9-Day True African Wilderness Safari

On arrival at JKIA by an early morning flight, you'll get a warm meet and greet service from our staff, a briefing, and immediately start your safari. You will have the first highlight of the tour, the Lake Nakuru National Park. Here, you'll visit Lake Nakuru the most well-known lake of the Rift Valley. It is famous all over the world for its flamingos. The lake is one of the natural wonders of the world. At times, there are up to 2 million flamingos at the lake, which form a beautiful pink ribbon around the shore. In addition to seeing this amazing scenery, you also have a good chance of seeing rhinos and leopards. From your lodge, you'll have a magnificent view of the lake.

After an early safari and breakfast, you'll drive to the Masai Mara. It is considered one of the largest and most beautiful protected areas of Kenya and reveals an insight into the originality of Africa. After lunch on-site, you will embark on the first game drive through the savannah landscape of the Masai Mara National Reserve, with a good chance to track down the Big Five (elephant, buffalo, lion, rhino, and leopard).

After breakfast, you will embark on a full-day game drive in the Masai Mara. It is famous for its savannah landscape and its wildlife. The prospects are good to observe all those fascinating animals that can usually only be seen in numerous nature documentaries. You will have a picnic at the Mara River, bordering the Serengeti. The river is part of the Masai Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which is particularly known for the largest wildlife migration on earth in the world. Every year, the huge animal trains cross the brown, foaming river full of crocodiles.

After breakfast, you will drive to Lake Naivasha. Lake Naivasha is the highest and most beautiful lake in the Rift Valley. You'll arrive, check-in, and have lunch. After lunch, you will have some time to relax before taking a boat tour to the lake where you will enjoy very beautiful views and watch most of the aquatic birds found in this lake. Your overnight stay and dinner will be at Lake Naivasha Country Club.

You'll drive to the Amboseli National Park arriving at Kibo Safari Camp in time for lunch. In the afternoon, you are free to relax at the pool or watch the animals at the waterhole. Optional you can take a walk through the Masai villages guided by a local Maasai. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Kibo safari Camp.

You'll have full-day game drives in Amboseli National Park. This park has the best areas to observe elephants at close quarters. The park has some swamplands in which animals are most likely to be seen. From the park, you'll enjoy stunning views at Mt Kilimanjaro, the most beautiful mountain in Africa which makes a very beautiful background for your photos. Look out for zebras, wildebeests, Thomson gazelles, Grant gazelles, buffalos, waterbucks, hippos, lions, cheetahs, jackals and hyenas. You'll reach Observation Hill where you'll have a magnificent view over the swamp and savannah landscape of the whole park. This is where you will have a picnic lunch. You'll continue with your wildlife-viewing. As the sun is going down, you will return to the Kibo Camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

After breakfast, you will drive to Tsavo West National Park. On arrival at the park, you'll enter and start your first wildlife viewing which will take you up to Mzima Springs, where hippos and crocodiles are residents. You'll enjoy the landscape on your walk with rangers to see hippos and crocodiles which can easily watched from a specially built underwater viewpoint. Then, you'll proceed further with a game drive en route to Kilaguni Serena Lodge, arriving in time for lunch. Kilaguni Serena offers good scenery. From the lodge, you have a high chance of seeing Kilimanjaro in good weather. After lunch and an afternoon break, you'll get back for an evening game drive through the acacia forests and the volcanic mountains, looking out for giraffes, elephants, baboons, and other different species of animals. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at the lodge.

After an early morning game drive in Tsavo West National Park, you will come back for breakfast. Then, you'll drive to Tsavo East National Park, home of the “red elephants”. You'll enter the park and make a game drive en route as you drive to the lodge arriving in time for lunch. After lunch, you will have some time to relax then go on another game drive in the afternoon. As the sun is going down, you will return to Ashnil Aruba Lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

You will make early morning game drives to explore the park further. Afterward, you will be back for breakfast. You will go on another safari after breakfast. On your way to the gate look out for the animals you missed to see in the previous wildlife viewing. You'll check out of the park and have lunch at a restaurant outside the gate of the park. Afterward, you'll drive to a coastal hotel or your next connection flight back home.