Kenya Historic Railway
13 days—Adventure Expeditions
$2422-3352 USD
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Safari summary
Built during the Scramble for Africa, the „Lunatic Express“ was the one genuinely strategic railway to be constructed in tropical Africa at that time. With steam-powered access to Uganda, the British could transport people and soldiers to ensure their domination of the African Great Lakes region. The Uganda Railway was named after its ultimate destination, for its entire original 1,060-kilometre length actually lay in what would become Kenya. Construction began at the port city of Mombasa in British East Africa in 1896 and finished at the line's terminus, Kisumu, on the eastern shore of Lake Victoria, in 1901.
About this tour
| Tour type | Custom, tailor-made, private | |
| Main focus | Non-safari | |
| Activity level | Easy activity | |
| Best months | All months | |
| Countries | ||
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Fine details
Safari highlights
- Sightseeing | shopping | markets
What’s included?
- Accommodation
- Airport transfers
- Park fees
- Private vehicle and driver
What’s not included?
- Alcoholic beverages
- Laundry
- Tips and gratuities
- Visas
Itinerary
Nairobi
We pick you up at the International Airport in Nairobi and accompany you to the hotel. After refreshing you will visit the railway museum and start the historic safari. Overnight and breakfast at Trademark Hotel BB
Trademark Hotel
Tsavo East
After an early breakfast drive out of the city easterly and across the open plains. Within a short time you will begin to see the Athi plains the same way the early travellers did on the lunatic express. Our first short stop is Athi River station built in 1920. Other stop over stations will be Konza and Emali. Spend a short time at Tsavo Station, renown for the man eater lions that interrupted the construction. Dinner and overnight at Man Eeaters Camp FB
Man eaters Lodge
Tsavo East
Depart for Tsavo East National Park after breakfast for lunch and an evening game drive, returning to lodge/camp at sunset. Tsavo East offers abundant wildlife, including dust-red elephants at Galana River and the 300km Yatta Plateau, the world's longest lava flow. The park is Kenya's largest protected area, home to numerous large mammals and over 500 bird species. Dinner and Overnight at Man Eaters Camp FB
Man Easters Lodge
Mombasa
Wake up to the sounds of the Indian Ocean for a relaxed breakfast at the main hotel restaurant. After breakfast, embark on excursion to Mombasa old Town and Fort Jesus. Dinner and overnight Severin Sea Lodge HB
Severin Sea Lodge
Mombasa
Severin Sea Lodge
Mombasa
Severin Sea Lodge
Lake Naivasha
Day 7: Nairobi - Lake Naivasha Early morning, board the SGR train from Mombasa to Nairobi. Pass stations you've visited and enjoy Tsavo East NP and its wildlife one last time.
Crescent Camp
Lake Nakuru
If you want, you can watch birds again at the early morning at the lakeside. After breakfast, we continue to Lake Nakuru National Park, where you will arrive at the Flamingo Hills Camp at noon. Check in and have lunch. In the afternoon you will be on a game drive.
Flamingo Hill Camp
Koru
Leave early for a drive westwards across the rich farmlands of the rift valley. Stop over at Elburgon and Londiani Stations. Around Fort Tenan keep an eye out for the magnificent arch bridges built before 1899. Arrive for lunch at your guesthouse and spend the afternoon at leisure.Kweisos House which was built in the 1920’s, is situated at Homa Lime in Koru. Enjoy home grown, home cooked traditional Farmhouse Cooking.
Kweisos House
Koru
Kapsimotwa Gardens is a secluded site in Nandi Hills. It's part of a tea plantation established by a British settler in the 1930s. The area is also the burial site of Koitalel Arap Samoei, a supreme chief of the Nandi people who led a rebellion against British colonial rule.
Kweisos House
Kisumu
Drive 50km to Kisumu through Kenya's sugar plantation belt with Nandi escarpment to the west and open plains to the east. Arrive for lunch at your city hotel. Kisumu is the third largest city in Kenya. The Kenya-Uganda Railway made Kisumu important in Kenya and the Great Lakes region. Florence Preston drove the last nail for the railway in 1901, creating Port Florence, later renamed Kisumu. Kisumu is located at the northeastern edge of Winam Gulf, emerging as a port due to its railway terminal.
Sovereign Hotel
Kisumu
In the morning drive to Kakamega forest. Time has stood still for the Kakamega Forest, a remnant of the rain forest that stretched all across Central Africa.The forest is an Ornithologists dream where many different rare birds species are found including Great blue turaco, Blue headed bee-eater, Turners Eremomela, Yellow bellied wattle-eye, African shrike-flycatcher, Petits cuckoo-shrike and many other.
Sovereign Hotel
Nairobi
Depart early morning for the 6hrs drive back to Nairobi, upon arrival transfer to airport for flight home.
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