Day notes
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport off flight TBA
Clients will be met airside as you descend the aircraft steps by the dmAFRICA VIP airport representative who will assist with Fast Track immigration ( VISA on arrival US$50 per person and assistance given for this process), baggage collection and customs formalities and escort you to your awaiting private charter flight Cessna 310 aircraft for your flight to Maasai Mara –Cottars Airstrip. (Approximately 1 hour flight)
•(luggage allowance is strictly 20 kgs in SOFT BAGS)
On arrival at Cottars Airstrip you are met by your driver guide from Cottar’s 1920s Camp for a game drive, arriving at the Camp in time for a late lunch / afternoon tea.
Located in the south east of the Maasai Mara and bordering the Serengeti National Park and Loliondo reserves, the Cottar 1920’s camp is within a 22,000 acre exclusive concession.
The Cottar Safari tradition began in 1919 with the arrival in Kenya of the American White Hunter, Charlie Cottar from Oklahoma, USA.
Extending an era of luxury and quality the Cottars 1920’s Camp returns to the original spirit and essence of the safari, reminiscent of a golden era; an era of romance, professional guiding, adventure and elegance. Situated in such a large area, guests are almost guaranteed exclusivity on game drives in a region of prolific wildlife.
The tents are furnished with 1920’s antiques, all with en-suite dressing rooms with canvas baths and bucket showers. Activities include day and night game drives, bush walks, swimming, fishing, bush meals and massages.
The camp accommodates up to 16 guests in authentic, spacious white canvas tents, each one with a canopied veranda and carefully located to ensure privacy.
Each tent is elegantly furnished with safari antiques from the 1920’s, private en suite dressing rooms and safari-style bucket showers.
The camp is equipped with a library and reading room. By bush standards, the cuisine and service is of the highest quality.
Guides take guests on walks through the bush to experience close encounters with wildlife. Being close to the border with the Serengeti, the spectacular wildebeest and zebra migration moves through this area every year during late June to October and prolific game viewing is guaranteed whether on foot or in a 4x 4 vehicle.
NOTE: We are suggesting for the period at Cottars you take the private guide who is Calvin Cottar himself, the owner and one of the best private guides in East Africa for them to have the best experience. See his daily supplement to add on.
Check-in to Cottar's 1920s Camp
Charter Flight from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport [NBO] to Cottar's 1920s Camp
Charter Flight
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport [NBO]
Cottar's 1920s Camp
Day notes
Breakfast at Cottars
Full day of activities including game drives (day and night) and game walks and bush meals and sundowners.
All meals (waiter service), drinks (except premium and vintage brands) and activities are included in the price.
Cottar's 1920 Camp highlights:
The overwhelming authenticity of the colonial African experience when so many others have tried to diversify from this very point!
The sense of space and remoteness.
Off road game viewing in both the concession area (and secretly being able to cross into the Serengeti) in an area of plentiful game.
Excellent guides including Douglas, Gigi and Calvin (gold) and Ken (silver)....Cottar’s possibly has more qualified guides than almost any other camp.
The most comfortable safari vehicles
The spacious tents.
The excellent pool area.
The outstanding library collection.
Day notes
Breakfast at Cottars
Full day of activities including game drives (day and night) and game walks and bush meals and sundowners.
All meals (waiter service), drinks (except premium and vintage brands) and activities are included in the price.
OPTIONAL EVENING HELICOPTER SCENIC FLIGHT AND SUNDOWNERS – 1 HOUR
if you decided to take helicopter version your pilot and helicopter will arrive to collect and
This evening you will embark on a helicopter excursion of a scenic flight over Maasai Mara stopping for a sundowner and return to your camp for dinner.
Maasai Mara is known as one of Africa’s Greatest Wildlife Reserves, situated in southwest Kenya and is part of the northern section of the Serengeti National Park. Famous for the abundance of the big cats, Lion, Leopard, Cheetah and the Great Wildebeest Migration and the Maasai people, well known for their distinctive custom and dress.
The Maasai Mara Ecosystem holds one of the highest lion densities in world and this is where over a million Wildebeest, Zebra and Thomsons Gazelle migrate annually.
Maasai Mara National Reserve stretches 1,510 sq km (580 sq miles) and raises 1,500-2,170 meters above sea level. It hosts over 95 species of mammals and 570 recorded species of birds.
Day notes
Breakfast at Cottars
Full day of activities including game drives (day and night) and game walks and bush meals and sundowners.
All meals (waiter service), drinks (except premium and vintage brands) and activities are included in the price.
or if helicopter option preferred:
OPTIONAL MORNING SCENIC HELICOPTER FLIGHT OVER THE LOITA HILLS, NGURUMAN ESCPARMENT ND LAKE MAGADI WITH PICNIC BREAKFAST -2.5 HOURS
This morning you will take a scenic flight with picnic breakfast and fly over Loita Hills, Nguruman and Lake Magadi
The Loita Hills are one of Kenya's last remaining true wilderness areas. The low-lying mountain range is located south of Nairobi and northeast of the Masai Mara. This area is rarely visited and as a result it is widely believed that the most traditional Maasai culture exists here. There are pockets of remote forests, wide open plains surrounded by the stunning hillsides and dotted with roaming wildlife. This isn't an area for viewing big game but more somewhere to enjoy the scenery
Day notes
Breakfast at camp.
4x4 vehicle transfer to Cottars Airstrip for your charter flight Cessna 206 to Lewa Airstrip in Lewa Conservancy .
or
Continue with helicopter option if preferred and the higher costs are applied to have the helicopter for this scenic flight to Lewa Conservancy .
This helicopter transfer is across the Great Rift Valley and Aberdares Mountains to Sirikoi - HELICOPTER FLIGHT FLIGHT FROM COTTARS AIRSTRIP OVER THE RIFT VALLEY AND ABERDARES AND TO SIRIKOI -2.5 HOURS
About 40 million years ago the Great Rift Valley, that runs 6,000 km from Syria to Mozambique, was formed. In the hollows some of the oldest, largest and deepest lakes in the world now lie. Kenya alone has eight lakes, both fresh water and alkaline, which sustain an astonishing diversity of life
( See below and costs variants to apply this scenic helicopter flight over the Great Rift Valley and Aberdares to arrive at Sirikoi for lunch)
On arrival at Lewa Downs Airstrip or land close to Sirikoi if with helicopter you will be met and transferred in 4x4 vehicle to Sirikoi
3 overnight at Sirikoi Cottage | 2 Bedrooms en suite on full board basis.
Arrangements include:- full board accommodation, local airstrip transfers, shared game drives, escorted bush walks, sundowner and picnic excursions, swimming pool, soft drinks, beers, house wines, selected house spirits and limited laundry.
Lewa Conservancy
62,000 acres
Lewa Wildlife Conservancy has an incredible variety of wildlife with over 70 different species of mammal. There are roughly equal numbers of black and white rhino - the latest count numbers 106.
The world's largest concentration of the endangered Grevy zebra resides on Lewa as well as elephant, buffalo, greater kudu, oryx, lion, leopard and cheetah amongst others.
The Conservancy is teeming with birdlife with over 350 species across the diverse topography which includes rolling open plains, hills and kopjes, thick forest, valleys, escarpments, wetlands and rivers.
Check-out from Cottar's 1920s Camp
Check-in to Sirikoi Lodge
Charter Flight from Cottar's 1920s Camp to Sirikoi Lodge
Charter Flight
Cottar's 1920s Camp
Sirikoi Lodge
Day notes
Breakfast at Sirikoi
Enjoy Sirikoi arrangements and safari at this spectacular game lodge situated on its own private estate in the centre of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy on the northern slopes of Mount Kenya. Surrounded by an acacia grove and overlooking a natural waterhole fed from a mountain spring Sirikoi offers some of the best game viewing in East Africa
Or if helicopter option is decided:
HELICOPTER FLIGHT IN THE AFTERNOON FOR QUAD BIKE EXCURSION
APPROX. 2 HOURS
You will fly to Melako. On arrival you will be met by your experienced guide and start your quad bike adventure. You helicopter flight will fly you to the conservancy where your quad bikes awaits you.
Melako is a remote area in Northern Kenya with a semi-arid landscape of bush and wide sandy riverbeds (known locally as ‘luggas’), lined with acacia and doum palms. The land is seasonally used by elephants but has a resident population of wildlife that included gerenuk, reticulated giraffe, lesser kudu, oryx, Grants gazelle, dik dik, leopard, lion, cheetah, hyena, baboon and vervet monkeys. The bird life is spectacular, with huge clouds of sand grouse arriving at the water holes in the early mornings.
Your quad bike journey will take you down these beautiful sand luggas and along elephant trails, with the possibility of seeing all of the above wildlife.
Return to Sirikoi for overnight or if preferred we can arrange for overnight in a dry river bed in specially arranged private camp for just them to enjoy to overnight. We can create this Fly Camp in the lugga (I highly recommend this as we have done it 4 times this August and the guests love it - Sleep out in the wilderness)
Overnight at Sirikoi House on full board basis.
Arrangements include:- full board accommodation, local airstrip transfers, shared game drives, escorted bush walks, sundowner and picnic excursions, swimming pool, soft drinks, beers, house wines, selected house spirits and limited laundry.
Day notes
Breakfast at Sirikoi
Enjoy Sirikoi arrangements and safari at this spectacular game lodge situated on its own private estate in the centre of the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy on the northern slopes of Mount Kenya. Surrounded by an acacia grove and overlooking a natural waterhole fed from a mountain spring Sirikoi offers some of the best game viewing in East Africa
Or if helicopter option preferred:
HELICOPTER FLIGHT IN THE MORNING FOR MOUNT KENYA FISHING EXCURSION
-APPROX. 2 HOURS
Depart with picnic breakfast on a helicopter for a fly fishing experience to Mt Kenya. The duration of the excursion is approximately two and half hours.
Your helicopter will land at one of the small lakes on the slopes of Mt Kenya (over 10,000 ft above sea level) in the Mt Kenya Afro-alpine region. This is some of the finest trout fishing in East Africa.
After your fishing expedition, you will return to Sirkoi mid morning.
Rest of the day at leisure and to enjoy safari at Sirkoi.
Day notes
Breakfast at Sirkoi
Safari activity at the lodge in to Lewa
or if preferred a helicopter experience.
HELICOPTER FLIGHT IN THE MORNING TO SUGUTA VALLEY -APPROX. 2 HOURS
Today you will have a dawn flight down through the diverse landscapes of the Suguta Valley, the Hoodoo and Painted Valley, landing on the rim of the Silale Crater for photo opportunities
From the savannah plains of Laikipia, we fly north-west, into the Great Rift Valley, over the expansive Silale Crater, and through uninhabited, constantly changing landscapes.
Return to Sirikoi or directly to Lewa Down Airstrip for departure by private air charter – Cessna 206 to Nairobi’s Wilson Airport
(Luggage allowance is strictly 25 kgs per person).
On arrival, you will be met and transfer to Ole Sereni Hotel where you have dayroom until 18h00
Transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your onward flight (TBA)
END OF SERVICES
Check-out from Sirikoi Lodge
Charter Flight from Sirikoi Lodge to Wilson Airport [WIL]
Charter Flight
Sirikoi Lodge
Wilson Airport [WIL]
Transfer from Wilson Airport [WIL] to Ole Sereni
Transfer
Wilson Airport [WIL]
Ole Sereni
Transfer from Ole Sereni to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport [NBO]
Transfer
Ole Sereni
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport [NBO]
