Day 1: Nairobi - Amboseli National Park
Rise early to enjoy a delicious breakfast at your hotel. Depart by road to Amboseli National Park. There, you will experience your first game drive en-route to your lodge.
The park shelters more than 420 species of birds and has an enormous elephant population and other big game attracted to the area by underground springs fed from the melting snows of Mount Kilimanjaro. Lunch is served at the lodge, before departing for an afternoon game drive. Return to the lodge and enjoy a scrumptious dinner.
- Meal plan: Lunch and dinner
- Overnight: Amboseli Kibo Lodge
Day 2: Discover Amboseli
This morning you rise early for good views of Mount Kilimanjaro. Before clouds build up over the summit, you set off for a game drive. Amboseli is an excellent place to view a multitude of wildlife, including everything from wildebeest to giraffes and baboons.
A visit to a Maasai village is planned after breakfast. Midday finds you at your lodge for lunch and afternoon rest, followed by another game drive. Amboseli is home to the legendary Maasai tribesmen. Maasai warriors are a famous nomadic tribe whose legendary prowess in battle and single-handed acts of bravery in fights with the wild animals are known across the world.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Overnight: Amboseli Kibo Lodge
Day 3: Amboseli - Lake Nakuru National Park
Depart in the morning and drive to the floor of the Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National Park. Arrive at Lake Nakuru Flamingo Hill Camp in the afternoon and enjoy a game drive.
The lake is famous for flamingos, as well as over 400 other species of birds. In addition, many species of game can be found here, including the introduced Rothschild's giraffe, black and white rhino, waterbuck, reed buck, lion, buffalo, leopard, baboon, and many species of plains game.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Overnight: Flamingo Hill Camp
Day 4: Lake Nakuru - Maasai Mara Game Reserve
Enjoy an early breakfast, check out, and proceed with a spice game drive en-route to Maasai Mara. A pleasant drive across the dramatic Great Rift Valley brings you to Narok Township, a Maasai business center. After a short stopover, continue to Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
This enormous reserve, actually part of the vast Serengeti plains, is famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest migration and is home to the big five - lion, elephant, rhino, cape buffalo, and leopard. A game drive will be conducted after lunch. Then, you will proceed to the lodge for an enjoyable dinner.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge
Days 5 and 6: Explore Maasai Mara Game Reserve
You spend the next two days in the Maasai Mara - one of the greatest wildernesses of the world - on morning and afternoon game drives. Large mammals are varied, abundant, and easy to see.
Residents among the park’s mammals are the Maasai giraffe, eland, topi, and thousands of plain game, including impalas, zebras, both Thomson and Grant's gazelles. Optional hot air balloon rides and a trip to Lake Victoria are available at an additional cost while in the Mara.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
- Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge
Day 7: Maasai Mara - Nairobi
Today, you have an early morning game drive followed by a sumptuous breakfast. Then, you will depart by road to Nairobi, arriving in the early afternoon.
