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Elephant and Rhino Memories
Mobile Camping Safari
Tsavo – Amboseli – Lewa Downs |
| This is not a pre-scheduled group safari. Your safari vehicle, mobile camp, and professional camp staff are exclusively for you. |
| Arriving and departing in Nairobi, Kenya |
This eleven-day safari begins and ends in Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa’s safari capitol. This is an individual safari and you organize unlimited game drives at your convenience with your professional Kimbla-Mantana driver/guide. You will experience Kenya as it was in the days of the explorers – ancient and unspoilt. Your mobile camp and staff are there only for you and your companions.
All of Kimbla-Mantana’s driver/guides are certified with the Kenya Professional Safari Guides Association.
Kimbla-Mantana African Safaris is a long established company, specializing in private, up-market safaris with traditional, luxury mobile camping, small exclusive lodges and private wildlife areas. Our emphasis is very much on personal service and in dealing directly with our clients since we understand that each of our clients has their own needs and interests. With an enviable reputation, over 45 years of experience in arranging and running safaris, and our own infrastructure in East Africa, we are confident that we can accommodate your requirements. |
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By choosing to go on safari with Kimbla-Mantana, you will experience a safari that many can only dream of, spontaneous and devoid of timetables, with personal attention in remote and beautiful places, with few other tourists and plenty of wildlife. Our private concessions, apart from giving our safaris the freedom of privacy and exclusivity, also allow us to engage in activities like walking or night driving and have been chosen for their prime wildlife locations.
Mobile luxury camping is one of the few indulgences that still exists for the truly experienced traveler who wishes to experience East Africa as it was in the days of the explorers, - ancient and unspoilt.
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Tsavo East National Park has substantial numbers of elephant, lion, cheetah, Masai giraffe, lesser kudu, and other large mammals. It took Daphne Sheldrick 28 years of trial and error during the years that her husband was warden of Kenya’s largest and most important elephant sanctuary, Tsavo East National Park, to perfect the milk formula and complex husbandry necessary to rear the orphaned infant African elephants. |
Today the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust is proud to have saved what amounts to a herd; over 60 orphaned infant calves that would otherwise have perished. More importantly, every one of these orphans can look forward to a quality of life in wild terms, living free in Tsavo East National Park encompassed by their new extended orphaned family and friends amongst the wild herds in a national park that offers elephants the space they need – the 8,000 square miles of pristine wilderness that is Tsavo. |
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Amboseli National Park is located on the Tanzanian border and is one of the most scenic of Kenya’s wildlife reserves. Every vista is dominated by the majestic, snow-capped peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Animals photographed in front of Kilimanjaro always look spectacular, and Amboseli has some of the highest densities and diversity of wildlife in all of Africa. Amboseli is best known for its abundant and approachable elephants. Other animals found in Amboseli include: giraffe, gerenuk, kudu, oryx, buffalo, cheetah, and impala, lion, wildebeest, hyena, jackal, warthog, zebra, and baboon. Over 400 bird species have been recorded here. In Amboseli, the Kitirua Trust was formed by Kimbla-Mantana and Ker & Downey to directly help the people of the lease area of the Olgulului Olarashi Masai community of Amboseli with whom we have formed a community wildlife partnership. This is one of the most successful community wildlife partnerships in East Africa. Your private mobile camp is situated under a stand of huge acacia tortilis trees and has incredible views of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
Lewa Downs is world famous, featuring beautiful countryside at the foot of Mount Kenya with plentiful wildlife viewing, including three endangered species: rhino, Grevy’s zebra, and sitatunga. Lewa Downs is a rhino sanctuary and has a large black and white rhino population. Other wildlife found at Lewa Downs includes: elephant, lion, leopard, cheetah, reticulated giraffe, buffalo, hartebeest, bushbuck, gerenuk, dikdik, Beisa oryx, Grant’s gazelle, and Somali ostrich. African wild dogs are sometimes seen here. The Lewa Wildlife Conservancy is a unique experiment in wildlife conservation and community development and is a not-for-profit organization.
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| Kenya Safari itinerary |
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B=Breakfast,
L=Lunch, D=Dinner |
| Day 01 - Nairobi |
Upon arrival in Nairobi, you will be met by your Kimbla-Mantana professional driver/guide and taken to the historic Norfolk Hotel for an overnight stay
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| Day 02 - Nairobi |
Spend the day settling into Kenya by visiting the Nairobi National Museum, Karen Blixen Museum, and a visit to Kazuri beads, a women’s project started by Lady Susan Woods for destitute Kenyan women. Enjoy lunch at the Karen Blixen Restaurant before driving to the Giraffe Center. Afterwards, a special afternoon ‘mud wallow’ viewing has been arranged for you – an elephant ‘foster parent,’ before returning to the Norfolk Hotel. Dinner at the famous Delamere Terrace. Norfolk Hotel, B, L, D |
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| Day 03 - Tsavo East National Park |
After an early breakfast and assisted check-out, you will drive to Tsavo East National Park. Game drive to Kambi ya Tarhi arriving in time for a late lunch. Afternoon game drive. Kambi ya Tarhi, B, L, D |
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| Day 04+05 - Tsavo East National Park |
Game drives and visits to the Sheldrick Elephant Stockades. Only elephant foster parents are permitted to visit the stockades. The price of fostering a baby elephant is included in the safari price. Once the Sheldrick elephant babies are no longer milk dependent, they are taken to Tsavo East to begin their lives as wild elephants. Each baby elephant goes with their keeper to the park, where they meet up with the wild herds and socialize (a bit difficult for the human keepers, who sometimes have to spend the day up in a tree as the wild elephants rightly view all humans as dangerous!) until they are ready to return to the stockade. After a period, the baby elephants feel comfortable spending the nights with the wild herds and no longer need to be accompanied by the keepers. Daphne Sheldrick’s older elephants still return to the stockade when they are in the area. Kambi ya Tarhi, B, L, D |
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| Day 06 - Amboseli National Park |
| After breakfast, game drive leaving Tsavo East and heading for Amboseli National Park driving through Tsavo West. Game drive to the Amboseli Concession Area and your private mobile camp. Afternoon game drive after lunch. Private mobile camp, B, L, D |
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| Day 07+08 - Amboseli National Park |
Spend the next two days viewing wildlife and the huge herds of elephants for which Amboseli is famous. Visit a Masai manyatta (village) and a Masai school, enjoy a bush walk and a Masai dance at your campfire one evening. Unlimited game drives. Private mobile camp, B, L, D |
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| Day 09 - Lewa Downs |
| This morning you will game drive through Amboseli to the airstrip for the scheduled flight to Wilson Airport, arriving in time to connect to the scheduled flight to Lewa Downs. Game drive to Lewa Safari Camp. After lunch, an afternoon game drive has been arranged to see the rhino and other wildlife. Lewa Safari Camp, B, L, D |
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| Day 10 - Lewa Downs |
Spend the day viewing wildlife and learning about the rhino sanctuary. Lewa Safari Camp, B, L, D |
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| Day 11 - Nairobi |
After breakfast, game drive back to the airstrip for the flight to Nairobi’s Wilson Airport. You will be met and taken to the Norfolk Hotel, where a day room is reserved for you at the Norfolk Hotel until 6:00PM. Enjoy a farewell dinner before your transfer to the airport for your international flight out this evening. B, D |
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