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Trip Details

Tour Cost: GBP 370
Local Payment: GBP 180
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Included

Masai Mara Game Reserve.

Highlights

Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, Masai Mara.

Extras

Visas, Personal Insurance, International flights

Optional side trips

Hell's Gate Park cycle ride, Crescent Island, Longonot Mountain, Lake Nakuru National Park. Other side trips are available

At the end of this trip you have the opportunity extend your stay to include the Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park

Tour summary

Day 1

KENYA We transfer up to Nakuru. Tonight we stay at the old working farm: Kembu Camp.

Day 2

We spend a day at Lake Nakuru, viewing game in a park famous for its soda lake surrounded by over a million pink flamingoes, pelicans, rhinos and tree-climbing lions. If we are lucky we can spot leopard along the lakeside.

Day 3

Lake Naivasha: here hippos come to graze in the evenings. The more energetic can spend the morning cycling through lion-free Hell's Gate National Park or bird watching on the lakeshore. We spend the afternoon visiting Elsemere, the home of Born Free.

Day 4

In the morning you can visit Crescent Island the film location of 'Out of Africa' where you can wander with a guide amongst African wildlife in predator-free surroundings.

Day 5

You have the chance to go bird watching on the lake shores, or to climb Mount Longonot, an extinct volcano. Or you can take a boat out on the Green Crater Lake

Day 6

We climb the Mau escarpment and pass through the Masai capital of Narok.. The evening is spent in a tented camp on the edge of the Masai Mara reserve.

Day 7

Game driving at its best, in the vast grassland plains, the untouched habitat of the Masai Mara.

Day 8

We return to Nairobi and spend the evening feasting in the famous Carnivores Restaurant.

Day in the Life of an African Overland.