Meru National Park is famous as the setting for Joy Adamson’s book “Born Free” – the story of the Adamson’s life and research amongst lion and cheetah. The park is wild and beautiful straddling the equator and bisected by 13 rivers and numerous mountain-fed streams. It is an especially beautiful area of Kenya. It has diverse scenery from the woodlands at 3,000ft.
Arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Meet driver-guide and after safari briefing, drive to Meru National Park. The Park is famous as the setting for Joy Adamson’s book “Born Free” – the story of Adamson’s life and research amongst lion and cheetah. The park is wild and beautiful straddling the equator and bisected by 13 rivers and numerous mountain-fed streams. It is an especially beautiful area of Kenya. It has diverse scenery from the woodlands at 3,000ft. On the slopes of Nyambeni Mountain Range, Northeast of Mount Kenya, to wide-open plains with wandering riverbanks dotted with doum palms.
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Depart for a full-day game drive with picnic lunch boxes or enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in Meru National Park with a lunch break in between the game drives.
Meru National Park offers many animals attraction that includes lion, elephant, cheetah, leopard, lesser Burchell’s Zebras, Gravy Zebras, Masai, and reticulated giraffes, Grant gazelles, gerenuks Kudu, duiker, and dik-dik, one of Africa’s smallest antelopes. A large pride of lion can be seen and some of Kenya’s largest herds of buffalo. The rivers abound with hippo and crocodile, fishing for Barbus and catfish is permitted at campsites and along the Tana River.
The bird’s attraction is over 300 species of birds that have been recorded including Peter’s finfoot which inhabits the Murera and Ura Rivers, the Pel’s Fishing Owl, Kingfishers, rollers, bee-eaters, starlings, and numerous weavers.
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After breakfast drive to Ol Pejeta Conservancy where you can see the “Big Five” represents safari royalty – the African lion, the African leopard, the African elephant, the Cape buffalo, and the rhino (either white or black). You also admire the splendid views of Mount Kenya, chimpanzee sanctuary and largest Black rhino sanctuary in East Africa. Also, The camel rides available in the Conservancy.
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Breakfast in the hotel and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park heading straight for a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park. Established in 1961 and gazette in 1968 as a National Park, the park has Kenya’s largest population of rhinos. The park is home to Lion Hills, Makalia waterfalls, unique vegetation, Picturesque landscape, yellow acacia woodlands, and a wide range of birds most famous being Flamingoes and Pelicans. Located in the Great Rift Valley Lake System, the park is also an ecologically significant region having been named a RAMSAR Site and Important Bird Area. Covering 73 square miles (188 square kilometers), Lake Nakuru is world-famous for flamingos and was created as a National Park to protect, its stunning flocks of lesser flamingos which literally turn its shores pink. These are the millions of flamingoes seeking their food in the salty deep-green waters of Lake Nakuru. The park is indeed a birds’ paradise hosting over 500 species.
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After breakfast drive to Masai Mara Game Reserve, Lunch at your hotel and enjoy the afternoon visit to a Masai Cultural Village that you join the Masai dancers donning their African regalia and the jingling on their feet, flow by the rhythm of African beats, and dance to their tunes that will leave you refreshed. Masai Mara Game Reserve is the Land of Big Cat Diary and Disney’s African Cats, which is considered a “must-see” for any new and repeats visitor traveling on a safari to Kenya. It is on the “to do” list for many Kenyans and visitors alike because the park is graced by a wide variety of unique and exquisite wildlife and birds. Masai Mara is the best place to see the “Big Five” animals (elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos , and buffalo).
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Breakfast in the hotel and enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in Masai Mara Game Reserve with a lunch break in between the game drives.
Today the balloon ride is available in Masai Mara. Early morning wake up at 5.30 am and transfer to the balloon launch site where you will gather for takeoff. Enjoy early morning ballooning over the plains, getting a bird’s eye view of the game below as the sun creeps slowly over the horizon. After approximately one hour aloft, the balloon lands and we transfer to the bush breakfast site. The smell of bacon, sausages, and eggs drifts in the breeze as we sample exotic Kenyan fruits and homemade pastries and if you wish, glasses of bubbly to toast our flight, a tradition initiated by the Montgolfier brothers.
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Breakfast at the hotel and drive to Nairobi. Transfer to the airport in time for your homebound flight.
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