Kenya 5 Day Highlights Safari

Pick from your Nairobi Hotel and leave for Aberdares National Park with a game drive en route. Along the journey from Nairobi,  driving north, you will pass the lush pineapple, coffee and tea plantations in Kenya's rich highland arriving at Aberdares Country Club, base hotel for the Tree Lodge in time for lunch.

After lunch transfer in lodge vehicles to The Ark located right in the Aberdares National Park with small overnight bags while the rest of baggage is left at the base hotel. The decks and balconies at the Ark are geared towards affording easy game viewing and photography.

Distance: Amboseli – Aberdares: 180 km / 3 hours

After breakfast at the Ark, you rejoin your driver guide and drive past the northern tip of the Aberdares mountains with a brief stopover at the Equator where you’ll be able to experience the warmth of an annual warm temperature and feel the exhilaration that comes with knowing you’re standing in the Middle of the world.

Drive further into the floor of the great rift valley to descend into the Great Rift Valley where Lake Nakuru is located. Lake Nakuru National Park is famous for its abundant birdlife.

The Park offers a great chance to see thousands of greater & lesser flamingoes, pelicans around the shores of the lake alongside abundant mammals that include endangered Rothschild giraffe, black & white rhino, buffaloes, waterbuck, elands, zebras among other species.

Overnight: Lake Elementaita Sentrim Lodge – www.setrimhotels.net Meals FB: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Distance: Ark – Lake Nakuru: 140 km / 2.5 hours.

Leave Nakuru after breakfast driving through the floor of the Great Rift Valley arriving at Maasai Mara Reserve in time for lunch.

Lunch and leisurely afternoon before enjoying scheduled evening game drive.

Maasai Mara Reserve is the most popular reserve known for the big skies, open savannahs as featured in the film ''Out of Africa''. It was also accorded the status of the Seventh Wonder of the World because of the annual wildebeest migration, where over 2 million of wildebeest cross from Serengeti to the Mara.

Besides this, the reserve boasts of the ''big five'' (elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion & leopard) plus plenty of plain wild animals that include zebra, giraffe, impala, topi, giraffe, Thomson's gazelle, hyenas, cheetah, jackal, bat-eared foxes and birdlife.

No wonder it is the shooting sight for BBC Big Cat Diary every year.

Overnight: Mara Sentrim Camp – http://www.sentrimhotels.net/ Meals FB: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Distance: Lake Nakuru / Maasai Mara: 350 km / 5.5 hours.

Today you will do a full day's safari in one of the world's most famous reserves as you look for the big cats.

Maasai Mara offers an abundance of herbivores, this makes the ideal hunting ground for Kenya's famous ‘big cats' and hosts her largest population of lions.

Historically teeming with wildlife, the Mara is famous for the large herds of elephant and buffalo that wander its plains, and for the annual migration of the wildebeest.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner.

Overnight: Mara Sentrim Camp – http://www.sentrimhotels.n

Today wake up early for a morning game drive and an amazing Africa sunrise before returning to the camp for full breakfast and check out.

Afterwards, we descend down to the great Rift Valley stopping at the great Rift Valley view point for amazing views and scenery.

You will arrive Nairobi in the early afternoon at the end of your safari where you will be transferred to your Nairobi Hotel / Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your onward arrangement’s