Luxury tented camps from Amboseli to Laikipia and the Maasai Mara with a private vehicle and guide.
Ten days in some of Kenya's best tented camps. Stay in spacious en-suite tents with proper beds, hot showers and fine dining, moving from Amboseli to Lake Naivasha, a Laikipia conservancy and the Maasai Mara. A private vehicle and expert guide are included throughout.
You are met at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by your Dawn Safaris representative and transferred to your hotel. Your guide gives a short briefing on the days ahead and answers any last-minute questions.
After breakfast, travel from Nairobi to Amboseli (about 4 to 5 hours), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. You arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. An afternoon game drive across the open plains brings you close to Amboseli's famous elephant herds, with Mount Kilimanjaro rising behind them when the clouds lift.
Spend the day with some of Africa's best-studied elephant herds. Early light is the best time to see Kilimanjaro, and the swamps around Enkongo Narok draw hippo, buffalo and abundant birdlife.
After breakfast, travel from Amboseli to Lake Naivasha (about 6 to 7 hours via Nairobi), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. Check in to your lakeside lodge for lunch, then take an afternoon boat ride on the freshwater lake among hippos, fish eagles and pelicans, with time to walk on Crescent Island among grazing giraffe and zebra.
After breakfast, travel from Lake Naivasha to Laikipia (about 4 hours), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. You arrive at your conservancy lodge in time for lunch. Laikipia's private conservancies allow activities that national parks do not, and your first afternoon is a game drive on the plateau with a sundowner at a viewpoint.
Visit the Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, then track black and white rhino with a ranger. Ol Pejeta is also home to the last two northern white rhinos, which can be seen on a guided visit.
After breakfast, travel from Laikipia to Maasai Mara (a full day by road (a one-hour flight is faster)), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. 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.
Drive toward the Mara River, where between July and October wildebeest herds gather to cross. Outside the migration season the banks are excellent for hippo, crocodile and elephant, and the surrounding plains for lion and cheetah.
After breakfast, and one last morning game drive if time allows, you drive back to Nairobi (about 5 to 6 hours) with a lunch stop on the way. You are dropped at your hotel or at the airport; an evening flight home is recommended.
