According to Dr. Rick Potts the place has so many prehistoric tools and they can easily be found in sediments when digging through the layers of soil in the area.

The prehistoric site was originally discovered in 1919 by John Walter Gregory and was eventually visited by Louis and Mary Leakey in 1942 that have done great fossil hunting in Kenya over the last century. The area has a gang walk all over the area which was initiated by the first African Archaeology Congress which was held in 1947.

According to Mr. Potts who has studied the area more than any other person in the last 30 years, Olorgesailie has sediments with each layer telling a lot about the history of mankind. He has worked in conjunction with the National Museums of Kenya closely over the years.

The area is full of prehistoric tools and bones as well as fossilized papyrus which are buried deep in the layers of sediment. The papyrus suggests there was a lake in the area, however it is now a dry dusty area with day time temperatures soaring to 40 degrees celcius. The area is buried in dust layers from the volcanic ashes of the nearby Mount Olergesailie and Mount Esakut. Remains of elephus recki which is believed to be closely related to the present day Indian elephant and is larger than the present elephants have been unearthed in the area.

According to Dr. Potts during a conference which was organized by the Prehistory Club and Kenya Museum Society which was held in the National Museums of Kenya, hand axes keep rolling out the layers of sediment in the region and he believes that the tolds which have been used for over 1.5 million years were first used in Africa before the technology was transferred to areas like Asia and Europe.

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Archaelogist says the olorgesailie sites represent two eras the most recent being the Middle stone-age site which dates back to 500,000 years to 100,000 years ago during which was the time that they used the  sophisticate flakes. The flakes are sharp-edged tools which are made from a precise strike on a core stone. The earliest time being the hand axe site is between 1.2 million to 500,000 years ago. However according to Dr. Potts the stones used to make the tools are not found locally and were from 150 kilometers away an indication that people exchanged products even as far back. The Middle Stone age is a time that is characterized by increased social networks, smaller technology and increased use of symbols which corresponds with modern African wildlife.

The Olorgesailie is the largest studied site in the world for the period covering the period of 1.2 million years ago. It is also the oldest known middle Stone Age site in the whole world.

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After breakfast in Nairobi you proceed westerns to Lake Nakuru. This is one of the parks famous for the protection of birdlife. The scene of Lake Nakuru is one projected to sweep you of your feet. Over 450 species of birds have been recorded. The sight of millions of flamingoes colors the lake pink and it is an astonishing experience. Dinner and overnight at a camp or lodge.

Day 2 Lake Nakuru – Lake Bogoria

On this day after a hot cup of coffee/tea, we will proceed to the Jewel of the Great Rift Valley. Lake Bogoria, also acknowledged for the hot sulphur water gushing out of the grounds, is the exact definition of nature’s version of bath and Sauna. Dinner and overnight at a camp or lodge.

Day 3 Lake Bogoria – Lake Baringo

Check into our lodge or camp on this Rift Valley Lake. This is one of frequented areas in Kenya by those seeking some silence and peace of mind. You take a boat to the Baringo Islands for short nature walks. Dinner and overnight at a camp or lodge (FB).

Day 4 Lake Naivasha – Hell’s Gate

This day will be started with a morning walk after breakfast around the Lake. This will be followed by a few hours of relaxation before lunch. Afternoon walk to Hell’s Gate National Park, breeding home of the Lammergeyer Vultures in Kenya. Dinner and overnight in Naivasha camping or lodge.

Day 5 Lake Naivasha – Masai Mara Tour

The expedition will take us to the world-renowned habitat, famous for the annual migration, The Masai Mara National Reserve. This is the Kenya’s number one Park and a tradition for every bird watcher and wildlife safari tourist to visit. Masai Mara crowns the peak of every safari because of its cosmic grasslands and the abundance of species. Dinner and overnight at a camp or lodge

Days 6 Masai Mara Tour

The early morning drives facial appearance highly on our mornings. Full of action of both the birds and wildlife, another memorable day is in store for us. You will not only spend the days trying to identify the over 450 species, but also the rest of the wildlife will take their share of your time. Dinner and overnight at your lodge or camp.

Day 7

After breakfast you will depart back to Nairobi for your airport transfers back home.

End of safari

This electrifying tour will commence with a morning drive to diverse Amboseli National Park – home to prolific flora, fauna and avifauna. Lunch, an afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight at Ol Tukai Lodge (FB)

Day 2: Amboseli Safari, Kenya Tour Packages

This will be followed by enjoying the striking views of Mount Kilimanjaro while participating in morning and afternoon game drives, discovering the wonders of the Park. Lunch, dinner and overnight at Ol Tukai Lodge (FB)

Day 3: Amboseli Safari – Nakuru national park, Kenya Safari

Initiate the day with a morning drive through Nairobi to the floor of the Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National Park. Lunch, an afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight at Lion Hill Sarova Lodge or similar on a full board basis.

Day 4: Nakuru – Masai Mara Safari Holiday, Kenya Safari

Take pleasure in a morning game drive across the Rift Valley down to the Masai Mara Game Reserve – one of the world’s premier wildlife sanctuaries. Lunch, an afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight at Mara Simba Lodge on a full board basis.

Day 5: Masai Mara Safari Kenya, Kenya Tour Packages

Ascertain the fabulous Masai Mara, home to a fruitful range of wildlife, birdlife and plant life. Morning and afternoon game drives gives the climax to witness game at a close range and learn more about the bush. Lunch, dinner and overnight at Mara Simba Lodge on a full board basis.

Day 6: Masai Mara Safari Holiday – Nairobi, Kenya Safaris

After an early morning game drive and breakfast, drive to Nairobi reaching in time for lunch on your own account before you proceed for the airport transfers.

Inclusive:

Services of an English speaking driver/guide
Game viewing and park entrance fees as per itinerary
Accommodation as per itinerary
Transport in a custom built minivan
All Government taxes and levies

Exclusives:

All items of a personal nature e.g. telephone calls
Tips and gratuities to hotel, lodge, camp staff and driver/guide
Any other item not mentioned in this itinerary
Alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks
Holiday supplements over Christmas and New Year
Laundry services

Day 1 :  Fly To Samburu National Park

Fly in the morning to Samburu National Park where you will be met by a guide from Kenya Safari Places and transfers you to your camp for lunch, an afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight.

Day 2:  Samburu Game Watching Safari

You will spend a whole day in game watching novel with an early wake-up call for a hot cup of coffee /tea, soon after the early morning game drive. Though temperatures are a bit low in the morning, there is the likelihood to watch the animals at their active moments. Go prevailing for more game in the afternoon and not to miss the beautiful sceneries. Dinner and overnight at your camp (FB)

Day 3 : Samburu  Game Drive Tour

Start with an early morning game drive perhaps along the Ewaso Nyiro River, which forms the southern boundary of the park. Many small herds of elephant are often seen bathing in the River or browsing in the riverine forests along the riverbanks. After breakfast at your camp you constrain to the airstrip for your flight to Masai Mara, which arrives at approximately midday.

Day 4:  Arrive At Masai Mara National Park

You will check into the lodge, then next upgrade for lunch. Afternoon game drive starts at 1530 and ends between 1800-1830.

Day 5: Masai Mara Game Drive

Early morning game drives at 0630 returning for full breakfast at 0900. Afternoon at leisure followed by 1530 game drive, dinner and overnight at the camp (FB).

Day 6: Masai Mara Morning Game Drive

This day will be started with early morning game drive; breakfast taken 0830 and depending on your flight grid leave for Nairobi’s Wilson airport.

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Day 1: Nairobi – Amboseli, Kenya Tours

Begin your exciting tour with a morning drive to the Amboseli National Park – a rich wildlife sanctuary famous for its Elephant. Lunch, an afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge (FB)

Day 2: Amboseli, Kenya Safari

Enjoy impressive views of the stunning Mount Kenya as you explore through the reserve on morning and afternoon game drives. Lunch, dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge (FB).

Day 3: Amboseli – Lake Manyara, Tanzania Safari

Move towards the border into Tanzania to Lake Manyara, stopping for a delicious picnic lunch. A late afternoon game drive, dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge (FB)

Day 4: Lake Manyara – Ngorongoro Safari , Tanzania Tours

On this day you will leave for Ngorongoro Crater, where you will have lunch at the lodge. Afternoon game drive in the Crater, dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge or similar on a full board basis.

Day 5: Ngorongoro Safari , Tanzania Safari

Today you enjoy a full day game drive, stopping for upgrade. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge or similar on a full board basis.

Day 6: Ngorongoro Safari – Nairobi, Kenya Tour Packages

After the mid morning breakfast, you drive across the border with a picnic lunch en route to Nairobi where you will get your airport transfers.

Inclusives:

All Government taxes and levies
Transport in custom built minivan
Services of an English speaking driver/guide
Game viewing drives and parks entrance fees as per itinerary
Accommodation as per itinerary

Exclusives:

All items of a personal nature e.g. telephone bills
Tips and gratuities to hotel, lodge, camp staff and driver/guide
Holiday supplements over Christmas and New Year
Any local or international flights and departure taxes
Any other item not stipulated in this itinerary
Alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks

Laundry services

END OF EAST AFRICA WILDLIFE SAFARI AND ARCHEOLOGICAL TOUR

• Amboseli national park
• Tsavo West national park
• Tsavo East national park
• Mombasa City tour

Day 1 – Amboseli National Park Tour

Leave Nairobi in the morning and pass via Namanga on the Tanzania border to reach Amboseli early in the afternoon. We view game as we encounter towards the campsite for dinner and overnight. This small park (at 392 sq km) is the second most popular park in Kenya after Masai Mara, mainly due to the extraordinary backdrop of Mt. Kilimanjaro on the southern boundary.

Day 2 – Amboseli National Park Safari

On this day will be adventuring the park. The waters from melted snow drain down the mountain under lava flows and surface on the Amboseli plains, creating a green belt of swampland amidst dusty plains. Primates such as cheetah, elephant, lion, warthogs, wildebeest, hyena, jackal, zebra, buffalo and the Maasai giraffe are likely to be seen.

Day 3 – Tsavo West national park tour

After the early morning breakfast will depart for Tsavo West National Park. Visit the Mzima Springs and the Chyulu Hills which are suitable for viewing both the hippo and crocodile that can be seen from an underwater observation chamber if time permits. Dinner and overnight at the campsite (FB).

Day 4 – Tsavo West national park safari

This day will be spent exploring the park including the nature trails. In Tsavo West birds are very common – look out for the red-beaked hornbills, white-bellied go-away bird and bateleur Eagles. There are also large populations of leopards, elephants and zebras. Look out for dung beetles undulating huge balls of elephant dung along the tracks.

Day 5 – Tsavo East national park tour

Early in the morning after breakfast we depart to Tsavo East national park. This park was famous for its large herds of elephant covered in red dust and fine scenery. We visit the scenic Lugards Falls, Mudanda Rocks (attracts elephants in the drier season) and Aruba Dam as we view game if timeallows.

The landscape in Tsavo East national park is flatter and drier, regardless of having one of Kenya’s largest rivers flowing through the middle. Much of the wildlife harbours on the Galana River, which has overflowing crocs and hippos. Likewise, waterbucks, Kudus and dik-diks are common along the river banks.

Day 6 – Mombasa

After the early morning breakfast, then proceed to early morning game drive. Then after lunch we will proceed to Mombasa arriving there in good time for airport transfers back home.

End of safari

Day 1: Nairobi, Kenya Safari Vacation

The Kenya vacation package begins in Nairobi, East Africa’s most brisk and colorful city. If you arrive early enough, a number of sightseeing excursions are available, including to the famous National Museum, and to the attractions in the nearby colony of Karen, including Karen Blixen’s homestead and Giraffe Manor. Overnight at The Norfolk Hotel, the city’s finest.

Day 2: Nairobi – Laikipia (Samburu), Kenya Safari Holiday

Morning flight into Kenya’s northern state line followed by a motor vehicle transfer into an gigantic private conservation ranch. The ‘Laikipia’ region of northern Kenya has become a model for wildlife conservation and sustainable development the world over.
Individual reserves, some as large as 100,000 acres, have been protected from rampant agriculture and cattle farming, to protect the natural wildlife and outstandingly astonishing bushlands. You will reach the luxurious camp in time for lunch, and without curious further ado, in the afternoon you instigate your many varied activities.

Days 3 & 4: Laikipia

The area is illustrious for its Elephant, but this is a elegant and marvelous ecosystem with some of the rarest wildlife on earth. Nowhere else will you unearth the world’s most handsome Giraffe, the reticulated, or the rare Grevy’s Zebra. The area abounds with the atypical long-necked Impala known as the Gerenuk, as well as the blue-legged Somali ostrich.

These creatures have association nowhere else, but you’ll also see many of the regulars, including Gazelle, Buffalo, common Zebra and the great predators on your Kenya vacation package. You’ll be shown around by the reserve’s owners, all of who take a personal interest in this marvelous area. There will be opportunities for game viewing and curious activities, like walking and possibilities for river safaris and spelunking. Consider this like visiting an American dude ranch, with the distinct difference that you’ll be hearing the roaring of Lions at night!

Day 5: Laikipia / Mount Kenya Safari

On this day you will drive through the back roads of these very remote wildernesses are hard to gauge, so today’s almanac will be leisurely. The majority of the morning will be spent on the ranch and in the afternoon you’ll make your way back up the escarpment to Mount Kenya. The evening is spent in the historic splendour of the Mount Kenya Safari Club, the resort created by William Holden and today the site of the famous William Holden Wildlife Foundation. If you arrive early enough, you’ll be able to visit the famous Animal Orphanage before the gourmet dinner.

Day 6: Mount Kenya Safari / Masai Mara Tour

You will have a morning flight into Kenya’s finest big game reserve; the Masai Mara arriving in time for lunch at the camp. This will be followed by an afternoon game viewing. For three nights on your Kenya vacation you’ll enjoy the splendor of a very exclusive camp built on the bank.

End of Kenya Vacation Package.

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Day 1 Drive To Lake Nakuru National Park

Departing Nairobi in the morning you drive western to Lake Nakuru National park for one night of having fun as you search for the world-famous flamingo sight of the Lake. Afternoon game drive. Lunch, dinner and overnight at the campsite.

Lake Nakuru: The world famous Lake Nakuru was created in June 1968 to protect the stunning flocks of lesser flaming. It covers and area of 188 Sq. Kms and the flamingoes literally turns the shores into a superb pink colour. The bird-life of Lake Nakuru is amazing, giving it the title ‘ornithological Paradise’. It is well-known in the ornithological ground for scientists and nature-film photography. A wide range of wood-vegetation, bush and grassland exists around the Lake with a numerous ecological diversity among them rocky escarpments and rocky ridges and White Colobus monkey. In the bush lands of the neighborhood within the park you can view elands, impalas, Chandler’s reedbuck , steinbok, and dik dik, even as rock hyrax and klipspringer occupy the cliffs and escarpment. Accommodations include two lodges, K.W.S. Guest House, five campsites, self help banda and two picnic sites, Makalia Falls & Njoro River Mouth.

Day 2: Lake Naivasha-Hells Gate

After breakfast you ensue to Lake Naivasha and to hells gate. Here you will enjoy a wal to hells gate National park or to Mt Longonot, with meal break in the afternoon. Late afternoon at leisure by the lake campsite.

Day 3: Naivasha- Masai Mara Wildlife Safari

After breakfast proceed down the Rift valley headed to the Mara. Here you have excellent photographic opportunities to capture the stately black-manned Lions, Elephants and various plains game. Lunch, dinner, bed and breakfast at your camp.

Masai Mara national park – one of the most famous Parks in the world and the most visited park in Kenya. Standing at an altitude of 5,000 Ft , 275 Kms from Nairobi down the Great Rift Valley with brilliant outlooks in the distance is Masai Mara Game Reserve. The Reserve itself presents the famous ‘Out of Africa’ breathtaking views and covers an area of 1,510 Sq. Km.

Famous also for the Out of Africa film which was typically filmed here, this Reserve holds an odd density of animals including “the Big Five” (lions, leopard, elephant, buffalo, and rhinoceros). You will be astounded by the populations and species of plains game.

Day 4: Masai Mara Wildlife Tour

Arise for a full day game watch in the world famous Masai Mara game reserve.
Breakfast, lunch and dinner in your camp.

Day 5: Masai Mara Safari -Nairobi

After breakfast you start your drive back to Nairobi arriving in the late afternoon or early
evening there after your transfer to the International Airport or your supplementary program.

End of Kenya Wildlife Tour

Day 1 Nairobi

Leave in the morning to the base hotel for lunch and thereafter end to Tree hotel for the evening game watching, dinner and overnight.

Day 2 Great Rift Valley

Drive around the northern tip of the Aberdare Mountains and down the escarpment into the Great Rift Valley for upgrade, relax in the afternoon or even enjoy a boat ride, bird walk or game view. This will depend on the sight your in. Overnight by a lake hotel (FB).

Day 3 Great Rift Valley – Masai Mara Safari

On this day you will continues across the floor of the Great Rift Valley to the Masai Mara Game Reserve for lunch. After the upgrade you will then go for the afternoon game drive then after retire for dinner and overnight. The Mara is one of Kenya’s most popular game reserves as most species of game found in the country live in its well- watered plains.

Day 4 Masai Mara holiday Safari

After the early morning breakfast, you will go for the morning and afternoon Game drives to look for the “big five” such as lions, buffalos, elephants etc… with meals with you and retire at the lodge for overnight (FB)

Day 5 Masai Mara – Nairobi

Leave after the morning breakfast for Nairobi arriving on time for lunch. And after airport transfers back home.

End of Masai Mara and Great Rift Valley safari

Your Masai Mara fly in safari starts with a morning flight from Wilson Airport to the Masai Mara. On arrival, transfer to your lodge/camp in a safari vehicle with an experience guide. Lunch is enjoyed at the lodge, followed by a late afternoon game viewing drive. Overnight is at Masai Mara Lodge/Camp or similar with lunch and dinner included.

Days 2 and 3: Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya

You spend your days of your Masai Mara safari on early morning and late afternoon game drives through the Masai Mara. Overnight is at Masai Mara Lodge/Camp or similar on a full board basis.

Day 4: Masai Mara Safari, Kenya

This morning you will partake in a final morning game drive before breakfast. Thereafter you will transfer to the airstrip for your return flight to Nairobi, where your Masai Mara safari ends. Breakfast is included.

Included:

1. Three breakfasts, lunches and dinners
2. Accommodation
3. Game viewing drives with lodge/camp vehicle and guide
4. Flights to Nairobi/Masai Mara/Nairobi
5. National Park fees
6. Government taxes and service charges

Please Note: Accommodation upgrades are available, enquire when making reservations.

End of Masai Mara Fly In Safari