Two nights in the Maasai Mara and one at Lake Nakuru, camping in comfortable dome tents.
A classic budget camping safari. Sleep in dome tents with camp beds, eat meals cooked on the campfire by your own cook, and spend two nights in the Maasai Mara and one at Lake Nakuru. It is simple, sociable and excellent value for budget travellers.
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.
