Safaris from Mombasa

Day 1: MOMBASA – MASAI MARA

Our driver will pick you up from your hotel or place of residence and take you to Moi International Airport or Ukunda Airstrip where you will check in for your flight to Maasai Mara Game Reserve.

Your flight takes off in the morning and fly west past Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, and on over the Rift Valley, to Kenya’s reknowned game reserve, the Masai Mara, arriving around 10:30 hrs.

A minibus will be on hand at the airstrip to transfer you to your chosen camp/lodge, with a short game drive enroute.

A lunch awaits you on arrival at the camp/lodge.

After lunch, you will be taken on an extensive afternoon game drive in this hauntingly beautiful game reserve, perhaps Africa’s greatest wildlife sanctuary.

Return to the camp or lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

DAY 2: MASAI MARA

If you want to do the Hot Air Balloon Safari, this is an excellent day to do it. In the event that you are not interested and/or you have opted to do the normal game drives, you will still start the day with an early morning game viewing drive and return to the camp/lodge for breakfast.

Be on the lookout for the wildbeasts and zebras ‘running scared to nowhere in particular’ as well as for the many species of game, including the lion, the elephant, rhino, hippo, giraffe, cheetah, and leopards that have made this reserve their home.

This is one morning you may wish the heavens stood still especially if the migration is on. You will still have another game drive in the afternoon, before returning to the camp / lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 3: MASAI MARA – MOMBASA

An early morning game drive will be a welcome outing after an eventful night in this African ‘dreamland’. Return to the camp for breakfast. Time allowing, you may have another short midmorning game drive. Return to the camp/lodge for lunch.

Thereafter, you will be dropped off at the airstrip where a light aircraft takes you back to Mombasa / Ukunda. Our driver will be on hand to receive you and take you back to your hotel or place of residence.

• Depart from your hotel at 05:00 hrs and drive along the Mombasa – Nairobi road to the Tsavo East National Park.
• Short stopover before entering the park via Bachuma gate and embark on your first game viewing in search of Elephants, Man eaters of Tsavo, Buffalos, Cheetah, Giraffe, Antelopes etc.
• Visit the famous Aruba dam where lots of game can be found especially during the dry season.
• Later proceed to a restaurant for lunch.
• After Lunch, leave for another game drive in this largest National Park in the country before your exit.
• Have a chance to see the Big Five in this one day trip. There are also numerous numbers of small and big game and different bird species to spot.
• Later drive out of the park and proceed back to Mombasa. You will arrive late in the afternoon in your hotel.

DAY 1: MOMBASA – TSAVO EAST/SALT LICK

• Making an early morning start, you will drive on the Mombasa-Nairobi highway, to enter the Tsavo East National Park through the Bachuma gate.
• The morning part of your game drive in this park includes a visit to the Aruba dam, a popular man-made watering hole for game and one of the best places to view and photograph this park’s resident game.
• Lunch will be at a camp / lodge, mainly situated at the heart of the elephant country, where the natural water hole attracts big game including lion, cheetah, buffalo, waterbuck and a variety of birds from miles around.
• After lunch, you will drive through Tsavo to the Sarova Taita Hills Lodge, adjacent to the Tsavo West Park for check in and proceed on a short afternoon game viewing drive in the Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary.
• Early evening, you will be transferred to your lodge elevated on stilts and linked by raised walkways above ground commanding spectacular views of the flood-lit waterholes and surrounding grasslands, where elephant and buffalo can be seen throughout much of the year.
• An underground tunnel and chamber allows guests to closely and safely view wildlife at ground level. Dinner and overnight at the Sarova Saltlick Lodge.

DAY 2: SALT LICK – MOMBASA

• The following morning you will leave for an early morning game drive in this spectacular wildlife sanctuary before taking breakfast at the lodge.
• After breakfast you will check out and we leave for a game drive en-route back to Sarova Taita Hills Lodge.
• Here you will take your lunch and thereafter we will depart and drive down to Mombasa arriving at your hotel in the early evening.

DAY 1: MOMBASA – TSAVO EAST

• You will depart in the morning from your respective hotel for our inland journey via the Mombasa – Nairobi highway. The journey takes you to the Southern entry point of the Bachuma gate where we stop briefly for refreshments. We hope to view some game on our way to the camp / lodge. After check-in, we will freshen up and enjoy a buffet lunch.
• We relax and adjust to the environment before leaving the afternoon game drive when the wild comes alive after the midday heat. We transverse the park, looking out for game, enjoying the scenery and taking in the splendor as the african sun sets.
• Your driver guides you through the tracks returning us to our camp / lodge for our evening meals and overnight.

DAY 2: TSAVO EAST – AMBOSELI

• We will start the day with an early breakfast before setting off for Amboseli with an exit game drive. After check in lunch will be taken at the camp / lodge. We freshen up and relax before venturing out for a short game drive, before the darkness sets in.
• Game is easily visible here with the domineering Mount Kilimanjaro offering the ultimate scenic background for amateur and professional photography. What you didn’t see at Tsavo East hopefully will be found here. You will enjoy your night at your camp / lodge.

DAY 3: AMBOSELI – MOMBASA

• We will be up early again! – The sunrise and emergence of the mountain peak from the clouds is dramatic. We will marvel at this scenario as we enjoy our breakfast.
• We will depart the park with an en-route game drive, to re-join the Nairobi – Mombasa highway and proceed to the Coast with a stopover for lunch. We will arrive in the early evening. Drop off at our respective hotels.

Day 1 Mombasa – Tsavo East – Tsavo West

• Our driver will pick you up from your hotel early in the morning. You will drive along the Mombasa – Nairobi road to the Tsavo East National Park. Enter the park via  Bachuma gate. After entering the gate we are in search of the Big five. You visit also the famous Aruba dam where lots of game can be seen.
• Later we drive to a place where we take our lunch. After lunch drive to Tsavo West National Park with game viewing en-route to Ngulia Rhino sanctuary. Dinner and overnight will be at your camp / lodge in Tsavo West.

Day 2: Tsavo West – Mombasa

• We start the day with an early morning game drive before breakfast. Thereafter leave for the mid-morning game drive which includes a visit to Mzima springs where Hippos, Crocodiles, different species of fish and birds can be seen.
• Proceed with your game drive visiting the Shetani lava flow where you will be able to see the Africa’s highest snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro from a distance, if the weather is good.  Return to your lodge for lunch. After lunch we drive back to Mombasa where you will arrive late in the afternoon.

Day 1 Mombasa – Tsavo East – Tsavo West

• Our driver will pick you up from your hotel early in the morning. You will drive along the Mombasa – Nairobi road to the Tsavo East National Park. Enter the park via  Bachuma gate. After entering the gate we are in search of the Big five. You visit also the famous Aruba dam where lots of game can be seen.
• Later we drive to a place where we take our lunch. After lunch drive to Tsavo West National Park with game viewing en-route to Ngulia Rhino sanctuary. Dinner and overnight will be at your camp / lodge in Tsavo West.

Day 2: Tsavo West – Mombasa

• We start the day with an early morning game drive before breakfast. Thereafter leave for the mid-morning game drive which includes a visit to Mzima springs where Hippos, Crocodiles, different species of fish and birds can be seen.
• Proceed with your game drive visiting the Shetani lava flow where you will be able to see the Africa’s highest snow capped Mount Kilimanjaro from a distance, if the weather is good.  Return to your lodge for lunch. After lunch we drive back to Mombasa where you will arrive late in the afternoon.