Explore Amboseli, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and the Masai Mara on this ten-night Kenya safari, moving from elephant herds beneath Kilimanjaro to rhino tracking on foot and the wildebeest migration.
11 days
|From $18,000 pp
Explore Amboseli, the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and the Masai Mara on this ten-night Kenya safari, moving from elephant herds beneath Kilimanjaro to rhino tracking on foot and the wildebeest migration.
This itinerary moves through three of Kenya’s most distinct safari ecosystems across ten nights, beginning in Nairobi and tracking south to Amboseli, north to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, and west to the Masai Mara. Each area holds a different set of species, a different landscape, and a different way of experiencing the bush.
Amboseli is built around elephant and the silhouette of Kilimanjaro on the horizon. Lewa is built around rhino, conservation, and foot access in a fenced private conservancy that holds 14 percent of Kenya’s entire rhino population. The Masai Mara is built around the Great Migration and the density of predators that follow the herds across the Mara River between July and October.
The three areas are connected by light aircraft rather than road, keeping the time between ecosystems short and the time in them long. Do Not Disturb designs the full ten nights around what each area produces at its best and what you want to take from the journey as a whole.
Your journey begins in Nairobi, where your driver meets you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transfers you to your accommodation in the city. Most international flights from the US connect through a Middle Eastern or European hub, with direct services from New York on Kenya Airways and connections from major US cities via Amsterdam, London, Dubai, and Doha.
Nairobi is more than a transit point. The city sits at the center of Kenya’s conservation network and offers a concentrated set of wildlife and cultural experiences within 45 minutes of the airport.
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust elephant nursery, the Giraffe Center, and Giraffe Manor can all be combined within a single morning or afternoon, making a night here a worthwhile start to the journey rather than simply a connection to the bush.
A scheduled flight from Wilson Airport carries you south to Amboseli in approximately 30 minutes. The approach over the Rift Valley gives the first view of the landscape below, flat open plains stretching south toward the Tanzanian border with Kilimanjaro rising behind them.
Amboseli National Park sits at the foot of Kilimanjaro on the Kenya-Tanzania border and is considered the best place in Africa for close encounters with free-ranging elephant. The park holds some of the most studied elephant populations on Earth, with research conducted by the Amboseli Elephant Research Project tracking individual animals and family groups across five decades.
Your base for three nights is chosen for its position on a private concession bordering the park, with access to both the concession and the national park for game drives. Morning drives cover the marsh areas where elephant congregate in large numbers and lion, leopard, cheetah, and buffalo are regularly encountered.
Kilimanjaro clears most reliably in the early morning before the cloud builds, and the pre-dawn game drive is timed around that window. Walks on the concession, cultural visits to the Maasai community whose land borders the park, and bush dining in the field are available throughout the stay.
A light aircraft transfer carries you north to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy, a 62,000-acre private conservancy at the base of Mount Kenya holding 14 percent of Kenya’s entire rhino population, both black and white, alongside the full Big Five, Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, wild dog, cheetah, and over 450 bird species.
Lewa began as a cattle ranch in the 1920s and converted to conservation from 1983, when the Craig family established a rhino sanctuary in response to Kenya’s poaching crisis. By 1995 the entire ranch had converted, and its merger with the adjacent Borana Conservancy has since created a 93,000-acre rangeland considered one of the most successful conservation models in East Africa.
Three nights allows the itinerary to cover the full range of what Lewa offers. Game drives operate morning and evening across terrain that shifts from open grassland to riverine forest and the edge of the Ngare Ndare Forest.
Walking safaris with an armed ranger and Maasai tracker cover ground the vehicle cannot reach. Night drives extend the activity after dark. Rhino are encountered on foot and by vehicle, and the tracker’s knowledge of individual animals and their movement patterns is what makes the encounter something beyond a standard sighting
A light aircraft transfer carries you west to the Masai Mara, the northern extension of the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem and the location for the final four nights. The reserve covers 1,510 square kilometers along the Tanzanian border, and the private conservancies bordering it to the north and west extend the protected area with the added freedom of off-road driving and night drives not permitted within the reserve itself.
Your base for four nights sits within one of these conservancies, chosen for its position relative to the Mara River and its access to the migration corridors the wildebeest use between July and October. The conservancy setting allows the guide to follow wildlife off established tracks and operate without the vehicle pressure that builds around the reserve’s most productive sighting areas during peak season.
Game drives operate morning, afternoon, and into the evening. The Mara River crossing, when wildebeest move between Tanzania and Kenya, is the most sought-after event of the migration season, and the guide positions the vehicle based on where the herds have been concentrating in the preceding days. Between crossings, the conservancy holds lion, leopard, cheetah, elephant, buffalo, giraffe, hippo, and crocodile year-round.
A private hot air balloon flight over the Mara at dawn is included in the itinerary, timed around the migration season and followed by a champagne breakfast on the plains at landing.
A light aircraft transfer from the Mara connects to Wilson Airport in Nairobi, from where international connections operate via Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Flight time from Nairobi to most European hubs is between eight and nine hours.
Connections to the US operate the same day via Amsterdam, London, Dubai, or Doha.
The itinerary can be extended with additional nights in the Mara, a coastal addition in Diani or Watamu, or a connection north to Samburu.
Ready to plan your Kenya safari across Amboseli, Lewa, and the Masai Mara? Speak with Do Not Disturb to begin your journey.
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