Arrive in Nairobi

Arrive in Nairobi, the first stop on your journey through the wilds of Kenya.

Here you will discover baby elephants, watch lions on the hunt and meet an African tribe in their own village.

Overnight: Nairobi Serena Hotel BB

Nairobi - Magical Meetings with Resident Wildlife

Start your day at the Giraffe Center, home to the endangered, graceful Rothschild giraffe. Offer them food while perched upon a platform, watching as they gently snatch it from your hand with their long, blue tongues.

Continue to Daphne Sheldrick’s Orphanage to see small elephants cared for by attentive keepers, who also explain their phased reintroduction to the wild and Tsavo National Park. You may see elephant calves bathing in the mud hole and being bottlefed by human surrogate mothers.

An Artisan Visit awaits at Kazuri, a jewelry workshop created by and for women with the mission of employing disadvantaged members of Kenyan society.

Tonight, gather with other families sharing in your safari adventure for a festive welcome dinner.

Overnight: Nairobi Serena Hotel

Nanyuki

Drive to the Sweetwaters Reserve within the Ol Pejeta Conservancy at the foot of Mount Kenya. Set out in safari vehicles in search of animals or, at an additional cost, take an escorted bush walk or thrilling night game drive.

You may even view game from your tent, which overlooks a flooded watering hole and salt lick frequented by the local wildlife. Sweetwaters is an excellent place to see two of Africa’s most endangered species: black rhino and chimpanzee. Meet both when you visit a chimpanzee and rhino sanctuary, each set within the conservancy. Prepare to be taken by sweet Baraka, a black rhino that you may feed from a protected platform.

In the evening, your private veranda provides a front-row seat to the nocturnal creatures moving in and out of the shadows to quench their thirst at the water’s edge.

Overnight: Sweetwaters Serena Camp

Samburu Game Reserve

Travel to the bush of the Samburu Game Reserve, where you find a comfortable tented camp perched along the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River. This river is the lifeline of the reserve and animals congregate along its banks.

Between game drives, young guests won’t lack for interesting things to do: activities include tree identification, mammal behavior studies and identification, an animal obstacle course, fire-making techniques and bush treasure hunts, all led by the Young Explorers Guide.

Samburu National Reserve is a rugged and semi-desert park located in Samburu district in the Rift Valley Province in central Kenya. The park neighbors the homes of the Samburu tribe of Kenya, a tribe known for their remote culture, pastoral and nomadic way of life.

Samburu National Reserve consists of a low lying, semi arid plain on the southern bank of the northern Ewaso Ngiro River. The reserve which lies 9km east of Buffalo Springs National Reserve was gazetted in 1974. The beautiful stark landscape is dominated by Samburu Hill in the south, at the foot of which is a rugged area with steep ravines.

The Ewaso Nyiro River is the lifeline of the area. Crocodile and hippo share the river with many small herds of elephant who bathe and frolic in the muddy brown waters during the heat of the day, before returning later to browse the lush vegetation of the riverine forest.

Overnight: Samburu Intrepids

Samburu Game Reserve

The reserve is also home to the nomadic Samburu people who live a pastoral, herding life. Following an early-morning game drive, take a camel ride across the Ewaso Nyiro River, on the lookout for towering giraffes or tiny dik-diks.

Arrive at the Samburu village, where you learn about the tribe’s unique way of life. Back at camp, choose to explore the fascinating subtleties of the terrain on a guided, game tracking walk. Soccer, treasure hunts and painting are among the other activities children may enjoy.

Overnight: Samburu Intrepids

Masai Mara Game Reserve

Fly to the Masai Mara, land of the red-robed Maasai tribes, and arrive at your luxury tented camp. Spend the next three days in this magnificent savanna country, embarking on morning and afternoon game drives in search of Africa’s “Big Five” — buffalo, elephants, rhinos, lions and leopards. Learn the art of bead- and leatherwork, as well as basic bush survival skills, such as how to throw a spear or start a fire with sticks.

Take an optional hot air balloon safari, an amazing experience your family will never forget.

At night, watch a display of traditional Maasai song and dance. End your stay in the Mara with a farewell dinner.

Overnight: Mara Intrepids

Masai Mara Game Reserve

The Masai Mara National Reserve in the south western part of Kenya forms part of the greater eco-system that encompasses the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The Masai Mara is named for the Maasai people and the Mara River, which divides it. The wildlife is not confined within the reserve’s boundaries.

There are many conservancies to the north and east of the Masai Mara where, over centuries, an almost symbiotic relationship has developed between the Maasai people and the wildlife. The reserve is famous for its exceptional population of game and the migration of the wildebeest, which occurs here every year in July and August.

The entire area of the park is nestled within the enormous Great Rift Valley. The Masai Mara consists of open savannah, rolling grasslands and undulating hills. The western border is the Esoit Olooloo Escarpment of the Rift Valley, and wildlife tends to be most concentrated here as the swampy ground means that access to water is always good and tourist disruption is minimal. The easternmost border is 224km from Nairobi and hence it is the eastern regions which are most visited.

Pay a meaningful visit to a primary school, where your family may interact with students when school is in session.

Overnight: Mara Intrepids

Maasai Mara

Mara Intrepids is ideally located in the centre of the Masai Mara’s four game-viewing areas. Situated above a sweeping bend in the Talek River, Intrepid is only a short trip from the Mara River where one can witness the Migration crossing. The remainder of the year the camp offers some of the world’s finest game viewing, with large local populations of plains game, elephants, rhinos, buffalos and all the big cats.

The wildebeest migration normally crosses the Mara and Talek Rivers between July and October each year. This is the best time of year to visit the camp.

Overnight: Mara Intrepids

Maasai Mara – Nairobi

Fly back to Nairobi, where you may relax in your day room until your flight home.

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