Name: 6 Day Unforgettable Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, and Amboseli Camping Safari in Kenya
Brand: Papio Africa Holidays
Price: 1110 USD
Availability: InStock

Thrilling Kenya Safari

Join this safari which is an amazing opportunity for you to do by enjoying game viewing activities in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Amboseli National Park. Your daily meals will be catered, your accommodation will be provided, and your guide / driver will be professional, ensuring you an unforgettable budget safari experience.

Key information

Group safari
Maximum group size: 7 persons
Starting point and ending point: Nairobi - Nairobi / Mombasa
Children are allowed to participate under the supervision of parents or guardians. From 0-3 years it is free for them. From 4 -7 years they are charged 50% of the adult price. From 8-11years they are charged 75% of the adult price and from 12 years and above they are charged full adult price
Language: English-speaking guide
All park entrance fees and statutory taxes are included

Highlights

6 game drives
Safari in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Lake Nakuru, and Amboseli National Park
Chance to spot hippos, rhinos, giraffe, zebra, lion, leopard, and buffalo
Transport in a van with hatch roof during safari
4 breakfasts, 4 lunches, and 4 dinners
5 nights accommodation
Airport transfer

Styles

6 activity days

Group size: Maximum of 7 participants

Airport transfer included: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport

Accommodation

Facilities

Dining area
Environmentally friendly
Honesty bar
Restaurant
Internet access

You will spend four nights at Miti Mingi Eco Camp in Maasai Mara and at Kimana Tented Camp in Amboseli, and one night at Citymax Hotel. The accommodations are based on two persons sharing a double occupancy room or tent. Where possible, rooms with private baths are provided. Single rooms are available at an additional cost but cannot be guaranteed.

Miti Mingi Eco Camp

You will stay at a camp with a bed, bedding, electricity, hot showers, and a mosquito net.

Citymax Hotel

You will stay at a hotel with self-contained rooms.

Kimana Tented Camp

You will stay at a camp with a bed, bedding, hot showers, electricity, and mosquito nets.

Program

Day 1: Nairobi - Maasai Mara

You will be picked up from the hotel bring to the office for orientation at 8 am. Later depart for the Masai Mara Game Reserve via the viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley and Narok Town for lunch. Upon arrival you will proceed for a game drive, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver/guide. Dinner and overnight will be at the camp with bed, bedding, electricity, hot showers, and mosquito nets.

Day 2: Maasai Mara (full day)

After breakfast, you will proceed on a full day of the game drive viewing within the reserve. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for the game in Kenya as it has an extensive road and track network which allows for close-range viewing and photography. Break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool, looking out for hippos and crocodiles. Dinner and overnight will be at the camp.

Day 3: Maasai Mara - Lake Nakuru

You will have an early morning game drive. 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. You will arrive in the evening and be dropped off at the hotel for dinner and overnight at the budget hotel with self-contained rooms.

Day 4: Lake Nakuru - Amboseli

After breakfast, you proceed on a game drive in Lake Nakuru, known for its prolific bird life including flamingos. The park contains a sanctuary for the conservation of the white rhino while species like Cape buffalo and waterbuck can be seen near the shoreline. Later, you will drive to Amboseli National Park. Dinner and overnight will be at the camp.

Day 5: Amboseli (full day)

You will have a full day game drive in this park which contains swamp grounds, bathing elephants, and hippos. A variety of plains game, antelopes, birds, and Mount Kilimanjaro’s peak can be seen if weather conditions permit. Papio Africa Holiday will cater for picnic lunches and then you return to the camp with a bed, bedding, hot showers, electricity, mosquito nets, and dinner.

Day 6: Amboseli - Nairobi / Mombasa

You will have an early morning game viewing and then return to the lodge for a full breakfast. Later, you will drive back to Nairobi to proceed to Mombasa for a beach holiday by road. Papio Africa Holiday will drop you off at Emali to board a bus to Mombasa, or come back to Nairobi, drop you at the hotel or at the airport to connect your flight to your next destination. End of the safari.

Location

Safari will take place in Maasai Mara National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Amboseli 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 which 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 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 rhinos and white rhinos, so the chances of spotting them are very good. There is also a number of Rothschild’s giraffe which was translocated for safety from western Kenya. Waterbucks, zebras, and Cape buffaloes are very common.

Lions are present in 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 Reserve

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is probably the most famous and most visited reserve 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, buffaloes, 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 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. In the reserve are four tented camps and two lodges.

The Maasai Mara National Reserve is best known as one of the world’s greatest wildlife spectacles, the great migration of wildebeests and zebras. 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 wildebeest migration is most evident when they move northwards from the Serengeti through the Lobo or the Western Corridor from May to July, then concentrating in the Mara from August to October. 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 plains and seek out new grazing areas.

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