5-Day Kenya Luxury Safari with Maasai Mara and Lake Nakuru

• Pick up after breakfast from your Nairobi hotel or airport, then drive to Lake Naivasha with a stop at the Great Rift Valley escarpment viewpoint for photos for about 15-20 minutes.
• Continue to Lake Naivasha and visit Hell's Gate National Park for a walking safari in a savannah ecosystem where various bird species can be found, including vultures, Verreaux's eagles, Augur buzzards, and swifts. In Hell's Gate, you may also encounter wild animals such as African buffalo, zebra, eland, hartebeest, Thomson's gazelle, baboons, and the klipspringer antelope.
• After the tour, check in to your lodge for a hot lunch and some rest in your room.
• In the late evening, around 16:30, you will have the option to enjoy a boat ride on the blue waters of Lake Naivasha. Return to the lodge for an overnight stay at Lake Naivasha Sawela Lodge (L D).

• Depart from Lake Naivasha after breakfast and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, famous for its millions of pink flamingos and pelicans. It is regarded by avid birdwatchers as the greatest ornithological spectacle on Earth. The park is also a sanctuary for the black rhino, white rhino, and Rothschild giraffe. Birdlife includes common species such as lesser and greater flamingoes, African fish eagles, tawny eagles, green wood hoopoes, cliff chat, great white and pink-backed pelicans, as well as other intra-African migrants.
• Arrive in time for lunch and check in at your lodge. Expect to see giraffe, white rhino, buffalo, zebra, hippo, black rhino, lion, and leopard.
• Proceed for an afternoon game drive in the park, which has a dense population of other wildlife, before returning for dinner and an overnight stay at Sarova Woodlands Hotel/Lodge or similar (B L D).

• After breakfast, leave for Masai Mara Game Reserve, a landscape of grassy plains and rolling hills crossed by the Mara and Talek rivers. This area is one of the few places left on Earth where wildlife still lives comparatively undisturbed. Wildlife in Maasai Mara includes lions, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, zebras, and hippos. The annual wildebeest migration also takes place here.
• Arrive in time for lunch at Mara Serena or Keekorok Lodge, or similar accommodation. Then embark on an afternoon game drive. Expect to see elephants, lions, cheetahs, giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, zebras, wildebeests, hyenas, and the Nile crocodile.
• Return to the lodge for all meals included and an overnight stay at Masai Mara Basecamp, Mara Serena, or Keekorok Lodge, or similar (B L D).

• Spend another full day in Maasai Mara on unlimited game drives, exploring the park in search of the Big Five.
• Dinner and overnight stay at Mara Serena or Keekorok Lodge or similar. Maasai Mara offers an incredible variety and abundance of wildlife, with over 450 species of animals recorded here.
• You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffes, wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, leopards, various antelope species, and elephants. The annual wildebeest and zebra migration is a spectacular event in Maasai Mara.

Enjoy pre-breakfast game drives, then drive to Nairobi via Narok to arrive by 15:00 hrs, where the tour ends.

Meal & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch - B, L