Kenya Highlands Escape
6 nights, 3 distinct landscapes — kenya highlands escape.
From the first transfer to the final morning, every stop earns its place — Kenya’s gateway city; high forest, waterfalls and tree-lodge nights; snow on the equator and forest foothills.
Add a night in Nairobi before or after — a relaxed arrival or a buffer before your flight home. Just ask.
Round trip · returns to Aberdare
What you'll see
The journey, one day at a time
Arrive in Nairobi
Arrive in Arrival · Nairobi, met and transferred to your accommodation.
Up into the Aberdares
Drive to Aberdare to the Aberdare highlands — misty forest, waterfalls and moorland above the Rift — and a tree-lodge night watching a floodlit waterhole.
Forest and moorland
A day in the high forest — elephant and buffalo at the salt licks, colobus overhead, and an outside chance at the rare bongo and giant forest hog.
To the foot of Mount Kenya
Drive to Mount Kenya to the forested foothills of Mount Kenya, the country's namesake peak, and settle into a lodge with the mountain filling the skyline. Foothill drives or walks with elephant and buffalo in the woodland, the snow-capped summit above, and a rhino sanctuary or trout stream within reach.
Around the mountain
Foothill drives or walks with elephant and buffalo in the woodland, the snow-capped summit above, and a rhino sanctuary or trout stream within reach.
Arrive in Nairobi
Arrive in Nairobi, met and transferred to your accommodation. Nairobi National Park is the city's one true wonder: a genuine wildlife reserve — lions, rhino, giraffe, hundreds of bird species — with skyscrapers and passing planes as the backdrop. You can be on a real game drive within twenty minutes of a downtown hotel. It's not the Mara, and it's fenced on the city side, but as a first taste of African wildlife on a jet-lagged arrival day, nothing else comes close.
Journey's end
Transfer to the airport for your onward flight home.
The season changes what you see.
The migration window
The wildebeest are in the Mara and the river crossings are on — the headline months, and the busiest. Book well ahead.
Resident game, green plains
The Big Five never leave. Fewer vehicles, lower rates, newborns in the grass and clean light for photography.
Hand-picked camps & lodges
The Ark
A lodge shaped like a ship, overlooking a floodlit waterhole and salt lick alive with forest game after dark.
Fairmont Mount Kenya Safari Club
A storied colonial estate on the equator, with manicured grounds and the mountain rising behind.
Giraffe Manor
The famous 1930s manor where resident Rothschild's giraffes lean through the windows at breakfast.
Treetops Lodge
The historic tree-hotel where game gathers at the waterhole below — a piece of safari history.
Serena Mountain Lodge
A forest tree-lodge on the slopes, where game comes to a floodlit waterhole through the night.
Hemingways Nairobi
A polished boutique hotel in leafy Karen, all colonnades and personal service near the giraffe centre.
Make it yours.
Add nights, swap a park, extend to the coast — this route is a starting point, not a fixed menu. Tell us how you travel and we'll route the rest.