Embark on the Perfect 7-Day Safari: Explore Masai Mara, Nakuru, Naivasha, and Amboseli
Discover Kenya’s premier safari destinations with a thrilling adventure through Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Naivasha, and Amboseli. Experience exhilarating game drives and immerse yourself in the diverse wildlife and landscapes of Kenya. Nomadic Essential Travel is your dedicated host, ensuring a memorable, seamless and expertly guided African safari.
Itinerary
The perfect safari trip to Masai Mara, Nakuru, Naivasha, and Amboseli starts with the great and famous Masai Mara game reserve for a breathtaking safari experience. The Game Reserve is a home of abundant wildlife, birds, and endless grassy plains. We depart Nairobi after pickingyou up from your hotel or airport and with a stopover to witness The Great Rift Valley escarpment.
The journey takes 4 to 5 hours to arrive at Masai Mara accommodation property in time for a hot lunch, a little siesta, and an evening game drive. Enjoy at least a 2-hour introductory game drive as you transverse the best game reserve, witness the sunset, and return with the best first-day safari memories, dinner, and overnight.
Breakfast then depart for Kenya safari experience in the famous safari destinations for wildlife viewing. The sightseeing includes large numbers of lions, cheetahs, African buffalos, leopards, wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, antelopes, hyenas, elephants, Black Rhino if lucky, and many more wild animals that call Masai Mara game reserve a home. During the day enjoy a guarded nature walk at Mara River to see the hippos and crocodiles.
Enjoy your picnic lunches in the wilderness and continue building your perfect safari trip Masai Mara safari experience. Late evening exit the best Kenya game reserve with great safari memories, drive to the accommodation property for an optional activity, dinner, and overnight.
After breakfast check out and proceed for the cultural tour visiting of the local Masai people. The locals will welcome you to join their dances, and milking, allowing you to see the Manyatta house and warriors teach you survival tactics in the jungle. Before 1000am leave Masai Mara region and drive to Lake Nakuru either via Mau – Narok Road. Hot lunch en route and optional stopover at Lake Naivasha for a boat ride and Nature walk on the Lakeshore. We arrive at Nakuru town in the late evening for check-in, dinner, and overnight.
Lake Nakuru National Park is a famous safari destination and the most visited park in Kenya. The Lake Nakuru National Park sits in The Great Rift Valley Province and hosts one of the Soda Lakes that acts as a breeding zone for the pink flamingos. After breakfast have an opportunity for bird watching and a great game drive in this premium park, visit the lake for birding watching and search for the black and white rhinoceros.
More game drives on the mainland with the sightseeing of the Rothschild giraffe, waterbuck, buffalos, hyenas, lions, zebras, antelopes, and many more animals. Later exit the park and drive to Naivasha to arrive in time for check-in and a hot lunch. Late afternoon or early evening have an hour’s visit to The Sanctuary farm walking as you enjoy numerous species of wildlife and bird watching that are protected on the farm. An optional horse riding on the farm if interested then return to the accommodation property for dinner and overnight.
The perfect safari leads you to visit to Hell’s Gate National Park which has spectacular sceneries. With the help of the guide decide if to hire bicycles for cycling the 11kms down the gorge or enjoy the game drive with the safari vehicles. Enjoy photography with a wildlife background.
Upon arrival at the gorge have a guided nature walk along the water-gouged gorge up to the geothermal plant.Then later on ascend to the main gate, exit and drive to Amboseli National Park with a stopover for hot lunch. We arrive at the Amboseli accommodation property in the late evening either before sunset or after sunset, check-in, have dinner, and overnight.
Amboseli National Park is the land of great sceneries and thrilling wildlife that call Amboseli National Park home. Experience the immense views of Mount Kilimanjaro which has the highest peak in Africa. Amboseli National Park is the breeding zone of Elephants and you will see large herds of elephants, lions, zebras, giraffes, hyenas, antelopes, gazelles, and many more wild animals. Enjoy the game drive on the Amboseli plains; visit the observation point, the base of Mount Kilimanjaro, and the swampy area where elephants bathe in abundance.
During the dry season, animals meet here in search of drinking water as it’s the only source of water. Later evening exit the Park and drive to your accommodation property for an optional activity, dinner, and overnight.
Depart immediately after full breakfast for the final 2 hours game drive in Amboseli National Park. Depending on the next safari destination the guide will decide either to transverse the park from Kimana Gate to Mashenani Gate or enjoy the game drive and exit via Kimana Gate. Later drive back to Nairobi or to the best point to enable you to continue to the next safari destination. The perfect safari trip to Masai Mara, Nakuru, Naivasha, and Amboseli will end in the late afternoon with great safari memories.
