SYM 10: 17 Nights/ 18 Days Honeymoon Kenya Seychelles

This 18 days honeymoon safari to Kenya and Seychelles takes you to all the top game parks in Kenya. Enjoy the finest African wildlife spots in Kenya and then unwind with a Seychelles holiday. While in Kenya, enjoy wildebeest migration at Masai Mara.

This Kenya holiday is one of our most comprehensive Kenya safaris, encompassing all the great highlights of this amazing country, diversity and beauty of some of Africa’s largest wildlife herds in their natural habitat and incredible scenic beauty that will leave you inspired.

Day 1: Nairobi

Our Kenyan representative will receive you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transfer you in a tourist safari van to Sankara Hotel for overnight on bed and breakfast.

Meals: Bed and Breakfast
Accommodation: Sankara Hotel

Day 2: Nairobi – Masai Mara

After breakfast, depart Nairobi and start your honeymoon safari expedition in the jewel of Kenya’s parks, the world famous Masai Mara Game (Wildlife) Reserve. Full of life with various types of animals and birds, Masai Mara crown’s the climax of every safari in Kenya. Its rolling grasslands and acacia savannah have time and again been captured on film with the movie “Out Of Africa" being the most famous. After lunch at Fairmont Mara Safari Club, set out for afternoon game drives in search of the African wildlife and the wildebeests crossing the Mara River. After dinner, enjoy the warmth of the roaring log fire before going to bed under the star filled African sky.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Fairmont Mara Safari Club

Day 3-4: Masai Mara Game Reserve

Spend the whole day in the Masai Mara plains doing game drives and also on the look out for herds of wildebeests crossing the crocodile-infested Mara River. Optional evening visit to a Masai Manyatta Village to learn the dance and culture of the Masai tribe. (You’ll pay USD35 per person per visit directly to the village)

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Fairmont Mara Safari Club

Day 5: Masai Mara – Lake Nakuru

After an early breakfast, you begin your safari to Lake Nakuru, with a stopover at Lake Naivasha, the only freshwater lake in the Rift Valley. From the top of the Rift Valley escarpment, you can see the lake sparkling under the sun thousands of feet below you. The lake is home to a large colony of hippos and it’s also a Mecca for bird watchers and researchers since over 400 different species of birds have been recorded here. An optional boat ride will be a good ideal.

After a brief stopover, you travel in a northerly direction to your next destination Lake Nakuru, which is usually dotted with pink flamingoes lining its shores. Lunch at Flamingo Hill Tented Camp and then set off for extensive game drives in Lake Nakuru, where you can expect to see leopards, lions, giraffes, a million or so of pink flamingoes as well as black or white Rhinos.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Flamingo Hill Tented Camp

Day 6: Lake Nakuru – Samburu

After breakfast, depart for Samburu Game Reserve. Make a brief stopover at Nyahururu Falls, still known to many as Thomsons Falls for its 237ft cascade. After the stopover, you drive northward through Nanyuki town, crossing the northernmost foothills of Mount Kenya, until you reach Isiolo town and then down into the thorny landscape of Samburu country.

After lunch at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge, set off for afternoon game drives in the park. This area boosts of unique northern species of wildlife which are not found in any other part south of equator, here you will find the Grevy zebra, Beisa Oryx, Reticulated Giraffe, Somali Ostrich, the long necked gerenuk, herds of elephants and their predators abound. The life-giving Uaso Nyiro River plays a major role in the ecosystem of this region.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

Day 7: Samburu

Before dawn you head out in search of Africa’s wild cats. After the game drive, you return to the lodge for breakfast and some R&R “rest and relaxation", read a book/novel, sunbathe or perhaps go for a refreshing dip in the uniquely designed swimming pool. After lunch, set off for afternoon game drives till sun set.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

Day 8: Samburu – Sweetwaters (Mount Kenya)

After breakfast, depart for Sweetwaters Tented Camp located in the exclusive Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Mt Kenya region. Lunch at your camp. You can do day and night game drives around the private conservancy, which is home for the members of the “Big Five” (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard). The conservancy has a higher wildlife-to-area ratio than any Kenyan national park and is one of only four private game conservancies to have been founded in Kenya. At the forefront of the Kenyan conservancy programme, the conservancy boasts the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa, hosts the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Kenya, and shelters large numbers of rare and endangered species.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sweetwaters Tented Camp

Day 9: Mt Kenya – Aberdares

After breakfast, depart for Aberdares National Park. Access to the park with private vehicles is limited to conserve and protect the environment, which hosts wildlife such as elephant, rhino, buffalo, bush bucks, giant forest hogs, Sykes monkey, leopard, and bongo. On arrival at the Aberdare Country Club, you’ll have lunch (cost included) and in the afternoon, you’ll be transferred to The Ark Game Lodge in the lodge’s vehicle. This tree-lodge is uniquely shaped to resemble the actual Ark, designed with decks from which numerous balconies and lounges provide superb vantage points for viewing the animals visiting the salt-lick and waterhole. A ground-level bunker at The Ark provides excellent photographic opportunities, and the Yasabara waterhole is floodlit by night to enable all-night viewing of game.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: The Ark Game Lodge

Day 10: Aberdares – Amboseli

After breakfast, a driver of The Ark Lodge will transfer you back to The Aberdare Country Club where you’ll reconnect with your driver/guide and then depart for Amboseli National Park. Buy packed lunch in Nairobi.

Beautifully situated beneath the foot of Africa’s highest mountain Mt. Kilimanjaro (5895m), Amboseli National Park is well renowned for its huge herds of elephants and various types of other Savannah wildlife such as Giraffes, Bushbuck’s, Kudu, Warthog’s, Zebra’s and over 425 species of birds recorded here. The snowcapped peak of Kilimanjaro rising above white clouds dominates every aspect of Amboseli and forms a backdrop to an impressive display of wildlife attracted to this location by swamps and springs fed by underground rivers from Kilimanjaro melting snow. Amboseli was the location around which such famous writers like Sir Ernest Hemingway and Robert Ruark tailored their stories of big game hunting in the wilds of Africa. Enjoy a game drive en-route, as you arrive in time for dinner.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Amboseli Sopa Lodge

Day 11: Amboseli

A dawn game drive will be the perfect time for photographing the humbling and magnificent Mt. Kilimanjaro the highest peak in Africa. You return to the lodge for breakfast and some R&R “rest and relaxation", sunbathing, swimming or for those of you reading enthusiasts, you can read the day away in the well-stocked library with a relaxing view of Mt. Kilimanjaro. After lunch, set out for afternoon game drives till sunset.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Amboseli Sopa Lodge

Day 12: Amboseli – Tsavo West

After breakfast, depart Amboseli through the Shaitani lava plateau to the legendary land of the “Man-Eaters" – Tsavo National Park. Enjoy your lunch at your lodge before another exciting game drive in the park. The 21,000 sq km park is one of the largest in the whole world.

This wilderness is home too over 1000 plant species, 400 bird species and more than 60 major mammal species such as lions, huge herds of buffalo, the solitary and ill-tempered Rhino and at least 7000 elephants. The park is the location of Africa’s most famous adventure story “Man eaters of Tsavo", in which two lions where responsible for eating over 500 workers who where building the Uganda railway also known as the “Lunatic Line " by it’s opponents in the British Parliament in 1898. The story was made famous in the 1996 movie “The Ghost and the Darkness."

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Kilanguni Serena Lodge

Day 13: Tsavo West – Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary

After breakfast, drive to Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary. Arrive at Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge, located in the heart of the Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary off Voi town, before lunch. All rooms overlook a waterhole and are linked by suspended walkways.

At night, the waterhole is floodlit ensuring that guests enjoy an uninterrupted view of the daily procession of thirsty wildlife that comes to water at the waterhole.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sarova Salt Lick Game Lodge

Day 14: Taita Hills – Nairobi

After breakfast, drive back to Nairobi, arriving before lunch. Complementary lunch (paid by Adventure African Jungle Ltd) at the famous Carnivore Restaurant. After lunch, transfer to Sankara Hotel for afternoon rest and overnight. The hotel has a restaurant where you can have your dinner.

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Sankara Hotel

Day 15: Nairobi – Seychelles

After breakfast in your hotel, our driver will transfer you to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to catch your 0905hrs Flight KQ 450H to Seychelles. Arrive at Mahe International Airport at 1320hrs. A representative of Constance Ephelia Resort will pick you from the airport and transfer you to their hotel. You will be accommodated in a double junior suite.

Meals: Breakfast and Dinner
Accommodation: Constance Ephelia Resort

Day 16-17: Seychelles

Spend whole days on the beaches or plan them as per your taste.