Day 1

Arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. After the customs formalities transfer to Comfort Inn. Comfort Inn is a budget hotel located in the city centre.

2.00pm. Embark on a city excursion covering popular attractions in the suburbs.

• Giraffe Center: This is a conservation center for the rare Rothschild giraffe, which you can view up close and feed. The centre affords you an excellent opportunity to take some unique photographs of this truly magnificent animal.
• Bomas of Kenya: This is a cultural centre and offers shows on a wide variety of Kenya’s cultural practices. Different tribal homesteads (‘bomas’) have been erected at the centre, depicting traditional lifestyles of Kenya’s different tribal groupings. In the main hall, dancers in costume perform various tribal dances in exciting displays of colour and throbbing drums.

Dinner and overnight stay                                                          Comfort Inn

Day 2

09.30am Depart for the world renowned Masai Mara Game Reserve. Enroute, stop over at the Viewpoint to enjoy sweeping views of the Great Rift Valley and Mt. Longonot, an extinct volcano with a yawning crater that can be seen clearly from this vantage point. As you proceed down the escarpment with its breathtaking hairpin bends, you will do a brief stopover at the miniature Italian Church built by Italian prisoners of war after the 2^nd World War to see the classical frescoes therein.

Arrive at the Mara Springs camp in time for lunch and relaxation. This is a well managed but in-expensive campsite just outside the Masai Mara which offers a unique experience for those wishing to see the real Africa. Accommodation in comfortable en-suite tents with beds and ample hot water for showers and flushing toilets are available for your comfort.

Embark on a game drive within the expansive Masai Mara Game Reserve to track down the ‘Big Five” i.e. the lion, elephant, buffalo, cheetah, rhino among dozens of other species. If taking your safari between late July and September, you will be lucky to catch the action of the ‘Great Migration’ when hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, zebra, antelopes, buffalos are caught up in a life or death struggle to cross the Mara river from Northern Serengeti in search for greener pastures.

Return to your camp for dinner.

Overnight stay                                                                 Mara Springs Camp

Day 3

Rise at the break of dawn and embark on an early morning game drive.

Return to the campsite for breakfast and relaxation.

Lunch at the campsite

Embark on your late afternoon game drive across the sprawling savanna that is the Mara Plains

Return to the campsite for dinner.

Overnight stay                                                                 Mara Springs Camp

Day 4

Arise at dawn and embark on an early morning game drive. After breakfast head back to Nairobi.