7-Day Aberdare - Samburu And Masai Mara Luxury Safari Tour

Arrival and Pickup Client's Choice Drive into the Central Highlands to the Aberdare National Park, a misty world of dense cedar and podocarpus forest draped in old-man's-beard lichen. Your luxury treetop lodge sits above a floodlit waterhole where elephants, buffalo, black rhino and the elusive bongo antelope come to drink through the night.

Activities : Game Drives

Client's Choice The Ark offers 24-hour wildlife viewing from its decks and observation lounge. Night arrivals at the waterhole are announced by buzzer in your room — elephant, rhino, giant forest hog and the black leopard are all regularly recorded. A morning forest game drive reveals black-and-white colobus monkeys, Sykes' monkeys and the tracks of leopard.

Activities : Game Drives

Client's Choice After morning activities, drive north past Mount Kenya (Africa's second-highest peak at 5,199m) to Samburu National Reserve. The transition from highland forest to arid thornbush is one of Kenya's most dramatic landscape shifts.

Activities : Game Drives

Client's Choice Your luxury camp in the Kalama Community Conservancy provides exclusive game drives where visitor numbers are strictly controlled. Expert resident guides focus on individual animals documented over years of research.

Activities : Game Drives

Masai Mara National Reserve Client's Choice A thrilling 90-minute charter flight from Samburu airstrip to the Mara delivers you effortlessly across the dramatic Kenyan landscape, descending into the Mara's gold and green tableaux. Afternoon game drives begin immediately.

Activities : Game Drives

Masai Mara National Reserve Client's Choice A full day in the Mara's finest wildlife corridors with a resident guide whose expertise has been built over decades of daily driving. Hot air balloon option at dawn (additional cost) lifts you silently over the Mara as the sun rises and the plains come alive.

Activities : Game Drives

Departure Masai Mara National Reserve Breakfast Final pre-dawn drive then a bush breakfast before the charter flight returns you to Wilson Airport, Nairobi, arriving mid-morning.

Activities : Game Drives