WSWI Conference and Magical Kenya in November

Day notes

On arrival Mahinda will be at hand at the airport to take you to your Hotel for overnight.

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Day 1 of Safari

Every day is a new experience! In true Africa safari style, you will enjoy great service and an old-fashioned safari atmosphere. And a great thing is that we can situate it for you in the area where wildlife is likely to be most abundant at the time of our visit.

After hearty breakfast, we depart for Ol Pejeta Conservancy to our luxurious tented camp, which has magnificent views of Mt. Kenya. We will have two days of game viewing drives with all meals and overnight at the camp. Optional night game drive available up on request.

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After our breakfast, depart for Lake Nakuru which is the most famous of the Great Rift Valley lakes and home to a shifting population of over one million flamingos.

We will do a game viewing drive within this wonderful Kenyan National park and the lunch will be served at the Sarova Lion Hill Lodge.

Lake Nakuru National Park is a shallow alkaline lake that is world-renowned for its huge concentration of flamingos; at times, hundreds of thousands of these birds give the lake a pink shimmering glow. The park boasts a huge variety of animals, including leopard which is often found snoozing on the branches of the magnificent yellow-barked acacias, lion, buffalo, hippo, waterbuck, warthog, baboon, the endangered Rothschild’s giraffe only found in this park in Kenya, white rhino and the rare black rhino which is protected and guarded here.

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When those of us in the west hear the term “African Safari” the picture that comes to mind is the Maasai Mara Reserve, which is where you are going today. Here is where you’ll find the grasslands, the lions, the jackals, the wildebeests and more.

After breakfast, depart to Maasai Mara arriving for lunch at our lodge. Enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive before returning to the lodge later as the sun sets for dinner and overnight. On the second day and third day, we will have full days of game viewing drives with all meals and overnight at the lodge. The Masai Mara National Reserve is in the south western part of Kenya and forms part of the greater eco-system that encompasses the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The Masai Mara (also spelt Maasai Mara) is one of the best known and most visited reserves in Africa. The park is surrounded by concession areas and tribal lands of the Masai tribe people. These are unfenced from the Mara and act as a buffer zone for the National Park and form part of the migration area. The Masai Mara consists of open savannah, rolling grasslands and undulating hills. July to September sees the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle coming from the plains of the Serengeti. Driven by dry conditions in the Serengeti and led by the lightning and thunder to the north, huge herds of mammals cross the Tanzanian border and rivers to reach the Mara's grasslands.

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After breakfast, drive back to Nairobi to catch flight to Diani or back home.

After landing at Ukunda we transfer to Sand at Nomads for R&R