16 Days, 15 Nights Kenya Safari and Beach Safari - Itinerary & Quote

The Detailed, Kenya Safari Itinerary 16 Days, 15 Nights Tour

Our 16 days and 15 nights itinerary lets you explore everything this beautiful country has to offer, from its bustling cities to its incredible wildlife preserves. Plus, you’ll relax on some of the world’s most stunning beaches when you’re not exploring. Check out our detailed itinerary below for more information on what you can expect during your trip!

Day 1: Pickup from JKIA, Giraffe Center Tour, David Sheldrick Tour, & Nairobi National Museum Tour 

Your charming and knowledgeable private tour guide will be waiting to receive you at the airport with a broad African smile. Our guides arrive 30 minutes before your plane lands so you can be sure someone is waiting for you to welcome you to Kenya for your holiday.

After greetings, the guide will welcome you to your exclusive 4×4 safari land cruiser and start your Kenya safari and beach vacation. We recommend you book a plane that lands at JKIA in the morning so you can head straight to Giraffe Center.

Visit Giraffe Center

When Jock Leslie-Melville and his wife Betty were starting the AFEW (Africa Fund for Endangered Wildlife), there were not more than 120 Rothschild’s Giraffes in our country. Their numbers were slowly dwindling due to the severe loss of habitat in Western Kenya.

The two answered the desperate call of nature to save this remarkable giraffe species. Many years later, its population was almost three times the number in 1979. The center presents these rare beauties to you. 

Located 5km from Nairobi, Giraffe Center allows you to interact with these stunners by feeding them, petting them, and playing with them. Also, within the center is 95 acres of natural forest that houses numerous Warthogs and birds. 

Walks around the forest are magical with the lush green environs, melodious humming of birds, and sightings of game life teeming up to ensure your encounter is nothing short of spectacular.

Visit David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage 

After two or three hours, you shall head to David Sheldrick’s Elephant Orphanage. Here, you will get a rare opportunity to see why poaching is a monster. 

The orphanage takes in calves orphaned through poaching, natures them to life, and when the time is right, re-introduces them to the wild by releasing them into the Tsavo East National Park and Mwea National Park. A visit to the orphanage does not appeal to your eyes only. It appeals to your heart too.

The orphanage is a focal point for Elephant Conservation. At the orphanage, you can watch the calves being exercised, bathed, and fed by the highly dedicated staff. What’s more, for USD 50 only, you will get a chance to foster one of these cute baby elephants. In return, the orphanage will send you regular updates and photos of how your chubby baby is doing.

Lunch at Carnivore Restaurant 

The elephant orphanage is open from 11 am to noon, meaning you will head for lunch. Today we recommend trying some tasty dishes at Tamarind Hotel. You can choose from several types of meat, including crocodiles and ostrich. There is also a vegetarian diet. Finally, surrender by raising the white flag, and get a cocktail of traditional medicine (Dawa). 

Visit Nairobi National Museum and Snake Park

The afternoon will see you head to Nairobi National Museum and Snake Park. The Kenya Safari itinerary wouldn’t be complete without this adventure. The Museum is a preserve of all things Kenyan.

The Nairobi National Museum is a museum in Nairobi, Kenya. It is located west of the city center, on Langata Road. The museum was established in 1947 and is today the most famous museum in Kenya. It has a collection of over 120,000 items, including exhibits on Kenyan history, culture, nature, and wildlife. 

The museum also operates a snake park, home to over 100 species of snakes.

Day 2: Transfer to Tsavo West National Park & Afternoon Game Drive 

You will get picked up by our safari guide from your hotel at around 6 am for the journey to Tsavo West National Park. The trip will take about 5 hours, and you will arrive by noon, where you will check in to one of the hotels, grab lunch and rest a bit.

After a short rest, our tour guide will pick you up for an exciting afternoon game drive, where you will see different wildlife. Tsavo West covers an area of 9,065km square and is home to elephants, rhinos, buffaloes, hippos, leopards, lions, hartebeest, and other varied wildlife.

You will have an excellent opportunity to watch and take photographs of some of the cats in action as they go for a kill. It will be a long day, and later in the evening, after the game drive, you will retire to your accommodation lodge for the night.

Day 3: Full-Day Game Drive at Tsavo West National Park with Packed Lunch

On day 3 of your Kenya itinerary 16 days, you will enjoy a full-day adventure in Tsavo West National Park, an enormous park requiring more time to cover the main areas. Our professional safari guide will pick you up immediately after breakfast, ready to take you for a game drive around this magnificent animal and plant haven.

During the morning hours, many animals are usually busy feeding, which is a perfect opportunity to capture them with your camera. Animals you will encounter include herds of elephants, gazelles, buffaloes, impalas, lions, cheetahs, and leopards. Many bird species are also found here.

Our tour guide will take you to most of the places you did not make to visit during the previous day’s game drive to experience new adventures. As the heat rises and many animals disappear from the vicinity, it will be the best time to have lunch in the bush and get some deserved rest and fresh air.

After lunch, you will have yet another tour of the park, especially a visit to the magnificent Mzima Springs and the Shetani lava flows. Mzima is a series of lava-filtered clear water that also hosts some aquatic animals, such as hippos and crocodiles, and birds.

In the late evening, you will head back to the camp, where you will enjoy watching the sun’s golden rays as it sets in the west and enjoy the sounds of nocturnal animals.

Day 4: Transfer to Amboseli & Afternoon Game Drive at Amboseli National Park

After breakfast, you will get a transfer to another of Kenya’s famous parks, Amboseli National Park. The journey will begin at around 7 am. Amboseli National Park is one of the places in Africa where you will see large herds of Elephants at close range, having over 1600 of them roaming freely in the park.

You will make a stop-over at Lake Chala before continuing with the rest of the journey to Amboseli National Park. Lake Chala is a crater lake that came into existence after volcanic activity on Mount Kilimanjaro about 250,000 years ago.

The lake is mainly fed by underground water from the montane forest part of Mt Kilimanjaro, where it travels through rocks, making it crystal clear. After visiting Lake Chala, the journey to the park will continue, where you will arrive by lunchtime, take a sumptuous lunch, and rest.

Later in the afternoon, you will enjoy an afternoon game drive that will allow you to see elephants and other animals busy feeding. You are also likely to experience breathtaking scenes of lions and cheetahs hunting, especially in the evening when the sun heads west.

Apart from animals, Amboseli is home to over 400 species of birds that mainly depend on the many swamps that are found here. These birds include pelicans, egrets, herons, crowned cranes, and flamingoes, primarily present during the wet seasons.