Depart London Heathrow this morning on your British Airways flight to Nairobi (8 hours 25 minutes). On arrival you will be transferred to the Nairobi InterContinental Hotel (14 KM/approximately 30 minutes) for your overnight stay.

After breakfast drive north to the Aberdare Country Club where you will stop for lunch (210 KM/ approximately 3 hours). From here we travel by coach towards The Ark (10 KM/approximately 45 minutes – this journey is made with other guests staying at The Ark), a truly unique tree-lodge that overlooks the Yasabara waterhole in the Aberdare Mountains and where we will be spending the night. Its numerous balconies and lounges provide unparalleled viewing access to the prolific game that gathers at the nearby salt-lick and waterhole, game that includes elephant, rhino and leopard.

This morning depart The Ark and return by coach to the Aberdare Country Club where you will rejoin your vehicle. A morning’s drive brings you to the shores of Lake Naivasha (300 KM/approximately 4 hours), a fertile oasis lying within the shadow of Mount Longonot, for a 2 night stay at the Lake Naivasha Simba Lodge. This afternoon is at leisure offering you time to relax.

This morning you will travel to Lake Nakuru (75 KM/ approximately 1 hour 30 minutes), 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 lunch at Lion Hill Lodge you will return to Lake Naivasha for the night.

Today we drive into the spectacular game lands of the Masai Mara (300 KM/ approximately 5 hours), Kenya’s northern extension of the vast Serengeti Plains and the country’s greatest game park for our 2 night stay at the Masai Mara Simba Lodge. This afternoon enjoy a game drive across the park, ever hopeful of some spectacular sightings of the famous ‘Big Five’ (lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, buffalo), hippos and the abundant birdlife that thrives amongst the grasslands and forested banks of the Mara and Talek Rivers.

The Masai Mara is with good reason considered one of Africa’s most spectacular safari destinations. It contains amongst its teeming wildlife almost every species to be found in East Africa. Its rich savannahs echo to the sound of lion and leopard, rhino and elephant, whilst its expansive plains thunder beneath the hooves of countless thousands of zebra, antelope and wildebeest. There are few places on earth where man and nature can come together in such an impressive display of majesty and splendour. We spend the day on morning and afternoon game drives, making the most of the time allowed to us in this fabulous arena.

After a final early morning game drive return to Nairobi by road (250 KM/approximately 5 hours), where day rooms will be available at the Nairobi InterContinental Hotel, prior to the evening transfer to the airport. Depart this evening, flying British Airways back to London (9 hours).

Arrive at London Heathrow early this morning.