Where to Visit - Jeci Safaris - Luxury Travel in Kenya

Laikipia

Stretching over a vast area from the north-east of the Great Rift Valley to the north-west of Mount Kenya, the high plains of Laikipia offers one of Kenya’s best safari experiences. Challenging the Maasai Mara National Park for an overall safari experience, Laikipia is fast becoming a must-do on an itinerary. As well as striking landscapes, working ranches and welcoming locals, the expansive region is home to several of Kenya’s leading conservation projects. Conservancies in this area include Lewa, Ol Pejeta, IL Ngwesi. Ranches include Borana, Solio, Sosian, El Karama among others.

Nairobi

Kenya’s cosmopolitan capital, Nairobi is an exciting and polarizing city that lies as a gateway to the astounding natural beauty of Eastern Africa. A great place to stop before or after your luxury safari holiday, the city flaunts a welcoming culture, alluring museums, vibrant nightlife and surprisingly impressive dining scene, all while sitting on the doorstep of Nairobi National Park – home to world’s densest concentration of black rhinos, alongside zebra, giraffes, buffalo and leopards.

Amboseli

Amboseli is Kenya’s most popular National Park after the Masai Mara National Reserve. Like an oasis in the dry savannah, with its emerald-green swamps beneath towering Kilimanjaro, it is the best place to see big, tusked elephants in their herds and enjoy magnificent views of the glorious Mount Kilimanjaro (Africa’s highest Mountain). The best time to view ‘Kili’ is at dawn and sunset when the clouds lift, and the light is clear and soft.

African wild dog lying with ears pricked

Chyulu Hills

The striking Chyulu Hills National Park is located in south-eastern Kenya, nestled between the Amboseli and Tsavo National Parks. Famed for its large bull elephants, lion, leopard and zebra - and with Mount Kilimanjaro in the background – It also flaunts spectacularly diverse landscapes and is often referred to as the ‘Volcano Hills’ due to its dramatic topography of deep lava tube caves, craters and cones.

Meru

Wildly beautiful and gloriously diverse, Meru National Park covers an area of 870 square kilometers of well-watered, dense bush, acacia woodland and verdant, tall grasslands spiked with doum palms ripe for discovery. The park flaunts an array of striking landscapes with rivers, forests, open plains, and hills housing a variety of great game, birds, and other animal species.

Masai Mara

Home to an abundance of nature, the Masai Mara is one of Africa’s most popular game reserves and is often featured in many wildlife documentaries. It is one part of the Greater Serengeti eco system that stretches from the Mau Escarpment above Kenya’s Rift Valley to the Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. In Kenya, Masai Mara National Reserve is split into three regions divided by the Sand, Mara and Talek Rivers. Surrounding the Mara Reserve lies several community-owned wildlife conservancies. Together, they make up the Greater Masai Mara area.

Great Rift Valley Lakes

Dominated by sprawling lakes and incredible wildlife, The Great Rift boasts of beautiful lakes and escarpments, which provide havens for plentiful wildlife. Commonly known as a birdwatcher’s paradise, it attracts a number of species to its sparkling lake shores – most notably huge flocks of flamingos that happily wade near hippos and other game species. Three exceptional bodies of water, Lake Naivasha (the highest of the Rift Valley lakes), Lake Nakuru (renowned for its pelican colony) and Lake Elementaita, are the most well-known. In recent years changing water levels have affected the populations of algae that the flamingos feed on, so they move between the lakes seeking the best places to feed.

The Kenyan Coast

With its idyllic stretch of palm-lined beaches, colorful coral reefs and enticing marine life, the Kenya Coast is the ideal place to relax after the exhilaration of your luxury Safari. Kenya's largest coastal city, Mombasa, offers more than just sun and sea. Explore the winding alleyways of Old Town and the historic Fort Jesus for an insight into Kenya's ancient past. Offshore, the Swahili settlement of Lamu Island was an important port for traders. Its narrow streets have not changed for centuries making it a great place to explore. From here, traditional dhow boats shuttle visitors to the surrounding islands.

Samburu

Samburu National Reserve is located on the banks of Ewaso Nyiro to the North. On the southern side of the river is the Buffalo Springs National Reserve and downstream to the right and across the highway lies the Shaba National Reserve. A 24-hour entrance ticket to any one of the reserves entitles you to visit the others during the same period.

Tsavo East & West

Tsavo East National Park is one of the oldest and largest parks in Kenya at 13,747 square kilometers. The park is divided into east and west sections by the A109 road and a railway. The two have different eco systems: the wooded and hilly landscapes, dotted with volcanic cones and dramatic, black lava flows of Tsavo West National Park and the much flatter, more open plains and scattered bush that characterize Tsavo East National Park.