Tour Overview
Your 8 days Tsavo, Amboseli combined with Diani beach life, is a Kenya safari with a mix of dramatic wildlife viewing in Tsavo national park and Amboseli national park with relaxation and unwinding in the white sands of Diani beach. Amboseli National Park is one of the best places in the world to get up-close to large herds of free-ranging elephants best captured against the splendid backdrops of Mountain Kilimanjaro. Tsavo National Park on the other hand is one of the world’s largest continuous sanctuaries spanning an area cover of about 22,000 square kilometers. The Tsavo conservation area is made up of both Tsavo West and East National Parks that are all part of your tour plan famous for maneless lions and red-elephants. Conclude your safari tour unwinding along the magnificent Diani beach while you take part in several beach activities.
Day by Day Program
Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi and transfer to Amboseli National Park
Today starts with a pick-up either at your hotel in Nairobi or from the Airport, undertake a briefing led by your driver guide highlighting what to expect throughout your 8 days combined wildlife and beach-life tour. Set off for your 6hours, scenic drive to Amboseli National Park with a stop for your lunch along the way. Arrival will be in the afternoon to check-in at your pre-arranged lodge and later head out for a game drive to catch up with sightings of several mammal species including large herds of elephants. Have ample time to capture a sunset against the backdrops of the snow-capped Mountain Kilimanjaro before heading back to your lodge for refreshment, diner and an overnight.
Day 2: Full day Amboseli National Park
Wake up so early to have your mouthwatering breakfast, have your packed lunch in the vehicle and embark on a full excursion of the Amboseli plains. This is the perfect time for you to spot grazers and early risers such as zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, elephants, water bucks and more with the stunning backdrops of the Kilimanjaro Mountain. Keep your eyes out for predator sightings like lions, leopards, hyenas and more before you break off to have lunch in the wild. After your picnic lunch, continue with your drive through the semi-arid plains until sunset when you will return to your lodge to have dinner and an overnight stay. You may as well decide to sip a glass of wine or coffee around the camp fire often set at the lodge in the evenings.
Day 3: Amboseli to Tsavo West National Park
Start your day with a scrumptious breakfast, checkout and depart for a 4hours drive to Tsavo West National Park. This National Park combined with Tsavo East National Park make Africa’s largest conservancy popularly known for the red-dirt elephants. Lunch will be served after you have checked-in at your lodge and later head-out for a sunset game drive via Mzima springs. During your game drive, expect to encounter animals like warthogs, elephants, buffaloes, cheetahs, lions and many more before you return for your night stay at the lodge and dinner.
Day 4: Entire day Tsavo West
Have your breakfast served today morning and return to Tsavo West National Park’s savanna plains with packed lunch for a whole day wildlife experience. The morning game drive will start via the Mzima springs where plenty of grazers congregate and later proceed to the Shetani lava flows while you lookout for the Park’s animals and bird species. Shortly break off for a picnic lunch in the wild and later proceed traversing the Park’s savanna ecosystem made up of grasslands, rugged rocky ridges, scrub lands, acacia woodlands and belts of riverine vegetation. Dinner and an overnight stay will be after you have gotten back to your lodge.
Day 5: Tsavo West to Tsavo East National Park
After your breakfast check-out of Tsavo West and drive downwards to Tsavo East with an en-route game drive while you spot animals like lesser kudus, zebras, buffaloes, water bucks, cheetahs and many more. Arrival will be in the afternoon to check-in at your lodge and have lunch. After lunch head out for a late afternoon game drive via the 300 kilometer long Yatta plateau which is the longest lava flow in the whole world. Lookout for herds of red-dust elephants, buffaloes, rhinos, lions, leopards, water bucks, lesser kudus, gerenuk, pods of hippopotamuses and many more other mammals as well as a prolific bird life that features up to 500 recorded bird species. Get back to your lodge for dinner and an overnight.
Day 6: Tsavo East to Diani Beach
Enjoy your breakfast and checkout to be transferred to Diani Beach in Mombasa coastal town known for its sun-kissed coastlines and white sandy beaches. Lunch will be en-route and proceed with your scenic drive to Diani arriving late in the afternoon to be dropped off to your beach hotel. Head out for a few hours of relaxation at the beach before having your dinner and an overnight.
Day 7: Whole day Diani beach leisure
After breakfast head out for a whole day exploration of the white sandy beach of Diani where you can take part in several beach activities such as swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving and many more before having your relaxed lunch along the coastal waters. After lunch you might decide to head out for a dhow cruise or have a dolphin watching excursion to Wasini Island and later return to your hotel to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 8: Diani to Nairobi
After your breakfast you will check-out bidding farewell to Diani and be transferred to Ukunda airstrip where you will board a local chartered flight to Nairobi for your onward international flight or connection back home marking the end of your safari.
