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General Information

Type:
Adventure
Price from:
480 USD /person
Phone:
+254 20 229484
Fax:
+254 20 2246739
Payment Types:
  • No Cash
  • No Credit Card
  • No Cheque
  • No Travellers cheque
  • No Paypal
  • No Wire Transfer
Duration:
4 days
Location Start:
Nairobi
Location Finish:
Nairobi
Start time:
08.00 am
End time:
04.00 pm
We Speak:
Spanish, French, English, Kiswahili
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Last updated: 05/19/2009

A visit to Masai Mara game reserve with big game concentration of game animals and to Lake Nakuru, a home of millions flamingoes and other big game

Itinerary

Day 1

NAIROBI - MASAI MARA.
5 hours drive: Pick up from the hotel at 0800hrs and drive to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, the northern part of the Serengeti, one of Kenya's most favored game-viewing areas. Lunch enroute. Afternoon game drive.

Masai Mara is justifiably one of the most famous reserve in Africa. With good reason as this is the Kenyan section of Serengeti plains and wildlife abounds. It is also traditionally the land of the Maasai people. The Masai people, after whom the park is named, are nomadic. While on game drives, you will often notice young tribesmen herding their cattle amongst the plains game. The Mara is 700 sq miles of open grassland dotted with the distinctive flat-topped acacia trees. It is watered by the tree-lined Mara River and its tributary the Talek River. The Western border of the park is the spectacular Oloololo Escarpment. It is difficult part of the Mara to access because of the swampy grounds.

Dinner and overnight at the camp/lodge

Day 2

FULL DAY MASAI MARA.
Full day game drive with picnic lunch. The Mara is the land of African legend: Lion are abundant throughout the park, as are the elephants, giraffes, and a variety of gazelle species and zebra. Cheetah and leopard are also regularly seen and, less commonly, rhino.

The annual wildebeest migration, one of nature's few remaining wildlife spectacles, occurs in the Mara from July to September where the big animals and their predators are to be present in abundance during the time frame of this trip. Several species of Bee-Eater, the flying rainbow that heads the list of the Mara's birds, occur in the reserve.
As well as wildlife, the Maasai Mara is also home to many members of the colorful Maasai tribe who may be seen around the borders of the park - Morans (warriors) loping across the plains, young boys herding goats, or elders grouped under a tree discussing matters of the day. All meals and overnight at the camp/lodge.

Day 3

MASAI MARA - NAKURU.
5 hours drive: A last game run in the picturesque Maasai Mara in the morning through the Rift Valley drive to Lake Nakuru, a shallow alkaline lake in the Rift Valley, renowned for its spectacular flamingo population as one of the world's greatest ornithological spectacles.

Although Lake Nakuru is primarily a bird sanctuary, there are a considerable number of animals to be encountered, such as many large game animals such as zebras, elephants and gazelles, this is one of our best chances of seeing rhinos. Lake Nakuru National Park was the first place in Kenya selected as a rhino reserve. Here is one of the few places where we can see Rothschild's giraffes.

Dinner and overnight at a budget hotel in Nakuru town/lodge.

Day 4

NAKURU - NAIROBI
After breakfast, morning spent game viewing, watching and photographing birds at Nakuru National Park.

Lake Nakuru National Park was established in 1961, and since then the park has increased considerably and now covers an area of 200sq km. The Lake lies in the park and has been given the conservation world's Ramser Site designation. It is a shallow soda lake. It is the most famous of The Great Rift Valley lakes with "the world's greatest ornithological spectacle". There is an opportunity of viewing over two million flamingos along with tens of thousands of other birds. The Lake is very shallow and the level fluctuates by up to four metres annually. When the water is low the soda crystallises out along the shoreline as a blinding white band of powder. There are areas of grassland, bush, forest and rocky cliffs and there are many other animals to be viewed, white rhino, the Rothchild giraffe, waterbucks, warthogs, large herds of buffalo, Thomson's gazelle, leopard, hyrax, hippos and many more animals.

Leave for Nairobi with lunch enroute and a stop for panoramic views of the Great Rift Valley. Arrive Nairobi late in the afternoon at around 1600hrs after driving through lush Kikuyu farmland. You will be dropped at your hotel or at the airport.

Extra Information

Inclusions -
1 Complementary airport transfer in Nairobi
Exclusions -
All services not mentioned above
Extras -
Guranteed Departure with a minimum of 2 persons.

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