11 Days Wilderness Memories

Welcome to Nairobi, Kenya’s vibrant capital city. You will be warmly welcomed and driven in a private vehicle to the Giraffe Manor a charming boutique hotel offering an experience like no other with a resident herd of Rothschild Giraffe which like to pop their heads through these stunning hotels windows and compete for your attention. Surrounded by 140 acres of indigenous forest just outside Kenya's capital, Nairobi the manor is also host to many species of birds, large families of warthogs and the elusive Bush Buck. Meal plan is all inclusive.

After breakfast at the camp, you will be transferred to the Wilson airport fof your maiden schedule flight to Meru National Park. On arrival you will be met by our staff in a 4×4 vehicle and transferred to the Elsa's Kopje with game drives en-route. Check in at the camp and relax till lunch time. Lunch at the Camp followed by a little time for relaxation before embarking on your afternoon game drive returning to the Lodge for dinner and overnight Meru National park offers the widest variety of landscapes and habitats together with different varieties of Flora and Fauna. Wildlife includes Grevy’s Zebra, Elephants, Eland, Bush Pig, Waterbuck, Cheetah, Leopard, Reticulated Giraffe, Hippopotamus, Bohor Reedbuck, Hartebeest, Python, Puff Udder, Cobra, Buffalo and more than 300 recorded species.

It is the Meru National Park landscapes that fueled the Adamson’s passions, and became home to Elsa and her family. There is no better way to orientate yourself in this landscape than through a guided game drive and a picnic breakfast in the bush. The guides at Elsa’s Kopje live in Meru National Park and know the area intimately. With a fleet of new Toyota Land Cruisers, outfitted with photographic equipment stands and charging sockets, you will experience total comfort as you exclusively explore this seldom-visited bush.

After breakfast, you will leave Meru behind and fly off to Samburu Buffalo Springs. On arrival you will be met and transferred to Ashnil Samburu. Located in the Buffalo Springs Game Reserve, with the Ewaso Nyiro River separating it from the Samburu National Reserve, this luxury tented camp is home to some very special wildlife and an abundance of bird species, all flocking here because of the springs, which provide permanent drinking water. While the size of the camp gives it and its facilities a slightly institutional feel, service is personable and efficient, tents are comfortable, and the guides on the game drives are passionate and eager to impart their knowledge to guests. Everybody, from honeymooners to families, will feel welcome here. Animals come right up to the electric fence a mere 10 meters from the tents, so guests are in for quite a wildlife experience. A visit to the Samburu villages, where you can get to know the locals and buy crafts as keepsakes is a worthy eye opener to engage in.

After breakfast, transfer to the local airstrip, fly to the Masai Mara Game Reserve, on arrival, you will be met and transferred with game drive enroute to Mara Bushtops Luxury Camp. Mara Bushtops lies within the Siana Group Ranch area, in a private conservancy close to the main gateway of the Masai Mara National Reserve. This part of Kenya is renowned for its superb game viewing, with an abundance of plains game that supports a thriving predator population, and the lodge is well placed for easy access into the reserve. The private concession offers plenty of action in its own right, so you’re able to enjoy exclusive game viewing away from the busier tourist routes. The lodge offers sensational tented accommodation with bags of East African style, and world-class hospitality.

Take a night drive in the private concession in game-viewing vehicles, kitted out with special heat detectors and night-vision gear, to see nocturnal species such lion, leopard and, if you've wished upon a falling star, African wild cats.

On the final day of your Kenya luxury safari embark one last game drive, before heading to the airstrip after breakfast. Catch a flight back to Wilson Airport in Nairobi, for your onward travel arrangements.