Lake Nakuru, Bogoria, Naivasha & Masai Mara

(Approximately. 3 hours)

Today at 7:30 am.  Your driver/guide will pick you up from your Nairobi hotel, Nairobi airport. We’ll head out for Lake Nakuru National Park.

We’ll make stops along the way to view the dramatic rises of the Great Rift Valley escarpment.

We should arrive at Lake Nakuru in time for lunch and plenty of game and bird watching drives around the lake and its many scenic wonders. We’ll explore the acacia forests and wooded hills looking for zebra, hippo, baboon, and monkey.

The park is also known for its large population of rhinos, which we are sure to spot. Keep an eye out as well for impala, waterbuck, and giraffe.

The lake has some flamingoes, but we’ll also be entertained by the flocks of pelican, cormorants, kingfishers, heron, and eagle.

This is a rich reserve, full of colour, variety and the wonderful mix of wildlife only nature can provide to us.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru safari lodge or tented safari camp of your choice bringing an end to the first day of your African safari trip.

(Approximately. 6hrs)

The birdlife here will inspire us to rise early so we may enjoy the dawn and the park as it gradually awakens to the new day.

We’ll head in our 4 x 4 along the floor of the scenic Great Rift Valley for more dramatic vistas as we journey to Lake Borgoria National Park for our day 2 of this African safari tour.

The park is an enchanting mix of bubbling geysers, steaming hot springs, and an alkaline lake hosting thousands and sometimes millions of pink flamingoes.

Wildlife like gazelle, impala, and dik-dik roam here and we may spot them in the vicinity of the busy lake.

We will proceed to Lake Naivasha for the evening.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha safari lodge or tented safari camp of your choice.

We’ll be up early for a boating safari across the lake and bid good morning to the hippos as we gently glide by. This is a fun moment to take in the brightening day and spot birds and perhaps some antelope grazing on the shore.

Nearby Crescent Island Game Sanctuary (Optional) provides us with an opportunity to take a guided walking safari to this peaceful but active little reserve.

Should you wish, hop on a bicycle for an optional trip over to Hell’s Gate National Park where we can hike or pedal by antelope, zebra, and other peaceful gazers.

But now it’s time to head out again across the floor of the Great Rift Valley on our way to Masai Mara Game Reserve for a more exciting Kenya wildlife safari.

We should arrive in time for lunch and take in the reserve’s green rolling hills and vast plains holding immeasurable Kenya wildlife.

We’ll relax, freshen up and then embark on our first game drive in the world-famous park.

We’ll enjoy our nights in the park at your Masai Mara safari lodge or tented safari camp.

We’ve designed this Kenya safari to give you lots of viewing time at Masai Mara so let’s get an early start. Over the next few days of this African wildlife safari, you’ll enjoy unlimited game drives – explore as much or as little as you choose.

But we think you’ll be excited by the possibilities of the Masai Mara Game Reserve. The park presents the largest concentration of wildlife in this region of Africa. The park is rich, beautiful, and varied offering all the Africa Big Five with a special density of the big cats.

Sightings of lion and cheetah are not uncommon which adds to the excitement of this exciting park.

The Mara is also known as the home of the Kenya Great Migration – the largest display of migrating animals in the world. Streaming in by the tens of thousands during the season (July – October) you can witness limitless herds of gazelle, wildebeest, and zebra all moving to the timeless rhythms of nature as they search for food on these plains.

Our second safari night will be spent here at your Masai Mara accommodation.

This will be our third day exploring the Masai Mara on this trip package to Africa – what a treat!

Along with traversing the vast open spaces here, we’ll also travel down to the Mara River, site of the Masai Mara wildebeest migration crossing during the Kenya migration season.

We’ll have lunch while viewing hippos, crocodiles and perhaps predators like lion and hyena searching these timeless hills for their prey.

And if all this time at the Mara wasn’t enough, there are a few optional activities we’ve prepared to make your African safari vacation even more memorable. Take a visit to the local Masai in their nearby village. See their community, their homes, and learn about their ancient lifestyle herding cattle and farming.

For an absolutely spectacular finish to your African safari tour, we suggest the optional pre-dawn hot air balloon safari over the park. Rise with the sun to witness the reserve come alive as the land and its wildlife emerge into a new day. Unforgettable!

Dinner and overnight at Masai Mara safari lodge/ tented safari camp.

Wrapping up your Kenya safari package today is a leisurely morning breakfast at your tented safari camp/ safari lodge, afterward you have an option to visit the Masai village before starting your journey back to Nairobi.

Your dedicated expert driver guide will assist you with the checkout process and proceed to Nairobi with stops along the way. We’ll depart Masai Mara with a hot lunch stop along the way, arriving in Nairobi during late afternoon hours (approximately 15:00Hrs, typically 3:00 Pm) and bring you to your Nairobi hotel, or the Nairobi airport.

Drop off at your Nairobi City hotel /Nairobi airport, signaling the end of our 6 days safari trip in Kenya.

We hope you soaked up plenty of Africa’s wildlife safari sightings on this busy tour. It’s been our pleasure to have you as our guest and from all of us at African Vulture Safaris, a big thanks!