7 Days 6 Nights Rift Valley Lakes and Masai Mara Safari

You will depart Nairobi early morning for Lake Nakuru national park (2.5 hours) where you could see over 400 different species of birds, good numbers of white rhinos, the rare Rothschild giraffe and other plains mammals such as lion, zebra and buffalo. On entering the park, you will take a game drive on route to your accommodation at Sopa Lodge located at the top of a ridge with great views over the lake and park. After lunch you’ll head out into the park for a game drive before returning to the lodge for dinner.

• Main destination: Lake Nakuru National park
• Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge
• Meals & drinks: Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included) Drinks not included

Today, you will spend the day on game drives exploring the lake shore with all meals at the lodge.

• Main destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
• Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge
• Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, you will head down the Rift Valley to Lake Naivasha and the Sopa Resort (1.5 hours). The lodge is located by the lake and has beautiful grounds with huge cactus and many acacia trees and there is often wildlife wandering around such as bushbuck, zebra and giraffe. The main building has an interior garden, fireplaces and low comfy leather sofas.

The rooms themselves are spacious, Swahili style chalets either with a balcony or a glass fronted lounge area for relaxing and wildlife viewing. After lunch you’ll take a boat safari across the lake where you may see hippos and many species of birds including fish eagles, pelicans and sometimes flamingoes, towards the end of your boat safari you will stop at Crescent Island for a guided nature walk. You’ll then retire to the lodge for the evening where you can take a swim, have dinner and watch the hippos come up from the Lake to graze in Sopa’s grounds.

• Main destination: Lake Naivasha
• Accommodation: Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge
• Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

An early morning drive to Masai Mara National Reserve, it holds on as one of the few places left on earth where wildlife still lives comparatively undisturbed, in the numbers that once roamed the plains and forests of Africa. As the northern tip of the vast Serengeti ecosystem, the Mara hosts the spectacular seasonal migration of many thousands of Wildebeest, Zebras and attendant predators. Have lunch en-route, evening is spent at leisure. Dinner and overnight at camp.

• Main destination: Masai Mara
• Accommodation: Sarova Mara Game camp
• Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Spend the days on game drives exploring the Masai Mara. The open grasslands are home to incredibly rich and varied wildlife and the awesome, annual migration of millions of wildebeest and antelope is the highlight of any visitor to Africa from July to September. The Maasai Mara Game Reserve is arguably Kenya’s most popular game sanctuary. It is the most famous and most visited game reserve in Kenya. The film ‘Out of Africa’ was made to a great extent in this reserve.

Virtually every type of wildlife can be seen in the Mara due to the migration across the Kenya/Tanzania border which is a spectacle worth seeing as millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle from Serengeti plains cross the Tanzania border at the Mara River to into Maasai Mara grazing fields from late June.

The dramatic crossing of the river and the predators who prey on the herds can be viewed from early July to August. The reserve abounds with birdlife since close to about 452 species have been recorded.

• Main destination: Masai Mara
• Accommodation: Sarova Mara Game Camp
• Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

We wake up at 6am for a sunrise game drive. At 9am, we drive back to accommodation for brunch then depart for Nairobi. Lunch en-route and arrival in Nairobi at late afternoon.

• Main destination: Masai Mara – Nairobi
• Accommodation: End of tour (no accommodation)
• Meals & drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included) Drinking water (Other drinks not included)