10-Day Discover Africa Wildlife Samburu Masai Mara Lake Nakuru Amboseli Park adventure

Safari in Nairobi, Samburu Reserve, Masai Mara

Tour Price : $2498 Duration : 10 days Languages: English

Day 1: Nairobi-Samburu National Reserve
You will arrive at the airport where you will be picked up by the company’s representative. You will be given a brief safari orientation (pre-departure meeting) of the safari, thereafter you will be driven to the north past the equator to the northern frontier district. Continue to the semi arid Samburu National reserve and check in to your campsite. You will enjoy your lunch at the lodge. There will be time to settle in before your safari adventure. You will later set out for an afternoon game drive in the reserve. Return to the lodge before dark, dinner in lodge.
Overnight: Samburu sopa Lodge. LDB

Day 2: Samburu National Reserve
After an early breakfast 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!

At 12:30pm you will enjoy your lunch in the lodge or packed lunch.

You will later return to the campsite before dark, where you will enjoy dinner at the lodge.

Day 3: Samburu-Lake Nakuru National Park
After early breakfast depart for a morning game drive in the reserve, en-route to the gate. Drive a southerly direction to the equator for a brief stop. Here, the locals do a water demonstration to qualify the position of the equator and for a small tip you could be awarded an ‘equator Certificate’. After the brief stop, drive to the Thompson falls for a photo-stop then down into the Great Rift Valley. As you ascend the eastern wall of the rift Valley, lush coffee and tea plantations reveal themselves and your driver-guide will give you a brief talk about coffee farming in Kenya.

You will enjoy your lunch en route.

You will arrive in the park in the evening.

Dinner and overnight

Day 4: Lake Nakuru National Park-Masai Mara National Reserve
Enjoy full buffet breakfast in the camp. Check out thereafter and drive via Narok town to Masai Mara National reserve, the land of the Masai tribe. The proud young Masai warrior-nomads with their plaited hair, red cloaks, and spears, challenge your curiosity. The 700-square-mile Game Reserve is the Africa of your dreams, complete with wild animals grazing amid the superb rolling landscape of gentle hills and acacia woodlands. Check in to your camp; enjoy your lunch in the lodge. There will be time to settle in before your first game drive.

Afternoon game drives in the reserve and return to the lodge before dark.

Dinner and overnight at Overnight at Explore nature Mara Lodge

Day 5: Masai Mara national Reserve

Today there will be a possibility to take an optional hot air balloon ride (costs excluded). “Take to the skies for the ultimate Masai Mara wildlife adventure, soaring in a hot air balloon over herds of game to the inner reaches of the Mara. You’ll ascend in the early morning, when winds are calmest. Watch as the professional crew fills the balloon with hot air. Slowly the big, colorful bag begins to bulge and take shape. After your incredible ride, it’s time to come back down to earth for breakfast. You might wonder what all the ordinary people are doing on this perfect African morning! Before leaving, the pilot will present you with your balloon certificate, and then you’ll enjoy a game drive en route back to the camp. No Ride of the imagination can match this airborne experience!

If you don't opt for the balloon ride, you will enjoy a full day uninterrupted game drive.

Overnight at Overnight at Explore nature Mara Lodge

Day 6: Masai Mara National Reserve-Lake Naivasha
Full buffet breakfast in the camp, and then check out. Drive to Lake Naivasha where you will have your lunch en route. After lunch in Mt Long’onot transit hotel you will go on with the drive to hells gate national park where you will see most of the activities which were formed due to volcanic activities like hot, cold, warm springs.

Arrive in the camp in the evening.

Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Kongoni lodge.

Day 7: Crescent Island
Located along Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley, Crescent Island Sanctuary is one of the most beautiful parks in Kenya and is often called Naivasha's “best kept secret”. It is private, secure and patrolled by guides who can accompany anyone who wishes for a guided walk.

Surrounded by water, Crescent Island is actually a peninsula and is accessible by boat from the east or west. One can also access it in under two hours from Nairobi on tarmac road. The sanctuary’s shores host abundant birdlife, including huge numbers of pelicans, cormorants and fish-eagles with their haunting cry. There are more animals per acre than any other Kenyan Park. This brings many film companies here. Lake Naivasha Kongoni lodge.

Day 8: Lake Naivasha-Amboseli National Park
You will take your early morning breakfast then you will be driven to the southern part of Kenya called Amboseli where you will pass the boarder of Kenya and Tanzania (note: please when you are passing to Amboseli national park the visa is not needed because the park is on the side of Kenya) You will arrive in the park in the late evening and the game drive en route to your campsite. Overnight and dinner at the at Sentrim Amboseli Lodge (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).

Day 9: Amboseli National Park
Spend a whole day in Amboseli National Park, with morning and afternoon game drives. This park is termed as an Animal's paradise. Visit Masai Village and learn their rich culture at an extra cost. In the early evening, the clouds clear, exposing the snow -capped dome of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Dinner and overnight at Sentrim Amboseli Lodge (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner).

Day 10: Amboseli-Nairobi
You will go for your morning breakfast then the game drive en route when getting out of the national park. You will arrive in Nairobi at late lunch time and go for your lunch. After that you will be driven to the airport for your next destination or to your hotel.

HAVE A WONDERFUL TOUR - SEE YOU ON THE ROAD

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