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6 Days Obama Cultural Tour(K'Ogello Safari)

The 44th President of the United States of America, Mr. Barack Obama has got distinctive routes traced back in a small village of Kogelo. This is the ancestral home of Barack Obama. It’s here in the village of Kogelo, about an hour from the western city of Kisumu, that Obama’s father was born and the village is home to the Obama family in Kenya. These tours combine culture, ecotourism with wildlife safaris offering one of the most exciting opportunities to interact with the richness of Kenya.

Day 1: Nairobi Overnight
On arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met and transferred to a Nairobi Hotel booked on bed and breakfast for an overnight

Day 2: Nairobi- Kisumu
After breakfast, you will depart from your Hotel at 7.30am to Lake Nakuru National Park home of the Multi-Million Flamingo birds for a game drive. Break for lunch then depart to Kericho town with a break at Kericho tea hotel. Kericho was named after Ole Kericho, a Maasai Chief who was killed in the battle by the Gusii in the 19th Century. Drive to Kisumu City for dinner and an overnight.

Day 3: Kisumu- Nyangoma Kogelo Village

After an early breakfast from Kisumu, depart to Siaya District, Nyang'oma Division, Kogelo Village to visit the Kenyan home of the President of the United State Of America, His Excellency President Barack Hussein Obama. We will get to interact with the people in the home including his Grand Mother, Mama Sarah Obama.

Depart to "Kit Mikayi" {in the local Luo dialect the Stone of the "first wife"} Kenya's most dramatic archaeological site, a vast granite rock tower. The Stone is about 70 to 80 ft tall and is located 30kms Far East of Kisumu city and 1km from Kisumu Bondo road. The area is a leansing area with attatchment to Luo Tribe which is the tribe of Obama senior.

After this adventure, drive to catch a ferry to Mbita picnic lunch en route. On arrival, you will check in to Lake Victoria Safari Village. This will be followed by a drive to Rusinga Island and into the home of Tom Joseph Mboya where his mausoleum lies on the family land at Kamasengere Village. Dinner and overnight kisumu.

Day 4: Kisumu-Masai Mara
After breakfast, drive past Kanyamwa escarpment,then to Rongo and to Awendo passing through Maize and Sugar plantations, amazed at the beautiful landscape of Nandi and Kipsigis tribes to enter the famous Maasai Mara for game drives,dinner and overnight.

Day 5: Masaai Mara
After breakfast spend full day game drives, explore the parks amazingly high concentration of game. Millions of wildebeests, the big five and other animals including the spectacular yearly migration from Serengeti to Kenya.Dinner and overnight camping.

Day 6: Masaai Mara/Nairobi
An early morning game drive in Masai Mara followed by late breakfast at the campsite and a departure to Nairobi stopping sporadically for the breathtaking panoramic views of the rift valley and adjacent landforms. The tour ends in Nairobi late in the afternoon.

The price includes: -

1.Use of a Safari mini-van with photographic hatched roof.

2.Use of English speaking driver/guide.

3.Accommodation as indicated above.

4.All park entrance fee.

5.All game drives.

6.Kericho Guided Tea walks.

7.Guides fee to all cultural sites.

8.Ferry’s fee from Lwanda K’Otieno to Mbita.

9.Driver's allowance.

10.One Night accommodation in Nairobi.

11.Dinner at Carnivore Restaurant on the last day in Nairobi.

12.Government tax.