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The Norfolk Hotel is one of Nairobi s oldest hotels, opened on Christmas Day of 1904.It is situated in the heart of Nairobi a short distance from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and from Nairobi s main business and shopping district .All rooms have an ensuite bathroom with bath and shower a mini bar, TV and radio, direct dial telephone and air-conditioning.

The hotel has five restaurants and three bars, a swimming pool, hair and beauty salon, shops and news stands and a health club with a fully equipped gym, saunas, steam rooms, aerobics classes and massage therapy.

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Tortilis Camp is situated on a private concession area adjoining Amboseli National Park, which lies below Mt Kilimanjaro.There are over 1000 elephant in the park, one of the largest concentrations in Africa, as well as a diverse range of other game and birdlife.

The habitats include swamps, lakes,acacia woodland and grass plains. Tortilis is a small permanent tented camp with en suite tents which are large and spacious and which have a veranda area. The lodge also has a small pool. Game drives and walks are taken in the private area as well as the national park.

We will have 2 full days to explore this beautiful part of Africa, expect to see huge herds of elephant and magnificent birdlife with the snow capped peak of Killimanjaro as a spectacular backdrop an it is an artists paradise. Your sketchbooks will be full and brimming with ideas and inspirations for your paintings.

Our camp will be waiting for us with hot showers, sundowners by the campfire and a delicious dinner under the starlit African sky.

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Deloraine is an old colonial house and was built in the early 1920s by a prominent early settler.It is situated in the Rift Valley near Nakuru and is surrounded by a magnificent 5,000 acre farm, seen at its best on horseback which is available.

Rooms are situated either in the house or in an outside cottage. Farm drives, bird walks, tennis and croquet are also on offer here as are several interesting day trips to the flamingo lakes of Bogoria and Nakuru which are within easy reach by vehicle for those non painting partners.

A typical day on our art safari would begin early...Woken up by one of our crew with a cup of tea of coffee in your tent or room. The morning would be spent looking for wildlife with our specialist guides finding them studying and drawing them all very peacefully and calm just the sounds of nature around us.

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Carrolleannea will be with you during the whole of your safari giving you one to one advice on your sketching and painting and tips on how to photograph and paint African wildlife learnt from many years spent in the bush.

It is important to be out early in the mornings as this is the time when the animals are at their most active, it is usual to see lions coming back from a nights hunting and the leopard looking for a quiet tree to laze away the heat of the day in.

We return to camp for a hearty breakfast or alternatively take a picnic breakfast with us and return for lunch but we are very flexible. During the heat of the day most animals take shelter and sleep so we will do likewise and use this time in camp to explore and develop our ideas for our painting or simply catch up on some sketching or just simply relax.

A late afternoon game drive will usually keep us out until dusk and then it will be back to the camp for those much needed sundowners by the campfire and that sumptuous dinner that marks the end of the day.



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