{"id":8691,"date":"2018-07-31T15:36:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-31T15:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/AFRICAtime\/?p=8691"},"modified":"2020-07-08T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2020-07-08T11:03:10","slug":"african-safari-diaries-raghus-kenyan-safari","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/african-safari-diaries-raghus-kenyan-safari\/","title":{"rendered":"African Safari Diaries : Raghu’s Kenyan Safari"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In this edition of \u201cAfrican Safari Diaries\u201d we speak to Raghu Kalra, who recently visited Kenya with his family for a safari holiday and enjoyed game drives in several game parks.<\/p>\n

1. Was this your first time visiting Kenya\/Africa? What made you choose to visit?<\/strong><\/p>\n

This was my first time visiting Africa.\u00a0 Some of my work colleagues had visited Kenya previously and were full of praise both for Kenya and Somak Holidays. Coming from a family of wildlife enthusiasts, none of us could wait to arrive in Kenya.<\/p>\n

2. What was your itinerary?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We arrived in Kenya on the 23rd of June and spent our first day visiting the Giraffe Centre and Museum in Nairobi and concluded our day with a delicious meal at Carnivore. The next day we travelled to the Masai Mara and stayed there for a couple of days.<\/p>\n

\"Giraffe

Giraffe<\/p><\/div>\n

We saw a whole bunch of lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, hyenas, cheetahs, wild buffaloes and many other small birds and animals during our stay there.<\/p>\n

\"Black

Cheetah<\/p><\/div>\n

After that we travelled to Lake Naivasha where we enjoyed a boat ride and we saw many hippos and a variety of birds.<\/p>\n

\"Yawning

Hippo<\/p><\/div>\n

Our last stop was Sweetwaters Serena camp where we spent late afternoon and the evening in this beautiful camp. During our safari drive we got a chance to see a few more lions, rhinos, elephants and wild buffaloes.<\/p>\n

\"Rhino\"

Rhino<\/p><\/div>\n

\"Lion\"

Lion<\/p><\/div>\n

3. Where did you stay whilst on your Safaris and what was your favorite property?<\/strong><\/p>\n

We stayed at the Tamarind Tree Hotel<\/strong> <\/a>in Nairobi, at Keekorok Lodge<\/strong><\/a> in the Masai Mara, Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge<\/strong> <\/a>and the Sweetwaters Serena Camp<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n

Sweetwaters was by far the best for all the facilities that they offered, the cozy environment and of course the great food!<\/p>\n

4. What were your highlights from your trip?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Hippos, giraffes and zebras roaming on the lawns in front of our rooms at both Masai Mara and Lake Naivasha.<\/p>\n

\"Giraffe\"

Giraffe<\/p><\/div>\n

5. Do you have any advice or tips for anyone thinking of going on a Safari?<\/strong><\/p>\n

My advice would be to stay in each location for at least two days to get the best experience. Unfortunately due to having limited time we could not do it ourselves.<\/p>\n

\"Lion\"

Lion<\/p><\/div>\n

If after reading Raghu\u2019 experience you would like to book a similar itinerary, you can read more about\u00a0Tamarind Tree Hotel<\/strong><\/a>, Keekorok Lodge<\/a><\/strong>, Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge<\/strong><\/a> and the Sweetwaters Serena Camp.<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

We would love to work with you to plan the safari holiday of a lifetime. For more information on how our safari experts can help you, call Somak Holidays today on 020 8423 3000.<\/p>\n

Please note all photos featured are credited to Raghu Kalra.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":39,"featured_media":8698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[603,11,443,600,1,580],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-african-safari-diaries","category-kenya","category-luxury","category-testimonials","category-uncategorized","category-wildlife-and-safari"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/IMG_4595.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/39"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8691"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10937,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8691\/revisions\/10937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somak.com\/inspiration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}