14 days Vacation in Kenya

10days/9nights Safari

This Adventure Safari may start from either Nairobi or Mombasa and end on either.

Safari Itinerary.

Day 1: Pick up from JKIA Nairobi(morning) and drive to L.Nakuru national park. We should arrive at the Lanet entrance gate at around 11:00am and proceed with the game viewing. Have your pic nick lunch inside the park viewing the animals.We shall exit the park at 06:00pm and head to Punda milias Camp for check-in, dinner and overnight.

Day 2. Be ready for breakfast at 06:00am and leave the camp by 07:00am to drive to Maasai mara via Narok town. Enter the park around noon and proceed with game viewing, with our pic nick lunch. Exit the park at 06:00pm and head to Manyatta camp for check-in, dinner and overnight.

Day 3. Wake up at 06:00am, breakfast 06:30am and off for a full-day game watching in the Maasai mara game reserve. Have pic nick lunch by the mara river or look out view point and leave the park by 06:00pm to the camp.

Day 4. After breakfast, enter the park at 06:30am for early morning game drive till around noon. Have a quick lunch and drive out to Naivasha. Arrive at Crescent camp in the evening for check-in, dinner and overnight.

Day 5. You may enjoy a boat ride on the lake if you like after breakfast, the we proceed to the Hell’s Gate national park by 09:00am. Visit the Ol Duvai Gorge and exit the park  by noon. Have lunch in Naivasha town and leave for Kerugoya via Nairobi. Arrive home at 06:00pm, dinner and overnight.

Day 6. Wake up 07:00am for breakfast and then familiarise around the homestaed and farm, coffee picking or any farm activities. Then drive to tea farms, visit the casttle and have lunch. Visit a tea factory before driving back home for dinner  by a bon fire and overnight.

Day 7. Leave home at 04:30am to be in Nairobi by 07:00am. Pit stop at 09:00am in Emali and leave for Amboseli by 10:00am, drop our food stuff at Kimana camp and enter the park by 11:30am. Pic nick lunch and game viewing till 06:00pm when we head back to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Day 8. Ready for 06:00am breakfast and enter the park at 06:30am for the early morning game drive, till 08:00am when we join the convoy to Tsavo West. Arrive at Kyulu gate at around 11:00am and proceed with our game viewing, pic nick lunch at Mzima springs. We shall be at the Kyulu campsite by 06:30pm to prepare our dinner and bon fire for the overnight.

Day 9. Early morning game drive at 06:30am and head towards the Tsavo river exit gate. Enter Tsavo East game park via Manyani gate at around 11:00am. Have a pic nick lunch inside the park and head to Ndololo campsite with game-en route, for dinner and overnight.

Day 10. We shall wake up at 06:00am have breakfast and leave the camp by 06:30am for the morning game-drive. We shall visit the Lugard Falls in river Galana and exit the park via Bachuma gate by 11:30am. We shall have a quick lunch at Kilimanjaro curio shop before driving down to Mombasa, arrive in Diani by 06:00pm at Stilts for the night.

Day 11. This will be a Resting Day for you and a walk by the beach.

Day 12. I will treat you to an Excursion to Wasini Island, Kisite/mpunguti marine park  for  snorkeling and dolphin safari. Only drinks you pay for yourselves.

Day 13. I will treat you to a City Tour of Mombasa(old town, Fort Jesus,Akamba handicraft). Lunch and drinks not included. Then I will drop you either to the airport or bus office to see you off to Nairobi.

Day 14. You fly back to Europe.        

                                                                              Kwaheri!!      

Over the Past Months

I have not been posting here over the past months of the year 2013 as you may have noticed. This has been due to more trips to the wild leaving little free time to write.
Since January I have had several long haul safaris, some starting from Nairobi and ending in Mombasa, others starting from Mombasa and ending in Nairobi while others started in Nairobi and ended in Nairobi.
I have had excursions to Shimba, Wasini and Mombasa city tours.

Bat-eared Fox spotted in Tsavo East National Park.

Trekking Mt.Kenya

It took us about one and a half hours drive from Nairobi to Naru moru town. We hanged around to adapt to the climatic conditions of the area. We met our climbing team who presented us with the necessary climbing gears and briefing. We spent our first night in Mountain View Lodge.

The following morning our guide, cook and potter came to pick us from the hotel in readiness for the day. We took a taxi from town to the main gate. We checked in and arranged our stuff into various back packs. The four days three nights-trekking began.

The weather was friendly in the sense that it wasn't too cold and not as hot for trekking. It wasn't so easy for me with all the clothing and footwear and a backpack walking for more than two hours.We would see wild animals tails and dung on the way so we were aware of their presence. We took a break in between before another three hours to Met station where we spent our first night. The sun set over bamboo vegetation at 3000ft altitude was just another world to me. Our cook had something ready to warm us as we waited for dinner. We were advised to be watchful when walking to the toilets during the night for the roaming buffaloes around the place. It was so cold that inside a sleeping bag and with my clothes on I was awake almost the whole night! A strange feeling.

Morning shower turns out to be unnecessary here.Brush your teeth and wipe the face. We had our breakfast to re-energise for the second day of climbing. It got colder, misty and foggy as we went higher and no more sight of bamboos but shrubs and mountain grass and flowers. We had a lunch break by a huge rock where I was feeling so worn out and exhausted that I wished to embrace the unusual beautiful vegetation and landscapes on a mountain. I didn't feel like doing anything though I desired to capture everything with my camera, but had no energy for this, I was finished and felt weak and sick. They told me this is Altitude Sickness!!

Our guides were so used to this that the big load on their back packs was equal to nothing with their quick and sure pace. I would stop time and again to gaze at this wonderful creation to make pictures of what I see or my team meandering through rocks, mash and streams. So beautiful a world till we arrived at Mackinders camp(4000m) for the evening and overnight. I was so tired and all I wanted was lie on a bed to sleep. The cook woke me up for dinner but I couldn't eat. He forced me to have something at least to boost my energy but only managed a couple of spoonfuls. I envied people drinking beer and making merry in the dinning hall. Went to bed again in my clothes on into a sleeping bag for another sleepless cold night. I had no energy to wake at 3:00am to proceed up to Lenana summit. I was so happy for my colleague because he did it to the top. It was his most difficult adventure he had ever done. This is a dream to many and a once in a life time adventure.

On the third day I was a bit cheerful and feeling stronger. I had adapted to the mountain climate to some level and would have climbed to the summit had we not been descending. I tried to keep the potters' pace but they were damn too fast for me and I had to slow down to wait for my colleague and guide. Still the surrounding was all I wished to see more and more. Wading through the grass, rocks and soggy ground was now easier. We arrived back at Met station in the late afternoon for overnight. My colleague was more exhausted than me this time round due to the early morning summit climb. We would have long talks about anything and everything in this life and cultures of the Kenyan people, we dwelt more on the local Kikuyu, life before and after the colonial era, etc. Still night with only the sound and smell of nature.

My appetite had improved so I had good breakfast following morning. We headed downwards through the rain forest to the main entrance. A Jeep was waiting to take us back to town. We needed a shower and a rest. The team congratulated us the success. It was a great achievement and I will do it again someday, this time to the very top- the Summit.

We drove to Ol Pajeta Conservation Ranch the following day where we saw lots of animals: black and white rhinos, lions, common and gravy zebras, giraffes, chimps, buffaloes, warthogs, elephants, kudus and water bucks, oryx, ilands, gazelles,etc. This is a ranch/park to visit. The staff guides are so knowledgeable and willing to take you through the history of the ranch and various animals' life.

We drove back to Nairobi after a memorable six days as heroes, mountaineers!! Back to Mombasa by night.

Let's Go Tree Hugging!!

Mark Hugs the tree of Luck

Hey nature lovers! Are you planning a visit to Diani beach or already here? Don't miss this close unusual encounter with nature in it's real friendly form. Escape from the modern world of sky-scrappers, chaotic cities and enjoy a moment of peace with mother nature in Kaya Kinondo Sacred Forest.(http://kaya-kinondo-kenya.com/ABOUT_US.HTM)

You love Hugging trees? Then this is place to be. A walk through the corals, under huge trees, birds flying overhead, monkeys jumping from tree to another, butterflies and dick dick antelopes here and there.... Learn the history and cultural believes of the local Digo community. The different trees and herbs have various uses and benefits to the inhabitants.

It takes less than an hour to be there from any point within Diani.

Please contact me to book your day excursion.