8 Days Kenya Big Five Safari
This 8 Days Kenya Big Five Safari is great for wildlife viewing and bird watching. On this safari, you will visit Samburu National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, Maasai Mara National Reserve for wildlife viewing, and Ol Pejeta Conservancy to learn more about Rhinos. This will give many chances of seeing all the Big 5 animals in Kenya and other wildlife. This 8 Days Kenya Big Five Safari is an all-inclusive trip that will start and end in Nairobi, this trip can as well be customized to best match your interests.
Day 1: Nairobi to Samburu
Day 2: Full Day game drives in Samburu National Reserve
Day 3: Samburu to Ol pejeta Conservancy
Day 4: Drive to Lake Nakuru
Day 5: Lake Nakuru to Maasai Mara
Day 6: Full Day Game drives in Maasai Mara
Day 7: Game drive, Village visit and optional Balloon safari ride in Maasai Mara
Day 8: Maasai Mara and departure back to Nairobi to end your 8 Days Kenya Big Five Safari
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Travel Days
DAY 01: Pick up from Nairobi and drive to Samburu National Reserve for an evening game drive and overnight.
You will meet your safari driver guide after breakfast at your Lodge in Nairobi for a short briefing about your trip after you will drive to Samburu National Reserve arriving lunch time for check in at your lodge, you will have lunch and a short relaxing before going for an afternoon game drive to search for late grazers after you will return to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Overnight at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
DAY 02: Full Day Game Drives in Samburu National Reserve
After breakfast at your lodge, you will go for full day game drives in Samburu National Reserve along with picnic lunch boxes you will spend the entire day in the reserve searching and viewing various wildlife, you will have a chance to explore the reserve beautiful endless sceneries and bird life.
Overnight at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
DAY 03: Drive to Ol pejeta Conservancy
Drive to Ol pejeta Conservancy arriving lunch time for check in at your Camp and have lunch. After lunch you will go for an afternoon game drive, visit the Chimpanzee sanctuary, morani sanctuary and later return to your camp for dinner and overnight.
Overnight at Sarova Shaba Game Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
DAY 04: Drive to Lake Nakuru National Park for an afternoon game drive
After breakfast at the Lodge you will do an en-route game drive as you as you drive to Lake Nakuru National Park. You will have a brief stop in Nairobi for Lunch. Lake Nakuru National Park boasts a huge variety of animals, including leopards which are often found snoozing on the branches of the magnificent yellow-barked acacias, lions, buffalos, hippos, waterbucks, warthogs, baboons, the endangered Rothschild’s giraffes only found in this park in Kenya, white rhino and the rare black rhino which is protected and guarded here. Arrive for a late afternoon game drive.
Accommodation: Flamingo Hill Camp
Meal Plan: Full Board
DAY 05: Drive to Masai Mara National Reserve
After breakfast and a short briefing by your driver guide, drive to the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve, backdrop to ‘the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth’, the annual migration of over one million wildebeest. Arrive in time for lunch at your camp. Spend the afternoon on safari in Kenya’s most popular reserve. Arrive back in lodge in time for campfire cocktails and dinner.
Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
DAY 06: Full Day Game drives in Mara National Reserve
Your two days will be spent on safari in Africa’s richest wildlife viewing arena. Historically teeming with wildlife, the Mara hosts Kenya’s largest lion prides and elephant herds. Other predators include leopard, cheetah and spotted hyena; while in the Mara River you will see fat pods of hippo and vast Nile crocodiles.
Other highlights include giraffe tops, gazelle, zebra, buffalo and over 550 species of birds.
Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
DAY 07: Game viewing. Maasai Village Visit and optional balloon ride in Masai Mara National Park
Take the opportunity to fly over the Mara in a Hot air Balloon at an extra cost. The balloon package includes a champagne breakfast in the wild! If you can spare the money, viewing abundant game afloat a balloon is an unforgettable experience. Alternatively visit a Masai village and get learn the Masai culture at an extra cost.
Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge
Meal Plan: Full Board
DAY 08: Departure back to Nairobi to end your 8 Days Kenya Big Five Safari
After breakfast at the Camp, bid farewell to the Masai Mara as you set on your journey back to Nairobi. Drive back down the Great Rift Valley to Nairobi, passing the dormant volcano, Mount Longonot, and lakes Elementeita and Naivasha on the way. Keep an eye out for herds of giraffe and gazelle and head up the escarpment. You will arrive in Kenya’s bustling capital city Nairobi in the early afternoon. Spend time doing last minute shopping. Lunch is your own arrangements
Transfer to Nairobi’s Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in time for your departure flight. Bid farewell to Africa until the next time, you will end your 8 Days Kenya Big Five Safari.
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