5 Days Kenya Wildlife Safari: Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Lake Naivasha Hell’s Gate

Venture Africa Budget Safaris representative will meet you at the airport or your hotel and after your breakfast. You will be introduced to your guide and given a full briefing regarding your safari programme. Once these final details are settled you depart for the Masai Mara National Reserve via the viewpoint at the Great Rift Valley. You will enjoy lunch in Narok. On arrival in the park, you will proceed on a game drive, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver guide. You will arrive for dinner and your overnight stay at the Lodge or camp.

You will have a full day game drive, leaving the camp with picnic lunch boxes to spend the entire day in the park. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for game in Kenya as it has an extensive road and track network which allows for close range viewing and photography. Break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool, looking out for hippos and crocodiles. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge or camp.

Optional: an early morning balloon ride can be organised at an extra cost.

After breakfast in the camp, you will have an opportunity for a cultural tour known as the Maasai village tour, at an extra cost. We then depart for Lake Nakuru National Park, arriving in time for dinner and overnight stay at the Lodge or Hotel.

After an early breakfast, proceed into Lake Nakuru National Park, well known for the many different bird species recorded here and as a home to both the black and the white rhinoceros. The park was established for the protection of endangered species such as the rhino and is also home to colobus monkeys, leopards, giraffes and a variety of plains antelope. Late in the afternoon, drive to Naivasha arriving in the evening. Dinner and your overnight stay at the Lodge or Hotel.

Optional: a boat ride at Lake Naivasha and a visit to Crescent Island can be organised at an extra cost.

After an early breakfast depart the hotel and drive to Hell’s Gate National Park, where you can cycle or enjoy a drive. Lake Naivasha is one of the few places where you can explore on foot. The park has attractions such as Olkaria and Hobley’s, two extinct volcanoes, and obsidian formed from cooled molten lava. Within Hell’s Gate is Hell’s Gate Gorge, lined with red cliffs and containing two volcanic plugs, Fischer’s Tower and Central Tower, with a smaller gorge extending to the south where a path descends to hot springs. Later, with your lunch on the way, you depart Naivasha for Nairobi arriving in the afternoon. You will be dropped at your hotel or at the airport to connect with your flight to your next destination.