Best of Kenya 10 Days Budget Safari

• Wildlife

Day 1: Pick up from JKIA airport and drive to Samburu

Upon arrival and after you are done with the immigration procedures, your driver guide will pick you up at the airport. After meet and greet, he will escort you to your car and commence drive to Samburu national Reserve arriving for lunch at Lion’s Cave Camp Samburu. After check in and lunch, you will go for an afternoon game drive at 16:00hrs and return to the camp before dusk for dinner and overnight stay at Lion’s Cave Camp Samburu.

Day 2: Full day Game drives in Samburu National Reserve

After early breakfast at the lodge at 07:00 am, join your safari driver guide and depart for full day game viewing drive with picnic lunch boxes to Samburu National Reserve. You will explore the park and its special beautiful sceneries with lots of animals and birds. Dinner and overnight stay at Lion’s Cave Camp Samburu.

Day 3: Drive from Samburu to Olpejeta

After breakfast depart for Olpejeta. “Located between the Aberdares and Mount Kenya, Ol Pejeta hosts 2 of the planet’s last remaining northern white rhinos. It’s also home to southern white rhinos, black rhinos, scavengers and the only place in Kenya where you can see chimpanzees. There is an equator marker within the conservation area where you can take photos and you may engage in additional activities such as lion tracking, bush and bird walks and rhino rides. Dinner and overnight stay at The Stables Ol Pejeta.

Day 4: Drive to Lake NaKuru National Park

After breakfast check out and   proceed drive to Nakuru with lunches on the way. Lake Nakuru is “A beautiful wildlife haven”. On the floor of the Great Rift Valley, surrounded by wooded and bushy grassland, lies the beautiful. Arrive at Nakuru for an afternoon game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park where we hope you will have the sight of flamingos. Have your cameras ready as here you will see lots of Rhinos. Later on exit the park in the park for dinner and overnight stay at Buraha Zenoni Hotel & Resort.

Day 5: Nakuru to Amboseli

Drive from Nakuru to Amboseli National Park arriving for lunch at Amboseli Sopa Lodge. After check in and lunch proceed to Amboseli National Park for an evening game drive. Amboseli is a popular park, and the place to go for those picture postcard views of elephants trundling across the plains with the magnificent back drop of a snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance. Don’t forget your camera! Home to over 50 animal species, Amboseli is known as the ‘Land of the Giants’ thanks to the large herds of elephants who roam the sun-baked savannah. It’s quite a rare spectacle, especially if you’re lucky enough to encounter some of the famous large tuskers. Dinner and overnight stay at Nyati Safari Camp.

Day 6: Full day exploring Amboseli National Park

You will wake up to amazing views of Mount Kilimanjaro if the weather permits. On this day, you will embark on a full day game drive in this wonderful park where Mount Kilimanjaro’s background offers good photographic scenery. It is coupled with animals on the ground, the Big Five, herds of elephants and the prolific birdlife in this African wilderness park. Return for   dinner and overnight stay at Nyati Safari Camp.

Day 7: Drive to Naivasha

After breakfast, enjoy a morning game drive in Amboseli National Park and later on depart for Naivasha. Arrive for lunch at Naivasha Sopa Lodge. In the afternoon enjoy a boat ride in Naivasha in search for hippos and the birdlife. Dinner and overnight stay at Chambai Safari Hotel.

Day 8:  Drive Naivasha to Maasai Mara

After breakfast, check out and commence drive to Maasai Mara. Have a stopover at the great Rift Valley view point where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the Rift Valley.  Arrive for check in and hot lunch at the camp.  After lunch, visit Maasai village where you will interact with Maasai and learn their way of life and culture. Dinner and overnight stay will be at Rhino Tourist Camp.

Day 9: Maasai Mara full day exploring the reserve

This day you will depart after an early breakfast to Maasai Mara Reserve for full day game viewing drives. Picnic lunches will be served as you relax under a tree as you see the vast landscape and its beauty. Spend the whole day looking for the big five and we are hopeful you will see almost all if not all of the big five among many animals. Thereafter you will return to the camp for dinner and overnight at Rhino Tourist Camp.

Day 10: Maasai Mara to Nairobi

After breakfast, check out and depart for Nairobi with lunch on the way. Upon arrival you will be dropped off at the airport or your hotel in Nairobi.

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