6 Days Amboseli + Lake Nakuru & Masai Mara Migration Safari

DAY 1: NAIROBI – AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

On your arrival to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by our company representatives for meet and greet services. Alternatively, we can pick you up from Nairobi hotel early in the morning and then drive to Amboseli National Park. We will arrive at the camp with enough time to settle in before lunch with a little time to relax before we head out for our afternoon game drive. We explore one of Kenya’s most popular tourist parks for the opportunity to see animals against the backdrop of Africa’s highest mountain- Mount Kilimanjaro. The elephants are the kings of the park, no doubt, they are fond of the swamp areas in the park, where they share the cool waters with the hippos and hide beneath the papyrus. Return to the lodge at sunset.
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner; Overnight at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge/Similar

DAY 2: EXPLORE AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK

Today we rise early for breakfast and leave the camp for a full day game drive with our picnic lunch boxes ready for a great full day adventure. The park is home to a large resident population of Burchell’s zebras. Other herbivores include Thomson’s and Grants gazelles, buffalo, warthog, Masai giraffe, impala, waterbuck and dik-dik. Baboons and Vervet monkeys inhabit the scarce woodlands. Lions, spotted hyenas, wild cats, jackals, caracals and cheetahs represent carnivores. With regards to birds, more than 400 species of birds have been registered, among which outstand pelican, flamingo, kingfisher, African fish eagle, ibis, secretary bird, crowned crane, grey and Goliath herons, cattle egret, black-winged stilt, little grebe, Egyptian goose, martial eagle, pigmy falcon, Masai ostrich, white backed vulture, lappet faced vulture, yellow-necked spur fowl, Kori bustard and hornbills. After the rains, the park gathers large flocks of water birds. Return back to the camp at sunset.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner; Overnight at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge/Similar

DAY 3: AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK – LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK

Rise up early for breakfast, check out and depart Amboseli for Lake Nakuru National Park. Along the way, we shall have a brief stopover at the spectacular Great Rift Valley, which is fault line some 3,500 miles (5,600km) long stretching from Ethiopia’s Red Sea through Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, and into Mozambique. Lake Nakuru National Park offers you a rare insight into Kenya’s most diverse flora, fauna and wildlife and is famous for its huge flocks of pink flamingos. The birds throng on Lake Nakuru itself, one of the Rift Valley soda lakes that comprises almost a third of the park’s area. More than 450 species of birds have been recorded here as well as a rich diversity of other wildlife. Lions, leopards, warthogs, waterbucks, pythons, and white rhinos are just some of the animals you might see, and the landscapes range from sweeping grasslands bordering the lake to rocky cliffs and woodland. The park also protects the largest euphorbia candelabrum forest in Africa. In the evening you will return back to the lodge for dinner and overnight

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner; Overnight at Sarova Lion Hill/Similar

DAY 4: LAKE NAKURU – MASAI MARA GAME RESERVE

After breakfast from the hotel, you will make your way to Masai Mara Game Reserve. We will drive via typical African savanna country dotted with local homesteads and colorful Masai herdsmen grazing their cattle. We will proceed and arrive at camp with enough time to settle in before lunch with a little time to relax before we head out for our afternoon game drive.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner; Overnight at Zebra Plains Mara Camp

DAY 5: EXPLORE MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Full day is spent in Masai Mara with morning and afternoon game drives. You will have the opportunity of spotting the BIG FIVE including lion, elephant, leopard, black rhino and buffalo. You will visit the Mara River which nearly boarders Kenya and Tanzania. You will have a chance of seeing Hippos and very large Nile Crocodiles, who lay in wait for a prey as wildebeest crosses on their annual quest to find new pastures.
Each year Masai Mara plays host to the world greatest natural spectacle, the Great Migration of wildebeest from Serengeti National Park, Tanzania To Masai Mara, Kenya. From July to October, the promise of rain and fresh life giving grass in the north brings more than 1.3 million wildebeest together into a single massive herd. They pour across the border into the Mara making a spectacular entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to horizon. At the Mara River they mass together on the banks before finally plunging forward through the raging waters, creating a frenzy as they fight against swift currents and waiting crocodiles.
Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner; overnight at Mara Serena Safari Lodge

DAY 6: MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE – NAIROBI

Early morning game drive at sunrise followed by breakfast at the lodge/camp. We depart Amboseli National Park viewing game en-route as you exit the park with the last picturesque of Amboseli. We drive back to Nairobi arriving Nairobi in the afternoon. You will be dropped at either your hotel or airport to connect with your home bound flight depending on the arrangements where the safari ends.
Meal Plan: Breakfast