DAY 1: NAIROBI

Pick up at the airport with our courtesy bus then transfer to your hotel, the Landmark (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 Landmark 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.

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 - LAKE NAKURU
After breakfast our drive takes us westwards through spectacular countryside towards the Nyahururu Falls (formerly the Thompson Falls) then south to Lake Naukuru National Park renowned home of millions of Flamingoes among other birdlife and several wildlife species including rhino, leopard, giraffe, zebra, a large variety of antelopes etc. Lunch at Lion Hill Lodge is followed by afternoon game drives to locate the game that are to be found at this Rift Valley Lake. Dinner and overnight at Lion Hill Lodge.

DAY 6: LAKE NAKURU - MAASAI MARA
After an early breakfast we leave this lakeside resort and proceed through Maasai country spotted with a number of extinct volcanoes. Our drive takes us over the Western escarpment of the Great Rift Valley (formed when tectonic forces thrust part of the earths' crust upwards leaving one of the longest and most spectacular canyons in the world, running from the Middle East to Mozambique) into the Maasai Mara triangle. We arrive at the Sarova Mara Luxury Tented Camp for a late lunch. After lunch we proceed to flash out the numerous wildlife that are to be found in this famous game sanctuary among which are: - elephant, buffalo, wildebeest, topi, leopard, cheetah, lion, rhino, ostrich, impala, gazelle and many more. Dinner and overnight at the permanent tented camps of Siana Springs.

DAY 7: 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 the Siana Intrepids Luxury Tented Camp.

DAY 8: MAASAI MARA - NAIROBI
Pre-breakfast game drives to see the few animals that might not have been sighted as yet. Return to the Sarova mara joy breakfast then leaving the sanctuary of the Mara we travel towards Nairobi, which is reached in the early afternoon. The evening is spent at leisure and dinner and overnight is at the Landmark Hotel.