Evening departure from London Heathrow by Kenya Airways to Nairobi (8 hours 30 minutes).

Arrive in the morning and transfer to the Nairobi Serena Hotel for breakfast. Continue to Mount Kenya (210 KM/approximately 3 hours 30 minutes) for an overnight stay at the Serena Mountain Lodge with the afternoon at your leisure.

Driving north head towards the stark desert scrub and open savannahs of Samburu National Reserve (225 KM/approximately 4 hours), 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.

Africa’s pulsating heartland, Samburu, in northern Kenya, includes parts of Mount Kenya National Park, Samburu National Reserve and a rich diversity of habitats that encompass montane forests, acacia grasslands and the Ewaso Nyiro River. Home to the semi-nomadic Samburu, close relatives of the Masai, it is an area refreshing devoid of the mass tourism of other parts of Kenya, affording some quite spectacular safari encounters. The waters of the Ewaso Nyiro attract a steady stream of animals to its banks and it is one of the best places in Kenya to view reticulated giraffe and Grevy’s zebra. Samburu boasts a staggering diversity of wildlife, including some of the rarer game, such as reticulated giraffe, gerenuk and Grevy’s zebra and our game drives today will hopefully reward us with sightings of some of these magnificent animals. Birdlife in the park is equally plentiful, including kingfishers, francolins and weavers.

After breakfast we drive to Sweetwaters Tented Camp (160 KM/approximately 3 hours), a beautiful and peaceful oasis of savannah grasslands and riverine forests lying on the Laikipia plains with views towards Mount Kenya.

This morning travel to Lake Nakuru (270 KM/approximatley 4 hours), 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, continue to Lake Naivasha (75 KM/approximatley 1 hour 30 minutes), a fertile oasis lying within the shadow of Mount Longonot, for an overnight stay at the Lake Naivasha Simba Lodge.

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 overnight tented camp experience at the Mara Fig Tree Camp. 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.

A morning game drive takes us once more in search for the ‘Big Five’ and so much more. The Masai Mara is blessed with almost every species of animal on the continent, from herds of wildebeest and Impala, the graceful power of the big cats and the colourful diversity of some 450 species of birds. After breakfast transfer the short distance to the Masai Mara Simba Lodge where you will stay for the next 2 nights. Enjoy an afternoon game drive.

Heartland of the Masai, southwest Kenya presents a landscape where Africa is laid bare in all its majesty. Here the endless struggle for survival is played out across the vast open plains and riverine forests of this captivating land. Each year the Mara explodes into life, as the annual migration of great herds of wildebeest journey from the Serengeti to fresh pastures in the north. Between July and October the Mara River becomes the setting for the crossing of some 1.3 million animals, bringing with them the inevitable predators and the inevitable dramas. Today is spent in search of some of Africa’s most remarkable spectacles as we enjoy morning and afternoon game drives through this breathtaking landscape. The Masai Mara presents us with a staggering array of wildlife experiences, with elephant, buffalo, lion and herds of zebra, wildebeest and gazelle in abundance.

After a final early morning game drive, we head back to Nairobi (250 KM/approximately 5 hours) and journey’s end. Day rooms are available to freshen up at the Nairobi InterContinental Hotel, before our evening transfer to the airport for the Kenya Airways flight back to London.

Arrive at London Heathrow in the morning.