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Program
of the
Month
Our Best of Kenya adventure
program provides Africa volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya with
wildlife
& nature viewing for 11 days. .Apply
now.
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Kenya
Beach Holiday Plus Safari
Adventure,
Volunteer, Travel
Opportunities abroad in Kenya,
Africa.
At
jubilee ventures.org we
offer
excellent
international internship and volunteer opportunities
overseas in Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar. You
can also go on exciting
Africa safaris, visit famous game reserves,
national parks or relax on extensive Kenyan sandy beaches. You can
choose from
a 2 days to 11 days African jungle expeditions and beach holidays in
Kenya, East Africa.
Sign up now at
jubilee ventures.org
Other Kenya
adventure programs
In addition to
the Beach Holiday Plus safari, other
adventure programs offered in Kenya include: the Kenya Mini-adventure, Kenya Beach Holiday, the Kenya Explorer and the Best of Kenya jungle Safaris
program.
The Kenya Beach
Holiday Plus Program
The jubileeventures.org Kenya
Beach
Holiday
Program combines international volunteer and
internship placement with exciting beach experience, tours of
Kenya’s coastal city of Mombasa and 2-days of jungle safari
featuring world famous Maasai Mara game reserve.
In Mombasa,
international volunteers and overseas interns will have
time to simply relax at the beach, swim, snorkel and tour the city of
Mombasa.
The pace of life in
this Indian Ocean beach town of Kenya is slow and
relaxed -- ideal for recreation and recuperation. Mombasa is a
historical and cosmopolitan city with architectural design that depicts
the influence of its diverse population of Africans, Middle easterners,
Indians and Europeans.
Maasai Mara is home
to thousands of wild animals
including rhino, buffalo, impala, waterbuck, lion, elephant, giraffe,
Africa Buffalo, zebra, cheetah and
leopard and the famous migrating
wildebeests.
A Typical two-week
schedule of the Kenya Mombasa Beach Holiday Plus
Program looks as follows:
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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.
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 for exploring
rural Kenyan life and getting to know your host family.
Day
3: Intentional
volunteers and interns abroad leave for project early in
the morning after breakfast. Introductions held with project staff, and
the host family.
Day
3:
Voluntary service or internship work abroad. Volunteers
and interns are free to explore the surrounding areas in
their free time.
Day
4-5: Maasai Mara Game Reserve Excursion:
Day
4: Maasai Mara:
Depart Nairobi in the morning.
Have Picnic lunch en-route to Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Spend the
afternoon and the next 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 Tanzania's Serengeti
National Park in Tanzania. Dinner and overnight at the campsite
Day
5: Maasai Mara/Nairobi:
Morning game drives in Maasai Mara in the morning. Depart for Nairobi
after game drive arriving Nairobi in the afternoon.
Day
6: Break
- Spend the day at leisure.
Day
7-14:
Mombasa Beach Holiday Trip
Day
7: Travel to
Mombasa International volunteers and interns travel to and from Mombasa
will be by bus or train arriving early morning the following day.
Day
8:
Arrival, meet, pickup.
International volunteers and interns abroad
in Kenya transfer to hotel about 30 minutes away from the city.
Ideally, accommodation will be in a conventional hotel rooms or in
makuti (coconut palm) thatched beach rooms with conventional hotel
amenities including. Community room will have satellite television,
telephone, mini-bar and restaurant serving local and international
cuisine.
Hotel
facilities include swimming pool and guest laundry
service. Some hotels will have diving school and tennis courts.If you
arrive early you will have the day to yourself to relax, enjoy the
beach and have fun or to take a personal tour of the city of
Mombasa.Dinner and overnight at hotel.
Day
9: Tour
of Mombasa City. After
breakfast international volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya proceed
on a full day city tour of Mombasa.
The
tour
will take you to Mombasa
Old Town and Fort Jesus, Kilindini Old Port, Akamba and Marikit
markets. You will be fascinated by the unique architectural design of
Fort Jesus constructed by the Portuguese in 1593 to protect them from
enemies. Walk through the grid of narrow winding streets lined with
houses built to coastal Swahili and Indian designs that is Mombasa Old
Town.
You
will
also visit the Akamba Handicraft market and see artists
carve various crafts as you watch. You will also visit Marikit market
and an Indian Temple. Time permitting volunteers abroad and overseas
interns in Kenya will tour Haller Park, named after the Swiss
agronomist Rene Haller whose vision transformed a huge abandoned cement
quarry into a spectacular 7 sq km nature and animal
sanctuary.
Breakfast,
dinner and overnight at your hotel.
Day
10: Beach Relaxation:
The entire day is free for international volunteers and interns abroad
in Kenya to do what they like best. Simply relax, and enjoy the beach
at the hotel, swim in the blue waters of Indian Ocean, or take a
private excursion for wind surfing, scuba diving, water skiing,
snorkeling, deep-sea fishing or goggling.Breakfast, dinner and
overnight at your hotel.
Day
11: Bush Tour: Early
after breakfast
international volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya start out on a
half-day “bush tour”. Depart for Kilifi with
stopover at a sisal plantation. Visit a village of the local Miji-Kenda
people, have fun and interact with the local community as you observe
their way of life.
Thereafter
drive back to Mombasa arriving late
afternoon.Breakfast, dinner and overnight at your hotel.
Day
12: Mombasa- Departure: After
breakfast,
international volunteers and interns abroad in Kenya transfer to
Mombasa for
departure back to Nairobi.
Day
13: International
volunteers and interns spend the
free day in Mombasa – leisure and meals at own cost. In the
evening transfer to
Nairobi.
Day
14: Rest, Program Evaluation.
Day
15: Departure
(those
staying for 2 weeks); the rest proceed to volunteer Kenya placement. |
Kindly note that the Mombasa Beach Holiday Plus Program provides travel
to and from Mombasa, excursion tours, accommodation, dinner, and
breakfast while in Mombasa. You will cater for your lunch throughout
the trip and any meals you may need en-route to and from Mombasa.
The 2-day jungle safari component provides you with three regular
meals. Unless otherwise provided, all our safaris are camping safaris
designed for those in search of a real adventure. Participants need to
carry a sleeping bag, a pair of bed sheets and a blanket for the 2-day
jungle safari component of this experience - matresses are provided.
The specifics of this program may be altered to fit into conditions on
the ground.
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What
is Provided:
Accommodation
is
covered by the fees and is provided by specially selected
local host families.
Excellent
hostel
accommodation can be arranged at extra a cost.
Breakfast and
dinner provided.
Vegetarian
meals provided with prior request.
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