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5 Days Budget Safari to Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru & Naivasha/Hells Gate

Experience the best of Kenya on a budget-friendly private safari covering the wildlife-rich Masai Mara, the scenic Lake Nakuru, and the beautiful Lake Naivasha & Hell’s Gate National Park.

Duration3 days
Max People8
Min Age3+
PickupNairobi

Tour Overview

Experience the best of Kenya on a budget-friendly private safari covering the wildlife-rich Masai Mara, the scenic Lake Nakuru, and the beautiful Lake Naivasha & Hell’s Gate National Park. Enjoy exciting game drives in search of lions, elephants, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras and rhinos, combined with the spectacular landscapes of the Great Rift Valley.

Tour Highlights:

  • Spot the Big Five and abundant wildlife across the iconic Mara plains.
  • Search for rhinos, lions, giraffes, buffaloes in Lake Nakuru
  • Cruise across the lake Naivasha and see hippos, birds and scenic landscapes.
  • Enjoy optional cycling or walking among dramatic cliffs, gorges and wildlife in Hells gate

Day by day itinerary

Day 01

Nairobi to Maasai Mara

Pick up from your hotel or airport and commence the drive to Maasai Mara via the great rift valley view point where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the rift valley. You will arrive in time for lunch. Check in at the camp. In the evening at 4:00 pm depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve, ends at 6:00 pm. Return back to the camp for a sumptuous buffet dinner ending with good time for resting at your preferred lodge.

Dinner and Overnight at Miti mingi Eco Camp/SIMILAR

Day 02

Full Day Game Drive in Maasai Mara Reserve

Have breakfast at 6:30 am and at 7 am, leave for a full day game viewing in the park. On this day, spend the full day exploring Maasai Mara in search of the big five, hippos and Nile crocodile. Thereafter, go for picnic lunch in park under a croton tree shade overlooking the vast landscape of the park.

It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna – lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas and vultures.

Dinner and Overnight at Miti Mingi Eco Camp/SIMILAR

Day 03

Depart Maasai Mara to Nakuru

You will have an early breakfast thereafter commence the drive to Nakuru. You will have lunch on the way. Upon arrival you will check in and have a rest. Later have dinner and spend the night at the Lanet Matfam Resort .

Dinner and Overnight at Lanet Matfam Resort/SIMILAR

Day 04

Nakuru to Lake Naivasha

You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7am to straight to the park. Its a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which form part of the Big five animals. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos .

Later depart to Naivasha and check in at Villa Graziah

You will later go for an hour boat ride on Lake Naivasha for bird watching and hippo viewing and crescent Island Sanctuary for a unique walk with wildlife. The sanctuary is home for giraffes, water-bucks, elands, wildebeests, zebras, impalas and hippos among other wildlife one is likely to find at the conservancy. Birds include the fish eagles, ospreys, lily-trotters and many more.

Dinner and Overnight at Villa Grazia Hotel.

Day 05

Hell’s Gate to Nairobi

Breakfast at the hotel and check out. Thereafter proceed to Hell’s Gate for biking safari with a visit to the gorges. Later drive back to Nairobi with drop off at your hotel or airport

What is included

Included

  • 4 nights accommodation
  • All Park entrance fees.
  • Meals as per itinerary during the safari
  • All Transport in a 4 x 4 Landcruiser jeep with a pop up roof for easy game viewing and photography
  • Professional English-speaking driver guide
  • Bottled drinking water during safari drives
  • Nairobi city centre hotel pickup and drop-off

Not included

  • International flights and visa fees
  • Travel insurance and personal expenses
  • Alcoholic drinks and extra beverages
  • Balloon safari and optional activities
  • Airport transfers or pickups outside Nairobi city centre unless arranged
  • Tips and gratuities
  • Maasai Village

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