6 days Kenya wildlife expedition
Safari Overview
Arrival and departure: Nairobi
Day 1- arrive, Nairobi park
Day 2- lake Nakuru
Day 3- Ol Pajete
Day 4- Masai Mara
Day 5- Masai Mara
Day 6- Mara to Nairobi
Detailed itinerary
Day 1
Destination: Nairobi N.P
After being received at the airport, you will be picked up by our guide and head out through Nairobi city to Nairobi national park which is just 7km outside the city. You will have an exciting tour of a tour of wild game while gazing at skyscrapers of 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 buffaloes, leopards, lions, cheetahs, elephants, giraffes, warthogs, hyenas among others. This park will give you a unique 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: Lake Nakuru safari 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 greater and lesser 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.
Accommodation: Lake Nakuru lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner
Day 3
Destination: Ol Pajete
On this day you will be at Ol Pajete conservation area which has the highest number of protected black and white rhinos and also the only 2 remaining northern white rhinos in the world. The park offers both drives and walking safari experiences to its visitors as they interact with rangers sharing with them knowledge about the sanctuary and the animals therein. The conservatory is also a sanctuary to many more rescued species especially from hands of poachers and this is also the only place in Kenya where you can find chimpanzees. The expanse of the sanctuary also harbors lions, giraffes, elephants, warthogs, hyenas, kobs, waterbucks, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, hippos, zebras, reptiles, buffaloes, baboons, vervet monkeys among others. Later on in the afternoon you will head out to the Masai Mara reserve.
Accommodation: Mara sweet Acacia lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner
Day 4-5
Destination: Masai Mara
You will get to the wilderness of the masai mara game reserve. The park offers different safari experiences such as wildebeest migration sceneries, game dives, air balloon tours, horse riding and cultural tours with the masai people. The concentration of wild game in this park will give non-stop action packed game drives and some of the Best in the African wild comprising of elephants, cheetahs, buffaloes, lions, hyenas, wildebeests, zebras etc. 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: Mara Leisure camp (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner
Day 6
Destination: Nairobi & Departure
You will set off on a masai mara game drive leading you out to Nairobi to allow you prepare for your departure flight and say goodbye to Kenya.
Accommodation: N/A
Meals: Breakfast | Dinner