11 Nights / 12 Days
Sweetwaters - Mount Kenya - Lake Naivasha - Masai Mara - Nairobi - Amboseli - Tsavo WestAll items of personal nature e.g. telephone call bills, fax/email bills etc.
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Any other item(s) not included in our itinerary.
On arrival at JKIA, you are met by a Nature Expeditions representative for the drive to Mt Kenya region via the rich farmlands of the kikuyu tribe who grow coffee among other crops. Arrive in time for lunch at the camp. Depart later for an afternoon game viewing drive until sunset. The Reserve is nestled between Mt. Kenya to the east and the Aberdares Mountains to the west, and is privately owned.
Dinner and overnight at the Sweetwaters Tented Camp or similar (full board).
After breakfast check out and drive to Mt Kenya to arrive in time for check inn at your lodge followed by a time to relax. Lunch at your lodge. Spend the rest of the day as you watch animals come to the water hole from the safety of your hotel balconies.
Dinner and overnight accommodation at Serena Mt Lodge or similar (full board).
After breakfast drive to Lake Nakuru National Park; a protected game sanctuary for endangered species such as the Black/ White rhino, Rothschild Giraffe among other usual game such as the leopard and Lion. The park is world-renowned for its millions of pink Flamingoes found around the lake. Arrive in time for lunch at Sarova lion hill followed by an afternoon game drive. The Park is also home to the largest euphorbia forest in Africa. In the evening, depart for the drive to Naivasha and check-in to the lodge.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Country Club or similar (full board).
After breakfast, check-out and drive to Maasai Mara Game Reserve, so named to mean the "spotted plains" in the Maa language. This is home to the greatest concentration of large mammals and is widely recognized as Africa's ultimate wildlife reserve. The park is the northern extension to the vast Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, famous for its annual migration of wildebeest. Arrive and check-in followed by lunch at the Lodge. Afternoon game drive until sunset in this spectacular place of breathtaking sceneries, never-ending plains and the most abundant variety of wildlife remaining anywhere in the world.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge or similar (full board).
Spend a further day of game watching on morning and afternoon game drives. Wildlife is abundant in the Reserve with the gentle grasslands ensuring that animals are never out of sight. Birds are prolific including immigrants, 450 bird species have been recorded among them 57 birds of prey. Every year the Mara plays host to the world's greatest natural spectacle; The Great Wildebeest Migration from the Serengeti. The promise of rain and fresh life giving grass in the north brings more than 1.5 million Wildebeest together into a single massive herd. They converge across the border into the Mara, making a spectacular entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to horizon. The big cats - lion, leopard, and cheetah - follow the wildebeest, essentially their main source of food, into the Mara. The Mara at this time is literally packed with wildlife, providing lucky visitors on safari with superb sightings of game. All meals and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge or similar (full board).
Spend a further day of game watching on morning and afternoon game drives. Wildlife is abundant in the Reserve with the gentle grasslands ensuring that animals are never out of sight. Birds are prolific including immigrants, 450 bird species have been recorded among them 57 birds of prey. Every year the Mara plays host to the world's greatest natural spectacle; The Great Wildebeest Migration from the Serengeti. The promise of rain and fresh life giving grass in the north brings more than 1.5 million Wildebeest together into a single massive herd. They converge across the border into the Mara, making a spectacular entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to horizon. The big cats - lion, leopard, and cheetah - follow the wildebeest, essentially their main source of food, into the Mara. The Mara at this time is literally packed with wildlife, providing lucky visitors on safari with superb sightings of game. All meals and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge or similar (full board).
After breakfast at the lodge, morning drive back to Nairobi and on arrival transferred to your hotel. Lunch on own arrangements. Afternoon at leisure. Dinner on own arrangements.
Overnight at a Nairobi Serena Hotel or similar (bed & breakfast).
After breakfast, depart for the drive to Amboseli National Park, famous for its big game and scenic beauty with the landscape dominated by Mt. Kilimanjaro. It offers an interesting contrast in appearance with its dry and dusty appearance, which can be attributed to the volcanic ash that came out of Mt Kilimanjaro when it last erupted. In spite of the appearance, there is a continuous supply of water that gets filtered through volcanic rocks from Kilimanjaro's melted snow. These streams flow underground, creating lush green areas, and converge at two clear water springs in the park.
All meals and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge or similar (full board).
Spend a further day in the park on morning and afternoon game viewing drives. Wildlife here includes the zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, impala, caracal and serval cat, lion, leopard, cheetah, buffalo, wild dog among others. There are also over 400 species of birds, including the bee-eater, kingfisher, African fish eagle, martial eagle and pygmy falcon. Visitors mainly come to watch the huge herds of elephants. The bull elephants have some of the largest tusks in all of Kenya. Visitors can also enjoy excellent views of Mt Kilimanjaro and Meru.
All meals and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge or similar (full board).
Depart for the drive to the second largest park - Tsavo West, famed for the notorious "Man Eaters of Tsavo". The man eating lions preyed on the railway linesmen building the great Uganda Railway. The park offers remarkable views with a variety of habitats ranging from mountains, river forest, lakes and wooded grassland. It is also an excellent park for visitors who enjoy walking, offering a number of nature trails and the opportunity to explore the Chaimu volcanic Lava.
All meals and overnight at Kilaguni Serena Lodge or similar (full board).
Spend a further day in this park which features the Shetani & Chaimu Lava Flows, excellent bird watching with over 600 species. Apart from the elephant population there are many lions - some undoubtedly the descendants of the famous Man-eaters of Tsavo! Among the less common animals to be found are the fringed-eared Fox, the gerenuk and lesser kudu. The carnivores in addition to lion include serval, hyena, leopard cheetah and caracal. Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary, established to protect the highly poached Rhino which was close to extinction. Mzima Springs is yet another feature whose source is the Chyulu Hills. There is an observation platform and an underwater glass tank which provides a special vantage point to view this remarkable oasis.
All meals and overnight at Kilaguni Serena Lodge or similar (full board).
After breakfast, drive back to Nairobi where upon arrival, you are transferred to JKIA for your out bound flight.
Seasons | Each of 2 | Each of 3 | Each of 4 | Each of 5 | Each of 6 | SRS |
01/07/14 - 31/10/14 | $3,354 | $3,084 | $2,949 | $2,868 | $2,814 | $743 |
01/11/14 - 22/12/14 | $2,904 | $2,634 | $2,499 | $2,418 | $2,364 | $540 |
23/12/14 - 01/01/15 | $3,368 | $3,098 | $2,963 | $2,882 | $2,828 | $745 |
01/02/15 - 29/02/15 | $3,248 | $2,978 | $2,843 | $2,762 | $2,708 | $706 |
01/03/15 - 31/03/15 | $3,011 | $2,741 | $2,606 | $2,525 | $2,471 | $598 |
01/04/15 - 31/05/15 | $2,644 | $2,374 | $2,339 | $2,258 | $2,204 | $145 |
01/06/15 - 30/06/15 | $2,809 | $2,539 | $2,504 | $2,423 | $2,369 | $396 |
Ashford Tours and Travel Ltd was established in 2001 as an incoming tour company as well as outbound Travel Agent based in Kenya.
Over the past years the company grew by leaps and bounds and today it is one of the leading tour operators in Kenya also offering Air Ticket arrangements to its growing number of clients across the World. Our trademark has all along been efficiency and personalized services to the clients. In order to attain the distinguished brand services, Ashford Travel had to invest substantially in the following areas:
Our main office is based in Twiga Towers, Muranga Road off Moi Avenue in Nairobi. Besides the main office in Nairobi, Ashford Travel maintains a branch office in Mombasa with a fleet of vehicles to cater for our Airport transfers and tours and travel requirements and facilitate. We have an affiliate office in Dar es Salaam to operate tours and travel services in Southern Tanzania, which include the game parks of Selous, Ruaha and Mikumi, and beach holidays on the Indian Ocean coastline. We have our own customer service staff in Zanzibar to personally look after our clients’ needs on the islands. We are maintaining these offices in the key tourist centres simply to ensure personal attention to our guests.
We have Installed Galileo Air Ticket booking systems to facilitate easy and efficient services to our customers inquiring about Air Travel. Our qualified staff will offer the most convenient flight schedule with the best available Air fares. Our staff will also provide information on destinations including visa requirements. Where required, we always deliver Air tickets to our customers’ offices. Our offices are equipped with state-of-the-art communication equipments to facilitate contacts with our customers and suppliers. This includes 24 hours internet connection and modern computers. HF radio communication systems are also installed to establish constant contact from vehicle to vehicle and vehicle to base stations, especially while in the bush. The Company has Increased the size, and quality, of our fleet to over 10 safari vehicles, and 4 saloon vehicles for personalized Airport transfers. We also hire them out to our esteemed customers only. This does away with the problem of sub-contracting vehicles, which inevitably compromises the quality of services. Ashford Travel Employ the best driver-guides and operations staff with expert knowledge in wildlife and other areas of tourist interest. The driver-guides are continually under training in client’s safety, wildlife, general knowledge and foreign languages: English, Japanese, German, and Spanish. Altogether the company has a total of 14 employees and 8 part time guides.
Ashford Travel Maintain the Flying Doctor membership to cover our guests individually for instant rescue and medical evacuation to Nairobi. Client participation fee: USD 15 - USD 25 from all over Kenya and Northern Tanzania and USD 30 - USD 50 for Southern & Western Tanzania and Zanzibar. Ashford Travel is streamlined to operate in all tourist circuits in Kenya which cover wildlife safaris including camping; beach holidays; cultural and historical tours; walking safaris and mountain climbing. We are also marketing out-bound programmes especially those combining Kenya with Tanzania and Uganda. Ashford Travel also introduced camping safaris in 2004. It started with budget camping for a year and then ventured into standard camping in response to a different level of clientele. In 2006 was the introduction of another product of a higher level, semi-luxury camping, again a direct response to the market. All three products, budget, standard, and semi-luxury camping, came to be so popular that we had to establish an independent unit for camping to cater for the expanded operation. Our safari vehicles are specifically converted for maximum space and comfort. All of them have roof hatches to facilitate good viewing and convenient photography while doing game drives. We have introduced a larger version of 4X4 Land-rover and Land-cruiser, which is wider, longer and more spacious, with 6 window seats in the passenger cabin, panoramic sliding windows, and an open roof - excellent facilities for sight seeing and game viewing. Ashford Travel is constantly investing in product development, for we know it is in our interest as well as our duty to ensure that all our guests go back home happy and satisfied with the destination Tanzania. Only this way will they be our good ambassadors to others and come back again to visit us. Ashford Travel is involved in community development, working hand in hand with local communities together with non-profit Organizations, like the Rotary, to help the Kenyan people lead a better life.
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