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About African Sermon Safaris
African Sermon Safaris is a privately owned and run company which provides the most exciting and satisfying holidays in East Africa. We are Member of Kenya Association of Tour Operators (KATO) offering professional services guided with a strict code of ethics. Our staff members have worked with most of the leading tour operators in Kenya have extensive hands-on knowledge and experience in planning, leading, coordinating and running itineraries. The company was incepted with an objective of serving the traveling individuals, especially those who have discerning passion for the wilds of Africa, access some of the wildest and remotest parts of the East African bush with ease.
We have since grown being mindful of the fact that our clients prefer a more leisurely pace for their holidays to maximize activities and experiences at each location visited. We have designed tours that involve less travel and spend more time at interest destinations. For those looking for customized safaris, be sure that our knowledgeable, friendly and professional consultants will work closely with you to develop that itinerary which best suits you at no extra cost.
We mainly recommend small groups for personalized services. Small groups are more often flexible, exciting and enjoying than large groups.
We keenly care for our clients throughout their holiday and provide them with exciting, adventurous, challenging, memorable and satisfactory African trips. We go the extra mile to ensure you enjoy your dream holiday with ease, comfort and style, truly African. African Sermon Safaris welcomes you to the world of adventure, discoveries, nature and pleasure. We hope you will join us and share the excitement of our safaris.
Why choose us?
Most of our clients have complemented African Sermon Safaris for being one of the best exclusive and classic safari companies in Africa and we are proud of the following:
Personal touch
At African Sermon Safaris, we have learnt to offer personalized services all through. We provide you with local knowledge, experience and our extensive support network in Kenya and East Africa. Our staff members are at your disposal on full time basis. They are hand picked and trained with all aspects of a tour. By the end of your trip, you will definitely feel like you have just returned from visiting your old friends.
Selection of safaris and eco-destinations and accommodations
We lead the way in a new trend and more exciting safari travel with the emphasis on ecotourism, a more informative, adventurous, diverse and intimate safari experience. We carefully select and analyse destinations to which we go and offer the best eco-destinations in East Africa, where you will not only get in touch with nature but also with the local communities. Our safaris ensure that you are back to nature and enhance local African culture.
We carefully selected first class and superior hotels, which are well located and offer friendly service and modern facilities. We work with local as well as international hotel chains with high standards, such as Serena, Sarova, Lonrho and others.
Guarantee departure/price
Unlike most companies, who will hike price or cancel the trip altogether, African Sermon Safaris guarantees departure for any confirmed safari as long as we have received deposits. Our safaris depart with a minimum of 2 pax.
Customer care
To have the best safari experience possible, you require a well-oriented customer care people. All our staff members are well trained in customer service and continuously undergo refresher courses in customer care and safety. In the unlikely event, each of our staff will provide an adequate solution immediately.
Client Safety
In the unlikely event of an emergency, we advise that visitors take full travel insurance in their countries. Further cover can be obtained from the Flying Doctors Service in Nairobi upon payment of US$30.00 valid for 2 weeks and US$ 50 valid for 1 month. This ensures evacuation ONLY by an air ambulance in the event of an emergency such as illness. The Flying Doctors Service does not cover treatment or hospitalisation expenses. We highly recommend that you get accident/medical insurance
Pricing
The contrasting experiences of Africa should surprise you, but not the cost of your trip! That's why our tours have all-inclusive pricing policy. We strongly endeavor to offer value for money service and no wonder most clients return to African Sermon Safaris. Turn to us and your dream holiday will come true.
Maximum safari enjoyment
We have come from far and learnt how valuable your vacation schedule is. Once any trip is confirmed, trust that African Sermon Safaris will make the most of it, showing you the wonders of Africa. You will not only be amazed at how African Sermon Safaris make you enjoy a relaxed and refreshing safari but will yearn for more!
Vehicles and driver/guides
Unlike other operators, we boast of having a fleet of safari minibuses/land Rover/Cruisers equipped with the newest state-of-the-art technology at your disposal. They are equipped for luxurious game viewing, photography and touring. We guarantee window-seating for each passenger. Each of the vehicles is fitted with VHF radio communication to help us get in touch with each driver/guide anytime in any location.
We provide knowledgeable, professional guides & tour managers who speak English and really know and love their countries will accompany you throughout your tour. They will also be there to help smooth out any unlikely wrinkles along the way.
We also provide Spanish, Japanese, Italian, German, French and other foreign language speaking guides on request. There may be an additional cost for hiring such a guide.
Information Technology.
Our office is equipped with appropriate information technology that will enhance prompt and efficient communication with all our clients, suppliers and agents. Lest be assured, you will hear from us quickly.
Environmental Concerns
African Sermon Safaris subscribes to promotion of ecotourism and sustainable form of tourism. In all the places we go, we contribute conservation of our precious environment. We commit our resources in contributing to nature conservation, supporting conservation bodies and being actively involved to preservation and conservation of Africa's unique environment. To this end, we are member of Ecotourism Society of Kenya (ESOK), East African Wildlife Society (EAWLS) and American Society Of Travel Agents (ASTA) and Kenya Association of Tour Operators (KATO).
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The East African wilderness is home to one of the world's last reservoirs of wildlife, a wide variety of natural habitats; from coral reefs to open grasslands and tropical forests as well as peoples of diverse cultural backgrounds staying both in the rural areas and the modern cosmopolitan cities that defy the picture that most travelers have of Africa. East Africa will continue to confound many and it explains why the Masai Mara Wildebeest's Migration has been named a Masai Mara Seventh Wonder of the World!
Budget Camping Trips: These cover a variety of discounted safaris to the Masai Mara game reserve, Amboseli NP, Samburu, Mount Kenya, Mount Kilimanjaro, Tsavo East and West NPs, Serengeti, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro wildlife sanctuaries and they have a lower price tag because accommodation is in two-man tents in designated campsites and the food is prepared by an experienced cook over an open fire. East Africa budget camping safaris are most suitable for those who wish to experience the richness of game viewing and mountain trekking in Africa while sleeping in the open. .
Kenya Lodge and Luxury Tented Lodge Safaris: For those travelers who would rather see Africa in comfort and luxury these more expensive options are available and while accommodation is either in up-market lodges and luxury tented camps transport can either be in four by four custom built land cruisers, in comfortable safari minibuses or by Flying Safaris Kenya and balloon safaris. .
Trekking and Mountain Climbing Adventures: For the outdoors person the adventure of trekking up a snow-peaked tropical mountain with the expectation of bumping into dangerous wildlife at any time is not to be missed. Accompanied by experienced guides, porters and cooks you attempt to conquer the mighty Mt. Kilimanjaro - Africa's highest peak, the rugged Mount Kenya and the volcanic Mount Rwenzori. Accommodation on these trips vary and they can either be in tents, mountain huts or cottages
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Maasai Mara Lion African Safaris
Masai Mara Safari Tour and Holiday is an unforgettable experience. Welcome to the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya, an undisputed paradise for the sheer quantity safari and variety of wildlife. Renowned for its lions, elephant and for the annual Great Wildebeest Migration, Kenya's greatest reserve is as magical as your wildest safari dream The Masai Mara is located in South Western Kenya. Together with Tanzania’s Serengeti it forms one of the worlds most diverse and spectacular eco-systems. The Maasai Mara National Reserve is administered by local country councils. It is probably the most famous and most visited game reserve in Kenya. It offers breathtaking views (as seen in the film Out of Africa, much of which was filmed here) an extraordinary density of animals including the "Big Five" and many varieties of plains game. Masai Mara Safaris information: the official Guide for Masai Mara safari is the right website for tourists organizing their Masai Mara tour and Vacation. Kenya budget or luxury holiday is the perfect vacation for the discerning traveler who enjoys all the comforts in Africa. A Masai Mara safari is the ultimate vacation experience combining the finest in accommodations in Masai Mara lodge, tented camps and lodge experiences.
Masai Mara safaris are full of safe, fun-filled safari adventures and almost year-round sunshine: the perfect family holiday and Honeymoon destination.
African Sermon Safaris in Kenya, a Masai Mara tour operator has Hand picked some of the best Kenya safari packages and promises you and your family the safari holiday of a lifetime. We are proud in not only being child and family-friendly, but leaders in the field on specially structured children’s vacations programmed at specific lodges. On a Masai Mara Safari the sight of millions of wildebeest and hundreds of thousands of zebra, eland and gazelle grazing, crossing rivers, arriving and leaving, is quite simply mind blowing. The migration is said to have been in existence hundred of thousands of years ago and the cycle plays out year after year.
Masai Mara Migration Safari
Welcome to the Masai Mara, Kenya (alternatively spelled "Maasai Mara"), recently designated as one of the new Seven Wonders of the World. The Masai Mara animal Migration Safari promises you a ringside seat for what is indisputably the greatest wildlife show on earth - the crossing to Serengeti plains of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, with accompanying plains game such as zebra and other varieties, plus predators such as lion, cheetah and leopard in attendance. Join us to experience this migration tour of a lifetime.
With an average of 3 lions per square kilometer and the annual migration of over a million wildebeest – the game viewing in the Masai Mara is outstanding. Added to this are all the ‘big 5’ animals of Africa, spectacular balloon safaris, some excellent lodges and a landscape that is quintessential east Africa: flat savannah grassland stretching as far as the eye can see. Tourist to Masai Mara should bear in mind that even though the migration safaris are one of East Africa’s most remarkable Vacations, the Masai Mara is one of Kenya best wildlife location year round. Even if your visit falls outside of the peak migration times, it doesn't mean you won't enjoy what the Mara is renowned for: an incredible amount of wildlife. The Masai Mara is a reserve about a third of the size of the Serengeti National Park which also makes it a more manageable area for game viewing safaris.
Masai Mara Lodge Hotel Accommodation
The Masai Mara offers excellent hotel accommodation with luxury to budget tented safari camps, Lodge and budget camping safaris being assembled in prime wildlife viewing areas. A Masai Mara Safari involves being accommodated in lodge of hotels whilst observing the “great circle of life” that performs daily on the vast Masai Mara Plains.
We design our Masai Mara travel packages to include premium hotels, lodges and safari experiences that are simply the best in Kenya. Imagine traveling in a well appointed 4x4 Safari vehicles with a qualified tour guide to witness the gorgeous Savannah of Masai Mara and then retreating to your private and stylish Lodge, Tented camp or hotel that allows you to throw your cares away as you unwind in the lap of Mara luxury.
Masai Mara Budget safaris tours
Masai Mara Budget Safari - the number 1 low price and budget tours and holidays in Kenya, which is solely aimed at the budget conscious traveler. We are a tour operator with offices in Nairobi. Being Kenya based has given us the understanding of the magnificent Masai Mara Game Reserve. It is our aim at to bring you the best value cheap safaris, low range backpacker safari, student, university and college camping tours and very cheap safaris to Masai Mara. Check out our Budget options. Cheap Budget safaris in Kenya does not necessarily mean cheap and nasty, in fact we at African safaris and Adventures have each of our tour options through the “tried and tested method”. Safari Price is foremost on our mind when creating our Masai Mara itineraries, and we therefore guarantee you that you will find no better prices for safaris tours out there than those available through Masai Mara safari website. We make use of our collective buying power from lodge, hotels and tented camps owners to ensure you the best safari deal possible. It is important to note that we do not compromise on the quality of tailor-made safaris; it’s just that we do not believe that you need to break a bank when travelling to Africa.
Masai Mara Budget hotel Accommodation ranges from stone built lodges, basic camping safaris to standard tented camps. Regardless of which option you choose you are guaranteed the best value for your money without compromising on quality.
Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya:
The Masai Mara National Reserve is Kenya's finest wildlife reserve. Everything about this reserve is outstanding. The wildlife is abundant and the gentle rolling grasslands ensure that animals are never out of sight. Birds, too, are prolific. Including migrants, well over 450 species have been recorded, among them, 57 species of birds of prey. The climate is gentle, rarely too hot and well-spread rainfall year round. Rain, when it falls almost always chooses the late afternoon or night. Between July and October, when the great wildebeest migration is in the Masai Mara National Reserve, the sensation is unparalleled. Masai Mara is one of the best plains' game reserve where you can actually encounter a live Discovery Channel, a haven for viewing a congregation of all sorts of animals in a five-mile radius: A pride of lions can be spotted ready to make a run for a gazelle, a cheetah and its cub taking a nap on a rock, a pair of ostriches walking the open stretches of the savannah or a gazelle giving birth.
The Masai Mara National Reserve lies about 270 kilometers from Nairobi, and takes about 4 to 5 hours by road. There are scheduled flights, twice daily from Wilson Airport Nairobi, which take about 40 - 45 minutes. The reserve is about 1510 square kilometers having been reduced from 1672 square kilometers in 1984. However, the wildlife is far from being confined within the reserve boundaries, and an even larger area, generally referred to as the "dispersal area" extends north and east of the Masai Mara National Reserve. Maasai communities live within the dispersal area with their stock but a century of close association with the wildlife has resulted in an almost symbiotic relationship where wildlife and people live in peace with one another. The first sight of this natural wonderland is breathtaking. Here the great herds of shuffling elephants browse among the rich tree-studded grasslands with an occasional sighting of a solitary and ill-tempered rhino.
Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, Topi and Eland and many more species of plains' game offer a rich choice of food for the dominant predators; lion, leopard and cheetah which hunt in this pristine wilderness. In the Mara River, hippo submerges at the approach of a vehicle only to surface seconds later to snort and grumble their displeasure. Seemingly, the drowsy crocodile sunbathe on the riverbanks, mouth agape, waiting with subtle cunning for prey at which to strike with lightning swiftness. But this richness of fauna, this profusion of winged beauty and the untouched fragility of the landscape, are all subordinate to the Mara's foremost attraction, the march of the wildebeest.
Each year, far south in the great vastness of the Serengeti, the wildebeest raise their dignified but quaint heads, sniff the air and, as if by one accord, start the long trek to the Kenya border and the Masai Mara National Reserve. After exhausting the grazing in Tanzania's northern Serengeti, a large number of wildebeest and zebra enter the Masai Mara National Reserve around the end of June drawn by the sweet grass raised by the long rains of April and May. It is estimated that more than half a million wildebeest enter the Masai Mara National Reserve and are joined by another 100,000 from the Loita Hills east of the Masai Mara. Driving in the midst of these great herds is an unimaginable experience. Whilst the eyes feast on the spectacle, the air carries the smells, the dust and the sounds of hundreds of thousands of animals. There is nowhere else on earth to compare with this wildlife marvel. But the trek is costly. The herds' draw ravening packs of predators, especially hyenas and lions, and thousands of the lame, laggard and sick never complete the cycle. More die, by drowning or by the teeth of the cunning crocodile, while trying to cross the swirling muddy waters of the Mara and Talek rivers. Once the Masai Mara National Reserve's grass has been devoured and when fresh rain in Tanzania has brought forth a new flush there, the herds turn south, heading hundreds of kilometers back to Serengeti and the Ngorongoro plains. There the young are dropped in time to grow sufficiently strong to undertake the long march north six months later.
Although July, August and September are the months when the Masai Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeest and zebra, there is much resident wildlife year round. Apart from the better-known species there are numerous opportunities to add some of the rare and less frequently seen animals to the visitor's checklist. In the southwestern sector, you may be lucky enough to see roan antelope, a handsome creature regrettably rare countrywide. Bat-eared foxes peer from their burrows and there are thousands of topi, an antelope not found in other major parks save Tsavo National Park. The combination of a gentle climate, scenic splendor and untold numbers of wildlife makes the Masai Mara Kenya's most popular inland destination park.
A well worth it and recommended activity in the Masai Mara National Reserve is the hot air balloon safari. Early in the morning, you will be woken and driven to the departure site. Once in the air, the view of the surrounding landscape, the rising of the sun between the mountains and the congregation of the animals at the river is beautiful. This all concludes with a champagne breakfast and memories of a lifetime.
Maasai Mara Safari Lodges & Camps in Kenya, Africa:
Basecamp Masai Mara, Bateleur Tented Camp, Cottars 1920s Safari Camp, David Livingstone Safari Resort, Elephant Pepper Camp, Entim Camp, Fig Tree Camp, Governors Camp, Governors Bush Camp, Governors IL Moran Camp, Governors Private Camp, Ilkeliani Camp, Karen Blixen Camp, Keekorok Lodge, Kicheche Camp, Kicheche Bush Camp, Kichwa Tembo, Leleshwa Camp, Little Governors Camp, Mara Bushtops Camp, Mara Explorer Camp, Mara Intrepids Club, Mara Leisure Camp, Mara Porini Camp, Mara River Camp, Mara Safari Club (Fairmont), Mara Serena Lodge, Mara Simba Lodge, Mara Sopa Lodge, Mpata Safari Club, Offbeat Mara Camp, Ol Seki Mara Camp, Olonana, Porini Lion Camp, Rekero Tented Camp & Cottages, Richard's Camp, Royal Mara Safari Lodge, Sala's Camp, Sarova Mara Camp, Saruni Lodge, Sekenani Camp, Serian Camp, Shompole Naibor Mara Camp, Siana Springs Intrepids Camp, Tipilikwani Camp among others.
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Masai Mara Balloon Safari, Kenya
Close your eyes, and for a moment feel your body lift up, with you having no control over it, and there is a certain part of you, inside you, saying to yourself, I am crazy for taking this balloon safari. This is what most people feel, when the excitement of a Masai Mara hot air balloon safari crosses one's emotion of self-control and independence.
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The feeling is indescribable, crispness of the African air, chill in the wind that hits your face as your Mara hot air balloon gradually rises, smoothness in the exhale of your breath, and the excitement to see and learn more. One's physical presence can be felt on the plains of the Masai Mara when reading this.
You trip begins when you get your wake up call at your safari lodge or tented camp in the early hours of the morning, as you yawn away, and thoughts about your wildlife viewing from an elevated position begins to stir your mind. The fresh Kenyan traditional hot tea and coffee quickly awaken you, in fact preparing you for a "mission".
By 6.00 a.m. you are almost arriving at the hot air balloon site in the Masai Mara. As you approach the site, the balloon seems bigger than you expected, the experience is one that has never been visited, and you are about to have a trip of a lifetime.
Liftoff! Up and away we go! At 6.15 a.m., the hot air balloon safari starts. The captain asks you to relax and experience the wonders under the African sky. As you finally start to get a grip on the elevation, an inner smile that resonates on one's face does not need an explanation. The wildebeest moving in large numbers across the Masai Mara plains, the beauty of the landscape when the rising sun's bright orange colors are displayed, the elephants at the water pool, and the gazelles and zebras scampering away, just if it was their first time to witness an alien object in the sky.
By 7.15 a.m., one is very content with balloon safari, and it is almost touch down time. There is a celebration, and for those who prefer a toast, champagne is served, as hot breakfast in the bush is being prepared. You ask yourself, is this true? I am really doing this trip of a lifetime in Kenya? In the Masai Mara? As the sweetness and aroma of the African coffee surrounds you, with fresh eggs being served as you like it, you hope for another ride, and wish that such luxury never ended. By the time you finish your breakfast, you have made up your decision to immigrate to Kenya because such life is only found here. You begin to question yourself, and you feel an urgency to seek, live and enjoy this pristine beauty, a once in a lifetime "thing".
By 9.00 a.m., you have been declared a champion, a mighty certificate of completion handed out to you which you hope to display in your home country, to family, friends, coworkers. Clapping and participation by everyone present makes you proud to have achieved a trip as wonderful as this. By then you hear a blaring sound of music or even an annoying buzz, you turn around and switch of the alarm clock. Your eyes wide open, you know that you have to get back to Kenya, to Masai Mara, again otherwise the recurring dreams will drive you mad.