Game Searchers Safaris

GSLN8

Tree Hotel - Mount Kenya - Masai Mara

6 Days

Day 1: Nairobi - Tree Hotel

Leave in the morning to reach the small town of Nyeri for a sumptuous lunch before leaving for the Tree Hotel of your choice - Treetops, the Ark or Mountain Lodge - in the early afternoon. The night is spent in your comfortable perch above the floodlit waterhole and saltlick where, night-long, a procession of animals comes to drink.

Day 2: Tree Hotel - Mount Kenya Safari Club

After breakfast a short drive brings you to the Mount Kenya Safari Club whose membership includes a host of movie stars, politicians and aristocrats. Here you can have a day of total relaxation in the splendid landscaped surroundings. Activities available include golf, tennis, horseback riding, and ofcourse swimming in the heated pool. Overnight and all meals at the Club.

Day 3: Mount Kenya - Lake Nakuru - Lake Naivasha

During the morning drive, cross the tip of the Aberdare Mountains stopping briefly to admire the 73m plunge of the Thomson's Falls, named after the Scottish explorer who first saw the falls in 1884. Continue to Lake Nakuru National Park where the sight of a million or more flamingo cannot be forgotten. Overnight at a lodge or camp in the Park or continue to Lake Naivasha for overnight at a lakeside hotel.

Day 4: Lake Naivasha - Masai Mara

There is time, after breakfast, to savour the beauty and tranquillity of the lake before departing for Masai Mara which is reached by lunch-time. An afternoon game drive during which it should be possible to locate the huge black-maned lions for which the reserve is famous. Dinner and overnight at a lodge in or near the reserve.

Day 5: Masai Mara

A full day of game viewing and exploration of this, Kenya's finest reserve. More than 60 species of wildlife are found here as well as a multitude of birds. All meals and overnight at your lodge or camp.

Day 6: Masai Mara - Nairobi

After breakfast return via the Great Rift Valley to Nairobi on time for lunch.