Day 1
Upon arrival in Nairobi, proceed through Immigration and Customs. After exiting the Customs & Immigration Hall, please look out for a uniformed Big Five Tours & Safari’s driver/guide holding a Big Five Banner with your name, group name or tour name on it. Our Guide will assist you with your luggage and transfer you to the Norfolk Hotel. Later there will be a safari briefing.
OVERNIGHT BED & BREAKFAST...................... NORFOLK HOTEL OR SIMILAR

Day 2
Leaving Nairobi, drive north passing through coffee, sisal and pinapple plantations head the highlands. Neasted on the slopes of Mweiga  Hill in a 1,300 acer wildlife sanctuary. The Aberdare Country Club welcomes you for a sumptuous lunch. Here you’ll store your luggage and take a small overnight bag with you to the Ark. After lunch you’ll depart on special busses into the thick woodlands to the Ark at the heart of the Aberdare National Park. Situated in a fairyland forest, you can stay up all night long, if you choose, game viewing from a variety of observation decks or an underground bunker. The ark is situated beside a floodlit waterhole and natural saltlick, where a constant parade of wildlife will visit throughout the night. There’s absolutely no limit to the number of animals you’ll see. Birds and bushbuck are joined by elephant, buffalo, rhino, hyena or maybe lion that may come sample the saltlick.
FULL BOARD........................................................................ THE ARK OR SIMILAR

Day 3
After breakfast, drive north, A stop at the Equator gives you a chance to take a photo with one foot in the northern and one foot in the southern hemispheres. Then you’re off to the heart of Kenya’s “Big Game” country –Sweetwaters Game Reserve. This 22,000acer private rench encompasses a rich terrain of plains, low hills and forest. Each of your luxurious thatched – roofed tents has a private veranda and overlooks a large floodlit waterhole. Your afternoon game drive gives you an opportunity to see a variety of unsual species, including the Reticulated Giraffe, Grevy’s Zebra and Beisa Oryx. Included is a visit to Jane Goodall’s chimpanzee Sanctuary.
FULL BOARD........................................................ SWEETWATERS TENTED CAMP

Day 4
This morning you’ll head for the distinguished Mt. Kenya Safari Club, one of the most exclusive clubs in the world. Set on the Equator with magnificent views of Mt. Kenya, this luxurious club spreads over 100 acres of manicured lawns, magnificent gardens and ornamental ponds which are graced by free roaming peacocks and other exotic birds. Do a little or do a lot here. For activities available include hoarse riding, tennis, golf, putting green, croquet, heated swimming pool, trout fishing, as well as an art gallery, health & beauty parlour, boutique, club shops and the William Holden Animal orphanage. TheMt. Kenya Safari Club indeed the showplace of East Africa.
FULL BOARD............................................................... MT. KENYA SAFARI CLUB

Day 5
After breakfast, drive to Nanyuki Airstrip for flight to Masai Mara. PM game drive in Maasai Mara Game Reserve – Kenya’s most precious wildlife sanctuary. Here plains game are found in staggering numbers and in turn support a tremendous predator population. Upon arrival in Maasai Mara Game Reserve, you’ll be met by the camp’s vehicle and transferred to Mara Safari Club.
FULL BOARD..................................................... MARA SAFARI CLUB OR SIMILAR

Day 6

During your morning and afternoon game drives, you’ll travel across the savannah to rendezvous with the Mara residents, herds of buffalo, wildebeest, hartebeest, impala and gazelle, Comman to the Maasi Mara is a colony of enchanting rare roan antelope with long swept back horns. Dense thorn bush reveal browsing black rhino, and near the riverine woodland large numbers of giraffe and elephants are to be seen. Hippos cavort, en masse, in the Mara River, Host to the country’s largest predator population, the reserve is renowned for lion prides up to 20 strong.
FULL BOARD.................................................... MARA SAFARI CLUB OR SIMILAR

Day 7
After breakfast, you’ll be transferred to the Airstrip where you’ll get on the flight back to Nairobi. Lunch + last minute shopping later drive to Jomo Kenyatta Airport for your onward flight.