5-Day Lake Nakuru and Masai Mara Safari with Big Five Game Drives

• In the morning, depart from Nairobi with your Kenyan tour guide for Lake Nakuru National Park.
• Drive through the Great Rift Valley to reach Lake Nakuru, often referred to as the pink lake because of its enormous numbers of flamingos.
• Have lunch at a hotel, followed by an afternoon game drive.

Dinner and overnight at either Lanet Matfam Resort, Chester Hotel, or Golden Palace Hotel.

Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

• Continue your journey across acres of wheat and barley fields before reaching your next game-viewing destination, the world-famous Masai Mara, which hosts the dramatic wildebeest migration from July through October every year.

• Arrive at the tented camp and have lunch at your leisure.

• Embark on a thrilling evening game drive in one of the finest wildlife havens on earth.

Dinner and overnight at either Lenchada Tourist Camp, Rhino Tourist Camp, or Mwangaza Mara Camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After breakfast, spend the day exploring Masai Mara with morning and afternoon game drives, where you will have the opportunity to spot the Big Five: lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, and buffalo.

• Have a picnic lunch in the park, or visit the nearby Masai village, or go for an adventurous balloon ride ($450 per person).

Dinner and overnight at either Lenchada Tourist Camp, Rhino Tourist Camp, or Mwangaza Mara Camp.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Go on a full-day game drive through Masai Mara, during which you may see wildebeest, zebra, impala, topi, giraffe, and Thomson's gazelle. Black rhinos are a little shy and hard to spot, but they can often be seen from a distance.

Dinner and overnight stay at a campsite.

• Go on an early morning game drive to witness lions in action. You might be able to catch the rare sight of a pack of wild lions engaged in a hunt.

• Leave Masai Mara and transfer to Nairobi. You will be dropped off at either your hotel or the airport to connect with your homebound flight, depending on the arrangements and where the safari ends.

Meal Plan: Breakfast