Dinner and overnight at camp in Ol Kinyei. (BLD) |
| Day 8: | Mara Reserve (Fri). An early breakfast is followed by a full day in the Mara Reserve, taking a picnic lunch. Today you'll hope to see the Mara's many big cats as well as the diverse wildlife that inhabits the reserve. If you visit during the migration (roughly July to October) you can also expect to see vast herds of wildebeest and zebra. (BLD) |
| Day 9: | Nairobi (Sat). A final short early morning game drive in the conservancy followed by breakfast and then leave camp for the 5 hour drive back to Nairobi, arriving around 2pm. After nearly a week of mobile camping, you'll enjoy having the use of a hotel room for a good clean up, after which you will be taken to the airport for your onward journey or to connect to the overnight flight back to the UK (if selected). (B) |
| Day 10: | Arrive Home |
How this holiday makes a difference
Environment:
How your holiday helps:
Selenkay Conservancy near Amboseli is Maasai land. In 1997 the Maasai decided to protect this habitat and its wildlife by entering into a partnership with a private tourism company who now pay to use the land. This is a good and practical way to encourage conservation, giving commercial value to preserving the ecology and providing a vital income stream for the traditional tribal owners of the area. The Ol Kinyei Conservancy in the Masai Mara is also run in the same way. This style of mobile camping leaves no long term footprint on the lands used so is kind to the environment and the local staff employed are all from nearby tribal villages, benefiting from employment through tourism and conservation.
Carbon Offsetting:
For every client we take on holiday we plant 10 indigenous tree saplings. This is used as a poverty alleviation and biodiversity scheme as well as helping with carbon offsetting. We do this whether or not you buy your flights from us at no cost to you.
Community:
Our holidays provide authentic experiences allowing for a positive relationship between you and the local culture and environment. We know these destinations very well, and choose the activities, services, people we work with and accommodation very carefully. So we can give you a genuinely good experience. Where possible accommodation is locally-owned or run, and we prefer to use places with good social / environmental credentials (yes, we check, though this is an ongoing process).
Our partners within the country are people we know and whose ethics we trust. Many are leaders in their country in terms of sustainable tourism. They care about their country.
The experiences we include or recommend fall into two camps:
1) Simply wonderful things to do or see.
2) Experiences which get you closer to local culture, such as learning cooking in an African township, which not only fosters friendships and respect, but brings money directly to local people.
Giving to grassroots projects:
Our registered charity is currently raising funds for a project in Kenya. The kindness of strangers can make a big difference, so if you’re a travel philanthropist considering donating to a worthwhile charity, please consider backing this excellent project.
We are raising funds for the St Lazarus School in Kibera, Nairobi. This is a rather remarkable school in one of Africa's largest slums, Kibera, in Nairobi. The school provides both nutrition and education for disadvantaged children in the Kibera slum. For most of these children the food they get at school is all the food they get. There are currently 120 children at the school, with a headmistress and four teachers. Just £10 will feed a child here for a month!
