7 Day Masai Mara, Amboseli, Lake Naivasha and Nakuru Safari Road Trip in Kenya
Amazing Safari in Kenya
Join African Breeze Tours in this 7 day safari visiting the most iconic parks i.e: Masai Mara, Amboseli, Lake Naivasha and Nakuru. Discover Kenya's top gems: Masai Mara, known for the Big Five and endless savannah; Amboseli, for Kilimanjaro views and elephant herds; Lake Naivasha, for boat rides and birdlife; and Lake Nakuru, for flamingos and rhinos. An unforgettable journey of wildlife and scenery!
Key information
- Group safari
- Children under the age of 12 must be accompanied by an adult.
- Starting point and ending point: Nairobi
- English-speaking driver/guide
- All park fees are included
Highlights
- 7 game drives and 1 game viewing
- Services of a professional safari guide
- Transport in a safari van customized for game viewing
- Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, Maasai Mara, and Amboseli National Park visits
- Get a chance to see black manned lions, black and white rhinoceros, and flamingoes
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- 6 nights' accommodation
- Airport transfers included
Styles
Accommodation
You will stay at various accommodations, such as:
- Nights 1 and 2: Olmoran Tented Camp (a mid-range tented camp outside Maasai Mara National Reserve)
- Night 3: Fish Eagle Tented Camp (economy resort in or near Lake Naivasha)
- Night 4: Hill Court Resort (economy resort outside Lake Nakuru National Park)
- Night 5 and 6: AA Amboseli Lodge (a comfort lodge/tented camp just outside Amboseli National Park)
Olmoran Tented Camp (2 nights)
Set within the Masai Mara National Reserve, this casual rural, all-inclusive lodge is 4 km from the C12 highway and 16 km from Serengeti National Park. Simple, safari-style tents feature sitting areas, private bathrooms, and porches. There are no TVs. Included meals and afternoon tea are served in a laid-back buffet restaurant. There's also a bar. Wildlife tours and nature hikes are offered.
- Accommodation level: Budget
Facilities
- Restaurant
- Bar
Fish Eagle Inn (1 night)
Fish Eagle Inn is a campsite on the banks of Lake Naivasha. It is a convenient stopover for backpackers and budget travelers, as they offer accommodation in both pitched tents and cottages. It has expansive grounds that are well maintained.
Guests get to enjoy boat rides, outdoor games like basketball, volleyball, quad bike riding, mountain bike riding, and swimming. For children, there is a kids’ corner with see saws, swings, slides, and bouncing castles. It is also conveniently located close to Menengai Crater where one can go for treks or a hike on Mount Longonot.
Hill Court Resort and Spa (1 night)
Hill Court Resort and Spa is located in Nakuru. The natural beauty can be admired comfortably from the windows of the Hill Court Resort and Spa. From the suite you can admire the view of the Lake Nakuru National Park and the Menengai crater. You can visit interesting archaeological sites such as the prehistoric site of Hyrax Hill, Egerton Castle and the Kariandusi Museum. Do you want to visit Nakuru National Park? Lake Nakuru National Park is only 13 minutes from the hotel.
Hill Court Resort and Spa provides accommodation with a restaurant, free private parking, spa, swimming pool and Tavern Bar. Among the facilities at this property are a 24-hour front desk and room service, along with free Wi-Fi throughout the property. Large halls are dedicated to conferences and meetings can accommodate up to sixty people.
AA Amboseli Lodge (2 nights)
AA Amboseli Lodge is built in a three-tier architectural design and is strategically located two kilometers from Amboseli National Park's main gate (Kimana Gate) and conveniently within the Emali-Loitoktok tarmac road. It is 240 kilometers from Nairobi, 16 kilometers from Amboseli airstrip, 20 kilometers from the Emali, and 20 kilometers from the Emali-Loitoktok tarmac road.
It commands a panoramic view of the snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro, the world’s Standing Mountain. With 60 rooms, the lodge is intimate and friendly with many personal touches. The lodge also has drones for guests willing to use them for game drives for photography and videography.
There are 29 classic tents, 24 classic cottages and for those looking for a more luxurious experience, the 7 superior rooms will no doubt meet the best of the expectations. The rooms are elegant and fully furnished, spacious with private bathrooms with hot water, wardrobe, reading table, hair dryers, safe deposit and private balcony.
Citymax Hotel
Citymax Hotel offers comfortable single, double, and deluxe rooms designed for convenience and efficiency. Each air-conditioned room is equipped with a flat-screen television with satellite connection, plug-and-play panels, direct dial international telephone, complimentary high-speed internet access, a mini-bar, an electronic personal safety deposit box, and complimentary tea and coffee-making facilities.
Hair dryers are also available on request. They also have an in-house restaurant, bar, gym, and an outdoor swimming pool set in lush gardens.
- Accommodation level: Budget
Kibo Safari Camp
Kibo Safari Camp is a luxury tented camp in Amboseli National Park at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest mountain in Africa. Kibo Safari Camp has 73 self-contained tents for single, double, triple, and family accommodation. The beds have been custom-designed and locally made using bush logs and will ensure a good night’s sleep. All tents have flush toilets, showers, and wash basins. You can enjoy your shower as you like: bubbling hot or refreshing cold.
- Accommodation level: Mid-range
Facilities
- Art gallery
- Conference facilities
- Dining room
- Gift/souvenir shop
- Lounge and bar
- Massage
- Swimming pool
Program
Day 1: Nairobi - Masai Mara
Pick up from your hotel at around 8:30 a.m. and drive to Masai Mara Game Reserve. On the way, you stop to view the landscape and Great Rift Valley viewpoint and arrive at Masai Mara in time for lunch. After lunch proceed for an evening game drive in search of black-manned lions, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, buffaloes, and other plain game animals. Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge.
Day 2: Masai Mara (Full day)
After breakfast a full day was spent game viewing across the rich tree-studded grassland and rolling hills. The famous Mara is renowned for its great herds of plain game and virtually every type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. All meals and overnight at the camp or lodge.
Day 3: Masai Mara - Naivasha
Pre-morning game drive and after breakfast leave Masai Mara for Hell's Gate National Park with lunch taken in Narok, the Masai’s biggest town, arriving in Naivasha early evening. Dinner and overnight at a campsite/budget hotel or lodge.
Day 4: Hell's Gate National Park - Lake Naivasha - Lake Nakuru
On this day, drive to the Hell’s Gate National Park, famous for its natural geysers, star rock towers, and geothermal steam that make it one of the most atmospheric parks in Africa. This park was named for its pair of massive red-tinged cliffs framing a geothermic active interior of steam vents and bubbling springs. This is the only park where you can walk or cycle through as you view the animals. Later depart for Lake Nakuru for dinner and overnight at a budget hotel/lodge.
Day 5: Nakuru - Amboseli
After breakfast, morning game drive to Lake Nakuru National Park where you are going to see a lot of flamingoes and other birds. You also have a chance to see the black and white rhino. After you depart to Amboseli via Nairobi with a picnic lunch, arriving at Amboseli in the evening. If time permits you can have a game drive. Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge.
Day 6: Amboseli (Full day)
Pre-morning game drive to see the view of Kilimanjaro and big elephants, lions, zebras, and after you come for breakfast. After breakfast proceed for another game drive before you break for lunch. After lunch, another game drive until evening. Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge.
Day 7: Amboseli - Nairobi
After breakfast, leave the camp for a fast game drive as you leave Amboseli Park. Lunch will be taken on the way to Nairobi, a drop off at your hotel, or at the airport where your safari ends.
Location
The safari covers four parks, including the famous Maasai Mara, Amboseli National Park, Lake Naivasha / Hell's Gate National Park, and Lake Nakuru.
East Africa
East Africa has a lot of attractions to offer and your better option for this. Due to its diversified topography, this is a land of contrast ranging from the snow-capped Mount Kenya in Kenya and Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. There is an opportunity for you to conquer these highest mountains in Africa with a height of 19,340 feet with various extinct volcanoes and trek through rainforests, meadows, moorlands, and high-altitude alpine deserts.
It's only in this region that you find over 5000 species of mammals and over 10,000 of birds. One experiences the thrill of sighting the big five - lion, leopard, elephant, rhino, and buffalo, vast herds of wildebeest, and zebra migrating across the Maasai Mara.
Crocodiles, long-necked gerenuk, Gravy's zebra, reticulated giraffe, the elusive bongo, giant forest hog, black leopard and Columbus monkey the dik-diks, reedbucks, duikers, grantee, and Thompson gazelles, Maasai giraffe, hippos, and warthogs bat-eared foxes. There are also millions of strong flocks of flamingos, cranes, and other multitudes of bird life which keep on migrating from Europe to the region from March to May, flooding national parks and reserves with beauty that cannot be ignored.
You will be able to appreciate the un-interfered culture, especially of the Maasai, the Swahili at the coast, the Rendille, Borana, Pokot, Samburu and their ways of dressing, the building of houses called 'Manyattas', various festivals like food festivals, Christmas, Idd-ul-Fitr and Ramathan, the drummers (traditional) and traditional songs, way of dressing, eating, and dancing. All these cultural attractions are combined in Bomas of Kenya where you can see Kenya's diversified culture which makes it fascinating. Here, various aspects of Kenya culture are displayed including their crafts.
Food
You will be provided meals on full board basis while on safari, along with mineral water.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Things to do (optional)
- Balloon safari (450 USD per person)
- Boat ride
- Cruise expeditions
- Cycling among the wild animals
- Goggling
- Maasai village visit
- Mountain climbing
- Rafting
- Safari rally
- Swimming
- Visit beautiful gorge tunnels with high towers
What's included
- 7 game drives and 1 game viewing
- Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha visits
- Maasai Mara and Amboseli National Park visits
- Transport in a safari van customized for game viewing
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- A professional English-speaking driver/guide
- Roundtrip airport transfers from and to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)
- All transportation
- All taxes/VAT
- Daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- 6 nights' accommodation
What's not included
- International flights (from/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (tipping guideline: 10 USD per person per day)
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and or park fees
- Drinks and other personal things (e.g. soda, beers, cigarettes, etc)
- Visit to a Masai village (optional)
- Upgrade to 4X4 Land Cruiser jeep
- Optional activities unless specified as included
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
174 km
Transfer included
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 20% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 7 days before arrival.
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