3-Day Maasai Mara Camping Safari with Big Five Game Drives

• Receive a pick-up from a central place where our office is located in Nairobi CBD at 7:00 am, to avoid inconveniences.

• After the briefing, drive southwest along the floor of the Rift Valley.

• Make a short stop at the Rift Valley viewpoint for photography and to admire the landscape.

• Make another stop at Narok town, where you will have lunch.

• Arrive in Maasai Mara in time for your evening game drive. In this park, you will have the chance to spot the Big Five - lions, elephants, leopards, buffalo, and rhinos - among other wildlife, under the guidance of your guide.

• Return to the camp later in time for dinner and your overnight stay.

All meals and overnight at Lenchada Tourist Camp or similar.

• Have breakfast, then embark on a full day of game viewing with a picnic lunch. Explore this part of the Northern Serengeti Ecosystem, where the great wildebeest migration occurs at the beginning of August. Months before the migration, the herds assemble in the Serengeti in readiness to cross into Maasai Mara, and the plains are covered with these animals.

• Hear grunts and other animal sounds, while territorial fights are commonplace. The migration, now declared the Seventh Wonder of the World, occurs from the end of July to September. Africa has a long history of capturing the imagination of travellers, and this continent of dramatic contrasts offers an unforgettable and remarkable experience - whether in amazement at watching thousands of wild beasts struggling across a rushing river littered with crocodiles waiting for their prey, or in witnessing the world's premier wildlife spectacle.

• Spend the afternoon on a game drive in search of the black-maned lions for which the park is famous. A lion making a kill can sometimes be witnessed in the late afternoon, or a leopard in a tree enjoying the meal it has dragged up to avoid disturbance and detection. This reserve has hilly savanna, rolling grasslands, and gallery forest along the Mara River and its tributaries, and the Big Five are well represented here. The large predators are the lion, leopard, and cheetah, while the smaller predators include the hyena and jackal. Large herbivores include the elephant, rhino, Burchell's zebra, hippo, buffalo, and giraffe, while the smaller herbivores include antelope and bucks. The Maasai ostrich, the world's largest bird, is also found in the park.

• Choose optional activities at an extra cost:

  • A visit to the Maasai villages.

  • A hot air balloon ride taking off in the beautiful early morning, drifting above the browsing game and offering tremendous opportunities for unusual photographs. What could be more uplifting than an early morning safari in a hot air balloon flying over the vast plains of Africa? Witness an African sunrise as a plethora of wildlife roams the land beneath you.

  • At the end of the flight, land on the plains in the midst of this enchanting savannah, where a champagne breakfast is laid out with the aroma of sausages, eggs, and bacon sizzling over a charcoal fire.

  • Drive back to your camp in a leisurely fashion with game viewing along the way.

All meals and overnight at Lenchada Tourist Camp or similar.

• Have breakfast and check out for a morning game drive in Maasai Mara.

• Depart for Nairobi, arriving in the afternoon. Your driver will drop you off at your original pick-up point.