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The operator appeared as an high level organization.
Our guide-driver was skillful and helpful,from we got information about kenyan people and wildlife. Also we visited a local Maasai Mara village to see their nomadic lifestyle.
We really enjoyed our safari through many National Parks of Kenya and we can say only very good words for the leader Rebecca and like you know - the face of a company comes from their leader - so all crew were excellent.
Each day were organised very good and professionaly from the first minute we contact with the company to the last second in Kenya.
Big, big thanks. We will definitely suggest the company to all our friends. We are satisfied and grateful and we can never forget these wonderful experiences we got in Kenya.
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Client:
Dick Hall - from United Kingdom
Trip:
This trip: 7 Days: Catch the 'Big 5' - Kenya
Rating:
rating 10/10
Comment:
They picked us up from the airport and arranged overnight accommodation for us in Nairobi. All in all they proved to be both competent and helpful.
The pick from the airport worked smoothly, a blessing after an all-night flight and we were delivered to a hotel in central Nairobi as agreed.
We were picked up in the morning for our camping safari, Catch the Big Five, to visit Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru, and Samburu National parks, with camping accommodation (hotel at Nakuru).
Mid -October was a good time to visit, at the end of the migration in the Maasai Mara, with lots of zebra and wildebeest and hence lions and cheetahs. Lake Nakuru is very beautiful and would have repaid a longer visit, but even in a short time we saw the flamingos, rhinos and a leopard. The camp site at Samburu by the river and in the trees is particularly atmospheric, and we saw lots of elephants and giraffes.
The driver, Sammy was very good at finding animals and siting the vehicle for the best views, and our cook served up plentiful and appetising meals. Camping may not be to everybody's taste, but the sites were well situated and quite adequate. To us they provided a more authentic African experience than the alternative of staying in a lodge (and much cheaper!) and a chance to see some small wild life at close quarters.
With mosquito repellant I was not bitten at all, neither did either of us have any stomach trouble.
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Client:
Gail Tucker - from United States
Trip:
This trip: 7 Days: Catch the 'Big 5' - Kenya
Rating:
rating 10/10
Comment:
The safari exceeded expectations.
Rebecca was very helpful setting things up and our guides Ken and Sammy were very knowledgeable and found every animal species for our cameras. The lodges were lovely - each one a little different and quite luxurious for being in the Mara.
I traveled with my two grown children, on a private safari, and we shared the experience of a lifetime together.
I will recommend this operator to anyone who inquires.
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Client:
Rainer Veal - from United Kingdom
Trip:
This trip: 7 Days: Catch the 'Big 5' - Kenya
Rating:
rating 10/10
Comment:
They offered a good price for their 7 day safari. Even though there were only 2 of us in the 7-seater bus, we had our own driver and a cook.
Kenyan roads are an adventure unto themselves and is not for the faint-hearted. Our driver was knowledgeable and keen to please.
We visited Saburu, Nakuru, and Masai Mara. They were all worth seeing, although after 6 days in tents we felt we'd had enough. The cook surprised us with very tasty food.
I would definitely recommend this operator for their 7 day safari.
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Client:
Lai Kassim - from Nigeria
Trip:
This trip: 7 Days: Catch the 'Big 5' - Kenya
Rating:
rating 10/10
Comment:
We caught the "big five" and many more. Simply great.
Our guide was too good and the operator, so hospitable and professional.
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Client:
Chris and Jon Forsyth - from United Kingdom
Trip:
This trip: 7 Days: Catch the 'Big 5' - Kenya
Rating:
rating 10/10
Comment:
Jon and I had a very successful holiday put together for us. Everything ran very smoothly. Esther was wonderful, friendly, enthusiastic, cheerful and efficient. They arranged a holiday that gave us a taste of everything, from budget camping to lodges to the Ark. Our climb up Mt. kenya was for me the highlight as it was a long held ambition of ours.
Itinerary
AMT 19 7 days Masai Mara/Lake Nakuru/Samburu
I T I N E R A R Y
Day 1 Nairobi/Masai Mara 8.45a.m. to 9.15 a.m. Pick from your Nairobi hotel. 9.30a.m. Depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve via the viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley, lunch enroute. Arrive in time for an evening game drive in this pristine, unequalled 'big game country'. Dinner and overnight at the lodge or campsite.
Day 2 Masai Mara This will be a day of tracking game with your guide, after an early breakfast. The Mara's landscape is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills, which enables the reserve to attract sufficient rainfall to maintain and support a large population of herbivores, together with the predators that follow. Elephant, lion, buffalo can be seen with relative ease though luck is a necessary factor for spotting rhino and leopard that complete the big five as the two animals are very timid and sparsely numbered. Plains game like wildbeeste, zebra and Masai giraffe abound as well as hippos and a wide variety of antelopes including impala, dik dik, hartebeest, Grant’s gazelle and Thompson's gazelle among others. We will cater for a picnic lunch at the hippo pool. In the evening, return to the lodge or campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 3: Masai Mara - Nakuru After breakfast, leave Masai Mara for Nakuru with a stop for lunch enroute, with scenic views of Lake Naivasha and Mount Longonot, which are in the Great Rift from afar on the main highway. Dinner and overnight at the lodge / campsite
Day 4: Lake Nakuru – Naivasha After breakfast a morning game drive will follow in Lake Nakuru National Park, the abode of various water birds that breed in the lake’s salty water including flamingos, white pelicans and marabou stork; white rhino may be seen as well as the rare Rothschild’s giraffe, cape buffalo and other plains game in this park that is 188 square kilometres. After lunch proceed to Lake Naivasha (and this is the highest Lake in the Rift Valley). Also Lake Naivasha is famous in the 1930’s as a staging post for Imperial Airways flying Boat services from Durban to London. Dinner and overnight in a lodge/campsite/budget hotel.
Day 5: Naivasha - Samburu After breakfast, visit the Hells Gate National Park and the geothermal power plant. This is one of the few places in Africa where you can wander on foot among herds of zebra, wildebeest, gazelle, and giraffe, because of the absence of predators. Depart from Naivasha onwards to Samburu Game Reserve for dinner and overnight at the lodge or campsite via the Thompson Falls, which are named after Joseph Thompson, one of the first European explorers who walked from Mombasa to Lake Victoria in the 1880’s. Lunch enroute. Dinner and overnight in a campsite or lodge.
Day 6 Samburu Morning and afternoon game-viewing sessions tracking the rare, drought resistant animals species which can only be seen north of the equator; these are: the reticulated giraffe, grevy's zebra, the gerenuk or giraffe-gazelle, beisa oryx and the blue shanked somali ostrich. The Ewaso Nyiro River traverses this park, it's source being the Abedare ranges. There are therefore very high chances of spotting crocodile in a natural environment though its water level varies seasonally. You will have a lunch and leisure break in the mid afternoon. Rest of meals and overnight at the lodge or campsite.
Day 7 Samburu/Nairobi After breakfast, depart Samburu for Nairobi, lunch enroute, with scenic views of Mt. Kenya's peak if the weather permits. Very pleasant countryside with tea and coffee plantations will be by-passed enroute to Nairobi. Arrive in the evening.
( Balloon ride not included)
Price includes: ** Entrances to all parks and other places where entry fees fees is applied ** Transport to all the places in safari mimi-bus with a pop up roof for easy photography and viewing of animals while in the park ** Three meals a day namely(breakfast,lunch and dinner) ** Accomodation in campsites and in budget hotels where camping is not applicable ** All camping equipments except sleeping bags ** Services of the knowleadgeable driverguide and the safari cook
Extras: ** Water and alcoholic beverages ** Items of personal use ** Tips ** Visas ** Sleeping bags
