8 Day Kenya Safari Amboseli Nakuru Naivasha Masai Mara

Day 1: Nairobi – Drive to Amboseli National Park
Day 2: Explore Amboseli National Park
Day 3: Amboseli – Drive to Lake Naivasha
Day 4: Lake Naivasha – Day trip Lake Nakuru National Park
Day 5: Lake Naivasha  – Drive to Masai Mara National Reserve
Day 6: Explore Masai Mara National Reserve
Day 7: Explore Masai Mara National Reserve
Day 8: Masai Mara – Drive to Nairobi

Day 1: Nairobi – Drive to Amboseli National Park

After breakfast in the morning, depart for Amboseli National Park. The drive takes you through the Maasai land to the park which nestles at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain.

Lunch is served at the lodge, before departing for an afternoon game drive.  Amboseli National park hosts some of Kenya’s largest elephant herds and is famous for its big elephant bulls with their impressive tusks.

Amboseli National Park also contains huge populations of buffalos, zebras, wildebeests, giraffes, hippos and various antelope species, such as impala. It is also home to lions, leopards, cheetahs 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. Return to the lodge and enjoy a scrumptious dinner.

Overnight Accommodation: Amboseli Serena Lodge, Ol Tukai Lodge or Amboseli Sopa Lodge
Meal Plan {Lunch & Dinner}

Day 2: Explore Amboseli National Park

A full day in this picturesque park. This morning we rise early for good views of Mount Kilimanjaro before clouds build up over the summit, we set off for a game drive.

Amboseli is an excellent place to view a multitude of wildlife, including everything from Wildebeest to Giraffes to Baboons. A visit to a Masai village is planned after breakfast. Midday finds us at our lodge for lunch and afternoon rest, followed by another game drive.

Amboseli is home to the legendary Masai tribesmen. Masai warriors are famous and are a proud nomadic tribe whose legendary prowess in battle and single-handed acts of bravery in fights with wild animals are known across the world.

Overnight Accommodation: Amboseli Serena Lodge, Ol Tukai Lodge or Amboseli Sopa Lodge
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 3: Amboseli – Drive to Lake Naivasha

Depart early in the morning after breakfast and proceed to Lake Naivasha via Nairobi where you will have your lunch. Continue through the Great Rift Valley to Kenya’s highest lake at 1880 m above sea level, Lake Naivasha.

Hippos, giraffes, buffaloes and zebras are just a few of the animal species that thrive at the lake and its surrounding swamps and grasslands. Lake Naivasha is a birdwatcher’s dream come true.

Some areas of Lakeshore have recorded over 400+ species. The acacia forests teem with hoopoe, woodpeckers, rollers, shrikes, hawks, cuckoos and much more.

It is a beautiful freshwater lake, fringed by thick papyrus with hippos lazing in the lake and is home to 400+ bird species, and many buffalo, zebra, impala, leopard and giraffe grazing on the shores.

Enjoy a boat trip on the lake or a nature walk on Crescent Island where you reach wildebeest, antelope, impala, and giraffe grazing from a close view. Oh, and there are some rather gigantic pythons too!

Overnight Accommodation: Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge or Naivasha Simba Lodge or similar
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 4: Lake Naivasha – Drive to Lake Nakuru National Park for a Day Safari

This morning we travel from Lake Naivasha to Lake Nakuru National Park for a full-day game drive. Lake Nakuru supports a wide ecological diversity with Flamingos (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds being the major attractions of the area.

The ecosystem provides for about 56 different species of mammals and a variety of terrestrial birds numbering nearly 450 species. Bird species, including many water birds including the Great White Pelican, African Spoonbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Lesser and Greater Flamingo, and Long-crested Eagle.

Animals include rock hyrax, colobus monkey, hippo, leopard, lion, black and white rhinos, striped hyena, the golden cat, Thompson and grant gazelles, Rothschild Giraffe etc.

One of the unique facts about Lake Nakuru Park is that it is compact making it have a high game density. This makes it therefore very easy to encounter wildlife during the safari trail. It is very likely to see a leopard in this park and lions are very easy to come across.

We return to Lake Naivasha in the evening to our overnight accommodation.

Overnight Accommodation: Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge or Naivasha Simba Lodge or similar
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 5: Lake Naivasha – Masai Mara National Reserve

Today we start 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 lodge in time for lunch and later embark on a thrilling afternoon game drive in one of the finest wildlife havens on earth. 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 hyena, 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.

We overnight at our camp/ lodge in a lovely wild setting in Masai Mara tonight.

Overnight Accommodation: Mara Sopa Lodge or Mara Serena Lodge or Siana Springs Tented Camp
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Days 6 & 7: Explore Masai Mara Game Reserve

We spend the next 2 days 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 river in Kenya.

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.

On the final day in the Mara, you also have an opportunity to visit an authentic Masai village.

Overnight Accommodation: Mara Sopa Lodge or Mara Serena Lodge or Siana Springs Tented Camp
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}