5 Days Fly & Drive Amboseli & Ol Pejeta Safari

A Classic Combo Safari that combines Kenyan South & North Tourist Gems. The experience combines air and road transport galore – by road from Nairobi to Amboseli Park, then flight to Ol Pejeta Conservancy and back to Nairobi again.

In the South is the Grand Amboseli National Park. Dubbed “the Royal Castle of Kilimanjaro”, this national park located in Maasai country, is with a difference in that it is home to various wildlife variety including huge herds of free-ranging African elephants (with some of the biggest tusks in Africa), waterbuck, bushbuck, big/small antelopes, giraffe, buffalo, big cats (lion, leopard, serval, cheetah…) and resident wildebeest among other animals, all these against a backdrop of the Majestic and snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro “custodian of the African skies” and the world’s highest free-standing mountain at a height of 5,895m. The landscape is a rapturous variety of habitats, from gently rolling savannah plains to dust-bowls, seasonal lakes (e.g. Empusel), riverine, swamps laden with wildlife in the heat of the day, rivers from Kilimanjaro’s underground marine network, hills (e.g. the famous Observation Hill)…etc…

In the North is the interesting Ol Pejeta Sanctuary. This is located in East Africa’s largest black rhino sanctuary and is a major home to very high wildlife population density including white rhino, the rest of all the Big Five, very high rare Grevy’s Zebra population (with thin stripes, bigger ears, bushy tail and a totally white stomach unlike the common ones all over), giraffes, silver-backed jackal, hyena, African wild dog, oryx, hartebeest (kongoni), cheetah, chimpanzee and an array of birdlife among others. It also hosts the Jane Goodall Chimpanzee (hosting orphaned, abandoned rescued chimps) and the Morani Information Centre, named after the tame resident black rhino-Morani, that was orphaned by poachers in Amboseli Park when only 6 months old (died in 2008 aged 19 years). The sanctuary also boasts to be one of the last abode of the northern white rhino (less than 5 remaining on earth)

Your stay will be in a luxury tented camp/lodge inside this wildlife-rich conservancy that has a lot to offer

DAY 1: Nairobi to Amboseli - Kenya

This Amboseli & Ol Pejeta Lodge Safari begins with pick-up in Kenya’s capital city of Nairobi. After introduction and safari briefing, we depart and in our tour van and drive south to Amboseli National Park. (The journey covers about 250km)

Arrival at camp/lodge is in time for lunch, followed by an afternoon rest. Later in the afternoon will we embark on game drive to run until evening when we return to camp/lodge for overnight. Nature Walks are a favorite, to a Masai Village where we meet and mingle with Masai (the local inhabitants who have managed to retain their rich and interesting traditional & cultural values to date)

Overnight at your camp/lodge

Please note: There is an optional flight upgrade available at extra cost, if you prefer to fly from Nairobi to Amboseli instead of driving.

DAY 2: Amboseli National Park & Selenkay Conservancy - Kenya

The following day do we wake up to the African sounds of nature and after breakfast, depart for a game drive taking us across rapturous vegetation (from desert bowls, to riverine, swamps, dry lakes, bush…etc) and right up to the Observation Hill as the ultimate experience where we’ll have a chance of having a birds’ eye-view of the park. We’ll break off for lunch and then proceed with a later afternoon game-viewing drive to run till sunset.

Overnight at your camp/lodge

DAY 3: Amboseli to Nairobi to Ol Pejeta Conservancy - Kenya

This day after breakfast, we break camp/lodge and depart back to Nairobi so that we can catch a morning scheduled flight at Wilson Airport to Ol Pejeta Conservancy (in the town of Nanyuki-Laikipia County of Kenya). Arrival at the airstrip is just before midday and a transfer to our safari camp, located inside the Ol Pejeta Conservancy. This is in time for lunch and afternoon relaxation. A game drive follows later in the sanctuary to run till sunset when we drive back to our camp.

Overnight at your safari camp

DAY 4: Ol Pejeta Conservancy - Kenya

This day is spent entirely in the Conservancy with day game viewing drives (meals included) , inclusive of visit to the chimpanzee sanctuary & Morani’s Grave. Evening is spent in your camp amid sounds of the African bush at night.

Overnight at your camp

DAY 5: Ol Pejeta Conservancy to Nairobi - Kenya

This last day we depart after breakfast to the airstrip to arrive in time for your scheduled flight back to Nairobi where you arrive in the afternoon, marking the end of your Kenya South-North Safari Combo!