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AMAZING KENYA SAFARI

February 9th - 22nd 2014

14- Day Safari

For Rotarians and Friends Tour Director

Saadat Keshavjee

Tour includes:

Nairobi, Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Aberdares, Samburu,

Sweetwaters Tented Camp, Amboseli, Tsavo West, Mombasa Beach

Land Cost US$4,195.00 per person double occupancy

To book this Safari Call Mila Velshi 1920 Avenue Road, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Tel. direct: 416 488 3024 Toll-free 1 888 666 8747 ext 587 email: mila@velshi.com

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DAY 1 : Sunday Feb 9th Arrival Nairobi

Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, you will be met by your tour representative who will assist with the transfer to Nairobi Serena Hotel.

Amidst the bustle of one of Africa's most dynamic cities there is a sanctuary offering peaceful

respite...the Nairobi Serena Hotel. Standing among verdant gardens, it is considered one of Nairobi's

finest hotels. With consummate standards of modern hospitality, it is the flagship of Serena Hotels and a

member of Leading Hotels of the World. Enjoy the swimming pool and spa, the restaurant, the excellent

gift shop, and the comfort of your delightful room.

Overnight: Nairobi Serena Hotel Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/serenanairobi/default-en.html

Spend your day at leisure enjoying the facilities of your hotel. Optional activities include a city tour, visit to the Daphne Sheldrick elephant orphanage, Karen Blixen, Giraffe Center, National Museum or the Snake Park. All this at an additional cost. Potential day for visits with the Nairobi Rotary Clubs Overnight: Nairobi Serena Hotel Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast

Day 3 & 4: Tues, Wed Feb 11th, 12th Masai Mara

Begin your exploration of this beautiful country as you drive to the Masai Mara, Kenya’s most famous wildlife reserve and the setting for much of the film Out of Africa. It is classic savannah grasslands, where animals are plentiful and the vistas spectacular. Here Maasai tend their cattle in concert with free roaming wildlife – all sharing the same land with minimal conflicts. You will have two days of wildlife-viewing opportunities in the Maasai Mara Reserve, also known as the “Jewel of Africa,” inhabited by many of Africa's most popular wild animals, including lion, cheetah, elephant, leopard, black rhino and hippo. There are over 500 resident species of birds in the park including ostrich, larks and sunbirds as well as the lovely Lilac-breasted Roller. The area is famous for rolling grassland and for the Mara River, which runs through the park from north to south. The park covers an area of 700 square miles and forms part of the Serengeti ecosystem, hosting the world famous spectacle of the annual migration of up to two million wildebeest, thousands of zebra and an escort of carnivores as they follow the rains and succulent new grass. A costly trek as many of the lame, laggard and sick will fall prey to ravenous packs of predators and many more will die crossing the swirling flood waters of the Mara River.

DAY 2 : Monday, Feb 10th Nairobi

Optional activities (at additional cost) include a balloon safari for an exhilarating experience over the

savannah and breakfast on the plains as the early sun rises and the animals are more active. Or, you can

visit a Maasai Village to see how this nomadic tribe has existed through the millennia in harmony with

nature.

Overnight: Mara Serena Safari Lodge Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/serenamara/default-en.html

Day 5: Thursday, Feb 13th Lake Nakuru National Park After breakfast drive to Lake Nakuru, the most famous of the Great Rift Valley lakes and home to a shifting population of over one million flamingos. Arrive in time for lunch at the Sarova Lion Hill Lodge, which enjoys sweeping views across the lake. Lion Hill Lodge impresses every guest with its panoramic view of the pink shoreline created by millions of flamingos on Lake Nakuru. The Lodge is situated within the Lake Nakuru National Park in the Rift Valley Province and is surrounded by natural flora and fauna in its beautiful grounds.

Spend the afternoon on safari in Kenya's first and largest rhino sanctuary where sightings of both black and white rhino are almost guaranteed and where you have a higher than average chance of spotting a leopard. Other wildlife includes; lion, hippo, the rare Rothschild's giraffe, Columbus monkey, numerous plains game and 450 species of birds. Overnight: Sarova Lion Hill Lodge Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.sarovahotels.com/lionhill/ Day 6 : Friday, Feb 14th Aberdares National Park Breakfast at the lodge this morning before driving north to Mweiga for lunch at Aberdare Country Club.

After lunch the club transport takes you into the Aberdares National Park to the Ark. Every deck of the

Ark overlooks the popular waterhole where occasionally the elusive bongo can be seen. Dinner and

overnight at The Ark.

Set in the heart of the Aberdares National Park, The Ark

overlooks a floodlit waterhole and salt lick which attracts a host

of awesome wildlife such as elephant, rhino, leopard, bushbuck

and occasionally an elusive bongo or giant forest hog.

Overnight: The Ark Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.thearkkenya.com/

Day 7 : Saturday, Feb 15th Samburu Game Reserve

Continue on your journey to Samburu Game Reserve. Upon arrival, you will be welcomed with lunch at

your lodge, followed by an afternoon game drive. Samburu National Reserve lies on the borderland of a vast, physically dramatic desert featuring rocky battlements, craggy scarps, dry riverbeds, and fallen boulders. Thorn scrub rises against a backdrop of distant hills and the great red table mountain known as Ololokwe. It is within the lands of the colorful Samburu people, close relatives of the Maasai, and is home to a number of wildlife species rarely found elsewhere in Kenya: Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe, and Beisa Oryx, all found only north of the equator. The graceful gerenuk antelope, with its characteristic long neck, spends much of its time on two legs, seeking relaxation in the sparse scrub that grows in this harsh terrain. This dramatic landscape is blanketed by the hot equatorial sun for most of the year. Relief comes from the cool waters of the Uaso Nyiro ("Brown") River, which rises to the west on the foothills of the Aberdares and which vanishes beyond Samburu in the soggy expanse known as the Lorian swamp. The scenery in Samburu is magnificent and the birdlife awesome Overnight: Samburu Sopa Lodge Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.sopalodges.com/samburu/home.html

Day 8: Sunday Feb 16th Samburu Game Reserve Today’s game drives provide ample opportunity to explore this fascinating reserve. You will have morning and afternoon game-viewing drives in search of the 'big five', other wildlife and a large number of bird species. Lunch will be at the camp. At the height of the heat of the day it is common to see the elephants on the other side of the river, or even sometimes in camp, as they browse and frolic in the cooling waters of the river. This is a perfect time to relax and reflect – a time to write in journals, read or take a swim in the pool. In the late afternoon we venture into other parts of Samburu Reserve in search of some of the growing elephant families that populate Samburu Reserve. Overnight: Samburu Sopa Lodge Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.sopalodges.com/samburu/home.html

Day 9: Monday Feb 17th Ol Pejeta Conservancy Depart for the privately-owned 24,000 acre reserve, Ol Pejeta Conservancy where another adventure

begins at your luxurious tented camp with magnificent views of Mt. Kenya. Arrive for lunch followed by

afternoon game viewing drive. Dinner and overnight.

This is one of only four private wildlife reserves in Kenya; your under-canvas experience includes

wildlife drives in search of the ‘Big Five’. Watch a parade of elephant, giraffe, zebra and impala come to

drink at the camp’s floodlit waterhole and saltlick. Optional activities abound, you may choose to go on a

night drive in search of nocturnal species, go on a nature walk or join a rhino patrol with experienced

armed rangers to find and monitor black rhino.

During your stay here, you will also visit the 200-acre Chimpanzee sanctuary that has been set up here. Although chimps are not indigenous to Kenya, the aim of the project, initiated by Lonhro East Africa, Kenya Wildlife Services and the Jane Goodall Institute, was to set up a colony where chimps could be introduced, rehabilitated and taught to fend for themselves in an area similar to their natural living conditions. Priority is given to orphaned and abused chimps. The Sanctuary currently has 27 chimps, including two babies born in the Sanctuary. There is also a new Visitor's Information Center at Morani's Boma. While here, you will be treated to a guided walking safari. At an optional cost, you can enjoy camel safaris, and horse-back riding. Overnight: Sweetwaters Tented Camp Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/serenasweetwaters/default-en.html Day 10: Tuesday, Feb 18th Amboseli National Park

Depart to Amboseli National Park, located at the foot of Africa's highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro.

En route you will stop in Nairobi at “Pampa” or “Carnivore” Restaurant for lunch. The snow-capped peak

of Mount Kilimanjaro rises above a saucer of clouds and dominates every aspect of Amboseli. This park

covers only 150 square miles but despite its small size and its fragile ecosystem it supports a wide range

of mammals (well over 50 of the larger species) and birds (over 400 species). Drive through Amboseli

and view the game. As the sun sets, you will arrive at your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Overnight: Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/serenaamboseli/default-en.html

Day 11: Wednesday, Feb 19th Tsavo West National Park Begin your drive to Tsavo West National Park. At just over 8,000 square miles, Tsavo is the largest

national park in Kenya and one of the largest in the world. Because of its size the park was split into two,

Tsavo West and Tsavo East, for easy administration. Located midway between Nairobi and the coast, the

area boasts volcanic hills, four rivers, more than 60 major mammal species and 1,000 plant species. The

northern part of Tsavo West is the most developed and has spectacular scenery with a rolling volcanic

landscape carpeted in long grass and dense bush.

Although the tall vegetation makes game spotting trickier than in some of the other parks, Tsavo West's

bio-diversity is amazing. The landscape is a mixture of grassland and forest shrub vegetation. Thus

driving and exploring the vegetation almost assures you close encounters with the following animals:

lions, leopard, cheetah, zebras, giraffes, antelopes, kongoni, waterbuck, klipspringer, impala, gazelles,

buffalos, and elephants. Apart from Tsavo’s elephant population there are many lion –some undoubtedly

the descendants of the infamous and feared “Man-eaters of Tsavo” popularized in the film Ghost in the

Darkness. In addition to lion the resident carnivores in Tsavo include serval, hyena, leopard, cheetah,

and caracal. The landscape is dominated, especially off the hills, by the giant baobab, a tree which is

reputed to live 1,000 years.

Tsavo West is famous for the Mzima Springs. This star attraction is a pool of natural spring water with

underwater viewing hides for observing hippos where a gushing supply of fresh, crystal clear water has

created an oasis for wildlife. A specially constructed underwater observatory provides visitors with a

unique view into the underwater world of Mzima. The water catchment is divided into two pools; here

you can view hippos and crocodiles. The upper pool is occupied by the hippos and lower pool by the

crocodiles. While here, you will visit a nearby local village and school.

Overnight: Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge Meal Plan: Full Board Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/serenakilaguni/default-en.html

Day 12: Thursday, Feb 20th Mombasa – Shanzu Beach Today marks the end of your bush expedition. After breakfast at your lodge you check out. Your driver guide will meet you at the lobby and after packing all your bags in the customized safari

minibus, depart Tsavo West with a game drive. You then join with the Nairobi – Mombasa highway and

head for Mombasa. Arrive at Mombasa to your first-class hotel situated on the Shanzu beach just 11

miles north of Mombasa Stick your toes into the soft, white sandy beaches while enjoying the extensive

coconut-palm cooled grounds, bright blossoms and the idyllic sky-blue swimming pool with thatched

“swim-up” bar. Your afternoon is at leisure to explore your fabulous resort and bask in the sunshine of

the Indian Ocean.

Overnight: Serena Beach Hotel Meal Plan: Half Board Website: http://www.serenahotels.com/serenabeachhotel/default-en.html Day 13: Friday, Feb 21st Mombasa – Shanzu Beach

This day is for relaxation by the beach with dinner and breakfast included at the resort. The Serena Beach Hotel provides an oasis of tranquility whilst delivering a unique mix of high-action

water sports, sybaritic sun worship, world-class cuisine and vibrant nightlife. The Serena Beach Hotel

has a hundred and five Village Rooms, forty eight Garden Rooms and eight suites, all of them air-

conditioned and facing the ocean. Elegant cuisine is served beneath the stars at Nyota Terrace

Restaurant. Evening entertainment features floorshows, dancing at the discotheque or a live band.

Swahili evenings capture the spirit of an Arab-style street fair, complete with music and food.

Overnight: Serena Beach Hotel Meal Plan: Half Board Day 14: Saturday, Feb 22nd Homeward

Breakfast at the hotel and. Relax by the resort’s pool side or by the beach until check out In the early afternoon, you will be met by your driver guide who will transfer you to Moi International Airport for your late afternoon departure flight to Nairobi to connect with your on going flight home.

END OF TOUR

NOTE:

Your tour ends in Mombasa. Your international flight must include the Mombasa-Nairobi sector

as this sector is NOT included in the cost of your tour.

INCLUDED IN YOUR TOUR Courtesy Transfer from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (Nairobi) to Nairobi Serena Hotel is

included for all passengers arriving at the airport together. If not arriving at the same time, there is an extra cost of $60 per person.

Accommodation as indicated on the program Transport in a safari minivan in Kenya with a pop up roof for game viewing Services of a professional driver-guide, game viewing drives All park entrance fees as indicated in the Itinerary All Government taxes and levies All transfers as per above Meals as indicated in the itinerary. NOT INCLUDED International airfare Transfers from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi if passengers not arriving with

the group. All items of personal nature e.g. telephone call bills, fax/email bills etc. Tips and gratuities to

hotel, lodges, camp staff and driver- guide(s). Alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks, International flight and departure taxes. Laundry services. Any other item(s) not included in our itinerary. Visa fees (Kenya requires a visa. Check with the Kenya High Commission /Embassy) Travel health and cancellation protection insurance is recommended. DEPOSIT A non-refundable deposit of US$750.00 is payable on booking. Price of land tour is guaranteed if deposit paid by May 31, 2013. Final payment (non-refundable) is due 75 days prior to departure (November 26, 2013)

BAGGAGE

As transport is in a safari mini-van with limited space for baggage there is a strict baggage limit. The tour

company recommends you travel only one suitcase and one carry on small knapsack or hand bag. Please

limit the size and the structure of the suitcase. A soft “squashable" suitcase (canvas, fabric or duffel bags)

about 24" X 12" X12" or 30” X 15” X 15” are ideal. Large hard-sided suitcases are extremely difficult to

stow on safari vehicles and should not be used.

Direct: 416-488-3024 T: 416-789-3271 ex. 587 Toll Free: 1-888-666-8747 x 587

1920 Avenue Road, Toronto, ON. M5M 4A1 Email: mila@velshi.com