Kenya is one of Africa’s most visited tourist destinations and this 5 Days Around Kenya Wildlife Safari Tour is the best way to encounter the abundant wildlife that this country has to offer. This safari is a celebration of Africa’s variety, and will take you to Lake Naivasha and Lake Nakuru filled with flamingos and hippos to lions and wildebeests in Masai Mara Plains. Visiting Kenya with Gorilla Adventure Tours is your best bet to experiencing the best of Kenya.
Day 1: Transfer to Lake Naivasha
A Gorilla Adventure Tours safari guide will pick you from your hotel in Nairobi and drive you to Lake Naivasha with a stopover at Great Rift Valley escarpment for 20-30 mins. After that you will proceed with a stopover at Hell’s Gate National, the Park, which is mainly, comprised of Savannah ecosystem harbors a wide variety of wildlife including birds like; vultures, Verreaux’s Eagles, augur buzzard, swifts. Animals you might encounter include; African buffalo, zebra, eland, hartebeest, Thomson’s gazelle, and baboons are also common. The park is also home to klipspringer antelope. Later Evening, you can have an optional boat ride at blue-lake Naivasha.
Accommodation: Enashipai Resort & Spa-Mid-range hotel
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park
After breakfast, we then drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, regarded by avid birders’ as the greatest World ornithological spectacle on the Earth. The Park is famous for its millions of pink flamingoes lining on the lake shore. The Park is also Sanctuary to the Black Rhino, White Rhino and the Rothschild Giraffe. Bird life include common species like the lesser and Greater Flamingoes, African fish Eagle, Tawny Eagle, Green Wood Hoopoes, Cliff Chat, Great White and Pink Backed Pelicans plus other intra- African Migrants.
Arrive in time for lunch and check in your Lodge. Proceed for an afternoon game drive in this park that has a dense population of other wildlife before returning back to Lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge.
Day 3: Transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve
After Breakfast we depart to Masai Mara Game Reserve, the landscape has grassy plains and rolling hills, and is crossed by the Mara and Talek rivers thus been one of the few laces left on earth where wildlife still lives comparatively undisturbed, in the numbers that once roamed the plains and forests of Africa. Its animals include lions, cheetahs, elephants, zebras and hippos. Wildebeest traverse its plains during their annual migration. Arrive in time for lunch then have an afternoon game drive.
Accommodation: Ilkeliani luxury tented camp.
Day 4: Masai Mara Plains
Spend another second full days in Masai Mara with unlimited game drives in the Reserve exploring the park in search of the big 5 – Optional balloon safari can be arranged at an extra cost.
The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.
Accommodation: Ilkeliani luxury tented camp
Day 5: Transfer to Nairobi
Another extended morning game drive in Masai Mara.Return back to the camp for late breakfast. We depart Mara for the return journey back to Nairobi with en-route lunches. Safari ends in Nairobi at approximately 1630 hrs. Drop off your hotel or airport.
End of the 5 Days Around Kenya Wildlife Safari Tour.
The 5 Days Around Kenya Wildlife Safari Tour includes;
- Park fees
- All activities
- All accommodation
- A professional English driver/guide
- All transportation
- Airport transfer
However, the 5 Days Around Kenya Wildlife Safari Tour excludes;
International flights, Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour, Tips, Personal items, Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc. Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees.