Name: 3 Day Amazing Safari in Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya
Brand: Heritage of African Jungles Tours and Travel
Price: 2040 USD
Availability: InStock

Accommodation

Check-in Time:

10:00

Check-out Time:

12:00

During the safari, you will reside either in Enkorok tented camp, Osero Lodge, Sentrim Mara Camp, Mara River Lodge, Masai Mara Sopa Lodge, Mara Leisure Camp, Ilkeliani, or Sarova Mara Game Camp, Mara Serena Safari Lodge, or similar facilities available in and around Masai Mara Reserve. All come with private en-suite facilities and a choice of double, twin, or triple rooms, family tents, standard, and deluxe rooms. Single room options are also available at a supplemental fee.

Program

Day 1: Nairobi - Maasai Mara

You will get picked up at the central point in Nairobi by the driver/guide in accompany you to a short briefing and then head to Maasai Mara Game Reserve in a customized 7-seater safari minivan with a pop-up roof. You will make a brief stopover at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint for photography and then proceed to Narok Town and then Maasai Mara.

Upon arrival at the park, you will take part in your first game drive in this world-famous reserve which is an extension of Serengeti National Park. At some point during your stay you will be driven by the river; a great place to spot wildlife.

This area is a photographer’s delight where with any luck you will be able to take amazing pictures of hippos and crocodiles in the water. Park rules allow for off-road driving which means that you can venture into plains where you can spot hundreds and thousands of animals.

Masai Mara is also famous for the abundance of lions, the Great Wildebeest Migration, and the Masai people, well known for their distinctive customs and dress. It is without a doubt one of Africa's most famous safari destinations. With its rolling hills, dense riverine forests, hills, and a high, flat-topped escarpment that forms its western boundary, this wildlife conservation area takes up an area of 1,510sq. km in south-western Kenya and shares an international border with Tanzania's fabled Serengeti National Park.

Later in the evening, you will return to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Main destination: Masai Mara
Accommodation: Lodge or tented camp located inside or just outside Masai Mara Game Reserve
Meals and drinks: Lunch and dinner (breakfast, drinks not included)
Drinking water included (other drinks not included

Day 2: Maasai Mara

After breakfast, you will head to the reserve with a picnic lunch box to enjoy along the way. You will spend the whole day on an exciting game drive. Masai Mara offers wonderful scenery and plenty of game and it is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where a visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago.

The afternoon is spent on a game drive in search of the black manned lion. A lion kill can be witnessed in the late afternoon or a leopard in a tree enjoying the meal he has dragged up on a limb to avoid disturbance and detection.

This reserve has hilly savannahs, rolling grasslands, and a gallery of forest on the Mara River and its tributaries. Soak in the abundance of untamed wilderness, and fresh and natural scenery, filled with exotic wildlife during our expertly guided game drives.

A visit to this wildlife reserve in the month of July- September will allow you the best chance to witness and watch firsthand as thousands of wildebeests migrate across the swollen crocodile-infested Mara River. This is one of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles, the wildebeest migration.

The sheer number of wildebeests arriving in the area is staggering. The migration is a dramatic mass movement of almost two million wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles in a seasonal annual cycle driven by rainfall. In order to reach the reserve’s fresh grazing, wildebeests make dramatic river crossings, facing enormous crocodiles to feast on the Mara plains and regain their strength.

Game drives are a great way to experience the park and they take place all year round. If the big cats are what you're looking for on your Kenyan safari, you are guaranteed to spot them at the Mara. All of the "Big Five" animals (elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, and buffalo) can be spotted here. However, the population of black rhinos is severely threatened with only 37 black rhinos left as of 2000.

Herds of plains zebras are found throughout the park, as well as Masai giraffes, common giraffes, jackals, white-bearded gnus, Oribis, warthogs, Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, hartebeests, hyenas, bat-eared foxes, rare Topi antelope, and beautiful Roan antelope, as well as hippos and crocodiles in the Mara River.

In the evening you will return to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Main Destination: Masai mara
Accommodation: Lodge or tented camp located inside or just outside Masai Mara Game Reserve
Meals and drinks: Lunch and dinner (breakfast, drinks not included)
Drinking water included (other drinks not included)

Day 3: Maasai Mara - Nairobi

After breakfast you will take off on your last morning game drive in Masai Mara with the chance to see the “Big 5” possibly on a hunting mission as well as also spot some early risers; later we return back to Nairobi arriving late in the afternoon.

Main destination: Nairobi
Accommodation: No accommodation (end of tour)
Meals and drinks: Breakfast (lunch and dinner not included)
Drinking water included (other drinks not included)

Guides

Francis Njuguna

I have always loved the wild, and being a safari driver/guide for the past 15 years is a job I truly delight in – to know the inside out and upside down of the bush and all the Kenya attractions. Out there, there is no normal day of work. Each safari is a new journey with different discoveries, different activities and new adventures. I have bronze level qualification from the Kenya professional safari guides association and a qualified driver guide with a Diploma in Tour guiding. I am an adventure lover, and mingling with different people and guests on safari is the best experience for me

Location

This safari will start and end in Nairobi. The activities will take place in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Kenya.

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Food

Your three daily meals include buffet breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Drinking water is also provided.

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)

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)

Hot air balloon safari (400 USD per person)

In the early morning balloon safari, you drift above the browsing game and have tremendous opportunities for unusual photographs. What could be more uplifting than an early morning safari in a hot air balloon flying over vast plains of Africa? Witness an African sunrise as a plethora of wildlife roams the land beneath you. At the end of the flight, you land on the plains in the midst of this enchanting Savanah champagne. Breakfast is laid out with the aroma of sausages, eggs, and bacon sizzling over a charcoal fire. Drive leisurely and fashion with game viewing on your way back to your camp or lodge. The duration of this activity is a one-hour flight, starting at around 5 a.m.

Maasai village visit (20 USD per person)

You can visit a Maasai village to see their traditional life. Photography is not prohibited here. A Maasai guide at the village will escort and explain to you in English about their lives. It takes about two hours including the return transfers by Heritage of African Jungles Tours and Travel. The duration of this activity is approximately two hours, starting at 10 a.m.

A Maasai lady will give you a lecture on how to make a beaded bracelet at the library. It will be one of your souvenirs once completed. The lecture takes about three hours.

Nature walk (30 USD per person)

A naturalist will take you within the camp compound. He will give you detailed information on plants, birds, and other small animals. This takes about 1.5 hours. An extended nature walk going to the Mara River, which takes about 2.5 hours, is also available. The duration of this activity is approximately 1.5 - 2.5 hours, starting at 10 a.m.

What's included

Complimentary airport transfers on arrival and departure
Pick up and drop off at your hotel / residence / airport
Park fees (for non-residents, unless labeled as optional)
All activities e.g. unlimited mileage on game drives
2 nights accommodation
Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
A professional English driver/guide
All ground transportation (unless labeled as optional)
All government taxes / VAT and other levies
Drinking water (on all days)

What's not included

International flights (from / to home)
Local or domestic flights unless mentioned here
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

How to get there

Recommended Airports

NBO

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

224 km

Transfer included

Arrival by airplane

Please book your flight to arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO). Transfer from and to the airport is included. Heritage of African Jungles Tours and Travel will pick you up from the airport.

Driving from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara will take five to six hours on a scenic route. Traveling to the Mara is on a smooth tar halfway to Narok Town. Here, there is a fuel station that is a good stopover place for a drink, snack, and use the bathroom. The road from Narok Town to Sekenani Gate is somewhat rough with the tarmac road ends. This dirt road is routinely graded and maintained in good condition. For more comfort, a good 4×4 off-road vehicle is perhaps best as it will make the road trip much easier.

For those who don’t fancy countryside driving, flying to the Maasai Mara can be an option. There are twice-daily flights to / from Maasai Mara provided by AirKenya and Safarilink taking around 45 minutes. If you are in Mombasa, it would take you two hours to get to Maasai Mara by air with the Mombasa-based Mombasa Air Safari.

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 25% of the total price.
The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.

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