12 Days Bush and Beach Experience

Safari Highlights

Best of Conservation
The Big Five
The Wilderness North
Game Walks
Luxury Accommodation
White Sandy Lamu Beaches
Excuisite Sea Food
Water Sports

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1 Arrival Nairobi, Fly to Lewa Conservancy

Fly direct from Nairobi Wilson Airport straight to the Lewa Downs airstrip where you will embark on your first safari drive through the Laikipia bush en route to Sosian Lodge. Eight secluded cottages with verandas and spacious en-suite bathrooms have their own exclusive views down to the Samangua Valley. After lunch, wind down by the infinity pool and watch the elephants wander down to the lake below. Accommodation and Meals: Sosian Lodge

Days 2 Sosian Lodge, Lewa Conservancy

This morning, head out with your guide with the 4×4 where you will eventually drop off the vehicle and make your way back to the lodge by foot. Watch from afar as the elephants and buffalo graze and as the game moves around while your guide guides you through the bush. After lunch, enjoy a gentle ride on horseback and experience riding beside the wildlife. Accommodation and Meals: Sosian Lodge

Days 3-5 Maasai Mara Game Reserve

Fly down south to the Maasai Mara where you will land on the nearby airstrip and be greeted by your guide from Richard’s Camp. There are seven spacious tents located in the north west of the Maasai Mara, where wild animals can still roam freely. Once at camp, you will have time to relax and explore before your evening game drive.

Spend your days enjoying the Maasai Mara. Enjoy two game drives while exploring the expanse of one of Africa’s finest wildlife reserves. After a full day out, enjoy sitting around a bush fire at Richard’s Camp, talking to your guide about the day you have just experienced. Optional – Hot Air Balloon ride). Accommodation and Meals: Richard's Camp

Days 6-10 Manda Bay, Lamu

Today you will leave camp and make your way to Nairobi for a connecting flight to Kenya’s coast. On arrival, you will be whisked off on a speed boat to Manda Bay. Arrive in time for a late lunch and enjoy the display of amazing fresh seafood. The cosy cottages overlook the Indian Ocean and are carefully sited to catch the cooling sea breeze.

Manda Bay, a jewel in Kenya's stunning coastline, is the perfect escape for families, honeymooners, and couples looking for the ultimate 'no shoes, no news' experience. The small boutique lodge located on the tip of an unspoilt, idyllic island in Lamu's archipelago where you kick off your shoes and enjoy simplistic beauty in palm thatched cottages and open living spaces.

The small boutique lodge located on the tip of an unspoiled, idyllic island where you kick off your shoes and enjoy simplistic beauty in palm thatched cottages and open living spaces. The experience at Manday bay is that of a secluded location, safe waters, no one else on the beach, exceptional water sports and hosting, private airfield, big game fishing, Salt-water fly-fishing. Accommodation and Meals: Manda Bay

Days 11 Fly Nairobi, Giraffe Manor

With an afternoon flight back from Manda Bay to Nairobi, it will mean spending one night at Giraffe Manor. Located in the leafy outskirts of Nairobi, Giraffe Manor is an experience in itself with just six opulent bedrooms. Looking over towards the giraffe sanctuary, which is home to eight endangered Rothschild Giraffes, it is the perfect location to spend your your last night in Kenya. Accommodation and Meals: Giraffe Manor

Days 12 End of Adventure, Departure

WYou will be transferred to the airport to catch your return flight.

Featured Accommodation

Sosian Lodge

Lewa Conservancy

An authentic safari experience. With over 60,000 acres of wilderness to explore, Sosian offers a truly unforgettable safari experience. Sosian is perhaps best known for our huge array of experiences on offer. Whether you safari by vehicle, horse or foot, you are sure to take home some extraordinary memories. Galloping with giraffe, walking with elephants, tracking lions, or just sitting still and taking it all in, no two days are the same.

Sosian has a diverse landscape and varying habitats, where you can expect to see elephant, buffalo, hippo, giraffe, zebra, antelope, lion, leopard and warthog to name a few. There is also over 350 species of birds on Sosian. Being a private conservancy we are also fortunate enough to be able to experience the bush and its nocturnal animals with a spot light at night. After sunset we often encounter leopard, spotted and striped hyena, aardwolf, aardvark, porcupine, bush baby, hippos grazing out of water, buffalo,serval cat and other exciting species

Richards Camp

Maasa Mara

Richard's River Camp offers the discerning traveller a luxury tented camp in the very heart of the Masai Mara. Designed with privacy, exclusivity as well as adventure in mind we ensure a warm and memorable safari.

With only seven tents, this camp is ideal for individuals as well as exclusive groups who wish to experience the Masai Mara in a personal intimate setting. Beautifully appointed with furnishings and fabrics collected by Liz on her travels - the result is a casually luxurious tented camp, combining exceptional wildlife with a contemporary ‘Out of Africa’ experience.

Manda Bay

Lamu

Manda Bay is a small privately owned boutique lodge located on the northern tip of Manda Island in the Lamu archipelago on Kenya’s coast. An unspoilt, secluded location where you kick off your shoes and enjoy simplistic beauty in palm thatched cottages and open living spaces. There is no habitation nearby and no access except by boat or private charter to its own private airfield. Manda Bay combines the ultimate bush and beach experience. Whilst miles of soft yellow sand and coconut palms surround the lodge itself, the bush behind the lodge is dry country scattered with doum palms, Acacia Tortilis and savannah-like scrub.

Manda Bay is the perfect escape for families, honeymooners, and couples looking for the ultimate 'no shoes, no news' experience. Renowned for its wonderful atmosphere and variety of activities.

Giraffe manor

Nairobi

Giraffe Manor is an exclusive boutique hotel, owned by The Safari Collection. Often referred to as one of the most instagrammed properties in the world, Giraffe Manor is set in 12 acres of private land within 140 acres of indigenous forest in the Langata suburb of Nairobi. Giraffe Manor is one of Nairobi’s most iconic buildings. The historic manor house has extraordinary appeal, that harks back to the 1930s when visitors first flocked to East Africa to enjoy safaris. With its stately façade, elegant interior, verdant green gardens, sunny terraces and delightful courtyards, guests often remark that it’s like walking into the film Out of Africa: indeed, one of its twelve rooms is named after the author Karen Blixen.

Tour Inclusions

Luxury accommodation as specified on itinerary
Airport and road Transfers.
All meals including breakfast, lunch and dinner as per itinerary
Local beverages including teas/coffees, soft drinks, local brand beers, local spirits and house wines
Airport and road Transfers.