5-Day Masai Mara, Nakuru and Naivasha Safari via Great Rift Valley

• Get picked up from your hotel and transferred to our office to meet the group members before departing for the Masai Mara Game Reserve.

• Travel via the Great Rift Valley viewpoint and Narok town, where you will stop for lunch and refuelling.

• After lunch, leave Narok and drive to the reserve, arriving at the camp.

• Check in and relax for a few minutes.

• Proceed for an afternoon game drive, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver-guide.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

• After breakfast, proceed on a full day of game viewing within the reserve. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is one of the best parks for game viewing in Kenya, with an extensive road and track network that allows for close-range viewing and photography.

• Break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool while looking out for hippos and crocodiles.

• Continue with the game drive until 5 pm, with an optional visit to the Maasai village.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

• Go for an early morning pre-breakfast game drive.

• After breakfast, depart the Mara region for Nakuru.

• Enjoy lunch en route, with scenic views of Mt. Longonot, Lake Naivasha, and Lake Elementaita from afar along the main highway.

• Arrive in Nakuru town in the evening.

Dinner and overnight at a budget hotel.

• After breakfast, proceed on a game drive in Lake Nakuru Park, known for its prolific birdlife, including flamingos. The park also contains a sanctuary for the conservation of the white rhino, while species such as Cape Buffalo and Waterbuck can be seen near the shoreline.

• Enjoy a hot lunch and drive to Naivasha. You also have the option to take a boat ride on this fresh-water lake to see hippos and fish eagles at an extra cost.

Dinner and overnight at a budget hotel.

• After breakfast, enjoy a nature walk in Hell's Gate National Park. You may also hire bicycles to cycle here.

• There are over 100 species of birds in the park, including vultures, Verreaux's Eagles, Augur Buzzards, and swifts. African Buffalo, Zebra, Eland, Hartebeest, Thomson's Gazelle, and Baboons are also common. The park is also home to Klipspringer Antelope and Chanler's Mountain Reedbuck.

• Enjoy a hot or picnic lunch, then drive back to Nairobi, arriving in the afternoon.

• Drop-off at your Nairobi hotel or the airport.