Amboseli and Maasai Mara Safari Kenya

Are you planning to visit Kenya for a safari and you are interested in Amboseli and Maasai Mara Safari Kenya. Below is the best itinerary we recommend you to do for the best Amboseli and Maasai Mara Safari Kenya.

Day 1: Nairobi

Pick from JKIA and have your afternoon at leisure or you can pre-book some of our tours:

Giraffe Centre

The Giraffe Centre is open from 9 AM to 5 PM, seven days a week. Feeding and tours operate throughout this time. . Proceeds from entry fees go toward our conservation education work

Karen Blixen Museum

Karen Blixen Museum was once the centre piece of a farm at the foot of the Ngong Hills owned by Danish Author Karen and her Swedish Husband, Baron Bror von Blixen Fincke. Located 10km from the city centre, the Museum belongs to a different time period in the history of Kenya. The farm house gained international fame with the release of the movie ‘Out of Africa’ an Oscar winning film based on Karen’s an autobiography by the same title. 

Shopping at Utamaduni Craft Center

An emporium of handcrafted artefacts, fashion, accessories, homeware, beauty products, antiques and more, Utamaduni is a one-stop shop for exquisite products proudly made here in Kenya and across the African continent. Choosing to buy an item online or in-store, you are choosing to support small businesses, grassroots organisations and vulnerable communities. (Lunch at own cost)

Bomas Of Kenya 

Experience the rich diversity of Kenyan traditional music and dance in our daily cultural performances. Our repertoire consists of over 50 dances from different ethnic communities. With live percussion, string and wind instruments, and diverse, authentic and energetic dancing, BomasHarambee Dancers will take you on a journey through Kenya’s past and present.

Overnight at Nairobi hotel

Day 2: Nairobi-Amboseli Drive time 5+ hours 

07.30am Pick up from the hotel and depart for Amboseli National through Nairobi -Mombasa

Highway. This is a 5 hrs drive that passes through Emali where on a clear day

you will be able view the tip of Mt Kilimanjaro. Arrive for lunch and later go for an afternoon game drive.

Crowned by Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, the Amboseli National Park is one of Kenya’s most popular parks. The name “Amboseli” comes from a Maasai word meaning “salty dust”, and it is one of the best places in Africa to view large herds of elephants up close. Nature lovers can explore five different habitats here ranging from the dried-up bed of Lake Amboseli, wetlands with sulphur springs, the savannah and woodlands.

Dinner and Overnight at camp.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 3: Amboseli 

After breakfast proceed for a full day with picnic lunch in the park.

Amboseli National Park is in southern Kenya. It’s known for its large elephant herds and views of immense Mount Kilimanjaro, across the border in Tanzania.

Observation Hill offers panoramas of the peak and the park’s plains and swamps. Varied wildlife includes giraffes, zebras, cheetahs and hundreds of bird species. The western section is dominated by vast Lake Amboseli, which is dry outside the rainy season.Dinner and Overnight at camp

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 4: Amboseli -Elementeita: Drive time 8+ hours 

After breakfast, proceed to Nairobi for lunch(at own cost) after which you will drive to Lake Elementeita. 

Enjoy your evening at leisure 

Dinner and over night at camp  

Meal Plan {Breakfast & Dinner}  

Day 5: Elementeita – Maasai Mara Drive time 5+ hours 

This morning we depart the hotel after breakfast and  to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. This enormous reserve is actually part of the vast Serengeti plains famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest’s migration and is home of the Big Five: Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo and Rhino. 

Travel through the Maasai country occasionally coming across Maasai herdsmen with their livestock living harmoniously with the wildlife.

After lunch at your residence lodge another game run is planned in these vast rolling grasslands. Here we find the Old Africa of the movies, with rolling grasslands dotted by acacia trees and sweeping plains teeming with Wildlife.

No matter how much you have thought about Africa, this is more than you expected—and the ideal backdrop for a hot air balloon expedition.

Meal Plan {Breakfast Lunch & Dinner}

Day 6: Maasai Mara 

Early morning breakfast and depart the lodge with your packed lunch boxes for a full day game viewing across the rich tree studded grassland and rolling hills. At lunchtime, our guide will pick a scenic (and safe) spot where you will enjoy your lunch and hear animals howling, birds chirping and the mighty Mara River flowing across the savannah bringing life to the park. After watching more of the spectacle that never gets dull, transfer back to your lodge. Dinner and overnight stay in Masai Mara

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Note*

On this day clients can choose to have AM & PM game drives this need to be organized with our driver guide the day before

During this time over a million wildebeests accompanied by thousands of other herbivores, migrate from Serengeti National Park to the Mara in search for greener pastures.

Hundreds of lions and hyenas follow them picking on the old and weaker ones. The legendary black mane lion is only found in Maasai Mara. The cheetah hunts best in these open grasslands.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

EXTRA OPTIONAL EXCURSIONS MASAI MARA:

Maasai Village Visit

A visit to a Maasai Boma (Masai village tour) is an interesting experience. On arrival at the village, you can expect to be greeted in the traditional manner, excited children and adults welcome you with song and dance, at certain times, and one of the dancers will jump up and down gracefully. The jumps are several feet high and as they jump higher the singers will raise the pitch of their voices. You will be invited to try jumping – (dancing), too. Thereafter receive a warm welcome into the unique oval, dome shaped homesteads (called Manyatta). The homesteads are made of cow dung and clay plastered over stick frames with thatched roofs, it is the job of the Maasai women to build these sturdy dwellings. Get a wonderful opportunity to learn about the history, culture and lifestyle of these Maasai. There is also the opportunity to learn about some of the customary practices, such as fire-making or beadwork, and to speak to the villagers in their homes.

Maasai Village Visit Tour Supplement: $20 per person

Maasai Mara Balloon Safari Experience

The adventure begins just before dawn. Guests assemble at the launch site for a briefing as the flames from the hot air balloon burners light the darkness as the crews inflate their craft. As the dawn breaks the hot air balloon fills and then rises. Suspended in a basket beneath the rainbow-coloured canopy, you’re off for a wildlife viewing adventure with an entirely different perspective. What amazes most first-time balloonists is the absolute stillness: the silence as you float above the plains, the forest and the rivers of the Masai Mara. The flight lasts around an hour, drifting wherever the air currents take you. There are ample opportunities for photography and video filming. Then your

Kenyan Hot Air Balloon Safari finishes with a flourish. In the time honored tradition of balloon flights the world over, you toast your return to earth with a champagne breakfast, cooked wherever you land.

Kindly note* Balloon Safari age limit 8 years and above

Balloon Safari Supplement: $450 per person

Day 7: Maasai Mara- Naivasha Drive time 4+ hours 

After breakfast transfer to Naivasha arriving late morning. After lunch, enjoy a boat ride (optional visit to crescent island)

There is just one “Crescent Island Game Sanctuary“. Located on Lake Naivasha, in the Great Rift Valley, Kenya. It is one of the most beautiful parks in Kenya and is often called Naivasha’s best-kept secret. Surrounded by water, it is actually a peninsula and is currently only accessible by boat from the East or West side.

The shores host abundant birdlife including pelicans, cormorants, and fish-eagles with their haunting cry. There are more animals per acre than any other Kenyan Park, hence many film companies have been to the Island to film the herds of Wildebeest, Waterbuck, Zebra, and Gazelle.

Hippo graze all over us at night then sleep under the acacia or rest in the water by day. Often you can see  three generations of Giraffe at a time, all of whom have been born on the Island. And if you’re lucky you may see one of the beautiful Pythons who live here. 

From the top of the hill, there is a 360-degree view across the Lake from Longonot to Hell’s Gate to the Mau Escarpment to Eburu and onto the Aberdares.  Walking along the ridge in the golden hour before sunset whilst watching the animals grazing with the water shimmering beyond, is what Africa is all about. 

Dinner and overnight at lodge.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 8: Naivasha-JKIA Drive time 2+ hours 

After an early breakfast, depart for Nairobi and head direct to JKIA for your check in to catch your flight home.

Why book Amboseli and Maasai Mara Safari Kenya with Eco Adventure Safaris

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