Tour Types
Road Safaris
Review Rating
Duration
5days
Destination
Great Rift Valley: Lake Nakuru National Park, Maasai Mara, Lake Naivasha
A memorable visit to the Great Rift Valley. Start the tour in Nairobi and traverse to Maasai Mara Game Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, Lake Naivasha. End the tour back in Nairobi.
Why the tour to the Great Rift Valley?
Breathtaking natural scenery combines with some of Africa’s most memorable wildlife. The Great Rift Valley is a highlight of any trip to Kenya. A huge geological fault-line, the Great Rift Valley stretches round one-sixth of the Earth’s circumference.
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, our driver will be waiting to transfer your hotel for check in and relax before embarking on your game safari the following day..
On this day, you will be picked in Nairobi. Your excitement starts there. Embark on a relaxed drive down to Maasai Mara through the floor of the Rift Valley. We will stop at the Great Rift Valley View point where we get a chance to awe at the Escarpment down below us. Photos are highly recommended here. You will arrive at your lodge in the afternoon and have lunch and later embark on an afternoon game drive at the most famous game reserve.
Spend the day in Maasai Mara. This is Africa’s greatest Wildlife Reserve; famous for the Big 5, the Big Cats and the Great Wildebeest migration and the Maasai People. Additionally, the Maasai Mara ecosystem holds one of the highest lion densities in the world. It is a remarkable experience. After lunch at your lodge, we will then head out for an afternoon game drive.
After breakfast, we will witness what the amazing Maasai Mara offers for one last time as we leave for Lake Nakuru. It is a premium park which is home to the famous flamingos which dot the lake pink and the Big 4 as well. Lake Nakuru is also a rhino sanctuary of the endangered black and white rhino with over 450 bird species an important stop over on the African – Eurasian migratory flyway as well. After lunch, we will embark on a game drive in this premium park.
After breakfast depart and head to Naivasha. We will stop at the View Point where we awe at the Great Rift Valley and escarpment as we take photos. After lunch embark on a boat ride at Lake Naivasha which will take us to Crescent Island. The shores host abundant birdlife including pelicans, cormorants and fish-eagles with their haunting cry. There are more animals per acre than any other Kenyan park; hence many film companies have been to the Island to film the herds of Wildebeest, Waterbuck, Zebra and Gazelle.