6-Days 5 Nights Rift Valley Safari

Pick from Nairobi hotel and depart for Lake Naivasha.

Lunch at Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge.

Lake Naivasha is famous for its high populations of hippos and flamingos. There are over 1,500 hippos in the area, and you are almost guaranteed to see one.

The lake is a birder’s paradise as it is home to over 400 bird species. Lesser and greater flamingos flock to the lake, forming a wash of bright pink across the lake's surface.

Giraffes, zebras, impalas, and waterbucks can be sighted in the immediate vicinity of Lake Naivasha, around Crescent Island, Crater Lake Game Sanctuary, and

Longonot National Park. Lucky adventurers may even glimpse a leopard.

Optional activities boat ride at Lake Naivasha or visit to Crescent Island.

Dinner & Overnight at Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge or similar. (Full Board)

Day 2: Naivasha – Nakuru

Breakfast at the lodge, check-out and depart for Nakuru.

Arrive for lunch and check in at Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge.

Later depart for exciting afternoon game at Lake Nakuru National Park.

The park is no longer home to its once famous flamingo flocks, but it remains a world class game drive destination. Four of the Big Five are present (with elephants being the notable absence), with both buffalo and rhinoceros being especially common in the park.

You'll enjoy a day long game drive along the shores of Lake Nakuru taking in its diverse variety of both animal and bird life.

The bird life here is world renown and over 400 bird’s species exist here, White Pelicans, Plovers, Egrets and Marabou Stork. It is also one of the very few places in

Africa to see the White Rhino and rare Rothschild Giraffe.

Dinner & Overnight at Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge or Similar (Full Board)

Day 3: Nakuru – Masai Mara

Breakfast at the lodge, check-out and depart for Masai Mara.

Arrive for lunch Masai Mara Sopa Lodge.

1500 hrs, depart for an afternoon game drive.

Explore Masai Mara, Kenya's finest and most outstanding wildlife sanctuary where gentle rolling grassland ensures animals are never out of sight.

The first sight of this Game Park is breathtaking. There is nowhere else on earth to compare with this wildlife marvel. The combination of a gentle climate, scenic splendor and untold numbers of wildlife makes the Masai Mara National Reserve Kenya's most popular inland destination.

Centuries of close association with the wildlife has resulted in an almost symbiotic relationship where wildlife and Masai people live in peace with one another.

You can pay a visit to a Masai Village. (Entrance fee payable direct) 1800 hrs, return to the Camp for dinner and overnight.

Dinner & Overnight at Masai Mara Sopa Lodge or Similar (Full Board)

Day 4: Masai Mara

Depart for a full day game drive at 0830 hrs.

Enjoy about 6 hours of extensive game drives in the Mara.

This full day safari game drive will enable you to discover other areas of the Masai Mara game reserve at 1300 hrs, you enjoy a picnic in the vastness of the Mara.

Your will also make a few stops along the banks of the scenic Mara River to look out for hippos and crocodiles.

The reserve is famous for its exceptional population of game and the migration of the wildebeest, which occurs here every year in July and August.

Animals have no respect for boundaries, and hundreds of buffalo and wildebeest can be seen at certain times of the year, as part of the Mara lies across their migration route from the Serengeti in Tanzania. In the Masai Mara you really feel you are in the heart of Africa. It is fine country for lion, and you can hardly fail to see them. All the Big Five can be found - lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, as well as nearly every other kind of animal found in all the other parks in Kenya such as plains zebra, giraffe, Coke's hartebeest, topi, impala, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, Defassa waterbuck, buffalo and cheetah.

1500 hrs, return to the Camp for dinner and overnight.

Dinner & Overnight at Masai Mara Sopa Lodge or Similar (Full Board)

Day 5: Masai Mara

Breakfast at the camp.

Depart for morning game drive.

Return to the lodge for lunch and the depart for an optional visit to Maasai village in the afternoon.

The Maasai people live in structures known as 'Manyatta', which are low height dwellings, essentially huts, made of mud, cow dung and wood, with a single entrance and minimal side windows. Clusters of these manyatta huts, which form a homestead or village, are known as a Maasai ''Boma''. Several Bomas can also join together to make a larger village. The individual huts themselves, the manyattas, have windows so small that it can be very dark inside a manyatta even on a sunny day.

While at the village you’ll have opportunities to purchase a great variety of beaded jewelry as a memento of your visit.

Dinner & Overnight at Masai Mara Sopa Lodge or Similar (Full Board)

Day 6: Masai Mara - Nairobi

After Breakfast client check out of the Hotel.

Drive back to Nairobi and drop off at pick up point.

***End of the tour with great memories!***