Evergreen Escape has tailor-made a 10-day combined culture and beach trip which gives you the opportunity to go sightseeing in Nairobi, experience wildlife in one of the most authentic safari parks in Kenya, spiced up with total relaxation by the Indian Ocean.
Once you have passed through passport control at the airport, your local tour guide will be ready to welcome you. Together you will drive to your hotel in Westlands, Nairobi, where you will have the opportunity to take a refreshing shower and get a good night’s sleep.
After a wonderful breakfast, it’s time to depart for the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage. The respected magazine National Geographic brilliantly describes the meeting with the elephant orphanage; You will have the opportunity to get up close to the elephants, watch them eat and play, while a zookeeper will tell you more about their lives, how they cope and their future opportunities.
From there you drive on to the Giraffe Centre. It is a small park where you are allowed to hand-feed a giraffe and really get the feeling of the size of a giraffe.
Lunch is taken at the legendary Carnivore, where you can satisfy your hunger with a delicious meat buffet.
After lunch you drive to the Karen Blixen Museum. Karen Blixen moved to Kenya in 1914 to marry and become Baroness Blixen, you will get a guided tour. A beautiful garden has been laid out around the house and the view of the Ngong mountains in the distance is still as beautiful as when the baroness herself lived in the house.
After the museum tour, you must visit Kazuri Beads. Kazuri means “small and beautiful” in Swahili, which is very indicative of the beautiful jewellery that is produced here. It will be possible to visit the factory and greet some of the over 100 women who help produce jewellery and pottery. Afterwards, it is possible to visit the shop and buy some souvenirs to take home at a favourable price.
After a wonderful night’s sleep, you continue your journey further north when you drive to the Samburu National Reserve. The reserve is named after the Samburu tribe, which is closely related to the Maasai tribe. Where the Maasai continued their migration further south, the Samburu stayed in the northern part of Kenya. They are seminomadic and live by herding cattle.
In addition, the reserve is also famous for another and even more curious story about the lioness Kamunyak, who adopted 6 oryx antelope calves, which under normal circumstances would be her prey. This fantastic story can be seen in the documentary ”Heart of a Lioness” from 2003.
This morning you have to get up early to go on a game drive. The reserve is dominated by dry savanna and rocky scrub areas, broken by the beautiful acacia trees, with their characteristic umbrella-shaped crowns, along the river.
In the Samburu National Reserve, you will also visit a local village. The Samburu are descended from the same lineage as the Masai people, but they are poorer and not nearly as proud. Like the Maasai, the Samburu live off cattle, and their meals consist of goat or sheep meat and cow’s milk mixed with ox blood. Nothing else. In the bright sun, their red cloaks burn through the brown-yellow landscape.
After breakfast, you drive to the train station in Nairobi, where the train to Mombasa departs at 3:00 p.m. The train journey takes 5 hours, and you travel on parts of the route through national parks, where there is an opportunity to experience some wildlife.
Once you arrive in Mombasa, you will be picked up by our driver, who will arrange for you to be driven to your hotel, where you will have the opportunity to have a refreshing shower and have some dinner.
The days are devoted to doing whatever you want. You can choose to stay at the hotel and relax by the swimming pool, so you can really get into gear. Or you can choose to go on different excursions. As inspiration can be mentioned.
The days are devoted to doing whatever you want. You can choose to stay at the hotel and relax by the swimming pool, so you can really get into gear. Or you can choose to go on different excursions. As inspiration can be mentioned.
The days are devoted to doing whatever you want. You can choose to stay at the hotel and relax by the swimming pool, so you can really get into gear. Or you can choose to go on different excursions. As inspiration can be mentioned.
The days are devoted to doing whatever you want. You can choose to stay at the hotel and relax by the swimming pool, so you can really get into gear. Or you can choose to go on different excursions. As inspiration can be mentioned.
After breakfast it is time to take the train back to Nairobi. The train journey takes 5 hours and on parts of the route you drive through national parks, where there is an opportunity to experience some wildlife.
Outside the train station in Nairobi, your guide will be waiting for you, who will take you to the airport to fly home to Denmark. Nicely relaxed and filled with lots of good holiday memories and, of course, unique spot shots.
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