AS 04-4 Days Masai Mara/Lake Nakuru Wildlife Safari
This Tour combines Lake Nakuru National Park and Masai Mara Game Reserve
About Lake National Park
Access from Nairobi is Approximate 156ks by road- 2 hrs drive
Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley soda lakes and is protected by the small Lake Nakuru National Park. The park is best known for its thousands, sometimes millions of flamingos nesting on the shores. The surface of the shallow is often hardly recognizable due to the continually shifting mass of pink flamingos. The picturesque landscape includes areas of marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with a Euphorbia forest on the eastern perimeter.
About Masai Mara Game Reserve
Access from Nairobi-by road
•Approximate 280kms -5hrs drive
The Masai Mara is one of the best known and most popular reserves in the whole of Africa. At times and in certain places it can get a little overrun with tourist minibuses, but there is something so special about it that it tempts you back time and again.
Seasoned safari travellers, travel writers, documentary makers and researchers often admit that the Masai Mara is one of their favourite places. So why is that? Perhaps it is because of the ‘big skies’, the open savannahs, the romance of films like ‘Out of Africa’ and certainly because of the annual wildebeest migration, the density of game, the variety of birdlife and the chance of a hot air balloon ride.
Highlights-In this Tour we cover two major National Parks:
•Lake Nakuru National Park …….Birdwatchers Paradise-Famous for the Pink Flamingoes
•Masai Mara Game Reserve………Wildebeest Migration -7th World Wonder –Big 5
Accommodation
Option
•Nakuru Sopa and Mara Sopa Lodge
Safari Itinerary
Day 1 : Nairobi –Lake Nakuru National park
Pick up from your hotel at 0730 hrs and drive via the scenic Great Rift Valley, A brief stop at the view point to get a view /take photos of the Great Rift Valley.The Great Rift Valley as originally described extends from Lebanon in the north to Mozambique in the south, and constitutes one of two distinct physiographic provinces of the East African mountains physiographic division. We arrive to the Pink Lake often referred so due to it’s Great masses of Flamingos in good time for lunch. Lunch at a lodge followed by full afternoon game drives. Dinner and overnight at Nakuru Sopa Lodge
Day 2 : Lake Nakuru – Maasai Mara
Breakfast at the Lodge.Check out and proceed to Maasai Mara to arrive in good time for Lunch. Lunch at Mara Sopa or Similar.Afternoon game drives followed by dinner and overnight stay at Mara Sopa Lodge Similar
Day 3 : Maasai Mara
Breakfast at the lodge.Full day spent exploring the park in search of the big 5.
The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant. It is in the Mara that the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place,the 7th World Wonder. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or Similar
Day 4 : Maasai Mara – Nairobi-
Early Morning Game Drive.Breakfast at the Lodge.We embark on a safari back to Nairobi via Narok to arrive in the afternoon where the tour ends.((Option of a City Tour including Karen Blixen,Giraffe Centre,Museum,Lunch at Carnivore Restaurant)
Package Includes:
•Accommodation for 1 night at Naivasha Sopa Lodge in Naivasha on Half Board Basis.
•Lunch at a lodge
•Accommodation for 2 nights at Mara Sopa Lodge in Masai Mara on Full Board Basis
•Exclusive use of an 8-seater safari Landcruiser
•Services of an experienced safari driver/guide
•Game drives and Transfers as mentioned in the itinerary
•Park Entrance fee to all major National parks’ and reserves
•One litre mineral water a day while on safari
•Driver’s allowances
Not Included
•International airfare and flights
•All items of a personal nature
•Gratuities for safari guide and camp staff
•Airport departure tax
•Travel insurance
•Visa and Passport fees
•Alcoholic and non alcoholic drinks and beverages