Hertage Hotels and Game Lodges, Heritage Safari Lodges, Tours to Heritage Hotels

Claudious Tours takes its clients to the exclusive properties that are owned by Heritage Hotels offering Upmarket accommodation in the midst of the African bush.

Heritage hotels:
Kenya’s most famous hotels chain. This group of hotels provide its guests with the high-quality safari products and personal, attentive service for which East Africa is known for. Among the hotels are: -

• Great Rift Valley Lodge
• Masai Mara Explorer

CTSX 724 Kenya Heriage Hotels Tours

Day 1 - Samburu Game Reserve
Morning pick up from the hotel and drive north out of Nairobi, past business complexes and in to the open country where you will pass coffee and sisal plantations. Pass Thika (one time home of Elspeth Huxley author of Flame Trees of Thika) and the Agricultural Research Institute and on into rolling country. You turn right just before the agricultural centre of Nyeri, to drive past Mt. Kenya, stopping at the Equator for refreshment and to learn the 'magical propensities' of this line around the centre of the earth. Then drive on, dropping down the side of the mountain, to reach Isiolo, the provincial centre of the Northern Province. From here to the gates of Samburu National Park is a short way on an earth road. Arrive at the lodge for lunch.

Samburu and Buffalo Springs are the home of the unique northern species of animals, the shy gerenuk, Beisa oryx, Somali blue necked ostrich, the reticulated giraffe and Grevy's zebra as well as the large numbers of elephant and buffalo, which drink on the edge of the wide flowing Ewaso Nyiro river which runs through the Reserves. There are lion and cheetah and leopard are regularly seen on baits, which are floodlit by the main lodges.
After lunch a game drive in the reserve and return to the lodge in time for a shower before dinner and overnight at Samburu Intrepids Camp FB

Day 2 - Samburu Game Reserve
An early morning game drive alongside the river, returning to the Lodge in time for a late breakfast followed by time for relaxation. Maybe a visit to the swimming pool or an opportunity to bird watch in the grounds. After lunch a short rest, and then an afternoon game drive. The colours of the mountains are beautiful as the sun sets, and you return to the lodge in time for a shower and sundowner before dinner. Samburu Intrepids Camp FB

Day 3 - Aberdare National Park
Leaving after breakfast, you return past Mt. Kenya to Nyeri and drive to Aberdare National Park arriving in time for lunch at the Aberdare Country Club / Outspan Hotel. Thereafter transfer to the tree hotel with an overnight bag while the rest of your luggage safely kept for you at the base hotel. Animals that come to drink from the flood lit water hole are viewed from the balcony of the hotel. Dinner and overnight stay at The Ark / Treetops LDBB. NB: Warm clothing is advisable, as nights tend to be chilly.

Day 4 - Lake Naivasha
After breakfast. Depart on a scenic drive along the rim of the Great Rift Valley and turn right to climb up the Western Escarpment to arrive at the Great Rift Valley Lodge in time for lunch. The afternoon is at leisure or you may go on an escorted bird walk. Dinner and overnight at the Great Rift Valley Lodge FB

Day 5 - Maasai Mara Game Reserve
After an early breakfast, you drive along the floor of the Great Rift Valley and turn right to climb up the western escarpment wall. Continue on to the provincial centre of Narok. Drive on across the Loita Plains where grazing animals often concentrate, and then continue to enter the Maasai Mara itself. You arrive at the camp in time for lunch and in the late afternoon, your first exciting game drive in the Mara. Dinner and overnight at Mara Explorer FB

Day 6 - Maasai Mara Game Reserve
The morning and afternoon is spent enjoying game drives in the Mara.
All meals and overnight stay at Mara Explorer  FB

Day 7 - Depart
After breakfast check out and depart for Nairobi , afternoon transfer to the airport for your onward flight.

Cost includes:
-Transportation in a 7-seater mini-van
-Accommodation and meals as per program
-Park entrance fees and game drives
-Services of an English-speaking guide
- Arrival/departure transfers
-1 litre of mineral water per person per day while on safari.

Not included:
-International and local flights
-Telephone bills, drinks, laundry, tips and gratuities and any other expenses of personal nature.
-Travel and medical insurance
-Seasonal Supplements
-Any other extras not indicated in the program above.