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From
Kisumu City {Western Kenya}
Bots
900 K - 8 Days Safari To The Lake Region
Day
1 Nairobi - Kericho
Depart Nairobi after breakfast, then drive through the Great Rift
Valley arriving in Kericho in time for Lunch at the Kericho Tea
Hotel or similar. Afternoon is spent in the tea plantation learning
about tea picking and processing in the factory. Dinner and overnight
at the hotel.
Day
2 Kericho - Kisumu
Early morning departure to the plantation to assist in the tea
picking as you engage the pickers with talks. Return to the hotel
for breakfast then depart for Kisumu where you will branch at
the Ahero Irrigation Scheme where you will visit the factory where
you will get a brief lecture on the growing, weeding, irrigating
and milling process. Lunch at the Imperial hotel Kisumu. Afternoon
at leisure with a visit to the famous Kisumu museum. Dinner and
overnight at the hotel.
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3 Kisumu – Kendu Bay
After breakfast visit Luo places before departing for Kendu Bay
arriving at the Big Five hotel for lunch, After noon departure
to the Odino Falls to see the speeding water with its aftermath
-Erosion forming gullies. A possibility of visiting Gendia Mission
Hospital-One of the oldest hospital constructed by the missionaries
to lure the locals into Christianity; there is also a church nearby
to go with it. Dinner and overnight at the Big Five Hotel.
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Day
4 Kendu Bay/Homa Bay
After breakfast depart for Ondago swamp for birdlife, visit the
nearby Awach Self Help Women group -a project for initiated by
the local women for weaving and pottery, Proceed to Lake Simbi
-the salty lake that hosts the flamingoes when they migrate from
Lake Nakuru. Apart from the flamingoes you will learn the miraculous
formation of the lake as narrated by the locals. Those who are
suffering from skin diseases can fetch the highly concentrated
salty water. Return to the hotel for lunch then depart for Miti
Mbili fishing beach-it is around this place where we find the
caves curved out by whirlwind, another ten minutes drive will
take you to Ayombo Hot springs and the Bala Rawi where the local
women extract Lime crumbs which is later on transported to the
neighboring towns like Kisii by donkeys. A surprise visit to any
Luo homestead will see you learning how mats are made out of the
papyrus reeds and their numerous uses. Dinner and overnight at
Big Five or Hippo Buck Hotel in Homa Bay.
Day
5 Kendu Bay/Homa Bay – Ruma National Park.
After breakfast depart for Ruma National Park to see the rare
antelope, proceed to Kuja School for the deaf and also visit the
tobacco plantations, sugar plantations. Meals will be at the Las
Jonas Hotel.
Day
6 Ruma National Park – Maasai Mara
Depart after breakfast at the hotel for Kisii where apart from
having fresh pineapples and bananas, you will visit Tabaka where
most of the Kenya soapstone is extracted. Meals will be served
in Kisii town then depart for Maasai Mara via Kilgoris. Dinner
and overnight in Mara hotel or campsite.
Day
7 Maasai Mara
After breakfast, depart for a whole day in Mara with meals in
the reserve. Return to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day
8 Maasai Mara - Nairobi
Pre-breakfast departure to the Manyatta /village to learn village
lifeTake pictures with the locals as they go about their daily
activities.Return to the hotel for breakfast, and then depart
for Nairobi arriving late in the afternoon.
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