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Vacation DetailsAccommodationsAddtional InfoDates & Prices
Departures: September 2010 - December 2011
Tour Highlights
- Round-trip flights from New York (JFK), including all flights within the itinerary. Fuel surcharges included (valid at time of printing).
- Hotel accommodations for ten nights, including all hotel taxes and service charges. Day room upon arrival in Nairobi. Full board accommodation in the Kenyan lodges/camps while on safari.
- Six buffet breakfasts, eight lunches and seven dinners. Two complimentary bottles of water per day while on safari.
- Three-night Nile River cruise featuring outside cabins with lower bed(s) and private facilities. Three meals each day aboard ship (water, coffee, soft drinks and liquor not included).
- All cruise tours led by experienced Egyptologists. Entrance fees as per itinerary.
- Lunch at Carnivore Restaurant as per itinerary.
- Lake Naivasha boat ride.
- Visit to Maasai Village (Mara).
- Entrance fees per the itinerary.
- Deluxe air-conditioned motorcoach or private car transportation. Transportation on Kenya Safari based on non-exclusive use of 4x4 land cruiser with 2-way high frequency radio communication system.
- Round-trip airport to hotel/ship transfers in each city.
Itinerary
Important: U.S. Citizens require a Passport valid for six (6) months beyond stay. You must have three (3) consecutive blank visa pages in your passport.
An Egypt Visa is required, and it can be obtained in Cairo for $15usd, exact change cash only. Anyone with prior Visa difficulties should obtain it prior to arrival.
A Visa is required for Kenya and should be obtained prior to departure from the U.S.
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- Day 1 - Depart U.S.: Board your international flight to Cairo and begin your journey back in time to this charming, ancient land.
- Day 2 - Cairo, Egypt: Arrive in the Land of the Pharaohs at Cairo International airport you will be welcomed and assisted through immigration and customs by our representative, then escorted to your hotel. Visit the Great Pyramids of Giza and the enigmatic Sphinx, then proceed to Khan El Khalili, the world's largest 13th century covered oriental bazaar. Overnight in Cairo. (Breakfast, Lunch)
- Day 3 - Cairo/Aswan/Kom Ombo/Edfu: This morning, fly to Aswan. Upon arrival you will be escorted to your cruise ship where you will spend the next 3 nights. Accommodation aboard your cruise ship will consist of outside cabins with private facilities. You will visit the High Dam, the Granite Quarries with the Unfinished Obelisk and the Temple of Philae; view of Kitchener's Island botanical garden and the Agha Khan Mausoleum by felucca. After lunch sail to Kom Ombo where you will visit the Ptolemaic Temple of Sobek & Haroeries. Then sail to Edfu and overnight onboard the ship. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
- Day 4 - Edfu/Luxor: Travel by horse-drawn carriage to the Temple of Horus, the falcon-god, (237 B.C.) considered the best-preserved temple in Ancient Egypt and the second largest after the Temple of Karnak. Sail to Esna, passing through Esna Lock, and continue sailing towards Luxor and overnight. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
- Day 5 - Luxor: Visit the West Bank necropolis including the Valley of Kings, Valley of Queens, the funerary temple of Queen Hatshepsut at Deir El Bahari and the Colossi of Memnon. (Evening optional Sound & Light Show at the Karnak Temple $36 per person). Overnight onboard in Luxor. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
- Day 6 - Luxor/Cairo: After breakfast, visit Karnak and Luxor Temples, a centuries-old city of pylons, hypostyle halls, colossal statues, shrines and obelisks. Disembarkation and transfer to the airport for your flight to Cairo. Upon arrival in Cairo you will be met and escorted to your hotel. (Evening, optional Sound & Light Show at the Pyramids $36 per person) (Breakfast)
- Day 7 - Cairo/Nairobi: Enjoy today at leisure in Cairo. This evening around 6:00pm, transfer Cairo Airport for your overnight flight to Nairobi. (Breakfast)
- Day 8 - Nairobi: Arrive early morning in Nairobi and after clearing customs and immigration, meet your local Club ABC Tours host and transfer to your hotel for immediate occupancy. Nairobi is a cosmopolitan and lively city, the largest between Johannesburg and Cairo. Enjoy a full day in Nairobi. (Breakfast)
- Day 9 - Nairobi/Lake Naivasha: After breakfast, journey down the Rift valley (approximately 1½ hour drive) meandering down the eastern escarpment. Lake Naivasha is a fresh water lake and the highest lake of all the rift valley lakes in altitude, it's a lake of international importance (Ramser Site) which supports life both human and wildlife. It's around this lake that floriculture and horticulture is done in large scale. Most of the produce is exported to the international market around the world. Arrive at the Lake Naivasha lodge in the morning hours. After settling in, enjoy a 1-hour boat ride on Lake Naivasha with views of the hippos. Lake Naivasha has the highest concentration of Fish Eagle in the world and over 300 species of birds have been sighted on and around the lake.
After the boat ride, return to the lodge, join your driver and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park arriving in time for lunch. In the afternoon, explore Lake Nakuru National Park on your game viewing drive. The park, colored shimmering flamingo pink from thousands of the beautiful birds lining its shores, is a popular place with visitors as well as locals. Waterbuck are usually sighted along the lake shore, and this is the home of the Rothschild's giraffe. Baboon, impala, buffalo, monkeys, warthog, reedbuck and eland are also resident here. However, the main attractions are the rhinos. The park is a designated rhino sanctuary and it is one of the best places in Kenya to observe them.
Both black and white Rhinos thrive here. Besides the greater and lesser flamingoes, the park is home to many other species including, the Great crested Grebe, the black necked Grebe, little Grebe, Pelicans, Cormorant, African Darter, Egyptian Geese, night Heron, Fish Eagle, grey Heron, Marabou stork, Sacred and Hadada Ibis. By 6:00pm, depart the park and drive back to Lake Naivasha for Overnight. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
- Day 10 - Lake Naivasha/Maasai Mara: After breakfast at the lodge, leave Lake Naivasha behind, and drive to Narok, gateway to the Maasai Mara and district headquarters of this part of Maasailand (approximately 5½ hour drive). Arrive at the lodge in time for lunch. Enjoy free time until 4:00pm when you start your first game viewing drive in the reserve, regarded as the most magnificent natural theatre in the world. Set in the heart of Africa's Great Plains, the Maasai Mara boasts 1,672 sq kms of unspoiled wilderness and is home to the highest concentration of animals and birds anywhere on the continent. The Maasai Mara Game Reserve is the natural habitat for lions, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, hippo, rhino, buffalo, zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, and much other game. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
- Day 11 - Maasai Mara: Enjoy a full day in the Maasai Mara with two game drives included. After breakfast this morning you will be taken on a complimentary visit to a Maasai Village. The Maasai Mara National Park is situated to the west of Nairobi, on Tanzania's northern border and is the extension to the larger Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The Maasai Mara offers wonderful scenery and an abundance of big game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. It is a reserve of breathtaking vistas, panoramas of vast rolling plains, hills and woodland groves, well watered by the lovely Mara River, which bisects the Reserve from north to south. The Mara is home to the largest population of lions in Kenya. These magnificent beasts spend most of the day sleeping in the shade of acacia trees. Vast herds of buffalo, zebra and wildebeest roam the plains. Impala, gazelle, giraffe and hartebeest grace the landscape, and the cautious topi may also be seen standing sentinel on earth mounds on constant lookout of predators. The waters of the Mara River are home to crocodiles and pools of hippo, the acacia woodlands and riverine forests favored by leopard and elephant, and the open savannah and dry bush areas play host to the plains game and their attendant predators such as lion, cheetah, hyena and jackal. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner)
- Day 12 - Maasai Mara/Nairobi: After an early breakfast, bid farewell to the Mara. You will be transferred to the airstrip and fly Mara to Wilson (approx time 1015hrs-1145hrs). You will be met on arrival at the airstrip by our driver/guide and proceed for lunch at the Carnivore restaurant followed by a visit to the Giraffe Center and a Nairobi dusk city tour.
- Day 13 - Nairobi/U.S.: Pick from your hotel lobby and transfer to Jomo Kenyatta Airport for your departure flight at 0400hrs (Packed Breakfast Box)
Please note: Though rare, it may be necessary to substitute hotels and adjust itineraries due to local conditions. Included features may not be available on all departures.
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