Kenya Luxury Family Africa Safari Review: Walking & Horseback Safari's, Hot Air Ballon Ride, Culture, Day & Night Drives

Just returned from our first trip to Africa and decided to do a Kenyan safari to explore the wildlife and hopefully catch the great migration. We knew basically very little about Africa before our trip. The folks at Zicasso put us in touch with a travel company out of Denver, CO and specifically, our agent. Over the course of 18 months of planning, our travel agent patiently spent literally dozens of hours over a multitude of calls with me, educating me on different regions of Africa and helping me build out our trip to match the desired experiences, activity levels, and accommodation types to perfectly match, and exceed our family's expectations. Following is an email I sent her the day after return. I think it sums things up. 
Hi,
We are back home safe and sound from our Kenya Safari and all we can say is W-O-W!  What a truly spectacular trip!  Start to finish, everything from the camps to the food to (of course) the animals continually took our breath away day after day. Your suggestions of camps for us could not have been more spot on. The variety of culture, scenery, and amazing animal adventures kept us mesmerized every single day we were there. 
We were able to see all the big 5 by end of our 2nd day, and many more days beyond. We did day drives, night drives, walking safaris, horse back safaris (totally surprised by a bush breakfast waiting for us after), a sunrise balloon ride, and even managed to ride some camels!  We got within feet of lions, leopards, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, rhino, and on and on. We even saw some wild dogs just after a morning kill enjoying their new breakfast. We were even lucky 
enough to be photographing a lion pair when then unexpectedly started mating. (told that was exceptionally rare). The highlight had to be witnessing the wildebeest crossing in Mara that still seems surreal. The local people and camp staff were unbelievably friendly and helpful beyond words, and our photos turned out so well, I can't believe it was actually us that took them!  We had baboons visit our room in Samburu, a family of Hyrex living in the trees just off our deck in Lewa and Zebra calling us each night in the Mara. Wow, wow, wow. 
It took us all of 48 hours to fall in love with Africa. Our daughter cried in joy at least once every day we were there. I have little doubt we will be revisiting Africa at some point in the future, but for now, I just wanted to say thank you from the bottom of our hearts. Your expertise and guidance helped us create memories that will truly last a life time.