Day 1
Pick up from your hotel or airport and transfer to Amboseli National Park. It will take a four-hour drive from Nairobi to Amboseli. Famous for its big game with elephants, lions, and cheetahs and for its beautiful scenery, Amboseli embodies five main wildlife habitats, plus a generally dry lake-bed, Lake Amboseli.
These are open plains, extensive stands of yellow-barked acacia woodlands, rocky, lava-strewn thorn-bush grounds, swamps and marshes, and at the Western end of the reserve, above Namanga, the massif of Ol Doinyo Orok rising to over 2,760 meters (8,300 feet) and still, for the most part, zoologically unexplored.
At 1:00 p.m. a hot lunch is planned at your lodge and between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. you will have an afternoon / evening game drive. Enjoy your afternoon game drive at Amboseli National Park. Full board accommodation is included in the tour price for this day. Dinner and overnight accommodation are at AA Amboseli Lodge.
Day 2
Enjoy your morning and afternoon game drive at Amboseli National Park. The guide can arrange for a visit to the local village and a walking safari can also be done within this park. Full board accommodation is included in the tour price for this day. Dinner and overnight accommodation are at AA Amboseli Lodge.
Day 3
Transfer after breakfast for Lake Nakuru. You will arrive for a late lunch at 2:30 p.m. Between 3:00 p.m and 6:00 p.m., enjoy your afternoon / evening game drive at the park. The park is home to warthogs, waterbuck, buffaloes, reedbucks, and the occasional leopard. White and black rhinos were introduced to the park some years ago and you may find white rhinos on the southern end. The park has also retained its reputation as an ornithologists’ delight with more than 400 species of birds found here. Full board accommodation is included in the tour price for this day. The overnight accommodation will be at Nakuru Kivu Resort.
Day 4
Depart after your morning breakfast for Maasai Mara Game Reserve. The next two days shall be spent game viewing, either in the early morning hours or in the evening as this is when you have the best chances of seeing animals. On clear days, the Mara offers fantastic orange tinted sunsets and you will definitely want to capture this moment while sipping on a sundowner back at your lodge.
The Mara reserve is a 1,510 square kilometers area of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers. Wherever you go in the Mara you will see a frequent amount of wildlife such as Maasai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, wildebeest.
Elephants, buffaloes, zebras, and hippos also exist 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 are still reasonably common. Overnight accommodation will be at Mara Sun Lodge.
Day 5
After breakfast prepare for a whole day game drive. The ultimate action here is, without a doubt, the annual wildebeest exodus in July and August when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of lusher grass before turning south again in October. Balloon trips are an entirely outstanding way of seeing the savannah plains and the wildlife after which you will come back down. Overnight accommodation will be at Mara Sun Lodge.
Day 6
Enjoy your early morning game drive at Maasai Mara. Depart after your game drive to Nairobi, arriving in time for your flight back home or your Nairobi hotel.
