A well-priced Kenya Safari that starts and ends in Nairobi, exploring Amboseli National Park, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Masai Mara National Reserve.
Your Private Kenya Safari starts with game viewing in Amboseli National Park, flanked by Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. Amboseli is a compact game park, abundant in wildlife, which makes for excellent game viewing. From Amboseli, we head to the important wildlife sanctuary of Lake Nakuru National Park, via Nairobi and the scenic Great Rift Valley. Then it's off to the famous Masai Mara National Reserve for unparalleled game viewing in one of Africa's best game parks. Along the way, stay at comfortable tented camps and a safari lodge.
This Amboseli, Lake Nakuru & Masai Mara Safari offers the wildlife safari experience of a lifetime!
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At the start of this budget Kenya safari, you will be collected from your per-tour hotel in Nairobi at 07:30 am. Leaving the bustling city of Nairobi, we travel south to Amboseli National Park, located near the border with Tanzania. We arrive at our luxury tented camp inside Amboseli Park, in time for lunch.
After lunch at our first tented camp, we take an afternoon game drive in the beautiful Amboseli National Park. Then we have dinner and overnight at a comfortable eco-camp in Amboseli National Park (or similar accommodation).
Today is set aside for a full day of game viewing in Amboseli National Park. We explore this scenic game reserve on morning and afternoon game drives and have the option of visiting a Maasai village (optional extra).
Amboseli National Park is one of the most popular game parks in Kenya. Amboseli Park covers sprawling grasslands and the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak. Standing at 5896m above sea level the snow-topped mountain forms the backdrop to game viewing in Amboseli. Amboseli National Park hosts some of Kenya's largest elephant herds and is famous for its big elephant bulls with their impressive tusks. Amboseli is considered one of the top game parks in Africa to get up close to elephants in the wild, as well as offering some of the finest photographic opportunities of wildlife flanked by the scenic Mt Kilimanjaro.
The Game Park also contains huge populations of buffalos, zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, hippos, and various antelope species, such as impala. Amboseli National Park is also home to lions, leopards, cheetahs, rhinos, and many other species of plains game. The park also boasts an abundance of birds, including bee-eaters, kingfishers, pelicans, African fish eagles, and falcons.
We return to the same camp in Amboseli, for a night under starry skies. Enjoy meals and another overnight stay at the private safari camp, with beautiful views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
We leave Amboseli this morning travelling north, and back to Nairobi where we stop for lunch. After lunch, we travel to the Great Rift Valley passing through beautiful scenery as we drive. In the late afternoon, we arrive at Lake Nakuru Park in time for an evening game drive.
Lake Nakuru National Park was first established as a bird sanctuary before being declared a national park. Lake Nakuru hosts over 400 different bird species, including many water birds. Bird species include the Great White Pelican, African Spoonbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Lesser and Greater Flamingo, and Long-crested Eagle. The Lake Nakuru National Park is known as an important wildlife sanctuary for some of Africa's endangered species, especially black and white rhinos, and Rothschild's giraffes. The game reserve is also home to lions, waterbuck, buffalo, and baboons, which we keep an eye out for on our game drive.
We have dinner and relax at the lodge in Lake Nakuru National Park.
Day four of the Amboseli, Lake Nakuru & Masai Mara Safari starts with breakfast at the lodge. Then it's back on the road, as we make our way to our next game-viewing destination in Kenya, the world-famous Masai Mara Game Reserve.
We arrive at our tented camp near Masai Mara and have lunch, before embarking on a thrilling afternoon game drive in one of the finest wildlife havens on earth.
Then it's time for dinner at the safari camp, located on the banks of a river inside a private Masai Mara conservancy. Retire to your spacious tented room and fall asleep to the sounds of the African bush.
We spend the whole of the next day game viewing in Kenya's top game park - the Masai Mara National Reserve.
Our morning and afternoon 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 sq km 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 a typical open savannah, with a mass of amazing wildlife.
Wherever you go in the vast Masai Mara you will see plenty of wildlife, such as Masai giraffes, baboons, warthogs, bat-eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyenas, topi, 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.
Hot-air balloon trips are an entirely outstanding way of seeing the savannah plains teeming with wildlife. These Masai Mara balloon trips can be arranged at extra cost.
We overnight at the same luxury tented camp in a lovely wild setting near Masai Mara tonight.
Start day six of our budget Kenya safari with breakfast at the tented camp in the private Masai Mara Conservancy. Then it is time to say goodbye to the African bush and drive back to Nairobi.
This unforgettable Amboseli, Lake Nakuru & Masai Mara Safari ends upon arrival back in Nairobi at about 15:00.
Stay at a private safari camp in luxury tented rooms with bathroom areas, that feature flush toilets, hot and cold showers and wash basins. The eco-friendly camp is located in a natural setting within Amboseli Park and offers beautiful views of Mount Kilimanjaro. Facilities at camp include a swimming pool, gift shop, African art gallery and a massage parlour.
We stay at a comfortable lodge with lush gardens inside Lake Nakuru National Park. Facilities include two bars, a restaurant and a large swimming pool. Accommodation is in en-suite rooms with views of the lake, national park, and leafy gardens.
Accommodation is at a luxury tented camp located along the Oloirigynyisho River in a private 30-acre conservancy, near the Masai Mara National Reserve.
The camp offers views of the Oloolotikoshi Hills from its location on the riverbanks - an area where various wild animals are regularly spotted. The closest entrance to Masai Mara is the Ololaimutia gate, only 2.5 km from the camp. This intimate camp features 8 spacious permanent tents which have been tastefully decorated and fitted with beds, linen, and mosquito nets. The tents have en-suite bathrooms with flush toilets, washbasins, and hot showers. Each tent has its own veranda where guests can sit back and watch the bush.
Facilities include bar and lounge areas, a shop selling locally-made products, and an airy restaurant designed like a traditional African hut.
This safari will be conducted in a custom-made 4x4 Land Cruiser with a pop-up roof for game viewing. The 4x4 Land Cruisers are adapted for game viewing and fitted with refrigerators to keep your drinks cold out in the bush.
The maximum group size on this Kenya Safari is six people, to guarantee each person a window seat on game drives.
Please note that the Wildebeest Great Migration is seasonal. As a natural wildlife phenomenon, it is fluid and unpredictable. For this reason, seeing the Great Migration cannot be guaranteed.
The wildebeest and other wild herbivores migrate between Masai Mara in Kenya and Serengeti in Tanzania. These herds move in a massive circular route covering some 1200 miles (1931km). It is a continuous movement of wildlife that can be seen in different areas at different times of the year. During certain phases of this annual trek, the animals disperse or slow down, whilst at other times the migration picks up speed, with the herds becoming larger and denser. Not only does the Wildebeest Great Migration vary from place to place and season to season but the movement of these large wildlife herds varies from year to year.
Please talk to a travel expert from African Budget Safaris about seeing the Wildebeest Great Migration on your safari to find out more. Also, check out our detailed article about the Great Migration in Serengeti and Masai Mara.
For up-to-date and confirmed pricing info for optional items, please drop us an enquiry.
This tour does take children.
Children of all ages, travelling with accompanying parents or guardian, are accepted on this safari.
Please contact African Budget Safaris for further information.
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