Upon arrival in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital, airport meet and greet. Drive to 5* hotel where most potentates and royals have stayed, dined, and played around before setting out on safari.

The next day tour will be spellbinding: National Museum; Giraffe Centre and visit to the former home of Karen Blixen, author — writing as Isak Dinesen — of "Out of Africa". And we’ll head over to a hearty, familial, and story-flavoured lunch.

Let's fly south this morning over the Athi Plains to the natural wonderland of Amboseli National Park. Mount Kilimanjaro presides over Amboseli, a snow peak in the tropics, a shimmering painful point of joy.”

A 5* base camp for visits to Maasai villages and game drives through huge and reposeful Tortilis acacia trees. Unwinding at the camp. 

Perched high up the Laikipia Plateau. Views of Mount Kenya from a distance. A successful conservancy model of wildlife and habitat preservation. An array predators and prey. The world’s largest concentration of Grevy’s zebra. Black and white rhinos. Thatched roof tents with modern en suite bathroom and large private verandahs...and much more.

This morning flown over the Great Rift Valley to the Maasai Mara in the Serengeti–Maasai Mara ecosystem. The earth’s greatest haven for large mammals.

From splendid camps like Bateleur Camp or Governor’s Il Moran Camp, game drive throughout the Mara, rewarding time with the local Maasai people, and side trips to the Mara River for leviathan crocodiles and hippos. Sundowners watching Africa’s showy stars come out to...

Mara's second day sweep you aloft in a hot-air balloon above the siringet (“endless place”). Savour a champagne breakfast at flight’s end. 

We fly to the Serengeti via Nairobi and Arusha, Tanzania. Three million or more large mammals inhabit the great grassland, its riverine forests, piece kopjes, rock islands...

Two Serengeti nights in 5* tented camp or lodge set on a fine collection of kopjes or along the banks of a river with giant crocs and hippos. Enchanting African places to seduce you to sheer bliss.

Fly southeast from Serengeti to Africa’s loveliest lake, Lake Manyara. Thousands of flamingos as seen in "Out of Africa". Splendid views of the lake during lunch at the lodge.

Drive across the crater highlands and up to the Ngorongoro Crater Lodge. The rain-forested rim of the Ngorongoro Crater is a geographic wonder.

Ask yourself. How did the hippopotamus find its way up into the Crater Highlands to wallow in the waters of Ngorongoro's caldera floor?

After breakfast, a last peep at the lands below. A drive to Lake Manyara. A hop on a flight to Nairobi. Refreshen in Nairobi. Get a bite before drive to the airport for a late flight back home.

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