6-Days Luxury Kenya safari — Masai Mara NR, Lake Naivasha, & Lake Nakuru Tour itinerary
This 6-day luxury Kenya safari explores three of the country’s most iconic destinations: Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, and Lake Naivasha. The tour offers a blend of premium lodge stays, rich wildlife encounters, and breathtaking Great Rift Valley scenery. Travelers enjoy multiple game drives, a boat safari, a guided walking safari, and chances to encounter Kenya’s famous Big Five. This itinerary is designed for those seeking comfort, adventure, and diverse landscapes in a short but rewarding safari experience. Luxury accommodations and personalized guiding ensure a memorable and seamless experience throughout.
Trip Highlights
- Explore the world-famous Masai Mara in search of the Big Five
- Witness diverse wildlife including lions, rhinos, leopards, buffaloes, elephants, and over 450 bird species
- Enjoy full-day game drives across rich savannah landscapes
- Experience Lake Nakuru’s flamingos and endangered rhino populations
- Take a boat safari on Lake Naivasha with up-close hippo viewing
- Guided walking safari on Crescent Island
- Visit Hell’s Gate National Park, including the geothermal plant and hot springs
- Scenic drives across the Great Rift Valley
- Luxury lodge stays offering comfort and exceptional service
Itinerary
Pick up from the airport or your hotel around 8.30 am and depart from Nairobi driving on the floor of the Great Rift Valley to Maasai Mara Game with a stopover at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint.
Picnic lunch served along the way to arrive in Masai Mara in the afternoon, check-in to your camp and later proceed for an evening game drive in search of the Mara predators.
Your dinner and overnight will be at Mara keekroko Lodge { https://sunafricahotels.com/st_hotel/keekorok-lodge/} or Mara Julia’s Luxury Safari Camp { http://www.juliasrivercamp.com/} for Dinner and overnight
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: Keekorok Lodge/ Julia’s Luxury Tented Camp - Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- All Meals & Drinking Water included (Other drinks not included)
You will spend a full day in Maasai Mara in search of the “Big 5.” The Mara offers an abundance of wildlife, including over 450 species of animals.
You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopards, elephants and many kinds of antelopes.
It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture.
Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna - lions, cheetahs, wild dogs, jackals, hyenas, and vultures.
Ø Your dinner and overnight will be at Mara keekroko Lodge { https://sunafricahotels.com/st_hotel/keekorok-lodge/} or Mara Julia’s Luxury Safari Camp { http://www.juliasrivercamp.com/} for Dinner and overnight
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: Keekorok Lodge/ Mara Julia’s Luxury Tented Camp - Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- All Meals & Drinking Water included (Other drinks not included)
You will spend a full day in Maasai Mara in search of the “Big 5.” The Mara offers an abundance of wildlife, including over 450 species of animals.
You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopards, elephants and many kinds of antelopes.
It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture.
Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna - lions, cheetahs, wild dogs, jackals, hyenas, and vultures.
Ø Your dinner and overnight will be at Mara keekroko Lodge { https://sunafricahotels.com/st_hotel/keekorok-lodge/} or Mara Julia’s Luxury Safari Camp { http://www.juliasrivercamp.com/} for Dinner and overnight
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: Keekorok Lodge/ Mara Julia’s Luxury Tented Camp - Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- All Meals & Drinking Water included (Other drinks not included)
This will be our final day in the Masai Mara game reserve. The day kicks off with an early morning game drive to catch the sunrise as you also get to bid bye to the hunting predators this morning.
Get back to the camp for full breakfast, later exit the lodge, and drive Nakuru national park with lunch served en-route to arrive at your Lake Nakuru Sarova Lion Hill with a game drive en-route to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Dinner and overnight back to the lodge.
- Main Destination: Lake Naivasha Hells Gate National Park.
- Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Sarova Lion Hill lodge { https://www.sarovahotels.com/lionhill-nakuru/} – Luxury lodge located in the Heart of Nakuru National park
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After early breakfast spend the morning in Nakuru Park where you have a chance to see flamingos among other birds [about 350 species recorded].
This is also home to the black and the white rhinoceros. The park was been established for the protection of endangered species such as the Rhino and also home to Columbus monkeys.
Other animals that are seen here include;- Leopards, giraffes, and a variety of plain antelope.
Afterward, depart the park and proceed to the Lake Naivasha at the floors of the Great Rift Valley.
Arrive at Lake Naivasha in time for lunch followed by an afternoon boat trip where you view exotic birdlife and hippos amid the serenity of this freshwater rift valley lake.
The boat ride takes you to Crescent Island where you will enjoy a guided walking safari mingling freely with the Animals.
- Dinner and overnight back to the lodge.
- Main Destination: Lake Naivasha Hells Gate National Park.
- Accommodation: Lake Naivasha Country Club { https://sunafricahotels.com/lake-naivasha-country-club} - Mid-range hotel located in or near Lake Naivasha
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
After early breakfast proceed to Hells gate National Park where you will have a chance to visit the Geothermal Power Plant in Ol Karia and the Hot Springs.
This is the only park that allows transport by walking and cycling. There is optional visit crescent Island for a boat ride where you watch hippos plus other wild animals.
Later after lunch, depart to Nairobi arriving at 5 pm drop off at your hotel.
Includes/Excludes
Cost Includes
- - Accommodation as outlined above.
- - All meals noted in the itinerary.
- - Each day generally includes Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner buffets consisting of both western and local dishes.
- - Transportation in standard game viewing safari vehicles complete with a pop-up roof for easy viewing and photography.
- - Every passenger guaranteed a window seat.
- - Your driver/guide speaks English and has in-depth knowledge of the flora, fauna, landscape, culture.
- - A 4x 4 Safari Van op pop up roof outfitted with two-way, long-range high-frequency radio communications equipment in Kenya.
- - Each safari Vehicle carries safari accessories including wildlife books, binocular for the guide, a first-aid kit, and a fire extinguisher.
- - Flying doctors (AMREF) insurance cover each client doing a safari with us just for emergencies
- - Park entrance fees and game drive as noted in the itinerary.
- - All government taxes, levies, 2 liters of bottled water during safari
- - Pick up from your beach hotel and drop off in Mombasa airport in good time for your outbound flight after the trip.
Cost Excludes
- - Domestic and international airfares and departure taxes.
- - Personal communications charges for telephone calls, faxes, email, etc.
- - Tips and gratuities for your driver/guide.
- - Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
- - Laundry services.
- - Between meal snacks, parks, attractions, and events not included in your itinerary
