DAY 1 Nairobi

Arrival at the airport at night. Transfer from the airport to a hotel in Nairobi.

Day 2: Aberdare Game Sanctuary

After breakfast drive to Nyeri in central Kenya, home of the Kikuyu tribe. You will drive through the main farming areas of Kenya with a lot of coffee and pineapple plantations. We will make a stop at the open air Karatina market, which is the biggest farm produce market in the region.

We arrive at the Aberdare Country Club in time for lunch. In the afternoon we will walk in the Aberdare Game Sanctuary with opportunities to see warthogs, Thompson and Grant’s gazelles, zebras, reticulated giraffes and the biggest antelopes: elands. Dinner and overnight at a Camp/Lodge in Aberdares.

DAY 3 Aberdare Game Sanctuary

After breakfast leave the Lodge/Camp on foot we will enter the open grassland by taking a right turn from the lake, where the big herd of the resident Waterbucks, Elands and Bushbucks reside. There are also good views of the snow-capped peaks of Mt. Kenya and the Aberdare range.
Overnight at an Aberdare Lodge/Camp.

DAY 4 Solio Ranch, Treetops

After breakfast we drive to the nearby Solio Ranch for an extensive game drive in the Rhino Sanctuary, which has the world’s largest concentration of black rhinos.

The white rhino is also found here as well as the reticulated giraffe, leopard, lion and a wide range of plains game and bird life.

Lunch is at the Outspan Hotel in Nyeri, which is also the check in point for Treetops.

Many people who come to the Aberdare National Park expressly visit the tree hotels for game viewing. Their interest is highly justified: to see elephants, buffaloes, rhinos and other game coming to a floodlit waterhole right below the balcony of the hotel is really amazing.

Our hotel of choice is Treetops, which is designed for game viewing on a 3-storey structure standing on stilts. Treetops gets its name from the original hotel in which Princess Elizabeth arrived on Feb 5, 1952 and checked out on Feb 6 as the queen of England after her father, King George died in London during the night. The game viewing is an all-night show and many visitors pass the time focused on the waterhole where among the species frequenting are elephants, rhinos, hyenas, various gazelles, warthogs, giant forest hogs, the elusive bongo and with luck a leopard or a lion may pay a visit.

DAY 5 Transfer To Nairobi

Return to Nairobi in time for lunch. Day rooms are at your disposal until 6 p.m. Evening transfer to the airport where we say goodbye.

N/B:Itinerary changes may be made due to local conditions beyond our control.