Arrival at the Jomo-Kenyatta International Airport (flight time / carrier) where you will be welcomed by a Gamewatchers Safaris driver. Transfer to Ole Sereni Hotel on b&b. Here you will meet up with your fellow Maarifa tour travellers, ready to start the official tour the next morning.
Airport meet and greet by Gamewatchers Safaris representatives
Transfers
Bed and breakfast
After breakfast at the hotel, together you will be driven to visit to Sheldrick Wildlife Trust Elephant Orphanage for their 11am bottle feed. After, transfer to Ololo Safari Lodge enjoying your first game drive, arriving in time for lunch. Explore the camp, enjoy an afternoon drink, and a rest in your new accomodation. Meet back in the lounge for a 4pm start game drive. After the afternoon game drive, returning on dark, enjoy dinner and drinks by the fire.
Transfers
Park fees
Activities
Meals
Accomodation
Select drinks (mineral water, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, house wine and beer, gin, vodka, soft drinks)
Tips and gratuities
Taking your packed breakfast, meet your Gamewatchers driver at 6am for transfer to Wilson Airport for your 0730hrs flight to Selenkay Conservancy.
Your Porini Amboseli Camp Guide will meet you at the airstrip at 0815hrs and take you on your first early morning game drive through the conservancy.
Enjoy afternoon and evening game drives exploring Selenkay Conservancy. Enjoy sundowners at the elephant waterhole observation deck and using a spotlight to seek out nocturnal wildlife during the drive back to camp in the dark.
After showers and dinner your Guide will provide an overview of the private conservancy model, what biodiversity outcomes have been achieved at Selenkay and how it is benefiting the local Maasai people while sitting around the camp fire
Overnight at Porini Amboseli Camp
Transfers
Park fee (Amboseli National Park) and conservancy fees (Selenkay Conservancy)
Activities
Meals
Accomodation
Select drinks (mineral water, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, house wine and beer, gin, vodka, soft drinks)
Tips and gratuities
Today is Maarifa day!
You will explore deeper into Selenkay Conservancy and learn so much more about the local people who live here and share their land with the wildlife which may include:
- an early morning game drive;
- nature walk with Maasai guides, learning about tracking and other signs, the small five, and the Selenkay/Amboseli ecosystem; and
- visit to local village learning more about the way of life of the Maasai people, how they use the land and live with wildlife.
- Visit Illoirero Primary School where The Maarifa Foundation is working and see some of the projects the community are delivering with the support from Australia. Students will take us on a school tour and talk about what they have been learning about in the Maarifa Mazingira Club. We will participate in a 'Seedballs' habitat regeneration activity with the students.
- While at the school you will receive a small token of gratitude from the local Maasai community
- Game drive on way back to camp.
- Tonight you have the option of a night game drive after dinner.
Overnight at Porini Amboseli Camp
A per head donation is included per person in your package, which is donated directly to an Illoirero Primary School project (including for library, water tank, school fees, or other school improvement activity) - this will be announced on the day of the school visit.
After an early breakfast, depart for a drive through the bush, observing the changing habitat types, spending a full day in Amboseli National Park. Picnic lunch in the National Park at Observation Hill.
Return in the late afternoon for showers, dinner and story time around the camp fire.
Overnight at Porini Amboseli Camp
Early morning game drive , returning to camp for breakfast. Transfer to airstrip for connecting flight to the Mara.
Met at airstrip by your guide for a game drive across the Mara plains to Porini Ol Kinyei Cottages, located in Ol Kinyei Conservancy. Afternoon game drive, returning at dark using a spotlight to observe nocturnal wildlife
After showers and dinner your guide will discuss about what he has seen to be the benefits of the private conservancy model for the Mara wildlife and local Maasai people while sitting around the campfire.
Overnight at Porini Ol Kinyei Safari Cottages
Transfers
Conservancy fees
Activities
Meals
Accomodation
Select drinks (mineral water, tea, coffee, hot chocolate, house wine and beer, gin, vodka, soft drinks)
Tips and gratuities
Today is Maarifa day!
Wake up at dawn for an early morning game drive and enjoy a bush breakfast.
Today you will go on nature walks with Maasai Guides, learning about the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, the migration, the big five and the radio tracking of cheetahs and lions.
After lunch you will visit a local primary school (either Kishermoruak or Oloibormurt Primary School) where The Maarifa Foundation is working and spend some time with the students as they tell you about how they protect the environment. Take a tour of the school led by the School Head Teacher and our Maarifa Educator. Visit their new library and participate in small school projects that are happening at the time of our travel. Sit in on one of the Mazingira Class lessons and join in on the discussion.
While at the school you will receive a small token of gratitude from the local Maasai community
Game drive on the way back to camp, using spotlight to observe nocturnal wildlife
Return to camp for showers, dinner and stories by the camp fire
Overnight at Porini Ol Kinyei Safari Cottages
A per head donation is included per person in your package, which is donated directly to an Oloibormurt and Kishermourak Primary School project (including for library, water tank, school fees, or other school improvement activity) - this will be announced on the day of the school visit.
While others are off on their hot air balloon safari, you will enjoy a game drive in the conservancy. Take a picnic breakfast and return to camp to all catch up at lunch.
Hot air balloon safari and champagne breakfast - this must be booked in advance and is an additional cost
After a early morning game drive, return back to camp for breakfast and check out. Say good bye to the Cottages as you transfer (game drive en-route) to Porini Lion Camp located in Olare Motorogi Conservancy.
After a warm welcome and check in, settle in to your new home for the next 02 nights. After lunch, head out on an afternoon game drive and explore the Conservancy.
A full day to explore Olare Motorogi Conservancy. A bush breakfast and nature walk maybe? Maybe an evening night game drive?
Today is your last day on safari. Enjoy an early morning game drive before back to camp for breakfast and check out. Head to the airstrip for your 11am flight back to Nairobi, arriving between 12 and 1pm. Transfer to Eka Hotel for overnight on b&b
Enjoy breakfast at the hotel. Check out is 10am. Pick up from lobby at 12.30pm. Transfer to Jomo-Kenyatta International Airport for International flight back to Australia.
* Option to visit Giraffe Centre before heading to the airport
~ Safari njema
