6 Days Classic Kenya Safari Tour

Breakfast at the hotel
After breakfast proceed on your days’ excursions
GIRAFFE CENTRE
The Africa Fund for Endangered Wildlife (A.F.E.W.) Kenya was founded in 1979 by the late Jock Leslie-Melville, a Kenyan citizen of British descent, and his American-born wife, Betty Leslie-Melville. They began the Giraffe Centre after discovering the sad plight of the Rothschild Giraffe. A subspecies of the giraffe found only in the grasslands of East Africa.
The Giraffe Centre has also become world-famous as a Nature Education Centre, educating thousands of Kenyan school children every year.
At the time, the animals had lost their habitat in Western Kenya, with only 130 of them left on the 18,000-acre Soy Ranch that was being sub-divided to resettle squatters. Their first effort to save the subspecies was to bring two young giraffes, Daisy and Marlon, to their home in the Lang’ata suburb, southwest of Nairobi. Here they raised the calves and started a programme of breeding giraffe in captivity.
Betty and Jock then registered A.F.E.W. in the United States. Funds were raised to move five other groups of giraffe to different safe areas. Breeding herds of 26 giraffes were translocated from Soy Ranch to the Ruma Game Reserve in present-day Homa Bay County, Lake Nakuru National Park in Nakuru and Nasolot Game Reserve in modern-day West Pokot County. In 1985, seven giraffes were introduced to Yodder Flower Farm near the Mwea Game Reserve in Mbeere District in Eastern Kenya.
GIRAFFE CENTRE
Set in the serene suburb of Nairobi, the Karen Blixen Museum not only provides the most comprehensive insight into the person of Karen Blixen, but also offers a fantastic space for personal reflection in our nature trail, against a back drop of Karen’s beloved Ngong Hills.
The Karen Blixen Museum was once the centre piece of a farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills owned by Danish Author Karen and her Swedish Husband, Baron Bror Blixen-Finecke. Located 10km from the city centre, the museum belongs to a different time period in the history of Kenya, and later gained international acclaim with the release of the movie ‘Out of Africa’, an Oscar winning film based on Karen’s autobiography by the same title.
Built in 1912 by Swedish Engineer Ake Sjogren, Karen and her husband bought the house in 1917 and it became the farm house for their 6,000-acre farm, of which 600 acres was used for coffee farming. Their marriage failed after eight years and in 1921 the Baron moved on and left the running of the farm to Karen.

Lunch at a restaurant
After lunch head back to the hotel and enjoy rest of the day at leisure utilizing facilities at the hotel

Overnight: Nairobi Serena Hotel
Meal Plan: Bed & Breakfast.

Breakfast at the hotel
After your safari briefing, proceed on your drive to Lake Nakuru national park
Arrival into Lake Nakuru and proceed to the lodge for check in and lunch
Later afternoon game viewing drive in the park
LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
Lake Nakuru is among Kenya's finest national parks. Flanked by rocky escarpments, pockets of acacia forest and at least one waterfall, the park is gorgeous year-round and is home to both black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, hippos and endangered Rothschild's giraffes. Rising water levels in 2014 forced the park's famous flamingos to flee (although a small number had returned at the time of research), and the lake is now hauntingly surrounded by drowned trees.
The lake supports a dense bloom of the blue-green Cyanophyte Spirulina platensis from which it derives its colour. It is a food source for flamingos. The lake is fringed by alkaline swamps with areas of sedge, Cyprus laevigatus and typha marsh along the river inflows and springs. The surrounding areas support a dry transitional savanna with Lake Margin grasslands.
1830hrs–Proceed on to the lodge for dinner and overnight

Overnight: Nakuru Sopa Lodge
Meals: FB –Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Breakfast at the lodge
0800hrs: After breakfast head off to Masai Mara, with stopovers to stretch your legs and also visit the washrooms.
1330hrs: Arrive later in the afternoon in the Mara and check in at Mara Serena Safari Lodge.

1600hrs: depart for your afternoon game viewing drive in the reserve
MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE
The world-renowned Masai Mara National Reserve is a huge expanse of tawny, sunburnt grasslands pocked with acacia trees and river woodlands, and heaving with animals’ great and small. Impressive at any time of year, it's at its best between July and October when a million migrating wildebeest and tens of thousands of topis, zebras and other animals pour into the reserve from Tanzania in search of fresh grass. It is, arguably, the most spectacular wildlife show on the planet and the one thing that no visitor to Kenya should consider missing.
Reliable rains and plentiful vegetation underpin this extraordinary ecosystem and the millions of herbivores it supports. Wildebeest, zebras, impalas, elands, reedbucks, waterbucks, black rhinos, elephants, Masai giraffes and several species of gazelle all call the Mara home. Predators here include cheetahs, leopards, spotted hyenas, black-backed jackals, bat-eared foxes, caracals and the highest lion density in the world.
1830hrs- After game drive head back to your camp.

Overnight: Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board – Breakfast/lunch /dinner.

0630hrs – Enjoy further 01 night in the Mara, after enjoying a cup of hot Kenyan tea and coffee - Head out this morning, for an exciting early morning and further afternoon game viewing drive.
This can as well be folded and have a full day game viewing drive with picnic lunch boxes to be taken from a picnic site in the reserve
1600hrs - After enjoying your afternoon Kenyan tea and coffee, on today’s afternoon game drive the choice is up to you: search for the Big 5 or expand your horizons to discover something different.
MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE
The world-renowned Masai Mara National Reserve is a huge expanse of tawny, sunburnt grasslands pocked with acacia trees and river woodlands, and heaving with animals’ great and small. Impressive at any time of year, it's at its best between July and October when a million migrating wildebeest and tens of thousands of topis, zebras and other animals pour into the reserve from Tanzania in search of fresh grass. It is, arguably, the most spectacular wildlife shows on the planet and the one thing that no visitor to Kenya should consider missing.
Reliable rains and plentiful vegetation underpin this extraordinary ecosystem and the millions of herbivores it supports. Wildebeest, zebras, impalas, elands, reedbucks, waterbucks, black rhinos, elephants, Masai giraffes and several species of gazelle all call the Mara home. Predators here include cheetahs, leopards, spotted hyenas, black-backed jackals, bat-eared foxes, caracals and the highest lion density in the world.

Overnight: Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Full board - lunch /dinner/breakfast.

Breakfast at the camp
After breakfast, proceed on your transfer to Nairobi with picnic lunch boxes.
Upon arrival transfer to the airport for your flight home.