12-Day Kenya Wildlife Safari from Nairobi with Masai Mara and Amboseli

• After breakfast, meet your tour guide at your hotel in Nairobi and depart for Masai Mara through the Great Rift Valley escarpment.
• Stop at the viewpoint to see the valley from the escarpment. After the stopover, continue your drive through the valley from the eastern wall to the western wall, heading to the Masai town of Narok, the administrative headquarters of the Masai community, for a brief stopover and refreshments.
• Continue to Masai Mara, arriving in time for lunch. Check in to your lodge, have lunch, and then head out for an introductory game drive until sunset.

Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or similar.

Meal plan: Lunch and Dinner

• After an early morning breakfast, depart at 7:30 am for a full-day game drive with packed lunch in search of the park's popular animals, including the well-known Big Five: Elephant, Leopard, Rhino, Buffalo, and Lion. Also look out for other predators such as Cheetah, Hyena, and Wild Dogs, as well as Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo, and dangerous Crocodiles. Visit the Mara River to see water animals and try your luck at spotting a crossing.
• After the game drive along the river, proceed to the picnic site where you will have lunch near the migration corridor usually used by wildebeests moving from Serengeti in Tanzania to Maasai Mara in Kenya. If you are lucky, you may see them getting ready to cross from a distance of between 500 m and 800 m from the picnic site. 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 spot them preparing for the crossing.
• After lunch, drive slowly back to your camp while enjoying another game drive, arriving between 04:30 pm and 05:30 pm for dinner and overnight.

Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or a lodge of the same category.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• Enjoy an early morning game drive until 9:00 am in search of animals hunting, killing, and feeding, then return to your lodge for a full breakfast. After breakfast, depart for Lake Elementaita. Lake Elementaita, derived from the Maasai word muteita meaning "dust place," is a beautiful soda lake in the Great Rift Valley. The lake is situated between Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha on Soysambu Conservancy.

Dinner and overnight at Sentrim Lodge.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

• After breakfast, proceed to Samburu with lunch en route, then enjoy an afternoon game drive from 04:00 pm until dusk.
• You are expected to spot wildlife such as Grevy's zebras, Beisa Oryx, Reticulated Giraffe, Somali ostrich, and other rare animals found only in this park.

Dinner and overnight at Samburu Sentrim Lodge.

• This day will be spent exploring this unique game reserve, with morning and afternoon game drives. You can also opt for cultural visits within the area. Samburu Game Reserve offers a wide range of attractions and is home to the Samburu tribe, who are pastoralists.
• Visit the Ewaso Nyiro River, which runs along the southern boundary and is home to crocodiles and hippos, with many animals visiting to drink during the heat of the day.
• In Samburu National Reserve, you are likely to spot Buffaloes, Leopards, Lions, Cheetahs, Grevy's zebras, Beisa Oryx, rare Reticulated Giraffes, Somali Ostrich, Gerenuks, and other plains game.

Dinner and overnight at Sentrim Lodge.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

• Go for an early morning game drive to try and see animals hunting if you are lucky, then return to your lodge for breakfast.
• After breakfast, depart for Sweetwaters and enjoy an afternoon game drive to see chimpanzees and many other animals in the same park. Continue with your game drive until sunset before leaving the park.

Dinner and overnight at Serena Lodge or Comfort Garden.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

• After an early morning breakfast, depart for Amboseli National Park with lunch en route, arriving late in the afternoon for an evening game drive.
• Continue exploring the park, which is famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro dominating the landscape and open plains. Arrive in time for lunch, check in to Sopa Lodge or Sentrim luxury tented camp, and have lunch.
• After lunch, depart for an afternoon game drive in the park until sunset, then return to your lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Sopa Lodge, Kibo Safari Lodge, or Sentrim luxury tented camp.

• After an early morning breakfast at 06:00 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, the tallest mountain in Africa, dominating the landscape and open plains.
• You will spend the whole day in the park in search of its famous residents, including well-known predators, as well as Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, and Hippo. You will also look for the Big Elephants nicknamed the Jumbos of Amboseli, many species of birds, and thousands of flamingos that migrate from Lake Nakuru National Park in Kenya and Lake Manyara National Park in Tanzania to Lake Amboseli in Kenya and back, all with a spectacular view of Mt Kilimanjaro.
• Continue with your drive until lunchtime and head to Observation Hill for lunch. After lunch, continue your game drive until evening, then drive back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After early morning game drives in the park, return to your lodge for breakfast.
• After breakfast, leave Amboseli for Tsavo West National Park with a game drive en route, arriving in time for lunch. Check in to your lodge and have lunch.
• After lunch, go for a visit to the Rhino Sanctuary. Take a further drive to try and see other wild animals, and later return to your lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Serena Kilaguni Lodge.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After an early morning breakfast, depart for a morning game drive with a visit to Mzima Springs. Take a further drive to see rhinos in the park and other wildlife such as lions, elephants, Greater Kudu, and many others found in the park.
• Later, depart for Tsavo East, which 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, then later return to your lodge.

Dinner and overnight at Ashnil Aruba Lodge.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

• After an early morning breakfast, depart for a full-day game drive and explore Tsavo East National Park, including Aruba Dam, a drinking point for various wildlife species found in the park such as waterbucks, zebras, warthogs, elephants, duikers, hartebeest, dik-dik, leopards, rhinos, giraffes, and buffalo, among others. It provides water for wildlife during the dry season and was built by the park authorities.
• See the elephants, a keystone species in this arid ecosystem of Tsavo East and West, which remain one of the key 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 conditions permit, continue your exploration to Lugards Falls, a series of rapids on the Galana River remarkable for its shaped water-worn rocks. Accompanied by KWS Wildlife Rangers, you can walk down to the river on foot to get a good look at the rapids while trying to spot crocodiles, and follow the riverbed for a short while.

Dinner and overnight at Lodge.

Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

• After an early morning breakfast, depart for a morning game drive until around 11:00 am in search of animals that you did not see on your first day.
• Then return to your lodge for an early lunch. After lunch, check out and depart for Mombasa or Nairobi, arriving late in the evening. Drop-off will be at your hotel or the airport depending on your schedule.

Meal plan: Breakfast and Lunch