12-Day Kenya Classic Signature Wildlife Safari

You’ll have breakfast at the lodge and later depart to Masai Mara National Reserve. Upon your arrival in the park, you will have an en-route game drive heading to the lodge, for check in and lunch. Afterwards, you will have a late afternoon game drive. Later, you’ll return to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

Enjoy an exploratory drive around the 1,792sq km game reserve with its low hills and savannah type rolling grasslands, gallery forest on the Mara River, and its tributaries. Get introduced to the herbivores; elephant, rhino, buffalo, and the variety of antelopes, the Masai giraffe, and the Burchell zebra. The carnivores are the black mane lion, cheetah, and leopard. Also to be seen are the largest bird such as the Masai ostrich, the secretary bird, the crested crane, and saddle-bill stork. Crocodiles and hippos share the river. Your overnight stay will be at Fisi Camp.

Main Destination:

Masai Mara National Reserve

Accommodation:

Fisi Camp

• Budget tented camp located just outside Masai Mara NR

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

You’ll have an optional early morning balloon safari ride (US$500.00 per person) across the Masai Mara plain. Have breakfast at the lodge then enjoy morning and afternoon game drives. Masai Mara is an extension of the Serengeti ecosystem to the south. Game abounds here. The Mara is noted for its abundance of lions, particularly the superb black maned males. It is where the great migration of over 1.5 million wildebeest and other antelopes crossing the mighty Mara River occur. You are also likely to see lots of elephants here often in large herds, and if you’re lucky, leopard, cheetah and rhino. All of the Big Five are residents. You’re sure to see the African buffalo. Get the cameras ready, stock up on film/tapes, and enjoy yourselves! In the evening, visit the Maasai village. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at Fisi Camp.

Main Destination:

Masai Mara National Reserve

Accommodation:

Fisi Camp

• Budget tented camp located just outside Masai Mara NR

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

You will have your morning breakfast at the lodge. Then depart for Lake Naivasha, where you will arrive in time for lunch. In the afternoon, have a boat ride.
Lake Naivasha is a beautiful freshwater lake, fringed by thick papyrus that’s almost 13 km’s across, but its waters are shallow with an average depth of five metres. The waters of the lake draw a great range of game to these shores.
Giraffes wander among the acacia, buffalo wallow in the swamps and Colobus monkeys call from the treetops, while the lake’s large hippo populations sleep the day out in the shallows. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at Panorama Hotel Naivasha.

Main Destination:

Lake Naivasha

Accommodation:

Panaroma Hotel Naivasha

• Budget hotel located in or near Lake Naivasha

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Woken up by marching elephants and sounds of birds, have breakfast at your lodge. Check out and drive through the cool Rift Valley environment towards Nakuru. Drive through the park and arrive at your lodge in time for lunch when you’ll have an afternoon game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park. Nakuru is a small park with over 50% of its area covered by the lake. Located in the middle of the Rift valley, Lake Nakuru has a wide variety of animals which includes the Rothschild giraffe, lions, white and black rhinos, as well as the leopard. All these can be spotted depending on your luck. The park is also considered by birdwatchers as an ornithological paradise! A myriad of both greater and lesser flamingoes have made this lake their home. Dinner and your overnight stay are at Citymax Hotel.

Main Destination:

Lake Nakuru National Park

Accommodation:

Hotel CityMax

• Budget hotel located outside Lake Nakuru NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included

Drinks not included

After breakfast, departs to Amboseli National Park, set against the legendary Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain. Amboseli is home to the “Big Five” of African wildlife: elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo, and leopard. The view of the Amboseli plains, with elephants moving below the snow-capped peaks of Mount Kilimanjaro, is one of the most photographed vistas in Africa. A network of swamps and wetlands ensure excellent game viewing all year-round. Upon arrival in the park, have an en-route game drive heading to the lodge. Check in and enjoy your lunch. After lunch, embark on an afternoon game drive with an expert game driver. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at AA Amboseli Lodge.

Main Destination:

Amboseli National Park Accommodation:

Aa Lodge Amboseli

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Amboseli NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Enjoy a full-day exploration of the park. After breakfast, depart for a morning game drive. Afterwards, you’ll be transferred to your lodge for lunch at leisure. Later, embark on an afternoon game drive. Later, you will return to the lodge for dinner. You will be able to see the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro, Big Five, and more than 400 bird species. Dinner and your overnight stay are at AA Amboseli Lodge.

Main Destination:

Amboseli National Park

Accommodation:

Aa Lodge Amboseli

• Mid-range lodge located just outside Amboseli NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

After breakfast, depart for Tsavo West National Park. We arrive at Tsavo West National Park and check-in for lunch at Ngulia Safari Lodge. Relax at your lodge up to four in the afternoon when your driver will pick you up and lead you to the afternoon game drive for two hours. Spot the maneless lions in the park. Afterwards, return for dinner and your overnight stay.
Tsavo West is a beautiful, rugged wilderness. The grassland ecosystem comprises open grasslands, scrublands, acacia woodlands, belts of riverine vegetation, and rocky ridges including the Poacher’s Lookout where visitors can see the teeming herds in the plains below. Tsavo West National Park offers some of the most beautiful game viewing in the world and attractions include elephants, rhinos, hippos, lions, cheetahs, leopards, and buffalos.

Dinner and your overnight stay are at Ngulia safari lodge.

Main Destination:

Tsavo West National Park

Best Time To VisitJune to October and January to February (Best for general wildlife viewing; little rainfall)

High SeasonDecember to March and July to October (Busy)

Best WeatherJune to September and January to February (Little rainfall)

Accommodation:

Ngulia Safari Lodge

• Mid-range lodge located inside Tsavo West NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Tsavo West National Park to Tsavo East National Park

Have your breakfast at the lodge in leisure and later depart for Tsavo East National Park, with an en-route game drive on your way. You will arrive in time for lunch. After lunch, you will have an afternoon game drive.
The joint mass of Tsavo West and Tsavo East National Parks forms one of the largest national parks in the world and covers a massive 4% of Kenya’s total land area. Tsavo East the larger of the two, lies to the east of the Nairobi –Mombasa road, equidistant between Nairobi and Mombasa. It offers a vast and untapped arena of arid bush which is washed by azure and emerald meandering of Galana River. It is guarded by the limitless lava reaches of the Yatta Plateau and patrolled by some of the largest elephant herds in Kenya. Your overnight stay will be at Ashnil Aruba lodge.

Main Destination:

Tsavo East National Park

Accommodation:

Ashnil Aruba

• Mid-range lodge located inside Tsavo East NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

You will have a full day in the park with your morning and afternoon game drive.
The attractions in the park include:
Elephants in Eden – The sight of dust-red elephants wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with the midnight blue waters of the palm-shaded Galana River is one of the most evocative images of Africa.
Aruba Dam – The beautiful Aruba dam located on the north bank of the seasonal Voi River, is visited by thousands of animals and is a great game viewing destination.
Mudanda Rock – This whale–backed rock towers above a natural dam, which acts as a draw to thousands of elephants.
Yatta Plateau – At 300 kilometers in length, the heat shimmering edge of the Yatta Plateau is the longest lava flow in the world and an ornithological paradise that attracts migrating birds from all over the world.

Dinner and your overnight stay are at Ashnil Aruba.

Main Destination:

Tsavo East National Park

Accommodation:

Ashnil Aruba

• Mid-range lodge located inside Tsavo East NP

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Day 12

Tsavo East National Park to Nairobi

Have breakfast at the lodge, then have an en-route game drive at the park as you drive to Nairobi. On arrival, you’ll be transferred to the airport for your flight home. Bringing to an end of the Kenya wildlife migration tour.

Main Destination:

Nairobi (City)

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
• Drinks not included

• You’ll be dropped off at the airport.