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Day 1: Nairobi – Aberdares

Meals: Dinner

Accommodation: overnight at the Ark lodge

Depart Nairobi for the Aberdares National Park. We arrive at your base hotel, the Aberdare Country Club, in time for lunch. Aberdare country club is located on the slopes of Mweiga Hill. After  lunch, be transferred to the Ark Tree Lodge which is built in the shape of Noah's Ark. The Ark overlooks a floodlit waterhole and salt lick, which attracts a host of awesome wildlife.

The Aberdare National Park animals include the Lion, Leopard, African elephant, African Hunting Dog, Giant Forest Hog, Bushbuck, Mountain Reedbuck, Waterbuck, Cape Buffalo, Suni, Side-Striped Jackal, Eland, Duikers Olive Baboon, Black and White Colobus Monkey and Sykes Monkey. Rarer sightings include those of the Golden Cat and the Bongo - an elusive forest antelope that lives in the bamboo forest.

Day 2: Aberdares  - Lake Nakuru

Meals: Dinner

Accommodation: overnight at the lodge

Breakfast, depart Aberdares National Park and proceed to Lake Nakuru Park, regarded by avid birders' as the greatest World ornithological spectacle on the Earth. The Park is famous for its millions of pink flamingoes lining on the lake shore.

Arrive mid morning at Lake Nakuru for a game drive en route before checking-in at your lodge for Lunch. A spectacular afternoon game drive is planned. The Park is also Sanctuary to the Black Rhino, White Rhino and the Rothschild Giraffe.

Bird life include common species like the lesser and Greater Flamingoes, African fish Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Green Wood Hoopoes, Cliff Chat, Great White and Pink Backed Pelicans plus other intra- African Migrants.

Day 3: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara

Meals: Dinner

Accommodation: overnight at the lodge

After a leisure breakfast at the lodge, depart overland to the Masai Mara Game Reserve–jewel of Kenya's Game Park.

This enormous Reserve actually part of the vast Serengeti plains is famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest migration and is a true home of the big five-Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Rhino and Cape Buffalo. After lunch, explore the Reserve on a late afternoon game drive.

Day 4: Masai Mara

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Accommodation: overnight at the lodge.

The Masai Mara is one of the greatest wildernesses of the world. Morning and afternoon game drives are planned. Large mammals are varied, abundant and easy to see.

Residents among the parks mammals are; Masai Giraffe, Buffalo, Impala, Zebra, Topi, both the Thomson's and Grant's Gazelles. Optional hot Air Balloon rides are available on this day at an additional cost. On this final day in the Mara, you also have an opportunity to visit an authentic Masai village.

Day 5: Masai Mara -Nairobi

Begin today with an early morning  game drive followed by breakfast at your lodge. Depart back to Nairobi. Upon arrival transfer to hotel or international airport or agreed destination ending your memorable safari with us.

Day 1: Become an Honorary Maasai

Begin the day with a drive into the magnificent Maasai heartland where you will be met by one of the Maasai village elders, Daniel. He will take you on a tour to explain how the Maasai have managed these precious lands for centuries, and you watch the daily cattle drive and learn about some of the local plants used to make medicinal remedies. Then sit down with some young Maasai warriors, or morans, who describe various aspects of their fascinating rites of passage, and who will teach you how to throw a traditional spear or even how to climb an acacia thorntree in the event there is danger from predators in the bush. In the afternoon you will spend some time with the Maasai women of the village who will show you the techniques of weaving the frame of a new manyatta –a traditional Maasai homestead.

Day 2: Maasai Life in Focus

Begin the day back at the village by learning the traditional Maasai welcome with singing and dancing, which might include the extraordinary jumping dance, or ‘adumu’ which is how Maasai warriors demonstrate theirprowess. Your host for the day has 52 siblings and his father has 6 wives; a starkly different kind of community structure to the one we are familiar with. Use the time to get to know your host and ask the questions you might have, and enjoy the humour and warm nature of the villagers as you discover that they are just as interested in your life as you are in theirs. After a traditional Maasai lunch, you enjoy some more dance lessons and sit with the women to learn how to make some traditional beaded jewellery, and then head out to help some of the community members finish the manyatta build.

One Horizon Team Dinner

On the evening of Day 1, we enjoy dinner at a restaurant the locals love in Nairobi – we always have lots of fun and it’s a great opportunity to discuss and ask us all the questions that come to mind about the various communities and projects we visit.