Kenya Private 4x4 Overland Value Safari

After touching down at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, you are met by your driver/guide and transferred to the lovely Radisson Blu Hotel. Welcome to Kenya!

The Radisson offers comfortable and modern rooms with high-speed wireless internet, flat-screen televisions, and beautiful views of either the cityscape or Nairobi National Park. It's the perfect spot to relax after a long international flight and get some much needed rest before embarking on your 8-day value safari in Kenya.

After breakfast at the Radisson, you depart Nairobi to officially start your 4x4 road safari in Kenya. Take in the wonderful scenery as you travel north with your expert driver/guide.

You notice that the further north you travel, the drier and hillier the landscape becomes as the area doesn't benefit as much from the rains received by the south-west of Kenya. But as you enter the traditional homeland of the Samburu people, Kenya's vast semi-deserts give way to thick acacia and beautiful doum palm forests. You've arrived at Elephant Bedroom Camp, an authentic safari lodge on the banks of the Ewaso Nyiro, northern Kenya's biggest and least seasonal river.

This intimate camp has spacious tented suites that are built on stilts and overlook the river. It offers a comfortable setting, along with plunge pools on private patios. During your stay, you explore the gorgeous reserve on game drives, discovering its plentiful wildlife like elephant, lion, leopard, and the stars of the area: the Samburu Special 5 (gerenuk, reticulated giraffe, Grevy's zebra, Somali ostrich and beisa oryx).

After your final breakfast in Samburu, it's time to head towards Lake Nakuru National Park, enjoying the stunning Great Rift Valley scenery on your 4x4 road safari in Kenya. Your home for the next couple of days is Mbweha Safari Camp, a lava-stone lodge nestled within a spectacular forest of euphorbia candelabra - spiny, cactus-like trees that can grow up to 15 metres (50 feet) high.

Mbweha is set on the private Congreve Conservancy near the southern border of Lake Nakuru National Park and has spectacular views of the surrounding mountainous landscape. Being in a private conservancy allows for special activities like nature walks, mountain biking and night game drives. You'll explore Lake Nakuru National Park on game drives to see its populations of large mammals like rhino, buffalo, eland and rare Rothschild giraffe, as well as the park's glorious roster of birds like pelicans, fish eagles, Verreaux's eagles and Narina trogons.

The final stop on your 8-day value safari in Kenya is the famed Masai Mara. You arrive at Tipilikwani Mara Camp in time for lunch, enjoyed in a vibrant and friendly setting. 'Tipi' radiates the warmth of the local people and is ideal for those who want an authentic Mara experience. Nestled in a forested setting, your spacious riverfront tent is stylishly decorated and offers fabulous views of the Talek River.

Look forward to twice-daily game drives in the renowned Masai Mara in search of its legendary big cats (lion, cheetah and leopard) and big game like elephant, buffalo and giraffe. Thanks to the Mara's temperate climate and huge variety of animals, it's a fantastic safari destination any time of year.

Bid farewell to the Mara as you depart for Jomo Kenyatta International Airport on the final leg of your 4x4 road safari in Kenya.