This 9-day Fly in Safari is ideal for couples and honeymooners who want to experience the thrills of an African safari. Offering some of the best game viewing anywhere in Africa, this itinerary combines the superb Lewa Conservancy in Laikipia, Northern Kenya with the outstanding Mara North Conservancy.
Accommodation on this tour is in luxury and exclusive camps with facilities such as swimming pools, spa treatments and private game drives. The long distances have been taken care of by short flights enabling you to enjoy as much time as possible in the bush.
Your tour kicks off in the capital for an overnight at Hemingways Nairobi, before heading off into the wilderness. This is a refined contemporary hotel in Nairobi’s tranquil and upscale neighborhood of Karen. It offers a regal and elegant atmosphere, as well as a superb spa and wellness centre. The utterly unique Nairobi National Park – offering authentic big game viewing with a city skyline – lies just a few minutes away, while the Karen Blixen Museum, Giraffe Centre and Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage are also nearby.
Next stop is the high plains of Laikipia’s Lewa Wildlife Conservancy staying at Sirikoi Lodge, an intimate camp that prides itself on attention to detail, superlative service, and an astonishing array of activities, including horse riding, guided bush walks and sumptuous meals carefully prepared with fresh organic produce from Sirikoi’s extensive kitchen garden. Enjoy a long soak in your Victorian ‘tub with a view’, and in-room massages. In addition to unforgettable game drives, fly-camping and guided walks, Sirikoi Lodge also offers at an extra cost visit to the lovely Ngare Ndare waterfalls. You can also go on an inspiring and humbling visit to Il’ Ngwesi village and join the anti-poaching dogs to understand their crucial role in protecting Kenya’s rhino stronghold.
Finally, onto the rolling grasslands of the Maasai Mara and for the next 3 nights you’ll stay at Saruni Mara, an intimate tented lodge set in a private conservation area outside the Masai Mara Game Reserve. With accommodation for only 12 guests in six spectacular tented cottages, it is set in a remote valley at the heart of the most exciting wilderness in Kenya. Saruni runs the Masai Wellbeing Space, a unique feature in the Masai Mara and considered one of the most professional and inspiring beauty Centers in Kenya.
Enjoy the Italian-inspired cuisine and being immersed in nature from your private verandah. Maasai warriors will guide you throughout your stay, sharing the wisdom and local knowledge of the area and the animals, their way of life and their secret corners of the most loved wildlife reserve in Kenya. Activities here include day and night game drives, bush meals, guided walks, birdwatching, picnics.
Balloon safaris and Maasai Wellbeing Space treatments are payable as extras.
Safari Itinerary
Day 1: Welcome to Africa
Touching down in Nairobi, you’ll be met by our driver who will take you straight to the Hemingways Hotel, so you can catch up on some sleep before your adventure in Kenya begins in the morning.
Day 2: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
This morning after a hearty breakfast, you will be transferred to Wilson Airport for your 45 minutes flight to Lewa Downs, where your guide will be waiting to meet and transfer you to the lodge.
After Lunch relax at the pool overlooking the wetland teeming with wildlife for the afternoon and head out on an evening game drive with a sundowner.
Dinner and overnight at Sirikoi Lodge
Day 3: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Morning game drive on Lewa to seek out the Big 5 and the incredible bird life around the Lewa swamp.
Visit to the rhino sanctuary to see and walk amongst the hand-reared rhino (like David Attenborough in his latest Africa Series).
Visit the Ngare Ndare Forest Canopy Walkway and Blue Glacial pools, part of the Mount Kenya ecosystem and one of the last remaining high altitude equatorial cedar forests.
All meals and overnight at Sirikoi Lodge
Day 4: Lewa Wildlife Conservancy
Spend the day as you please, enjoying game drives witnessing large numbers and diversity of animals in Africa, bush walks, spa treatments and relaxing
All meals and overnight at Sirikoi Lodge
Day 5: Maasai Mara’s North Conservancy
Depart Lewa at 09:30 on your flight and arrive in the Masai Mara at 11:00.
Game drive with a picnic lunch to enjoy under an acacia tree or by the river next to a pod of hippo’s, or head to Saruni Mara for some rest and a game drive later in the afternoon. Enjoy a completely different and less-explored corner of the Mara eco-system in total privacy, brimming with wildlife.
Dinner and overnight at Saruni Mara
Day 6: Maasai Mara’s North Conservancy
Early morning game drive to look for the big cats and other predators of the Mara, returning to camp for lunch and treatments at the Masai Wellbeing Space.
In the afternoon, a game drive will take you to a special area where the biggest herds of giraffe can be seen, followed by dinner at the lodge and an optional night game drive.
All meals and overnight at Saruni Mara
Day 7: Maasai Mara’s North Conservancy
Walk in the forest that surrounds Saruni Mara or a game drive up the top of Kilileoni, the highest mountain in the Serengeti-Maasai Mara ecosystem – lead by your skillful and knowledgeable Masai guides.
In the afternoon you will discover more of the Mara North Conservancy National Reserve and experience first-hand what makes the Mara one of the most exciting wildernesses in the world.
Weather permitting, experience a bush dinner in the middle of the wilderness under the vast African sky, with Maasai warriors singing and dancing around the fire.
All meals and overnight at Saruni Mara
Day 8: International flight
Visit the rhino sanctuary in Mara North on the way to the airstrip and to admire once more the hippos and the crocodiles of the Mara River.
