Big Five Safari Kenya Tour

Today land into Jomo Kenyatta International airport @0315hrs, met with your driver guide and given complimentary safari hat BEST way to start your African safari in Kenya. Breakfast at a hotel 0730hrs – after breakfast depart to Lake Nakuru region with leisurely stops along the way including at the Great Rift valley view point. 1130hrs – Arrival in time for warm welcome you will be offered free welcome drink as you check in, assisted to your room later head to the restaurant for hot lunch. LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK Lake Nakuru is among Kenya's finest national parks. Flanked by rocky escarpments, pockets of acacia forest and at least one waterfall, the park is gorgeous year-round and is home to both black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, hippos and endangered Rothschild's giraffes. Rising water levels in 2014 forced the park's famous flamingos to flee (although a small number had returned at the time of research), and the lake is now hauntingly surrounded by drowned trees. The lake supports a dense bloom of the blue-green Cyanophyte Spirulina platensis from which it derives its colour. It is a food source for flamingos. The lake is fringed by alkaline swamps with areas of sedge, Cyprus laevigatus and typha marsh along the river inflows and springs. The surrounding areas support a dry transitional savanna with Lake Margin grasslands. 1830hrs–Proceed on to the lodge for dinner and overnight Overnight: Nakuru Sopa Lodge Meals: FB –Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner

Breakfast at the lodge 0730hrs: After breakfast head off to Masai Mara, with stopovers to stretch your legs and also visit the washrooms. 1230hrs: Arrive later in the afternoon in the Mara and check in at Mara Sopa Lodge. 1600hrs: depart for your afternoon game viewing drive in the reserve MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE The world-renowned Masai Mara National Reserve is a huge expanse of tawny, sunburnt grasslands pocked with acacia trees and river woodlands, and heaving with animals’ great and small. Impressive at any time of year, it's at its best between July and October when a million migrating wildebeest and tens of thousands of topis, zebras and other animals pour into the reserve from Tanzania in search of fresh grass. It is, arguably, the most spectacular wildlife shows on the planet and the one thing that no visitor to Kenya should consider missing. Reliable rains and plentiful vegetation underpin this extraordinary ecosystem and the millions of herbivores it supports. Wildebeest, zebras, impalas, elands, reedbucks, waterbucks, black rhinos, elephants, Masai giraffes and several species of gazelle all call the Mara home. Predators here include cheetahs, leopards, spotted hyenas, black-backed jackals, bat-eared foxes, caracals and the highest lion density in the world. 1830hrs- After game drive head back to your lodge. Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge Meal Plan: Full board – Breakfast/lunch /dinner.

0630hrs – Enjoy further night in the Mara, after enjoying a cup of hot Kenyan tea and coffee - Head out this morning, for an exciting early morning and further afternoon game viewing drive. This can as well be folded and have a full day game viewing drive with picnic lunch boxes to be taken from a picnic site in the reserve 1600hrs - After enjoying your afternoon Kenyan tea and coffee, on today’s afternoon game drive the choice is up to you: search for the Big 5 or expand your horizons to discover something different. MAASAI MARA GAME RESERVE The world-renowned Masai Mara National Reserve is a huge expanse of tawny, sunburnt grasslands pocked with acacia trees and river woodlands, and heaving with animals’ great and small. Impressive at any time of year, it's at its best between July and October when a million migrating wildebeest and tens of thousands of topis, zebras and other animals pour into the reserve from Tanzania in search of fresh grass. It is, arguably, the most spectacular wildlife shows on the planet and the one thing that no visitor to Kenya should consider missing. Reliable rains and plentiful vegetation underpin this extraordinary ecosystem and the millions of herbivores it supports. Wildebeest, zebras, impalas, elands, reedbucks, waterbucks, black rhinos, elephants, Masai giraffes and several species of gazelle all call the Mara home. Predators here include cheetahs, leopards, spotted hyenas, black-backed jackals, bat-eared foxes, caracals and the highest lion density in the world. Overnight: Mara Sopa Lodge Meal Plan: Full board – Breakfast/lunch /dinner.  

Breakfast at the lodge After breakfast, proceed on your transfer back to Nairobi Arrival into Nairobi and proceed for your sumptuous lunch at the Carnivore restaurant After lunch proceed to the Nairobi National Museum After check in have an optional time at leisure experiencing the hotel facilities NAIROBI CITY East Africa's most cosmopolitan city, Nairobi is Kenya's beating heart, an exciting, maddening concrete jungle that jarringly counterpoints the untrammeled natural beauty to be found elsewhere in the country. With a fabulous national park on its doorstep, some wildlife-centric attractions, the excellent National Museum and a series of quirky sights, Nairobi's reality – like that of so many places with a bad reputation – will often come as a pleasant surprise. Overnight: The Boma Hotel Nairobi Meal Plan: Full Board – Breakfast/Lunch/Dinner

Breakfast at the hotel After breakfast proceed on your transfer to the airport for your onward departure flight back home