4 Day Masai Mara - Lake Nakuru Camping Safari in Kenya
Exciting Kenya Safari
During this safari, you will visit two of Kenya's well-known national parks and take in scenic and unique views. You'll be brought to Lake Nakuru National Park and Maasai Mara National Reserve, where you'll find Africa's treasured wildlife roaming the park, grazing, or hunting. An experienced guide will be on the game drives to enhance your safari experience.
Key information
- Private or group safari
- Maximum group size: 7
- English-speaking experienced guide
- Children policy: Participating children under the age of three years old need to be supervised
- Starting point and ending point: Nairobi
- All park entrance fees and statutory taxes included
Highlights
- 4 amazing game drives
- See the beauty of Maasai Mara and Lake Nakuru
- Spot flamingoes, hippos, lions, wildebeests, and more
- Transport in a van with a hatched roof
- Breakfasts, lunches, and dinners
- 3 nights’ accommodation
- Airport pick-up included
- All park entrance fees and statutory taxes included
Types
4 activity days in English
Accommodation
You will stay at Miti Mingi Eco Camp in Maasai Mara and at Citymax Hotel in Lake Nakuru. Accommodations are based on two persons sharing a double occupancy room or tent. Where possible, rooms with private baths are provided. Single rooms, which are available at an additional cost, cannot be guaranteed.
Miti Mingi Eco Camp (2 nights)
The camp is situated within the Masai Mara ecosystem and on the banks of Ololaimutia River, which is a watering point for most of the wild animals, especially elephants, buffalo, antelopes, etc. This small and exclusive campsite comprises 25 tents.
The tents are furnished with all the amenities required by the modern traveler. Decorated in calming safari tones, natural woods, wrought iron, and crisp cotton, each tent has been meticulously planned to maximize comfort. All tents have four-poster beds and mosquito nets, an ensuite with a shower, water closet, flush toilets, and hot and cold running water, as well as electricity with a voltage of 240 volts.
- Accommodation level: Budget
Facilities
- Dining area
Citymax Hotel (1 night)
Citymax Hotel offers comfortable single, double, and deluxe rooms designed for convenience and efficiency.
Each air-conditioned room is equipped with a flatscreen television with satellite connection, plug-and-play panels, direct dial international telephone, complementary high-speed Internet access, mini bar, electronic personal safety deposit box, and complementary 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
Program
Day 1: Nairobi - Maasai Mara
After breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel at around 07:30 to 08:00, and you will drive west for the Maasai Mara National Reserve, with lunch en route, arriving in time for an evening game drive. Maasai Mara National Reserve is Kenya's finest wildlife sanctuary.
Including migrants, there are well over 450 species of animals that have been recorded there. Although July, August, and September are the months when the Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeest and zebra, there is also resident wildlife year-round.
The famous Maasai tribesmen live within the dispersal area of the national reserve. Dinner and overnight stay will be at the camp (with hot showers and flush toilets).
Day 2: Maasai Mara
After breakfast, you will proceed on a full day of game drive and viewing within the reserve. The landscape there is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for game drives in Kenya, as it has an extensive road and track network, which allows for close-range viewing and photography.
Take a break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool, looking out for hippos and crocodiles. Dinner and overnight stay will be at the camp.
Day 3: Maasai Mara - Lake Nakuru
After breakfast, you will depart the Mara region for Nakuru and have lunch en route with scenic views of Mount Longmont and Lake Naivasha from afar on the main highway. Dinner and overnight stay will be at the budget hotel with self-contained rooms.
Day 4: Lake Nakuru - Nairobi
After breakfast, you will depart for a game drive in Lake Nakuru, and later drive to Nairobi, with lunch en route. You will arrive in the afternoon.
Location
This safari will take place in Maasai Mara National Reserve and Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya.
Lake Nakuru National Park
Lake Nakuru National Park is a shallow alkaline lake that lies about 100 miles north of Nairobi. The lake is world famous as the location of the greatest bird spectacle on earth - myriads of pink flamingos whose numbers are legion, often more than a million, literally turn its shores pink. They feed on the abundant algae that thrive in the warm waters.
Flamingos are not the only avian attraction as the lake is rich in other birdlife. There are over 400 resident species on the lake and in the surrounding park.
Large numbers of pelicans concentrate by the freshwater streams that flow into the lake, and thousands of other birds may be seen including African fish eagles, white-winged black terns, stilts, avocets, ducks, and in the European winter, migrant waders.
The national park surrounds the lake, offering a wide ecological diversity, from the lakeshore, woodland, and grassy plains, to the rocky escarpments and ridges. Recently enlarged to provide a sanctuary for black rhinos, it has one of the largest concentrations of rhinoceros in the country, both black rhino and white rhino, so the chances of spotting them are very good.
There is also a number of Rothschild’s giraffes that were translocated for safety from western Kenya. Waterbucks, zebras, and cape buffaloes are very common as well.
Lions are present at the park, and like the lions of Lake Manyara, they are quite often seen in the acacia trees. Leopards are also frequently sighted. Lake Nakuru National Park is one of the places where visitors have the best chance of seeing these elusive big cats.
The bushlands offer elands, warthogs, impalas, mountain reedbucks, and dik-diks, while rock hyraxes and klipspringers occupy the cliffs and escarpment.
Maasai Mara National Park
The Maasai Mara National Reserve is probably the most famous and most visited reserves in Kenya. It offers breathtaking views as seen in the film "Out of Africa," much of which was filmed there. It has an extraordinary density of animals, including "the Big Five" - lions, leopards, elephants, buffalo, rhinoceros, and many varieties of plains game.
An impressive feature is the annual migration of wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles from the plains of the Serengeti that cross the Tanzanian border and rivers to reach Mara's grasslands from late June, tracked by predators: lions, leopards, cheetahs, and hyenas, and circled by vultures.
Their dramatic river crossings are a reality for tourists visiting in early July and August. Apart from the seasonal migration, game viewing is excellent year-round. The game includes elephants, black rhinos, buffaloes, plains zebras, hartebeests, and big cats. The rivers are also home to hippos and crocodiles. 53 of the 452 species are raptors.
Accommodation ranges from stone-built lodges to luxury tented camps. The area to the north owned by the Maasai offers great game viewing, game walks, and night games. Safari operators set up private camps for small groups seeking exclusive and traditional safaris out of the reserve. At the reserve are four tented camps and two lodges.
The Maasai Mara National Reserve is best known as the setting of one of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles, the great migration of wildebeests and zebras. The wildebeest migration is most evident when they move northwards from the Serengeti through the Lobo or the Western Corridor from May to July, then concentrate in the Mara from August to October.
Covering an area of 650 square miles in southwestern Kenya, the Maasai Mara is bordered in the west by the Oloololo Escarpment of the Great Rift Valley and in the east by the Ngama Hills. The Maasai Mara is predominantly a vast open savannah, but there are actually seven distinct habitats, including permanent marshes, riverine gallery forest, and dense shrubland.
The open rolling savannah grassland of the Mara is the home to numerous wildlife species, including elephants, rhinos, lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, jackals, buffaloes, elands, topis, impalas, gazelles, warthogs, and zebras.
From June to September, the annual wildebeest migration takes place when thousands of these animals sweep across the plain and seek out new grazing areas.
Food
All meals during the safari are included in the price.
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
- Vegan
- Gluten Free
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
- Halal
- Other dietary requirements on request
Things to do (optional)
On your free time, you can have the option to go on a balloon safari or visit the Maasai Village for an extra fee.
What's included
- 4 game drives
- Services of a professional guide or driver
- Transport in van with a hatch roof during the safari
- All park entrance fees
- Statutory taxes
- Airport pick-up
- Breakfasts, lunches, and dinners
- 3 nights’ accommodation
What's not included
- Airfare
- Airport drop-off
- Personal insurance
- Items of a personal nature
- Alcoholic and soft drinks like sodas
- Balloon safari
- Maasai village visit
- Visa
- Tips
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Transfer included
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
173 km away from your destination
Arrival by plane
Please book your flight to arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO). Transfer from the airport is included in the price. Papio Africa Holidays will pick you up from the airport.
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 on arrival.
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