Discover Kenya: Nairobi, Amboseli, Lake Nakuru, and Maasai Mara

  Kenya

• Nairobi: 
Nairobi

Dates: open

Description: 7 Days/6 Nights

Covering some of the most appealing and amazing parks in Kenya over the course of seven (7) days, participants are treated to the Kilimanjaro-boasting Amboseli National Park overflowing with elephants, giraffe, cheetah, zebra, and wildebeest. Other amazing destinations include the rhinos and flamingos of Lake Nakuru National Park, the geological wonderment of the Great Rift Valley as well as the unfettered culture of the Maasai Mara and its epic kaleidoscope of wildlife species zebra, antelope, buffalo, wildebeest, hyena, etc.

Highlights: Proposed Itinerary

Day One: Preparation for Safari: Volunteers prepare for the safari picked up from their respective host families/hostels.

Day Two & Three: Amboseli National Park: For the duration of these two days, participants will reside in accommodations arranged and approved by Youth Hostels Tours and Volunteers, where breakfast, lunch & dinner will be available. The day's safari will begin with a drive to Amboseli National Park near Kilimanjaro jutting skyward and dominating the horizon with its glorious peak reaching approximately 19,340 feet. The afternoon unfolds treating participants to numerous wildlife-viewing opportunities, including: the area's massive elephant population as well as giraffe lions and cheetahs. The wildlife experience continues the next morning as participants are treated to even more of Amboseli National Park's wonderment zebra and wildebeest run amok as the safari continues into the afternoon and early evening.

Day Four: Lake Nakuru: After breakfast, participants will travel to Thompson Falls, followed by a descent to the floor of the daunting Rift Valley and onto Lake Nakuru National Park. The remainder of the day will consist of exploring the wonderful diversity of birds as well as opportunities to observe Lake Nakuru's famed population of rhinoceros, leopards and flamingo. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.

Day Five & Six: Maasai Mara Game Reserve: For the duration of these two days, participants will reside in accommodations arranged and approved by Youth Hostels Tours and Volunteers where breakfast, lunch & dinner will be available. This particular stretch of the tour guaranteed to supply lasting memories explores the enchanting, awe-inspiring land of the world-renowned Maasai a cattle-herding culture still defiantly untouched by the trappings of the western world. This stretch of the journey will commence in a grand finale at the Maasai Mara an amazing park brimming with Kenya's most concentrated, most diverse examples of wildlife. Within the realm of the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, multiple safaris provide opportunities to observe Africa's largest pride of lions as well as herds-upon-herds of zebra and antelope, buffalo, wildebeest, giraffe, cheetah and hyena.

Day Seven: Maasai Mara/Nairobi: Participants awake for an early morning game drive, followed by breakfast. Here, participants say their good-byes and express their gratitude to their guides before being escorted back to their respective project locations. Breakfast, lunch and dinner provided.

NOTE: This is a sample itinerary and may be altered to accommodate changes in field conditions.

1. Dates and Price
Price: $1200 ONLY for Youth Hostels Tours and Volunteers
Dates: To be determined by In-Country Coordinator (most likely at the end or middle of participant's respective volunteer program)

Included in Program Fee:
* Pick-up/drop-off from project site
* Domestic, in-park transportation in a modified 4-wheel-drive vehicle or Van including a releasable roof hatch for documenting the experience
* Services of a professional safari guide
* All meals on safari
* All wildlife reserve entry fees and camping fees
* All accommodations as per itinerary

Not Included
* Tips (for safari guide and/or camp staff)
* Other items of personal consumption (i.e. soft drink, bottled water, etc.)

Cost in US$: 1200

Not Included
* Tips (for safari guide and/or camp staff)
* Other items of personal consumption (i.e. soft drink, bottled water, etc.)

This Program is open to Worldwide Participants.

Participants Travel to Kenya Independently or in Groups

Typically Participants Work Independently or in Groups of 4 to 20+

Application Process Involves:

• Other
• Phone Interview

Post Services Include:

• Exit Debriefing Abroad
• Re-Entry Debriefing at Home
• Job and Internship Network

Kenya Youth Hostels Association's Mission Statement: Kenya Youth Hostel Association is a non-profit organization, which promotes youth hostelling in Kenya and gives the opportunity to Kenyan young people to travel abroad, because the membership card of international hostelling is valid worldwide. So if you have this card, you are accepted in all of those seventy countries and all of those youth hostels without any differences. We would like to see more Kenyan people travel around and use the infrastructure, because all countries are very well covered by youth hostels. Our main task is to promote youth traveling as something which is not only for people who have a lot of money. We are here to help people to travel more easily, quickly, safely and to find people of their age around. We are promoting traveling with no differences between races, nationalities, without any kind of discrimination.

Year Founded: 1957