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Twelve days. The complete Kenya — bush, stars, spectacle and ocean — in one seamless fly-in journey. Begin beneath Mount Kilimanjaro in Amboseli, home of the great tuskers. Move north to the Laikipia Plateau, where you’ll spend a night on an open-air Star Bed as the Milky Way wheels overhead, and explore by game drive, on foot and from the back of a camel. Then fly south to the Masai Mara for three nights among Africa’s most celebrated big cats — and, between July and October, the Great Wildebeest Migration. Finish on Diani Beach: twelve kilometres of white sand, a warm Indian Ocean and a coral reef at your doorstep. Five destinations, four short flights, one trip people write books about. We’ve handled every connection — all you have to do is show up and look out the window.
| Duration | 12 days / 11 nights |
| Destinations | Nairobi → Amboseli → Laikipia → Masai Mara → Diani Beach → Nairobi |
| Travel Style | Fly-in luxury safari & beach |
| Activity Level | Easy to Moderate |
| Best Season | Jul – Oct (Migration) | Jan – Feb (Kilimanjaro views & dry season) |
| Ideal For | Couples, honeymoons, celebrations, families with older children & anyone wanting the complete Kenya |
Touch down at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, where a Tribal Adventures representative will meet you and transfer you to your hotel. The rest of the day is yours to recover from the flight.
If you have the energy, Karen is perfectly placed for an afternoon at the Giraffe Centre — hand-feeding endangered Rothschild’s giraffes from the raised platform — or the neighbouring Karen Blixen Museum, the farmhouse of the Out of Africa author. (The Sheldrick Wildlife Trust’s elephant nursery is a superb morning add-on; it requires advance booking — we’ll arrange it.)
This evening, enjoy a welcome dinner and a briefing on the journey ahead. Kenya’s most vibrant city is the gateway — tomorrow, the wild begins.
Overnight: Hemingways Nairobi (Luxury) / Crowne Plaza Nairobi Airport (Mid-Luxury).
After breakfast, transfer to Wilson Airport for your morning scheduled flight to Amboseli. Within 40 minutes the city has given way to Maasailand — and on clear days, the snows of Kilimanjaro are visible from the air.
Land at the airstrip, where your guide is waiting. The game drive begins immediately: open plains, acacia woodland, and the first of the great elephant families moving toward the wetlands.
After lunch and a rest at camp, head out for an afternoon game drive as the heat fades. Watch the light turn gold behind the mountain as the herds wade into the swamps.
Sundowners in the bush, dinner at camp. Tomorrow starts at dawn — the mountain’s best hour.
Overnight: Elewana Tortilis Camp (Luxury) / Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Luxury).
Rise before sunrise — this is when Kilimanjaro is most likely to be cloud-free and the elephants are already on the move.
Morning game drive through the park’s year-round wetlands, Enkongo Narok and Longinye swamps, where elephant families gather in their dozens: matriarchs leading, calves splashing, big bulls feeding at the reed edges. Climb Observation Hill — one of the only places in the park where you may walk on foot — for the full panorama: swamps alive with wildlife below, the shimmering dry bed of Lake Amboseli beyond, and Kilimanjaro presiding over everything.
Return for a late breakfast and a midday rest, then a late-afternoon drive across the plains — lion, cheetah, spotted hyena, giraffe and the dry-country specialists of the park’s fringes: gerenuk, lesser kudu and fringe-eared oryx.
Optional: Maasai village visit — Amboseli lies at the heart of Maasailand.
Overnight: Elewana Tortilis Camp (Luxury) / Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Luxury).
One last dawn drive — a farewell procession of tuskers across the plains.
Fly Amboseli → Nairobi Wilson, connecting onto your scheduled flight north to Loisaba (direct or via Nanyuki, depending on the day’s schedule). Below you, the landscape climbs into the cool green highlands of the Laikipia Plateau — Kenya’s richest safari region outside the famous parks, a patchwork of private and community conservancies where wildlife outnumbers visitors many times over.
Loisaba Conservancy protects some 57,000 acres of this country, and its wildlife roster is exceptional: elephant, lion, leopard, wild dog, reticulated giraffe and Grevy’s zebra — the world’s most endangered zebra species.
Afternoon game drive or a gentle introduction walk with your Samburu guides. As the sun drops, the escarpment view opens west toward the Great Rift Valley — sundowners at the edge of the world.
Overnight: Elewana Loisaba Tented Camp (Luxury) / Loisaba Star Beds (Mid-Luxury).
A full day of Loisaba’s famously varied activities — do as much or as little as you like.
Morning options: a walking safari with Samburu trackers, reading the bush on foot; a game drive in search of wild dog and Grevy’s zebra; or a camelback safari — there’s nothing quite like seeing giraffe from the back of a camel. Horse riding is also available for experienced riders.
Afternoon: relax at camp, visit the Loisaba Anti-Poaching unit’s ranger team to hear how this landscape is protected (subject to availability), or head out on a game drive as the light softens.
Tonight is the highlight: the Star Beds. Your bed rolls out onto an open-air platform — hand-hewn stone and thatch atop a rocky kopje — under one of the darkest, most spectacular night skies in East Africa. The Milky Way isn’t just visible; it’s overwhelming. Fall asleep to the sounds of the African night, wrapped in warm duvets against the highland chill.
Overnight: Loisaba Star Beds (Luxury & Mid-Luxury — the star of the show at both tiers).
Wake at dawn on your Star Bed platform with tea delivered to the deck — then a short morning activity and brunch before transferring to the Loisaba airstrip.
Fly Loisaba → Nairobi Wilson, connecting onto your afternoon scheduled flight to the Masai Mara. Land at the airstrip nearest camp, where your guide is waiting — the game drive begins from the airstrip, across the golden plains, with your first chance at lion, cheetah or leopard before you’ve even reached camp.
Sundowners as the light fades, dinner under canvas, and the sounds of the Mara on your first night.
Overnight: Mara Ngenche Safari Camp (Luxury) / Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Luxury).
Rise before dawn for the golden hour — the Mara at its most electric, when predators are active and the light across the grass is extraordinary.
The reserve’s resident wildlife delivers year-round: one of the densest lion populations in Africa, cheetah scanning from termite mounds, leopards draped in the riverine forest, and vast herds of elephant, buffalo, topi and hartebeest.
Return for a late breakfast and a midday rest — swim, siesta, edit your photos — before an afternoon drive into the softening light.
This evening, your guide briefs you on the migration’s movements, planning tomorrow’s route around where the herds are massing.
Overnight: Mara Ngenche Safari Camp (Luxury) / Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Luxury).
Today is the big one. Set out early with a picnic breakfast and lunch and spend a full, uninterrupted day in the heart of the reserve — no returning to camp, no clock-watching.
If you’re visiting July–October, your guide positions you along the Mara River, where walls of wildebeest and zebra gather at the crossing points. A river crossing is nature at its most dramatic — thundering hooves, dust, crocodiles lying in wait — and completely unpredictable. Your guide tracks the herds daily to put you in the right place at the right time. Patience is rewarded here.
Outside migration season, the full-day format simply goes wherever the wildlife is — and the Mara never disappoints.
Optional (highly recommended, extra cost): a hot-air balloon safari — drift silently over the herds at sunrise, then land to a champagne bush breakfast. Spaces book out weeks ahead in peak season; tell us early.
Overnight: Mara Ngenche Safari Camp (Luxury) / Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Luxury).
One last early game drive — the Mara always has one more sighting in it.
Then the dramatic finale to your safari week: a scheduled flight from the Mara directly to the coast, landing at Ukunda Airstrip just inland of Diani Beach. (Direct Mara–Ukunda flights operate year-round with Safarilink and Airkenya; on some schedules the routing connects via Nairobi or Mombasa — either way, we book the smoothest option.)
Within the hour, you’re trading dust for salt air: transfer through the palms to your beach resort, where the afternoon is yours — swim in the warm Indian Ocean, sleep off the safari by the pool, or walk the beach as the fishing boats come in.
Sundowner in hand, feet in the sand. You’ve earned it.
Overnight: The Sands at Nomad (Luxury) / Southern Palms Beach Resort (Mid-Luxury).
A full day on the water and the sand.
Option 1 — Kisite Marine Park & Wasini Island dhow day: sail by traditional dhow to the Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Protected Area, south of Wasini Island — one of Kenya’s best snorkelling spots, with frequent dolphin sightings en route. Return via a seafood lunch on Wasini. A full-day excursion; highly recommended.
Option 2 — Stay local: snorkel or dive the reef just off Diani’s shore, try kitesurfing or a glass-bottomed boat, or simply claim a sun lounger and do absolutely nothing.
Evening: dinner with your toes in the sand.
Overnight: The Sands at Nomad (Luxury) / Southern Palms Beach Resort (Mid-Luxury).
Your final full day — spend it your way.
Morning option: visit the Colobus Conservation centre in Diani, working to protect the endemic Angolan colobus monkeys of the coastal forest — a short, fascinating and family-friendly visit.
Otherwise: spa treatments, a final swim, souvenir shopping at the beach stalls (bargain gently), or a laze beneath the palms.
Evening: a sunset dhow cruise along the Diani coastline — the perfect farewell to Kenya, with the sails up, the sky on fire and the ocean warm.
Overnight: The Sands at Nomad (Luxury) / Southern Palms Beach Resort (Mid-Luxury).
A slow final morning — breakfast overlooking the ocean, one last swim.
Transfer to Ukunda Airstrip for your flight back to Nairobi (Wilson or JKIA, depending on schedule), connecting onto your international departure. We recommend allowing ample buffer time, or — for evening flights and total peace of mind — adding a final Nairobi night; we’ll book it.
The mountain, the stars, the river and the sea stay with you. Kwaheri — until next time.
Hemingways Nairobi (Nairobi — Karen) An elegant 5-star boutique hotel set amid the gardens of Karen, minutes from the Giraffe Centre and the AFEW Giraffe Centre estate. Quiet, refined and the perfect soft landing after an international flight.
Elewana Tortilis Camp (Amboseli — Kitirua Conservancy) Set in the private Kitirua Conservancy adjoining the park, Tortilis is renowned for having one of the finest Kilimanjaro views of any camp in Africa, with game drives in both the conservancy and the park.
Elewana Loisaba Tented Camp + Loisaba Star Beds (Laikipia — Loisaba Conservancy) One night at the camp perched on the edge of the escarpment with views toward the Rift Valley, then one night on the famous Star Beds — open-air platforms where your bed rolls out beneath the stars.
Mara Ngenche Safari Camp (Masai Mara National Reserve) A boutique tented camp at the confluence of the Mara and Talek rivers, inside the reserve — hippos below your deck, big cats as neighbours.
The Sands at Nomad (Diani Beach) A sophisticated beachfront resort on Diani’s white sands — spacious rooms and suites, a beautiful pool, excellent dining and barefoot-luxury service under the coconut palms.
Crowne Plaza Nairobi Airport (Nairobi) A fabulous city hotel away from the hustle and bustle, near the airport — the practical, comfortable first night.
Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge (Amboseli National Park) A classic safari lodge beside the Enkongo Narok swamp — the wetland Amboseli’s elephants favour — with comfortable rooms, a pool and Kilimanjaro views from the terrace.
Loisaba Star Beds (Laikipia — Loisaba Conservancy) Same magic, same stars — both tiers sleep under the sky on the Star Beds platforms at Loisaba, with camp accommodation on the conservancy around them.
Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Masai Mara National Reserve) Set on a hilltop with sweeping views over the reserve — classic Mara safari vibes, a pool and experienced guides.
Southern Palms Beach Resort (Diani Beach) A Swahili-style beach resort on Diani’s southern stretch — two pools, palm gardens and direct access to kilometres of white sand.
July – October: The star window. The Great Migration is in the Mara, Amboseli and Laikipia are dry and superb, and the coast is warm and sunny with gentle sea breezes. Book early — this fills up fast.
January – February: Short dry season. Kilimanjaro at its clearest, excellent resident game in the Mara, thinner crowds — and idyllic beach weather on Diani. A quietly brilliant time for this itinerary.
June: The dry season begins. Green-gold bush, concentrated wildlife and great value before peak; the coast is breezy and pleasant.
November – December: Short rains. Lush bush, dramatic skies, superb birding and lower rates. The coast remains warm; brief showers usually pass quickly.
April – May: Long rains — tracks can be difficult and some camps close. Not recommended for this itinerary.
Amboseli National Park
Laikipia — Loisaba Conservancy
Masai Mara National Reserve
Diani Beach & the South Coast
Easy: Game drives, beach days and boat excursions — relaxed and suitable for all ages.
Easy–Moderate: Observation Hill climb; guided bush walks in Laikipia — gentle terrain, guided pace.
Moderate: Camelback safari — no experience needed, some balance required. Optional at all times.
Optional: Hot-air balloon safari (pre-dawn start, no exertion); snorkelling and dhow days at the coast.
Please note: Walking safaris and night drives are not permitted inside Amboseli or the Mara reserve itself — Laikipia is where you get out of the vehicle, and Tortilis Camp offers walks and night drives on its private conservancy land.
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Yes. Most nationalities require an Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA). Apply online at etakenya.go.ke at least 2 weeks before travel. The fee is USD 30 for most nationalities.
Meru is one of Kenya’s least-visited major parks — and that’s exactly the point. You’ll rarely share a sighting with another vehicle. The wildlife is equally impressive to more famous parks, and the atmosphere is completely different. It’s safari as it should be.
The Samburu Special Five — reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, gerenuk, Beisa oryx and Somali ostrich — are northern species not found in Kenya’s southern parks. They’re endemic to the arid north, making Samburu the only place in Kenya to reliably spot all five.
Yes — Ol Pejeta offers guided close-up encounters with Najin and Fatu, the world’s last two northern white rhinos. This is one of the most extraordinary wildlife experiences in Africa. Numbers are limited and advance booking is essential.
Nanyuki sits at around 1,900m altitude, so mornings and evenings can be genuinely cool, especially compared to Samburu or Meru. Pack a warm fleece or light jacket — you’ll thank yourself on early-morning drives.
Exceptional. Meru has over 300 species, Samburu over 450, and Ol Pejeta is equally rich. If you’re a birder, let us know and we’ll tailor the guiding accordingly.
Most light aircraft restrict luggage to 15kg (33lbs) in a soft-sided bag only — no rigid suitcases. This is a firm weight limit. All camps have laundry facilities so packing light is easy.
Yes. Game drives are suitable for all ages. Guided walks and rhino encounters are recommended for children aged 10 and above. Let us know in advance and we’ll adjust the pace and activities to suit your family.
The Kenyan Shilling (KES). USD is widely accepted at lodges and for tipping. Carry some cash for smaller purchases. ATMs are available in Nairobi and Nanyuki town.
Absolutely — this is our starting point, not a fixed route. We can add nights, swap lodges, combine with the Masai Mara or the coast, or build in specific experiences. Just tell us what you want and we’ll make it happen.
