This Kenya Wildlife Safari is an amazing time for you to explore most of the famous National Parks in Kenya. You will visit Aberdare National Park, Lake Nakuru National Park, Masai Mara National reserve and Amboseli National Park. Get exposed to the Big 5 of Africa’s jungle and these are lions, leopards, buffaloes, elephants and rhinos. You will also be delighted to see other wildlife species like giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, wildebeests, gazelles, antelopes, impalas, hippopotamus, crocodiles, birds, butterflies and beautiful sceneries.
Kenya Wildlife Safari Highlights
- Day 1: Transfer to Aberdare National Park and game drive.
- Day 2: Game drive and transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park.
- Day 3. Transfer from Lake Nakuru to Masai Mara National Reserve
- Day 4. Full day game drive in Maasai Mara
- Day 5. Game drive and transfer to Lake Naivasha.
- Day 6: Drive to Amboseli National Park for afternoon game drive
- Day 7: Morning game drive in Amboseli National Park. Return to Nairobi for departure flight.
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Transfer to Aberdare National Park and game drive.
After breakfast, our company representative will pick you from overnight hotel in Nairobi, brief you about the safari and then embark on the journey to Aberdare National Park. You will arrive at your lodge in afternoon hours, check-in and have a scrumptious lunch.
Rest a bit and later go on an evening game drive, look out for animals like lions, leopards, cape buffaloes, bushbucks, wild dogs, elands, and beautiful sceneries from Aberdare ranges. Return to the lodge after sunset, have dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Game drive and transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park.
Arise in the morning, have delicious breakfast and head to Aberdare National Park to catch sight of animals when they are still very active; spot the famous big cats and these include lions, leopards and hyenas trying to hunt for a meal that will take them throughout the day. You will find grazers also looking for fresh grass, birds will be coming out of their nests. You will later return to the lodge, check-out and head to Lake Nakuru National Park.
Arrive by lunch time, check-in at your lodge, have lunch and later go for an adventurous game drive. Spot black and white rhinos, elephants, buffaloes, zebras, lions, leopards, hyenas, jackals. You will also visit Lake Nakuru which is a home to flamingos and these shade the shores of the lake with pink colour. You will enjoy the sunset as well, return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 3. Transfer from Lake Nakuru to Masai Mara National Reserve
Arise in the morning, grab a cup of coffee/coffee ahead of your transfer to Maasai Mara National Park. This is a 5 hours’ journey with stopovers for scenic viewing; for example, you will have a stopover at Narok town where you will interact with Masai people and later embark on your journey.
Arrive at the lodge at lunchtime, check-in, have lunch and thereafter, you will go for evening game drive. On this safari, you might encounter unique wildlife like giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, wildebeests, gazelles, lions, leopards among others. Return to the lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight.
Day 4. Full day game drive in Maasai Mara
You will wake up in the early morning. Have a scrumptious breakfast, get your lunch packed, meet your driver guide and head to the jungle for adventurous full day game drive. You will drive through the endless plains of Mara, decorated with animals like lions, leopards, buffaloes, elephants and rhinos and these are the Big 5 of the jungle. Spot other animals like wildebeests, zebras, gazelles, cheetahs, antelopes, impalas, hartebeests, topis, oribis, crocodiles, birds and beautiful terrain.
If you visit Mara during summer season, i.e. June to September, you will be lucky to spot wildebeests, zebras and gazelles traversing River Mara from Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. You will also enjoy a picnic lunch set near a River Bank to enjoy the stunning view of animal migration. You will return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 5. Game drive and transfer to Lake Naivasha.
Wake up in the morning for delicious breakfast, check-out and do a game drive as you head out of the Masai Mara. You will spot herds of elephants, buffaloes, leopards, lions, cheetahs, wildebeests, gazelles, antelopes, impalas, to mention but a few. Proceed to Lake Naivasha which is a Rift Valley lake and a home to over 400 bird species. Some of the bird species spotted include, lesser and greater flamingos, African Jacana, Goliath herons, white fronted bee-eater, among others.
Upon arrival, you will check-in at the lodge for lunch and head to Lake Naivasha for bird watching. You will spot lesser and greater flamingos shading pink colour on the shores of Lake Naivasha, you will spot other birds like African spoonbills, shoebills storks, red knobbed coot. You will be pleased by the stunning sunset, return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 6: Drive to Amboseli National Park for afternoon game drive
On this day, you wake up in the early morning, have a scrumptious breakfast and check-out of the lodge and head to Amboseli National Park. You will arrive at the park, proceed to your lodge accommodation, check-in, have lunch and embark on the evening game drive.
Amboseli National Park is a haven of Africa’s elephants, with other wildlife like lions, cheetahs, buffaloes, antelopes, warthogs, birds, among other wildlife. You will spot these animals till sunset, return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 7: Morning game drive in Amboseli National Park. Return to Nairobi for departure flight.
Wake up in the morning for breakfast, check-out of the lodge and do yet another sunrise game drive in the savannah plains of Amboseli. You may spot the early risers and nocturnal animals like lions, leopards, buffaloes, elephants looking for food that will take them throughout the day even before the temperatures soar.
Check out of Amboseli and begin a long transfer to the capital, Nairobi. Arrive in Nairobi at lunchtime, have lunch in a hotel, and from here the driver guide will either drop you at the hotel or at Jomo Kenyatta Airport, depending on the time of your flight. End of Kenya Wildlife Safari.
