6 Days Agro-tourism safari
Highlights
- Pick up from your hotel
- Bird watching
- Fishing
- Cycling
- Scenic photography
Description
6 Days/ 5 night’s Agro-tourism safari to Fair view Coffee Farm it is home to the world’s finest coffee, the Kiambethu Tea Farm that is situated in Limuru and it is in highlands areas where tea farming is so common, the Panda flowers, Naivasha. It is a rose growing project and its main aim is to supply consistent quality product in the market and to grow responsibly at Mwea Tebere the traditional rice growing area of Kenya and the 3rd most important cereal crop after maize and wheat Muhoroni Sugar Company that is engaged in sugarcane growing, processing and marketing sugar.
Day: 1 Nairobi to Fair view Estate Coffee Farm
We shall have this entire day to ourselves at the Fair view Estate Coffee Farm in Kiambu. It is home to the world’s finest coffee with nearly 100 acres under coffee that is irrigated by the Riara River.
You be picked from your hotel by our tour guide after breakfast and depart for the coffee farm by road a 40 minutes’ drive. On arrival, you will be welcomed with a cup of coffee as you will be met a local guide of the farm. Where he/ she will go into details about the farm and its production and have a tour in the farm.
After having our lunch we shall proceed to bird watching site and have optional activities at an extra cost i.e. cycling and fishing. Have nature walks have a glimpse of the waterfall.
Later in the evening, before sunset, we shall check-in at our hotel in Kiambu for dinner and the overnight stay.
Day: 2 Fair view Estate Coffee Farm to Kiambethu Tea Farm
We shall have a wonderful day trip at Kiambethu Tea Farm that is situated in Limuru. It is in highlands areas where tea farming is so common.
After breakfast, you shall be met by our tour guide hence depart for Kiambethu, and we shall drive to Limuru. On arrival, you shall be welcomed with a cup of tea. Then, you will be met by a local guide that will explain more about the farm and you will also get an opportunity to view tea in the field.
After lunch is served, we shall have a walk through the indigenous forest that is well preserved and also learn about other plants in the farm and how they were used traditionally. We shall get a chance also to watch the colombus monkeys as well as birds at the site.
Later on in the evening, we shall check in at our hotel in Limuru for dinner and the overnight stay.
Day: 3 Kiambethu Tea Farm to Panda flowers
The farm is situated in Naivasha and was founded in 2001 as a rose growing project and over the years, it has grown. The farms name ~Panda flowers~ was chosen to connect the farm founders with the environment that needs protection.
After breakfast, afterwards we shall depart for Panda flowers, drive along the great floor of the rift valley. We shall have a stopover at the viewpoint area then continue with our safari.
The farm specializes on rose flowers. Its main aim is to supply consistent quality product in the market and to grow responsibly also a source for various supermarkets. Hence, flower farming is a long-term sustainable venture.
We shall have our lunch in Naivasha town as we have scenic photography. Later on, we shall relax at our hotel as we await and enjoy our dinner and the overnight stay.
Day: 4 Naivasha to Mwea Tebere
After having our heavy breakfast at our hotel, we shall depart for Mwea Tebere by road, driving via Meru town.
It is the 3rd most important cereal crop after maize and wheat, the traditional rice growing area of Kenya. Rice was introduced in Kenya in 1907 from Asia. It started as a detention camp for Mau-Mau detainees during the height of state of emergency. We shall have a walk in the fields and see how it is grown.
The whole scheme area was then used as a common grazing ground, so in 1953, the colonial government carried out a research in 1953 in order tom establish whether the rice would grow. We shall have our picnic lunch out in the open fields whilst you enjoy the countryside scenery before proceeding to Kerugoya town, which overlooks Africa highest mountain. Later on proceed to our hotel for dinner and the overnight stay.
Day: 5 Mwea to Muhoroni
After breakfast, we shall depart for Muhoroni Sugar Company in Nyanza. It is a sugar manufacturing firm engaged in sugarcane growing, processing and marketing sugar. It was incorporated in 1964 and started operations in 1966. It has been under protective receivership since 2001 and its main objective of preserving the assets while restructuring the balance sheet.
After having our lunch we shall visit the famous Agro Chemical Food Company. The factory is famous in the production of power alcohol, yeast, spirits and other by-products from Molasses. It was established in 1978. Later on we shall proceed to Kisumu town for dinner and our overnight stay.
Day: 6 Kisumu to Nairobi
We shall enjoy our breakfast at our hotel; later on depart for Nairobi by road. We shall have our lunch along the way and have a stopover at the great viewpoint area to have a view of the Great Rift Valley and have scenic photography.
Arrive in Nairobi in the late afternoon and you will be dropped off to your hotel or the airport.
The package includes
- Entrance fees
- Water during the safari
- Services of a guide/ driver
- Transport by a tour vehicle
The package excludes
- Tipping
- Personal items
- Drinks
