5 DAYS LODGE SAFARI-MAASAI MARA-LAKE NAKURU-LAKE NAIVASHA

DAY 1: NAIROBI – MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE.

The tour guide picks you up from your hotel after breakfast, at around 6am to 8 am .The journey to Masai Mara will commence with the first  stopover at the Rift valley escarpment wall where you will have opportunity to take photos and get a brief history on its formation. You later proceed with the trip with another stopover at Narok town for freshening up. Proceed and check in at the lodge for hot lunch. after lunch  you immediately head to the park for a brief game drive. Masai Mara is a home for different animal species which includes the big five, which you might get to view. In July, August and September, wildebeests migrate from Serengeti to the Mara, which is a very entertaining view. After the game drive, the guide takes you to the lodge, where dinner is served and night spent.

DAY 2: THE MARA NATIONAL RESERVE DRIVE.

After breakfast, you will be picked from the lodge at 7:45am for the day’s game drive. The drive will take you through the landscape of the reserve which is savannah grassland on rolling hills. Masai Mara national reserve has good extensive road networks which provide a platform to closely view the wild animals. You will view different kinds of wildlife, vegetation and the beautiful landscape. You will then have a picnic lunch at the hippos pool. Proceed with game drive till sunset after which you will then be driven back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

DAY 3: MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE – NAKURU.

A cup of coffee or tea will served at the lodge after which you will proceed for an optional activity of visit to Masai village. At the village you will be able to interact with the local Masai people. The Masai people have been able to maintain their culture for years so it will be a fun activity. You will only pay $10 per person paid directly at the village. After the village  you head back to the camp for a full breakfast. You later depart for Lake Nakuru National Park, as you enjoy the scenic view of the great Mt.Longonot and Lake Naivasha from the highway distance. Lunch is then served enroute. On arrival, you will have a game enroute to Lake Nakuru Lodge where dinner and overnight will be served.

DAY 4: LAKE NAKURU – LAKE NAIVASHA.
Immediately after breakfast, the guide will pick you up for a game drive at Lake Nakuru Park to interact with the pink flamingoes at the shores of the lake. The park has got a white rhino sanctuary, cape buffalos and waterbucks at the shoreline of this lake. Hot lunch will be served during lunch hour, after which you then move on to the budget hotel in Naivasha for check-in. You will then enjoy a boat ride which is optional(at a fee of 25 dollars per head) in lake Nakuru’s fresh waters as you view the hippos closely and have a beautiful evening stray at the crescent island which is optional and at an extra cost. Dinner is served and night spent at Naivasha Sopa Lodge.

DAY 5: NAIVASHA-NAIROBI
After breakfast you will then have a nature walk at Hell’s gate national park. You can pick bicycles which is optional (at a fee of 6 dollars per person) from the warden to enjoy cycling in this one and only walking park in our beautiful country, Kenya. The park is rich in that it inhabits a numerous number of different bird species, of which some are vultures, verreaux’s eagles, augur buzzard, swifts and many others. The park is also wildlife heritage with animals such as the African buffalo, the zebra, the eland, the hartebeest, Thomson’s gazelle, baboons and many others. Predominantly, Hell’s gate national park is a home to the klipspringer antelope and the chanler’s mountain reedbuck. After this amazing adventure walk, you will be served with hot lunch and later on get driven back to Nairobi. The trip ends here.