Explore Kenya Honeymoon Safari Beach Adventure
14 Days Kenya Honeymoon Safari and Coast
14 Days Kenya Honeymoon Safari and Coast
Overview
Experience Kenya’s Ultimate Romantic Safari Escape
This Kenya Safari and Coast Package combines thrilling game drives, hot air balloon safaris, rhino encounters, Kilimanjaro views, and private dhow cruises at Diani Beach. Discover Kenya’s finest wildlife destinations while enjoying intimate honeymoon moments, luxury accommodation, and extraordinary Indian Ocean experiences designed for couples.
- Sunrise Balloon Safari Above the Maasai Mara
- Romantic Dhow Cruise Along Diani Coast
- Witness Amboseli Elephants Beneath Kilimanjaro Peaks
- Relax On Kenya’s Stunning White Beaches
Inclusions
What's included
- 13 nights accommodation as per itinerary
- Full board on all safari nights
- Bed & Breakfast at Diani (3 nights)
- All road transfers between safari destinations
- Nairobi–Diani transfer and Diani–Mombasa airport drop
- Professional English-speaking honeymoon safari guide
- All game drives in private 4x4 safari vehicles
- All national park and conservancy entry fees
- Northern white rhino visit and keeper presentation at Ol Pejeta
- Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary visit
- Black rhino tracking on foot at Ol Pejeta
- Camel-back game drive in Samburu
- Sunset boat cruise on Lake Naivasha
- Crescent Island walking safari, Lake Naivasha
- Maasai village cultural visits at multiple destinations
- Dhow sunset cruise at Diani
- Snorkelling at Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Park
- Private bush sundowner setups throughout
- Private romantic bush dinner on final safari evening
- Bottled drinking water on safari
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)
- Alcoholic beverages unless specified
- Spa treatments at any lodge or beach resort
- Gratuities for guides, drivers and lodge staff
- Water sports beyond snorkelling (optional at extra cost)
- Personal items and laundry
- Any items of personal nature
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Days 1 - 2
Nairobi to Masai Mara National Reserve
Day 1 Morning – Departure from Nairobi
Your Kenya honeymoon safari and coast package begins with a morning departure from Nairobi, heading southwest on the road that descends the dramatic Rift Valley escarpment onto the Mara plains below. The drive takes approximately five hours and the descent from the escarpment rim, the landscape spreading in every direction as the road winds down the valley wall, is one of the great introductions to the Mara ecosystem. Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris guide handles the full transfer from Nairobi through to your lodge, arriving in time for lunch and the first afternoon game drive.
Day 1 Afternoon – First Mara Game Drive: The Open Plains
The first afternoon in the Masai Mara resets every expectation of what a game drive can produce. The plains are enormous and the wildlife is immediate and distributed across the landscape in all directions at once. Elephant herds move along the distant treeline. Cheetah scan from the tops of termite mounds in the open ground. The Mara’s lion population, the densest in Kenya, is distributed across the reserve in territories your guide has driven for years, and the first encounter with a habituated Mara pride, the animals at close range in the late afternoon light, is the kind of moment that defines what a honeymoon safari means.
Day 1 Evening – Private Campfire Dinner
The first Mara evening is spent around the campfire, the sounds of the reserve arriving across the plains in the darkness. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private campfire dinner for your couple, a table set at the fireside with the Mara night extending around you and the extraordinary star canopy of a sky genuinely far from light pollution visible overhead.
Day 2 Pre-Dawn – Hot Air Balloon Safari (Strongly Recommended)
The hot air balloon safari over the Masai Mara at sunrise is one of the defining romantic experiences of the Kenya honeymoon holiday, and it is available at no other destination on this itinerary. The balloon lifts before first light and drifts across the plains as the sun rises, the wildlife below moving with complete unawareness of the balloon above them. Lions on a kill. Elephant herds at the river. The migration herds spread across the grassland in every direction. The flight concludes with a champagne breakfast in the field, a white-tablecloth table set on the Mara grass with the balloon behind you.
Day 2 Morning – Mara River Vigil and Big Five Drive
The morning covers the Mara River, where the crossing vigil is positioned at one of the established points on the bank. Between July and October, the wildebeest mass on the far bank before the crossing takes them over in their thousands with the crocodiles working both directions. Outside migration season, the river rewards the vigil with hippo pods, Nile crocodiles, and the exceptional birdlife of the river margins. The afternoon extends the Big Five search across the reserve’s different habitat zones, the riverine forest for leopard, the kopjes for lion, the open plains for cheetah and the great herbivore herds.
Masai Mara Accommodation
Mara Serena Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Mara Triangle, elevated position above the river crossing point), Governors’ Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the Mara River, the oldest camp in the reserve), Mara Intrepids Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, Talek area, central Mara location). 2 nights at your chosen Masai Mara accommodation. Full board throughout. Campfire dinner and balloon safari (optional extra) included in arrangements. Drinking water provided.
Morning – Transfer from Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha
The drive from the Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha heads northeast through the Rift Valley, climbing from the open Mara plains through the escarpment and down onto the lake basin. The journey takes approximately three hours and the arrival at Naivasha, the lake visible through the fever tree woodland, is a complete change of character from the open savannah behind you.
Afternoon – Crescent Island Walking Safari
Crescent Island is a private wildlife sanctuary accessible by a short boat crossing from the Naivasha shore, and the afternoon is spent walking among its populations of giraffe, wildebeest, zebra, eland, and Defassa waterbuck. The Crescent Island giraffes are fully habituated to human presence at close range, and the experience of standing beside one of these animals on foot, no vehicle, no glass between you, is one of the most genuinely intimate wildlife encounters on the entire Kenya honeymoon safari and coast package.
Evening – Sunset Boat Cruise
The Naivasha evening is the boat cruise along the papyrus-fringed shore. A traditional wooden boat moves quietly at the water’s edge as the sun drops toward the Rift Valley escarpment, the hippos surfacing nearby, African fish eagles calling from the fever trees above the bank. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges the private sundowner setup on the water for your couple, the lake turning gold and then pink around you as the evening falls.
Lake Naivasha Accommodation
Enashipai Resort and Spa (Mid-Range Resort, on the lake shore with spa facilities and garden grounds), Sawela Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, directly on the lake with hippo-watch jetty and lake views), Naivasha Kongoni Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, fever tree woodland on the lake shore). 1 night at your chosen Lake Naivasha accommodation. Full board. Boat cruise and Crescent Island walk included. Drinking water provided.
Day 3
Masai Mara to Lake Naivasha
Days 4 - 5
Lake Naivasha to Samburu National Reserve
Day 4 Morning – Transfer from Lake Naivasha to Samburu
The drive from Lake Naivasha to Samburu heads north through Nyahururu and then into the increasingly dry and open country of the north. The total journey takes approximately five hours and the landscape transition from the highland lake basin to the Samburu scrubland is one of the most marked changes on the entire Kenya honeymoon itinerary. The vegetation thins. The horizon stretches. The sky becomes a deeper and more open blue. Arrive at your lodge in the early afternoon for lunch before the first afternoon game drive.
Day 4 Afternoon – First Game Drive: The Ewaso Nyiro River Circuit
The first afternoon in Samburu 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 produces concentrated wildlife viewing that the open savannah parks cannot replicate. Elephant families wade across the shallows. Crocodiles occupy the exposed sandbanks. Leopard are present in the riverine woodland at densities that make Samburu one of Kenya’s most reliable parks for a cat sighting. The Northern Five typically appear 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 in the acacia foliage.
Day 4 Evening – Samburu Sundowner and Bush Dinner
Samburu’s first evening establishes the tone of the northern section of the safari. Your guide arranges sundowners at a vantage point above the river, cold drinks and the northern sky turning colour above the Mathews Range. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges a private candlelit bush dinner setup at your lodge or in the field, the sounds of the Samburu night in every direction around you.
Day 5 Early Morning – Dawn Game Drive
The second Samburu morning begins before sunrise. The reserve at dawn has a quality that the afternoon cannot replicate, the light arriving softly across the dry country, the animal activity concentrated in the cool before the heat of the day. The guide positions the vehicle on the known pre-dawn routes and the drive covers the open ground and the river corridor in the hours when Samburu is most alive.
Day 5 Late Morning – Camel-Back Game Drive
One of Samburu’s most distinctive experiences is the camel-back game drive, a way of moving through the northern landscape that connects the experience 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 silence that no vehicle can achieve. The experience is specific to this place and to these landscapes, genuinely romantic in the way that only an activity completely unlike ordinary life can be. The camels are well-handled. The guide reads the bush with the deep knowledge of long practice.
Day 5 Afternoon – Samburu Cultural Village Visit and Evening Sundowner
The Samburu people are one of Kenya’s most distinctive pastoral communities, closely related to the Maasai but adapted to the harsher northern landscape in ways that reflect centuries of living with it. The afternoon cultural visit to a Samburu homestead gives context for the landscape you have been driving through, the age-set system that organises Samburu society, the elaborate beadwork that carries social meaning, and the traditional dances of the warrior stage. The final Samburu evening closes with a private sundowner setup arranged by Africa Bed of Roses Safaris.
Samburu Accommodation
Sarova Samburu Game Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, directly on the Ewaso Nyiro River, established lodge with river-view rooms), Samburu Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the reserve on elevated ground), Elephant Bedroom Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the river with direct elephant access from the camp). 2 nights at your chosen Samburu accommodation. Full board throughout. Camel-back game drive included. Drinking water provided.
Day 6 Morning – Transfer from Samburu to Ol Pejeta
The drive from Samburu to Ol Pejeta heads south through the Nanyuki corridor and around the northern slopes of Mount Kenya. The journey takes approximately three hours and the arrival at Ol Pejeta, with the conservancy’s grasslands ahead and the mountain on the eastern horizon, is one of the most rewarding arrival moments of the Kenya honeymoon itinerary. Check in, take lunch, and the afternoon programme begins.
Day 6 Afternoon – Northern White Rhino Encounter and Chimpanzee Sanctuary
The visit to Najin and Fatu is accompanied by a keeper who explains their individual histories, personalities, and the ongoing assisted reproduction programme working to prevent the total extinction of the subspecies. The encounter is managed with complete respect for the animals and for the weight of what a visitor is witnessing. The Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary visit follows, the rescued animals in their semi-wild enclosures displaying the full range of social behaviours that make primate observation genuinely compelling for even a casual observer.
Day 6 Evening – Mount Kenya Sundowner on the Conservancy
The first Ol Pejeta evening ends with a private sundowner setup on the conservancy plains, Mount Kenya catching the last light above the equatorial grassland while the conservancy’s resident wildlife moves in the middle distance. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges the private table and cold drinks in the field for your couple.
Day 7 Early Morning – Dawn Predator Drive
Ol Pejeta’s predator population is among the most closely monitored in Kenya, with individual lions tracked by collar and observed daily by the conservancy’s ranger teams. The dawn game drive benefits from this knowledge, your guide in radio contact with the network to position the vehicle on the known circuits. The habituated prides approach vehicles at distances that allow genuine observation of natural pride behaviour. The leopard population uses the riverine forest corridors along the Ewaso Nyiro and its tributaries, and the dawn drive gives the best chance of a forest cat encounter.
Day 7 Morning – Black Rhino Tracking on Foot
Ol Pejeta’s black rhino population is the largest in East Africa, and a morning of on-foot black rhino tracking with a conservancy ranger is the most physically engaged wildlife experience on the entire Kenya honeymoon safari and coast package. The tracking follows fresh spoor, dung deposits, and the trails through the bush that the rhinos use on their daily circuits, moving at a pace determined by what the ground is saying rather than a fixed route. The physical involvement of finding a black rhino on foot, at the end of a track that has required genuine skill to follow, creates a quality of attention and earned intimacy that no vehicle encounter can replicate.
Day 7 Afternoon – Full Conservancy Drive and Bush Picnic
The afternoon covers the full range of Ol Pejeta’s game areas, the open western grasslands where the large buffalo herds graze, the central plains with the elephant family territories, and the Ewaso Nyiro corridor where predator density is highest. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris sets up a private bush picnic on the conservancy in the late afternoon, a table for two in the middle of the game area with the Mount Kenya skyline to the east.
Ol Pejeta Accommodation
Sweetwaters Serena Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, inside Ol Pejeta on the Ewaso Nyiro River), Ol Pejeta Bush Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, central conservancy position with good predator circuit access), Porini Rhino Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, near the rhino sanctuary, conservation-focused small camp). 2 nights at your chosen Ol Pejeta accommodation. Full board throughout. Black rhino tracking and chimpanzee visit included. Drinking water provided.
Days 6 - 7
Samburu to Ol Pejeta Conservancy
Days 8 - 9
Ol Pejeta to Amboseli National Park
Day 8 Morning – Transfer from Ol Pejeta to Amboseli
The drive from Ol Pejeta to Amboseli heads south through Nairobi and then south again on the Namanga road toward the Tanzania border. The total journey takes approximately four to five hours and the approach to Amboseli, with Kilimanjaro appearing above the southern horizon well before the park boundary, is one of the great arrival moments of the Kenya honeymoon itinerary. Arrive for a late lunch and the afternoon game drive.
Day 8 Afternoon – Observation Hill and First Elephant Drive
The first Amboseli afternoon begins at Observation Hill, the only elevated point in the flat basin, giving a panoramic view across the entire park with Kilimanjaro to the south. The geography of the park is immediately comprehensible from the hilltop. The afternoon game drive covers the core elephant areas, the families moving between the swamps and the open ground in the golden late afternoon light, the mountain framing every encounter.
Day 9 Pre-Dawn – Kilimanjaro Sunrise Drive
The second Amboseli morning begins before sunrise for the most important drive of the entire Kenya honeymoon safari and coast package. 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 in full behind them. This is the photograph that the world knows. It is also an experience that the photograph cannot contain.
Day 9 Morning – Swamp Circuit and Bush Breakfast
The morning covers the Enkongo Narok and Longinye swamps in detail, the elephant families bathing and socialising in the water with the unhurried confidence of animals completely at ease. A bush breakfast is served on the Amboseli plain in the late morning, a private table for two with the mountain behind you and the swamp visible at the edge of the plain ahead.
Day 9 Afternoon – Cheetah Drive and Maasai Cultural Visit
The Amboseli cheetah families are found on the flat open ground where the unobstructed terrain gives their speed its maximum advantage. The late afternoon drive on the plain is one of the best opportunities on the Kenya honeymoon itinerary to observe a cheetah hunt in good light. The afternoon closes with a Maasai cultural village visit, the community whose pastoral relationship with the Amboseli landscape stretches back centuries and provides the human context for the wildlife world around the park.
Amboseli Accommodation
Ol Tukai Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park near the swamps, directly in the elephant movement corridors with Kilimanjaro views), Amboseli Sopa Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, inside the park, spacious rooms with mountain views from the verandahs), Kibo Safari Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the park boundary with unobstructed Kilimanjaro sightlines). 2 nights at your chosen Amboseli accommodation. Full board throughout. Bush breakfast included. Drinking water provided.
Day 10 Morning – Transfer from Amboseli to Tsavo East
The drive from Amboseli to Tsavo East heads east toward the Mombasa highway and then north into the Tsavo ecosystem. The journey takes approximately two to three hours and the transition from Amboseli’s flat open basin to the red volcanic earth and baobab landscape of Tsavo East is one of the most marked landscape changes of the entire safari. The red soil announces itself early and colours everything it touches. Arrive at your lodge for lunch and the first afternoon game drive.
Day 10 Afternoon – Red Elephant Drive and Galana River
The first Tsavo East afternoon introduces your couple to the red elephants, the wildlife encounter that defines this park and that no other destination on the Kenya honeymoon safari and coast package can provide. The herds here are genuinely wild, encountered on their own terms across a landscape of immense scale. The afternoon drive covers the Galana River corridor, the permanent water that concentrates Tsavo’s wildlife in the dry season and draws the predators that follow the game through the ancient wilderness.
Day 10 Evening – Lugard’s Falls Sundowner
Lugard’s Falls, where the Galana River squeezes through a series of narrow rock channels carved over millennia before dropping into the pools below, is the most dramatic geological feature in Tsavo East and the most spectacular sundowner location on the safari section of this Kenya honeymoon holiday package. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges the private sundowner setup above the falls for your couple, cold drinks and the river below and the Tsavo plain extending in every direction.
Day 11 Early Morning – Dawn Baobab Plains Drive
The final dawn game drive of the safari section covers the Tsavo East baobab plains in the pre-sunrise quiet, the ancient trees silhouetted against the lightening sky and the animal movement at its peak in the cool of the early morning. Lions rest near the river after the night’s hunting. The elephant herds begin their movement toward the water. The light arriving across the red earth gives the landscape a particular warmth and depth that belongs entirely to Tsavo East and to no other destination on this itinerary.
Day 11 Morning – Final Game Drive and Transfer Toward the Coast
After the morning drive, your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris driver begins the transfer east through the Tsavo ecosystem and down toward the Kenya coast. The road descends from the volcanic plateau through the coastal hinterland, the landscape changing from red earth and baobab to the coastal scrub and mango groves of the Shimba Hills and the Diani approach. The smell of the Indian Ocean arrives well before the sea itself comes into view. The safari is over. The coast begins.
Tsavo East Accommodation
Voi Safari Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, Tsavo East, dramatically elevated above a floodlit waterhole with panoramic views across the park), Ashnil Aruba Lodge (Mid-Range Lodge, on the Aruba Dam, exceptional waterhole game viewing from the lodge terrace), Ndololo Safari Camp (Mid-Range Tented Camp, on the Galana River, intimate tented camp with river frontage and direct elephant access). 2 nights at your chosen Tsavo East accommodation. Full board throughout. Private romantic bush dinner on the final safari evening. Drinking water provided.
Days 10 - 11
Amboseli to Tsavo East National Park
Days 12 - 14
Diani Beach
Day 12 – Arrival at Diani Beach
Your Africa Bed of Roses Safaris driver completes the transfer from Tsavo East to Diani Beach, a journey of approximately two to three hours through the coastal hinterland. Check in at your beach resort, change into something lighter than safari clothes, and spend the afternoon on the beach itself. The transition from red Tsavo earth to white coral sand to warm ocean water is one of the most satisfying geographical transitions in travel, and the first afternoon at Diani is given entirely to experiencing it at whatever pace your couple requires.
Day 12 Evening – Dhow Sunset Cruise on the Indian Ocean
The first Diani evening is the dhow cruise. A traditional sailing vessel leaves the beach in the late afternoon and moves south along the reef in the warm evening wind, the Indian Ocean turning colour in every direction and the Kenya coast visible as a green line behind you. Africa Bed of Roses Safaris arranges the private dhow sunset cruise for your couple, with cold drinks and the specific silence of a sailing vessel moving without engine noise through warm tropical water. It is the most romantic hour on the Kenya coast, and the dhow is the most romantic way to spend it.
Day 13 Morning – Kisite-Mpunguti Marine Park Snorkelling
Kisite-Mpunguti Marine National Park, accessible by a 45-minute boat transfer from Diani, protects the most intact section of coral reef on the Kenya coast and the clearest water for snorkelling and diving in the region. The marine park is home to green and hawksbill sea turtles, spinner and bottlenose dolphins that frequently accompany the boat on the crossing, and the full range of Indian Ocean reef fish among coral formations that the park’s protected status has kept in excellent condition. The morning snorkelling excursion is a gentle and extraordinary experience, the underwater world of the Kenyan coast a complete departure from the terrestrial wildlife of the safari section.
Day 13 Afternoon – Colobus Conservation Visit and Beach Afternoon
The Colobus Conservation centre on the Diani road protects the forest habitat of the Angolan colobus monkey, one of Africa’s most visually striking primates with its bold black and white colouring and dramatic cape of white fur. The centre offers a short guided visit to the forest edge where the colobus troops are reliably found, a gentle wildlife encounter that connects the coast section of the Kenya honeymoon holiday package to the safari section behind it. The afternoon is then returned entirely to the beach, two deck chairs and the Indian Ocean and the accumulated satisfaction of thirteen days in one of the world’s great travel destinations.
Day 14 – Final Morning at Diani and Transfer to Mombasa Airport
The final morning of your Kenya honeymoon safari and coast package belongs to the beach. A last swim in the warm Indian Ocean. A last breakfast with the reef visible offshore and the colobus monkeys moving in the trees above the resort garden. And then the transfer north to Mombasa’s Moi International Airport, approximately one hour from Diani, for onward flights. Fourteen days. Six wildlife destinations. Three nights at one of Africa’s finest beaches. The northern wilderness and the great conservancy and the mountain-backed elephants and the ancient red wilderness and, finally, the Indian Ocean in the warm evening light. Kenya in full.
Diani Beach Accommodation
Almanara Luxury Resort (Mid-Range Boutique Resort, Diani, private beach frontage with dhow cruise arrangements), Pinewood Beach Resort and Spa (Mid-Range Resort, Diani, directly on the beach with coral garden and snorkelling access), Southern Palms Beach Resort (Mid-Range Resort, Diani, large beachfront property with multiple dining settings and watersports). 3 nights at your chosen Diani Beach accommodation. Bed & Breakfast. Dhow sunset cruise and Kisite snorkelling excursion included. Airport transfer to Mombasa included.
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