7-Day Kenya Wildlife Safari through Amboseli, Naivasha and Masai Mara

• On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by our representative, who will give you a brief overview of your safari before handing you over to your driver-guide, with whom you will start your safari.
• Proceed for a visit to the Karen Blixen Museum and the AFEW Giraffe Center near Giraffe Manor, where you may hand-feed the Rothschild giraffe that lives here.
• Later, you will have lunch at the Karen Blixen Coffee Gardens before departing for Amboseli National Park to arrive in time for check-in at Amboseli Sopa Lodge.

Overnight: A A Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board

• Today, you will spend the whole day in Amboseli National Park with morning and evening game drives. In between, you will have the option of visiting local Masai villages, giving you the chance to interact and learn about the colourful culture of this nomadic pastoralist community.
• Amboseli sits on the lower slopes of mighty Mount Kilimanjaro - Africa's highest - whose peak lies across Tanzania's border. It is quite an experience to see Kilimanjaro hovering above the clouds in the early morning.
• The animal pictures arising against the dramatic backdrop of the mountain will thrill photography enthusiasts. Amboseli is renowned for its huge elephant herds. You will also see buffalo, black rhino, zebra, wildebeest, and other plains animals.

Overnight: A A Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board

0730hrs

• After breakfast, you will depart for Lake Naivasha via Nairobi, with a brief stop at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint before continuing the drive to arrive in time for check-in and lunch at Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort.
• You will then spend the afternoon at leisure, followed by an evening boat ride to Crescent Island - the park where you walk with the animals.
• There is just one "Crescent Island Game Park." Located on Lake Naivasha, Kenya, in the Great Rift Valley, it has more animals per acre than any other Kenyan park.
• Many film companies have visited the island to film the herds of wildebeest, waterbuck, zebra, and gazelle.
• The island is not fenced, allowing mainland wildlife to come in as they lose their habitat to development and the ever-increasing population.
• Hippos graze all around at night, then sleep under the acacia or rest in the water by day. The giraffes born on the island return to give birth, and sometimes you can see three generations at a time.
• Hyenas come to hunt at night but are not resident on the island. The many pythons that do live here can occasionally be seen with a kill. Groups of buffalo come and go, but they are always monitored.
• From the top of the hill, there is a 360-degree view across the lake, from Longonot to Hell's Gate to the Mau Escarpment to Eburu and onto the Aberdares. Walking along the ridge in the golden hour before sunset while watching the animals grazing with the water shimmering beyond is what Africa is all about. Take a boat back to the lodge.

Overnight: Eseriani Hotel
Meal Plan: Full Board

• After breakfast, depart for Lake Nakuru, the most famous of the Great Rift Valley lakes and home to a shifting population of over one million flamingos.
• You will enjoy a game-viewing drive within this beautiful Kenyan national park, and lunch will be served at Flamingo Hill Camp.
• Lake Nakuru National Park is a shallow alkaline lake that is world-renowned for its huge concentration of flamingos. At times, hundreds of thousands of these birds give the lake a shimmering pink glow.
• The park boasts a huge variety of animals, including leopard, often found napping on the branches of the magnificent yellow-barked acacias, as well as lion, buffalo, hippo, waterbuck, warthog, baboon, the endangered Rothschild's giraffe found only in this park in Kenya, white rhino, and the rare black rhino, which is protected and guarded here.
• After the game-viewing drive, return to the Lake Naivasha region for dinner and overnight.

Overnight: The Alps Hotel
Meal Plan: Full Board

• After breakfast, depart for the Masai Mara, arriving in time for check-in and lunch at Mara Sopa Lodge. Enjoy an afternoon game-viewing drive before returning to your lodge later as the sun sets for dinner and overnight.
• The Masai Mara National Reserve is in the southwestern part of Kenya and forms part of the greater ecosystem that encompasses Serengeti National Park in Tanzania.
• The Masai Mara is one of the best-known and most visited reserves in Africa. The park is surrounded by concession areas and tribal lands of the Masai tribespeople.
• These areas are unfenced from the Mara and act as a buffer zone for the national park, forming part of the migration area. The Masai Mara consists of open savannah, rolling grasslands, and undulating hills. July to September sees the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle coming from the Serengeti plains.
• Driven by dry conditions in the Serengeti and led by the lightning and thunder to the north, vast herds of mammals cross the Tanzanian border and rivers to reach Mara's grasslands.

Overnight: Enchoro Wildlife Camp
Meal Plan: Full Board

• You will have one more day of wildlife-viewing opportunities in the Masai Mara Reserve, also known as the "Jewel of Africa," a site with one of the largest and most spectacular animal migrations in the world.
• The reserve is inhabited by many of Africa's most popular wild animals, including lion, cheetah, elephant, leopard, black rhino, and hippo.
• There are also over 500 resident species of birds in the park, including ostrich, larks, sunbirds, and the lovely Lilac-breasted Roller.

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• Take the opportunity to fly over the Mara in a hot air balloon at extra cost. The balloon package includes a champagne breakfast in the wild. If you can spare the money, viewing abundant game afloat in a balloon is an unforgettable experience.

Overnight: Enchoro Wildlife Camp
Meal Plan: Full Board

• After breakfast, you will arrive at 0730 hrs.
• Depart for Nairobi to arrive in time for a farewell lunch at the renowned Carnivore Restaurant before being transferred back to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your departure flight back home.