Family Safaris

A one-week safari with a difference!

Designed specially for families, this holiday offers comfortable accommodation and activities for the children. Beginning with some unforgettable animal encounters near Nairobi, your wildlife safari continues to 2 very different reserves, rich with game - Samburu and the Maasai Mara. There is an option of a beach holiday afterwards. After a night at the Mayfair Holiday Inn, with its attractive tropical gardens and two swimming-pools for the children to enjoy, we will take you for a day to meet baby elephants and rare giraffe.

The Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage overlooking Nairobi National Park, cares for African Elephant and Black Rhino orphans - from all over Kenya and farther afield - rearing and socializing them before eventually releasing them back into the wild. As the expert handlers introduce the lively orphans and feeding time begins, you will have a close encounter with these delightful little creatures which come up to visitors to be stroked.

Before lunch at the Karen Blixen Restaurant, we also visit the nearby Giraffe Centre. From its tree-house balconies you can look these graceful mammals in the eye. The giraffes at the Centre are so at ease with their human visitors that they will happily eat from your hand! After another night at Mayfair, we transfer you for a 1 hour flight to Samburu National Park, set amidst a chessboard of spectacular rocky hills on the edge of Kenya's arid North Eastern province. Samburu boasts wildlife not found in many other Kenyan parks - Reticulated Giraffe, Gravy’s Zebra (larger with narrow stripes) the long-necked gerenuk gazelle and the blue-legged Somali Ostrich as well as elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah and other African wildlife species. In the morning and evening you may also have views of distant Mt Kenya. You will stay 2 nights at Samburu Intrepid, where your game drives are with expert guides in 4x4 safari vehicles (not vans), and the children can take part in their Adventurers’ Club activities.

Samburu National Park and the Maasai Mara are owned and managed by local councils on behalf of the respective Samburu and Maasai communities, with park entry fees going towards amenities such as schools and medical facilities for the local people. Your safari then takes you by light aircraft direct to the legendary Maasai Mara, with its rolling hills and life-bringing rivers. Mara Intrepid is your home for 2 nights, set on the banks of the Talek River. From here you will go on game drives in the reserve, again in 4x4 safari vehicles and with excellent guides. The Mara is renowned for its population of lions and of course, the annual wildebeest migration, not to mention an abundance of plains game and gazelles. If you are interested in birdlife, the Mara holds a vast array of species and several migrants from Europe over-winter here.

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