Images of Africa Photography

This morning, you depart by road through the scenic Athi Plains and into the bush country of Amboseli nestled in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro. You arrive in time for lunch and check in at Ol Tukai Lodge. The lodge offers a panoramic landscape sky and wildlife with the massive majesty of snowcapped Kili in the distance. The lodge is camouflaged in a forest of fever trees and palms.

Amboseli is a big game country, elephants, antelope, zebras, wildebeest, buffalo, and giraffe. Two game drives are planned today; both will introduce you to the intense beauty and drama that fills each day. Predators stalk the herds grazing animals recreating the age-old drama of life and death under the African sun in a setting so lushly beautiful for photography.

You will depart early from Amboseli after breakfast and drive north with a brief stop for lunch at Blue Post Hotel in Thika. You will then proceed north, drive through lush tea, coffee, and pineapple plantation to the Aberdare Country Club for check-in and then transfer to the Ark Forest Lodge for overnight.

After breakfast at the Ark, you will be transferred to the Aberdare Country Club and join your driver. You drive north through the quaint town of Isiolo. Here in Samburu / Shaba National Reserve, you will see wildlife not found in the southern hemisphere such as Somali ostrich, Grevy zebra, the reticulated giraffe, and the gerenuk.

Further explorations of this fascinating reserve await you, a full day game drive is planned today as you travel and take pictures of the world's most spectacular and exciting terrain. This was also the home, for instance, of Elsa the Lioness of "Born free fame".

Your destination today is the exotic Sweetwater's Tented Camp in the secluded heart of Ol Pejeta. In Ranch and Rhino reserve, these magnificent beasts are given sanctuary from those who would take their lives to sell their horns.
Here too, Jane Godall Institute operates a remarkable Chimpanzee sanctuary where you meet primates face to face. Your tents at Sweetwater's will remind you of this bygone era. The tents overlook one of the busiest waterholes, with elephants, giraffes and a plethora of plain game visiting.

Lake Nakuru is your destination today, with its jewel of a National park, well known for hundreds of thousands of flamingoes, a leopard sighting is likely here. This is a photographers' paradise. Lake Nakuru National park is also a rhino's sanctuary both black and white. It is also a refuge for the endangered Rothschild giraffe. Dinner and overnight will be at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge.

After breakfast and check out, you drive to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. The richness of the park's wildlife will captivate you for the next three days while your luxurious tented camp overlooking the Talek River at the very confluence of Mara's four prime game viewing area will be equally exciting. Dinner and overnight will be at Mara Intrepids Camp.

The next two days, you explore the Mara extensively. A country of rolling grasslands, dense thickets, and groves of acacia woodland. The Mara is home to the incredible variety of wildlife. A deep forest grows along its tributaries where many hippos and crocodiles bask lazily in the sunlight. Here, you find the largest population of lions in Africa. This is also home of the Maasai people, the Maasai is enduring to guard his cattle and proud figure in the Mara. Dinner and overnight will be at Mara Intrepids Camp.

After early breakfast and check-in, you drive to Serengeti in Tanzania. You will have lunch at the border after clearing customs and immigration. There is a game drive en route to Serengeti Sopa Lodge and you will be arriving late in the evening. Dinner and overnight will be at Serengeti Sopa Lodge. You spend the two nights at the lodge with full-day game drives.

There are millions or more large mammals, elephants, cheetahs, gazelles, wildebeest, zebras, giraffes etc. that inhabit this great grassland, shrubs and riverine forests. The lodge is styled after a traditional Maasai village blending in with the sun-bleached colours of Serengeti.

After a hearty breakfast, you are off to the Ngorongoro Conservation area for two nights. En route, you will visit Olduvai Gorge where the Leakey family uncovered the fossil of Homo - habilis (handyman), the first tool user who lived 1.75 million years ago, irrevocably changing the way scientists view human evolution.

After a hearty breakfast, you are off to the Ngorongoro Conservation area for two nights. En route, you will visit Olduvai Gorge where the Leakey family uncovered the fossil of Homo - habilis (handyman), the first tool user who lived 1.75 million years ago, irrevocably changing the way scientists view human evolution.

This morning, you descend into the crater and spend the whole day with picnic lunch tracking animals. This magnificent natural Amphitheatre is said to have the largest concentration of animals in the whole of Africa, including a high density of hyenas and lions.

Large flocks of flamingoes inhabit the alkaline lake. Because of the short grass, the game is easily spotted and photography is excellent. The ever-changing mood and tenor of the great amphitheatre will hold your attention every second of the day.

After breakfast and check out, you drive leisurely to Lake Manyara Serena Lodge for lunch, located in a spectacular setting at the edge of the escarpment, overlooking the Great Rift Valley. From the lodge, you can have a clear view of stunning Manyara Soda Lake with its masses of pink flamingoes.

After lunch, a game drive is planned to visit this lovely forested gem of a game park. In this lush landscape, there are large herds of elephants, a troop of baboons, vervets and blue monkeys, as well as leopards, big cats, and plain game. On your game run, you also seek the famous tree-climbing lions, a sight you will definitely never forget.

Your final day! After breakfast and check out of Lake Manyara Serena Lodge, you drive to Arusha town. You will have a little tour of the town and shopping before transferring to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your onward flights home. Tired but exalted on day 15 of this mighty photographic safari!