Shadow of Kilimanjaro

Itinerary

Day 1: Nairobi – Maasai Mara

After breakfast, we will pick you up from your Nairobi Hotel. Thereafter, depart fro the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. You will have a spot at the viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley and at Narok town for lunch then proceed for a game drive on arrival, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver/guide. Dinner and an overnight stay at a lodge/campsite.

Day 2: Maasai Mara

Early breakfast followed by a full day of game drives within the reserve. Maasai Mara is renowned for its high animal concentration and abundance. Black-manned lions, elephants and buffalo can be seen (3 out of the big 5) though luck is essential for spotting leopard and rhino, which make the other two. The reserve is essentially the northern extension of Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park and is home to numerous plains game including wildebeest, common zebra and the Maasai giraffe as well as antelopes like Thompson’s gazelle, hartebeest, impala and dik dik among others. You will have a break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool where hippos are in view and with luck, crocodiles. Return to the lodge/campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 3: Maasai Mara

Early breakfast followed by a game drive. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills; this reserve is the best park for game in Kenya as it has an extensive road and track network, which enables close range viewing and photography. Lunch at the lodge or campsite. In the afternoon you will have a choice of three activities; a game drive or an escorted nature walk with our armed Maasai guides. At an extra cost you can visit a local Maasai village to see their nomadic lifestyle. All activities end at the lodge/campsite where you will retire for the night after dinner.

Day 4: Maasai Mara – Nakuru

After Breakfast depart Maasai Mara for Nakuru for dinner and overnight at a lodge/camp with lunch en-route.

Day 5: Lake Nakuru – Amboseli

After breakfast you will have a morning game viewing session in Lake Nakuru National Park to view flamingos for the park which is famous, other water birds, various antelopes and plains game, cape buffalo, the Rothschild’s giraffe, baboons and with luck the rare white rhino which is an endangered species. Drive to Nairobi for lunch then on to Amboseli National Park for dinner and overnight at a lodge/camp, game drive enroute.

Day 6: Amboseli

A day of game drives in this park, which contains swamp grounds in which elephants and hippos in abundance. A visit to the observation hill will follow where you will look out for Mt. Kilimanjaro’s peak if weather conditions permit. A variety of planning game, antelopes and birds can also be seen. You will have a lunch and leisure break at the lodge in the mid afternoon. Rest of meals and overnight at a lodge/camp.

Day 7: Amboseli – Nairobi

After breakfast, proceed for your final game drive. An early lunch will be taken then depart for Nairobi in the evening.