6 Days Best of Kenya safari from Mombasa beach
Explore Tsavo East, Amboseli, Lake Nakuru & Masai Reserve

TSAVO EAST – AMBOSELI (300 km – Appr 5 hrs.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

We love the sight of wildlife in the morning, so it’s an early rise to watch nature’s bounty.

We’ll breakfast and then go for another game drive as we exit, on our way to Amboseli.

Like a compass, the sight of mighty Mt. Kilimanjaro will steer us to this small but active park, lying at the foot of the great mountain.

After freshening up, we’ll take our first game drive looking for the great herds of elephants for which the park is famous. And we won’t have to look long as Amboseli is dense with these fine and noble creatures.

With Kilimanjaro in the background and the mighty elephants nearby, you can’t take a bad picture.

If you’d like, enjoy an optional visit with the local Maasai people in a nearby village. Your guide can make the arrangements.

You’ll stay at your choice of safari lodge or tented camp.

AMBOSELI – LAKE NAKURU (420 km, Appr 7 hrs.) with a lunch stop at Lake Naivasha

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

We’ve got a big journey today, so we’ll head out early to begin our scenic drive. You’ll have plenty of stops to admire the timeless drama of the Rift Valley escarpment with its awesome rises and deep gorges.

Adding yet more facets to our road trip will be stops at the Rift Valley lakes of Naivasha and Elementaita with their active birdlife.

Lake Nakuru Park is up next. It’s a versatile refuge with its avian life by the lake, large game inland and special sanctuary for black rhinos. Arriving here, we’ll take a drive around the alkaline lake looking for pelican, kingfisher, ostrich and flamingo brightening up its shore.

And if we’re lucky, we may spot a rhino in the protected sanctuary.

We’ll settle in for the night here at your choice of accommodation.

LAKE NAKURU – MASAI MARA (290 km – Approx. 6hrs)

We’ll catch more of the park’s delightful animals and birdlife this morning before heading out on our drive to the Masai Mara Reserve.

We’ll arrive at the park around mid-afternoon with plenty of time for an introductory game drive. You’ll quickly see why this reserve is Kenya’s most popular and known throughout the world. There is a concentration of wildlife in the Mara that is found nowhere else. No other park surpasses its density of lions – so be on the lookout for the great felines.

The park itself is a pleasing mix of golden savannah and rolling hills seemingly decorated with the unique acacia trees.

We’ll spend the first of two nights in the park at the accommodation of your choice.

FULL DAY – MASAI MARA

This will be an active day of unlimited game drives throughout this world-famous park.

The Mara is an exciting experience any time of the year with its bounty of wildlife. However, during the Great Migration from July to October, the reserve practically explodes with an invasion of millions of wildebeest and zebra pouring in over the Mara River, searching for ever fresher grasses on which to sustain themselves.

Part of this endless cycle of nature is the predators waiting for these hordes of grazers. At the Mara River, lion, leopard, cheetah, and crocodile complete this circle of life.

If you’d like to witness this yearly influx of wildlife from above or just admire the beautiful landscape of the Mara, take an optional early morning hot air balloon ride over the park.

You can also add to your experience of the park with an optional visit to one of the local Masai villages and get to meet these indigenous people. Your driver/guide can make all the arrangements.

This is the last night in the park and your final safari evening.

MASAI MARA – NAIROBI fly MOMBASA (Masai Mara – Nairobi 265 km – Approx. 5-6 hrs)

Meal Plan: Breakfast

After a leisurely breakfast at your lodge/camp, your dedicated driver guide will assist you with the checkout process and proceed to Nairobi – Kenya’s colorful capital city.

On the way, your guide will point out the Longonot extinct volcano which is a strato volcano located southeast of Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley of Kenya. It is thought to have last erupted in the 1860s and its name is derived from the Maasai word Oloonong’ot, meaning “mountains of many spurs” or “steep ridges “.

You can opt to drive via Naivasha for lunch/excursions at an extra cost or drive straight to Nairobi and pass by Kiambethu farm for the tea farm tour inclusive of a three-course buffet lunch (at an extra cost) OR drive straight back to the capital and later transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International airport for your back home.

We will bring you to the airport for your flight back to Mombasa

You also have the option of taking the new Madaraka Express back to the coast.

At the airport or rail station in Mombasa, we’ll pick you up and bring you back to your resort or hotel.

Thank you for letting us be your host on this memory-filled six-day African safari.