6 Days Bush Experience

Pick up from the JKI-Airport and depart for Masaai Mara via the Great Rift Valley view point where you’ll stop for about ten minutes to see the panoramic and breathtaking-views. Thereafter descend the escarpment and drive through the Hemingway-trails to Narok-town for lunch. Proceed to Masaai Mara to arrive late afternoon at Mara Sopa lodge. Freshen-up, tea or coffee provided, and then go for game drive until sunset.

Take full day game drives in the park until evening. Picnic lunches will be served at the hippo pools picnic site as you watch watch hippos and crocodile in the Masai Mara River. The famous Masai Mara is renowned for its abundance of great animal herds. It’s a wildlife paradise! Across the river thousands of wildebeest migration and other wildlife takes place.

Masai Mara Sopa Lodge is 250kms from Nairobi (4 hrs), 105kms from Narok (2 hrs), and 220kms from Naivasha (4 hrs). While we are located barely a kilometer outside the reserve, it is still necessary to enter the wildlife conservation through either the Oloolaimutia or Sekenani entrance gates. The Lodge comprises 50 Guest Cottages with two bedrooms and en-suite bathrooms, 6 of which feature 2 larger luxurious Suites, and one decadent Honeymoon Suite. Built Masai-style with rustic thatch roofs and spread out along the hilltop, features include mosquito nets, an electronic safe and private verandah. A restaurant, bar and lounge encircle a huge fireplace at the main lodge where wide glass doors open on to a swimming pool and sun terrace. Dinners are served buffet-style with a wide selection of traditional fare.

Pre-breakfast game drive from 06:30-am to 09:30-am, see leopards, cheetahs, lioness hunting. This has been considered the best time to see the cats as they go on a hunting spree before sun-rises on the horizon. Back to your camp for a full breakfast, then visit the Maasai village [manyatta] and later depart for Lake Nakuru National Park. lunch served on the way arriving at Lake Nakuru in the evening for dinner and overnight-stay at the Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge.

Scenic Lake Nakuru is Kenya’s most popular national park. The park’s main feature is a large, shallow lake supporting great birdlife, including big flocks of pelicans and variable flocks of flamingos. The lake was once famous for its flamingos, however, since 2012, conditions have become unfavorable for these birds and most have moved to other Rift Valley lakes.

After an early breakfast, proceed for game drive in Lake Nakuru Park to see lion, buffalo, hyena, water buck, white and black rhinos, antelope and other plain games in abundance. Proceed to Amboseli Park with lunch on the way, game-drive en-route arrive Amboseli National Park set in the shadow of Mt. Kilimanjaro "Africa’s Highest Mountain. Check in at the Amboseli Sopa Lodge.

Amboseli is often called the ‘Land of Giants’ – due to the impressive elephants here carrying massive tusks. The animals are set against breathtaking vistas of Mt Kilimanjaro, which makes an awesome backdrop to the small park. Aside from elephants, many plains animals are easy to spot. Fantastic photo opportunities are possible, and early mornings are best for clear views of Kilimanjaro.

Amboseli offers great wildlife viewing, and four of the Big Five are present. Rhinos are absent, but big herds of elephants reliably move to and from the marshy swamps in the center of the park. Buffalo, wildebeest, Burchell's zebra and gazelle are all very common. Lions are the easiest to spot of the big cats, but sightings are hit-and-miss.

The park encloses an interesting variety of habitats including dusty plains and marshy swamps, but it is the backdrop of snow-capped Kilimanjaro towering above the Amboseli plains that attracts most visitors to this scenic park.

After breakfast, enjoy a game drive in the heart of big game country. In addition to elephant, antelope, zebra, wildebeest, buffalo and lions, nearly every vista within the park is framed by majestic Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance. Optional visit to a Maasai Village and then depart to Tsavo West National Park. On arrival check in at the Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge.

After check-in and lunch, an afternoon game drive in this vast Park is planned. Tsavo West National Park covers 20,808sq km (8,034sq miles), The Park comprises a diversity of habitats, open plains alternating with savannah bush and semi-desert scrub; acacia woodlands; rocky ridges and outcrops. With a permanent water source, the park is virtually guaranteed enormous herds and excellent game viewing including cheetah, lion, leopard and hyena and a herd of over 3,500 Elephants.

After an early breakfast, morning game drives and then departs for Mombasa arriving late afternoon. You can engage a beach extension to allow you explore some of the pristine and idyllic beaches in Mombasa.