family safari

Kenya with Kids Safari
DAY BY DAY ITINERARY
family safari
DAY 1
TRAVEL DAY | INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT
DAY 2
OLE SERENI HOTEL | NAIROBI
Family Safaris with Deeper Africa
Travel is the best education. Our family safaris
create a rich learning experience for young people and
everyone lucky enough to travel with them. Our
guides are all fathers and experts at experiential
learning. This is education that feels like eating ice
cream and this method of learning is a central part
of our safaris. Your safari guide is your family’s
teacher, translator, and tracker. He’ll keep you
safe, comfortable, and become a new Kenyan friend
to your family.
Pickup at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by your Deeper
Africa driver after clearing customs. He will have a sign with your
name on it. After making sure that all the luggage is collected,
he’ll transport you to Ole Sereni Hotel where everyone can get a
good night’s sleep.
Dinner and overnight at the Ole Sereni Hotel.
Swimming pool available
With Deeper Africa you have one guide for every
four or five family members. Since your guide travels
with the family throughout your safari you’ll get to
know each other very well. For the children it is an
exciting opportunity to know someone from another
country.
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DAY 3
OLE SERENI HOTEL | NAIROBI
Breakfast at Ole Sereni. This morning you’ll visit the Sheldrick
Animal Orphanage to meet all the baby elephants. You’ll have a
front row seat for the public viewing of the young elephants.
The orphanage adopts juvenile elephants who have lost their
mothers, often due to ivory poaching. Ivory wars are raging in
our East African ecosystems and a baby elephant does not
survive without a mother. This is where Daphne Sheldrick
comes in. You’ll be introduced to the baby elephants, meet the
elephanticians (keepers), and learn about Sheldrick's ground
breaking work with orphaned baby elephants and their
reintroduction into elephant families in the bush in Tsavo
National Park.
Lunch at Tamambo Restaurant. After lunch you’ll visit the
Giraffe Center where you can pet and feed tame giraffe.
Then on to Kazuri Beads. Kazuri Beads began as a tiny
workshop experimenting in making handmade beads. It has
grown large enough to have its own factory making beautiful
beads into handmade jewelry and pottery. You tour the factory
seeing how the beads are made and watch ladies turn the beads
into beautiful jewelry.
Dinner and overnight at Ole Sereni Hotel.
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DAY 4
AMBOSELI SERENA |AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
Breakfast at Ole Sereni.
Today you’ll be driving south to safari
country and wildlife viewing in Amboseli National Park. You’ll
have your first official game drive beginning to learn animal
identification and tracking and spotting with your guide. Your
Land Cruiser is equipped with a set of reference books so that
when you identify a new animal, information and pictures are at
your fingertips to supplement your guide’s insights. As well,
we’ll stock the cool box with water and your favorite sodas.
Your Land Cruiser also has a full set of maps. During daily
orientations your guide will use the maps to show you where
you’re going and where you’ve been.
Amboseli is famous for elephants. The elephants in Amboseli
have been watched over by the researchers at the Amboseli
Elephant Research Project for over 40 years. Each elephant has
a name and their family trees have been mapped out. The
researchers know who the matriarch in charge is, who her sisters
are, who her babies are, and who the father to each is. You will
see herds of elephants, and gain up close contacts with the
matriarchs, the babies, teenagers, and bulls. From time to time
you can spot older elephants in the herds with very large tusks.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena.
Swimming pool available.
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DAY 5
AMBOSELI SERENA | AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
Most of Amboseli is open savannah country and that means
good visibility for wildlife viewing. The water in Enkongo
Narok swamp and the acacia woodlands have wonderful wildlife
viewing. The water in the swamps is replenished underground
from the mountain top and the area is always a green spot within
Amboseli. (Notice Kilimanjaro yet?) There are year round
hippos in the swamp area and many giraffe near the acacia
woodlands. Picnic lunch, or lunch back at the lodge, your
choice.
You’ll always see local people from the Maasai tribe in and about
the park. When Amboseli was gazetted as a national park the
area around the swamps became off limits to local Maasai as a
watering hole for their cattle. In retaliation the local Maasai
pursued and killed lion that left the park boundaries. As a
consequence lion are not plentiful in Amboseli. A piped water
supply was set up outside the park boundaries for the Maasai
cattle and the Maasai finally did give up their land within the
park boundaries. Even so, sometimes you will still see cattle
herds grazing within the park boundaries.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena.
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DAY
LION HILL LODGE | NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
Breakfast at Ole Sereni.
This morning you’ll drive north for
the morning to Lake Nakuru National Park. Lunch at the
lodge with the afternoon wildlife viewing in Nakuru National
Park.
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Lake Nakuru is world famous for, and was created as a national
park to protect its stunning flocks of lesser flamingo, which
literally turn its shores pink. Its birdlife is rich: a beacon for
leading ornithologists, scientists, and wildlife filmmakers. It is
easily accessible, lying immediately south of Nakuru Township.
Nakuru is a small, beautiful park with ecosystems that include:
an acacia forest, woodlands, and the famous soda lake that
draws flocks of greater and lesser flamingos and over 400
species of birds such as white pelicans. Up to four million
flamingoes roam the Rift Valley lakes in great flocks
throughout the year, searching for the best feeding and bathing
conditions. Each day a substantial number of these flamingoes
settle on Lake Nakuru producing an interesting cacophony of
sights and sounds.
Historically, Lake Nakuru was a remote wildlife park; but
development and urban sprawl have brought many people to
this once remote area. Human and wildlife conflicts were a
constant problem. As a solution, Kenya Wildlife Service built
an electric fence around this small park. The fence solved the
conflict problems and it allows you to experience substantial
wildlife populations in a small geographic area. This means
that every turn reveals new animals.
Dinner and overnight at Lion Hill Lodge.
Swimming pool available.
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DAY 7
LION HILL LODGE | NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
Full day for wildlife viewing in Nakuru.
Lunch at the lodge,
or picnic lunch, as you choose. Wildlife viewing is relatively
easy in Nakuru National Park, and it is not uncommon to
spot leopard in trees. Nakuru’s lions sometimes sleep on the
broad acacia branches. The springs in the northeastern
corner of the lake provide pools for hippo. Numerous
antelope roam on the shores, including the Defassa
Waterbuck. The shoreline is also a good place to observe the
Bohor’s Reedbuck, which sleeps in the sedge grasses.
The woodlands and forest are also home to many rhino. In
1987, only two black rhino remained following devastation
by poachers. By creating a rhino sanctuary within the park
and reintroducing a breeding herd from nearby Laikipia,
Kenya Wildlife Service successfully reestablished rhino in the
park. A solitary browser, the black rhino can often be seen in
the woodlands. As well, the white rhino is not indigenous to
Kenya, but has been successfully introduced from Southern
Africa. In Nakuru, impressive numbers of white rhino graze
along shorelines, often accompanied by small calves, an
indication that they are breeding successfully.
In 1977, the Rothschild’s giraffe were introduced to the park
from their threatened home area, Soy, in western Kenya.
They have also successfully bred in the area. Although you
will not see elephant around Nakuru, driving around the
national park you are likely to see large herds of buffalo,
impala, warthog, eland, troops of olive baboon, the
occasional steinbok, Chandler’s reedbuck, dik-dik, and
colobus monkeys – amongst many other species. Rock
hyrax and klipspringer occupy the cliffs and escarpment.
Sightings of leopard and lion are common, as are jackals and
hyena.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and overnight at Lion Hill Lodge.
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DAY 8
MARA ENCOUNTERS |NABOISHO CONSERVANCY | MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE
Breakfast at Lion Hill Lodge. Today is an early start as you head
off towards the Maasai Mara and across the Rift Valley to these
famous open plains of the Mara teeming with vast numbers of
wildlife. On the drive you’ll be moving through areas where the
Maasai live. Note how the landscape changes to drier savannah
grasslands and begin to note many herds of cattle tended by local
Maasai herdsmen. You’ll stop for a picnic lunch en-route.
Mara Encounters offers you beautiful tented accommodations,
great food, great guiding, and introductions in the nearby Maasai
village. There are a myriad of activities for the family at Naboisho
Camp. You can go on game drives in the Mara, walking safaris,
night game drives, and visits into local Maasai villages. You’ll visit
villages not as a tourist, but as a guest with camp staff introducing
you to family and friends. Feel enriched by this very personal and
memorable encounter.
Lunch, sundowners, dinner, and overnight at Mara Encounters.
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DAY 9
MARA ENCOUNTERS | NABIOSHO CONSERVANCY | MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE
Breakfast at Mara Encounters Camp.
The Disney movie
“African Cats” was filmed in the Mara. If you haven’t seen
the movie do so. It is magical. It will introduce you to Mara,
a young lion, and Sita, one of the most famous cheetahs on
the planet.
Sita is just one of the cheetahs who live on the Serengeti
savannahs.
You’ll have the opportunity to view many.
You’ll be scouting for cheetah in one of the two remaining
cheetah strongholds in the world: the Mara/Serengeti
ecosystem. Cheetahs face increasing pressure from humans
and land encroachment - with between 9,000 to 12,000 left in
the world.
Lion prides in the Mara are territorial. Females within a lion
pride are related to each other. Daughters, mothers,
grandmothers, aunts, and nieces live together for up to 15
years - the typical lifespan of a lioness. Males are forced to
leave the pride at between two to three years of age. When
not attached to a pride, lions are nomadic, occasionally
banding together with other male cousins or brothers.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Encounters.
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MARA ENCOUNTERS| NABOISHO CONSERVANCY | MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE
Toda you can craft the right safari day for your family with
the camp guides. Just make sure you treat yourself and the
family to a walking safari while you are at Mara Encounters
with a great walking guide. Everyone in the family learns
tracks and scat identification and the patience that makes a
walking safari successful. Your guide will use his extensive
bush tracking experience to amazing effect.
Many different habitats are represented in the Mara - each
with unique and different flora and fauna. Acacia woodlands
attract giraffes, while hippos occupy the deeper river pools.
But it is the East Africa savannah grasslands and the herds
and predators of the savannah that make the Maasai Mara
famous. Wildebeest are well suited to harvest the short
grasses that cover the semiarid plains of the Serengeti. The
soils of this region have an underlying hardpan covered by a
fertile layer of volcanic soil. Grass growing in this soil is
highly nutritious, taking up nutrients trapped by the hard pan.
The eastern and western Mara, as well as the Mara River
areas, are all accessible to you by Land Cruiser.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner, sundowners, and overnight at Mara
Encounters.
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DAY 11
OLE SERENI HOTEL| NAIROBI
Breakfast
at Mara Encounters. Spend your last
morning in the bush hoping that you have the best
wildlife sightings ever.
The camp staff will transport you to the bush strip for
your flight to Nairobi.
Bush Flight
Depart Mara @ 11:00 am
Arrive Nairobi @ 12:30 pm
Your Deeper Africa driver will pick you up at Wilson
bush airport and transport you to Ole Sereni. Lunch
after you arrive. Day room for packing, showering, and
relaxing. Dinner at Ole Sereni. Evening transport to
your international flight.
DAY 12
INTERNATIONAL TRAVEL| INTERNATIONAL FLIGHT
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ADDITIONAL SAFARI INFORMATION
INCLUDED IN YOUR SAFARI
2016 CUSTOM DEPARTURE DATES
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Schedule as you wish January through March, June
through December.
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Full board accommodations in all lodges and tented
camps
All meals in itinerary
Unlimited game drives in private 4x4 safari Land
Cruisers
All park and entrance fees
Experienced and professional safari naturalist guides
Natural Learning program
Enrollment with Flying Doctors Evacuation Service
All in-country transportation
Laundry available at some lodges and camps
Beverages in your 4x4 safari vehicle
Bottled water available at all times
Extensive pre-departure briefing and materials
including health information, reading list and map
EXCLUDED FROM YOUR SAFARI
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2016 CUSTOM DEPARTURE DATES
• 6 persons $ USD per person
• 4 persons $ USD per person
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• Children under 16 years $USD per person
*Pricing based on high season prices. Call us for green
season and peak season pricing.
Arrivals and departures out of Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta
Airport. Prices do not include international air travel.
Alcohol and some beverages in some camps and
lodges
Gratuities
We plan your wildlife adventures in areas where wildlife
habitats are known to exist for the season and time you are
traveling. Still, animals in the areas you are viewing are not
in a zoo. They run freely, and we cannot always anticipate
their movements.
Also, Deeper Africa uses best efforts to provide the lodging
set out in this itinerary, but occasionally there are
circumstances that occur in East Africa that require lodging
substitutions. We reserve the right to make comparable
lodging substitutions whenever necessary.
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