A joining group safari to the Mara and Lake Nakuru, made for solo travellers who want good company.
A small-group safari made for solo travellers. You join a few others on game drives in the Maasai Mara and Lake Nakuru, share the vehicle and camp, and enjoy easy company without the cost of a private trip. Shared rooms are matched by gender, with a single supplement if you prefer your own.
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 Maasai Mara (about 5 to 6 hours), 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.
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.
