10 DAYS SAFARI: NAIVASHA, NAKURU, BOGORIA, MASAI MARA, AMBOSELI, TSAVO AND TAITA HILLS TRIP

10 DAYS SAFARI: NAIVASHA, NAKURU, BOGORIA, MASAI MARA, AMBOSELI, TSAVO AND TAITA HILLS TRIP

With a landscape and wildlife as varied as it’s people, it is impossible to exhaust your destination options in one visit. However, you can have a varied experience that takes you through The Great Rift Valley Lakes, takes you to the center of wild action in the parks and give opportunities to see some very unique wildlife while interacting with a people that have overcome many odds to rise again and shape a brighter future for themselves.

DAY 1 - Naivasha

Pick up from your hotel in the morning. We drive down the Escarpment of the Great rift valley, to the Lake Naivasha. Enjoy the picturesque views and photo moments at the viewpoint.  Visit the Crescent Island for a game walk. Proceed to hotel and check in. Lunch at hotel. Optional afternoon visit to Hell’s Gate National Park, gorge exploration or biking.  Back to your hotel. Dinner and overnight at a Hotel/lodge.

DAY 2: Nakuru
After an early breakfast drive to Lake Nakuru National Park. Check in at hotel. Lunch and head out for a game drive through the “pink lake”, so named because of the flock of flamingoes that can number up to two million. There are tens of thousands of other bird species, White and Black Rhino, Buffaloes, Leopards, Lion, Giraffe, Water Buck, Zebras, Warthogs, Thomsons Gazelles and Impalas. Enjoy sunset views at the Baboon Cliff or Lion Hill. Dinner and overnight at hotel/lodge.

DAY 3: Lake Bogoria
Leave with a morning game drive enroute to Lake Bogoria. With its hot springs and geysers, the lake is a perfect algae growth zone and hence ideal for the flamingoes that literally paint the lake pink, to the extent of the horizon. They gather here in their hundreds of thousands and at times a million plus. Overnight in a Lake Elementaita hotel. 

DAY 4: Masai Mara
After an early breakfast depart and drive to the Masai Mara arriving at the lodge/camp in time for lunch. Check in. Late afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at a camp or lodge.

DAY 5: Masai Mara
Whole day spent exploring the Mara plains to experience the Mara magic! That is, you enjoy a morning and an afternoon game drive with a picnic lunch break in between. This reserve is Kenya's premier reserve and is famed for its astounding concentration of wildlife with the wildebeest migration mainly in July through to October being such a highlight. The Mara however offers rewarding safari moments all year round. It is possible to spot the big five of Elephant, Lion, Rhino, Buffalo and Leopard in one game drive. See the Crocodiles of the Mara River and Hippos. On this day you have a chance to experience the hot air balloon ride over the Mara plains or go for an escorted walk within designated areas at an extra cost.

Dinner and overnight at a camp or lodge.

DAY 6: Nairobi

After breakfast break camp/check out and drive as you watch out for game. We have a chance to hang out with the Masai people, the indigenous community that have lived side by side with the wild animals in Masai Mara for centuries. We get to appreciate their ways of life and livelihoods. It is our perfect opportunity to be part of the community initiatives within the locality. Stop over at Narok to buy souvenirs or just for a snack break and lunch before proceeding on to Nairobi. Drop off at your hotel.

DAY 7: Amboseli
After breakfast depart for Amboseli  National Park set at the foot of the magnificent Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s tallest mountain. Given clear skies you will get an opportunity to view the peaks of Kilimanjaro. Amboseli National Park has a prolific population of Elephants. Arrive at the camp in time for lunch. You will have lunch then an afternoon game drive follows. Sundowners with cocktails, champagne or mocktails and soft drinks on observation hill can be organised at an extra cost. Later you can have Dinner and overnight at the hotel/camp.

Day 8: Amboseli – Tsavo West – Taita Hills Animal Sanctuary

You will depart from Amboseli after breakfast and proceed to Tsavo West. Immediately commence on your game drive getting to the Shetani Lava Flow and the magnificent Mzima Springs that suddenly brings so much life to an otherwise dry and patched section of our wide African Savanna. 

 Lunch will be had enroute. Dinner and Overnight stay at a hotel/lodge in Taita Hills. 

Day 9: Taita Hills                                                                                                                                                         

On this day, you will undertake a morning game drive after breakfast. After a lunch enjoy another game drive. Overnight at Taita Hills.

 Day 10: Nairobi

Morning game drives, breakfast and we check out. WE have a chance to visit one of the traditional Taita communities, most localities boasting breathtaking views of the Taita Mountain ranges and rock boulders. We then depart for Nairobi to fly back home with lunch enroute.