Depart this morning with your guide for a day tour of Nairobi. Our first stop is for a visit to the Giraffe Centre where you can interact with the Giraffes. Next we will head to the Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage for the public viewing between 11 AM – 12 PM to gain insight into the great work the trust does in working with orphaned elephants. We’ll make a stop ay the Tamambo Blixen’s Coffee Gardens where you have the option of buying lunch. Our last stop will be at the Kazuri Beads Factory which is a women’s cooperative whose work is distributed and prized around the world. 

This morning you will be transferred to Wilson airport or your flight to the Lewa Conservancy. On arrival at the airstrip you are met by your guide and transferred to Lewa Safari Camp for the next four nights. Sprawling over the Laikipia plains, Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is a prolific wildlife conservancy that is popular with celebrities, conservationists, writers and photographers. 

Featuring large tented bedrooms with verandahs and full en-suite bathrooms, Lewa Safari camp offers authentic comfort for its visitors; cozy log fires in the sitting room are perfect for relaxing after a day in the conservancy. This unique and exclusive retreat offers privileged access to 65,000 acres of private protected wilderness.

Lewa Safari Camp offers open vehicle game drives conducted in the morning and afternoon. With the whole of the eastern half of the conservancy to itself, and with strict limits on tourism numbers, guests can enjoy an almost private game-viewing experience. 

Lewa Safari Camp also offers walking safaris with guides who are knowledgeable about the tracks, botany; and most walks leave from camp. Take the time to leave the car behind and enjoy the small things – tracks, dung beetles, micro-ecosystems.

Lewa Safari Camp offers evening horse rides, you can get very close to plains game as they see you as one of their own!  Horse riding is subject to availability and there is an additional charge.

Lewa Safari Camp also offers evening camel rides, led by Samburu handlers and it is picturesque experience. Camel riding is subject to availability and there is an additional charge.

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy borders the Samburu community conservancies of Tassia and Il Ngwesi in the arid lowlands of the north, and many of the staff at Lewa Safari Camp come from this area. Lewa Safari Camp offers visits to neighbouring local Samburu homesteads. 

This morning after breakfast you will be transferred to the airstrip for your flight to the Mara North Conservancy and to Elephant Pepper Camp for the next four nights, the perfect base from which to explore the wonders of the Mara.

The camp’s remote location allows the stars to shine bright at night, undimmed by harsh lighting; guests enjoy the unique experience of listening to the sounds of lion, leopard and hyena foraging and hunting, whilst being cosseted with traditional and modern comforts such as a campfire and cozy duvets.

Elephant Pepper Camp offers open vehicle game drives conducted in the morning and afternoon. This is the best part of the Masai Mara – a year round game viewing experience like no other with strict rules on the density of vehicles within the Mara North Conservancy.

There are experienced walking guides that can take you on a delightful ramble from camp – a whole new perspective of the eco-system around you. 

Many of the Elephant Pepper Camp staff are Masai, and enjoy welcoming you to their home, not far from camp. The Masai live in semi-permanent huts known as Manyattas and it is the role of the wife to construct the hut from cattle dung and grass. The families will show you round their home for a small donation.

Transfer today to the airstrip for your flight back to Nairobi Wilson airport.  You are met and transferred to the Four Points Nairobi Airport Hotel where you have a day room booked until your departure flight home.  You may also consider a relaxing extension to the Kenyan coast or Zanzibar.