4-Day Private Masai Mara & Lake Nakuru Kenyan Safari

You will be picked up in the morning from your hotel or airport. You'll drive to the Masai Mara National Reserve, arriving in time for lunch. The Masai Mara National Reserve is a pristine wilderness of haunting beauty, promising its visitors a profusion of wildlife, prolific birdlife and the opportunity to catch sight of all the members of the Big Five in one morning. The 1,800 sq km of this veteran reserve offers a mix of African imagery - miles of grasslands, lilac-misted hills, a meandering river, acres of thorn-bush and mile upon mile of undulating wilderness. Game viewing here is excellent all year-round thanks to the diverse population of resident game, including the Big Five (lions, leopards, elephants, buffalos and rhinos) plus popular species like zebras, giraffes, hyenas, elands and gazelles. You will have an afternoon game-viewing session to spot the Big Five as your introduction to the park. Later, you will return for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

You will spend the day in the Masai Mara with morning and afternoon game drives. The Masai Mara National Reserve offers one of the best opportunities to see cheetahs and lions in Africa. A visit to this reserve in July will allow you the best chance to witness and watch firsthand as thousands of wildebeests migrate across the swollen crocodile-infested Mara River. This is one of nature’s greatest wildlife spectacles, the wildebeest migration. The sheer number of wildebeests arriving in the area is staggering. The migration is a dramatic mass movement of almost 2 million wildebeests, zebras and gazelles in a seasonal annual cycle driven by rainfall. To reach the Masai Mara for fresh grazing, wildebeests make dramatic river crossings, facing enormous crocodiles on the Mara River. November's short rains trigger the last leg of the migration when the wildebeests move south to Serengeti. You will return for dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

You will wake up to an early morning pre-breakfast game-viewing drive in the Masai Mara, which is the best time to spot cats on the hunt. You'll return to the lodge for breakfast and check out. You will drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, arriving in time for a sumptuous lunch. In the afternoon, you will enjoy a game drive to spot wildlife. Lake Nakuru is a shallow alkaline lake where visitors can enjoy a wide ecological diversity, with varied habitats ranging from the lake itself to the surrounding escarpment and picturesque ridges. The game drive is the main activity at Lake Nakuru. The park also has over 450 bird species, including flamingos. The lake is famed as one of the world's greatest ornithological spectacles. The park is also home to zebras, gazelles, Rothschild's giraffes, impalas, a sanctuary for black and white rhinos and other large mammals. You'll have dinner and an overnight stay at the lodge.

After an early breakfast, you will have morning game drives in Lake Nakuru National Park, one of the few Great Rift Valley attractions in Kenya that has the potential to hold a large number of birds. You will then depart for a journey back to Nairobi. You will be dropped off at your hotel or directly at the airport, marking the end of the tour.