Leaving Nairobi, you journey north passing near Thika, which has the world's 3rd largest pineapple plantation, and Karatina, with its colourful market. Soon you turn off the main road and head for Serena Mountain Lodge, arriving in time for lunch.

This is a tree lodge set in a forest glade with a nearby waterhole that attracts all sorts of wildlife during the day and night. The waterhole is floodlit and there is an underground viewing platform.

A morning drive takes you via Nyahururu Falls (still known to many as Thomson's Falls) to Lake Nakuru. The drive illustrates the beautiful and unusual contrast between the Rift Valley 's shallow soda lakes - populated by white pelicans, flamingos and other water birds - and the verdant woodlands.

Once in the park, you embark on a game drive en route to Lake Nakuru Lodge. After lunch you can enjoy an afternoon game drive.

Standard safari lodge situated in the Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya.

After an early morning breakfast you leave Lake Nakuru and head for Njoro town, where you begin your ascent up onto the Mau Escarpment. You then travel south towards Narok, the gateway to the Masai Mara.

Following lunch at the Mara Simba Lodge, you embark on an afternoon game drive. In the evening you can relax by the floodlit area by the river, or alongside the swimming pool.

Standard lodge overlooking the Tulek River in the Masai Mara.

Today you'll be treated to early morning and afternoon game drives. The Masai Mara National Reserve is rich in game including Africa's big 5. Of course the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem is most famous for the annual migration of over a million wildebeest and thousands of zebra.

Standard lodge overlooking the Tulek River in the Masai Mara.

After breakfast you depart the Masai Mara and head across acres of rolling wheat and barley farms to Narok. From here you cross the vast plains on the floor of the Rift Valley whilst keeping an eye out for herds of giraffe and gazelle, before heading up the rift escarpment.

You arrive into Kenya's bustling capital in the early afternoon. Once in the city, you are dropped off at a city centre hotel or the airport.