Kenya Family Adventure Kenya is calling.  Take the kids on a family adventure tour to Kenya knowing you've got the experience of tour guides to make your holiday safe and exciting.  If wildlife is your thing then this is the tour for you.  Elephants, giraffes, flamingos, zebras, gazelles, lions, cheetahs and more.  Travel with 3 or 4 other like minded families and discover Africa

In colourful Nairobi, check out the fantastic African crafts at the local market, feed the giraffes at the Giraffe Manor and spend time with orphaned elephants at the elephant orphanage.

Heading to the Rift Valley lakes, we hope to see the thousands of pink flamingos, which create a colourful carpet across the water surface. At Lake Nakuru our game drives take in a vast amount of bird life and hopefully white rhino, while at Lake Naivasha we'll go for a boat ride looking for hippos.

Spend two full days in the spectacular grasslands of the Masai Mara watching for plains game - wildebeest, zebra and gazelle - closely followed by the predators - lion, hyena, cheetah and the elusive leopard.

If you would like a beach break, why not add a Lamu Island stopover after your safari?

This 8 day safari starts at just Adult $2295 Child $1880 and departs 2 or 3 times per month.  For your free delivered brochure click here or for a quote or departure date call the byokids consultants on 1300 BYOkids (1300296543)

For detailed itinerary see below

Day 1: Nairobi
On arrival in Nairobi, you will be met and transferred to your hotel by our drivers. Upon reaching our Nairobi hotel our local representative will meet you to ensure that all is well. Our representative will provide details of the trip briefing that will be held tonight in the hotel as well as any additional tours or activities that you may wish to enjoy whilst in Nairobi. The rest of the day is at your leisure. Please note this is an arrival day and you may arrive at any time. There is a good restaurant at the hotel if you would prefer an early night. (Dinner at own expense).

Day 2: Nairobi Day Tour
Today we have a full day in Nairobi. We visit some of the local markets, and also an Elephant Orphanage and the Giraffe Centre. Both the Elephant Orphanage and the Giraffe Centre are involved heavily with wildlife conservation whilst also offering a special opportunity to get close to these animals.

We depart from the hotel at 10am and head for Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage for abandoned young elephants. Here we spend an hour or so watching whilst the youngsters are being fed and perhaps bathed by their handlers. The orphanage seeks to look after and rehabilitate orphaned elephants, with the long-term intention of re-introducing them into the wild. The rehabilitation process is long term as the orphan elephants need 24 hour care, attention and stimulation - the keepers even need to sleep in the elephant pens as the baby elephants are scared of the dark! Orphaned rhino and zebra also come into the care of Daphne Sheldrick at times.

From there we head to the Giraffe Centre and feed the giraffes; maybe if you are brave enough you could kiss one of them, as you can get so close! (Not compulsory!) We stop for lunch at the nearby Karen Coffee Club (lunch at own expense); the restaurant has a nice playground which may appeal to younger children. After lunch we make a stop at the Utamaduni Craft Market, where a massive range of Kenyan arts and crafts are on sale, before arriving back at the hotel by mid-afternoon. Here you can rest or spend a few hours at the pool before dinner. (Dinner at own expense.) You may like to go out to dinner at Carnivores Restaurant this evening or the leader will be able to suggest one of the city's fine restaurants.

Meals included: 1 breakfast

Day 3: Lake Nakuru National Park
This morning we drive north from Nairobi to Lake Nakuru, one of the many lakes of the Great Rift Valley, checking into our lodge, which is located inside the national park. Lake Nakuru, a soda lake, forms the centrepiece of the Lake Nakuru National Park. The lake is probably most famous for the thousands of pink flamingos, which can be found here, turning the waters of the lake into a carpet of pink. We take our first game drive in the national park this afternoon, searching for the animals that live here. This could include cape buffalo, giraffe, waterbuck, rhinoceros and maybe our first lion or leopard. Rhinos are highly endangered but the Lake Nakuru area provides a good chance of seeing some of these prehistoric looking animals up close!

Meals included: 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, 1 dinner

Day 4: Lake Naivasha
This morning we take an early morning drive in the park before we head across to Lake Naivasha and Simba Lodge – a drive of about two hours. Set amongst acacia woodland, the park-like grounds are visited by a wide variety of birds and wildlife. The hotel offers a variety of sporting activities along with restaurants, bars and a heated swimming pool.

In the afternoon we take a boat ride out on the lake. There are quite a lot of hippos that live in the lake, and there is a very good chance we will find some. Being curious animals they often stick their head up out of the water to look at us, and hopefully we’ll hear them grunting at us, or to each other, as we go by. When we return to shore and your hotel, you may like to take a swim in the pool - there are no hippos here!

Meals included: 1 breakfast, 1 lunch, 1 dinner

Days 5-7: Masai Mara National Reserve
This morning we drive southwest to the Masai Mara Reserve, which is one of the most renowned wildlife areas in Africa, often boasting significant numbers of animals. The area is known for its rolling green plains and riverine woodlands, and amongst the many species of game, we may be lucky to observe black-maned lions, leopard and cheetah. These predators find an abundant food supply in the massive herds of wildebeest, zebra, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle that often roam the grasslands. Like all the wildlife areas we visit, the Mara is not a zoo and sightings of particular species cannot be guaranteed - but with three days in the area the chances of seeing most of these predators is good.

We will have three nights here, based in a private concession just outside the reserve. This will give us plenty of time to undertake game drives looking for a wide number of plains animals and perhaps some of the predators, which can be found in the area. We stay at a permanent-tented camp - but this is not camping as you know it! These tents are very comfortable and are large enough for full-size beds and come with full ensuite facilities - you might be under canvas, but you will certainly not be roughing it. Game drives tend to be taken from early to mid-morning, and from mid-afternoon to sunset, which are the cooler times of the day, when the animals tend to more active. In addition to game drives, the camp has a swimming pool, and you may also choose to go on walks with guides and to meet some of the local Masai tribes-people in their village.

Meals included: 3 breakfasts, 3 lunches, 3 dinners

Day 8: Nairobi
Today our game-viewing experience ends as we commence our drive back to Nairobi. The road back to Nairobi can be very bumpy at times! We arrive back in Nairobi in the late afternoon where our safari ends. A group departure transfer to the International airport will be included tonight. If you are departing Nairobi this evening please do not book flights prior to 7.00 pm. Post tour accommodation and airport departure transfers in Nairobi can be booked at additional cost if required.

To reduce your travelling time back to Nairobi, you may wish to consider a flight from the Masai Mara to Nairobi (additional cost). It will also give you the chance to catch late afternoon flights out of Nairobi. Please note that the flight from the Mara arrives at Wilson Airport (Nairobi) where your tour then ends. Peregrine will be happy to arrange airport or hotel transfers (additional cost) should this be required.

Meals included: 1 breakfast