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SILVER AFRICA TOURS & SAFARIS

Airport North Rd, Nyayo Embakasi suite 88/13,
P.O.BOX 60854 code 00200 city square,
Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa
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http://www.silverafricatours.com

Colonial Kenya Safari.

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Validity: 01st March 2011 ? 15th December 2011
Minimum: 02 pax
Transportation: Minibus for Loldia and 4x4 vehicle in Mara on seat in car basis with the services of an English speaking guide
Start: Nairobi
End: Nairobi
Departures: Guaranteed daily departures

Trsf ? Transfer, BB ? Bed & Breakfast, L ? Lunch, D ? Dinner , LDBB ? Lunch, Dinner, Bed & Breakfast, E ? Early morning game drive, A ? Morning game drive, P ? Afternoon game drive, LE ? Leisure, CT ? Crater Tour, GV ? Game viewing from the lodge, FLT - Flight, ACT ? Activities

DETAILED ITINERARY

DAY 01 - ARRIVAL NAIROBI

Met upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Silver Africa Tours Representative. Assistance and transfer to The Norfolk Hotel. Rest of the day at leisure with the possibility of realizing optional excursions. Accommodation on bed and breakfast basis at The Norfolk Hotel (BB)

The exterior of The Fairmont Norfolk Hotel has changed little since the colonial era. Timbered walls covered in vines and creepers, the taxi rank with old London cabs queuing to take guests where they will, look much the same as they did in the old photographs that chart the history of Kenya. Opened on Christmas Day 1904, (and still justifiably famous for its Christmas Morning cocktail party) The Fairmont Norfolk has hosted such luminaries as Lord Delamere, Theodore Roosevelt and Karen Blixen. Now expensively refurbished the hotel still retains a sense of history. The new reception areas of the Norfolk Hotel are light, bright and immediately welcoming. Ceiling fans, cane chairs, plump animal-print cushions and deep sofas combine with locally sourced woods to create a tranquil ambience with echoes of the colonial period in which The Fairmont Norfolk featured so strongly. However, not all is new - the long case clock in the hall, for example, was presented to the hotel by the drivers in the Nairobi to Johannesburg Race on 26th October, 1936. The Ibis Restaurant, at The Fairmont Norfolk, is renowned locally for its innovative use of the best and freshest of ingredients Kenya has to offer. The executive chef ensures that the chefs gain experience in the finest hotels and restaurants in Europe. The cosmopolitan cuisine features classic and new dishes exquisitely prepared, and finely tuned as to seasoning and accompaniments. The chic clientele bear witness to the restaurants popularity. The Lord Delamere Terrace and Restaurant offers less formal dining. Here you may take a light meal or indulge in the sumptuous themed buffets. The Hibiscus lounge is ideal for a colonial-style afternoon tea. Accommodation at The Fairmont Norfolk varies from large opulent suites to smaller, more intimate rooms. All are beautifully furnished and many look out onto the hotel's lovely gardens. The grounds are immaculate and profusely planted with indigenous plants. Artefacts from the hotel's history are dotted around including a sedan chair from the colonial era. The Fairmont Norfolk Hotel offers all the comforts of a modern first class hotel yet combines it with an intriguing sense of history.

DAY 02 ? NAIROBI/NAIVASHA

After breakfast drive to Lake Naivasha arriving in time for lunch at Loldia House. Afternoon with activities as offered by Loldia House. Dinner and overnight at Loldia House (LDBB).

DAY 03 ? NAIVASHA

Full day at leisure in Naivasha with activities as offered by Loldia House. All meals and overnight at Loldia House (LDBB)

Kenya of the pioneers was a land of expansive farms, carved from the highlands and the countryside around the beautiful Rift Valley lakes. The early settlers found vast herds of game, huge numbers of predators and a profusion of birdlife. They lived an outdoor lifestyle; riding, hunting, fishing and walking. Loldia House was established by a settler who arrived by ox-wagon just after the Boer War and it is still owned by the same family today. He was a renowned horseman who chose this beautiful corner of Kenya to enjoy all that was best in the early Kenyan way of life. Nestling under the acacia and wild fig trees on the green western shores of Lake Naivasha, the present Loldia House was constructed by Italian prisoners of war from local stone. Built around a courtyard, its main archway frames a stunning view of dormant volcano Mount Longonot. The lawns that surround the house are grazed at night by hippos from the lake. Today's guest can savour the taste of all that was best in the early settlers lives in Loldia's wonderfully tranquil setting. The farm is ideally situated to visit those great spectacles of Africa - the flamingo lakes of Nakuru, Elementaita and Bogoria. Nakuru also offers excellent viewing chances for the rhino and the more elusive white rhino amongst an abundance of other bird and animal life, including the rare and beautiful greater kudu. On the farm's 6,500 acres, guests may walk or ride through herds of cattle and a flock of farmed ostriches, interspersed with impala, waterbuck and other plains game. Boat trips may be arranged on Lake Naivasha for fishing and bird watching, and visits can be made to Hell's Gate National Park with its spectacular canyon, hot springs and high raptor population. Activities may be tailor made for each guest. Accommodation at Loldia is in four comfortable double rooms with en suite bathrooms. The newer Loldia cottage, with its panoramic views, has three double bedrooms each with private bathroom. The cuisine and the service are both absolutely first rate.

DAY 04 ?NAIVASHA/MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE

Breakfast and morning at leisure with activities as offered by Loldia House. Lunch. After lunch transfer to the airstrip for scheduled flight to Masai Mara departing at 15h20. Met upon arrival at Musiara Airstrip by Governors Camp vehicle/guide at 16h00 and proceed on an afternoon game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis. Dinner and overnight at Main Governors Camp (LDBB).

DAY 05 ?MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE

Early morning game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis returning to the camp for breakfast. Morning game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis. Lunch. Afternoon game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis. Dinner and overnight at Main Governors Camp (LDBB).

DAY 06 ?MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE

Early morning game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis returning to the camp for breakfast. Morning game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis. Lunch. Afternoon game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis. Dinner and overnight at Main Governors Camp (LDBB)

Governors' Camp lies on the banks of the Mara River in the west of the famous Masai Mara Game Reserve. The camp is in a spot once reserved for the colonial governors of Kenya and their royal visitors. Created in 1972, it set new standards in luxury as a tented camp, placing particular emphasis on comfort and service. Maintaining these qualities, the camp has been refined and improved over the years. However, special care has been taken to preserve an atmosphere in which today's traveller may share some of the experiences of classic safari and enjoy the landscape and wildlife that so inspired adventurers such as Hemingway. To this end all guest facilities are under canvas and all accommodation tents are carefully positioned for uninterrupted views from their verandas of either the Mara River or the rolling plains of the Masai lands. However, living under canvas does not mean lack of comfort. Each tent is stylishly decorated and has a shower room with 24-hour hot water. Early morning tea and ginger biscuits are brought to your tent, meals are absolutely delicious - many people dress up for dinner - and fresh milk is flown in daily!It is the wildlife that brings most visitors to the Mara. Governors' can send real zealots off on full day safaris with a picnic lunch - these are particularly popular during the great Wildebeest Migration. Others prefer to take an early morning game drive followed by mid-morning and afternoon drives. Mealtimes are flexible so you will not miss lunch because you spent too long watching lions. It will be served on your return. The camp is run for your convenience and pleasure.

Probably the most famous of the reserves, the Masai Mara, in Kenya's southwestern corner, boasts an astonishing amount of game. Unfenced, the Mara is bounded in the east by the Ngama Hills and in the west by the Oloololo or Siria Escarpment. Gazelle, wildebeest and zebra graze in large numbers and where prey is found so are predators. Not only is this a great place in which to find game, but also the wide greeny-gold savannahs spotted with thorn trees make it ideal for photography. The Mara, as it is known in Kenya, is ravishingly beautiful and also offers long, undisturbed views and utterly dramatic panoramas. The weather really means something here. The sun may beat down unforgiving, huge clouds in fabulous shapes may sweep across the widest of skies; the wind ripples the grasses as though a giant hand strokes them. The landscape is stunning. The famously black-manned Mara lions are possibly the stars of the Mara show, but cheetah, elephant, kongoni, topi, Thompson's gazelle, waterbuck, hyena, and primates are all here too. As with the rest of Kenya, the birding is good. There is no settlement within the reserve however, the Mara is in theory owned by the Masai, pastoralists and, in earlier times, renowned lion-killers. Lodges and hotels offer the opportunity to buy their beadwork, checked cloths and copies of their spears. It is said that if lions scent approaching Masai on the breeze they move swiftly in the opposite direction. Famously, the Mara is the northerly end of the Great Migration, that great primeval surge of wildebeest, zebra and antelope that sweeps in from Tanzania's Serengeti to Kenya's Masai Mara as the Tanzanian grass starts to fail. The large predators who pick off the weak, the stragglers and the young track them. The great herds, nearing their destination by July, mass along the Mara River, pushing, shoving and fantastically noisy, just waiting for the first animal to cross so that they can all follow, lemming-like, on the final leg of the journey. However, crocodiles lie in wait, sluggishly cruising the waters, fully prepared for their best meal of the year. Many fail in the life-and-death struggle - drowned, eaten by the crocodiles or, made careless or weak by their stressful swim, brought down by lions. The Masai Mara is terrible yet wonderful, and not to be missed.

DAY 07 ? MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE/NAIROBI/DEPARTURE

Early morning game drive with the camp vehicle/guide on seat in car basis returning to the camp for breakfast. After breakfast transfer to Musiara Airstrip for scheduled flight to Nairobi departing at 11h00. Met upon arrival at Wilson Airport at 12h15 by Silver Africa Tours representative and transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your ownward departure flight. End of our services. All prices indicated are in US$ and are net and non commissionable:

Easter supplement applicable on 10+11+12+13.04.10(inclusive) US$45.00 per person per night

Included:
? Accommodation and meals as indicated above
? Shared 4x4 vehicle (seat in car basis) for game drives and airstrip transfers
? Flights Naivasha/Mara/Wilson
? All park fees
? All transfers and assistance


Excluded:
? International flights, visas and airport taxes
? Personal expenses like drinks, tips, laundry etc
? Personal insurance and baggage insurance

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