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 and you will have your first stopover at Mahi mahiu escapement where you will have the view of the rift valley escapement. Next stopover at Narok town to have lunch for freshening. You later proceed with the trip to Masai Mara checking in at Miti Mingi eco camp for hot lunch. After lunch you will head to the reserve 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 camp, where dinner is served and night spent.
DAY 2: THE MARA NATIONAL RESERVE DRIVE.
After breakfast, you will be picked from the camp 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 and proceed with the game drive till sunset. Later drive back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
DAY 3: MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE – NAKURU.
A cup of coffee or tea is served in the morning then proceed for an optional activity of visit to Masai village. At the village you will have an inopportunity to interact with the local Masai community as well as engaging in different cultural practices. Here you will only pay $10 per person paid directly at the village. 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 be dropped at the hotel.
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. Dinner is served and night spent at a budget hotel.
DAY 5: NAIVASHA – AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK.
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 10 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 a 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 have your lunch enroute, and then depart for Amboseli national park in time for dinner and overnight at the Kimana camp.
DAY 6: AMBOSELI FULL DAY GAME DRIVE.
After breakfast, you will be picked from the camp at 7:45am for the day’s game drive. The drive will take you through the swampy grounds where elephants and hippos bathe. Samburu national park has good extensive road networks which provide a platform to closely view the wild animals. You will view different kinds of wildlife such as the antelopes and birds, vegetation and the beautiful scenery of Mount Kilimanjaro peak, if the weather conditions permit. You will then have a picnic lunch, after which you will then be driven back to the camp, for a cup of coffee or tea. Dinner and overnight will still be served at Kimana camp.
DAY 7: AMBOSELI – TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK.
After breakfast, you proceed to Tsavo east national park, to enjoy the sight of dust red elephants wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with blue waters and the palm shaded Galana River. The park forms the largest protected area in Kenya and is a home for most of the larger mammals-red elephants, rhinos, buffalos, lions, leopards, hippos, crocodiles, waterbucks, lesser kudus, gerenuk and the prolific bird life features. After wards, you will be driven to your accommodation facility for lunch, relaxation and refreshment purposes. Dinner and overnight at Voi safari lodge, still in the park.
DAY 8: TSAVO EAST NATIONAL PARK – NAIROBI.
The driver will pick you up for a pre-breakfast game drive to view some of the animals you missed during the other game drives. You will then embark to the lodge for breakfast and then later start the journey back to Nairobi with lunch enroute, where the safari comes to an end.
