$2,285 to $3,444 pp (USD)
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Day 1
Nairobi to Maasai Mara National Reserve
Nairobi to Maasai Mara National Reserve
Approx. 5–6 Hours Drive | Arrival in Time for Lunch
Your safari adventure begins with pick-up from your hotel or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi/ Hotel. Journey west through the scenic Great Rift Valley, stopping briefly at the escarpment viewpoint for breathtaking panoramic views and photographs of one of Africa’s most iconic landscapes.
Continue towards the world-famous Maasai Mara National Reserve, arriving at your lodge in time for lunch and relaxation. Later in the afternoon, head out for your first exciting game drive across the vast golden savannah. As the African sun begins to set, the Mara comes alive with incredible wildlife activity. Watch for lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, buffaloes, and perhaps even a cheetah scanning the plains for prey.
Return to your lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight surrounded by the sounds of the African wilderness.
Meals Included: Lunch & Dinner.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Masai Mara Sopa Lodge
Wildlife in Masai Mara NR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Full-Day at Masai Mara National Reserve
Full-Day at Masai Mara National Reserve
Wake before sunrise. This is the full Maasai Mara day, the one you came to Kenya for.
Morning game drive covers the reserve's most productive areas: the Mara Triangle, the Mara River crossing points, and the acacia-dotted plains where leopards rest in the heat of midday. Picnic lunch in the bush your crew sets up a proper spread under an acacia tree while the wildlife carries on around you.
Afternoon game drive pushes deeper into the reserve. If it is migration season (July–October), your guide knows where the herds are moving and positions you at the river before the crossing begins. Wildebeest, crocodiles, the chaos and the survival of it this is the scene that has appeared in every wildlife documentary you have ever watched. You are now in it.
Optional: Hot air balloon safari at dawn (+$450 per person) float silently above the Mara plains as the sun rises, watching wildlife from above before landing for a champagne bush breakfast.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation:
- Masai Mara Sopa Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Masai Mara - Lake Nakuru National Park
Masai Mara - Lake Nakuru National Park
You will have breakfast at the camp then proceed for a maasai village visit. After, drive north through the Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National Park, one of Kenya's most important rhino sanctuaries and a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
Arrive and check in for lunch, then straight into an afternoon game drive. Lake Nakuru is a different Kenya entirely dense yellow fever tree woodlands, rocky escarpments, and a soda lake that turns pink at the edges when the flamingos gather. Watch for white rhino resting in the shade, Rothschild's giraffes at full stretch in the fever trees, and the Out of Africa Lookout, where some scenes from the 1985 film were shot and the view has not changed since. Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge.
Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Lodge or similar | Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Nakuru National Park
- Accommodation:
- Lake Nakuru Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Nakuru NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Lake Nakuru National Park - Lake Naivasha
Lake Nakuru National Park - Lake Naivasha
Short transfer | Afternoon boat cruise on the lake
Enjoy breakfast and checkout for an early morning game drive in Nakuru, rhinos are most active at dawn. After, drive south to Lake Naivasha, the highest of Kenya's Rift Valley lakes, sitting at 1,890m above sea level and fringed with papyrus reeds, acacia woodland and fever tree forest.
Check in to your lakeside camp, then board a traditional wooden boat for an afternoon cruise on the lake. Your guide points out the pods of hippos submerged in the shallows, the African fish eagle calling from the treetops, the kingfishers and cormorants working the papyrus edges. Optional: walking on Crescent Island a wildlife sanctuary in the lake where you walk among giraffe, zebra and wildebeest on foot, with no predators. A uniquely calm and intimate wildlife experience. Dinner and overnight at your Naivasha camp.
Accommodation: Lake Naivasha Crescent Camp or similar | Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Naivasha (Naivasha)
- Accommodation:
- Lake Naivasha Crescent Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Lake Naivasha - Amboseli National Park
Lake Naivasha - Amboseli National Park
After breakfast at around 7:00 AM, depart for a visit to Hell’s Gate National Park, one of the few parks in Kenya where guests can explore by walking or cycling alongside wildlife. Enjoy the dramatic landscapes, towering cliffs, and scenic gorges before continuing your journey towards Amboseli National Park with a picnic lunch en route.
Arrive in Amboseli in the early evening and, if time permits, proceed for an evening game drive across the park’s. the park produces the most iconic photographs in Africa. As you cross the Amboseli plains, Kilimanjaro appears on the horizon: Africa's highest mountain, of snow and ice rising from the flat savannah floor, framed by a foreground of elephants. Every photographer who visits Kenya puts this shot on their list. Amboseli has the largest concentration of free-ranging elephants in East Africa, including some of the continent's last remaining big-tusked bulls. Dinner and overnight at your Amboseli lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Amboseli National Park
- Accommodation:
- Amboseli Sopa Lodge
Wildlife in Amboseli NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Full-Day at Amboseli National Park
Full-Day at Amboseli National Park
Amboseli rewards those who stay long enough to understand it. The morning game drive heads into the park's famous swamp area Ol Tukai and Enkongo Narok where the elephants come to feed on the lush papyrus and water hyacinth. Watch family groups of 30 or 40 individuals moving together, matriarchs leading, calves stumbling through the mud. Lions patrol the swamp edges. Cheetah are regularly spotted on the open plains to the east.
Midday, return to the lodge for lunch and some well-earned rest by the pool, Kilimanjaro watching over you. Late afternoon game drive as the mountain clears and the light turns extraordinary. This is your final full game drive of the circuit make it count.
Optional: Maasai village visit meet a traditional Maasai community, learn about their relationship with the wildlife they have coexisted with for centuries, and understand why community conservation is central to Kenya's future. Dinner and overnight at your Amboseli lodge.
- Main Destination:
- Amboseli National Park
- Accommodation:
- Amboseli Sopa Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Amboseli National Park - Nairobi
Amboseli National Park - Nairobi
Breakfast and checkout, then drive north to Nairobi, arriving mid-to-late afternoon. Transfer directly to your Nairobi hotel or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your onward flight home.
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch.
- Main Destination:
- Nairobi (City)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
