9-Day Safari at Masai Mara, Amboseli, Tsavo East & West, & Lake Nakuru
Highlights
Nairobi, Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru National Park, Amboseli National Park, Tsavo West National Park, Tsavo East National Park
Locations Covered
Nairobi, Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru National Park, Amboseli National Park, Tsavo West National Park, Tsavo East National Park
bird, safari, Wildlife
Group Tour
9 Days
Easy
English
Description
Embark on an adventurous safari to the prominent national parks, including Maasai Mara, Amboseli, Tsavo East and Tsavo West and Lake Nakuru. Enjoy several exciting game drives in all the parks and spot a variety of animals such as the Big 5, zebras and giraffes. Also, visit Lake Nakuru to see rhinos, flamingos and other birdlife.
Itinerary
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Day 1: Nairobi - Maasai Mara
- Pick up from your Hotel in Nairobi after breakfast, then depart for Masai Mara through, Great Rift Valley escarpment, where you will have a stop at the Viewing Point to view the Valley from the escarpment.
- After the stopover, continue with your drive through the Valley from the eastern wall to the western wall of the Valley to Maasai Town called Narok, the administrative headquarters for the Maasai Community, having a brief stopover and refreshment.
- After that, continue with your drive to Maasai Mara, arriving in time for lunch, check in to your lodge, take lunch and continue for an introductory game drive up to sunset.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or a Lodge of the same category.
Meal plan {Lunch and Dinner}
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Day 2: Maasai Mara full day
- After breakfast at 7:30 am, depart for a full-day game drive with packed lunch in search of its popular animals like the well-known Big Five, e.g. Elephant, Leopard, Rhino, Buffalo and Lion. Also, other predators like Cheetah, Hyena, Wild Dogs etc. and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo and the dangerous Crocodiles with a visit to Mara river to see water animals and to try your luck if you can be able to see them crossing.
- After the game drive along the river, proceeds to the picnic site where you will have your lunch near the migration corridor where the wildebeests usually use to migrate from Serengeti in Tanzania to Maasai Mara in Kenya. If you are lucky enough, you will be able to see them getting ready to cross from a distance between 500mts to 800mts from the picnic site. And when the driver sees them regrouping on the other side of the river to start crossing, he will drive you back to the river to see them crossing.
- After lunch, drive back to your camp slowly while doing a game drive, arriving between 4:30 pm to 5:30 pm for dinner and overnight.
Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}
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Day 3: Maasai Mara - Lake Nakuru
- Enjoy an early morning game drive up to 9:00 am in such of animals hunting, killings and eating after the morning game drive, return to your lodge for a full breakfast.
- Then depart for Lake Nakuru with lunch en-route.
- After lunch, continue with your journey, arriving in Lake Nakuru National Park in the evening with a game drive en-route to your lodge.
- Check-in for dinner and overnight. Dinner and overnight at Nakuru Sopa Lodge.
Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}
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Day 4: Lake Nakuru - Amboseli
- After breakfast, depart for Amboseli with a game drive en-route in the park to try and find out. If you can sport the elusive leopards that are being spotted frequently in the park.
- Take a further drive to seek out the 2 species of rhino found in the park. Lake Nakuru is well known for its many species of birds and thousands of flamingos.
- Continue with your game drive up to around 11:00 am and leave the park for Amboseli via Nairobi with lunch en-route, arriving in Amboseli late evening.
- Check in to your Lodge for Dinner and overnight. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge.
Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}.
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Day 5: Amboseli National Park
- After breakfast at 6:00 am, leave the lodge with packed lunch for a full-day game drive in the park. Amboseli National Park is famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, which is the tallest mountain in Africa. It dominates the landscape, and open plains.
- Spend the whole day in the park in search of its popular residents like the well-known predators. Their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, and Hippo and Big Elephants' nick named {Jumbos of Amboseli} with many species of birds and thousands of flamingos which migrated from Lake Nakuru National park {Kenya} and Lake Manyara National Park {Tanzania} to Lake Amboseli in Kenya and back, also with a spectacular view of Mt Kilimanjaro.
- Continue with your drive up to lunchtime and be driven to observation Hill for Lunch.
- After lunch, continue with your game drive up to evening, then be driven back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge.
Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}
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Day 6: Amboseli - Tsavo West
- Go on an early morning game drive in the park, then return to your lodge for breakfast.
- After breakfast, leave Amboseli for Tsavo West with game drive en route arriving in time for lunch, check in to your lodge and have lunch.
- After lunch, have a visit to rhino sanctuary. Take a farther drive to try and see other Wild animals.
- Later return to your lodge for dinner and overnight—dinner and overnight at Serena Kilaguni Lodge.
Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}
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Day 7: Tsavo West - Tsavo East
- After early morning breakfast, depart for a morning game drive with a visit to Mzima Springs, take a farther drive to see Rhinos in the Park and other Wildlife like Lions, Elephants, Greater Kudu and many others found in the park.
- Later depart for Tsavo Eastwhich is renowned for its large numbers of Elephants and the famous man eating lions, with a game drive en-route to your lodge. Check in and have lunch.
- After lunch, leave for another game drive in the park for the whole afternoon.
- Later return to your lodge. Dinner and overnight at Ashnil Aruba Lodge.
Meal plan {Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner}
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Day 8: Tsavo East full-day
- After an early morning breakfast, depart for a full-day game drive.
- Explore Tsavo East National Park, which includes Aruba dam, which is a drinking point for various wildlife species which can be seen in Tsavo East national park such as water bucks, zebras, warthogs, elephants, duikers, heartbeat, dik-dik, leopards, rhinos, giraffes, and buffalo among others. It provides water for the wildlife species during the dry season of the year and was built by the park authorities. Elephants are a keystone species in this arid ecosystem of Tsavo East and West remain one of the critical wildlife conservation areas for the continued survival of these species. Another distinctive species found in Tsavo is the Hirola and the fringe-eared Oryx. Tsavo East is also one of the premier birding locations in Kenya. Break for lunch.
- After lunch, if weather and road condition permits, continue with your exploration to Lugards Falls, with a series of Rapids on the Galana River, which are remarkable for the shaped water-worm rocks. Accompanied by KWS Wildlife Rangers, one can walk down to the river on foot to get a good look at the rapids while trying to spot the crocodiles, and to follow the river bed for a short while.
- And later, return for dinner and overnight at Lodge.
Meal plan: {breakfast, lunch & dinner}
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Day 9: Tsavo East - Nairobi or Mombasa
- Have an early morning breakfast, depart for a morning game drive up to around 11:00 am in search of animals that you didn’t see on your first day, then return to your lodge for early lunch.
- After lunch, check out and depart for Mombasa or Nairobi, arriving late in the evening.
- Drop off to your hotel or Airport depending on your schedule.
Meal plans {Breakfast and Lunch}
What's Included
What's Excluded
Know Before You Go
What To Bring
Meeting Point
Cancellation Policy
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For cancellations within 24 hours before the tour -
Refund of 50% of the tour price.
Price
Adult | |
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1 to 4 | /person |
4 to 6 | /person |
6 to 12 | /person |
12 to 18 | /person |
18 to 24 | /person |
Child | |
1 to 24 | /person |
This is a group tour |