Day 1: Nairobi –Nakuru
Pick up from your Hotel or Airport this morning in Nairobi and depart for Nakuru to arrive in Lake Nakuru Park and have a game drive en route, arriving in time for lunch. Enjoy an afternoon game drive a long side the shores of the lake where you will have an opportunity of seeing millions of migratory birds. In the acacia woodland, you will search for the plain game including the White Rhino.
Lake Nakuru National Park hosts the Lake Nakuru a fresh water lake, which is well known for its thousands, sometimes millions of flamingos nesting along the shores. The surface of the shallow lake is often hardly recognizable due to the continually shifting mass of pink. The lake’s abundance of algae attracts the vast quantity of flamingos that famously lines the shore.The park has recently been enlarged partly to provide the sanctuary for the black rhino. This undertaking has necessitated a fence – to keep out poachers rather than to restrict the movement of wildlife.
The park now has more than 25 rhinos, one of the largest concentrations in the country, so the chances of spotting these survivors are good. There are also a number of Rothschild’s giraffe, again translocated for safety from western Kenya beginning in 1977. Waterbuck are very common and both the Kenyan species are found here. Among the predators are lion and leopard, the latter being seen much more frequently in recent times. The park also has large sized pythons that inhabit the dense woodlands, and can often be seen crossing the roads or dangling from trees.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge or a similar hotel on Full Board basis.
Meals: Lunch & Dinner.
Day 2: Lake Nakuru- Maasai Mara
After breakfast depart for Maasai mara arriving in time for lunch. Check in at your hotel and have lunch. Afternoon game drive through the park in search of the Lion, Cheetah, Elephant, Buffalo and other members of the Big five plus other animals.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or a similar hotel on Full Board basis.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.
Day 3: Masai Mara Full Day Game viewing.
Early morning game drive game drive return back to the hotel for breakfast.
After breakfast enjoy full day game drives in this magnificent park.
Our game drives take us in search of Africa’s Big Five and the plethora of other wildlife inhabiting this vast Kenyan game reserve. On clear days, the Mara offers fantastic orange tinged sunsets well-worth capturing on camera. The Mara reserve is 1510 km² of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers in Kenya. One glimpse is enough to explain its appeal; it is typical open savannah, with a mass of amazing wildlife.
Wherever you go in the vast Masai Mara you will see a frequent amount of wildlife such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos are also found in great numbers. It is also common to see lions either basking after a heavy meal, or surveying the plains for their next meal. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot, but reasonably common.
The ultimate action here is without doubt the annual wildebeest exodus, the Great Migration, in July and August when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of lusher grass before turning south again in October.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or a similar hotel on Full Board basis.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 4: Masai Mara – Naivasha.
Leave Masai Mara after breakfast and drive through the park and arrive at Lake Naivasha in good time for lunch .Afternoon at relaxation or visit
Optional Activities in Naivasha:
⦁ Hells gate National Reserve: USD 40 Per Person. The only reserve in Kenya where you can enjoy game viewing while on a Bicycle.
⦁ Boat ride: USD 30 Per person.
⦁ Visit to Crescent Island:USD 40 Per Person.
Dinner and overnight at Naivasha Sopa Lodge or a similar hotel on Full Board basis.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 5: Naivasha – Nairobi.
After breakfast depart for Nairobi arriving in the afternoon and drop at your hotel or Airport for your flight back home.
Meals: Breakfast.
TOUR COST:
02Jan-31Mar
NO. PER PERSON SHARING COST SRS
1 PAX 1,695
2 PAX 1,140 180
3 PAX 1,015 180
4 PAX 950 180
5 PAX 915 180
6 PAX 890 180
7 PAX 870 180
8 PAX 860 180
01Apr-15Jun
NO. PER PERSON SHARING COST SRS
1 PAX 1,365
2 PAX 970 20
3 PAX 845 20
4 PAX 785 20
5 PAX 745 20
6 PAX 725 20
7 PAX 705 20
8 PAX 690 20
16June-31Oct
NO. PER PERSON SHARING COST SRS
1 PAX 1,785
2 PAX 1,210 200
3 PAX 1,085 200
4 PAX 1,025 200
5 PAX 985 200
6 PAX 960 200
7 PAX 945 200
8 PAX 930 200
01Nov-21Dec
NO. PER PERSON SHARING COST SRS
1 PAX 1,695
2 PAX 1,140 180
3 PAX 1,015 180
4 PAX 950 180
5 PAX 915 180
6 PAX 890 180
7 PAX 870 180
8 PAX 855 180
Tour Package Includes:
⦁ 4nights Full Board Accommodation and meals on safari
⦁ 5 Days Ground transportation in a clean Safari van with open roof hutch for game viewing.
⦁ Services of an English speaking driver / guide
⦁ Extensive Game drives in Kenya
⦁ Park Entry Fees for Lake Nakuru Park and Masai Mara.
⦁ Mineral water during game drives.
⦁ Exemplary services of our driver/guide.
Tour Package DOES NOT include:
⦁ Lunch on the last day.
⦁ Drinks & Laundry.
⦁ Personal expenses.
⦁ All other expenses not mentioned above.
OPTIONAL MASAI MARA BALLOON SAFARI STARTING FROM USD 450 PER PERSON:
Close your eyes, and for a moment feel your body lift up, with you having no control over it, and there is a certain part of you, inside you, saying to yourself, I am crazy for taking this balloon safari. This is what most people feel, when the excitement of a Masai Mara balloon safari crosses one’s emotion of self-control and independence.
Don’t stop! Tell me more about my Masai Mara Balloon Safari in Kenya?
The feeling is indescribable, crispness of the African air, chill in the wind that hits your face as your Mara hot air balloon gradually rises, smoothness in the exhale of your breath, and the excitement to see and learn more. One’s physical presence can be felt on the plains of the Masai Mara when reading this.
You trip begins when you get your wakeup call at your safari lodge or tented camp in the early hours of the morning, as you yawn away, and thoughts about your wildlife viewing from an elevated position begins to stir your mind. The fresh Kenyan traditional hot tea and coffee quickly awaken you, in fact preparing you for a “mission”.
By 6.15 a.m. you are almost arriving at the hot air balloon site in the Masai Mara. As you approach the site, the balloon seems bigger than you expected, the experience is one that has never been visited, and you are about to have a trip of a lifetime.
Liftoff! Up and away we go! At 6.30 a.m., the hot air balloon safari starts. The captain asks you to relax and experience the wonders under the African sky. As you finally start to get a grip on the elevation, an inner smile that resonates on one’s face does not need an explanation. The wildebeest moving in large numbers across the Masai Mara plains, the beauty of the landscape when the rising sun’s bright orange colors are displayed, the elephants at the water pool, and the gazelles and zebras scampering away, just if it was their first time to witness an alien object in the sky.
By 7.30 a.m., one is very content with balloon safari, and it is almost touch down time. There is a celebration, and for those who prefer a toast, champagne is served, as hot breakfast in the bush is being prepared. You ask yourself, is this true? I am really doing this trip of a lifetime in Kenya? In the Masai Mara? As the sweetness and aroma of the African coffee surrounds you, with fresh eggs being served as you like it, you hope for another ride, and wish that such luxury never ended.
By the time you finish your breakfast, you have made up your decision to immigrate to Kenya because such life is only found here. You begin to question yourself, and you feel an urgency to seek, live and enjoy this pristine beauty, a once in a lifetime “thing”.
By 9.00 a.m., you have been declared a champion, a mighty certificate of completion handed out to you which you hope to display in your home country, to family, friends, coworkers. Clapping and participation by everyone present makes you proud to have achieved a trip as wonderful as this.
By then you hear a blaring sound of music or even an annoying buzz, you turn around and switch of the alarm clock. Your eyes wide open, you know that you have to get back to Kenya, to Masai Mara, again otherwise the recurring dreams will drive you mad.
