9 Days Southern Belt Experience

On arrival, transfer to your hotel to relax ahead of your safari adventure. Macushla House offers a quiet oasis about 18 kilometres from central Nairobi in the suburb of Karen. Breakfasts are delicious, the staff are friendly, they have great local knowledge and are happy to help with ordering taxis and arranging tours. The whole vibe is unpretentious and relaxed, and when it comes to the garden and the cool stone veranda – well, you could spend hours there enjoying a cup of tea, or a glass of wine in the company of monkeys and exotic birds.

A swimming pool provides relief during the warmer months, and vervet monkeys are known to swing from the branches around the hotel walls. While Macushla doesn’t provide many activities, it’s conveniently located a short drive from the Giraffe Centre, the Karen Blixen Museum, Nairobi National Park and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust.

After breakfast you will be transferred to Wilson Airport to join a schedule flight to the world famous Masai Mara. Your guide will welcome you at the airstrip and transfer you with game drive enroute to Angama Mara Luxury Camp. Located high above the floor of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, Angama Mara overlooks Kenya’s Maasai Mara, considered by many as the loveliest game reserve on the continent. Sitting snugly across three kopje’s of the escarpment, the third kopje is perhaps most well-known as the site of many of the most memorable scenes from the film Out of Africa.

Spend your days exploring the magnificent Maasai Mara looking to spot the big cats and all of the big five, a variety of plains game and over 300 birds’ species. It’s also the migration time with good chances of seeing the crossing at the Mara River. Your chef will prepare a delicious hot lunch cooked out in the wild served by your personal butler. Return in the late afternoon after an exciting day to a hot safari shower and roaring fire and a gourmet dinner.

Grab the opportunity to take a hot-air balloon safari to gain a whole new perspective of the Maasai Mara. This is our most highly recommended optional experience in Kenya. Wake early and watch as the balloon is prepared, then take flight and drift upwards as the sun rises; the bright pink-orange haze visible for miles across the vast savannah and the wildlife roaming below you. This will be followed by an impressive Champagne breakfast that will be set up for your group wherever you land.

Take an early morning game drives before breakfast at camp. After breakfast, you will take a transfer to the airstrip for flight to Nairobi. Upon Landing in Nairobi you will be met and assisted to board your scheduled flight to Amboseli National Park. You will arrive in Amboseli National Park in time for lunch, you will be whisked away upon landing to Satao Elerai Camp by your local guide. Satao Elerai Camp offers wonderful views of Amboseli Park and Mount Kilimanjaro. After lunch at camp, you have the opportunity to visit a typical Masai village and get an insight into the life of this traditional tribe as you embark on an afternoon game drive in this land where mammoths of elephants roam free.

Breakfasts followed by full day of game drives at Amboseli National Park. Take a picnic lunch and enjoy a game drive through Amboseli across this vast lakebed often dry, but still very swampy in some areas. Amboseli is best known for its great herds of elephant, you’ll often find many of them standing knee deep in the water, spraying themselves to keep cool. Other game includes cheetah, buffalo, giraffe and gazelle all set against the amazing backdrop of majestic Mount Kilimanjaro.

After breakfast, transfer to the local airstrip for your flight east to Tsavo West National Park. On landing your local guide will meet you and transfer you to Severin Safari Camp in time for lunch. Later on in the afternoon, proceed to a game drive, where you can visit to Mzima Springs. Hidden in a clump of acacia and palms, this cool, clear water originates from the top of l9, 340 foot high Kilimanjaro, and is home to fish, crocodiles, and hippo all visible from a unique underwater observation post built into the banks of the springs. Enjoy a short walk along the riverbank and look for hippos on the riverbed.

Go for an early morning game drive before returning to for breakfast. After breakfast, take a game drive into Tsavo East National Park en route to Satao Camp. Take a break for lunch before you embark on an afternoon game drive. Tsavo West and Tsavo East National Parks are separated by Mombasa Road, you will have the luxury experience to drive through these two parks and get to savour the two landscapes that form one of the biggest wildlife reserves in Kenya.

A full day at Tsavo East with early morning and afternoon game drives. Tsavo East, one of the last great wilderness landscapes on Earth, offers a vast arena of parched scrub and heat-shimmering bush, which is washed by the azure waters of the Galana River, guarded by the Yatta Plateau and patrolled by some of the largest elephant herds in the world.

Satao Camp (satao is the local Walingulu word for "giraffe") is located in Kenya's massive Tsavo East, a national park bursting with wildlife. The camp is secluded in mature woodland and surrounds a large waterhole – undeniably its focal point. The atmosphere is rustic and relaxing, and the views of the surrounding grasslands, acacia scrub and woodlands are incredible. Tsavo is an popular park, so it can get a bit crowded around game sightings. But with such a huge area to explore, the guides do their best to give you a private experience. Satao also accommodates travellers with disabilities.

An early morning game drives offers the best opportunity to see predators still hunting. Return to the camp for breakfast. Later on proceed to your mid morning extensive exploration ot Tsavo East National Park. There is plenty to see in terms of wildlife before you return to camp to freshen up and have lunch. After lunch you will be transferred to the local airstrip for your flight to Mombasa's Moi International Airport,