12 Days Southern Kenya Safari for Wheelchair Travel Planning

Arrive at Moi International Airport in Mombasa, where your local representative meets you after immigration and baggage collection. Transfer to your coastal hotel, passing the city’s busy streets before reaching the beachfront area.

Check in and take time to recover from your flight. If you arrive during the day, relax beside the swimming pool, stroll through the hotel gardens or enjoy your first views of the Indian Ocean from the beach.

Your representative will explain the safari departure arrangements and the route inland. Spend the evening at the hotel, enjoy dinner according to your booked meal plan and rest before tomorrow’s activities.

Meal plan: Meals according to the selected hotel or resort board basis, as stated in your quotation.

After breakfast, leave Mombasa and travel inland toward Ngutuni Conservancy near Tsavo East. Pass coastal settlements and increasingly dry countryside before reaching the conservancy and Ngutuni Lodge.

Arrive for lunch and settle into your room. Enjoy a break overlooking the waterhole, where elephants, buffaloes or other animals may appear during the day.

In the afternoon, join your guide for a vehicle game drive on the conservancy tracks. Look for giraffes, zebras, antelopes and elephant herds, with time to stop for photography and watch animals feeding or moving through the bush. Lions and other predators may also be encountered.

Return to Ngutuni Lodge for dinner and an overnight stay. Continue watching the waterhole from the lodge’s designated viewing area if animals are present.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After breakfast, leave for Tsavo West National Park. Travel into a landscape of volcanic hills, dark lava outcrops and thick bush, with game viewing along the park roads as you make your way toward your accommodation.

Continue with a vehicle game drive through Tsavo West’s volcanic landscape, stopping at suitable viewpoints to look for elephants, buffaloes and giraffes. A visit to Mzima Springs can be added only if the walking path and viewing arrangements have been checked against your access and assistance requirements; otherwise, spend this time exploring the park from the safari vehicle.

Have lunch at your lodge or enjoy a packed lunch along the route. Continue with an afternoon game drive, looking for elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras and antelopes among the wooded slopes and clearings. The thicker vegetation makes patient observation part of the experience.

Reach your lodge before evening, settle into your room and enjoy dinner and an overnight stay.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After breakfast, depart for Tsavo East National Park. On reaching the entrance, begin a game drive toward your lodge through a landscape of red earth, open grassland and scattered thorn trees. Watch for wildlife along the route rather than waiting until the afternoon to begin exploring.

Arrive for lunch, check in and take a short rest. From the lodge, you may see animals moving through the surrounding bush or visiting a nearby waterhole.

In the afternoon, explore more of the park with your guide. Look for elephants coated in red dust, giraffes browsing above the scrub, zebras, buffaloes and antelopes. Search shaded areas and the edges of watercourses for lions and other predators, stopping whenever an interesting sighting develops.

Return to the lodge before darkness for dinner and an overnight stay in Tsavo East.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Head out early for a game drive in Tsavo East, when temperatures are lower and wildlife is often more active. Follow the park tracks through open plains and bushland, looking for elephant herds, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras and antelopes.

Spend time around waterholes and riverine vegetation, where animals may gather to drink and birds provide additional interest. Your guide will look for signs of predators and explain the tracks, feeding patterns and behaviour you encounter along the way.

Return to the lodge for lunch and a rest during the hottest hours. In the afternoon, explore another section of the park, pausing for photographs of the red-earth landscape and wildlife in the softer light.

Finish the game drive before dusk and return to your lodge for dinner. Enjoy a quiet evening overlooking the bush or the lodge waterhole where available.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After breakfast, leave your safari accommodation and travel toward Kenya’s south coast. Watch the dry inland landscape give way to coastal vegetation, towns and palm-lined roads as you approach Diani.

Arrive at your beach resort, check in and enjoy lunch according to the arrival time and booked meal plan. Settle into your room and exchange the pace of safari travel for a relaxed afternoon beside the Indian Ocean.

Spend the remaining daylight hours by the pool or take a gentle walk along the beach. The white sand and warm ocean provide a different setting from the parks, with time to swim when local conditions are suitable.

Enjoy dinner at the resort and an overnight stay.

Meal plan: Meals according to the selected hotel or resort board basis, as stated in your quotation.

Enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the resort, then spend the morning on the beach. Walk along the shoreline while it is cooler, watch the changing tide or find a shaded spot overlooking the Indian Ocean.

Return to the hotel for a swim in the pool and lunch according to your meal plan. The middle of the day is free to rest in your room, read in the gardens or relax on your terrace.

In the afternoon, enjoy more beach or pool time. Guests interested in a spa treatment can book one separately, while those wishing to keep the day quiet can simply enjoy the resort facilities.

As evening approaches, return to your room to freshen up before dinner. Overnight at the same beach resort.

Meal plan: Meals according to the selected hotel or resort board basis, as stated in your quotation.

After breakfast, enjoy another relaxed day at the coast. Spend the morning swimming in the pool or walking on the beach, with the freedom to return to your room whenever you wish.

For a change of pace, an optional guided snorkelling trip can be arranged at extra cost. Travel by boat to an appropriate reef site, where the crew introduces the equipment and guides you in looking for tropical fish and coral formations. The outing operates subject to tides and sea conditions.

If you prefer to stay ashore, enjoy the resort and have lunch according to your meal plan. The afternoon remains free for swimming, reading or relaxing in the gardens.

Enjoy dinner at the resort and another overnight stay. The snorkelling excursion is optional and is not included in the standard beach program.

Meal plan: Meals according to the selected hotel or resort board basis, as stated in your quotation.

Start with breakfast overlooking the resort gardens or ocean, then choose a comfortable place beside the pool or on the beach. There are no scheduled transfers today, allowing you to enjoy the coast without an early start.

Spend the morning swimming or walking along the shoreline when conditions are suitable. Return for lunch under your booked meal plan and take a break during the warmer afternoon hours.

Later, enjoy the resort’s leisure facilities or book an optional activity through the local team. Spa treatments, boat trips and water sports are charged separately unless expressly included in your confirmed package.

Finish the day with dinner and a quiet evening at the resort. Overnight in the same accommodation.

Meal plan: Meals according to the selected hotel or resort board basis, as stated in your quotation.

Enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the resort, then spend the morning on the beach. Walk along the shoreline while it is cooler, watch the changing tide or find a shaded spot overlooking the Indian Ocean.

Return to the hotel for a swim in the pool and lunch according to your meal plan. The middle of the day is free to rest in your room, read in the gardens or relax on your terrace.

In the afternoon, enjoy more beach or pool time. Guests interested in a spa treatment can book one separately, while those wishing to keep the day quiet can simply enjoy the resort facilities.

As evening approaches, return to your room to freshen up before dinner. Overnight at the same beach resort.

Meal plan: Meals according to the selected hotel or resort board basis, as stated in your quotation.

Enjoy breakfast and make the most of your final full day beside the Indian Ocean. Return to your favourite stretch of beach, take a morning swim or settle beside the pool with a book.

Have lunch according to your resort meal plan, followed by time to relax in the shade. Keep the afternoon unhurried so you can enjoy the coast and pack comfortably before tomorrow’s departure.

As the heat eases, take a final beach walk or enjoy the view from the resort grounds. Confirm your airport collection time with the local representative and settle any personal hotel charges.

Enjoy your last dinner at the resort and an overnight stay, ready for the onward journey tomorrow.

Meal plan: Meals according to the selected hotel or resort board basis, as stated in your quotation.

Enjoy breakfast at the resort and spend any remaining free time relaxing before check-out. If your flight leaves later in the day, you may have time for a final walk in the gardens or a quiet morning beside the pool.

At the agreed time, meet your driver and transfer to Moi International Airport in Mombasa. Leave sufficient time for the road journey, airport check-in and security formalities.

Arrive at the airport for your onward flight, bringing your Kenya holiday to a close. Additional meals and any room use after normal check-out are arranged separately when required.

Meal plan: Breakfast; other meals at own expense unless included in your final quotation.