Kenya Retreat

FloYo Travels: Kenya Retreat

When you picture your dream Africa safari experience, you likely imagine vast savannahs dotted with immense herds of wildlife. Maybe you picture snow-capped equatorial mountains or traditional people who bring soul and colour to the earth. This is Kenya. Begin your love affair with East Africa with some of the best wild life viewing in the world on this value-packed safari and cultural tour through Nairobi, Maasai Mara and Lamu.

Africa is a place that will change you and Kenya is the country that will show you where the spirit of Africa lies.

From watching hippos bask in clear lake waters to tracking a pride of lions through the savannah, our private safari guide will help us discover the Africa you only dreamed of. Each day will include a yoga class in our private tented safari camp and two daily wild life drives, then the evenings will include unlimited food and drinks as we gather around a traditional “boma” fire-pit as the stars above Africa shimmer overhead.

In addition to the magical Mara, we will also explore the bustling city center of Nairobi and then have time at the end of the retreat to relax on the lush, palm-fringed coastline of the Indian Ocean on Lamu Island.

Learn more about this incredible journey below. I hope you will join FloYo for an unforgettable travel  experience.

 

Nairobi:

In Nairobi, you will find a city that is lively, cosmopolitan and full of contrasts. It’s a place of smart office workers, mansions and expensive suburban shopping centers as well as slums crowded with people struggling on as best they can. Displaying enormous vitality and buzz, Nairobi is one of Africa’s major cities and is East Africa’s hub for commerce, aid and increasingly, technology. It is hard to imagine that this city of almost 5 million people celebrated its 100th anniversary in 1999 and that where it now stands, only Maasai manyattas stood barely a century ago!

Masai Mara:

The Masai Mara together with Tanzania’s Serengeti form Africa’s most famous wildlife park. The image of acacia trees on an endless grass plain epitomises Africa for many, and then add a Maasai warrior and some cattle to the picture and the conversation need go no further. The annual wildebeest migration through the Serengeti and the Masai Mara is the largest mass movement of land mammals on the planet – with more than a million animals following the rains. But that is not where the wild life viewing ends; large prides of lions, elephants and giraffes in grasslands, gazelles and eland to mention but a few.

 

Lamu:

Forming part of the Lamu Archipelago along Kenya’s spectacular coastline, Lamu Island is a peaceful tropical island where life moves slowly. This charming island is mostly blanketed in sand dunes, mango trees and palm groves. Lamu Old Town is one of the best-preserved and oldest Swahili settlements in East Africa featuring many influences from Omani Arabs, Turkish and Portuguese traders, who all left their mark. To this day there are only a few vehicles on the island and in many respects, the narrow streets, footpaths and alleyways and markets have barely changed in hundreds of years. All of this adds a level of ancient mystique to your tropical island holiday.