Overview
For the next four days, this safari will give you plenty of time to explore the Masai Mara, its wildlife and lots of fun optional activities like the Hot Air Balloon safaris inside Masai Mara. The Masai Mara Reserve is not only famous for its impressive displays of animal life, but also well-known for the migration crossings.
Vulture African Safaris has created this whole safari experience so you can discover this amazing park at a relaxed pace. On your 4-days Masai Mara holiday you’ll enjoy plenty of game drives which will show you just how much the Mara has to offer. The park is popular for Africa’s famous Big Five along with hundreds of other species, including giraffe, cheetah, hyena, gazelle and much more.
You’ll visit the Masai Mara River to view hippos and crocodiles. Masai Mara is also popular with the Great Wildebeest migration tours where countless herds of wildebeest and zebra race over the savannah in an unforgettable display of wildlife unique to the planet.
To make your stay at Masai Mara even much better, we offer a wide choice of accommodations depending on your style of travel, choose from comfort or luxury safari lodges or tented camps.
Highlights
- Unlimited game drives days filled with great wildlife sighting.
- Safari in your own comfortable 4 X 4 Land Cruiser Jeep Open Rooftop.
- Big 5 African wildlife, from elephants, lions, rhino, & leopards… Inclusive of zebra, cheetah and much more.
- Maasai people and culture.
- A dedicated expert driver / guide.
- An optional hot air balloon ride over the Mara – enquire with us =$ 450 per person.
Itinerary
Expand allCollapse all1: Nairobi - Masai Mara Game Reserve
Nairobi City – Masai Mara Game Reserve (Approximately 5 hrs)
0730am: Your Kenya safari from Nairobi begins with a morning pick up from your Nairobi hotel / Nairobi airport.
Start off the journey to the Masai Mara Game reserve, one of Kenya’s best wildlife destination as we navigate through the walls of the Great Rift Valley. We’ll make stops along the way to refresh and view the eye-catching features of the escarpment.
The plan remains to check in upon arrival and get orientation followed by some lunch. We’ll then start of this Kenya safari vacation with our first afternoon safari, returning to the Masai Mara tented camp/ safari lodge a few minutes after sunset where a lovely dinner awaits.
2: Full Day - Masai Mara
These will be full days on safari, a journey that will see us navigate deep in the Mara Reserve. The focus/ main goal being to encounter the predators, the Kenya Masai Mara Migration and the river crossings – should you be here during the Kenya Wildebeest Migration season (July – October).
Since your safari is private, your game drive timings are flexible; useful if you are travelling with children or planning on this trip as your Kenya honeymoon safari. You may also choose to have a full day game drive [one for the whole day] with a packed picnic lunch at no extra cost, maximizing our time in the park.
You will enjoy two game drives on these days, one in the morning from around 6.15am, before breakfast and the other in the late afternoon after lunch. Our plan is to get you in spots well positioned to witness rich game viewing and the migration if you’re lucky to be travelling during the Masai Mara migration season.
The area hosts all the Big 5 species and is full of activities which you can take part in. You may want to add a Masai Village visit or a Hot air Balloon safari ride into this vacation visit to Kenya [Optional activities at additional cost - please enquire with us]
All nights will be spent at your camp/lodge in the heart of Masai Mara and you’ll get to enjoy all the hotel amenities that come with the safari package.
3: Full Day – Masai Mara
Another day full of wildlife viewing drives.
You may choose to have the full day game drives or game drives in separate sessions so that you may also have a chance to enjoy lodge/camp facilities.
The driver guide shall be readily available to discuss your daily activities depending on your preferences.
It is also an opportunity to experience a hot air balloon ride and float over the Masai Mara plains as you watch game (extra cost).
4 : Masai Mara – Nairobi
Wrapping up your Africa safari package today is a leisurely morning breakfast at your tented safari camp/ safari lodge, afterward you have an option to visit the Masai village before starting your journey back to Nairobi.
Your dedicated expert driver guide will assist you with the checkout process and proceed to Nairobi with stops along the way. We’ll depart Masai Mara with a hot lunch stop along the way, arriving in Nairobi during late afternoon hours (approximately 15:00Hrs, typically 3:00 Pm) and bring you to your Nairobi hotel, or the Nairobi airport.
Drop off at your Nairobi City hotel /Nairobi airport, home signaling the end of our Masai Mara safari package.
We hope you soaked up plenty of Africa’s wildlife sightings on this busy tour. It’s been our pleasure to have you as our guest and from all of us at Vulture African Safaris, a big thanks!
What’s Included
- Park fees to the mentioned park.
- Transport in a 4 X 4 Land Cruiser Jeep Open Rooftop.
- Services of an experienced driver /guide.
- All meals while on safari as per itinerary.
- Accommodation as per itinerary at the camp/lodge.
- Bottled drinking water on the vehicle.
- All game drives.
- Statutory taxes and local levies.
- Laundry, drinks & meals not specified.
- Passport and visa costs.
- Travel insurance.
- Accommodation pre and post the safari.
- Tips to driver guides.
- Visits to Maasai village.
- Hot air balloon rides.
- All expenses of personal nature (e.g. Activities etc.)