7 Days Masai Mara Lake Nakuru and Amboseli Safari
7 Days Masai Mara Lake Nakuru and Amboseli Safari
The seven-day Masai Mara safari visits Kenya’s most famous national parks and reserves including Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, and Amboseli National Park. This safari visits the best parks in Kenya in terms of wildlife diversity, flora and fauna, and great scenery. The safari is ideal for wildlife lovers, photographers, groups, families, bird watchers, and couples who love nature.
The Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, and Amboseli Park safari covers a great deal of ground over a short time, leaving you with lots of time for wildlife viewing. You spend a total 3 nights in Masai Mara National Reserve home to Africa’s big cats – lions, cheetahs, and leopards amongst other wildlife including but not limited to bat-eared foxes Masai giraffes, impala, spotted hyenas, baboons, warthogs, jackals, hartebeests, zebras, wildebeest, elephants, buffaloes, hippos and crocodiles.
You have 1 night at Lake Nakuru, one of Kenya’s smallest parks but the best spot for white rhinos. Amboseli is home to lots of elephants and Mount Kilimanjaro. This safari can start in Masai Mara or Amboseli depending on accommodation availability.
These parks allow you to spot lots of wildlife within a short time but the distances between the parks are quite long so if you have additional time, it’s advisable to extend the safari by a day, visiting Lake Naivasha which serves to shorten the distance between Amboseli and Lake Nakuru and gives you a chance to rest and have a walking safari among wildlife on Crescent Island.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival – Amboseli, overnight at Amboseli Serena (LD)
Pick up at 8:00 AM in Nairobi and leave for Amboseli National Park arriving for lunch. Have an afternoon game drive.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge
Day 2: Amboseli National Park Full Day
A day of game drives in this park, which dust devils swirl around the edges, but in the heart of the park is an amazing swamp in which elephants and hippos are in abundance. A visit to the observation hill will follow where you will look out for the glistering majestic snowcap of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Amboseli is justly famous for its big game elephants, which are the most studied in the world. Living beside the most celebrated culture in the world- the Masai. You will have lunch and a leisure break at the Lodge in the mid-afternoon before returning to the wild for an afternoon game drive.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge.
Day 3: Amboseli – Lake Nakuru National Park
Have breakfast and an en-route game drive in Amboseli. Drive to Nairobi for lunch. Leave for Lake Nakuru. You have a brief stop at the Rift Valley viewpoint to take photos of the escarpment and the sheer drop of the Rift Valley. Drive on to Lake Nakuru National Park. arriving in the late afternoon. The lake is a spectacular ocean of pink surrounded by forests and plains that are home to lions, rhinos, leopards, and large herds of waterbuck. You shall arrive for lunch. Afternoon game drives around the lake.
Dinner and overnight at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge.
Day 4: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara National Reserve
Have breakfast and a morning game drive. Arrive for lunch then proceed for a game drive upon arrival to this world’s best-loved reserves with its savannah rolling hills and riverine forest, with grazing herds, bountiful bird life, and Africa’s largest population of lions.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge.
Day 5: Masai Mara National Reserve Full Day
Early breakfast followed by a full day game drive within the reserve as the rains bring the grasslands of Masai Mara to life, the vast plains rumble with the thunder of approaching hooves as 1.5 million wildebeest migrate up the south into Masai Mara from Serengeti.
The great migration is a vision beyond belief. It is one of the world’s most impressive spectacles staged every year in Kenya. It is directed by the raw forces of nature. You will also appreciate its high animal concentration and abundance of black-maned lions, herds of topi roan antelope, cheetah, common zebra, and Coke’s hartebeest though luck is essential for spotting leopards and rhinos.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge.
Day 6: Masai Mara National Reserve Full Day
Early breakfast followed by a game drive. The landscape is breathtaking with its network of roads specially constructed for game viewing. The Mara River bisects the Masai Mara Game Reserve with its tributaries which are bordered by luxuriant riverine forests. Return to your lodge for lunch
In the afternoon you have two optional activities, a visit to Masai village to see their nomadic life at extra cost or a game drive.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge.
Day 7: Masai Mara – Nairobi
After breakfast, proceed for your final game drive. Then leave for Nairobi with a packed lunch arriving in the late afternoon. This is where the safari ends with a drop-off at the airport or your Nairobi Hotel.
Tour includes
- Park entrance fees
- All the mentioned activities
- Services of a professional English-speaking driver-guide
- Accommodation
- Vehicle and fuel
- Bottled water
Tour excludes
- Air flight tickets
- Visas
- Life insurance
- Optional activities not included on the itinerary
- Personal expenses like buying souvenirs, crafts, drinks, laundry services, and tips among others.
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