Kenya Family Safari, Family Tours in Africa, Family Safaris in East Africa

Kenya Family Holiday - 8 Days

Day 1 - Nairobi
Upon arrival in our Nairobi hotel our local representative will meet you to ensure that all is well. Our representative will provide details of the trip briefing that will be held tonight in the hotel as well as any additional tours or activities that you may wish to enjoy whilst in Nairobi. The rest of the day is at your leisure.

Day 2 - Nairobi
Today we have a full day in Nairobi. We visit some of the local markets, and also an Elephant Orphanage and the Giraffe Centre. Both the Elephant Orphanage and the Giraffe Centre are involved heavily with wildlife conservation whilst also offering a special opportunity to get close to these animals.

Day 3 - Lake Nakuru National Park
This morning we drive north from Nairobi to Lake Nakuru, one of the many lakes of the Great Rift Valley, checking into our lodge, which is located inside the national park. Lake Nakuru, a soda lake, forms the centrepiece of the Lake Nakuru National Park. The lake is probably most famous for the thousands of pink flamingos, which can be found here, turning the waters of the lake into a carpet of pink. We take our first game drive in the national park this afternoon, searching for the animals that live here. This could include cape buffaloes, giraffe, waterbucks, rhinoceroses and maybe our first lions or leopards. Rhinos are highly endangered but the Lake Nakuru area provides a good chance of seeing some of these prehistoric looking animals!

Day 4 - Lake Naivasha
This morning we take an early morning drive in the park before we head across to Lake Naivasha and Simba Lodge – a drive of about two hours. Set amongst acacia woodland, the park-like grounds are visited by a wide variety of birds and wildlife. The hotel offers a variety of sporting activities along with restaurants, bars and a heated swimming pool.

In the afternoon we take a boat ride out on the lake. There are quite a lot of hippos that live in the lake, and there is a very good chance we will find some. Being curious animals they often stick their head up out of the water to look at us, and hopefully we’ll hear them grunting at us, or to each other, as we go by. When we return to shore and your hotel, you may like to take a swim in the pool - there are no hippos here!

Days 5-7 - Masai Mara National Reserve
This morning we drive southwest to the Masai Mara Reserve, which is one of the most renowned wildlife areas in Africa, often boasting significant numbers of animals. The area is known for its rolling green plains and riverine woodlands, and amongst the many species of game, we may be lucky to observe black-maned lions, leopard and cheetah. These predators find an abundant food supply in the massive herds of wildebeest, zebra, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle that often roam the grasslands. Like all the wildlife areas we visit, the Mara is not a zoo and sightings of particular species cannot be guaranteed - but with three days in the area the chances of seeing most of these predators is good.

We will have three nights here, based in a private concession just outside the reserve. This will give us plenty of time to undertake game drives looking for a wide number of plains animals and perhaps some of the predators, which can be found in the area. We stay at a permanent-tented camp - but this is not camping as you know it! These tents are very comfortable and are large enough for full-size beds and come with full ensuite facilities - you might be under canvas, but you will certainly not be roughing it. Game drives tend to be taken from early to mid-morning, and from mid-afternoon to sunset, which are the cooler times of the day, when the animals tend to more active. In addition to game drives, the camp has a swimming pool, and you may also choose to go on walks with guides and to meet some of the local Masai tribes-people in their village.

Day 8 - Nairobi
Today our game-viewing experience ends as we commence our drive back to Nairobi. The road back to Nairobi can be very bumpy at times! We arrive back in Nairobi in the late afternoon where our safari ends.