Day
1:
Arrival and pick up from
the
Jomo
Kenyatta International Airport, in
Nairobi, Kenya and transfer
to host family home.
Day 2:
Morning: Registration and start of
orientation: International
volunteers and interns abroad have
about 4
hours
lecture at the home of your host. Topics covered during orientation
lecture
will include East African culture, history, customs, politics,
geography, and
necessary health precautions, and various other topics, such as the
diversity
of Kenyan life. Afternoon is free - explore Kenyan life and get to know
your host family.
Day 3 - 7: Kenya
Volunteering or intenship work.
Day
8-13:
Kenya Wilderness Adventure Safari (6 days)
International
volunteers and interns abroad on this program visit the world famous
Maasai Mara game reserve, Lake Nakuru national park, a special
internationally protected bird and white rhino sanctuary and end with a
tour of the Samburu game reserve.
Day
8:
Maasai Mara Game Reserve:
Depart Nairobi in the morning
with picnic lunch enroute to most famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve
ranked among the worlds top 50 dream destinations. Spend the afternoon
and the following day on game drives in Maasai Mara. This Great Rift
Valley reserve is home to thousands of wild animals including rhino,
buffalo, impala, waterbuck, lion, elephant, giraffe, Africa Buffalo,
zebra, cheetah and leopard. It is also seasonal home to thousands of
wildebeests that spend about half of the year here and the other half
in neighboring Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. Dinner and
overnight at the campsite.
Day
9:
Maasai Mara Game Reserve: Continue
with the jungle tour of this Kenyan park. Dinner and overnight at the
campsite.
Day
10:
Maasai Mara/Nakuru: Leave
Maasai Mara after breakfast
and drive to Nakuru past lake Elementaita on the Great Rift Valley
floor. Dinner and overnight in a budget hotel.
Day
11: Lake
Nakuru/Samburu Game Reserve: Take
and early morning game
drive/safari
of lake
Nakuru national park and International Bird Sanctuary.
Lake
Nakuru Park
has been described as the
World’s
Greatest Bird Spectacle”.
This Kenyan
park has 450 bird species including the lesser and greater flamingo,
more than 56 animal species including elephant, leopard, cheetah,
rhino, hippo, lion, buffalo, Hyena, fox, waterbuck, impala, jackal etc
and various species of bats. The park has about 550 species of plants
and several animal viewpoints. Together with your group of
international volunteers and interns abroad, depart Nakuru after the
morning game drive/safari and head North towards Mt. Kenya with picnic
enroute.
Later in
the day, proceed to Samburu Game Reserve with a game drive/safari
enroute.
Retire for dinner and sleep at camp.
Day
12:
Samburu Game Reserve: Spend
the day on game viewing with meals and overnight at camp. This pristine
and less visited game reserve abounds with animal and plant species not
seen in southern Kenya's parks. You will come across species such as
the Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, kudu and gerenuk
almost
exclusive to the reserve. Other animals include lions, cheetahs and
leopards.
Day
13:
Samburu-Nairobi: Early
morning game drive in Samburu then drive South to Nairobi via
the wind ward side of Mt Kenya
and via Nairobi, viewing nature along the road that winds through
amazingly diverse geographical landscape and human activities including
coffee and tea farming.
Day
14:
End of Adveture Portion of Program.
Evaluation
of the
language, culture, tours and safaris component.
Day
15: Begining of volunteer
abroad and internship overseas work placement for
those staying for more than two weeks. Departure for the rest.
