4 Days Maasai Mara & Lake Nakuru Safari
Tour Code: TAS 41
[ Sarova Mara Game Camp, Sarova Lionhill Game Lodge ]

At a glance

This safari will take you to Maasai Mara National Reserve and Lake Nakuru National Park, they are both among Kenya’s finest flora and fauna homes.

Maasai Mara National Reserve is one of Africa’s most famous reserves and in the world at large, here the wildlife viewing is superb throughout the year and all four big cats are comparatively easy to be seen in this grassy reserve. The yearly wildebeest migration coming through the reserve is one of the world’s most amazing wildlife spectacles.

Lake Nakuru National Park is flanked by rocky escarpments, pockets of acacia forest and at least one waterfall, the park is gorgeous year-round and is home to both black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, hippos and endangered Rothschild’s giraffes.



Detailed trip itinerary

Day 1: Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Sarova Mara Game Camp (Fullboard)

You will be picked from your hotel or at the airport before 07:00 and be driven to Maasai Mara National Reserve stopping at the Great Rift Valley view point and further procced to the reserve Sarova Mara Game Camp for your lunch. There is a wide range of activities at Sarova Mara Game Camp to suit the whole family including children of all age groups ensuring no one is left out in the fun!

In the afternoon from 15:30 game viewing drive in the rolling plains around the camp that are teeming with wildebeest, gazelles and zebras during the migration months, and the camp is situated right in the center of their migration path. A wildlife safari puts you right in the middle of all this action. Get a first-hand account of this epic phenomenon and live to tell the tale. This safari also helps you acquaint yourself with the landscapes of this beautiful African setting returning in the camp at 18:30 then thereafter dinner and overnight in the camp.

Days 2: Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Sarova Mara Game Camp (Fullboard)

This day would be spend in this reserve starting early in the morning with tea or coffee and a snack followed by game viewing drive from 06:30 to 08:00 going back to the camp for full breakfast. After a relaxation another game viewing drive until lunch time at 13:00 in the camp.

Alternatively tea or coffee and a snack then game viewing drive from 06:30 with packed full breakfast to be consumed at a designated place at 08:00 in the reserve then carry on with game viewing drive until time for lunch in the camp at 13:00. The whole afternoon from 15:30 game viewing drive until time for dinner and overnight in the camp from 18:30

Day 3: Lake Nakuru National Park, Sarova Lionhill Game Lodge (Fullboard)

This safari would start at 06:00 with tea or coffee and a snack followed by game viewing drive from 06:30 to 08:00 then full breakfast in the camp. You will depart to Lake Nakuru National Park where you shall arrive after a short game viewing drive up to time for lunch in the lodge at 13:00. In the afternoon from 15:30 onwards game viewing in the park with high chance of seeing, flamingo (Greater and Lesser) and other water birds including a variety of terrestrial birds numbering about 450 species in total. Mammals are about 56 different species including white rhinos, waterbuck etc.

Important view-points in this park include, Lion hill, Baboon cliff, Out of Africa, Enasoit hills, Lion hill ridge and Makaila waterfalls. The park has unique vegetation of about 550 different plant species including the unique and biggest euphorbia forest in Africa, picturesque landscape and yellow acacia woodlands. All to be toured during various game viewing drives from arrival game viewing drive. Dinner and overnight in the lodge from 18:30.

Day 4: Transfer Nairobi

This day being your last day in this safari would start at 06:00 with tea or coffee and a snack followed by game viewing drive from 06:30 to 08:00 then full breakfast in the lodge. You will depart back to Nairobi City where you shall arrive time for lunch at 13:00 in the Carnivore Restaurant then the evening to be spend on leisure or be dropped at the airport or in your hotel of your choice.

Easter & Christmas Surcharges
A surcharge would be charged per person per night on Good Friday, Saturday, Sunday, Easter Monday and on 24th 25th, 26th, 31st December and 1st January. The Surcharge would be confirmed at the time of booking for clarity purposes.


For optimal enjoyment of your safari, we urge you to carry the following:
All weather firm shoe pair, short and dress to use during the day, trouser for use in the evenings with long sleeved shirt, sweater or jacket, hat, swimming costume, sunglass, camera, binocular, sun protection cream and insect repellent spray or cream.


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