Day 1 Depart New York
Depart New York on Emirates non-stop overnight flight to Dubai.
Day 2 Arrive Dubai
Arrive in Dubai late this evening where you will be met and transferred to your beach hotel.
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
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Day 3 Dubai | Meals: B
Welcome to one of the most cosmopolitan and exciting cities in the world! After a leisurely morning, enjoy a tour of this "City of Merchants". You'll begin at the Jumeirah mosque and then continue to the 150-year old Al Fahidi Fort, where the Dubai Museum records the city's history. Continue across the creek by abra - the traditional water taxi, where the adventure awaits as you walk through the spice and gold souks.
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
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Day 4 Dubai | Meals: B
This morning, travel to Sharjah and Ajman. You will pass Sharjah's spectacular King Faisal Mosque, Al Ittihad Monument and the Ruler's Palace enroute to Ajman's museum housed in an ancient fort. On the way back to Dubai, you'll stop at Majarrah Souk, Al Arsah Souk and the Blue Souk - where more than 600 shops will tempt you with their goods. Later this evening, the mysterious desert beckons for a night of Arabian magic. Your 4WD vehicle takes you through the desert to a traditional Bedu tent where a feast of grilled meats, fresh salads and Arab sweets is served - while you are entertained by the belly dancer swaying to Arabian music.
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
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Day 5 Dubai | Meals: B
The day is at leisure to soak up the sun or do some last minute shopping.
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
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Day 6 Dubai-Nairobi | Meals: B
Transfer to the airport early this morning for the flight to Nairobi. Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel, where the remainder of the afternoon is at leisure.
Peacefully set in landscaped gardens, the five star Nairobi Serena Hotel overlooks Central Park and is five minutes walking distance from the city center.
Each room has satellite TV, minibar, electronic safe, direct dial telephone, air conditioning, private bath and shower, telephone in bathroom, hair dryer and shaving mirror. All bedrooms and halls are newly renovated. All suites fitted with facsimile.
The hotel is renowned for efficient, personalized and attentive service. Dining: Mandhari Restaurant offers fine a la carte dining with modern contemporary cuisine. Cafe Mahred is an all day restaurant with theme buffets and a la carte menu.
A residents lounge and pool bar are also available. Sports: Maisha Health and Fitness Center with sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, gymnasium and massage. Fresh water swimming pool. Complimentary golf facilities nearby.
Additional features: business center with PC, facsimile and meeting room. Conference rooms for 10 to 250 people, audio visual equipment, boutiques, hair salon, car rental, free parking, 24 hour room service, free courtesy bus to and from town.
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Day 7 Nairobi-Samburu | Meals: BLD
Your journey takes you north to delightful Samburu National Reserve. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game drive. The Uaso Nyiro River cuts through the reserve, attracting a rich variety of wildlife in search of water and shade. Leopard are frequently spotted in Samburu, so keep a look out!
Serena Samburu is situated on the wooded banks of the Uaso Nyiro River, in the heart of the rugged, semi-arid Samburu Game Reserve. The park preserves the natural balance that existed betwen the local Samburu tribes and the wildlife which ranges from elephant, buffalo and lion to a wide range of birdlife. All guest rooms have a private verandah that overlook the river where crocodile feed in full view.
The park is renowned for rare game - the long-necked gerenuk, Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe and Besia oryx. Leopard are frequently seen resting in the branches of the riverine trees.
There are 62 rooms, including 8 family rooms.
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Day 8 Samburu | Meals: BLD
Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives today. Of particular interest in Samburu are the indigenous species such as the reticulated giraffe, the Grevy?s zebra (look for the "oversized" ears) and the gerenuk which stands on its hind legs to feed from the top branches of bushes and trees.
Serena Samburu is situated on the wooded banks of the Uaso Nyiro River, in the heart of the rugged, semi-arid Samburu Game Reserve. The park preserves the natural balance that existed betwen the local Samburu tribes and the wildlife which ranges from elephant, buffalo and lion to a wide range of birdlife. All guest rooms have a private verandah that overlook the river where crocodile feed in full view.
The park is renowned for rare game - the long-necked gerenuk, Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe and Besia oryx. Leopard are frequently seen resting in the branches of the riverine trees.
There are 62 rooms, including 8 family rooms.
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Day 9 Samburu-Aberdares | Meals: BLD
Drive south today into the Aberdare mountain range for a night at a tree hotel. After settling in, relax on the verandah and watch for animals as they come to the waterhole to drink and to scratch for salt.
Mountain Lodge allows the visitor an up close and personal view of the dense forest which comes alive at dusk with the sounds of animals. It can be reached by a good road passing through coffee, sisal and pineapple plantations. An interesting feature of the waterhole is its center island created in the shape of the African continent.
Each of the Lodge's tastefully decorated and recently refurbished rooms has en suite facilities, and all have ideal view of the waterhole below.� A specially constructed viewing bunker is connected to the lodge by a short tunnel and allows an incredibly close view of game as they come to drink or partake of the salty silt.�
Mountain Lodge is the only "tree lodge" with direct access... no offset hotel acts as an assembly area. Bird watching is especially popular and the naturalist conducts daily safari walks through the forest nearby. In this other worldly setting, the drama of nature plays out daily, beneath the rocky, glacier-covered peaks of nearby Mount Kenya.
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Day 10 Aberdares-Great Rift Valley | Meals: BLD
Your journey today takes you into the Lakes region. An afternoon game drive under the shade of acacia trees in Lake Nakuru National Park may reveal lesser flamingoes along the lake shore, along with Rothschild?s giraffe, black rhino, dik dik and much more. Overnight at the Great Rift Valley Lodge.
Day 11 Great Rift Valley-Masai Mara | Meals: BLD
Leave the Rift Valley today and enter the Masai Mara, Kenya's most famous reserve. Have your bird and mammal checklist ready this afternoon, as you will surely complete most of your game-viewing list while in the Masai Mara.
An interpretation of a traditional Masai Manyatta village of domed huts, Mara Serena Safari Lodge is set on the saddle of a hill where it overlooks the 1,800 square kilometers of rolling plains, woodlands and rivers that make up the Masai Mara Triangle - one of the world's richest wildlife sanctuaries. No other lodge has such a spectacular view of the surrounding landscape or the game and birdlife that inhabit it. It is on this very terrain stretching endlessly before the lodge where the annual migrations take place, where millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle traverse the landscape to feed on the rich new grass and give birth to their young.
74 Guest Rooms
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Day 12 Masai Mara | Meals: BLD
On morning and afternoon game drives today, you will likely spot a wide variety of game including zebra, gazelle, impala and hyena. Birdlife is prolific in the Mara - watch for the colorful lilac-breasted roller.
Peacefully set in landscaped gardens, the five star Nairobi Serena Hotel overlooks Central Park and is five minutes walking distance from the city center.
Each room has satellite TV, minibar, electronic safe, direct dial telephone, air conditioning, private bath and shower, telephone in bathroom, hair dryer and shaving mirror. All bedrooms and halls are newly renovated. All suites fitted with facsimile.
The hotel is renowned for efficient, personalized and attentive service. Dining: Mandhari Restaurant offers fine a la carte dining with modern contemporary cuisine. Cafe Mahred is an all day restaurant with theme buffets and a la carte menu.
A residents lounge and pool bar are also available. Sports: Maisha Health and Fitness Center with sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, gymnasium and massage. Fresh water swimming pool. Complimentary golf facilities nearby.
Additional features: business center with PC, facsimile and meeting room. Conference rooms for 10 to 250 people, audio visual equipment, boutiques, hair salon, car rental, free parking, 24 hour room service, free courtesy bus to and from town.
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Day 13 Masai Mara-Depart | Meals: BD
After breakfast, return to Nairobi. Visit the former home of author Karen von Blixen as well as the Giraffe Center, where you have an opportunity to feed the giraffe. Then enjoy dinner at the Carnivore Restaurant before transferring to the airport for departure on the overnight flight to Dubai.
Day 14 Dubai-New York | Meals: B
Arrive in Dubai early this morning where you connect to the New York-bound Emirates flight, arriving early this afternoon.
Depart New York on Emirates non-stop overnight flight to Dubai.
Day 2 Arrive Dubai
Arrive in Dubai late this evening where you will be met and transferred to your beach hotel.
Sheraton Jumeirah Beach
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
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Day 3 Dubai | Meals: B
Welcome to one of the most cosmopolitan and exciting cities in the world! After a leisurely morning, enjoy a tour of this "City of Merchants". You'll begin at the Jumeirah mosque and then continue to the 150-year old Al Fahidi Fort, where the Dubai Museum records the city's history. Continue across the creek by abra - the traditional water taxi, where the adventure awaits as you walk through the spice and gold souks.
Sheraton Jumeirah Beach
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
×
Day 4 Dubai | Meals: B
This morning, travel to Sharjah and Ajman. You will pass Sharjah's spectacular King Faisal Mosque, Al Ittihad Monument and the Ruler's Palace enroute to Ajman's museum housed in an ancient fort. On the way back to Dubai, you'll stop at Majarrah Souk, Al Arsah Souk and the Blue Souk - where more than 600 shops will tempt you with their goods. Later this evening, the mysterious desert beckons for a night of Arabian magic. Your 4WD vehicle takes you through the desert to a traditional Bedu tent where a feast of grilled meats, fresh salads and Arab sweets is served - while you are entertained by the belly dancer swaying to Arabian music.
Sheraton Jumeirah Beach
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
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Day 5 Dubai | Meals: B
The day is at leisure to soak up the sun or do some last minute shopping.
Sheraton Jumeirah Beach
The Sheraton Jumeirah Beach Resort& Towers is a beautiful resort located on the white sands of Jumeirah Beach, surrounded by landscaped gardens that boast more than 200 palm trees. The resort's facilities include 256 luxurious guest rooms, a business center, an outdoor heated pool and numerous restaurants. Guests can enjoy International dishes at the Palm Garden Restaurant, Chinese cuisine at the Peacock and Australian steaks as well as fresh seafood at The Grill Room Restaurant.
Special Condition
From May 4, 2004 to December 31, 2006 due to the ongoing development of the Jumeirah Beach Residences, guests may experience some background noise. However, this work is not noticeable within the hotel complex. The land view rooms might be overlooking the development site. Please contact the hotel for further information.
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Day 6 Dubai-Nairobi | Meals: B
Transfer to the airport early this morning for the flight to Nairobi. Upon arrival, you will be met and transferred to your hotel, where the remainder of the afternoon is at leisure.
Nairobi Serena Hotel
Peacefully set in landscaped gardens, the five star Nairobi Serena Hotel overlooks Central Park and is five minutes walking distance from the city center.
Each room has satellite TV, minibar, electronic safe, direct dial telephone, air conditioning, private bath and shower, telephone in bathroom, hair dryer and shaving mirror. All bedrooms and halls are newly renovated. All suites fitted with facsimile.
The hotel is renowned for efficient, personalized and attentive service. Dining: Mandhari Restaurant offers fine a la carte dining with modern contemporary cuisine. Cafe Mahred is an all day restaurant with theme buffets and a la carte menu.
A residents lounge and pool bar are also available. Sports: Maisha Health and Fitness Center with sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, gymnasium and massage. Fresh water swimming pool. Complimentary golf facilities nearby.
Additional features: business center with PC, facsimile and meeting room. Conference rooms for 10 to 250 people, audio visual equipment, boutiques, hair salon, car rental, free parking, 24 hour room service, free courtesy bus to and from town.
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Day 7 Nairobi-Samburu | Meals: BLD
Your journey takes you north to delightful Samburu National Reserve. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game drive. The Uaso Nyiro River cuts through the reserve, attracting a rich variety of wildlife in search of water and shade. Leopard are frequently spotted in Samburu, so keep a look out!
Samburu Serena
Serena Samburu is situated on the wooded banks of the Uaso Nyiro River, in the heart of the rugged, semi-arid Samburu Game Reserve. The park preserves the natural balance that existed betwen the local Samburu tribes and the wildlife which ranges from elephant, buffalo and lion to a wide range of birdlife. All guest rooms have a private verandah that overlook the river where crocodile feed in full view.
The park is renowned for rare game - the long-necked gerenuk, Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe and Besia oryx. Leopard are frequently seen resting in the branches of the riverine trees.
There are 62 rooms, including 8 family rooms.
×
Day 8 Samburu | Meals: BLD
Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives today. Of particular interest in Samburu are the indigenous species such as the reticulated giraffe, the Grevy?s zebra (look for the "oversized" ears) and the gerenuk which stands on its hind legs to feed from the top branches of bushes and trees.
Samburu Serena
Serena Samburu is situated on the wooded banks of the Uaso Nyiro River, in the heart of the rugged, semi-arid Samburu Game Reserve. The park preserves the natural balance that existed betwen the local Samburu tribes and the wildlife which ranges from elephant, buffalo and lion to a wide range of birdlife. All guest rooms have a private verandah that overlook the river where crocodile feed in full view.
The park is renowned for rare game - the long-necked gerenuk, Grevy's zebra, reticulated giraffe and Besia oryx. Leopard are frequently seen resting in the branches of the riverine trees.
There are 62 rooms, including 8 family rooms.
×
Day 9 Samburu-Aberdares | Meals: BLD
Drive south today into the Aberdare mountain range for a night at a tree hotel. After settling in, relax on the verandah and watch for animals as they come to the waterhole to drink and to scratch for salt.
Serena Mountain Lodge
Mountain Lodge allows the visitor an up close and personal view of the dense forest which comes alive at dusk with the sounds of animals. It can be reached by a good road passing through coffee, sisal and pineapple plantations. An interesting feature of the waterhole is its center island created in the shape of the African continent.
Each of the Lodge's tastefully decorated and recently refurbished rooms has en suite facilities, and all have ideal view of the waterhole below.� A specially constructed viewing bunker is connected to the lodge by a short tunnel and allows an incredibly close view of game as they come to drink or partake of the salty silt.�
Mountain Lodge is the only "tree lodge" with direct access... no offset hotel acts as an assembly area. Bird watching is especially popular and the naturalist conducts daily safari walks through the forest nearby. In this other worldly setting, the drama of nature plays out daily, beneath the rocky, glacier-covered peaks of nearby Mount Kenya.
×
Day 10 Aberdares-Great Rift Valley | Meals: BLD
Your journey today takes you into the Lakes region. An afternoon game drive under the shade of acacia trees in Lake Nakuru National Park may reveal lesser flamingoes along the lake shore, along with Rothschild?s giraffe, black rhino, dik dik and much more. Overnight at the Great Rift Valley Lodge.
Great Rift Valley Lodge
Day 11 Great Rift Valley-Masai Mara | Meals: BLD
Leave the Rift Valley today and enter the Masai Mara, Kenya's most famous reserve. Have your bird and mammal checklist ready this afternoon, as you will surely complete most of your game-viewing list while in the Masai Mara.
Mara Serena Lodge
An interpretation of a traditional Masai Manyatta village of domed huts, Mara Serena Safari Lodge is set on the saddle of a hill where it overlooks the 1,800 square kilometers of rolling plains, woodlands and rivers that make up the Masai Mara Triangle - one of the world's richest wildlife sanctuaries. No other lodge has such a spectacular view of the surrounding landscape or the game and birdlife that inhabit it. It is on this very terrain stretching endlessly before the lodge where the annual migrations take place, where millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle traverse the landscape to feed on the rich new grass and give birth to their young.
74 Guest Rooms
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Day 12 Masai Mara | Meals: BLD
On morning and afternoon game drives today, you will likely spot a wide variety of game including zebra, gazelle, impala and hyena. Birdlife is prolific in the Mara - watch for the colorful lilac-breasted roller.
Nairobi Serena Hotel
Peacefully set in landscaped gardens, the five star Nairobi Serena Hotel overlooks Central Park and is five minutes walking distance from the city center.
Each room has satellite TV, minibar, electronic safe, direct dial telephone, air conditioning, private bath and shower, telephone in bathroom, hair dryer and shaving mirror. All bedrooms and halls are newly renovated. All suites fitted with facsimile.
The hotel is renowned for efficient, personalized and attentive service. Dining: Mandhari Restaurant offers fine a la carte dining with modern contemporary cuisine. Cafe Mahred is an all day restaurant with theme buffets and a la carte menu.
A residents lounge and pool bar are also available. Sports: Maisha Health and Fitness Center with sauna, steam room, jacuzzi, gymnasium and massage. Fresh water swimming pool. Complimentary golf facilities nearby.
Additional features: business center with PC, facsimile and meeting room. Conference rooms for 10 to 250 people, audio visual equipment, boutiques, hair salon, car rental, free parking, 24 hour room service, free courtesy bus to and from town.
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Day 13 Masai Mara-Depart | Meals: BD
After breakfast, return to Nairobi. Visit the former home of author Karen von Blixen as well as the Giraffe Center, where you have an opportunity to feed the giraffe. Then enjoy dinner at the Carnivore Restaurant before transferring to the airport for departure on the overnight flight to Dubai.
Day 14 Dubai-New York | Meals: B
Arrive in Dubai early this morning where you connect to the New York-bound Emirates flight, arriving early this afternoon.
