7 Days Fly & Drive Safari to Amboseli, Samburu & Masai Mara

Full-Day at Samburu

The day is yours to go on as many game drives as you please… or not. You can split up your time between safari action and some R & R at your accommodation. The choice is yours. Just tell your driver/guide what you’d like to do.

While on your game drives you’ll be looking for elephants, lions, buffalo, zebra, antelope, and many species. What you won’t see are great groups of other safari-goers as the park is a little off the usual safari routes. And that just leaves more park for yourself.

If you’d like we’ll have time to jaunt off to nearby Shaba and Buffalo Springs reserves to enjoy their greener pastures and track the wildlife there.

Samburu is also known to harbor several endangered species like the Somali ostrich, Grevy’s zebra, reticulated giraffe, and Beisa oryx.

Toward evening we might see a beautiful African sunset as we head back to our safari lodge or tented camp.

Samburu – Ol Pejeta (3 Hour Drive)

We’ll be up early to catch this peaceful park at a particularly peaceful time. Then it’s breakfast and another game drive as we exit on our way to Ol Pejeta Conservancy.

The trip is a quick one and takes us to the cooler areas of Mt. Kenya and Laikipia.

Ol Pejeta is an incredibly diverse park – not only home to all the biggest game but also a sanctuary for rhinos and chimps.

At the Sweetwaters Sanctuary, orphaned and injured chimps are nursed back to health. It’s the only place in Kenya where you’ll see these playful, intelligent creatures in a natural setting.

We’ll also visit the black rhino enclosure, a large open space dedicated to protecting the largest population – over one hundred – of the endangered and shy creatures.

On our third Safari evening, we’ll rest up and enjoy dinner at our Ol Pejeta safari lodge or tented camp.

Full Day at Ol Pejeta

Just like at Samburu, we’ve designed this safari for you to enjoy full days at the parks. Go on as many game drives as you wish or take time to relax at your accommodation.

There’s an active variety of wildlife at Ol Pejeta with the big cats and other large species, but we’ll also be looking for impala, giraffe, baboon, jackal, foxes, and hyena. Not often seen in other parks, we may spot endangered African wild dogs so we’ll be tracking for them as well.

Because the park is private there are several unique activities available here such as nighttime and bicycle safaris. Talk with your guide about taking part in these unusual adventures.

We’ll spend the evening at our Ol Pejeta accommodation

Ol Pejeta – Masai Mara (1 Hour Flight)

By now you know the safari routine: up early to take in the new day and the emerging light upon the park and its wildlife. It’s also a great time for an easy game drive in a setting you’re getting familiar with.

We’ll then breakfast and take a final drive through the park to the nearby airstrip where your flight to the Masai Mara awaits. At 10:30 am, after goodbyes with your guide, you’ll take off on the scenic one-hour hop to the Mara lands.

Touching down near the park you’ll meet your second Natural World Kenya Safaris guide who will be waiting with an open-sided 4 x 4 Land Cruiser. Jump in and we’re off to perhaps the most famous wildlife park in the world.

The park will open up before you as a great region of sprawling savannahs and rolling hills, adorned with distinctive acacia trees and over 95 species of mammals.

Indeed, the Masai Mara boasts the densest concentration of wildlife in the region.

Famous for its prides of lions, as well as cheetahs and night prowling leopards, this great park impresses everyone who journeys over its deep and colorful horizons.

Over the next three days, we’ll go on unlimited game drives and discover elephant, rhino, buffalo, giraffe, zebra, antelope, and uncountable birds filling the skies and the trees.

We’ll retire at our Masai Mara accommodation on this fifth night of our safari.

Full Day at Masai Mara

You’ll want to be up early to take in this great park and its immense displays of wild animals. Talk with your driver/guide about various areas of the park and what you can expect to see there.

You almost certainly should go down to the Mara River, site of the Great Migration from July through October. Here you’ll witness one of the most unbelievable displays of wildlife on the planet.

Hundreds, thousands… even tens of thousands of wildebeests, zebras, and gazelle pour into the park from the neighboring Serengeti on their yearly trek searching for sustenance in the form of food and water.

Waiting for this onslaught of grazers is a distinct coterie of predators. Crocodiles awaiting in the Mara River and then throughout the reserve, entire collections of big cats waiting for their prey. This is the natural world where each species behaves according to its pre-ordained genetic code – predator and prey.

If you’d like to watch this amazing drama from above, take advantage of our optional early morning hot air balloon safari. You’ll float over the park and the Great Migration, witnessing the world come alive with vast fleets of wildebeest stretching out to the horizon. Simply breathtaking.

Another fun optional activity will add a cultural aspect to your time in the park. Visit a nearby Maasai village and get to meet these indigenous people close up. You’ll learn about their pastoral lifestyle, their culture and perhaps view their lively dance ceremonies.

As the day begins to wane, take in one of the spectacular Mara sunsets as we head back to your accommodation for our final safari evening.

Masa Mara – Nairobi (1 Hour Flight)

It’s our final safari morning and we’ll celebrate with a game drive through the park. You’re experienced safari-goers now and probably have developed a sense as to where to look for the animals.

After breakfast, we’ll head to the airstrip – your one-hour flight back to Wilson Airport takes off at 11:15 am. Bid your guide goodbye and get ready for the scenic flight, viewing the great park from the air.

You’ll be touching down in Nairobi at about 12:15 pm and be met by a Natural World Kenya Safaris driver who will bring you to your hotel, residence, or the international airport.

7 Days. A full week of non-stop safari action by Jeep and plane (and possibly bicycle, and hot air balloon). We’re sure you collected photos and memories for a lifetime… but please remember us when you’d like to come back. For the entire team at Natural World Kenya Safaris, a big thanks for your time and commitment to the safari way!