7 Days Best Kenya Family Safari Adventure
7 Days Best Kenya Family Safari Adventure explores the best national parks and reserves. A family friendly safari package for kids of all ages and the camps and lodges are carefully selected to give your family the best safari experience.
The National Parks and Reserves
The Amboseli National Park
On the 7 Days Best Kenya Family Safari Adventure, a game drives in Amboseli National Park is surreal. It’s a well preserved and protected national park where you’ll be able to enjoy scenic wildlife drives and sensational views of Mt Kilimanjaro. This national park is a treat for wildlife enthusiasts and bird lovers alike. You’ll see three of Kenya’s Big Five (elephants, lions, and buffaloes) and a diversity of wildlife including zebras, cheetahs, hyenas, giraffes, hippos. Amboseli National park is world renown for its large herds of elephants with the snow capped peak of Africa’s highest mountain, the Kilimanjaro. It is a treat for the whole family as you get up close to the elephants and your safari guide explains about the gentle giants behaviour and their important role as a keystone species. The Swamps that get their water from the Kilimanjaro provide water throughout the year thus Amboseli is an all year safari destination except April and May when its rainy season and the wildlife tends to stay mostly out of the park.
Ideal places you can stay with your family on the 7 Days Best Family Safari in Kenya Adventure:
Kibo Safari Camp
Amboseli Serena Lodge
Sentrim Amboseli
Lake Naivasha, the Outdoors experience
Lake Naivasha is close to Naivasha town which is a bustling town in Nakuru County, home to a mul ticultural collection of Kenya’s tribes and settlers. The Maasai settled around the lake in the 15th century, and in the 16th century the Kikuyu tribe arrived. Kikuyus comprise the majority of Naivasha’s population. In the 19th century many European colonists moved to Naivasha. Today their ancestors make up a large majority of the local population. There are also a few settlers from Somalia who settled in the town in the early 20th century. Naivasha has a thriving agricultural industry primarily focusing on floriculture, with thousands of greenhouses full of flowers in the area this is the largest flower-producing region in Kenya. Around the Lake there are many activities for the family on the 7 Days Best Family Safari Adventure in Kenya. There are motor powered boats, they get you close to hippos, watch the fish eagles fish and the pied kingfishers hover in the air amongst other birds. On land visit the sanctuary farm for a horse ride, enjoy the wildlife from the back of a horse getting very close to giraffes and zebras. At Lake Naivasha on your 7 Days Best Family Safari adventure you can explore the crescent Island and learn more about the smaller creatures of mother nature, walk amongst the giraffes, zebras and wildebeests.
Hells Gate National Park
Despite its unusual name, Hell’s Gate is one of the best national parks in the Southern Rift Valley that you will have an option of exploring on the 7 Days Best Kenya Family Safari Adventure. It’s smaller than other Kenyan parks (68 sq km and 1900m above sea level) and has less wildlife but offers the most unique experience for 7 days kenya family vacation – bike riding amid herbivorous wildlife. This is the only national park in East Africa that allows bike riding and rock climbing within its parameters making it ideal for kenya family safari. There’s nothing that compares to riding beside herds of zebras and gazelles grazing through acacia trees, observing graceful giraffes, watching warthogs dashing across the terrain or monkeys playing. Look out for Fischer’s Tower, a 22m rock formation forged by fused volcanic lava. This is a pivotal spot for rock climbing.
The best bicycle trail spans 6km from the entrance to the Ol Njorowa Gorge. Get a local Maasai guide at the gorge’s entrance. This is their ancestral land and they are its cultural custodians.
Best Places to Stay on the 7 Days Kenya Family Safari Adventure in Naivasha.
Naivasha Sopa Lodge
Naivasha Simba Lodge
Sawela
Lake Naivasha Resort
The Great Masai Mara
Masai Mara is Kenya’s premier wildlife area, most well known attraction and stage of one of nature’s greatest shows, the annual wildebeest migration. We get to explore this phenomenon place on the 7 Days Kenya Family Safari Adventure. Masai Mara is named for the original inhabitants and custodians of the land, the Nilotic Maasai people, who are historically pastoralists and semi-nomadic. Maasais are one of Kenya’s most culturally influential communities you’ll find that many Kenyan towns and natural landmarks have Maa names – and the community has managed to protect most of its ancient customs and identity to this day.
There are over 300 camps and lodges in the greater Masai Mara area, which includes the Masai Mara National Reserve, private conservancies and areas just outside park gates.
It has the highest concentration of wildlife in East Africa and you can spot the big five, that is, the Elephant, the rhino, the leopard, the buffalo and the Lion. The dotted plains offer diverse micro ecosystem enabling it to host a wide variety of species. July to October marks the wildebeest migration period and there is alot of action from the cats and herbivores as well as the wildebeest are keystone species in the Serengeti Masai mara ecosystem.
Itinerary
On day one we leave Nairobi early in the morning and head south to the home of Africa’s gentle giants, the African elephant. We arrive camp/lodge in time for lunch and later on head for our evening game drive. This is the best place to observe the behavior and enjoy watching the magnificent creatures, in fact most of what we know today has been researched in this conservation area by Dr. Cynthia Moss of Amboseli elephant trust.
Its day two at the royal court of Africa’s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro. Our itinerary is flexible and we have the option of doing half day game drives and later again in the afternoon after a lunch break. Amboseli National park is the best place to see big herds of elephant. The swamps attract this magnificent creature that find themselves living in this vast semi-arid ecosystem. The dusty plains also play host to cheetahs and lions amongst the big cats. On early morning game drives, you have a higher chance of seeing the rarer mammals like the honey badger, African wildcat, African civet amongst others. Thus, we always recommend our guests leave camp or lodge at the earliest legal times with packed breakfast to catch the morning serenity. The thought of the beautiful African sunrise in the open plains and breakfast in the wild with enchanting views should be motivation enough to make you jump out of bed early. . In Amboseli conservation area we also have the dry lake Amboseli that offers quit good elephant photography opportunities as well as other herbivores that you may come across in the vast dry lake bed. Amboseli also offer unmatched photography opportunities, the golden light spiced with the dust as the animals move into and out of the swamp in the morning and in the evening, which happens to be their daily migration routine. Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge
We Leave Amboseli early in the morning and head to Lake Naivasha. We make a stop stop at the East African section of the great rift valley view point. It is a geologic wonder of the world. A fracture on the earths in the earth’s surface. Enjoy views of a stratovolcano, Mount Longonot,with a 8x12 km caldera is quit a sight to behold. Drive on further past the small Italian catholic church built in 1942 during the second world war, the Italians were prisoners of war and Kenya at that time was still a British colony until 1963. We arrive in time for lunch then later after a brief rest head out for the afternoons activities. We begin with the boat ride, about one hour in the only fresh water lake in the Kenyan rift valley that is home to hippos and over 400 bird species. Get pied kingfishers in action, the African fish eagle busy looking for the all-important protein source, the fish. Common carp is the most common fish here. Later we go out for a horse ride or nature walk depending on your preference at the crescent island or the sanctuary farm. You can also do a bike ride as you watch wildlife, you will have a guide with you. You can choose to explore the hells gate national park, walk amongst giraffes’ zebras warthog “pumba”. Visit and explore the hells gate gorge as you examine obsidian rocks and hot springs in the gorge. Later on, return to the relaxing ambience of your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Leave Naivasha early in the morning and head to the Masai Mara with several stops enroute, Reach the Mara in perfect time for lunch and later leave for the evening game drive in search of the big cats of Masai mara, the lions, leopards cheetahs elephants’ rhinos and other species of elephants. The Masai mara national reserve offer unrivalled opportunities for big cat sightings. Check back to the camp /lodge for dinner and overnight.
We have a very flexible itinerary and game drives are tailored to your interests with our experienced professional safari guide. Early morning game drive with picnic breakfast gets you higher probabilities of catching the sunrise, animals whilst they are still active. The morning serenity is just unexplainable, you just have to experience. Explore more of the spotted savannah with its diverse landscapes as to capture beautiful animals, with your lenses. The Mara river where river crossings happen in July August September is the main water body snaking its way through this paradise. Hippopotamus and the Nile crocodile call this home and it’s the best place I the reserve to catch a glimpse of them as they warm themselves in the river banks. Other rivers include the talek river and smaller tributaries like sekenani river. The sand river is another picturesque area at the Masai mara and it is right at the border with the endless plains, the Serengeti. All these as our safari guide explains more about nature as it unfolds right in front of you, getting you the best angles for that shot! After a fulfilling adventurous day, you retire back to your strategically located safari camp/lodge for sumptuous dinner and overnight
Full Day spent exploring the great plains of the Masai Mara
After early breakfast we head out for our Last game drive. Capture silhouettes of topis , giraffe elephant or even lucky a male lion silhouette. After an exciting morning game drive, we drive back to Nairobi
