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 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. Overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge or Amboseli Serena Lodge or Ol Tukai Lodge.
- Meal plan: Lunch and dinner
Day 2: Explore Amboseli National Park
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 wildebeests to giraffes to baboons. A visit to a Maasai Village is planned after breakfast. Mid-day 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 famous and are proud nomadic tribe whose legendary prowess in battle and single handed acts of bravery in fights with the wild animals are known across the world. Overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge or Amboseli Serena Lodge or Ol Tukai Lodge.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 3: Amboseli - Lake Nakuru National Park
Depart Amboseli after breakfast. Your destination today is Lake Nakuru National Park. You will stop for lunch at an upscale restaurant in Nairobi and reach the park in time for an afternoon game drive, on which you can expect to see buffalos, rhinos, giraffes, zebras, antelopes, and the lions that prey on them as well as vast flocks of flamingos clustered near the lake shore.
Lake Nakuru is famous for having the highest concentration of flamingos in the world and is home to over three hundred bird species. It is a sanctuary for both the black and white rhinos. Also found in plenty are zebras, waterbucks, buffaloes, and warthogs. Leopards are sometimes seen sleeping on the horizontal branches of the “Fever trees”. Supper is at your lodge overlooking the lake. Overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge or Sarova Lion Hill Lodge.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 4: Lake Nakuru - Maasai Mara National Reserve
After breakfast, depart for Maasai Mara National Reserve. Travel through the Maasai country occasionally coming across Maasai herdsmen with their livestock living harmoniously with the wildlife. After lunch at your residence lodge, another game run is planned in these vast rolling grasslands. Here, you will find the old Africa of the movies, with rolling grasslands dotted with acacia trees and sweeping plains teeming with wildlife.
No matter how much you have thought about Africa, this is more than you expected - and the ideal backdrop for a hot air balloon expedition. During your stay, you will also visit a village of the Maasai people to witness the singing and dancing that are part of their daily lives and sacred rituals. A glimpse into their homes and social structure is a poignant experience. Overnight at Sarova Tented Camp or Mara Serena Lodge or Intrepids Camp.
- Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 5: Discover Maasai Mara
Morning and afternoon game drives in this magnificent park. Maasai Mara is famous for the annual wildebeest migration that takes place between the months of July and October. During this time, over a million wildebeests accompanied by thousands of other herbivores, migrate from Serengeti National Park to the Mara in search of greener pastures.
Hundreds of lions and hyenas follow them picking on the old and weaker ones. The legendary black mane lion is only found in Maasai Mara. The cheetah hunts best in these open grasslands. Overnight at Sarova Tented Camp or Mara Serena Lodge or Intrepids Camp.
- Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 6: Maasai Mara - Nairobi
An early morning game drive is planned before returning to your camp or lodge for a proper sit down English breakfast. With breakfast done, you will overland to Nairobi and check in to your hotel for day room use. The rest of the day is at leisure for last minute shopping and sight-seeing. In the evening, you will be escorted to the airport for flight check-in and board your plane that takes you home with a smile and a lifetime of memories.
