Safari Highlights:
Plenty of wild-life viewing opportunities
Time-Saving flights between Amboseli - Samburu and Maasai Mara
Lodges offer activities for adults - bush walks, tribal village visits
Proximity to Mount Kilimanjaro - possible view subject to weather
Day 1: Flight from Nairobi to Amboseli National park
At 0645 hours, you are picked from your Hotel and transferred to the Wilson Airport. The flight to Amboseli National park takes off from Wilson Airport at 0730 hours and arrive Amboseli Airstrip at 0815 hours. On arrival at the airstrip, You will be met by Hallmark Travel Planners guide and transferred to the lodge. You have a morning game drive before driving to the lodge for lunch. After lunch, relax at the lodge till 1630 hours when you begin the afternoon game drive that runs till sunset.
The landscape in Amboseli, with its parched alkaline pan and strange mirages, is everywhere dominated by the glistening majestic snowcap of Mount Kilimanjaro, a extinct volcano which is 5,894 meters high, known as the "roof of Africa".
Game viewing is an adventure in this park, with lion, cheetah and buffalo almost an assured sight and hosts of antelope, zebra and other small creatures of the wild. Bird life is abundant. But the most impressive inhabitants of this arid landscape are the elephants, moving in large columns in their daily peregrination to the water. For Safari seekers, Amboseli is ideal for big game photography. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge.
Day 2: Day in Amboseli
At 0630 hours, take coffee and proceed on the early morning game drive. Return to the lodge for breakfast. Morning game drive for those who wish starts at 1000 hrs till midday. After lunch at the lodge you will have early afternoon at leisure till 1630 hours, time for the game run that goes till dusk. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge.
Day 3: Flight from Amboseli to Nairobi to Samburu/Shaba
After breakfast at the lodge , you will check out and be transferred with a brief game drive en-route to the airstrip for your flight back to Nairobi. The flight departs at 0830 hours and is expected to touch down at Wilson Airport Nairobi 0915 hours. You connect another flight to Samburu from Wilson.
You arrive Samburu airstrip at 1030 hours. You are picked from the airstrip by representative from Hallmark Travel Planners. With a brief game drive, you head for the lodge for lunch. After lunch relax till 1630 hours, time for a game run till dusk.
Samburu game reserve, buffalo springs and Shaba game reserve together cover a total of 428 sq. km. With the same faunal structure, the 3 wildlife reserves, lie just within the fascinating semi-desert Northern Frontier District of Kenya.
The tranquil Uaso Nyiro River, flowing through Shaba and Samburu, attract a wide number of rare wildlife and provides a natural habitat for crocodile. Long necked gerenuk, Grevy´s zebra and reticulated giraffe are species not found in the less arid areas to the south. Elephant seek solace and contentment in the shallow waters of this wide sauntering river, fringed with acacia, down palms and tamarind, which together with Buffalo Springs, support a large variety of african mammals, cheetah and leopard being particularly well represented.
Dinner and overnight at Samburu Serena Lodge or Samburu Intrepids Club.
Day 4: Day in Samburu/Shaba
At 0630 hours, wake up call followed by coffee. Then you proceed on a game drive till time for breakfast, usually around 0830 hours. After breakfast, you may go on another game drive or just relax by the pool. At 1630 hours, the afternoon game drive departs running till sunset. Dinner and overnight at Samburu Serena Lodge or Samburu Intrepids Club.
Day 5: Flight Samburu to Maasai Mara
After breakfast, check out of the rooms. With your luggage packed, drive to the airstrip with a brief game drive. The flight back to Massai departs at 0915 hours to arrive Maasai Mara at around 1045 hours. Pick up by the lodge or camp vehicle and transfer to the lodge.
Lunch at the hotel. Relax at the lodge or camp till 1630 hours when you proceed on a game drive till sunset.
Situated in the heart of the Great Rift Valley, with an area of 1,812 sq. km, limited to the East by the Talek river and Loita plains, Masai Mara, Kenya´s leading Game Reserve, lies on the border between Kenya and Tanzania and is the northern extension to the renowned Serengeti plain. A reserve of breathless vistas, a panorama of vast rolling plains, hills and woodland groves, well watered by the Mara River, concentrating in its proximity permanent populations of wildlife: this is lion, leopard, cheetah and elephant country, with buffalo lurking in the forest and a superb abundance of plains game: zebras, Thompson and Grant gazelles, topis. Dinner and overnight at your hotel – Mara Serena Lodge or Mara Intrepids Club.
Day 6: Day in Maasai Mara
Early morning game drive starting at 0630 hours. Return to the camp for breakfast. Relax at the lodge till lunch time. At 1630 hours proceed for a game drive in the park till sunset. Dinner and overnight at your hotel – Mara Serena Lodge or Mara Intrepids Club.
Day 7: Game Drive – Flight Maasai Mara to Nairobi
Early morning game drive beginning at 0630 hours. Return to the lodge or camp for breakfast. Further game drive in the Mara till lunchtime. Lunch at the lodge or camp. After lunch, check out of the hotel and depart with a game drive towards the airstrip.
Depart on the afternoon flight from Maasai Mara back to Wilson Airport. On arrival, pick up and transfer either to your hotel or to the airport for your homebound flight.
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| Tour Rates | |||
Season | Period | Adult Rate (per person sharing) | Single Room Supplement |
Low | 1-Apr-2011 to 31-May-2011 | US$2538 | |
| Mid | 2-Jan-2011 to 31-Mar-2011 | US$2801 | |
| High | 1-Nov-2011 to 15-Dec-2011 | US$2801 | |
| Peak | 1-Jun-2011 to 31-Oct-2011 | US$3112 | |
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Child Policy
Children under 12 years of age, when sharing accommodation with 2 adults, pay 50% of the adult rate.
The Price Above Include:
- Pick up and Transfer from your hotel in Nairobi to the Wilson Airport.
- Flights between Amboseli - Samburu and Maasai Mara
- 6 nights accommodation at the lodge / camp or one of similar standard
- Return transfers in Amboseli - Samburu and Maasai Mara - from airstrip to the lodge/ camp
- Game drives as per above program and All meals while on safari
- All Park entry and or conservation fees applicable
- Any government levies applicable
The Prices Above do NOT Include:
- Hot air Balloon flight in Maasai Mara - can be booked Separately
- Extras at the lodges –tips, drinks, telephone, laundry or any other personal expenses
- International flight into/out off Kenya - Check out Great Prices for Flights into Africa Here
- Entry Visa to Kenya
- Departure tax


