11-day Cycling safari in Africa: Great Rift Valley, Maasai Mara, Kericho tea plantations & Lake Victoria

We’ll leave Nairobi at 7.30 am for the Great Rift Valley, passing by the Ngong Hills. Here, you’ll start biking down the Rift Valley over a distance of 47 kilometers. The picturesque Ngong Forest plus the stunning views of the floor of the Rift dotted by extinct volcanoes and long salty lakes will be some of the most memorable sights on this unique safari.

We’ll have lunch on the way and arrive at the ranch in the mid-afternoon. Dinner and overnight at Suswa Ranch Resort.

We’ll leave Suswa Ranch Resort at 7.30 am and biking through Masai plains, we’ll get to Narok town (a distance of about 87 kilometers. Cycling will not be done throughout the 87 kilometers because of mountainous terrains) where we’ll have lunch. Continuing by safari vehicle to the Masai Mara National Park, we’ll arrive in the Masai Mara Game Park in the late afternoon and have a well-deserved bath before relaxing on the luxury campgrounds or in a bar/restaurant. We’ll have our dinner and then an overnight stay at the luxury camp.

Since it is not allowed to cycle in the wildlife sanctuary of Masai Mara, we’ll go on game viewing drives in our customized safari van. There are both morning and afternoon game drives where we’ll see the amazing wildlife. Maasai Mara Game Reserve includes over 450 species of animals. Although July, August, and September are the months when the Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeests and zebras, there is also resident wildlife all year-round. The famous Maasai tribesmen live very close to the game reserve. Dinner and overnight will be at the Sentrim Mara Luxury Camp.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, you will proceed on another full day of game viewing within the reserve. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for a game in Kenya as it has an extensive road and track network which allows for close range viewing and photography. You will then take a break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool, looking out for hippos and crocodiles. Dinner and overnight will be at the Sentrim Mara Luxury Camp.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

You will depart the Mara region after breakfast, for Kericho Town. After check-in and lunch at Kericho Tea Hotel, we’ll take our bikes and proceed on a cycling tour of the extensive tea factory and the town of Kericho. Dinner and stay at the Tea Hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

You will depart Kericho Town for Kisumu City in the morning, cycling for some part of this 84-kilometer distance through rice fields and sugar cane plantations. After arriving, at this lakeside town, you’ll have a city tour (by bicycle) of the local museum with its rich archeological findings, the municipal market and the lakeside at Dunga Beach. You’ll also see the golden sunset over Lake Victoria. Dinner and overnight at the Milimani Resort hotel in the city.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

We’ll depart for Lwanda K’Otieno. Our western Kenya trip starts with a road transfer to the Kisian market (13 kilometers away). We’ll mount our bicycles at Kisian and ride to Kit Mikayi (16 kilometers) on the tarmacked road. Kit Mikayi is famous as the birthplace of the Luo Nation and is steeped in Luo culture and traditions. After a tour of this site with its monuments of huge boulders and underground caves, we’ll proceed to Ndori still biking through tropical savannah and Indian corn farms. From Ndori we’ll drive to Lwanda K’Otieno to connect to our Water bus (ferry) that takes us across Lake Victoria to Mbita Point. Lunch is on transit and dinner and overnight at Mbita Point Hotel.

After breakfast, you’ll take a ferry to Takawiri Island and spend the rest of the day relaxing at the beaches or fishing in Lake Victoria. Lake Victoria is the second biggest freshwater lake in the world. After dinner, we’ll spend the night at Takawiri Island hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

After breakfast, you’ll spend the day at leisure at the beaches, fishing or birding in Lake Victoria. Overnight at Takawiri Island hotel.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, you will proceed by bus to Mbita Point. Upon reaching Mbita Point we’ll have lunch before riding on our bikes in the afternoon to Homa Bay town (a distance of 43 kilometers). We’ll spend the evening in Homa Bay Town before dinner and overnight at Cold Springs Hotel.Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

After breakfast, we’ll drive back to Nairobi after having pedaled over 230 kilometers.