Egypt and Kenya Safari Tours
Full Itinerary of Egypt and Kenya Safari Tours
Day 1
Arrive Cairo where you will be met by our Egypt Tours and Travel tour manager who will meet and assist you. Later, transfer to your hotel, the luxurious and historical Marriott Mena House Hotel. A Pyramid view room. Overnight.
Day 2
Meet with your Egypt Tours tour guide. Start your tour by visiting the Pyramids of Giza. Cheop's Pyramid, the largest of the three, was built during the 4th Dynasty around 2690 BC and is one of the Seven Wonders of the ancient world. In front of the pyramids of Chephren, we find the Sphinx carved from a single piece of stone. It is a lion with a pharaoh's head thought to be a portrait of the Pharaoh Chephren. Enjoy a camel ride by the pyramids. Continue your tour by visiting the Egyptian Museum; famous for its antiquities from Egypt's Pharaonic period, which dates back some 50 centuries and includes the fabulous treasures of King Tut-Ankh-Amon. Also, visit the outstanding Mummy Room in the Museum. Afternoon excursions to Old Cairo, visiting the very old Coptic churches and the oldest Jewish Synagogue of Beni Ezra. Continue your tour by visiting the Citadel of Salah el-Din and the Alabaster Mohammed Ali mosque and the medieval bazaars of Khan el-Khalili, where you can bargain for your jewelry and hand-tooled leather items. Return to your hotel. Overnight.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 3
You will be met by your Egypt Tours tour manager and transferred to Cairo Airport for your early flight to Aswan. Upon arrival at Aswan Airport, you will be met and transferred to embark your cruise ship, the M/S Royal Lilli. Later, you will visit "Felucca" the Elephantine Island, the Mausoleum of Agha Khan, and the Botanical Gardens. Overnight onboard ship.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4
Visit the Unfinished Obelisk in the Ancient Granite Quarries, the High Dam, and Philae Temple. Cruise to Kom-Ombo. Visit the Ptolemaic Temple of Kom-Ombo, which was dedicated to two gods: the crocodile god Sobek and the falcon-headed god Haroeris. Sail to Edfu. Overnight on board.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5
Visit the Temples of Horus (237 BC) one of the best-preserved Egyptian temples. Sail to Luxor via Esna. Overnight onboard ship.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6
Cross to the West Bank of the Nile, visit the Necropolis of Ancient Thebes. Explore the valleys of the Kings and Queens where tombs of 64 Pharaohs and 57 Queens have been discovered. Enter some of the most important burials. Visit the temple of Queen Hatshepsut and the Colossi of Memnon. In the afternoon, visit the temple of Karnak, which took over 1500 years to build and is considered the world's largest religious complex. Then visit the temple of Luxor, which was started by Amenhotep III and completed by Ramses II. Disembark your cruise ship, where you will be met and transferred to Luxor Airport for your flight back to Cairo. Upon arrival at Cairo Airport, you will be met by your Egypt Tours tour manager and transferred to the Cairo Marriott hotel. Overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Day 7
You will be met by your Egypt Tours tour manager and transferred to Cairo Airport, where you will be helped with your check-in for your departure flight to Nairobi, Kenya.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 8
Arrive in Nairobi where you will be met and transferred to the city. Check-in at the luxurious and fashionable Norfolk Hotel. Later that same morning, you'll enjoy a safari briefing from our professional guide. In the afternoon you'll be escorted to the Karen Blixen homestead, where the movie "Out of Africa" was filmed. See Kenya at the turn of the century in its simple splendor amidst some of the most beautiful gardens in Africa. Afterward, you'll visit Giraffe manor, where the endangered Rothchild Giraffe is protected, before returning to the city in the late afternoon.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 9
Start your day by boarding your safari minibus, we drive north of Nairobi into the Kikuyu highlands, where much of the country's produce is grown, plus its important exports of pineapple, tea, and coffee. This beautiful agricultural area also has the largest open-air market. The Karatina Kikuya Market brings people from all over the highlands together. You'll stop at a local refreshment center then tour the market, learning about the area's produce with many opportunities for buying locally fabricated crafts and socializing with the people. Afterward, you'll continue to the town of Nanyuki in Kikuyuland, where we've arranged for a special tour of the private Weavers Association, a benevolent women's organization that recruits and trains young girls in the art of weaving the area's time wool. The organization has developed ecologically sound ways to dye the wool which has been patented worldwide. Weavers produce shawls, rugs, wall hangings, a variety of other woven goods, and create jobs for hundreds of area women. Lunch at the Troutbeck Inn in the mountains, enjoying freshly caught trout fish before continuing in the afternoon to Samburu National Park. Start your game drive into Larsen's luxury permanent tented camp. Overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Image source: Alexander Leisser
Day 10
This morning, the excitement begins with your first dawn “game drive” in one of Kenya's most famous parks: Samburu. Samburu is a beautiful national park, wrapped around the great Ewaso Ng’iro river which cuts a swathe of the jungle through the great Northern Frontier Desert. The game is abundant, rare, and beautiful, including the reticulated giraffe, the most handsome of the long-necked mammals. You'll also see the rare Grevy's zebra and blue-legged Somali ostrich. Samburu is known for its vast herds of elephants. Transfer to your luxury permanent tented camp that is situated right on the river, where you can often watch elephants frolicking and bathing. In between the morning and afternoon game drives you'll have the option of taking a camel ride into the local Samburu village.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 11
Drive to world-famous Mt. Kenya Safari Club. During your free afternoon, a wide variety of options are available from horseback safaris, trout fishing, golf, tennis, and a full range of beauty and spa services. Created by William Holden and now a world-class resort, the safari club's rooms, gardens, and public areas are the most elegant in Kenya. Overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 12
Enjoy breakfast and a quick and spectacular flight over the Great Rift Valley and its many lakes as you make your way to Kenya's best game park, the Masai Mara. As your flight arrives, you'll be met by your private driver in a land-rover and taken to one of the Mara's most exclusive permanent tented camps, the Mara Safari Club. In the afternoon, you'll enjoy your first game drive in this fantastic wilderness area.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 13
Breakfast and three-game drives are included this day in the club's exclusive land-rovers. Visit a local Maasai village. The Mara is several hundred square miles of gently rolling grassland plains, filled with big wildlife. The density of lions in the Mara is greater than anywhere else in Africa. You'll see numerous herbivores like impala, topi, wildebeest, and zebra, sometimes in groupings of thousands. In addition to lions, there are many cheetahs and leopards. The Mara never fails to satisfy the most demanding wildlife viewing expectations and is one of the most beautiful places in Africa.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 14
Your last day of the Safari ends with a grand finale. You'll be woken up before dawn, then driven over the veld at night through the great activity of the predawn hunts. At sunrise, you'll board a beautiful gondola (hot air balloon) and start rising over the great herds of the Mara silently into the sky. The ride lasts about an hour, traveling with the gentle western winds. Few animals look up, so you have a remarkable opportunity to get close and watch the animals without disturbing them. The balloon will land where fate places it, as track vehicles immediately set out a beautiful champagne breakfast. At that very spot where the balloon lands, you will enjoy the luxury of the early explorers as uniformed waiters serve you an elegant meal. Afterward, we take a nature drive back to the camp. Later, transfer to the airstrip for a quick flight back to Nairobi. Arrive at Nairobi where you will be met by our representative and transferred to the Norfolk Hotel. Balance of day at leisure or for last-minute shopping. Overnight.
Meals: Breakfast
Day 15
You will be met and transferred to Nairobi Airport for your departure flight.
Meals: Breakfast
Enthrall You with our Egypt and Kenya Safari Tours
It’s now well known that Egypt and Kenya Safari Tours are quite mesmerizing. If are a seasoned traveler or a newbie out to explore the world, these two countries have the best of everything a traveler can expect, with their bounty of wildlife and laid back culture being at the forefront. And as a traveler, when there are expectations, it helps to take the services of the best-yes, here we are talking of Egypt Tours and Travels, the leading tour operator that ensures that its customers get to see as many places and discover their rich history, their itinerary being made likewise. It is not hyperbole to mention that this tour operator understands every traveler’s inherent desire of making the most of each trip he/ she take.
Egypt Tours and Travels have enough credentials that ensure that we are rated among the best and offer varied packages that can be availed by all sorts of customers. The Egypt and Kenya Safari Tours are spread over 15 days, starting from Cairo and ending at Nairobi, you being dropped off here for your departure flight. Further, throughout the tour, you will be provided the best possible accommodation and served the most sumptuous menus, and we leave no stone upturned in making your tour the most memorable one for you.
Also Included: Domestic flights in Egypt and Kenya Safari Tours. All taxes, service charges, port charges, and entrance fees to sights mentioned included as well. Most meals through-out the trip. All transfers, meeting and assistance, and baggage handling are also included.
Extensions & Optional Tours: Extra days and optional tours to sites are available upon request.
Pricing
$7949
Egypt & Kenya
$1249
Single Supplement
**Please keep in mind that if you are traveling alone, you are single occupancy.
