Big Five Safari

Nairobi

Day 02: Nairobi/Maasai Mara Game Reserve

 You will Leave Nairobi after breakfast, and driven to Maasai Mara arriving in time for lunch at Mara Sopa Lodge. Afternoon game drives; dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge (LDBB).

  

Lake Nakuru

Day 04: Maasai Mara/Lake Nakuru National Park

 After breakfast, leaving Maasai Mara, head back to Narok, district headquarters of this part of Maasai land and then travel across the vast plains on the floor of the Rift Valley keep an eye out for herds of giraffe and gazelle. Turn left when you reach the road at the foot of the Rift Escarpment and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park arriving in time for lunch at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge. Afternoon game drive; dinner and overnight at Sarova Lion Hill Lodge (LDBB)

Lake Nakuru National Park is situated in the heart of the Rift Valley; Lake Nakuru is one of Kenya's most famous soda lakes. A major feature of this park is the wonderful bird life, particularly the thousands of flamingos, which create a shimmering pink hue over the lake. A rhino sanctuary also provides the opportunity to see the endangered black rhino. Sarova Lion Hill offers a unique vantage point. Each of the 64 superbly appointed chalets with private secluded veranda enjoys views over the lake and the

distant hills. Even the glorious pool has a view! Originally declared a national park because of a superbly diverse bird population, which includes many migrants, the park is also a favourite place for travelers to seek the rare black rhino. However, it is for the flamingos that the lake is best known, and it was for their protection that the park was originally created. The level of the blue-green alkaline waters here varies and this, with other accompanying environmental changes, causes considerable variation in the flamingo population, but when they are present, en masse, the whole lake turns a gorgeous rosy pink. Although protection of the flamingo population on the lake was the original rationale for the inception of the national park, further land was included in the early seventies and it is now about 190 sq m. This expansion, which took in a large grassland area, has allowed the park to protect further species. Buffalo, zebra, antelope and both lion and leopard are to be found. The rather less ubiquitous reedbuck and waterbuck are also here as is the glamorously leggy Rothschild giraffe. Temptingly, the black rhino-breeding programme, started in the late eighties, has proved successful and this is an excellent place to view them.

  

Mount Kenya

Day 06: Mount Kenya/Nairobi/Departure

 After breakfast you will be driven to Nairobi, Kenya colourful capital city. Drop off at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your onward departure flight.