3-Day Masai Mara Safari from Nairobi with Big Five Game Drives

• You will be picked up from the central point in Nairobi by your driver-guide, who will accompany you to a short briefing before heading to Maasai Mara Game Reserve in a customised 7-seater safari minivan with a pop-up roof.

• Make a brief stop at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint for photography, then continue to Narok Town and Masai Mara.

• Arrive at the park and take part in your first game drive in this world-famous reserve, which is an extension of Serengeti National Park. At some point during your stay, you will be driven by the river, a great place to spot wildlife.

• See why this area is a photographer's delight, where with any luck you will be able to take amazing pictures of hippos and crocodiles in the water. Park rules allow for off-road driving, which means you can venture into the plains where you can spot hundreds and thousands of animals. Masai Mara is also famous for its community, the Masai people.

• Return to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay later in the evening.

Main Destination: Masai Mara

Accommodation: Manyatta Tented Camp

Basic budget tented camp located just outside Masai Mara Game Reserve

Meals & Drinks: Lunch & dinner (breakfast and drinks not included)

Drinking water included (other drinks not included)

• Head to the reserve with a picnic lunch box to enjoy along the way. You will spend the whole day on an exciting game drive. Masai Mara offers incredible scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where a visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago.

• Spend the afternoon on a game drive in search of the black-maned lion. A lion kill can be witnessed in the late afternoon, or a leopard in a tree enjoying the meal it has dragged up onto a limb to avoid disturbance and detection. This reserve has hilly savannahs, rolling grasslands, and a forest gallery on the Mara River and its tributaries.

• Soak in the abundance of untamed wilderness and fresh, natural scenery, filled with exotic wildlife during our expertly guided game drives.

• You can find all the "Big Five" animals here: elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, and buffalo. However, the population of black rhinos is severely threatened, with only 37 black rhinos left as of 2000. Herds of plains zebras are found throughout the park, as well as Masai giraffes, common giraffes, jackals, white-bearded gnus, Oribis, warthogs, Thomson's and Grant's gazelles, hartebeests, hyenas, bat-eared foxes, rare Topi antelope, beautiful Roan antelope, and also hippos and crocodiles in the Mara River.

• Return to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay in the evening.

• After breakfast, go on your last morning game drive in Masai Mara, with the chance to see the "Big 5" possibly on a hunting mission, as well as spot some early risers.

• Return to Nairobi, arriving late in the afternoon.