Two nights in the Maasai Mara and one at Lake Nakuru, staying in comfortable safari lodges.
A short lodge-based safari covering Kenya's two most rewarding parks. Spend two nights in the Maasai Mara for game drives among lion, elephant, cheetah and buffalo, then one night at Lake Nakuru for rhino, Rothschild's giraffe and lakeshore birdlife, all in comfortable lodges.
After an early breakfast you are collected from your Nairobi hotel and drive to Maasai Mara (about 5 to 6 hours). You arrive at your camp in time for lunch, then head out on your first game drive across the open plains of the Maasai Mara, home to lion, cheetah, elephant, buffalo and vast herds of zebra and wildebeest. Dinner and a night of lion calls follow.
Leave at first light with a packed breakfast to find big cats on the open plains. Enjoy a bush picnic lunch near the hippo pools, then spend the afternoon tracking lion, cheetah, elephant and buffalo before returning at dusk.
After breakfast, travel from Maasai Mara to Lake Nakuru (about 4 to 5 hours), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. Check in for lunch, then enjoy a first game drive around Lake Nakuru, a protected rhino sanctuary where white and black rhino, Rothschild's giraffe and buffalo share the acacia woodland with pelicans and, depending on lake levels, flamingos along the shore.
After breakfast, and one last morning game drive if time allows, you drive back to Nairobi (about 3 hours) with a lunch stop on the way. You are dropped at your hotel or at the airport; an evening flight home is recommended.
