Itinerary

1. Day 1: Nairobi - Masai Mara

   • After breakfast, meet your tour guide at your hotel in Nairobi and then depart for Masai Mara through the Great Rift Valley escarpment.
   • Stop at the viewpoint to see the valley from the escarpment. After the stopover, continue with your drive through the valley from the eastern wall to the western wall of the valley to Masai Town called Narok which is the administrative headquarters for the Masai Community, having a brief stopover and refreshment.  
   • Continue with your drive to Masai Mara arriving in time for lunch, check in to your lodge, take lunch and continue for an introductory game drive up to sunset. 

   Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or similar.

   Meal plan: Lunch and Dinner

2. Day 2: Masai Mara full day

   • After early morning breakfast then departs at 7:30 am for a full-day game drive with packed lunch in search of its popular animals like the well-known Big Five e.g. Elephant, Leopard, Rhino, Buffalo and Lion. Also, other predators like Cheetah, Hyena, Wild Dogs etc. and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo and the dangerous Crocodiles with a visit to Mara river to see water animals and to try your luck if you can be able to see them crossing. 
   • After the game drive along the river, proceed to the pick-nick site where you will have your lunch near the migration corridor where the wildebeests usually use to migrate from Serengeti in Tanzania to Maasai Mara in Kenya and if you are lucky enough, you will be able to see them getting ready to cross from a distance between 500mts to 800mts from the pick-nick site. And when the driver sees them regrouping on the other side of the river to start crossing, he will drive you back to the river to sport them getting ready for crossing. 
   • After lunch, drive back to your camp slowly while doing a game drive, arriving between 04:30 pm to 05:30 pm for dinner and overnight. 

   Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or a Lodge of the same category.

   Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

3. Day 3: Masai Mara - Lake Elementaita

   • An early morning game drive up to 9:00 am in search of animals hunting, killings and eating, after which drive back to your lodge for full breakfast. After breakfast, depart for Lake Elementaita. Lake Elementaita (derived from the Maasai word, muteita meaning “dust place”) is a beautiful soda lake in the Great Rift Valley. The lake is situated between Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha on Soysambu Conservancy. 

   Dinner and overnight at Sentrim Lodge.

   Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

4. Day 4: Lake Elementaita - Samburu National Reserve

   • After breakfast, proceed to Samburu with lunch en-route for an afternoon game drive from 04:00 pm until dusk. 
   • You are expected to spot wildlife such as Grevy Zebras, Beisa Oryx, Reticulated Giraffe, Somali ostrich, and other rare animals only found in this park alone.

   Dinner and overnight at Samburu Sentrim lodge.

5. Day 5: Full-day in Samburu Game Reserve

   • This day will be spent exploring this unique game reserve, with morning and afternoon game drives. You can also opt to visit the cultural visits within the area. Samburu Game Reserve offers a wide range of attractions. It is home to the Samburu tribe, which are pastoralists. 
   • Visit Ewaso Nyiro River, which runs along the southern boundary is home to crocodiles and Hippo with the many animals visiting to drink during the heat of the day.
   • In Samburu National Reserve, you are likely to spot Buffaloes, Leopards, Lions, Cheetahs, Grevy’s zebras, Beisa Oryx, rare Reticulated Giraffes, Somali Ostrich, Gerenuks, and other plains game.

   Dinner and overnight at Sentrim lodge.

   Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

6. Day 6: Samburu Game Reserve- Sweet Waters

   • Go for an early morning game drive to try and see animals hunting if you’re lucky, return to your lodge for breakfast. 
   • After breakfast, depart for Sweetwater with an afternoon game drive to see Chimpanzee and many other animals in the same park, continue with your game drive until sunset and leave the park.

   Dinner and overnight at Serena Lodge or Comfort Garden.

   Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, and dinner

7. Day 7: Sweet water - Amboseli

   • After early morning breakfast, depart for Amboseli National Park with lunch en-route, arriving late afternoon for evening game drive. 
   • Continue exploring the park which is famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, which dominates the landscape, and open plains arriving in time for lunch, check in to Sopa Lodge or Sentrim luxury tented camp and have lunch. 
   • After lunch, depart for an afternoon game drive at the park until sunset then back to your lodge.

   Dinner and overnight at Sopa Lodge, Kibo Safari Lodge or Sentrim luxury tented camp.

8. Day 8: Full-day in Amboseli National Park

   • After early morning breakfast at 06:00 am, leave the lodge with packed lunch for a full-day game drive in the park. Amboseli National Park is famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, which is the tallest mountain in Africa. It dominates the landscape and open plains. 
   • You will spend the whole day in the park in search of its famous residents like the well-known predators. Their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, and Hippo and Big Elephants' nicknamed Jumbos of Amboseli with many species of birds and thousands of flamingos which migrated from Lake Nakuru National park {Kenya} and Lake Manyara National Park {Tanzania} to Lake Amboseli in Kenya and back, also with a spectacular view of Mt Kilimanjaro. 
   • Continue with your drive up to lunchtime and be driven to observation Hill for lunch. After lunch, continue with your game drive up to the evening, then drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight. 

   Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge.

   Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}

9. Day 9: Amboseli National Park- Tsavo West National Park

   • After early morning game drives in the park, then return to your lodge for breakfast.
   • After breakfast, leave Amboseli for Tsavo West National Park with a game drive en-route arriving in time for lunch, check in to your lodge and have lunch. 
   • After lunch, go for a visit to the Rhino Sanctuary. Take a further drive to try and see other wild animals, and later return to your Lodge.

   Dinner and overnight at Serena Kilaguni Lodge.

   Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}

10. Day 10: Tsavo West - Tsavo East

    • After early morning breakfast, then depart for morning game drive with a visit to Mzima Springs, take a farther drive to see Rhinos in the Park and other Wildlife like lions, elephants, Greater Kudu and many others found in the park. 
    • Later, depart for Tsavo East which is renowned for its large numbers of Elephants and the famous man-eating lions, with a game drive en-route to your lodge.
    • Check-in and have lunch. After lunch, leave for another game drive in the park for the whole afternoon, later return to your Lodge. 

    Dinner and overnight at Ashnil Aruba Lodge.

    Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}

11. Day 11: Full-day Tsavo East National Park

    • After early morning breakfast and depart for a full-day game drive, explore Tsavo East National Park which includes Aruba dam, which is a drinking point for various wildlife species which can be seen in Tsavo East National Park such as waterbucks, zebras, warthogs, elephants, duikers, hartebeest, dik-dik, leopards, rhinos, giraffes, and buffalo among others. It provides water for the wildlife species during the dry season of the year and was built by the park authorities.
    • See the elephants which are a keystone species in this arid ecosystem of Tsavo East and West remain one of the key wildlife conservation areas for the continued survival of these species. Another distinctive species found in Tsavo is the Hirola and the fringe-eared Oryx. Tsavo East is also one of the premier birding locations in Kenya, break for lunch.
    • After lunch, if weather and road conditions permits, continue with your exploration to Lugards Falls, with a series of rapids on the Galana River, which is remarkable for the shaped water-worm rocks. Accompanied by KWS Wildlife Rangers, one can walk down to the river on foot to get a good look at the rapids while trying to spot the crocodiles, and to follow the river bed for a short while. 

    Dinner and overnight at Lodge.

    Meal plan: {breakfast, lunch & dinner}

12. Day 12: Tsavo East National Park - Nairobi or Mombasa

    • After early morning breakfast, depart for morning game drive up to around 11:00 am in search of animal that you didn’t see on your first day.
    • Then, return to your lodge for early lunch; after lunch, check out and depart for Mombasa or Nairobi arriving late in the evening. Drop off at your hotel or airport depending on your schedule.

    Meal plans {Breakfast and Lunch}