Big Five Safari

Early morning pick-up from your hotel depart for Amboseli National Park. While you drive to Amboseli and weather permitting you shall get a view of the magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro with its snow capped peaks. This is the also the home the re-known Masai community and here you will have an opportunity to learn more on the Masai culture and indigenous lifestyle. This park lies in the shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro, which is the highest peak in Africa. Although not as large as others in the southern region, Amboseli features a unique ecosystem and a iety of game that is easy to spot. The park also features five different wildlife habitats: the seasonal lake bed of Lake Amboseli, sulfur springs surrounded by swamps and marshes, open plains, woodlands, and lava rock thorn bush country. Amboseli is best known for its great elephant herds. All meals and overnight at Kibo Safari Camp or similar

Depart Amboseli in the morning and drive through Nairobi where you will pick-up lunch boxes then proceed to Central province to the lower slopes of Mt. Kenya. on arrival you will check-in at Aberdare Country Club, then transferred to the Ark by the hotel vehicle. Check-in at the Ark for game view from the hotel deck, dinner and overnight.

After breakfast transferred to the Aberdare Country Club where you will be met by our driver and depart north across the equator to Samburu National Reserve arriving Lodge in time lunch. Afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at Samburu Ashnil Camp. Samburu is the home of the desert nomads – the Samburu tribe. After lunch enjoy an afternoon game drive at the park’s reserve to view the wildlife unique to this area of Kenya, you will see the reticulated giraffe, Grevy’s zebra, elephant, warthog, gerenuk, and, if you are lucky, the elusive leopard.

Full day in Samburu, with an early morning and late afternoon game drive. Samburu is a beautiful and and game abundant park, home to rarely found species such as the Beisa Oryx, Grevy’s zebra, blue-necked Somali ostrich and reticulated giraffe. Optional activities include a visit to a local Samburu village, camel riding and guided nature and bird.

Depart Samburu Lodge in the morning and drive to the floor of the Rift Valley – to Lake Nakuru National Park making a brief stop at Nyahururu Thomson Falls. Arrive Flamingo Hill Tented Camp in time for lunch. Afternoon game drive. Besides the flamingos that the lake is famous for, there are approx 400 other species of birds visiting the lake. Also, many species of game can be found in the park including the introduced Rothschild’s giraffe, black and white rhino, water-buck, reedbuck, lion, buffalo, leopard, baboon and many species of plains game.

Depart Lake Nakuru after breakfast and drive further along the floor of the Rift Valley to Maasai Mara Game Reserve arriving Ol Moran Tented Camp in time for lunch. Afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at the camp. During the annual migration periods, the Mara is home to almost 2. 5 million herbivores together with smaller species – 1. 4 million wildebeest, 550, 000 gazelle, 200, 000 zebra, 62, 000 buffalo, 64, 000 impala, 60, 000 topi, 7, 500 heartebeest, 7, 100 giraffe, 3, 000 eland and 4, 000 elephant. There are also plenty of hippo, rhino and warthog. In addition there are the predators – lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena, wild dog and jackal – and many small mammals, reptiles, amphibians and insects. It is truly the greatest collection of animals in the world. You have two days to explore this fabulous reserve starting with an en-route game drive to the camp.

Spend the day in Masai Mara, Kenya’s most popular game sanctuary where you will have the best opportunity of spotting the Big Five – lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino and elephant. Game drives are flexible, with the option of going out with picnic lunch boxes to spend entire day in the the park, or you can choose to have early morning and late afternoon game drives. You will also have the option of visiting a local Masai village US$30 per person.

Check-out after breakfast and drive back to Nairobi arriving approx 13:00 hrs. You can have lunch at the Famous Carnivore Restaurant or any local restaurant at an extra cost. Later transferred to the airport to check-in for your onward flight home.