This 6-day Masai Mara and Ol Pejeta offers the best of wildlife game viewing in Masai Mara National Reserve, famously known for the annual Wildebeest Migration and incomparable numbers of big cats, the big five, and other various wildlife species. This 6-day tour also includes a visit to Kenya‘s top wildlife sanctuary, Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Ol Pejeta is situated on the equator, west of Nanyuki, between the foothills of the Aberdares and Mount Kenya. the park offers excellent game viewing opportunities with clear views of Mount Kenya.
Day 1: Transfer from Nairobi to Masai Mara National Reserve
Early morning after your breakfast, our guide will pick you up at 7:00 H from your hotel in Nairobi to transfer you to the Masai Mara National Reserve. You will be briefed first upon your adventure to Africa’s greatest wildlife Reserve before you embark on the journey. Enjoy a drive through scenic views of the Nairobi suburbs, beautiful savannah grasslands, and the plains of the Rift Valley. You will have 2 stopover points; one for breakfast and the other at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint for photography, shortly after which you will continue the journey to the park. Upon your arrival at the park, you will check in accommodation just in time for lunch. After the refreshment, we will then head out for an evening game drive; expect to see various wildlife species to include giant elephants, hippopotamus, lions, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, and so many more.
Day 2: Full Day Masai Mara National Reserve
The next 6 to 10 hours are spent game viewing in Kenya’s leading Masai Mara National Reserve. You will embark on two game drives in the Mara: morning game drive and the afternoon game drive with organized bush breakfast and picnic lunch in search of the big five and other wildlife species to include: Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, Wildebeest, buffaloes, zebras, jackals, spotted hyenas, topi, impala, Hartebeests, nat eared foxes, the crocodiles and hippopotamus of the Mara and Talek Rivers.
We will have a full day to track the resident wildlife in Masai Mara National Reserve. After the thrilling day of magnificent game viewing in Masai Mara National Reserve, we retire at our accommodation for dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 3: Masai Mara National Reserve to Lake Nakuru
Early morning, after your breakfast, we say goodbye to the Masai Mara Ecosystem. We then embark on a 4-hour drive to Lake Nakuru National Park; this drive is scenic as it offers beautiful views of the Great Rift Valley. We arrive at Lake Nakuru National Park just in time for lunch, after which we head out for our Lake Nakuru adventure; enjoy an evening game drive that features wildlife viewing; Lake Nakuru National Park is the only place where you can encounter the black and white rhinos. We also harvest more lifetime memories of the beautiful huge numbers of flamingoes floating on Lake Nakuru before heading back to your accommodation for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 4: Lake Nakuru to Ol Pejeta
Early morning, after your breakfast, we depart Lake Nakuru to transfer to Ol Pejeta Conservancy. Ol Pejeta is Situated on the equator west of Nanyuki, between the foothills of the Aberdares and Mount Kenya, Upon arrival to the Park we then embark, we spend the day exploring the Ol Pejeta reserve, going on a game drive and visiting its world-renowned rhino sanctuary before retiring at our accommodation for dinner and overnight stay
Day 5: Full Day Ol Pejeta
You’ll wake up early for a morning game drive with beautiful Mount Kenya as the backdrop. Beyond the Big Five, you may spot cheetah, zebra, gazelle, and more. If you are lucky, you might even spot rare wild dogs. After lunch, you’ll enjoy a game drive in the conservancy, including a stop at the chimp sanctuary. In partnership with the Kenya Wildlife Service and the Jane Goodall Institute, the sanctuary was established to provide a long-term home for orphaned and abused chimpanzees. Here, see the chimps and learn more about their plight.
This evening at 7:00 pm, you’ll have a night game drive. This is when the truly weird and wonderful come out to play; this is nature at its most raw. With the help of a spotlight and an expert Ol Pejeta guide, you stand the chance of spotting some of Kenya’s more unusual critters: Aardvark, zorillas, bat-eared foxes, leopards, and lion hunts.
Day 6: Ol Pejeta to Nairobi
This is the last day of your 6-day safari. Early morning, after your breakfast, we prepare to check out of the accommodation. We exit Ol Pejeta and drive back to Nairobi with a picnic lunch stop, then continue to the airport for your flight home, or consider an extension to the beaches of the Kenyan Coast