10-Day Best Kenya Wildlife Destination Luxury Safari Tours

Pick up from your hotel in Nairobi after breakfast to depart for Amboseli National Park, which is at the foot of the snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain.

Amboseli National Park is one of the most popular wildlife park sanctuaries in Kenya, situated close to the Kenya and Tanzania border.

It is often referred to as “The home of the elephants” as some of the largest elephant herds are found here. The park also contains vast groups of zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, buffalos, hippos, and antelopes.

The park is also home to a lot of cheetahs, leopards, rhinos, and many species of plains game.

Enjoy Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Kibo Luxury Tented camp.

• Main Destination: Amboseli National Park
• Accommodation: Kibo Safari Camp { http://www.kibosafaricamp.com/} - Mid-range tented camp located just outside Amboseli NP
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

Wake before dawn for an excellent sunrise game drive within the park. Kilimanjaro never looks quite as beautiful as she does first thing in the morning, with predators like leopards, lions, and cheetahs out on the prowl in the cooler morning air at its feet.

They don't call Amboseli the Royal Court of Kilimanjaro for nothing, and as you take in its large elephant herds and the stunning panorama of Mt. Kilimanjaro, you'll see why this is one of Kenya's most beloved parks.

Animals are largely inactive during the warm midday hours; we switch to birding under the care of your guide who is also a professional birding guide.

The park is a good birding destination with over 420 birding species; include the globally threatened Madagascar Pond-Heron.

The swamp attracts water-associated birds such as egrets, pelicans, & crowned cranes. Large numbers of flamingos may be present in the Wet seasons (March to May & October to December).

Dinner and overnight stay at Amboseli Kibo Luxury Tented Camp.

• Main Destination: Amboseli National Park
• Accommodation: Kibo Safari Camp { http://www.kibosafaricamp.com/} - Mid-range tented camp located just outside Amboseli NP
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

Morning breakfast and later set out for Aberdares arriving en route to Aberdare Country Club where you will have lunch.

After lunch, you will be transferred to the Ark through Aberdare Park. Moreover, it overlooks a floodlit waterhole and salt lick, which attracts a host of awesome wildlife.

Modeled after Noah’s Ark, The Ark has four viewing decks with balconies and lounges to provide superb game viewing from the comfort of the lodge. The animals come to you!

NB: The forests and moorlands of Aberdare NP are a birder’s paradise – more than 290 species have been recorded.

The striking Hartlaub’s turaco is just one of the interesting visitors at the bird feeding platforms at the tree hotels.

Moreover, the indistinct Aberdare cisticola is endemic, and therefore unique, to the region and can be found at higher altitudes.

Several interesting sunbirds here include the rare scarlet-tufted malachite sunbird which can be found on the mountain peaks.

Retire for dinner stay at The Ark Lodge.

• Main Destination: Aberdare National Park
• Accommodation: The Ark { http://thearkkenya.com/} - Mid-range lodge located inside Aberdare NP
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Early breakfast at your lodge, short en-route transfer and Leave Aberdares for Samburu ( drive will be 4 hours to the main gate ) you will have a stop at the Equator line at Nanyuki town near Mt. Kenya.

Drive to Samburu arrives with a short game drive proceeding to your camp for lunch.

Check-in at Ashnil Samburu camp to relax. Afternoon game drives across the park which is a unique resident wildlife species like the Reticulated Giraffe, Grevy's Zebra, Beisa Oryx, and the Blue-legged Somali Ostrich.

Later dinner and overnight at Samburu Ashnil Safari lodge.

• Main Destination: Samburu National Reserve
• Accommodation: Ashnil Samburu Camp { https://www.ashnilhotels.com/samburu} - Luxury tented camp bordering Samburu NR without fences
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

You'll have a full day to explore the park in search of its rarer inhabitants {Beisa oryx, reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, Gerenuk antelope, and Somali ostrich} as well as the likes of leopards, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, antelopes, and more.

While Samburu is smaller than other Kenyan parks and reserves, its diverse wildlife tends to cluster closer together near the life-giving Ewaso Ng'iro River, making it an ideal place to enjoy a game-viewing.

NB: Samburu National Park is a lush oasis on the banks of the great Uaso Nyiro River in Samburu Game Reserve.

The Ashnil luxury camp is a delight to be in — deliciously cooled by the river breeze and the forest.

The camp sits on raised decks overlooking the brown river where the elephants sometimes make an appearance.

Samburu National Reserve lies north of Nairobi, adjoining Buffalo Springs and Shaba National Reserve.

Overnight at Samburu Ashnil Sopa Lodge.

• Main Destination: Samburu National Reserve
• Accommodation: Ashnil Samburu Camp { https://www.ashnilhotels.com/samburu} - Luxury tented camp bordering Samburu NR without fences
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

Early morning breakfast game en-route leave Samburu for Sweet water. The drive will be 3 and half hours to the main gate, arriving with a game drive.

Later check-in at Sweetwaters Luxury Tented Camp for lunch and relaxation, Sweetwater's is the only sanctuary for rehabilitation in Kenya of these widely abused chimpanzees with two groups living in an environment as close to their natural habitat as possible.

The site is also a dedicated black rhino breeding area. Afternoon/evening game drives across the Park.

NB: The OI Pejeta Conservancy is the Largest Black Rhino Sanctuary in East Africa and home to over 88 black rhino.

The conservancy boasts an astounding variety of animals including all the “Big Five” (the endangered black and white rhino, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and lion) as well as a sanctuary for rescued Chimpanzees.

Meals and overnight at the Sweetwaters Tented Luxury Camp.

• Main Destination: Sweetwaters (Chimp Sanctuary)
• Accommodation: Sweetwaters Serena Camp { https://www.serenahotels.com/serenasweetwaters/en/default.html} - Luxury tented camp located inside Ol Pejeta
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, visit the Chimpanzees, a short game drive en- route to Nakuru National park. The drive will be less than 5 hours to the main gate.

You will pass through the Great Rift Valley escarpment for view, arriving in time for lunch check in at Sarova lion hill Lodge. Afternoon game drives across the Pink Lake often referred to due to its Great masses of Flamingos but due to climate change and increase of water level, only a few can be seen. Not forgetting the famous white Rhino and black rhino found in this park.

NB: Lake Nakuru National Park — The park lies in Central Kenya, 140km north-west of Nairobi, in the Nakuru district of the Rift Valley Province.

The ecosystem comprises the lake, surrounded by mainly wooded and bushy grasslands.

The park supports a wide ecological diversity with Flamingos (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds being the major attractions of the area.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Sarova lion hills lodge.

Main Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park

• Accommodation: Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge { https://www.sarovahotels.com/lionhill-nakuru} - Luxury lodge located inside Lake Nakuru NP
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

Early morning breakfast. After breakfast leaves Lake Nakuru for Masai Mara. The drive will be 5 hours to the main gate.

You will pass through Narok, the famous Masai town. You will arrive in time for lunch.

Check-in at Ashnil Mara camp, have lunch, followed by an afternoon game drive through the park in search of Lion, Cheetah, Elephant, Buffalo, etc.

The Masai Mara lies in the Great Rift Valley which is a fault line some 3, 500 miles long. The plains are full of wildebeest, zebra, impala, topi, giraffe, and the Thomson gazelles.

Also regularly seen are the leopards, lions, hyenas, cheetah, jackal, and bat-eared foxes. Black rhinos are a little shy and hard to spot but are often seen at a distance.

Hippos are abundant in the Mara River as are very large Nile crocodiles that lay in wait for a meal as the wildebeest cross on their annual quest to find new pastures.

Dinner and overnight at Ashnil Mara Lodge.

• Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
• Accommodation: Ashnil Mara Camp { https://www.ashnilhotels.com/mara} - Luxury tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

Early morning game drive returns back to your camp for breakfast. After breakfast, a full-day game drive spends in the park with packed lunch in search of its popular residents like the well-known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo, and the dangerous Crocodiles with a visit to Mara river.

Lunch served along the Mara River where the great Wildebeest Migration River crossing takes place.

You will have the opportunity to ditch the car and explore the Mara river serenity on foot/Walking safari experience under your guide, escorted by an armed ranger.

Later return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at the lodge.

• Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
• Accommodation: Ashnil Mara Camp { https://www.ashnilhotels.com/mara} - Luxury tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water Included (Other drinks not included)

Early Morning breakfast and later followed by a morning game drive, check out of the camp/Lodge and Drive to Nairobi with lunch en-route to arrive back in Nairobi by late evening 16:00 hrs.

Optional dinner at carnivore restaurant.