Name: 6 Day Family Safari Holiday to Masai Mara, Lake Naivasha, Hell's Gate and Amboseli in Kenya
Brand: Jamboree Africa Tours and Safaris
Price: 440 USD
Availability: InStock

Accommodation

Check-in Time:

08:00

Check-out Time:

16:00

During this safari, you will stay in various budget accommodations for 5 nights. All the rooms are en suite, with clean flushing toilets, toiletries, hot showers, and soaps. Beds are fitted with clean linen. Sleeping bags are not necessary.

Program

Day 1: Nairobi - Masaai Mara (approximately 302.4 kilometers, 6 hours)

Leave Nairobi in the morning at 8.00 am and drive to the viewpoint of the great rift valley. Enjoy a brief stopover to take pictures of the great rift valley. Descend the escarpment. Stopover at Narok for lunch then drive to Masai Mara for 2 hours evening game drive in Masaai Mara famous for its black-manned lions and yearly migration of wildebeests. Dinner and overnight at camp.

Day 2: Masai Mara Game Reserve Full Day

For an additional 420 USD per person, you can decide to enjoy an early morning balloon safari that gives you an awesome experience.

This day, your Masai Mara safari starts at 8 am. You’ll spend a full 8 hours non-stop game viewing across the rich, tree-studded grassland and rolling hills. The famous Masai Mara Reserve is renowned for its great herds of plain game, black-maned lions, leopard and cheetah but also contains numerous elephants and virtually every type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. You’ll carry packed lunch. Don’t worry, there are designated areas inside the park with clean washrooms. Also on this day, you can visit Masai villages (optional). Dinner and overnight at camp.

Day 3: Masaai Mara - Lake Naivasha (approximately 283.9 kilometers, 5 hours and 30 minutes)

After breakfast, leave your accommodation and proceed to Lake Naivasha arriving in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight in Naivasha Hotel. You can enjoy an evening boat ride (optional) or sunset romantic walks along the lake.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Day 4: Hell’s Gate - Amboseli (328 kilometers, 6 hours)

The day starts with a nature cum bird walk in naturally beautiful settings at the shores of Lake Naivasha. Take a bike and cycle to the nearby Hells gate national park where you explore on foot this canyon as you spot small game. Leave Lake Naivasha and proceed to Amboseli National Park with lunch en route for dinner and overnight at accommodation in Amboseli.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Day 5: Amboseli Full Day

After breakfast, a full day is spent in Amboseli National Park with an optional tour of the Maasai village to experience their traditional way of life and dances, Meals and night at the accommodation in Amboseli.

Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

Day 6: Amboseli - Nairobi (214.1 kilometers, 4 hours)

Enjoy a pre-breakfast game drive. After breakfast leave the accommodation for the last game drive in the park as you leave Amboseli Park for Nairobi with a picnic lunch served en route arriving in Nairobi late afternoon with sweet memories. Arrive Nairobi in the late afternoon, approximately 16:30.

Meal plan: Breakfast and lunch

Location

Maasai Mara National Reserve

Maasai Mara National Reserve is an outstanding and one of Kenya's finest wildlife reserve with an abundant wildlife and birds. Between July and October, you can see the great wildebeest migration. Maasai Mara National Reserve is one of the best plains' game reserve where you can actually encounter a live Discovery Channel, a haven for viewing a congregation of all sorts of animals in a five-mile radius.

A pride of lions can be spotted ready to make a run for a gazelle, a cheetah and its cub taking a nap on a rock, and a pair of ostriches walking the open stretches of the savannah. The Maasai Mara National Reserve is 1510 square kilometers of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek Rivers in Kenya. One glimpse is enough to explain its appeal. It is a typical open savannah with a mass of amazing wildlife.

Moreover, Maasai Mara National Reserve remains the most exciting wildlife ecosystem in the natural world. It is host to the highest and most varied concentration of wild animals than any other wildlife park in the region. The scenic appeal of the tree-studded savannah plains, the moderate climate, and the diversity of wild game species make it a one-stop shop for game-viewing activities.

Wherever you go in the vast of Maasai Mara National Reserve, you will see a frequent amount of wildlife such as the Maasai's giraffes, baboons, warthogs, bat-eared foxes, gray jackals, spotted hyenas, topis, impalas, hartebeests, and wildebeests. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras, and hippos are also found in great numbers. It is also common to see lions either basking after a heavy meal or surveying the plains for their next meal. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot but reasonably common.

Lake Nakuru National Park

Lake Nakuru National Park is home to up to 1.5 million flamingos plus 450 other species of birds, rhinos, lions, leopards, buffalos, Thompson’s and Grant's gazelles, the rare long-eared leaf-nosed bats, colobus monkeys, rock hyraxes, hippos, leopards, lions, rhinos, waterbucks, impalas, gazelles, striped hyenas, bat-eared foxes, wild cats, reedbucks, golden cats, and the endangered reticulated giraffes among other animals.

During the peak season, over one million flamingos congregate on the lake plus half a million pelicans. The park also contains Kenya’s largest population of rhinos. Lake Nakuru, located within the Lake Nakuru National Park, is a shallow strongly alkaline lake set in a picturesque landscape of surrounding woodland and grassland. The landscape includes areas of marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland, and rocky hillsides covered with a euphorbia forest.

Amboseli National Park

Amboseli National Park as a safari destination hosts large elephant herds, big cats, herbivores, and numerous bird species including ostriches and a variety of plains game. Amboseli National Park lies immediately northwest of Mount Kilimanjaro on the border with Tanzania. The park covers 392 square kilometers and forms part of the much larger 3,000-square-kilometer Amboseli ecosystem. Large concentrations of wildlife occur here in the dry season, making Amboseli a popular safari reserve.

Amboseli National Park embodies five main wildlife habitats (open plains, acacia woodland, rocky thorn bush country, swamps, and marshland) and covers part of a Pleistocene lake basin. Within the basin is a temporary lake, Lake Amboseli, that floods during years of heavy rainfall. Amboseli National Park has over 80 different mammals to be found ranging from tiny (and rarely seen) spectacle elephant shrew to the huge bulk of the African elephants. There are also over 400 bird species.

+−

Food

You will be served daily meals on this safari. The food will be delicious and ranges from simple to gourmet. You can expect lots of fresh fruits, vegetables, and wonderful homemade soups. Chicken, lamb, beef, or pork is usually served at lunch and dinner as well as fish and vegetarian dishes. Breakfast is a buffet with lots of tropical fruits, hot and cold cereals, bacon, sausages, mushrooms, breads and pastries, and eggs to order. Lunch can be either buffet or served at the table and always starts with soup. Dinner is usually a 4 or 5-course sit-down affair, although there is no need to dress up.

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:

Vegetarian
Lacto-ovo Vegetarian
Vegan
Gluten Free
Hallal
Fruitarian
Lactose Free
Whole food
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)

A visit to Maasai village
Balloon safari (420 USD)
Boat Ride at Lake Naivasha
Cycling at Hell’s Gate National park
Nairobi city tour and excursions
Photographic and birdwatching safaris in Lake Nakuru
Trekking at the gorges in Hell’s Gate National park

What's included

5 nights' accommodation
A professional safari guide/driver
Daily meals
Extensive and unlimited game drives
Pre-tour itinerary document
Round-trip transport from Nairobi to the designated parks
Airport transfers

What's not included

Drinks like sodas, water, beer, and wines
Alcoholic drinks and beverages
Optional dinner in Nairobi
Pre-tour accommodation
Visas
Laundry
Boat ride (30 USD per person)
Balloon safari (420 USD per person)
Masai village visits (15-20 USD per person)
Applicable game park entrance fees at an extra (330 USD per person January - June, 530 USD per person July - December)

How to get there

Recommended Airports

NBO

Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

12 km

Transfer included

Arrival by airplane

After booking, kindly provide Jamboree Africa Tours and Safaris with the flight details for easy pickup. Their driver will be waiting for you at the airport holding your name on a whiteboard. All transfers are private and door-to-door. The driver will pick you up at Jomo Kenyatta Airport and take you directly to their office of accommodation with no stops.

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 17% of the total price.
The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.

Explore

Hello there.
Glad to have you!