Day 1: Arrival Nairobi
Arrive Nairobi at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. After customs and immigration formalities, you will be welcomed and transferred to your Nairobi City Hotel where you are booked on Bed & Breakfast
Day 2: Nairobi – Aberdares/Mount Kenya Region
Breakfast and morning at leisure. Lunch at Safari Park Hotel followed by departure in direction Aberdares/Mount Kenya region. Arrival in the afternoon. Enjoy beautiful views of Mount Kenya(weather dependent).
Dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Aberdares/Mount Kenya Region – Samburu
Breakfast at your lodge. Depart for Samburu. Game drive Samburu with picnic lunch en-route.
Animals commonly seen are elephants, lions, cheetahs, Grevy’s zebras, giraffes, gerenuks, buffalos, Oryx, grants gazelles, dikdiks and waterbucks. There are over 350 varieties of birds. These include the famous Somali Ostriches (distinguished by their unique purple/blue legs during mating season),kingfishers, humming birds, eagles, guinea fowls and vultures.
Arrival in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight
Day 4: Samburu
Enjoy a morning and afternoon game drive in Samburu. All meals at your Lodge/Camp.
Day 5: Samburu – Lake Nakuru
Breakfast at your Lodge/Camp. Departure to Nyahururu Falls & Great Rift Valley View Point for Photo stop and picnic lunches. Continue to Lake Nakuru national park.
The park is a popular place for visitors as well as locals. Waterbuck are usually sighted along the lake shore, and this is the home of the Rothschild’s giraffe. Baboon, impala, buffalo, monkeys, warthog, impala, reedbuck and eland are also resident here. However, the main attractions are the rhinos. The park is a designated rhino sanctuary and it is one of the best places in Kenya to observe them. Both black and white Rhinos thrive here.
Besides the greater and lesser flamingoes, the park is home to many other species including, the Great crested Grebe, the black necked Grebe, little Grebe, Pelicans, Cormorant, African Darter, Egyptian Geese, night Heron, Fish Eagle, grey Heron, Marabou stork, Sacred and Hadada Ibis.
Game drive and arrival at your Lodge in the early evening. Dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara Game Reserve
After breakfast departure in direction Masai Mara with picnic lunches.
Leaving the lakes area behind; begin your ascent up over the top of the Mau Escarpment. Then, heading due south, you travel towards Narok, gateway to the Masai Mara and district headquarters of this part of Maasailand. You’ll travel across the “breadbasket” of Kenya, covered with acres of wheat and barley, before you reach your lunchtime destination. After lunch, proceed for a game drive. Masai Mara is a magnificent landscape of open plains bisected by the Mara River and its tributaries, and punctuated by marshes and forests. Certainly the most frequented game reserve in Kenya, this 650 sq kilometer reserve supports the highest density of game to be seen anywhere. During the seasonal migrations, Masai Mara is home to up to a million wildebeest and an equally impressive number of zebras that move into the area from neighboring Serengeti National Park, in Tanzania. The reserve is home to all the “big five” and it is also possible to observe; baboon, eland, ostrich, bat-eared fox, jackal and cheetah. The rivers abound with hippos and crocodiles.
Visit of an authentic Masai Village for cultural encounter. Arrival at your Lodge/Camp in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight.
Day 7: Masai Mara Game Reserve
Wake up call. Early morning tea/coffee. Set out for an early morning game drive in the reserve. This is usually the most popular game viewing time. During the early hours temperatures are low, thus providing a favorable atmosphere both for the game and the viewer. Lion, Cheetah and Leopard roam the vast grasslands in search for their next meal, it may be an unsuspecting impala or even a small one like the warthog… whatever the players, and the spectacle of nature unfolding is always awe inspiring! Return to the lodge for breakfast. Mid-morning at leisure. Lunch at the lodge. Afternoon game drive will follow returning for dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Masai Mara Game Reserve – Nairobi – Departure
After breakfast drive to Nairobi. Drop off at your Nairobi City Hotel or Jomo Kenyatta international Airport for your out bound flight in the evening.