Luxury Honeymoon Escape Across Kenya’s Wildlands
15 Days Kenya Honeymoon Safari
15 Days Kenya Honeymoon Safari
Overview
Experience Kenya’s Ultimate Luxury Honeymoon Safari
This exclusive Kenya honeymoon safari combines the country’s most iconic wildlife destinations with intimate romantic experiences designed for couples. Enjoy private game drives, flamingo lakes, luxury tented camps, Kilimanjaro sunrise views, bush dinners, and the legendary Masai Mara migration safari while exploring Kenya’s extraordinary landscapes together.
- Witness Great Migration in the Masai Mara
- Romantic Bush Dinners Beneath African Stars
- Explore Samburu’s Unique Northern Five Wildlife
- Sunrise Elephant Encounters Below Mount Kilimanjaro
Inclusions
What's included
- 14 nights full board accommodation as per itinerary
- All meals throughout the safari
- All road transfers between destinations
- Professional English-speaking honeymoon safari guide throughout
- All game drives in private 4x4 safari vehicles
- All national park and conservation area entry fees
- Internal flight: Arusha/Manyara to Zanzibar (included)
- Northern white rhino visit and keeper presentation at Ol Pejeta
- Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary visit
- Black rhino tracking on foot at Ol Pejeta
- Crescent Island walking safari, Lake Naivasha
- Private bush sundowner setups throughout
- Sunset boat cruise on Lake Naivasha
- Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary game drive with KWS ranger
- Mzima Springs visit with underwater observation chamber
Exclusions
What's Excluded
- International flights to and from Kenya
- Kenya visa fees
- Travel and medical insurance
- Hot air balloon safari, Masai Mara (available at extra cost)
- Camel-back safari, Samburu (available at extra cost)
- Alcoholic beverages unless specified
- Spa treatments at any lodge or hotel
- Gratuities for guides, drivers and lodge staff
- Personal items and laundry
- Any items of personal nature
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Day 1
Nairobi to Samburu National Reserve
Morning – Departure from Nairobi
Your Kenya honeymoon safari package begins with an early morning departure from Nairobi. The drive north to Samburu takes approximately five hours through the Nanyuki corridor and the Mount Kenya foothills, the landscape changing from the city’s outskirts through highland agricultural land to the increasingly dry and open country of the north. The transition is gradual and then sudden: the vegetation thins, the horizon stretches, the sky becomes a different quality of blue, and you are in the north. Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris driver and guide handle the transfer from Nairobi to the reserve gate and through to your chosen accommodation. Arrive in time for lunch, check in, and take the rest of the afternoon to settle into the landscape before the first game drive.
Afternoon – First Game Drive: The Ewaso Nyiro River Circuit
The first afternoon drive follows the Ewaso Nyiro River, the most productive game viewing route in the reserve. The river in the late afternoon draws every water-dependent species within reach, and a slow drive along its banks in the hour before sunset tends to produce the kind of concentrated wildlife viewing that more open parks can rarely match. Elephant families wade across the shallows. Crocodiles bask on the exposed sandbanks. Hippos occupy the deeper pools downstream. And the riverine woodland that lines the banks holds leopard in densities that make Samburu one of Kenya’s best parks for a reliable cat sighting. The Northern Five are typically encountered within the first afternoon. A herd of reticulated giraffe moving through the doum palms. A group of Grevy’s zebra on the open ground above the river bank. Gerenuk standing upright to browse the higher acacia foliage. These are animals that look different from anything in the southern parks, and the eye needs a moment to adjust to them.
Evening – Sundowner and Romantic Bush Dinner
Samburu’s first evening sets the tone for the honeymoon safari that follows. Your guide arranges sundowners at a suitable vantage point above the river, cold drinks and the northern sky turning colour above the Mathews Range to the north. Dinner at the lodge or camp is followed by the sounds of the Samburu night, lions calling across the river, the distant bark of a leopard, the extraordinary silence of a wilderness that is genuinely far from anything else.
Early Morning – Dawn Game Drive
The second Samburu morning begins before sunrise. The reserve at dawn has a quality that the afternoon drives cannot replicate, the light arriving softly across the dry country, the animals active from the cool night, the lion prides returning from wherever the night’s hunting took them. The guide positions the vehicle on the known routes before the light fully arrives and the game drive covers the open ground and the river corridor in the two hours when the park is at its most alive.
Late Morning – Camel-Back Game Drive
One of Samburu’s most distinctive and romantic offerings is the camel-back game drive, a way of moving through the dry northern landscape that connects to the traditions of the communities who have lived here for centuries. Accompanied by a Samburu guide, your couple mounts camels and moves at the camel’s pace through the acacia scrubland, approaching wildlife at a height and with a silence that no vehicle can match. The experience is genuinely romantic in the specific way that only an activity completely unlike anything in ordinary life can be. Slow, physically engaging, slightly absurd, and producing a perspective on the Samburu landscape that the vehicle-based game drive cannot. The camels are well-handled and the guide manages the experience with the expertise of long practice.
Afternoon – Samburu Cultural Village Visit
The Samburu people are one of Kenya’s most distinctive pastoral communities, closely related to the Maasai but inhabiting the harsher landscape of the north with a cultural adaptation that reflects the demands of that environment. The men are warriors and herders. The women are the architects of the family homestead and the producers of the elaborate bead jewellery that signals social status, marital state, and age within the community. Your afternoon cultural visit to a Samburu village is arranged in partnership with the community. You will see the ntale homestead structure, hear about the age-set system that organises Samburu society, watch the traditional dances that mark the warrior stage of a young man’s life, and have the opportunity to talk with community members through your guide. The visit provides context for the landscape you have been driving through and the people whose relationship with it is thousands of years old.
Evening – Private Sundowner Setup
Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private sundowner setup for your last Samburu evening. A table in the bush, the river below, cold drinks, candles as the light fades. It is the kind of arrangement that requires a guide who understands what a honeymoon actually needs, which is not more activities but more presence, more attention to the specific quality of the moment.
Samburu Accommodation Options
Elephant Bedroom Camp (Luxury Tented Camp, on the Ewaso Nyiro River), Sarova Samburu Game Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, riverside), Samburu Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the reserve), Buffalo Springs Tented Lodge (Mid-Range, Buffalo Springs National Reserve). 2 nights at your chosen Samburu accommodation. Full board throughout. Bush sundowner included. Drinking water provided.
Day 2
Full Day in Samburu - Northern Five, Camel Safari and Cultural Visit
Day 3
Samburu to Aberdare National Park
Morning – Transfer from Samburu to Aberdare
The drive from Samburu to the Aberdare Salient covers approximately four hours through the Mount Kenya corridor, the landscape climbing from the dry north through increasingly lush highland country as the altitude rises. The transition from the northern wilderness to the highland forest is one of the most dramatic landscape changes on the Kenya honeymoon safari package route, and the drive gives you time to process the two days in Samburu before the forest world of the Aberdare begins. Arrive at your Aberdare lodge in the early afternoon. The temperature will be noticeably cooler than Samburu. Take lunch and rest before the afternoon and evening programme begins.
Afternoon – Aberdare Forest Drive and Waterfall Walk
The afternoon in the Aberdare covers the forest road network below the moorland, the habitat of the park’s most elusive resident, the bongo antelope. The bongo is a large, spectacularly marked forest antelope with chestnut colouring and white vertical stripes, and it is among the rarest and most sought-after wildlife sightings in Kenya. Your guide drives the known bongo territories with the patience and knowledge that gives a sighting its best chance. The Aberdare also holds good numbers of black and white colobus monkeys in the upper forest canopy, olive baboons, buffalo in the forest clearings, and the occasional elephant moving through the bamboo. A short walk to one of the park’s waterfalls gives a different perspective on a landscape that is experienced very differently from the vehicle.
Evening – Waterhole Watch and Night Game Drive
The Aberdare evening is the highlight of the one-night stop. After dinner at the lodge, the waterhole below the viewing platform begins its night activity. The floodlights illuminate the salt lick and the water, and the animals that arrive do so in their own time and on their own terms, entirely unaware of the observers above them. It is one of Kenya’s most intimate wildlife watching experiences, silent, stationary, and allowing a quality of observation that the moving game drive vehicle rarely produces. The night game drive that follows takes the vehicle into the forest on the park’s night drive routes, the spotlight picking out the reflective eyes of animals in the darkness. Leopard are the prize, and the Aberdare’s resident population is large enough that a night drive here gives a genuine chance of a sighting. Giant forest hog, serval, and the various small cats and genets that the forest holds round out what the spotlight finds.
Aberdare Accommodation Options
The Ark Lodge (Iconic Treehouse Lodge above the waterhole, Aberdare Salient), Treetops Lodge (Historic Treehouse Lodge, where Queen Elizabeth II learned of her accession), Aberdare Country Club (Country House Hotel, at the park boundary). 1 night at your chosen Aberdare accommodation. Full board. Waterhole watch and night game drive included. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Aberdare to Ol Pejeta
The drive from the Aberdare Salient to Ol Pejeta follows the mountain road around the southern slopes of the Aberdare Range and onto the Nanyuki plain below Mount Kenya. The drive takes approximately two hours and the arrival at Ol Pejeta, with the conservancy’s open grasslands spreading ahead and Mount Kenya rising on the eastern horizon, is one of the most visually rewarding moments of the Kenya honeymoon itinerary. Check in at your conservancy accommodation, take lunch, and then the afternoon programme begins with what Ol Pejeta is famous for above all else.
Afternoon – Northern White Rhino Encounter and Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary
The visit to Najin and Fatu, the world’s last two northern white rhinos, is accompanied by a keeper who has cared for the animals for years and can speak to their individual personalities, histories, and the conservation programme working to preserve the subspecies through assisted reproduction. The encounter is managed with deep respect for the animals and for the significance of what you are witnessing. It is not a zoo visit. It is a meeting with biological history in the presence of the people who have devoted their lives to it. The Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary holds rescued chimpanzees from across Central and West Africa, animals that arrived as orphans from the bushmeat trade and cannot be returned to the wild. The sanctuary’s semi-wild enclosures allow the chimpanzees to live in social groups and exhibit natural behaviours.
Evening – Sundowner on the Conservancy Plains with Mount Kenya
The first Ol Pejeta evening ends with sundowners on the conservancy plains as Mount Kenya catches the last light above the equatorial plain. Cold drinks, the conservancy’s resident wildlife moving in the middle distance, and Africa’s second highest mountain turning pink and then orange and then dark above you.
Day 4
Aberdare to Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Day 5
Full Day in Ol Pejeta - Big Five Game Drives and Black Rhino Tracking
Early Morning – Dawn Predator Drive
Ol Pejeta’s lion population is one of the most closely monitored in Kenya, with individual animals tracked by collar and by daily observation from the conservancy’s ranger teams. The dawn drive benefits from this monitoring, with your guide in radio contact with the ranger network to position the vehicle where the previous night’s lion activity has been concentrated. The conservancy’s habituated prides approach vehicles at distances that allow genuinely close observation of natural pride behaviour. Leopard in Ol Pejeta use the riverine forest corridors along the Ewaso Nyiro and its tributaries.
Morning – Black Rhino Tracking on Foot
Ol Pejeta holds the largest black rhino population in East Africa, and a morning of on-foot black rhino tracking with a conservancy ranger gives your couple an experience that is the most physically engaged and most intimate of any wildlife encounter on the Kenya honeymoon safari package. The tracking follows spoor, fresh dung, and the trails through the bush that the rhinos use on their daily circuits, moving at a pace that is determined by what the ground is telling the tracker rather than a fixed route. Finding a black rhino on foot, at the end of a track that has required genuine skill and patience to follow, is qualitatively different from encountering one from a vehicle.
Afternoon – Full Conservancy Drive and Bush Picnic
The afternoon covers the full range of the conservancy’s game areas, the open Serengeti section in the west where the large buffalo herds graze, the central plains where the elephant families move between the conservancy’s permanent water sources, and the Ewaso Nyiro River corridor where the predator density is highest. A bush picnic is set up in the conservancy in the late afternoon, a private table for two in the middle of the game area with the Mount Kenya skyline visible to the east.
Ol Pejeta Accommodation Options
Sweetwaters Serena Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, inside Ol Pejeta), Ol Pejeta Bush Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the conservancy), Porini Rhino Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, near the rhino sanctuary). 2 nights at your chosen Ol Pejeta accommodation. Full board throughout. Black rhino tracking and chimpanzee visit included. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Ol Pejeta to Lake Nakuru
The drive from Ol Pejeta to Lake Nakuru follows the Rift Valley highway south through Nakuru town and into the national park. The journey takes approximately two to three hours and the arrival at the park gives the first view of the lake from the escarpment above, the flamingo pink visible along the shoreline from a distance that makes the scale of the spectacle immediately apparent. Check in at your lodge, take lunch, and then head straight to the lake shore for the afternoon.
Afternoon – Lake Shore Drive and Flamingo Spectacle
The afternoon drive follows the lake shore circuit, the route that puts you alongside the flamingo concentrations at the waterline. The birds feed in the shallows by filtering the algae that the alkaline water produces, moving in dense, pink masses that shift and reform continuously along the shore. The sound of a large flamingo flock is its own experience, a low, constant murmuring that fills the air along the lake edge and continues through the evening. The lake shore circuit also covers the areas where the white rhino population is most reliably found, grazing on the open grassland between the water and the woodland. The park’s lion pride is often encountered on the rocky outcrops above the lake in the late afternoon.
Evening – Rift Valley Sundowners
Lake Nakuru’s position in the floor of the Great Rift Valley gives the evening a particular quality. The escarpment walls catch the last light while the valley floor falls into shadow, and the flamingo line along the lake shore holds its colour after the rest of the landscape has gone dark. Your guide arranges sundowners at a viewpoint above the lake for your Nakuru evening, the valley spread below you and the pink line of birds visible at the water’s edge.
Lake Nakuru Accommodation Options
Lake Nakuru Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park with lake views), Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, elevated position above the lake), Flamingo Hill Tented Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, inside the park). 1 night at your chosen Lake Nakuru accommodation. Full board. Rift Valley sundowner included. Drinking water provided.
Day 6
Ol Pejeta to Lake Nakuru National Park
Day 7
Lake Nakuru to Masai Mara National Reserve
Morning – Transfer from Lake Nakuru to Masai Mara
The drive from Lake Nakuru to the Masai Mara takes approximately three to four hours south through the Rift Valley and into the rolling hills of the Mara ecosystem. The road descends from the Rift Valley floor through increasingly open country and the landscape widens into the open savannah that signals the approach to the reserve. Arrive at your camp in time for lunch and the afternoon game drive.
Afternoon – First Mara Game Drive
The first afternoon in the Masai Mara tends to produce the kind of sighting that resets all previous expectations of what a game drive can deliver. The plains are enormous and the wildlife is everywhere in the open. Elephant herds move across the horizon. Lion prides rest in the shade of the few acacia trees that break the grassland. Cheetah scan from the termite mounds. The late afternoon light on the Mara grass is the light that has defined Africa in the international imagination for a century, and experiencing it for the first time from an open vehicle has a quality that no other destination on this Kenya honeymoon itinerary can replicate.
Evening – Romantic Campfire Dinner
The Mara evening ends around the campfire at your camp, the sounds of the reserve coming across the plains in the darkness. Lions call. Hyenas work their circuits. The sky above the Mara, far from any significant light pollution, is one of the finest star canopies in East Africa. Your guide arranges a private campfire dinner for your couple, a table set in the bush, the fire burning, the Mara night around you.
Pre-Dawn – Hot Air Balloon Safari (Optional but Strongly Recommended)
The hot air balloon safari over the Masai Mara at sunrise is one of the most romantic experiences available anywhere in Africa and one of the experiences that defines the Kenya honeymoon safari package for couples who take it. The balloon lifts before first light and drifts across the plains as the sun rises, the wildlife visible below moving through the early morning with complete unawareness of the balloon above them. Lions on a kill. Elephant herds at the river. The great migration herds spread across the grass in every direction. The flight lasts approximately one hour and concludes with a champagne breakfast served in the field, a white-tablecloth meal in the middle of the Mara with the balloon laid out on the grass behind you.
Morning – Mara River Crossing Vigil
The Mara River crossing is the event around which the Kenya honeymoon itinerary’s Mara section is built during migration season between July and October. Your guide positions the vehicle at one of the established crossing points and the vigil begins. The wildebeest mass on the far bank in their thousands, building the collective courage that the crossing requires. When they go, they go suddenly and completely, pouring over the bank into the water, the crocodiles coming from both directions, the lions holding the far bank. It is the most intensely dramatic natural event on earth and no description of it adequately prepares a first-time witness. Outside migration season, the Mara River is still worth the vigil. Hippo pods, Nile crocodiles, the extraordinary birdlife of the river margins, and the chance of a crossing by the resident wildebeest population all reward the time spent at the water.
Afternoon – Big Five Game Drive and Maasai Village
The full afternoon game drive covers the Big Five search across the Mara’s different habitat zones, the open plains for cheetah and the migration herds, the riverine forest for leopard, the kopjes and rocky outcrops for lion, and the swampy areas for buffalo and elephant. The Maasai village visit in the late afternoon gives cultural context for the landscape you have been driving through, with the Maasai community’s centuries-long relationship with the Mara ecosystem providing a human dimension to the safari experience.
Masai Mara Accommodation Options
Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Mara Triangle, prime river crossing location), Mara Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Eastern Mara), Governors’ Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the Mara River), Mara Intrepids Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, Talek area). 2 nights at your chosen Masai Mara accommodation. Full board throughout. Hot air balloon safari optional extra. Campfire dinner included. Drinking water provided.
Day 8
Full Day in the Masai Mara - Big Five, River Crossings and Hot Air Balloon
Day 9
Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha
Morning – Transfer from Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha
The drive from the Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha heads northeast through the Rift Valley, the landscape rising from the Mara plains through the Rift escarpment and down onto the lake basin. The journey takes approximately three hours and the arrival at Naivasha, with the lake visible through the yellow fever acacia woodland and the papyrus moving in the wind at the water’s edge, is a complete change of scene from the Mara’s open grasslands.
Afternoon – Crescent Island Walking Safari
Crescent Island is a private wildlife sanctuary in the eastern section of Lake Naivasha, accessible by boat from the lake shore. The island holds populations of giraffe, wildebeest, zebra, waterbuck, and various antelope species that can be walked among on foot without the barrier of a vehicle between you and the animals. The giraffes on Crescent Island are habituated to human presence at close range and the experience of walking alongside them, the ground level view of their extraordinary height and the unhurried grace of their movement, is one of the highlights of the Kenya honeymoon holiday package. Your guide leads the walk at a pace determined by what the animals are doing rather than a fixed route.
Evening – Sunset Boat Cruise on Lake Naivasha
The Naivasha evening is the boat cruise. A traditional wooden boat moves along the papyrus-fringed shore as the sun drops toward the Rift Valley escarpment, the hippos emerging from the water in the shallows nearby, African fish eagles calling from the yellow fever acacia trees above the bank. The boat moves quietly and the guide points out the bird species in the papyrus and the waterbirds on the open water. It is a gentle, romantic end to the one Naivasha night, the lake turning gold and then pink and then dark around the boat.
Lake Naivasha Accommodation Options
Enashipai Resort and Spa (Mid-Range Resort, on the lake shore), Crater Lake Camp (Boutique Tented Camp, Crater Lake private conservancy), Sawela Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on the lake shore), Naivasha Kongoni Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, lake shore). 1 night at your chosen Lake Naivasha accommodation. Full board. Boat cruise and Crescent Island walk included. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Lake Naivasha to Amboseli
The drive from Lake Naivasha to Amboseli heads south through Nairobi and then south again onto the Namanga road toward the Tanzania border. The total journey takes approximately four to five hours and the approach to Amboseli, with Kilimanjaro appearing on the horizon well before the park boundary, is one of the great arrival moments of the Kenya honeymoon itinerary. Arrive at your lodge for lunch and the afternoon game drive.
Afternoon – Observation Hill and First Elephant Drive
The first Amboseli afternoon begins at Observation Hill, the only elevated point in the flat Amboseli basin, with a panoramic view across the entire park and toward Kilimanjaro to the south. The geography of the park, the swamps, the open plains, the elephant herds visible as moving shapes across the ground below, is immediately comprehensible from the hilltop. The afternoon game drive then covers the core elephant areas of the park, the families moving between the swamps and the open ground in the late afternoon. The first Amboseli elephant encounter, with the mountain visible behind them and the flat plain around them and no vehicle but yours in the area, is one of those safari moments that honeymoon couples consistently name as the defining experience of the Kenya honeymoon safari package.
Day 10
Lake Naivasha to Amboseli National Park
Day 11
Full Day in Amboseli - Dawn with Kilimanjaro, Swamps and Bush Breakfast
Pre-Dawn – Kilimanjaro Sunrise Drive
The second Amboseli morning begins before sunrise for the most important drive of the entire Kenya honeymoon itinerary. Kilimanjaro is most reliably clear in the pre-dawn hour before cloud builds around the summit, and your guide positions the vehicle at the swamp edge as the sky lightens and the elephant families move onto the plain with the mountain emerging behind them. The combination of the elephants, the light, and the mountain in the pre-dawn cold is the defining image of Kenya safari photography and it is available to anyone willing to be in the field before the sun rises.
Late Morning – Swamp Circuit and Bush Breakfast
The morning covers the Enkongo Narok and Longinye swamps in detail, the papyrus beds and the open water where the elephant families spend the late morning bathing and socialising. The swamp elephants are the most relaxed and accessible in the entire park, spending hours in and around the water with the kind of unhurried engagement that only comes when an animal is completely at ease with its surroundings. A bush breakfast is served on the Amboseli plain in the late morning, a private table for two with Kilimanjaro behind you and the elephant herds visible at the swamp edge.
Afternoon – Maasai Village and Big Five Drive
The afternoon covers the Maasai village visit, the cultural dimension that the Amboseli section of the Kenya honeymoon safari package provides, followed by the big five game drive covering the lion and cheetah territories of the open plain. The cheetah families of Amboseli are found on the flat ground where the open terrain gives them the hunting advantage their speed requires, and the Amboseli plain is one of the best places in Kenya to watch a cheetah hunt in the late afternoon light.
Amboseli Accommodation Options
Amboseli Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park with Kilimanjaro views), Kibo Safari Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the park boundary), Ol Tukai Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park near the swamps), Kimana Amboseli Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, Kimana Wildlife Corridor). 2 nights at your chosen Amboseli accommodation. Full board throughout. Bush breakfast included. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Amboseli to Tsavo West
The drive from Amboseli to Tsavo West follows the road east toward the Mombasa highway and then north into the Tsavo ecosystem. The journey takes approximately two to three hours and the transition from the Amboseli basin’s flat plains to the red volcanic landscape of Tsavo is one of the most marked landscape changes on the entire Kenya honeymoon itinerary. The red earth announces itself and does not leave. Arrive for lunch at your lodge and the afternoon game drive.
Afternoon – Red Elephant Game Drive
The first Tsavo afternoon introduces your couple to the red elephants, the wildlife experience that is unique to this park and that no other destination on the Kenya honeymoon safari package can provide. The herds in Tsavo are large and genuinely wild, encountered on their own terms across a landscape that has not been softened for tourism. The afternoon drive also covers the open plains game, the plains zebra, Masai giraffe, buffalo, and the predators that follow the game through the Tsavo dry season.
Evening – Waterhole Watch at the Lodge
The evening at your Tsavo lodge is defined by the waterhole below the viewing terrace. After dinner, the animals begin arriving at the water in the darkness, illuminated by the lodge’s floodlights. Elephant families move in quietly from the surrounding bush. Buffalo gather in their hundreds at the larger waterholes. The sounds of the Tsavo night carry across the valley in the silence between the arrivals.
Day 12
Amboseli to Tsavo West National Park
Day 13
Full Day in Tsavo West - Mzima Springs, Shetani Lava and Rhino Sanctuary
Early Morning – Dawn Game Drive
The last dawn game drive of the Kenya honeymoon itinerary covers the Tsavo River circuit in the pre-sunrise quiet, the light arriving across the red earth with a quality that belongs entirely to this landscape. Lions that hunted through the night are found resting near the water sources. The dawn buffalo herds move across the open ground. The Tsavo River in the early morning, the riverine forest along its banks and the birds beginning their calls in the canopy above, gives a gentler dimension to the landscape after the drama of the previous afternoon.
Morning – Mzima Springs
Mzima Springs is the most extraordinary natural feature in Tsavo West and one of the most unusual wildlife experiences on the entire Kenya honeymoon safari package. The underground river fed by Kilimanjaro’s glacial melt emerges here as clear, cold springs in the middle of the dry country, feeding pools that support a resident hippo pod and a crocodile population viewable from an underwater observation chamber. Watching hippos move in slow motion through the clear water from below the surface, the light filtering down from above them, is one of the most genuinely unusual wildlife encounters in East Africa.
Afternoon – Shetani Lava Flow and Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary
The Shetani Lava Flow, a 50-square-kilometre field of black volcanic rock from an eruption less than 200 years ago, provides the afternoon’s most dramatic landscape. A walk across the lava surface with your guide, the black rock hot underfoot and the Tsavo plains visible in every direction, is the kind of experience that no other destination on this Kenya honeymoon holiday package offers. The afternoon then moves to the Ngulia Rhino Sanctuary for a dedicated black rhino drive with a KWS ranger, closing the wildlife programme of the entire safari with one of Kenya’s rarest and most sought-after sightings.
Final Evening – Private Romantic Bush Dinner
The last evening of your Kenya honeymoon safari package deserves something specific. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private bush dinner for your couple at the lodge or in the field, a candlelit table in the Tsavo darkness, the sounds of the waterhole below, the stars above the Ngulia Hills. It is the right way to close fifteen days in Kenya’s greatest wildlife destinations. The journey that began in the dry north of Samburu ends here in the dry south of Tsavo, and everything between the two — the highland forest, the conservancy, the flamingo lake, the great plains of the Mara, the papyrus lake, the mountain-backed elephants of Amboseli — has been experienced at the pace and with the depth that a honeymoon deserves.
Tsavo West Accommodation Options
Ngulia Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Tsavo West, famous floodlit waterhole), Severin Safari Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, Tsavo West), Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Tsavo West, first lodge built in any Kenya national park). 2 nights at your chosen Tsavo West accommodation. Full board throughout. Private romantic bush dinner on final evening. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Final Drive and Transfer to Nairobi
The final morning of your Kenya honeymoon holiday package begins with a last drive through Tsavo West before the transfer north to Nairobi. The drive takes approximately four hours on the Mombasa highway through the Tsavo ecosystem and up through the Athi Plains to the capital. Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris driver handles the full transfer to your Nairobi hotel or to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for onward flights.
Fifteen days. Eight destinations. The northern wilderness, the highland forest, the conservancy, the flamingo lake, the great plains of the migration, the papyrus lake, the mountain and its elephants, and the ancient volcanic country of the south. This is Kenya’s most complete Kenya honeymoon safari package, and it has been experienced in the way it deserves: privately, at depth, with guides who know their landscapes and with the particular quality of attention that a honeymoon journey through one of the world’s great wildlife countries should always receive.
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