3-Day Masai Mara Wildlife Safari from Nairobi via Great Rift Valley

• Depart from Kenya's capital, Nairobi.

• Drive down the escarpment via the floor of the scenic Great Rift Valley.

• Arrive at a luxury tented camp near Masai Mara in time for lunch.

• Take your first thrilling game drive in the Masai Mara Game Reserve, one of East Africa's top safari destinations.

• After your first foray into Masai Mara, return to camp for dinner and relax under the stars, falling asleep to the sounds of the bush.

• Spend the day game viewing in Kenya's finest wildlife park, the Masai Mara National Reserve.

• Morning and afternoon game drives take you in search of Africa's Big Five and the plethora of other wildlife inhabiting this vast Kenyan game reserve. On clear days, the Mara offers fantastic orange-tinged sunsets well worth capturing on camera.

• Wherever you go in the vast Masai Mara, you are likely to see abundant wildlife such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat-eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, and wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras, and hippos are also found in great numbers.

• You may also spot lions basking in the sun after a heavy meal or surveying the plains for their next hunt. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot but are reasonably common. The ultimate spectacle here is, without doubt, the annual wildebeest exodus, the Great Migration, in July and August, when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of greener grass before turning south again in October.

• Hot-air balloon trips are an outstanding way of seeing the savannah plains teeming with wildlife. These Masai Mara balloon trips can be arranged at an extra cost.

• Depart from the safari camp and take a morning game drive through the Masai Mara Reserve on day three.

• Return to bustling Nairobi in the afternoon, arriving at about 3:00 pm.

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