This Mt. Kenya Region Student safari features the best in the region starting with the Sweetwater’s chimpanzee sanctuary on to Mpala Ranch a research centre for students and home of the renowned actor William Holden. This safari gives every student a reason to consider conservation in their lives and also emphasizes on the importance of student research.
DAY 1 – Nairobi – Mt. Kenya
The Students will be picked from Nairobi after a briefing by our representative and later you will drive through Plantations like Kakuzi Limited that is engaged in cultivation, manufacture and marketing of tea and other plantations like Del Monte Kenya Ltd a Kenyan company that operates in the food processing industry. The company previously known a long time ago as Kenya Canners, owns a 5,500 acres (22 km²) of pineapple plantation. After you proceed to Thika the home of the Chania falls, on to Karatina Market the biggest open air market in East and Central Africa. Passing through Nyeri region, through the Kikuyu Farmlands in a mountainous setting and very cool climate to arrive at the Sweetwater’s Tented Camp or a similar lodge for lunch and check in. After wards you will tour the vast Ol Pajeta Ranch which harbors Sweetwater’s; a 90,000acre farm.
Sweetwater’s Chimpanzee Sanctuary is the only place in Kenya where you can see the Chimpanzees in the wild. Sweetwater game reserve is also a Rhino sanctuary and was set up in 1989 and covered an area of 24,000 acres. You will have the greatest experience of seeing the tame black and white rhinos. The ranch above all is a home to the big five that can be seen during the game drive. You will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight at the Lodge
DAY - 2 Mpala Wildlife Foundation - Ol Jogi Ranch – William Holden Orphanage
After breakfast you will proceed to the Mpala Wildlife Foundation which operates and manages a modern biodiversity conservation research center for students from various countries, a 48,000 acre wildlife conservancy, and a variety of community health and outreach programs in Laikipia, Kenya or the Ol Jogi Ranch. Ol jogi orphanage houses a bear, which eats not less than seven loaves of bread for its breakfast, and a ferocious-looking black leopard, the result of a gene mutation, a hippopotamus at the water point and many more. In the birds' area, a cockatoo parrot, with its colourful crest, welcomes visitors and getring a chance to feed tame African elephants as they pose for those memorable photographs. After wards you will also have an opportunity to tour William Holden Orphanage. It is currently home to some 28 species - around 1500 animals - all of which are the progeny of the individuals and small family groups rescued from threatened wildlife range and forest areas under the direction of the Kenya Government in the seventies and eighties. Dinner, entertainment at the lodge
DAY 3 – NAIROBI
This day after a hefty breakfast you will pack all your bags in the vans and start a return journey to Nairobi with a stop in Nyeri to visit the Baden Powell Museum. Robert Stephenson Smyth Baden-Powell, 1st Baron Baden-Powell was a lieutenant-general in the British Army, writer, and founder of the Scout Movement.
Baden-Powell's Paxtu cottage, now a small museum, stands on the grounds of the Outspan Hotel. For years it served as a World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) centre. You will return to Nairobi via Sagana famed for white water rafting; etching the precious memories on your mind to be dropped at your school.
The cost includes;
• Accommodation and meals on full board (Three meals a day)
• Transport through out the safari
• All cultural visits named above
• Game drives at Sweetwater’s
• Soft drinks/water
• Services of a professional driver guide/guide
• Park entrance fees
The cost excludes;
Items of personal nature like laundry, drinks telephones at the lodge
Anything else that is not included above
NOTE
We will take one teacher free to accompany the students after every 10 students
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