Enjoy the classic Kenya Safari with a difference - explore the little visited areas of Western Kenya around Lake Victoria and spend time with local people including a night in a home stay.

Starting in Nairobi, join your group and professional leader, travelling in 4x4 safari jeeps (max 7 people per vehicle). Heading north up the Great Rift Valley you will have time to walk amongst giraffe and zebra on Lake Naivasha's Crescent Island, a beautiful location in the heart of 'Happy Valley', the land of the colonial settlers, surrounded by flower farms and Acacia trees. Overnight at Lake Naivasha. Then a short drive to Nakuru National Park, famous for it's pink flamingoes and masses of other birds, plus a good population of leopard, buffalo and white rhino. Now you head west for two nights at Kakamega Rainforest - Kenya's last remaining indigenous rainforest and enjoy guided walks here.

Arriving in Kisumu, on the shores of Lake Victoria, you can explore this bustling town and it's many markets and fishing ports then time to interact with locals spending a night in a traditional home at Kendu Bay where you have two days to see how these people live their lives, try their food and play with the children. Leaving the lakeshores, you will travel back inland through the beautiful green tea plantations around Kericho and finally to the Masai Mara Game Reserve for two days of wildlife viewing.  Home to many big cats, elephants, giraffe and of course the Wildebeest Migration (July - September) the Mara is a wildlife paradise.

You will be returned to Nairobi or you could extend your travels in Kenya or into Tanzania - ask me for suggestions for the perfect African Safari.