6-Days Amboseli Nakuru Masai Mara Safari Tour – 4 x 4 Private Guided Luxury Safari, Kenya
This 6-day luxury safari explores three of Kenya’s most iconic wildlife destinations: Amboseli, Lake Nakuru, and the Masai Mara. Travelers enjoy breathtaking landscapes ranging from the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro to the Great Rift Valley and the endless savannah plains of the Mara. The journey includes exceptional wildlife encounters such as elephants, rhinos, big cats, and seasonal wildebeest migration scenes. Guests stay in premium lodges and experience guided game drives, birdwatching, and optional cultural activities. This safari is designed to deliver a classic, comfortable, and immersive Kenyan wildlife adventure.
Trip Highlights
- Game drives in Amboseli with views of Mount Kilimanjaro
- Close encounters with large elephant herds
- Rhino viewing at Lake Nakuru National Park
- Birdwatching with over 400 species recorded
- Game drives in the Masai Mara, home of the Big Five
- Opportunity to witness the Great Migration (seasonal)
- Optional Maasai cultural village visit
- Scenic viewpoints along the Great Rift Valley
- Sunrise and sunset wildlife viewing experiences
Itinerary
0800 Hours: After breakfast at the hotel in Nairobi, we depart by road and drive through the scenic Athi Plains and into the bush country of Amboseli National Park.
The park is home to the legendary Masai tribesmen and is famous for huge herds of elephants.
1200 Hours: We will be arriving at a good time for lunch, later followed by relaxation sessions, swimming, and enjoying the camps/lodge grounds.
1500 Hours: We have our afternoon tea/ coffee/ hot chocolate before setting out on the afternoon game drive until dusk.
Amboseli National Park is home to wild animals, which include the African elephant, buffalo, impala, lion, cheetah, hyena, giraffes, zebra, and wildebeest among other African animals.
The park also hosts a good number of birds.
Your guide who is also a professional birder will help you identify a good number of birding species.
1830 Hours: Return to Amboseli Ol tukai Luxury Safari lodge for dinner and overnight.
Meal Plan: {Lunch & Dinner}.
- Main Destination: Amboseli National Park
- Accommodation: Ol Tukai Lodge { https://oltukailodge.com} - Luxury lodge located in or near Amboseli NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included (We start with Lunch)
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
We’ll be looking for the many herds of large tusked elephants marching through the park returning from their watering holes.
You’re sure to see the great mass of Mount Kilimanjaro rising to the south. This is also a good time of the day for the cloud cover to disperse revealing the mountain’s famous snow-capped peak.
We’ll get up early for one last game drive. Besides the ever-present elephants, keep an eye out for zebra, buffalo and gazelle.
Overnight at your Amboseli national park safari lodge or tented camp.
What you may see at the Amboseli national park …….
Elephant Cheetah, Wild dog, Buffalo, Giraffe, Zebra, Lion, Mongoose, Hyrax, Dik-dik, Lesser Kudu and nocturnal porcupine etc
- Main Destination: Amboseli National Park
- Accommodation: Ol Tukai Lodge { https://oltukailodge.com} - Luxury lodge located in or near Amboseli NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
0800 Hours: After breakfast, we head back towards Nairobi and continue driving through the stunning scenery of Kenya’s Great Rift Valley to explore Lake Nakuru National Park.
Along the way, we make a brief stopover at the Rift Valley viewpoint for a morning view of the Majestic Mt. Longonot and the breath-taking view of the Rift Valley.
1100 Hours: Arrive in Lake Nakuru National Park and proceed directly on a game drive.
1300 Hours: Enjoy your picnic lunch at the Baboon cliff Viewpoint. After lunch proceeds on another game drive. Lake Nakuru birdlife is world-renowned and offers over 400 species of both aquatic and terrestrial birds.
Lake Nakuru animals include Black and White Rhino, buffalo, leopard, lion, Rothschild’s giraffe, White and Black Colobus monkey, eland, steenbok, impala, Chandlers Reedbuck, dik-dik, rock hyrax, klipspringer, hippo, and clawless otter.
1800 Hours: Return to Lake Nakuru Sarova lion hill Lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
- Accommodation: Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge {https://www.sarovahotels.com/lionhill-nakuru/} – Luxury lodge located in or near Lake Nakuru NP
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
0800 Hours: This morning we depart the hotel after breakfast and drive through the dramatic Great Rift Valley to the Masai Mara Game Reserve.
This enormous reserve is actually part of the vast Serengeti plains famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest migration and is home to the Big Five: Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo, and Rhino.
1300 Hours: Lunch at our Lodge and relax before departing for the afternoon ‘Spice” game drive.
1530 Hours: The Mara Game Reserve is one of the greatest wildernesses in the world. Large mammals are varied and easy to see.
Residents among the Parks are Masai Giraffe, Buffalo, Eland, and thousands of plain games including Impala, Zebra, Topi, and both Thomson’s, and grants Gazelles. Also, get to enjoy an optional walking safari (with an armed guide along the mara River). A nature walk is also available led by the Masai Warrior
1830 Hours: Return to Mara Sarova Game Lodge for Dinner and overnight
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: Keekorok Lodge { https://www.sarovahotels.com/maracamp-masai-mara/} – Luxury lodge located in or near Masai Mara NR
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Our full day in the Masai Mara Game Reserve will be spared for the search of the big cats of the Masai Mara and the spectacular view of the famous migration.
All of the “Big Five” animals (elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos, and buffalo) can be spotted here. Herds of plains zebras are found throughout the park.
Other animals include giraffes, jackals, gnus, warthogs, gazelles, hartebeests, hyenas, bat-eared foxes, Topi antelope, hippos, and crocodiles in the Mara River.
For bird lovers, the Mara birds come in every color and size. More than 400 bird species have already been recorded, including birds of prey.
You can enjoy a colorful view of birds such as vultures, ostriches, long-crested eagles, pygmy falcons, secretary birds, marabous, red-winged Schalow’s turaco's many others.
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
- Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
- Accommodation: Keekorok Lodge { https://www.sarovahotels.com/maracamp-masai-mara/} – Luxury lodge located in or near Masai Mara NR Meals & Drinks: All meals included
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
0600 Hours: If you are not participating in the hot air balloon, you enjoy morning tea/ coffee or Hot chocolate followed by a morning game drive.
On the plains are enormous herds of grazing animals plus the elusive Cheetah and leopard hiding amidst acacia trees.
0930 Hours: Return to the lodge/ camp for breakfast.
1000 Hours: Optional visit to an authentic Masai village (at an extra cost) to witness the singing and dancing that are part of their daily lives and sacred rituals.
1100 Hours: Depart the Mara by road back to Nairobi arriving in the late afternoon.
Meal Plan {Breakfast}.
- Main Destination: Nairobi
- Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
- Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
End of tour
- Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
- You’ll be dropped off at the airport
Includes/Excludes
Cost Includes
- - Accommodation as outlined above.
- - All meals are 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 is guaranteed a window seat.
- - Your driver/guide speaks English and has in-depth knowledge of the flora, fauna, landscape, culture.
- - A 4x 4 Safari Land cruiser 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, binoculars 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 hotel/Airport and drop off at the 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
