4-Day Private Masai Mara & Lake Nakuru Kenyan Safari

• You'll be collected from the airport.
• Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Nairobi - Masai Mara National Reserve

You will be picked up in the morning from your hotel or airport. You'll drive to Masai Mara National Reserve arriving in time for lunch. Masai Mara National Reserve is a pristine wilderness of haunting beauty promising its visitors a profusion of wildlife, prolific bird life and the opportunity of catching up with all the members of the Big Five in one morning. The 1,800 sq km of this veteran reserve offers a mix of African imagery; miles of grasslands, lilac-misted hills, a meandering river, acres of thorn-bush and mile upon mile of undulating wilderness. Game-viewing in the Masai Mara is excellent all year-round thanks to the diverse population of resident game, including the Big Five (lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos and rhinos) plus popular species like zebras, giraffes, hyenas, elands and gazelles. You will have an afternoon game-viewing session to spot the Big Five as your introduction to the park. Later, you will return for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

Main Destination:

Masai Mara National Reserve

Best Time To Visit June to October (For general wildlife viewing) and August to October (For wildebeest migration)

High Season June to October and December to March

Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Masai Mara NR

ElephantCommon

GiraffeCommon

LionCommon

CheetahCommon

ZebraAbundant

WildebeestAbundant

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BuffaloCommon

HippoCommon

HyenaCommon

LeopardOccasional

Black RhinoRare

Wild DogVery Rare

White RhinoNone

Accommodation:

Masai Mara Sopa Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR

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Meals & Drinks:

• Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Masai Mara National Reserve

You will spend the day in the Masai Mara with morning and afternoon game drives. Masai Mara National Reserve offers one of the best opportunities to see cheetahs and lions in Africa. A visit to this reserve in July will allow you the best chance to witness and watch firsthand as thousands of wildebeests migrate across the swollen crocodile-infested Mara River. This is one of nature’s greatest wildlife spectacles, the wildebeest migration. The sheer number of wildebeests arriving in the area is staggering. The migration is a dramatic mass movement of almost two million wildebeests, zebras an gazelles in a seasonal annual cycle driven by rainfall. To reach Masai Mara for fresh grazing, wildebeests make dramatic river crossings, facing enormous crocodiles on the Mara River. November's short rains trigger the last leg of the migration when the wildebeests move south to Serengeti. You will return for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

Main Destination:

Masai Mara National Reserve

Accommodation:

Masai Mara Sopa Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Drive from Masai Mara - Lake Nakuru National Park

You will wake up to an early morning pre-breakfast game-viewing drive in Masai Mara, which is the best time to spot cats at a hunt. You'll return to the lodge for breakfast and check out. You will drive to Lake Nakuru National Park arriving in time for a sumptuous lunch. In the afternoon, you will enjoy a game drive to spot wildlife. It is a shallow alkaline lake where visitors can enjoy the wide ecological diversity with varied habitats that range from Lake Nakuru itself to the surrounding escarpment and picturesque ridges. The game drive is the main activity at Lake Nakuru. The park also has over 450 bird species including the flamingos. The lake is famed as one of the world's greatest ornithological spectacles. The park is also home to zebras, gazelles, Rothschild giraffes, impalas, black and white rhinos sanctuary and other large mammals. You'll have dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

Main Destination:

Lake Nakuru National Park

Best Time To Visit June to February (Best for wildlife viewing; little rain)

High Season July to February (The park gets very busy)

Best Weather June to February (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Nakuru NP

GiraffeCommon

White RhinoCommon

BuffaloCommon

ZebraCommon

HippoCommon

Black RhinoOccasional

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LionOccasional

LeopardOccasional

HyenaOccasional

WildebeestVery Rare

ElephantNone

CheetahNone

Wild DogNone

Accommodation:

Lake Nakuru Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located inside Lake Nakuru NP

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Drive Back to Nairobi

After an early breakfast, you will have morning game drives in Lake Nakuru National Park, one of the few Great Rift Valley attractions in Kenya that have the potential to hold a large number of birds. You will then depart for a journey back to Nairobi. You will be dropped off at your hotel or directly at the airport, marking the end of the tour.

Main Destination:

Nairobi (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

• Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
• You'll be dropped off at the airport.