What To Expect

Day 1: Nairobi to Maasai Mara
• Maasai Mara National Reserve

  At 8 o'clock you will be picked up from your hotel/airport and commence the drive to  Mara via the great rift valley view point where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the rift valley. Arrive Maasai Mara at the time for lunch. In the afternoon after you check in depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve. Return back to the camp for dinner at Miti Mingi camp or Rhino camp.

  Duration: 11 hours

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

• You will have a stop over at the Great Rift Valley point, Mai Mahiu Road, where you will have a breaking view of the floor of the rift valley. The rift valley system was formed 5 million years ago and the rift runs from the red sea through Ethiopia and Kenya and Tanzania. The rift valley is an active volcanic area and has some of the most interesting features including more than 8 lakes, dormant and active volcanic mountains and hotsprings and geysers like the Olkaria geothermal wells and Lake Bogoria geysers. You can actually see the volcanic Mt Suswa and Mt Longonot from this high place with their evergreen craters and the undulating green rift valley floor. The view from here is just amazing. Make sure to take as many photos from here as you can.

  Duration: 30 minutes

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

Day 2: Full game drive day in Maasai Mara
• Maasai Mara National Reserve

  Spend the full day exploring  Mara in search of the Big Five. You will have picnic lunches in the Reserve as you scale the Mara beauty sited at the banks of Mara river. Optional: In the evening, Visit the  Maasai village for a Maasai cultural tour at USD 20. Learn about the Masai community and interact with the local Maasai people. A overnight at the Masai village can be organized upon request. A balloon safari at USD380 per person can be organized early morning on this day then proceed with the normal program. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration.

  Duration: 8 hours

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

• Mara River

  The Mara River is a river in Narok County (Kenya) and in Mara Region (Tanzania), and lies across the migration path of ungulates in the Maasai Mara/Serengeti game reserves. This is the site where the wilderbeest migration takes place. There are alot of resident Hippos and crodiles

  Duration: 2 hours

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

Day 3: Depart from Maasai Mara to lake Nakuru
• Lake Nakuru National Park

  Early breakfast followed by the last early morning game drive in Mara Reserve as you en-route off Mara. Thereafter commence the drive to Nakuru.

  Duration: 6 hours

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

• The modest Makalia Falls, at the extreme southern end of the park, swell after the rains when they're at their best.

  Duration: 30 minutes

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

Day 4: Nakuru to Naivasha
• Lake Nakuru National Park

  You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7am to straight to the park. Its a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which form part of the Big five animals. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos . The game drive lasts 3 hours, after which you depart on a 3-hour drive to Naivasha to arrive in time for lunch.

  Duration: 4 hours

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

• In the afternoon, go for an hour boat ride on Lake Naivasha for bird watching and hippo viewing. Later depart for dinner and overnight.

  Duration: 1 hour

  Admission Included: NOT_APPLICABLE

Day 5: Naivasha to Nairobi