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Singles Safari AFRICA Kenya-Nairobi 2006 Exciting Adventues for Singles
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Singles Safari AFRICA Kenya-Nairobi 2006 Exciting Adventues for Singles
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Day 01: Home City USA / Europe Day 02: Europe / Nairobi
Meet on arrival at the airport. After clearing with customs and immigration, transfer to the Norfolk hotel in Nairobi for your overnight stay. This evening meet with your host for an orientation and evening cocktails.
This hotel is set within Nairobi city, within a short distance from Nairobi's shopping and business district. This hotel is the oldest hotel in Nairobi built in the early 1900's and it occupies a unique place in the history of Kenya. The hotel comprises of a total of 123 rooms. It has recently undergone renovations. All rooms have private bathrooms with shower, mini-bar, television and radio, direct dial telephone. They offer first class cuisine in their four impressive restaurants. Facilities include a health club, swimming pool. Lunch and dinner on own arrangements. www.lonrhohotels.com |
Gourmet Dinning
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| Day 03: Nairobi - Aberdares Breakfast at your hotel and travel north, passing near Thika, which boasts the world's third largest pineapple plantation and Karatina with its colorful market. Soon you'll be at Nyeri, one of Kenya's major towns and provincial headquarters and then on to the Aberdare Country Club, an elegant baronial style country home set in sprawling superbly landscaped gardens (120 miles – 3hrs)
12.30PM Lunch at the Aberdare Country Club. Club transport takes you to the Ark. A uniquely shaped lodge tucked away in the Aberdares National Park forest. The lodge's water- hole and salt lick are well lit at night when the animals come to drink and a well-concealed "hide" affords eye-to-eye viewing of forest elephant and other game, including the endangered black rhino. You’re also likely to see Baboon, Buffalo, Bushbuck, and Bush pig, Civets, Duikers, Giant Forest Hog, Colobus and Syke's Monkeys. The bird life includes some species not common in other places, among them being: The Green Ibis, Rufous Sparrow Hawk, Mountain Buzzard, Crowned Eagle and the Silvery - Cheeked - Hornbill.
Note: Only a small overnight bag is required at the ARK. The rest of the luggage is stored at the Aberdare Country Club at no cost. Warm clothing is advisable as nights tend to be chilly.
Dinner in the lodge. www.lonrhohotels.com |
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| Day 04: ABERDARES - SAMBURU Breakfast at the Ark. Return to the Aberdare Country Club where you will rejoin your driver guides, retrieve your stored luggage and proceed on your safari adventure. Travel further North, past the Equator and the dusty outpost known as Isiolo, later drive into the semi-desert bush country of northern Kenya. Here you will meet the nomadic tribes of Samburu, Borana, and Turkana who have lived in this land blessed with rich colors and a variety of landscapes. Lunch at Sarova Shaba Lodge.
On the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro River, in the heart of Shaba National Reserve, famous for the Out of Africa film by Joy Adamson. It has now been made famous once again with the shooting of the third edition of America’s television phenomenon, SURVIVOR having been filmed on this location. (130 miles – 4hrs)
This afternoon enjoy a game viewing drive in the reserve ending with a sundowner and followed with dinner at the lodge.
Sarova Shaba Lodge www.sarovahotels.com |
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| Day 05: Samburu Breakfast will be served at the lodge. Full day exploring the Shaba and Buffalo Springs National Reserves with lunch at Samburu Serena Lodge. The Shaba Reserve is named after an outcrop of volcanic rock that dominates the region. Evidence of the intensity of its upheaval is demonstrated by the formidable lava flow that travelers must cross to reach the reserve and the lodge. The Reserve's northern boundary is marked by The width of the Ewaso Nyiro river which empties into Lorian Swamp; the tall doum palms which mark its course in silent contrast to the rugged and pitted tracts which make up much of the sanctuary. Many small hills dot the landscape and, with four springs, Shaba is better watered than its neighbors.
Animals commonly seen are elephants, lions, cheetahs, Grevy's zebras, giraffes, gerenuks, buffalos, Oryx, grants gazelles, Dikdiks and waterbucks. The river forest attracts a wide variety of birds.
This evening proceed for a Boma dinner in a unique setting within the lodge compound. Sarova Shaba Lodge www.sarovahotels.com |
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| Day 06: Samburu – Lake Nakuru Breakfast. Travel from Samburu, heading west to Nyahururu, still known to many as Thomson's Falls for its 237-foot cascade. Afterwards, travel in a southerly direction to your next destination: Lake Nakuru, colored a shimmering flamingo pink from thousands of the beautiful birds lining its shores. You'll arrive at Lion Hill Lodge which offers unforgettable views of the lake from its hillside perch. The Lodge also is a perfect base from which to explore the lake on foot or by boat, with its fabulous array of birds as well as many types of game, including waterbuck, rhino, leopard and buffalo. (114 miles – 3hrs)
Buffet lunch at the Lodge.
Afternoon game drive in the park, which is, of course, known for its birdlife - as thousands of flamingos make this lake their home, along with hundreds of other species. But wildlife is also in abundance here. You'll see large numbers of waterbuck, warthog, impala, buffalo, plains game, cheetah, and now rhino, as Lake Nakuru National Park has been made into one of Kenya's rhino sanctuary.
Evening special dinner by the pool side.
Sarova Lion Hill Lodge www.sarovahotels.com |
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| Day 07: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara Breakfast at the Lodge. Leaving flamingo-fringed Lake Nakuru behind, you will drive to Narok, the gateway to the Masai Mara and district headquarters of this part of Masailand. You'll reach the Keekorok Lodge in time for lunch (198 miles – 5-½ hrs).
Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more plentiful than in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. At southern end of this 585 sq miles paradise and right in the path of the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra, lies Keekorok Lodge. Accommodation at the lodge is in bungalows, single storey blocks and in comfortable shaded chalets. The liberal use of cedar wood, pink and grey sand River stone and other indigenous building materials offset the green lawns and colorful bougainvillea. The lodge has a swimming pool. After lunch you are at leisure until 4.pm when you start your first game viewing drive in the reserve regarded as the most magnificent natural theatre in the world. Set in the heart of Africa’s Great Plains, the Maasai Mara boasts 645 square miles of wilderness. It is home to the highest concentration of animals and birds anywhere on the continent.
Return to the Camp in time to freshen up for dinner and overnight.
7.00pm hrs Out Of Africa Bush Dinner - Masai Mara A private and secluded clearing is prepared for an elegant dinner. The surrounding area is lit up with campfires and flame torches. The call of the wild and the sound of the jungle are complemented by the local beat and dance from the Masai dancers. Mouth-watering dishes are prepared on a coal fire. After dinner liquors are served around a campfire. (Drinks charged on consumption)
Keekorok Lodge www.wildernesslodges.com |
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| Day 08 Masai Mara Enjoy a full day in the Mara with two game drives included. This reserve is situated to the west of Nairobi, on Tanzania's northern border - it is the extension to the larger Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The Masai Mara offers wonderful scenery and an abundance of big game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago.
The waters of the Mara River are home to crocodiles and pools of hippo, the acacia woodlands and riverine forests favored by leopard and elephant, and the open savannah and dry bush areas play host to the plains' game and their predators such as lion, cheetah, hyena and jackal.
Bush Breakfast With "Bubbly" – Masai Mara After an exciting early-morning game drive to add to the adventure, you will be surprised to arrive at a site on the Mara Plains especially cleared for your bush breakfast. Toast with a glass of `Bubbly' in the midst of this enchanting Savannah -a breakfast is served of sausages, eggs, and bacon, sizzling over a charcoal fire.
Today visit a Masai Village and meet the headman. Spend sometime interacting with their local culture and go inside one of their traditional homes. Lunch and Dinner at the Keekorok Lodge. |
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| Day 09 Masai Mara/ Nairobi Leaving Masai Mara, head back to Narok, district headquarters of this part of Maasailand and then travel across the vast plains on the floor of the Rift Valley - keep an eye out for herds of giraffe and gazelle - and head up the Rift Escarpment on a road built by Italian prisoners of war during World War II. You will arrive in Kenya's bustling capital city in time for lunch on own arrangements. Dayrooms are reserved at The Norfolk Hotel.
Dinner The Carnivore Restaurant. The restaurant is considered ‘Africa’s Greatest Eating Experience'. This open-air meat specialty restaurant has strikingly different food, service and atmosphere to anything ever seen in Kenya. Every type of meat imaginable, are roasted on traditional Maasai swords over a huge, visually spectacular charcoal pit that dominates the entrance of the restaurant.
The waiters then carry these swords around the restaurant, carving unlimited amounts of the prime meats onto sizzling, cast iron plates in front of you. A wide selection of salads, vegetable side dishes, and a variety of exotic sauces accompany the meat feast. Dessert and coffee follow this.
After dinner transfer to Jomo Kenyatta Int’l Airport for your outbound flight.
Nairobi/Europe |
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