8 Days Kenya Educational & Recreational Safari
With Detailed information of Great Rift Valley formation and lakes, Volcanic activities, Hiking skills, Study of Human kind evolution, plant and animals, learn about conservation and environmental issues ,Animal caring, feeding and insect rearing with selected fine accommodation and quality food.
This safari is ideally tailor made with knowledge of student’s sensitivity, handling with care and above all with educational background of what they learn at school from geography, history, environment, conservation, culture and wildlife
Day 1
Arrive Nairobi airport and transfer to hotel. Afternoon relaxation then at the hotel with optional swimming and stroll at hotel compound. Evening briefing to students about the safari then depart for dinner at a restaurant in Nairobi. Overnight at a Nairobi Hotel
Day 2: Nairobi/Masai Mara
Drive in morning take you to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, the northern part of the Serengeti, one of Kenya's most favored game-viewing areas. The reserve covers 700 square miles of magnificent wilderness. It is the Africa of the imagination; endless reaches of acacia-dotted grasslands studded with hazy hills. Afternoon game drive to see the sundowner as hoping to see Lions in large prides, Elephants, buffalos, zebras and numerous plain animals.Lunch at Narok town. Dinner and overnight at the Mara hippo lodge or similar
Day 3: Masai Mara
Full day at the Mara with a with a game drive from Sunrise and sundowner greatest moments for game viewing in these mystic plains, a time where the soft red hues of the sun will give your photographs the clarity of the actual African savannah. Morning game viewing with a long drive to the Mara river where you will be able to view Hippos and Crocodiles.(return to lodge for lunch since children get hungry early)
After lunch at the lodge, take an afternoon drive in the Masai Hills with optional activities for a dawn nature walk safari to experience the awakening of Africa in Masai land. Also optional is swimming at the lodge and playing. Children can bring own playing balls and games since Mara hippo has a grass area children can have fun. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/Camp.
Day 4: Masai Mara - Naivasha
A last game run in the picturesque Masai Mara in the morning through the Rift Valley drive to Lake Naivasha hotel. Afternoon boat ride to Crater Island where children will walk on foot beside wild animals (harmless) accompanied by ranger. Crater Island is in the middle of Lake Naivasha and offers a lot to be learnt. Dinner and overnight at a Naivasha hotel.
Day 5: Hells Gate and Elsmere Field Center
Breakfast and leave for Hells gate park, the only walking park in Kenya, with great and diversified flora and fauna, hot springs and gorges and the amazing Fischer's tower. Brief lecture of geological formations will be given at the park. Lunch at Lake Naivasha county Club/similar. Afternoon to Elsmere, Former home of the late Joy Adamson and his husband who became world famous for their pioneering conservation and relationship with the lioness Elsa as seen in the film" BORN FREE". A visit reveals many of Joy's paintings, which still decorate the house. A guided tour and film are shown Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Country Club/similar.
Day 6: Naivasha - Baringo
After breakfast drive to L. Baringo arriving in time for lunch.. After Lunch drive to Lake Bogoria Park for with the spectacular scenery of stunning bird life, hippos and crocodiles. There is considerable geothermal activity with hot springs and geysers around the shoreline of Lake Bogoria. Occasionally, huge numbers of flamingos come to feed here, adding to the already famous bird life in the area, Students will learn about hot springs and geological formations and formation of rift valley. Return to hotel for lunch .After lunch children have optional activities of playing,(they can bring balls etc or swimming at the natural heated pool at the hotel. Dinner and Overnight at Lake Bogoria hotel/similar
Day 7: Baringo/Nakuru
After Breakfast Watch a Movie "GATES OF HELL". This movie is in relation to Lake Bogoria Ecosystem and biodiversity within the park…Up date Class Sessions then Swimming at Spa pool (Natural Warm water through out day and night).After Lunch Depart for Nakuru for dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru lodge or similar
Day 8 .Nakuru/Nairobi
After breakfast we have tour to this lake that offers one of the world's most spectacular wildlife sights, a brilliant pink flamingoes as far as the eye can see. When conditions are right, between one and two million lesser and greater flamingos feed around the shores of the shallow soda lake, together with tens of thousands of other birds.
The best place to view the birds is from Baboon Cliff where you will have a picnic lunch looking out over the dazzling fringe of pink around the lake's shores. Here you will also see warthog, waterbuck and large numbers of impala. Other slightly shyer residents include buffalo, Rothschild giraffe, eland, lion, leopard and black rhino.
It goes without saying that this is a bird watchers paradise. After game drive check out of hotel and take early lunch and leave for Nairobi airport for outbound flight back home.