6-day Kenya wildlife safari
Safari Overview
Arrival and departure: Nairobi
Day 1- arrive, Nairobi park
Day 2- lake Nakuru
Day 3- Masai Mara
Day 4- Masai Mara
Day 5- Amboseli
Day 6- Amboseli to Nairobi & departure
Detailed itinerary
Day 1
Destination: Nairobi N.P
Arriving at the airport, you will be picked up by our guide and get you to a booked hotel for rest and there after head out through Nairobi city to Nairobi national park which is just 7km outside the city. The park has numerous bird species and numerous migrant species especially during the time between June and August adding to the more than 400 resident species making it a true birding haven in Africa. Along with mammal species such as lions, leopards, giraffes, hippos, ostriches, rhinos, hartebeests, waterbucks, hyenas, buffaloes, kobs, reptiles among others. This park will give you an exceptional scenery of the existing interdependency of nature and its wild with modernity. The later afternoon hours will get heading out of the park to lake Nakuru national park.
Accommodation: Sarova lion hill lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Dinner
Day 2
Destination: Lake Nakuru N.P
This day will find you at lake Nakuru which one of the world’s highest bird concentrated areas with more than a million flamingos, storks, geese, ducks among others residing at this shallow lake. The shallowness of lake Nakuru easily exposes algae which acts as food to flamingos and other water birds thus making it a favorite place for them to stay. The pink colored flamingoes flying and settling in huge numbers make this lake one of the most colorful destinations in the world to visit; hottentot teal, bateleur, maccoa duck, pallid harrier, rupell’s vulture, shining sunbird, European roller, great snipe, western reef heron, red-capped lark, Abyssinian thrush, eastern imperial eagle, long crested eagle among others. Along the birds are mammals such as buffaloes, kobs, water bucks, antelopes, giraffes, baboons, monkeys, reptiles among others. Towards evening time, you will drive out of Nakuru getting closer to the masai mara.
Accommodation: The Mara sun lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner
Day 3-4
Destination: Masai Mara
With some of Africa’s safari experiences such as air balloon safaris, game drives, horse riding safaris and walking safaris with the masai people, Masai Mara, anchored by woodland, swamps, forest species, acacia and the mara river that have maintained an effective eco-system that is a habitat to huge number of wild game will give you non-stop action packed safari drives all throughout of Africa’s big 5 game; lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, buffaloes, along with rhinos, kobs, hyenas, hartebeests, wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, waterbucks, reptiles, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, crocodiles, hippos, wild dogs, ostriches and numerous bird species all over the park. The most famous and eye catching phenomena of the park is the great migration that occurs around the park between June and august every year championed by the wildebeests and zebras against other predators in the park and residential nile crocodiles in the Mara river for their survival battle.
Accommodation: The Mara sun lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner
Day 5-6
Destination: Amboseli N.P
On this day you will enter Amboseli national park which is found at the feet of mountain Kilimanjaro and also at the border of Kenya and Tanzania; known for its large elephant herds and also referred to as home of the African elephant. The park will guarantee you the best sights of Africa’s highest snowcapped peak and tallest free standing mountain- Kilimanjaro. The vast green plains also harbor giraffes, zebras, leopards, buffaloes, waterbucks, warthogs, kobs, lions, rhinos and numerous bird species. Towards the end of the second day in the park, you will head out of the park back to Nairobi to prepare for departure.
Accommodation: AA lodge Amboseli (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner