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Across the Kenyan Plains - Your Itinerary
11 days
From: £3235
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What's included:
- Scheduled direct flights, including all U.K. and overseas airport taxes and applicable fuel surcharges
- English-speaking naturalist driver/guide on safari
- Private transportation throughout, exclusive to Bales clients
- Game viewing As detailed, including Park Entrance Fees.
- Guaranteed window seat on safari
- Accommodation and meals First class hotels and game lodges throughout.
- 9 breakfasts, 8 lunches and 8 dinners
- Minimum participation 2 passengers
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Day 1
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 Day 1
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Evening departure from London Heathrow by Kenya Airways to Nairobi
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Day 2
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 Day 2
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Arrive in the morning and transfer to the Nairobi Serena Hotel for breakfast.
Continue to Mount Kenya for an overnight stay at the Serena Mountain Lodge with
the afternoon at leisure.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 3
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 Day 3
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Driving north head towards the stark desert scrub and open savannahs of
Samburu National Reserve, for your stay at the Samburu Serena Safari Lodge, beside
Ewaso Nyiro River. This afternoon enjoy a game drive in the park, with every hope of
sighting lion, elephant and possibly even cheetah and leopard.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 4
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 Day 4
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Morning and afternoon game drives will hopefully reward you with sightings of
Samburu’s rarer game, such as reticulated giraffe, gerenuk and Grevy’s zebra.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 5
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 Day 5
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After breakfast drive to Sweetwaters Tented Camp, a beautiful and peaceful
oasis of savannah grasslands and riverine forests lying on the Laikipia plains with
views towards Mount Kenya.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 6
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 Day 6
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This morning travel to Lake Nakuru, lying amidst the magnificent spectacle
of the eastern Rift Valley, famed for its prolific birdlife, particularly the millions of pink
flamingo that make these shallow rich waters their home. After a picnic lunch beside
the lake continue to Lake Naivasha for an overnight stay at the Lake Naivasha Simba
Lodge.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 7
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 Day 7
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In the Masai Mara National Reserve, lies some of Kenya’s finest gamelands.
After transferring to the Mara Fig Tree Camp, take an afternoon game drive through a
landscape that is classic Africa.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 8
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 Day 8
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A morning game drive takes you once more in search for the ‘Big Five’ (lion,
leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino). The Masai Mara is blessed with almost every
species of animal on the continent, from herds of wildebeest, the graceful power of
the big cats and the colourful diversity of some 450 species of birds. After breakfast
transfer to the Masai Mara Simba Lodge. Enjoy an afternoon game drive.
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 9
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 Day 9
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Today is spent in search of some of Africa’s most remarkable spectacles as you
enjoy morning and afternoon game drives through this breathtaking landscape. The
Masai Mara offers a staggering array of wildlife, with elephant, buffalo, lion and herds
of zebra, wildebeest and gazelle in abundance
Meals: B, L, D
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Day 10
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 Day 10
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After a final game drive, head back to Nairobi. Day rooms are available to
freshen up at the Nairobi Serena Hotel, before your evening transfer to the airport for
the Kenya Airways flight back to London
Meals: B, L
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Day 11
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 Day 11
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Arrive at London Heathrow in the morning
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