6 Days Kenya Safari

Your driver/guide will pick you up from your Nairobi area hotel or Airport. We’ll head out in our private 4 x 4 Jeep for Amboseli National Park on the Nairobi – Mombasa Highway. We’ll spend the first of two nights at Amboseli at Kibo Safari Camp.

Early morning is a very special time for a game drive. You’ll see the park come alive with the first stirrings of wildlife as the gentle early light plays upon the trees and plains. We’ll have breakfast and then we’re off in our 4 x 4 on another drive looking for lion, cheetah and smaller game like hyena, fox, baboon, and monkey. Amboseli enjoys a rich palette of birdlife as well – crake, egret, heron, falcon, and eagle have all been spotted at the park’s marshes and lakes. We can also spot wildlife from the lookout vantage of Observation Hill where we may see buffalo, hippo, pelican and still more avian life below. As evening approaches, look to Mt. Kilimanjaro as its snowy peak may appear through the breaking clouds. Dinner and Overnight at Kibo Safari Camp.

We’ll be up early for a final game drive and bid farewell to our many elephant friends as we leave the park and journey through the Great Rift Valley. Seeing this exciting landscape with its dramatic escarpment will inspire us to stop and enjoy the views. We should arrive at freshwater Lake Naivasha in time for lunch. Then it’s time for a bicycle safari (or hiking if you prefer) to nearby Hell’s Gate National Park to explore its imposing cliffs and canyons. We’ll be biking (or hiking) past the park’s impala, eland, gazelle, and buffalo. Dinner and Overnight at Lake Naivasha Country Club

Let’s rise for an early boat safari across Lake Naivasha, with the morning sun breaking upon the lake as we float by awakening hippos and exotic birds. This is Africa at its most serene. We’ll follow that with a pleasant sojourn, a guided walking safari to Crescent Island Game Sanctuary – a jewel of a reserve that quietly shows off rich flocks of birds and grazing animals such as waterbuck, zebra, and gazelle. How lucky to find ourselves in such a heavenly sanctuary! And now we’re off to the Masai Mara National Reserve, the most popular park in the country. You’ll soon see why. Your first views of the park will be of its rolling, open spaces, delightful acacia trees and perhaps some early wildlife sightings. The Mara is known to possess the greatest concentration of wildlife in the region. So, let’s start looking for those Big Five, plus giraffe, zebra, ostrich, and so many others. Dinner and Overnight at Ashnil Mara Camp.

Your day will be filled with unlimited game drives and we’ll begin early in our 4 x 4, traversing these golden savannahs in search of the large game like lion, leopard, cheetah, and the smaller hyena and jackal. Sightings are common in this park so you’re sure to be active and engaged throughout our drives. Since you’re here during peak season, you’ll witness a stunning influx of wildlife into the park during the Great Migration – the season when gazelle, wildebeest, and zebra flood into the park over the Mara River in a timeless cycle of birth, death and renewal. We’ll take a picnic lunch by the Mara River where we may see hippo and also crocodile awaiting the influx of wildlife. Dinner and Overnight at Ashnil Mara Camp.

Feel like another game drive? We’ll start early to pack in all the adventure we can. Then, after our final safari breakfast, we’ll enjoy one more drive through the park as we head back to Nairobi. We should arrive at about 16:30 hrs. (4:30 pm).