7 Days Kenya Budget Camping Safari

Pick from your Nairobi hotel. 9.30a.m. Depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve via the viewpoint of the Great Rift Valley arrive in time for lunch. Evening game drive in this pristine, unequaled ‘big game country’. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

This will be a day of tracking game with your guide, after an early breakfast. The Mara’s landscape is scenic savanna grassland on rolling hills, which enables the reserve to attract sufficient rainfall to maintain and support a large population of herbivores, together with the predators that follow. Elephant, lion, buffalo can be seen with relative ease though luck is a necessary factor for spotting rhino and leopard that complete the big five as the two animals are very timid and sparsely numbered. We will cater for a picnic lunch at the hippo pool. In the evening, return to the lodge or campsite for dinner and an overnight stay.

Early breakfast followed by a full day of game drives within the reserve. The Masai Mara is famous for its black manned lions, elephants and buffalo that make three out of the big five though luck is essential for spotting the other two namely rhino and leopard. The park animal concentration is second to none and numerous plains game including antelopes, wildebeest, zebra, and Masai giraffe can be seen as well as scavengers like hyena and vulture. Have a picnic lunch at the hippo pool where you can spot crocodiles and hippos basking on the rocks. Return to the lodge or campsite in time for dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, have another morning of tracking game with your guide in this reserve. This is where the annual migration of close 800,000 zebras and wildebeest occurs between the two parks. Return to the lodge or campsite for lunch. In the afternoon there is a choice between a game drive and a nature walk escorted by our armed Masai guides or a visit to a local Masai village to see their nomadic lifestyle at an extra cost. Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

After breakfast, depart for Lake Naivasha, home to a variety of birds. Arrive at the club in time for lunch. You will be taken for a boat ride on the lake after lunch. Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha camp.

After breakfast, leave Lake Naivasha for Nakuru for lunch have game drive drive en-route to your lodge, with scenic views of Lake Naivasha and Mt. Longonot, which are in the Great Rift from afar on the main highway. Dinner and overnight at lake Nakuru lodge

After breakfast a morning game drive will follow in Lake Nakuru National Park, the abode of various water birds that breed in the lake’s salty water including flamingos, white pelicans and marabou stork; white rhino may be seen as well as the rare Rothschild’s giraffe, cape buffalo and other plains game in this park that is 188 square kilometers. Depart for Nairobi arriving in time for lunch where you will be taken to a place of your choice for lunch before you are dropped at the air port in the evening for your onward flight back home.