6-Day Kenya Safari to Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Amboseli

Pick up from your Nairobi hotel after breakfast, then depart for Maasai Mara through the Great Rift Valley escarpment. Stop at the viewpoint to admire the valley from the escarpment before continuing through the Rift Valley from its eastern wall to its western wall to the Maasai town of Narok for lunch.

After lunch, continue your drive to Maasai Mara, arriving in time to check in at your lodge and have lunch. Later, head out for an introductory game drive until sunset. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or similar.

Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

After an early morning breakfast, depart at 7:30 am with a packed lunch for a full-day game drive in search of the reserve's popular wildlife. Look out for the well-known Big Five - elephant, leopard, rhino, buffalo, and lion - as well as other predators such as cheetah, hyena, and wild dogs, together with zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, hippo, and dangerous crocodiles.

Visit the Mara River, where you will have lunch near the migration corridor usually used by wildebeests moving from Serengeti in Tanzania to Maasai Mara in Kenya. After lunch, continue with your game drive before heading back to your accommodation. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Set out on an early morning game drive from 9:00 am in search of animals while they are hunting, killing, and eating, then drive back to your lodge for a full breakfast.

After breakfast, depart for Lake Nakuru with lunch en route. Continue your journey after lunch, arriving at Lake Nakuru National Park in the evening with a game drive en route to your lodge. Check in for dinner and an overnight stay.

Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Enjoy an early morning game drive, then return to your lodge for a full breakfast. After breakfast, continue with your game drive in the national park to see if you can spot the elusive leopard, which is frequently sighted in Lake Nakuru. Take a further drive to seek out the two species of rhino found in the park.

Lake Nakuru is well known for its many species of birds and thousands of flamingos. Continue your game drive until around 11:00 am, then leave the park for Amboseli with lunch en route. Arrive in Amboseli National Park in the late evening and check in to your lodge. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge or similar.

Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Have an early morning breakfast at 6:00 am and leave the lodge with a packed lunch for a full-day game drive. Spend the day in the park in search of its popular residents, including well-known predators and their opponents such as zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, and hippo, as well as the park's big elephants.

You will also see many species of birds and thousands of flamingos said to migrate from Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya and Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania to Lake Amboseli and back. Enjoy spectacular views of Mt Kilimanjaro up to lunchtime, then break for lunch. After lunch, continue with your game drive and slowly return to your lodge. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge or similar.

Meal plan: breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Leave your lodge for a morning game drive to look for the cats while they are still active and hunting until around 9:00 am, then return to your lodge for a full breakfast.

After breakfast, leave Amboseli for Nairobi with lunch en route, arriving in the late afternoon and being dropped off at your hotel.

Meal plan: breakfast and lunch.