6-Day Kenya Safari to Masai Mara, Amboseli and Taita Hills

• Pick up from your Nairobi hotel or airport in the morning.
• Drive to Masai Mara on a 5-hour journey to the main gate via the Great African Rift Valley escarpment and the famous Masai town of Narok.
• Check in at the camp or tent and have lunch.
• Embark on an afternoon game drive through the park in search of lions, cheetahs, elephants, buffaloes, and other members of the Big Five, along with many other animals.

Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge.

• Set out on an early morning game drive and return to camp for breakfast.
• After breakfast, spend the whole day in the park with a packed lunch, searching for its famous residents. The Masai Mara plains are full of wildebeests during the migration season from early July to September. Zebra, impala, topi, giraffe, and Thomson's gazelle are regularly seen, along with leopards, lions, hyenas, cheetahs, jackals, and bat-eared foxes. Black rhinos are a little shy and hard to spot, but they are often seen at a distance if you are lucky. Hippos are abundant in the Mara River, as are substantial Nile crocodiles, which lie in wait for a meal as the wildebeest cross on their annual quest to find new pastures.
• Later, have your meal and stay overnight at the camp or tent.

• Have an early morning breakfast. After breakfast, leave Masai Mara for Lake Naivasha. After a 5-hour drive, you will arrive around lunchtime, check in at the camp or tent, and have lunch.
• Later in the afternoon, go for a game drive to visit Hell's Gate National Park, which allows walking safaris, hiking, bicycle rides, rock climbing, wildlife photography, and a visit to the geothermal power plant.

Overnight at the camp or tent.

• Have breakfast and check out.
• Leave Lake Naivasha for Amboseli National Park.
• During the 5-hour drive to Amboseli, stop to view the incredible Rift Valley scenery as you proceed to the park, which lies at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro.
• You will arrive with a short game drive before proceeding to your lodge for check-in and lunch.
• Check in at the camp or tent. Later in the afternoon, more game drives await you.
• Later, have dinner and stay overnight at your camp or tent.

Mount Kilimanjaro offers a scenic background for photography. Elephants, lions, cheetahs, and buffaloes can be seen in the swamp area.

• Enjoy game drives early in the morning.
• Return to your lodge for breakfast.
• After breakfast, leave Amboseli for Taita Hills Wildlife Sanctuary with a game drive en route. It will be a 3-hour drive to Taita Hills Sanctuary Park.
• You will arrive at Taita Hills Sanctuary around lunchtime.
• Have lunch at Taita Hills Lodge.
• After lunch, transfer to Sarova Saltlick Game Lodge.
• Later, have dinner at the camp or lodge. The game lodge has a private viewing balcony in all rooms, commanding a view of the adjacent Taita Hills.

Enjoy an afternoon game drive at Taita Hills Sanctuary, home to Cape buffalo, African bush elephant, African leopard, Masai lion, Tanzanian cheetah, Masai giraffe, zebra, hartebeest, impala, waterbuck, Thomson's gazelle, lesser kudu, dik-dik, and other smaller animals, including a great diversity of birdlife.

• After breakfast, enjoy a game drive en route.
• Drive out of Taita Hills Sanctuary and head to Mombasa. It will be a four-and-a-half-hour drive to Mombasa.
• You will arrive in Mombasa around lunchtime.
• You will be dropped either on the North Coast of Mombasa or in Diani on the South Coast of Mombasa, at your respective hotel or the airport.