Author: Peter R Stewart
If you take a Kenya Safari Holiday then you will probably visit the Masai Mara Reserve, and if you do, then you should choose Keekorok Lodge as your accommodation..
Keekorok Lodge is situated very close to the border with Tanzania, and is in the perfect place to witness the beginning of the Great Migration in late June/July, when the Wildebeest and Zebra begin their great trek.
One of the reasons that Keekorok Lodge is a great place to be is because it is one of the oldest Kenya Safari Holiday Lodges, and so it is positioned in just the right place in the direct path of the migration.
When the great migration is at its peak sometime from August to November, it is completely surrounded by animals, a truly amazing experience.
Keekorok has large and beautiful grounds, and it has been renovated recently, with 100 rooms in bungalows, single story blocks, and comfortable chalets with large private verandas.
They are all well furnished and tastefully decorated with only the best materials. The ensuite bathrooms look out over the plains and distant hills.
Keekorok has a good swimming pool, which is a great place to relax between game drives, a restaurant and a bar, with a viewing deck over the hippo pool, which is full of hippos, and extensive walkways allowing great viewing from the lodge straight onto the game in the park.
The best and quickest way to get to Keekorok is by light aircraft, which comes in from Nairobi and Mombasa .
Food in the restaurant is of good quality, and is buffet style, with lovely cakes and fresh fruit flown in daily from Nairobi. You can sit outside on the terrace at the adjacent bar, well protected by the Masai who will also entertain you. A Kenya Safari Holiday without seeing the Masai dance is an definitely incomplete. You could need the Masai guards when you are sitting outside because Keekorok Lodge has no fences which can at times make like quite interesting, but is definitely a plus point. You might for example hear lion chasing zebra outside your room at night!!
You will see on the game drives in the Masai Mara lions and cheetahs, hyenas, and the defenseless game they follow, but the real joy of Keekorok is the wildebeest and hyena during the migration. Whatever you do, arrange a balloon trip with the champagne breakfast floating over the mass of wildebeest, which is a truly unforgettable experience.
Apart from the balloon trip, it is a good idea to organize your game drives through Keekorok, so you can be sure of being by yourself and family, and not in a minibus which many of the Kenya Safari Tour package holidays organized from home seem to be based around.
To summarize, Keekorok is a great and modern Lodge in the middle of the Masai Mara, and as such a necessary stop on any Kenya Safari Tour. It is large and busy in comparison with other lodges, but if that is what you want as part of your Kenya Holiday then you will like it very much indeed. It is well run, comfortable with excellent service
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About the Author:
Peter Stewart writes about in Kenya Safaris as well as Worldwide Vacation Spots He also recommends Travel Tennis a great Game to play on Holiday.
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Author: Andy Adams
We’ve all heard of safari holidays, you go to Africa, pile into a jeep and get to see some amazing wild animals on a nature reserve. Unfortunately with poaching and extinction threatening these majestic creatures these nature reserves are the few places that you can get to see and get close nowadays.
But Safaris are no longer simply associated with the usual desert and pith helmet connotations they used to, many holiday companies are marketing other experiences as safaris in their own right.
In Uganda there is a mountain safari that is centred around following the tremendous mountain Gorillas, these intimidating animals live on the sides of the mountains in Bwindi. There are two family groups that live on the mountain and through many years of slowly acclimatising them to human intrusion they now tolerate the presence of small tour groups for times of normally one hour in length.
Of course these animals are extremely powerful and unpredictable but each tour group is accompanied by experienced guides who have studied the gorilla’s behaviour down to their body language and sounds. In the event that the gorillas are not happy with the visit then the guides will know about it and visitors will be able to come back at another time.
One other safari location which you wouldn’t expect would be Norway. Yes, Norway is home to another kind of safari, an underwater one. There are holidays available to go snorkelling with Orcas, although the cold waters are not to everyone’s taste and so if it’s not your bag then you can observe from the trawler or large dinghy you use to get out to the orcas habitat. But don’t worry if you don’t want to get out of the boat as it isn’t uncommon for Orcas to become curious of the vessel and swim up close to get a closer look.
The locations that these tours cover are feeding grounds for families of Orcas; they scare smaller fish to the surface and pelt the water’s surface in order to stun them. This has been described as a breath taking visual and many people regard it as one of the best holidays they have experienced. And with cheap holidays to mainland Europe becoming more prevalent now is a good time to go.
These are just two alternative safaris which let you get up close to animals that you are less likely to see these days, even in some zoos. The term “Safari” may mean an overland expedition but these days with this kind of holiday on offer the term’s definition has been broadened to cover all sorts of holidays like this.
The pricing for this type of holiday range from roughly £800 - £1500 per person, but obviously offer once in a life time experiences that you’ll always remember.
About the Author:
Andy Adams is an experienced UK writer working with holidays, flights and travel.
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