10 DAYS SKY SAFARI KENYA
NAIROBI . AMBOSELI . LOISABA . MASAI MARA

Day 1: Nairobi

• Land in Nairobi, where we’ll fast-track you through the international airport and deliver you quickly to Hemingways Nairobi Hotel.
  • Relax in your elegant plantation-style room with far-reaching views from the foot of the Ngong Hills.
• Dinner at Hemingways Nairobi.

Day 2: Nairobi and Amboseli National Park

• Breakfast and briefing at hotel
• SkySafari private ground transfer to Nairobi – Wilson Airport for your flight to Amboseli National Park
• Lunch at Elewana Tortilis Camp
  • Enjoy a hearty lunch in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro. Tortilis has been key in developing community-owned conservancies, where land outside national parks is secured for wildlife preservation. It’s beneficial for animals and local people, and for you too – encounters with big game here tend to be higher quality, more frequent, more electrifying.
• Afternoon game drive
  • As you head out on your afternoon game drive, you’re unlikely to see anyone else, just prolific wildlife: from huge herds of habituated elephant (Tortilis’ guides know all the elephant families and their histories) to cape buffalo and hyena, giraffe and zebra, and over 600 species of birds.
• Dinner at camp

Accommodation: Elewana Tortilis Camp
Gold Eco-rated, 100% solar powered Elewana Tortilis Camp is set away from the rest, on the pristine southwest border, with the best mountain views and full access to both Amboseli and an exclusive private conservancy, where game walks, bush breakfasts and off-road driving are allowed. 

Day 3: Amboseli National Park

• Early morning game drive
  •  It will be worth the 5am wake-up to get out for that morning game drive when the plains are a-stir, the animals most active, the big cats returning from a night on the hunt. These are also the golden hours for photographers, as dawn light rose-tints the savannah and Kilimanjaro is most likely to be free of cloud.
• After a wild start, enjoy a lavish bush breakfast, served out amid the acacia trees.
• There’s time to relax back at camp – with a swim, a massage, a good book in the sun – before a buffet lunch.
• Walking safari
  • The local guides, who know almost every blade grass, will lead you on a walking safari where you will follow animal tracks and taste bush herbs.
• Scenic Sundowners in the bush
  • This is African’s version of Happy Hour with the most spectacular of views. Nothing says safari like an ice-cool G&T, sipped as the sun disappears.
• Private dinner at camp

Accommodation: Elewana Tortilis Camp

Day 4: Amboseli National Park and Loisaba Conservancy, Laikipia 

• Breakfast at camp
• Morning game drive
  • Venture out in the camp’s custom-designed 4WDs for one last game drive – one last chance to see Amboseli’s big cats, big herds, big drama.
• Departure to Amboseli airstrip for a seamless and spectacular flight to Loisaba Conservancy on the Laikipia Plateau.
  • With the second-highest density of wildlife in the country and a groundbreaking attitude to conservation, this is one of the most exciting destinations in Kenya.
• Game drive en-route to Loisaba Tented Camp
  • The transfer from airstrip to Loisaba Tented Camp doubles as a game drive. Laikipia is one of only a few places in Africa where wildlife numbers are on the increase, and a huge array of animals – from the Big Five to endangered Grevy’s zebra – might be spotted.
• Arrive at camp in time for drinks and dinner

Accommodation: Elewana Loisaba Tented Camp
Gold Eco-rated Loisaba Tented Camp sits perched on the edge of an escarpment, with unhindered views over rolling river valleys, rich forests and open plains to Mt Kenya. Intimate and elegant in design, the camp is also a hub for cutting-edge conservation.

Day 5: Loisaba Conservancy, Laikipia

• Walking Safari with traditional Samburu guides
  • A Samburu guide will lead you on an early walk, so you can watch, smell, feel the bush wake up.
• Take breakfast back at camp, then enjoy some down time, relaxing on the decking or dipping in one of Africa’s most astonishing infinity pools.
• Lunch at camp before heading out on an activity of your choice.
  • Head out on a game drive for more marvellous wildlife-spotting.
  • Or try casting a line in Loisaba’s great rivers.
  • Or pay a visit to the conservancy headquarters to meet the sniffer dogs and the anti-poaching team to find out how they safeguard the wilderness.
• Sundowners in the bush before returning to camp for dinner

Accommodation: Elewana Loisaba Tented Camp

Day 6: Loisaba Conservancy, Laikipia

• Morning – choice of game drive, horse/camelback exploration or bush running/trekking
  • Choose how your day begins. Embark on another game drive for more animal spotting.
  • Or be joined by your Samburu guide for a bush walk – or run for the fitter ones.
  • Or head out on an outing on horse or camel back – an exhilarating way to get unusually close to wild animals.
• Breakfast in the bush followed by a spa treatment and linger over lunch.
• Afternoon game drive
  • Loisaba is an important migration area for Laikipia’s huge elephant population, so excellent sightings are frequent; unusual species such as greater kudu and beisa oryx are found here too.
• Dinner at camp before retiring for the night with an option of Elewana Loisaba Star Beds
  • Poised on a rocky kopje, Elewana Loisaba Star Beds – sister property to the Tented Camp – offers the chance to sleep outside in style. Roll your rustic four-poster out onto the verandah, lay back and look up at the endless, unpolluted, star-spangled African sky.

Accommodation: Elewana Loisaba Star Beds or Elewana Loisaba Tented Camp
Elewana Loisaba Star Beds adds something extra to your already exciting adventure. Sister property to Loisaba Tented Camp, Star Beds comprises just four rooms, each with a four-poster that can be wheeled out onto a panoramic veranda overlooking a rippling valley and a permanent waterhole, to allow sophisticated sleeping under the most glittering canopy of stars. 

Day 7: Loisaba Conservancy, Laikipia & Masai Mara National Reserve

• Breakfast at camp
• Game drive en-route to Loisaba airstrip
  • Scour this astonishing wilderness one last time on your game-drive ride to Loisaba’s airstrip.
• SkySafari flight to the world famous Masai Mara and hopping on your next game drive en-route to Sand River Masai Mara Camp
  • Your ride from the airstrip to Sand River Masai Mara Camp, a secluded spot in the southern area of reserve, is your first game drive in this African icon: the matchless Masai Mara. Don’t be surprised if you meet most of the Big Five before lunch.
• Lunch at camp followed by afternoon game drive
  • Keep your eyes peeled for lion, leopard and cheetah, hyena, giraffe and elephant, and 500-plus species of bird.
• Sundowners in the bush following by dinner back at camp

Accommodation: Elewana Sand River Masai Mara
The exclusive Sand River Masai Mara Camp, hidden far away from other lodges in the Masai Mara National Reserve, is big on game, big on glamour. Exuding 1920s elegance – the classic era of African adventure – it was named one of the 50 Best Resorts in the World in the 2020 Condé Nast Traveller Readers’ Choice Awards. Overlooking its namesake river, the camp sits right on the annual migration route, so the drama may play out just beyond your verandah.

Day 8: Masai Mara National Reserve

• Early breakfast at camp and a full day game drive
  • After a dawn breakfast, set off with a packed picnic hamper for a full day’s game drive, so you can delve deeper into the reserve. Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more abundant.
• Picnic hamper lunch served in the bush followed by a Masai village visit
  • Much of the Greater Mara-Serengeti Ecosystem falls under the ownership of Masai communities, and a village visit – to see traditional Maasai homes and rituals, or even (for the kids) to try warrior training – makes for an eye-opening afternoon. There’s also the chance to visit a local school supported by Land & Life Foundation so you can see its work in action.
• Dinner under the stars at camp

Accommodation: Elewana Sand River Masai Mara

Day 9: Masai Mara National Reserve

• Early morning game drive
  • This morning’s game drive will seek out big cats and small birds, roaming wildebeest and rare black rhino – the Mara is a stronghold for these increasingly rare creatures.
• Bush breakfast followed by lunch at camp with free and easy time in between
• Afternoon game drive
  • By now you’ll be at one with the rhythms of the wilderness. You’ll have seen so much, though there’s always more – and the camp’s expert guides will ensure you don’t miss a thing.
• Sundowners in the bush followed by a farewell dinner.
  • Anticipate the most dazzling of endings: a private table, set up in the wilderness, for dinner under the stars.

Accommodation: Elewana Sand River Masai Mara

Day 10: Masai Mara National Reserve & Nairobi

• Breakfast at camp and transfer back to Keekorok airstrip for your flight to Wilson Airport, Nairobi
  • Enjoy your last few hours, gazing out from camp across the watercourse and riverine forest, looking out for breakfasting beasts and birds, before driving back to the airstrip for your final SkySafari flight to Nairobi.
• SkySafari private ground transfer to Hemingways Nairobi Hotel for the afternoon where a day room will be available for you to freshen up and enjoy that last ice-cold Tusker before flying home.
• SkySafari private ground transfer to Kenyatta International Airport for outbound flight

Why not stay a little longer?
We know that Africa is apt to get under your skin; you probably won’t want to leave. So we’re happy to help you extend your stay beyond our regular SkySafaris, in whatever way you choose.