“Enjoy a seemingly endless parade of wildlife”
7 Day Wildlife Safari and Outdoor Activities in Mt. Kilimanjaro and National Parks in Kenya
Sentrim Amboseli Lodge, Kenya
Safari in Kenya
This tour starts in Nairobi and visits various attractions, including Amboseli National Park, home of the biggest African elephants, and Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain peak. In addition, you will visit Lake Naivasha, the highest lake within the Great Rift Valley, and Masai Mara, the jewel of Africa's wildlife conservation. The tour will also take you to Lake Nakuru, located in west-central Kenya, known for hosting the endangered Rothschild giraffe, as well as both white and black rhinos.
Key information
- Private safari (except solo travelers)
- Maximum group size of six persons per vehicle
- Children from the age of three years old can join under the supervision of a parent or guardian at least 17 years old
- Starts and ends in Nairobi
- A professional English-speaking driver / guide
- Park fees (for non-residents) and all taxes / VAT included
Highlights
- 5 game drives conducted in a pop-up roof 4X4 vehicle
- Optimal wildlife viewing and photography
- Track the big cats of Africa - lion, leopard, and cheetahs - in their natural habitat
- Witness the breathtaking Great Migration across the Mara River
- Enjoy cultural visits to Maasai villages for a taste of their rich heritage and traditions
- Organized exclusively for you and won't be shared with others
- 6 nights accommodation with meals as per the itinerary
- Park fees (for non-residents) and all taxes / VAT included
Skill level
- Beginner
- Intermediate
- Advanced
Styles
7 activity days in English
Airport transfer included:
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Accommodation
Check-in Time:
12:00
Check-out Time:
10:00
During this safari, you will stay in the accommodations mentioned below. The accommodations are permanently built and attached with private bathrooms with hot showers, electricity, bed and bedding, and mosquito nets.
Sentrim Amboseli Lodge (2 nights)
The first and second nights will be at Sentrim Amboseli Lodge, a mid-range tented camp just outside Amboseli National Park (Kenya).
Sentrim Amboseli Lodge is located 280 kilometers south of Nairobi, 260 kilometers north of Mombasa, and deep inside the Amboseli National Park, making access to the park's renowned elephants, buffaloes, wildebeest, zebra, giraffes, impalas, and several predators very easy.
It offers 60 modern tents with a private view of Mount Kilimanjaro. All tents at the Sentrim Amboseli Lodge feature soft beds, an ensuite bathroom with a steaming hot shower, washbasin, and flush toilets. Other facilities include coffee and tea making facilities, fridge, fan, hair dryer, and electronic safe deposit boxes.
Sentrim Amboseli Lodge's main dining room has a sitting capacity of 120 but meals can also be enjoyed at your private veranda, as well as the spacious lounge and bar area. Surrounded by a shady sunbathing area is Sentrim Amboseli Lodge's swimming pool and Jacuzzi. They are a welcome sight in this arid land.
Facilities
- Coffee and tea-making facilities
- Fridge
- Fan
- Hair dryer
- Electronic safe deposit boxes
Eseriani Resort (1 night)
The third night will be at Eseriani Resort, a mid-range hotel near Lake Naivasha (Kenya). The resort is based in Naivasha, within the Rift Valley, and situated along Moi South Lake Road.
Flamingo Hill Camp (1 night)
The fourth night will be at Flamingo Hill Camp, a mid-range lodge located inside Lake Nakuru National Park (Kenya), which lies within the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. The camp is small and exclusive, comprising of 25 tents.
The tents are furnished with the understated luxury required by the modern traveler. Decorated in calming safari tones, natural woods, wrought iron, and crisp cottons, each tent has been meticulously planned to maximize comfort.
- Accommodation level: Mid-range
Facilities
- A private veranda overlooking the plains
- Ensuite with shower, water closet, and flush toilets
- Four-poster beds and mosquito nets
- Hot and cold running water
- Voltage at 240 volts
- Writing desk
Mara Chui Resort (2 nights)
The fifth and sixth nights will be at Mara Chui Resort, a mid-range lodge just outside Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya).
It is carefully engineered to blend with the Mara safari spirit. Overlooking the Inguetat Hills and tacked under ancient trees are just 35 units accommodating a minimum of 70 guests. The units were literally planted within the woodland and not a single tree was felled.
Program
Activities and transportation
- Activities: Game drives and nature hikes / walks
- Game drives: Pop-up roof minivan
- Getting around: Pop-up roof minivan
- Transfer from and back to the airport included
Vehicle options:
Customized 4X4 safari tour van fitted with a pop-up roof
- 8 reclining seats and a baby seat
- Power charging points
- Cooler box / fridge
- Binoculars
- First aid kit
- High-frequency radio
- Sandbags (for photography)
Customized 4X4 safari Land Cruisers fitted with a pop-up roof
- 8 reclining seats and a baby seat
- Power charging points
- Cooler box / fridge
- Binoculars
- First aid kit
- High-frequency radio
- Sandbags (for photography)
Day 1: Nairobi to Amboseli National Park (200km, four to five-hour drive)
This day, you will be picked up from the airport or your accommodation in Nairobi by Camptrek Safaris' company representative. After a brief introductory session, you will be handed over to your driver-guide to begin your safari towards Amboseli National Park. You will arrive at the lodge in time for lunch.
After lunch, you can enjoy the camp's facilities and activities before embarking on your first afternoon game drive, returning to your lodge or hotel at sunset.
Amboseli National Park is renowned for its breathtaking panoramic views of Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest freestanding mountain in the world and the highest peak in Africa at 5,895 meters. The park is also an elephant paradise, where large populations of African savanna elephants roam from swamp to swamp, grazing throughout the day.
The observation hill provides stunning views of the mountain peak and the park’s plains and swamps. The varied wildlife in the park includes giraffes, zebras, cheetahs, wildebeest, buffalo, and many more.
- Driving time: 4 to five hours
- Main destination: Amboseli National Park
- Accommodation: Spend the night at Sentrim Amboseli Camp
- Included meals and drinks: Lunch and dinner with drinking water
Day 2: Full day in Amboseli National Park
You'll leave the camp after breakfast, carrying your packed lunch boxes to be enjoyed in the wild under a lone flat-top acacia tree. You'll spend the whole day exploring the marshlands and swamps of Amboseli.
Fed by subterranean water channels, water is abundant throughout the year and so is the pasture. Elephants and various other herbivores are found there. You will retreat to the lodge late in the evening.
You also have an option of starting the day with an early morning game drive to search for animals when they're at their most active. Then, you'll return to the lodge for a relaxed breakfast and lunch.
You'll spend the hottest part of the day relaxing in camp, reading your favorite book, writing in your journal about the safari, or just listening to your favorite music while observing the birds - don't stress. Then, you'll head off again in the afternoon at 16:00 for another drive through the park. You'll return to the lodge for dinner and another night under the Amboseli stars.
- Main destination: Amboseli National Park
- Accommodation: Spend the night at Sentrim Amboseli Camp
- Included meals and drinks: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with drinking water
Day 3: Amboseli National Park to Lake Naivasha (300km, five to six hours)
After enjoying an early breakfast, you will depart from Amboseli National Park and drive towards Nairobi. Along the way, there will be a stop at the renowned Carnivore Restaurant or Tamarind for lunch.
Next, you will visit the spectacular Great Rift Valley viewpoint, where you can stretch your legs and capture photos of the contrasting landscapes, including Mount Longonot and Mount Suswa. Following this, you will continue on to the Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort (or a similar venue).
In the afternoon, you will have the option to take a boat ride, offering a refreshing experience as you explore the diverse birdlife and wildlife around the lake. Alternatively, you can choose to relax by the poolside in preparation for a busy day filled with outdoor activities the following day.
Please note that the activities mentioned above are not included in the price and are optional. Payment for these activities should be made directly to the suppliers.
- Driving time: 5 to six hours
- Main destination: Lake Naivasha
- Accommodation: Spend the night at Eseriani Resort
- Included meals and drinks: Lunch and dinner with drinking water
Day 4: Lake Naivasha to Lake Nakuru National Park (two to three hours)
Get ready for a day filled with outdoor activities! After breakfast, pack your belongings and head to a nearby animal sanctuary for a walking safari. Alternatively, you can visit Crescent Island, where the animals are less wary of humans, allowing you to take pictures up close.
After exploring the sanctuary, drive to Hell's Gate National Park (optional). You can choose to cycle, walk, or drive through the park, as it is one of the few national parks that permit these activities.
Following this adventure, enjoy lunch before setting off for Lake Nakuru. You will arrive in the late afternoon and have a game drive on your way to your lodge, which is located within the park.
- Driving time: 2 to three hours
- Main destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
- Accommodation: Spend the night at Flamingo Hill Camp
- Included meals and drinks: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with drinking water
Day 5: Lake Nakuru to Masai Mara National Reserve (221km, four to five hours)
After having breakfast, you will begin your first early morning game drive. Despite the early start, morning game drives are incredibly rewarding, as you can spot animals when they are most active. Lake Nakuru is home to flamingos, black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, buffalo, and the endangered Rothschild's giraffe.
The southern end of the lake is the best place to observe wildlife. Following the game drive, you will exit the park and return to the lodge for lunch (you can choose to carry picnic lunch boxes if you prefer to). After lunch, you will drive through the Rift Valley floor to the Masai Mara National Reserve.
Upon your arrival, you will be welcomed by Maasai warriors who will escort you on a cultural walking safari, including a visit to a Maasai village to learn more about the community that has coexisted with the Mara wildlife for centuries. You will return later in the day.
- Driving time: 4 to five hours
- Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: Spend the night at Masai Mara Chui Lodge
- Included meals and drinks: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with drinking water
Day 6: Full day in Masai Mara National Reserve
This will be a full day spent game viewing across the rich tree-studded grassland and rolling hills of the famous savannah. The Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains game animals like leopards, cheetahs, lions, and other herbivores. It also has every other type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. You will have a full-day game drive in Masai Mara National Reserve.
Your lunch on this day will be picnic lunch boxes in the savannah under a flat-top acacia tree while watching the animals grazing. You'll continue with the game viewing en route to your camp and arrive late in the afternoon after thoroughly exploring this massive grassland savannah measuring 1,500 sqm.
You will have an option of booking a balloon ride on this day, which takes off early in the morning. After landing, the crew will help you out of the basket and escort you to a lovely setting for a bush breakfast, which is a once-in-a-lifetime experience and is worth the price. Later, join your driver guide at a location and proceed with your full-day game drive.
- Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: Spend the night at Masai Mara Chui Lodge
- Included meals and drinks: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner with drinking water
Day 7: Masai Mara National Reserve to Nairobi (230km, five to six hours)
After a leisurely breakfast, you will check out of your lodge, pack your belongings, and drive back to Nairobi. Along the way, you may choose to visit the Giraffe Centre in Nairobi where you can get up close to the gentle and endangered Rothschild's giraffes. There, you will have the opportunity to feed them and learn more about these magnificent creatures.
After your visit, you will proceed to your respective hotel or the airport, marking the end of your safari adventure. Depending on your homeward flight departure time, you will coordinate your departure from Masai Mara with your driver-guide.
- Driving time: 4 to five hours
- Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: No accommodation
- Included meals and drinks: Breakfast and drinking water
Included excursions
- Giraffe Centre - Feed giraffes at the Giraffe Centre
- Visit a Masai village in the Masai Mara
- 5 game drives in Kenya's unique parks
Location
Kenya
Regardless of whether this is your first time on safari or you’re a safari veteran, Kenya is a fantastic place to go looking for wildlife.
The Masai Mara National Reserve and surrounding conservancies get all the attention for big cat sightings and the annual wildebeest migration. But, Kenya has numerous world-class parks to explore, and it's also an excellent place to relax on a beach holiday once your safari is over.
Amboseli
Amboseli National Park is one of Kenya’s safari icons, a world of big-tusked elephants and big cats (lions and sometimes cheetahs), all set against the backdrop of Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak. It’s a beautiful, compact park with lots of wildlife, including flamingos and an easy-to-find hyena den.
And, there’s real safari magic in the air in the early morning or late afternoon, when the clouds often part to reveal Kilimanjaro’s summit.
Amboseli offers great wildlife viewing, and four of the Big Five are present. Rhinos are absent, and leopards are very rarely seen, but big herds of elephants reliably move to and from the marshy swamps in the center of the park. Buffalo, wildebeest, plains zebra, and gazelle are all very common. Lions are the easiest to spot of the big cats, but cheetahs are also possible.
At its best, Amboseli is magnificent, and it’s the beautiful mix of landscapes and habitats that enables the park to shelter such amazing wildlife. The place inhabits a vast basin with deep-green swamps in the heart of the park, stands of acacia forest in the east, and expansive savannah grasslands stretching all the way to distant hills and mountains.
Mt. Kilimanjaro (actually in Tanzania) towers gloriously over the park to the south.
The two drier periods of the year, from January to February (between the area’s short and long patches of rainfall) and June to October (in the dry season proper), are the best times to visit. Your game drive won’t be ruined by rain, and the animals can’t hide in the thin vegetation.
The park does get very busy at these times, however. The best time for birding is from December to March.
Lake Nakuru
Scenic Lake Nakuru National Park is Kenya’s most popular national park and with good reason. It’s a fantastic place to see rhinos, and sightings of lions and leopards are possible. It’s also easy to reach: the entrance is very close to the city of Nakuru.
The park is centered on a large, shallow lake that supports great birdlife, including pelicans and flamingos. However, it has experienced dramatically fluctuating water levels in recent years. This can affect everything - from flamingo populations to trail access.
Lake Nakuru offers easy wildlife viewing of most big safari animals, with the exception of elephants. Black and white rhinos were reintroduced in the 1980s and have been bred to healthy populations.
White rhinos are usually easy to see on the western lakeshore. Rothschild’s giraffes, buffalos, and hippos are numerous as well. Lucky visitors might see lions, which occasionally climb trees. Leopards are present as well, and if you’re lucky, you’ll spot one.
For a small park, Lake Nakuru really is breathtaking, with the Rift Valley escarpment, dotted with euphorbia trees, rising up from the lakeshore. Heavy mist sometimes shrouds the lake and yellow fever trees, which seem to glow in the early morning. The view from the Out of Africa Lookout is as close as you can get to the famous plane journey scene from the film ‘Out of Africa.’
The main activity in Lake Nakuru is the guided or self-guided game drive, which will allow you to explore the park for wildlife watching and birding. In the park’s south, you can see the moderately impressive Makalia Falls, where waters cascade through a cleft in the rock surrounded by acacia forest.
The usual problem with wildlife watching in the wet season (March to May) is that animals disperse when the rains come. This is not an issue at Lake Nakuru, though, because the national park is ringed by fencing. Still, the wet weather has been known to spoil more than a few game drives, so you might want to visit in the drier months of the year (June to February).
Masai Mara
Masai Mara National Reserve is one of Africa’s most famous parks and undoubtedly among the continent’s best places to see animals. The wildlife viewing is superb throughout the year. The grassy plains and regular rainfall support a huge population of herbivores, in turn attracting many predators. All three big cats are relatively easy to see.
The yearly wildebeest migration through the park is one of the world’s most amazing wildlife spectacles. The Serengeti-Mara ecosystem is where 2.5 million wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles follow the rains in search of new grass every year.
They make their way from Serengeti National Park (in northern Tanzania) to the Masai Mara, and they usually cross into Kenya in July or August.
Although the timing is never guaranteed, August and September are when you’re most likely to see the herds undertaking the famous crossings of the Mara River in Kenya. They slowly head back into the Serengeti around October.
The Masai Mara is one of the best parks in Africa for seeing big cats, especially lions. Even leopards are quite used to vehicles and you can see their natural behavior, while cheetahs inhabit the open savannah, hunting or seeking their next meal. Of the other Big Five, elephant and buffalo are also plentiful, but black rhino is trickier and they only roam in the Mara Triangle area.
Grassland savannah dominates the landscape in the Masai Mara, but there are pockets of acacia woodland and riparian forest around the Mara River, and rocky hills intersperse the plains. The Maasai word ‘Mara,’ meaning spotted, refers to these dots in the landscape.
In the north, the Oloololo Escarpment (also called the Siria Escarpment) marks the northern boundary of the Mara. It has stunning views from the top take in the whole ecosystem.
The main activity on organized safaris is guided game drives. East of the Mara River, dozens of vehicles frequently gather around big cat sightings. Crowding is less common in the Mara Triangle and forbidden in most conservancies. Early morning hot-air balloon rides are very popular as well.
Night drives and walking safaris are forbidden in the national reserve but are usually offered in the conservancies. Self-guided game drives are permitted in the Mara Triangle but not in the conservancies. In June 2024, the reserve authorities placed a ban on self-drive activities east of the Mara River. All other safari vehicles are still permitted in the reserve.
Other places you'll visit during this safari:
- Nairobi
- Lake Naivasha
Food
Camptrek Safaris can cater to your dietary requirements. Inform them in advance so that they can arrange with the hotels.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
- Coffee
- Tea
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Vegetarian
- Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Organic
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Pescatarian
- Hallal
- Seafood
- Fruitarian
- Lactose Free
- Whole food
- Paleo diet
- Yogic
- Other dietary requirements on request
- Ayurvedic
If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation
Things to do (optional)
All extra activities not stated in the itineraries are paid directly to the suppliers.
What's included
- All activities (unless labeled as optional)
- A professional, English-speaking driver / guide
- Roundtrip airport transfers - airport transfers confirmed and included
- Maximum group size of six persons per vehicle
- Children policy: Children under 17 years old must join with a guardian
- Starting and ending points: Nairobi
- All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
- All flights during the tour
- 6 nights accommodation (unless listed as an upgrade)
- Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinking water (on all days)
- Park fees (for non-residents)
- All taxes / VAT
- Vehicle fees and driver allowance included
What's not included
- International flights (from / to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Some meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
- Tips (tipping guideline 10.00 USD per person per day)
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government-imposed increase of taxes and / or park fees
How to get there
Recommended Airports
NBO
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
166 km
Transfer included
Camptrek Safaris does pick up and drop offs anywhere in Nairobi. Kindly let them know where you will be at.
Airport: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Airport transfer included: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.
For this organizer you can guarantee your booking through BookAllSafaris.com. All major credit cards supported.
142644
Similar Safari Holidays you might like
Why choose BookAllSafaris.com
Largest Selection
Friendly Customer Service
Offers for every budget
Best Price