MASAI MARA, LAKE NAKURU AND LAKE NAIVASHA/HELLS GATE

Day 1: Nairobi to Maasai Mara National Reserve

Pick up from your hotel or airport and drive to Maasai Mara National Reserve arriving in time for lunch. After lunch, depart for an afternoon game viewing drive the Reserve in search of predator and sunset viewing. Later, return back to the camp/lodge for a sumptuous buffet dinner ending with good time for resting. Masai Mara Reserve is the most popular tourism destination in Kenya. Located in the Great Rift Valley in primarily open grassland.

Wildlife is most concentrated on the reserve’s western escarpment. Its regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife Viewing areas. The annual wildebeest’s migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November. Hardly can a visitor miss to spot the big five. The phenomenal wildebeest migration which is a spectacular event only seen in Maasai mara is the wonder of the world.

Dinner and overnight at Sentrim Mara Camp

Day 2: Full Day Game Drive in Masai Mara Reserve

Have breakfast at 6:30 am and at 7 am, leave for a full day game viewing in the park. On this day, Spend the full day exploring Masai Mara in search of the big five, hippos and Nile crocodile. Thereafter, go for a picnic lunch in park under a croton tree shade overlooking the vast landscape of the park.

Optional: In the evening, Visit the local Masai village for a Masai cultural tour at USD20. Learn about the Masai community and interact with the local Masai people. A balloon safari at USD 380 per person can be organized early morning on this day then proceed with the normal program.

It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna – lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas and vultures.

Dinner and overnight at Sentrim Mara Camp

Day 3: Depart Maasai Mara to Lake Nakuru National Park

You will enjoy the last early morning game drive in Mara Reserve followed by breakfast. Thereafter commence the drive to Lake Nakuru National Park. we will have lunch on the way to Nakuru and arrive at the Hotel in the evening. we will be driving through Kenya rich agricultural farmlands and forest catchment areas called Mau hills.

Lake Nakuru houses Kenya’s first rhino sanctuary and one of the largest concentrations of black rhinoceros in the world a large population of white rhino. The park features the picturesque Makalia Waterfalls. Also of interest is an area of 188 km around the lake fenced off as a sanctuary to protect Rothschild giraffes.

Among predators are lion, leopard and large pythons hiding in the dense woodlands which may occasionally be seen crossing roads or dangling from trees. Others game include Thomson’s and Grant gazelle, the long- eared leaf-nosed bat, colobus monkey, rock hyrax, hippo, and waterbuck; Impala, striped hyena, bat-eared fox, wildcat, reedbuck and golden cat.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge/similar lodge 

Day 4: Nakuru to Lake Naivasha/Hell’s Gate National Park

You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7 am to straight to the park. Its a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which form part of the Big five animals. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos .

The game drive lasts 3 hours, after which you depart on a 3-hour drive back to Naivasha to arrive in time for lunch. In the afternoon, go for an hour boat ride on Lake Naivasha for bird watching and hippo viewing.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge 

Day 5: Hell’s Gate to Nairobi

Breakfast at the resort and at 7 am, drive to Hell’s Gate for a biking tour. At around 11 am, drive to lunch at the restaurant and thereafter drive back to Nairobi with drop off at your hotel or airport.