My Kenya trip in January was amazing and I got Perfect weather, Perfect itinerary and Perfect tour operator – Meektrails!
We are a group of 5 and we booked a private safari tour to Kenya for 8 days.
One travel solo from Ireland and four of us (2 couples) travel from Hong Kong to Kenya.
I have been incredibly fortunate to find Meektrails and Charles, the travel agent, is helpful and patient. I started planning my trip in mid-August 2024 and asked many questions and many more for a total of 5 months. Charles is wonderful, he is efficient and service oriented, he able to response to my queries by email and whatsup diligently. Charles understands what I am looking for. Importantly, Charles makes sure I am comfortable to wire the deposit to secure the tour package. It is a big job to do payment for all 5 of us by bank transfer from Hong Kong and we did pay for the entire tour cost a week before we departure to Kenya. Charles acknowledges receipt of our payment promptly and the whole process is handled professionally, and I am very happy with his assistance.
Besides Charles, we also have a fantastic tour guide: Bernard Muiru, he is an experienced professional safari guide, and he knows where to go and to ensure we able to view all these beautiful animals. Bernard especially acknowledgeable to birds, and we learnt so much from him. I can assure you that a good guide is very essential! We’re lucky to have Bernard and within the first 2 days of our Kenya visit, we had already seen the Big Five.
Big thanks to Bernard’s effort and hard work!
We visited the following parks: Tsavo West National Park, Amboseli National, Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Lake Naivasha and the popular Masai Mara National reserve.
Well, for me the true remarkable time was when we see the African wild dogs! The wild dog has been listed as endangered on the IUCN Red list since 1990, and they may consist of fewer than 250 dogs on planet earth, but we saw more than 10 of them happily resting under the brushes.
The Game-drives are a comfortable safari activity. We explore parks and game reserves by riding a 4x4 Landcruiser vehicle with a pop-up roof. Our tour guide/driver will come with us to drive for several hours in search of wildlife. We were able to see lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras or any wildlife, you will stop to see them and/or take photos from inside your vehicle or through the pop-up roof. We also got to sit under a tree to have a picnic in the middle of the park and for me, being a city girl, the feeling of being able to be with true nature is hard to describe.
The Kenya safari vacation is a great lifetime experience. This trip gave me a wide spectrum of how free wildlife can be lived. I highly recommend traveler to go to Kenya and see for yourself, the gorgeous sunlight shinning on the tall grass in safari.
At home in Hong Kong, seeing all the beautiful pictures I took, the great memories I have of this Kenya trip is making me smile.