Masai Mara Kenya Budget Safari

Itinerary Description

Day 0: Arrival, Tour Briefing and Resting

• You will be picked up from the airport in Nairobi ( Jomo Kenyatta International Airport) and be transferred to the booked hotel in Nairobi
• Get the safari general briefing from the prepared safari consultant/guide
• Dinner and overnight stay at your booked hotel in Nairobi

Day 1: Drive from Nairobi to Masai Mara for a game drive

• We will pick you from your hotel in Nairobi after breakfast
• Depart for Masai Mara game reserve stopping at the view point of the Great Rift Valley and at Narok town for lunch
• Arrive in time for a late afternoon or early evening game drive in this park that is essentially the northern extension of Tanzania’s Serengeti national park as an artificial border separates the two
• This park animal concentration is second and the big five can be spotted here
• The Mara’s landscape is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills which enables the reserve to attract sufficient rainfall to maintain and support a large population of herbivores together with the predators
• Proceed to the campsite for dinner and overnight stay in Masai Mara

 Day 2: Full day game drive in Masai Mara

• After breakfast early in the morning have a full day of game viewing with a picnic lunch at the Hippo pool
• Have a good opportunity of spotting Hippos and crocodiles basking in the sun at a close distance
• Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains game and virtually every type of wildlife to be found in Kenya
• This is also where the annual migration of close 800,000 zebras and wild beast takes place between the two parks in early July to September
• The animals’ move as a great mass across the savannah in a follow the leader fashion, they follow the rains and when they arrive from Serengeti there is new succulent grass
• They return to Serengeti when the grass begins to whither and when rains are over
• Return to the campsite in time for dinner and overnight stay in Masai Mara

Day 3: Half day game drive in Masai Mara then drive to Nairobi

• Have an early breakfast followed by your final half day game tracking with your guide
• In this park that is rich of wildlife
• Break for a while in the afternoon to have picnic lunch and afterward you will be on your way back to Nairobi
• You will be arriving in Nairobi in the evening, with full of good memories of your trip as you will have seen the best of Kenya destination