BIG 5 Safari

Amboseli | Lake Nakuru | Masai Mara | Nairobi

Day 1: Nairobi to Amboseli National Park - Kenya At the start of this Budget Amboseli, Lake Nakuru & Masai Mara Safari you will be collected from your per-tour hotel in Nairobi at 07:30 am. Leaving the bustling city of Nairobi, we travel south to Amboseli National Park, located near the border with Tanzania. We arrive at our luxury tented camp inside Amboseli Park, in time for lunch. After lunch at camp, we take an afternoon game drive in the beautiful Amboseli National Park. Then we have dinner and overnight at a comfortable eco-camp in Amboseli National Park (or similar accommodation).

Amboseli | Lake Nakuru | Nairobi

Day 3: Amboseli to Lake Nakuru - Kenya We leave Amboseli Park this morning travelling north, back to Nairobi where we stop for lunch. After lunch we travel to the Great Rift Valley passing through beautiful scenery as we drive. In the late afternoon, we arrive at Lake Nakuru Park in time for an evening game drive. Lake Nakuru National Park was first established as a bird sanctuary, before being declared a national park. Lake Nakuru hosts over 400 different bird species, including many water birds. Bird species include the Great White Pelican, African Spoonbill, Yellow-billed Stork, Lesser and Greater Flamingo, and Long-crested Eagle. The Lake Nakuru National Park is known as an important wildlife sanctuary for some of Africa's endangered species, especially black and white rhinos, and Rothschild's giraffes. The game reserve is also home to lions, waterbuck, buffalo and baboons, which we keep an eye out for on our game drive. We have dinner and relax at the lodge in Lake Nakuru National Park.

Masai Mara | Serengeti

Day 5: Masai Mara Game Reserve - Kenya We spend the whole of the next day 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 and Talek rivers in Kenya. One glimpse is enough to explain its appeal; it is typical open savannah, with a mass of amazing wildlife. Wherever you go in the vast Masai Mara you will see plenty of wildlife, such as Masai giraffe, 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. 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. We overnight at the same luxury tented camp in a lovely wild setting near Masai Mara tonight.