5 Days: Masai Mara | Amboseli & Naivasha

Day 1: Nairobi - Maasai Mara

After breakfast you will be collected by Kenya Walking Survivors Safaris driver-guide, thereafter you will be driven towards the escarpment into the Great Rift Valley where you will have good photos of the Rift at the view point. Continue with you drive via Narok town to Maasai Mara National reserve. You will have your lunch en route and on arrival if time allows you will head to the reserve for your evening game drive. Later head to the campsite for dinner and overnight. Masai Mara is the land of the Masai tribe. The proud young Maasai warrior-nomads with their plaited hair, red cloaks, and spears, challenge your curiosity. The 700-square-mile Game Reserve is the Africa of your dreams, complete with wild animals grazing amid the superb rolling landscape of gentle hills and acacia woodlands.

• Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
• Accommodation: Wajee Mara Camp - Budget tented camp located at Masai Mara
• Meals & drinks: All meals & drinking water included (Other drinks not included)
• http://wajeemaracamp.co.ke/

Day 2: Masai Mara

Optional:       
Today there will be a possibility to take a hot air balloon ride. "Take to the skies for the ultimate Maasai Mara wildlife adventure, soaring in a hot air balloon over herds of game to the inner reaches of the Mara. You'll ascend in the early morning, when winds are calmest.
Watch as the professional crew fills the balloon with hot air. Slowly the big, colorful bag begins to bulge and take shape. Now board the traditional wicker gondola basket while the expert pilot makes final adjustments. As the pink and red fireball of the sun rises in splendor over the plains, you're up, up and away - for the flight of a lifetime!
Your balloon can soar over the most inaccessible and undisturbed parts of the Mara, with only the intermittent whisper of the balloon's gas burners punctuating the silence of your majestic flight. Because wind and weather conditions vary, every flight is a new and different experience! From your vantage point about 50-500 feet above the reserve, you have a fantastic 360-degree bird's-eye view as one of the most dramatic scenes in nature unfolds beneath you. Depending on the season, you might witness herds of antelope flowing like schools of fish across the plain, groups of elephants grazing undisturbed in a remote ravine, lionesses stealthily stalking a herd of grunting wildebeest, or zebras conferring in a confusion of black and whitestripes and bark-like calls. After your incredible flight, it's time to come back down to earth for breakfast. As you sip champagne and dig into a splendid breakfast of sizzling bacon, eggs, sausage, home-made breads, fresh tropical fruit and steaming cups of Kenyan coffee or tea under the clear blue sky, you might wonder what all the ordinary people are doing on this perfect African morning! Before leaving, the pilot will present you with your balloon flight certificate, and then you'll enjoy a game drive en route back to the camp. No flight of the imagination can match this airborne experience!

Note: Comfortable clothes, a hat or visor, sunglasses, sunscreen and a light jacket or sweater are recommended. This tour will be offered at a very special price if booked together with the safari.

Otherwise:

After your breakfast you will leave with your picnic lunch for a full day game drive in the reserve in search of the big five as well as other numerous plain animals. You will have a lunch break in the reserve after which continue with your game drive till evening when you will return to your campsite for dinner and overnight. You will have an opportunity to see Lion, Cheetah and Leopard roam the vast grasslands in search for their next meal, it may be an unsuspecting impala or even a small one like the warthog.whatever the players, the spectacle of nature unfolding is always awe inspiring!

• Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
• Accommodation: Wajee Mara Camp- Budget tented camp located at Masai Mara
• Meals & drinks: All meals & drinking water included (Other drinks not included)
• http://wajeemaracamp.co.ke/

Day 3: Green Crater Lake Walk

After your breakfast you will set out for game walk in Crater Lake. The road to the Green Crater Lake takes you out of Naivasha and along a rough and bumpy road down the edge of lake Naivasha, passing by huge greenhouses where roses and other flowers are grown for the export market. You will arrive at the Green Crater in the mid morning where you will start your game walk. The green crater lake was formed by volcanic activity. You will walk in a reserve where its possible to get up close to giraffe and many varieties of antelope giving you a great opportunity for photos. The guides will answer questions about the animals, birdlife etc and point out the rocks formed due to the volcanic activity. After your game walk you will return to your campsite for lunch. After lunch you will have some free time. You could sit back at the campsite bar and enjoy a cold drink and a game of pool or participate in some optional activities like cycling around the village or hire a small power boat for a trip out on to the lake. An option worth considering for inclusion in the Itinerary.

Your campsite located at the shore of Lake Naivasha has large resident bird population which includes; Ibis, superb starling, lovebirds, fisheagle and hoopoe. You will also have a great opportunity to see the black and white colobus monkey. Later in the evening you will have another option of visiting Elsamere, the home of the late Joy and George Adamson. Joy is famous for her book 'Born Free' and was an artist of some note. For an entry fee of Ksh 1000 per pax (approx USD$10) you will get to visit the small museum, watch a documentary video of their life and then sit in the lovely gardens beside the lake and enjoy an evening tea of beautiful cakes, scones and slices and tea and coffee. Elsamere opens at 3.30pm and I recommend considering this option. It will take about 2 hours.

• Main destination: Lake Naivasha
• Accommodation: Camp Carnelley's - Budget banda located at Lake Naivasha
• Meals & drinks: All meals & drinking water included (Other drinks not included)
• campcarnelleys.com/

Day 4: Lake Naivasha -  Amboseli

You will take your early morning breakfast then driven to Amboseli National Park via Nairobi with a stop over at the Great Rift valley view point for spectacular views and photos of the rift. Continue with your drive passing Nairobi with lunch enroute. On arrival at Amboseli national park and if time allows you will head for an evening game drive in this beautiful park which lies at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro which is Africa's tallest mountain in search of leopard, cheetah, wild dogs, buffalo, elephant, giraffe, zebra, lion, crocodile, mongoose, hyrax, dik- dik, lesser kudu and nocturnal porcupine. Later you will return back to your lodge for dinner and overnight.

• Main destination: Amboseli National Park
• Accommodation: Sentrim Amboseli - Mid Luxury tented camp located at Amboseli NP
• Meals & drinks: All meals & drinking water included (Other drinks not included)
• http://www.sentrimhotels.net/index.php/sentrim-amboseli-lodges-in-amboseli

Day 5: Amboseli - Nairobi

You will wake up in the morning breakfast and depart to  Nairobi with Kenya Walking Survivors Safaris driver for your lunch. Then after lunch you take your flight back to your country or more safaris