6 Days Sweetwaters, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha & Maasai Mara Luxury Safari
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Sweetwaters · Lake Nakuru · Lake Naivasha · Maasai Mara
Accommodation is in lodges.
Kenya · Luxury
4 Days Maasai Mara Photography Luxury Safari
A 4-day luxury photography safari in the Maasai Mara. Accommodation is in lodges.
- Duration
- 4 days
- Where
- Maasai Mara
- Comfort
- Luxury
- Transport
- 4×4 Land Cruiser
- Accommodation
- Overnight at the lodge.
Price
Price on request
Day by day
Your itinerary, day by day.
Starts in Nairobi · finishes in Nairobi
The route, days and named stays are as planned. What is included at each stop, from food, park fees and drinking water to room types, permits and border arrangements, and any camp or lodge not named here, is set out in your written quotation. Game drives on travel days depend on arrival and departure times, timings can change with road and park conditions, and wildlife sightings are never guaranteed. Photographs illustrate each day’s destination; they are not pictures of a particular departure.
Rolling grassland below distant hills in the Maasai Mara. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris Arriving in the Mara with a camera
Nairobi → Maasai Mara
The 4×4 Land Cruiser carries you from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara, aiming to arrive in time for an afternoon drive. For photographers, the Mara offers wide open grassland, uncluttered horizons and animals that are often in plain view. The rules matter from the first drive: in the reserve you may leave the vehicle only at designated points, and standing on the roof or sitting in the window to photograph is not allowed.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Maasai Mara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
A lioness lying in the grass beside a bush in the Maasai Mara. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris First light and last light
Maasai Mara
Photographers often plan a Mara day around the light, with long drives at the start and end of the day when the sun is low, and a rest in the middle when it is harsh. The Mara Conservancy’s picture of the reserve before the herds arrive, red oat grass moving in the wind, a topi on a termite mound and lions waiting out the heat beneath the acacias, reads almost like a list of the reserve’s classic images. A full day in the reserve leaves room for both the early and the late light.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Maasai Mara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Wildebeest gathered after crossing the Mara River into the Maasai Mara during the Great Migration. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Bjørn Christian Tørrissen (CC BY-SA 3.0) Herds, rivers and patience
Maasai Mara
In migration season, from around June or July to November, the Mara River can be the most dramatic place in the reserve, but the Conservancy’s advice is that crossings are frequent yet hard to predict, and that the herds themselves are the spectacle. For photographers that means patience, and good manners: keep quiet, keep back from the crossing point and never block moving herds, because pushing them can lead to crossings at unsafe banks and the deaths of hundreds of animals.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Maasai Mara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Wildebeest walking in a line across the plains towards a band of trees in the Maasai Mara. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris A final morning shoot, then Nairobi
Maasai Mara → Nairobi
The last morning is another chance to photograph the Mara in early light, when animals are active and the grassland glows, before the drive back to Nairobi. Four days give time to revisit the places that worked best, try again with subjects that eluded you, and spend whole sessions with one pride or herd. By the end of the trip, most photographers will have a sense of the reserve’s rhythm that a shorter visit cannot give.
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Like the shape of these days? Tell us your dates and who is travelling, and our team will set out the stays, meals and inclusions in a written quotation.
Where you stay.
Overnight at the lodge. The camp or lodge is discussed with you during planning and confirmed with your itinerary, subject to availability. How accommodation works on our safaris
Places along the way.
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