A women-focused Kenya safari with Lake Naivasha, the Maasai Mara and time with local women artisans.
A safari designed for women travelling alone or with friends. Gentle pacing, well-chosen camps, a boat ride on Lake Naivasha and three nights in the Maasai Mara, with time to meet Maasai women artisans and learn about community projects. A female guide can be requested at booking.
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 Lake Naivasha (about 1.5 to 2 hours), 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 Maasai Mara (about 4 to 5 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.
Spend the morning with a Maasai women's beadwork group, learning about the patterns, the materials and how the income supports local families. After lunch, a late game drive ends with a sundowner on the plains.
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.
