Saturday, 28 February 2015

EASTER OFFERS

African Game Trek is offering unbeatable prices for a tour to any of the destinations. Choose your package and enjoy the world class  services and Hospitality from a team of qualified personnel !!!!

Special Offer! 3 Days Kenya Budget Camping - Masai Mara @ USD 340 Per Person. Daily Departures from Nairobi

This package is tailored to those who would want to spend their Easter weekend in the Mara. You will spend 2 Nights in a modern luxury,self contained tented camp, 3 meals a day included, unlimited game drives, park entry fee and Airport transfers all catered for in this package. In the Mara, you will be able to meet some of the unique wild Animals,including the BIG 5.

Day 1: Nairobi – Masai Mara Game Reserve
This morning we pick up clients from their hotel and we depart from Nairobi at 8.30 am and drive through the view point of the Great Rift Valley to the Masai Mara National Reserve. This enormous reserve is actually part of the vast Serengeti plains famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest’s migration and is home of the Big Five: Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo and Rhino. Lunch at the Lodge/camp and relax before departing for the afternoon game drive. The Mara Game Reserve one of the greatest wildernesses of the world. Large mammals are varied, and easy to see. The wild animals found in the Park's are: Masai Giraffe, Buffalo, Eland and thousands of plain game including Impala, Zebra,  both Thomson's and grants Gazelles.

Day 2: Full day exploring Masai Mara Game Reserve
Full day spent for viewing the great predators andexplore the parks amazingly high concentration of wild animals. On the plains are enormous herds of grazing animals plus the elusive Cheetah and leopard hiding amidst acacia boughs. During the stay we also have an optional opportunity to visit a village of the Masai people to witness the singing and dancing that are part of their daily lives and sacred rituals. A glimpse into their homes and social structure is a poignant experience. Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp 
Day 3: Masai Mara – Nairobi
Early morning game drives in Masai Mara followed by late breakfast at the campsite then depart for Nairobi by road. The safari ends in Nairobi late in the afternoon.

If you love the Lake and the Wild,then this package is definitely for you.  Lake Nakuru is known to be the home to thousands of pink flamingos and some of the big five.

Day 1: Nairobi – Masai Mara Game Reserve
This morning we pick up clients from their hotel and we depart from Nairobi at 8.30 am and drive through the view point of the Great Rift Valley to the Masai Mara National Reserve. This enormous reserve is actually part of the vast Serengeti plains famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest’s migration and is home of the Big Five: Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo and Rhino. Lunch at the Lodge/camp and relax before departing for the afternoon game drive. The Mara Game Reserve one of the greatest wildernesses of the world. Large mammals are varied, and easy to see. The wild animals found in the Park's are: Masai Giraffe, Buffalo, Eland and thousands of plain game including Impala, Zebra,  both Thomson's and grants Gazelles.

Day 2: Full day exploring Masai Mara Game Reserve
Full day spent for viewing the great predators andexplore the parks amazingly high concentration of wild animals. On the plains are enormous herds of grazing animals plus the elusive Cheetah and leopard hiding amidst acacia boughs. During the stay we also have an optional opportunity to visit a village of the Masai people to witness the singing and dancing that are part of their daily lives and sacred rituals. A glimpse into their homes and social structure is a poignant experience.Dinner and overnight at the lodge/camp. 
Day 3: Masai Mara – Lake Nakuru National Park
Early morning game drive. Then return to the camp for the breakfast and depart  for lake Nakuru National park located in the Great Rift Valley. After lunch an exciting game drive until 6.30 in the evening. The Park is a home to stunning flocks of lesser and Greater Flamingos, which literally turn the lakeshores in to a magnificent pink stretch. The bird life here is world renown and over 400 bird’s species exist here, White Pelicans, Plovers, Egrets and Marabou Stork. It is also one of the very few places in Africa to see the White and Black Rhino and rare Rothschild Giraffe. Dinner and overnight at the Hotel
 
Day 4: Lake Nakuru– Nairobi
Extensive early morning game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park. Then depart for  Nairobi arriving in the afternoon. 

 And this is the combination for the wild heavens and the Lake  Nakuru, you do not want to miss this!!!!

Day 1: Nairobi / Masai Mara
Pick up from your Nairobi hotel or Airport  in the morning drive to Masai Mara through The Great African Rift Valley and Narok Town. You will arrive in time for lunch. check in at  Ashnil Mara camp or Mara Sarova Camp and have lunch. Afternoon game drive through the park in search of the Lion, Cheetah, Elephant, Buffalo and other members of the Big five plus other animals. Dinner and overnight at  Ashnil Mara camp or Mara Sarova Camp.
Day 2: Masai Mara
Early morning game drive game drive return back to lodge for breakfast. After breakfast Full day spend in the park with packed lunch in search of its popular residents like the well known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo and the dangerous Crocodiles with a visit to Mara river. Meals and overnight at  Ashnil Mara camp or Mara Sarova Camp.
Day 3: Masai Mara - Lake Nakuru

Early breakfast at your camp, after breakfast, Leave Mara for Nakuru arriving in time for lunch and check in at Flamingo Hill Camp have lunch and relax. Later afternoon game drive to see one of the largest ornithological spots, Flamingo, and a variety of wildlife not forgetting the famous white Rhino and black rhino found in this park. Dinner and overnight at  Flamingo Hill Camp.
Day 4: Lake Nakuru - Amboseli
Early morning breakfast game en-route and leave Lake Nakuru for Amboseli National Park to arrive with a short game drive in time for lunch, check in at Oltukai lodge have lunch and rest .Afternoon game drive at the park which is famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, which dominates the landscape, and open plains. Dinner and overnight at your Oltukai lodge.
Day 5: Amboseli 
Rising early for good views of Mount Kilimanjaro before clouds build up over the summit, we set off for another extensive game drive. Amboseli is an excellent place to view a multitude of wildlife, including everything from Wildebeest, Giraffes, Baboons. Optional visit to a Masai village is planned after breakfast. Maasai warriors are famously known as the proud nomadic tribe whose legendary prowess in battle and single-handed acts of bravery in fights with the wild animals are known across the world. A visit reveals the singing and dancing that are part of their daily lives and sacred rituals. A glimpse into their homes and social structure is a poignant experience. Dinner and overnight at the camp/lodge 
Day 6:  Amboseli - Nairobi
Proceed for an early morning game drive before breaking camp andwe depart by road to Nairobi. Transfer to your hotel. This safari ends in Nairobi.
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Saturday, 14 February 2015

Wildebeest Migration in Kenya,Masai Mara

The Wildebeest Migration/ Kenya Budget Camping Safaris/ Kenya Luxury Lodge Safaris/Maasai Mara/ Serengeti


It is one of the “Seven New Wonders of the World” and also known as The World Cup of Wildlife. If there is a safari you should go on, this has it be it. The Maasai Mara and the Serengeti National Park together form what no other reserve in Africa can! It is incredible, it is magic, it is indescribable and it is WOW!
No where in the world is there a movement of animals as immense as the wildebeest migration, over two million animals migrate from the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania to the greener pastures of the Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya during July through to October.
The migration has to cross the Mara River in the Maasai Mara where crocodiles will prey on them. This is one of the highlights as the animals try and cross the Mara River alive.
In the Masai Mara they will be hunted, stalked, and run down by the larger carnivores. The Masai Mara also has one of the largest densities of lion in the world.


In reality there is no such single entity as ‘the migration’. The wildebeest are the migration – there is neither start nor finish to their endless search for food and water, as they circle the Serengeti- Mara ecosystem in a relentless sequence of life and death.The only beginning is the moment of birth,. similarly the only ending is death. 

The Birthing

For want of a better place in which to ‘start’ the migration, we’ll begin in January and February, when the wildebeest cows drop their young in a synchronized birthing that sees some 300,000 to 400,000 calves born within two to three weeks of one another, eight and a half months after the rut. The birthing occurs on the short-grass plains that, at the southernmost extent of the wildebeests’ range, spread over the lower northern slopes of the Ngorongoro Crater highlands and are scattered around Olduvai Gorge. Here, at the ‘cradle of mankind’ many notable fossil finds have been discovered, including some that show that wildebeest have grazed the Serengeti almost unchanged for over a million years.
The annual period of birthing provides a feast for predators. Driving across the plains, one can count literally hundreds of hyenas and dozens of lions scattered about. It may seem that the wildebeest are doing the predators a favour by dropping their young all at the same time, but in fact a surfeit of wildebeest veal in a very short period results in the predators’ becoming satiated and unable to consume as much as they would if the calving happened over a longer time span. The predators thus have only a limited impact on the population of newborn calves; any calves born outside the peak are far more likely to perish.


The Physical Appearance

There is no other Antelope like the wildebeest.It looks like it was assembled from spare parts-the forequaters could have come from an ox,the hindquaters from an antelope and the mane and tail from a horse.The antics of  the territorial bulls during breeding season have earned them the name 'clowns of the savanna'.
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The head of the wildebeest is large and box like. Both males and females have curving horns,that are close together at the base,but curve outward ,inward and slightly backward .The body looks disproportionate, as the front end is heavily built ,the hindquarters slender and the legs spindly.

The body is gray with darker vertical stripes which from a distance look almost black.It has a dark mane and long tail. Newborns are yellowish -brown,but change to adult colour at about two months.
This guys are incredibly ugly,they don`t know what they want to be...not Horse,not Zebra, not Buffalo not Hyena..just ugly!!!.

African Game Trek,Budget camping safari,budget luxury lodge Safari we offer to take you to meet this incredibly ugly guys,and make your moment unmeasurable,and see the wonder for your self,do not be told!!!
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Tuesday, 10 February 2015

THE KAREN BLIXEN
From Syphilis,mercury and arsenic poisoning,an unprofitable coffee plantation,abdominal pains and panic attacks,a failed marriage and the death of a lover...yet Danish author Karen Blixen described Africa as a beautiful place,her stay in Kenya as happy.One of the portraits hanging in her old farm house (now a museum in the posh suburbs of Nairobi,Karen which was named in her honour) depicts a scrawny,hollow-eyed and ashen-faced woman. Inside, dark wood-paneling adds to the sense of gloom. The rooms contain more nostalgia than memorabilia: most of the original furniture is housed on the first floor of the McMillan Memorial library.Sadly,many of the pieces are falling into disrepair.
The knobbly knuckles of the Ngong Hills are visible from the living room window.Blixen's lover, Denys Finch Hatton,who was killed in a pane crash,is buried here.Outside,beyond the beautifully landscaped garden are the eerie,rusting skeletons of old farm machinery.
 
At African Game Trek we offer Nairobi City tours and among the sites you will be able to visit the Karen Blixen museum and learn more about the life of this strong Danish Author.Kenya is known to be the land of beauty and discoveries and this is why at African Game Trek we want to pamper you and to make you feel happy about your stay in Kenya at a very budget friendly cost and at the same time get the luxury that it comes with.  Other Budget Camping Safaris we offer include the following.




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