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7 Days Obama Route. (A Visit to Kogelo)

Day 1: Arrival
Pick up from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, and then transfer to a city hotel to relax.

Day 2: Nairobi - Nakuru
After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Nakuru National Park home of the Multi-Million Flamingo birds for a game drive. The game drive will take you to the shore of the lake to a maze at the sight of these pink flamingoes and the pelicans which are in their millions. Watch the endangered White and Black Rhinos. The game drive will also pass through the vintage Baboon Cliff to have a panoramic view of the lake. Lunch, dinner and overnight stay at Lake Nakuru Lodge.

Day 3: Kericho
After breakfast drive to Kericho town arrive at Kericho tea hotel which was built in 1950’s by Brooke Bond Tea Company, for lunch, enjoy fresh tea and then go for an escorted walk in the Tea Plantations. Kericho is a Tea country which has put Kenya to be the world third largest Tea producer after India and Sri Lanka. There are beautiful rolling hills carpeted in neat, bright green tea bushes as far as you can see. The climate here is perfect for Tea with rain falling almost every afternoon. Kericho was named after Ole Kericho, a Maasai Chief who was killed in the battle by the Gusii in the 19th Century. You will then drive to Kisumu City to check in a hotel for dinner and overnight stay.

Day 4: Kisumu - Kogelo -Kit Mikayi - Mbita - {Rusinga Island}.
After an early breakfast in Kisumu, we 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 Barrack Hussein Obama. We will get to interact with the people in the home including his Grand Mother, Mama Sarah Obama who may be very busy for us as she has been appointed as an envoy of goodwill ambassador against malnutrition by Inter-governmental Institution for the use of Micro - Algae Spirulina Against Malnutrition {IIMAM} and the surrounding areas. We will have time to visit the graveyard of Obama snr. After this visit, you will then 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 legend has it that long time ago, there was an old man by the name Ngeso who was fascinated with this Stone as every morning he could climb into the cave and stay there meditating the whole day. When his wife was asked where the old man was, she could reply that he was with the "first wife" hence the Stone of the first wife. Over the years this place has become holy and many people go there for prayers and seek cleansing. You will get more stories on site through a local guide and also you will get to know the attachment of this Stone to the Luo Tribe which is the tribe of Obama senior. After this intriguing adventure, you will drive further to catch a ferry to Mbita picnic lunch enroute. 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. Tom the then powerful Economic and Planning minister in the government of Kenya was the person whom with the help of JF Kennedy organized for the University Education Scholarships and Students Airlift through Kennedy's Family Trust of the young bright Kenyans to United States of America. Among the first beneficiaries of this noble project was Obama snr who went to University of Hawaii where he met his second wife Ann Dunham the mother of President of the United States of America, His Excellency President Barrack Obama. The Mausoleum has various mementoes and gifts Mboya received during his life from the prominent World leaders and eminent personalities. Tom Mboya, civil rights champion, trade unionist and charismatic young Luo politician was gunned down in Nairobi in 1969, sparking off a crisis that led to over forty deaths in widespread rioting and demonstrations. Among the casualties who were sacked from the government after this assignation was the bright Obama Snr who later was reinstated by President Kibaki when he was Minister for Finance by then. You will then have dinner and overnight stay at Lake Victoria Safari Village.

Day 5: Mbita - Awendo – Lolgorien – Maasai Mara.
After breakfast at Lake Victoria safari Village, you will then drive past Kanyamwa escarpment, then to Rongo and to Awendo passing through Maize and Sugar plantation, amazing at the beautiful landscape of Nandi and Kipsigis tribes to enter the famous Maasai Mara with an enroute game drive to a Lodge for dinner and overnight. Picnic lunch enroute.

Day 6: Maasai Mara Full Day.
Full day will be spent in the vast Maasai Mara in search of its renowned plain game; Black manned Lion, Leopard, Cheetah, and migration of Wild Beast and Zebras. The Savannah country in the Mara with plenty of grass and short trees (shrubs) sustain the bigger number of herbivorous animals which Maasai Mara boost of and also act as vintage to enjoy a wonderful view of the animals. The ride will take you to the famous Mara River where we have a big school of Hippos and plenty of Crocodiles. This section also boasts of many species of Bird life. Drive back with a game drive to your Lodge for dinner and overnight. Picnic lunch will be enjoyed on the game.

Day 7: Maasai Mara - Nairobi.
Early morning game drive then full breakfast. Drive back to Nairobi to Fly back home or proceed to the coast for beach holiday
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