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Paradise Safari

DAY 1: NAIROBI

Pick up at the airport with our courtesy bus then transfer to your hotel, the Nairobi Serena Hotel (this is a twenty minutes drive from the airport) check in and spend the afternoon either relaxing or touring the cosmopolis of Nairobi. The tour includes visits to the parliament, the national museum, the Snake Park, the railway museum etc. After dinner an overnight at the Nairobi Serena Hotel ends our first day in Africa.

DAY 2: NAIROBI - THE ABERDARES
After an early start, we drive through the rich farmlands of the central highlands seeing coffee and pineapple plantations and colourful villages. Our drive to the Aberdare Country Club enjoys fine views of Mount Kenya. Lunch is served at the Club; then transfer to the Ark, which is situated right in the very heart of the Aberdare National Park close to a waterhole. Here you can view closely Elephant, Rhino, Giant forest Hog, Antelope, Leopard, Buffalo and on occasions the rare and elusive Bongo. Lush green trees provide the ideal setting for baboons and colourful birds. At night enjoy illuminated game viewing from the gallery as the animals come to drink. Dinner and overnight stay at the Ark which is built like the proverbial Ark.

DAY 3: THE ABERARES - SAMBURU
After breakfast depart north, cross the equator and continue to the plateau that leads eventually into the hot and dusty bush scrubland of the Samburu. Note the brightly arrayed tribal dress of the samburu people. On arrival at Samburu Lodge we partake of lunch then have a siesta or relax in the swimming pool. Afternoon game drives, returning to your lodge for dinner and overnight. Many distinct species of wildlife exist here including Reticulated Giraffe, the shy long necked antelope Gerenuk, Grevy's Zebra and the blue legged Somali Ostrich.

DAY 4: SAMBURU
A full day is spent game viewing in this panoramic national park - a scenario of semi-arid land, treeless plains and rugged landscape. We focus on trying to trace the species peculiar to this region north of the equator including the Uaso Nyiro crocodile and Beisa's Oryx. All our meals and overnight at Samburu Lodge.

DAY 5: SAMBURU - Maasai Mara
Early morning game drives then return to the lodge. After breakfast our drive takes us to the airstrip where we take a mid mornin flight to the Maasai Mara via Nairobi for lunch. Pick up at the airstrip in the world famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve and conduct game drives as you are ferried to your lodge/luxury tented camp for dinner and overnight.

DAY 6: MAASAI MARA
A full day is spent driving through the Savannah lands of the Mara, which forms the northern corridor of the Serengeti plains of Tanzania. In July or August every year, the great migration of the wildebeeste is witnessed here; one of the most fascinating sights in the animal kingdom as millions of these antelopes move into the Mara from Tanzania in search of water and greener postutres. Behind them follow the predators- lions, jackals, and hyenas - picking out the weak, aged and sick and leaving the strong to continue for another season. After the viewing of a golden sunset by the campgrounds we take our dinner and proceed to retire for the day at Luxury Tented Camp or Lodge as your preference may be.

DAY 7: MAASAI MARA - NAIROBI
Pre-breakfast game drives to see the few animals that might not have been sighted as yet. Return to the Lodge/Tented Camp for breakfast then leave the Wildlife sanctuary of the Mara traveling towards Nairobi, which is reached in the early afternoon. The evening is spent at leisure and after a complimentary dinner at the famous Carnivore Hotel we proceed to the airport for our journey back home.