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
6 Days Luxury Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha & Lake Bogoria Safari
A 6-day luxury safari through the Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha and Lake Bogoria. Accommodation is in lodges.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Route
- Maasai Mara → Lake Nakuru → Lake Naivasha → Lake Bogoria
- Comfort
- Luxury
- Transport
- 4×4 Land Cruiser
- Accommodation
- Overnight at the lodge.
Price
Price on request
The way through.
- 01Maasai Mara
- 02Lake Nakuru
- 03Lake Naivasha
- 04Lake Bogoria
Places as named in the journey title. Nights in each are set out in your itinerary.
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.
A lion lying beside a bush beneath a wide sky in the Maasai Mara. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris To the Mara in comfort
Nairobi → Maasai Mara
The safari begins with the drive from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara in the 4×4 Land Cruiser, where a lodge is the base for the first two nights. Where arrival time allows, an afternoon game drive is the first of several, and the reserve rarely disappoints on a first outing: its open grassland makes it easy to spot elephants, giraffes and grazing herds, and lions are often found resting in the shade during the warm part of the day.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Maasai Mara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Wildebeest crossing the plains with mountains in the distance in the Maasai Mara. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris The migration country
Maasai Mara
This full day in the reserve follows the season. If you travel between June or July and November, the Mara Conservancy’s migration window, the plains may be filled with wildebeest, zebra, eland and Thomson’s gazelle, and the guide may head towards the Mara River in case the herds gather to cross. In other months, the day is spent with the reserve’s residents, and the Conservancy’s description of the Mara before the migration, with lions, elephants and topi, is a fair picture of what to expect.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Maasai Mara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
A male lion in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0) North-east to Lake Nakuru
Maasai Mara → Lake Nakuru
Leaving the Mara, the journey heads into the Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National Park. This is one of three lakes listed together as the Kenya Lake System World Heritage Site, along with Bogoria, which comes tomorrow, and Elementaita. The park’s rhinos are its great draw, black and white, and an afternoon drive may give a first look before the night at a lodge, with a full morning of lake country to follow.
- Overnight
- Lodge at Lake Nakuru, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Flamingos along the shore of Lake Bogoria, Kenya. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Miken0520 (CC BY-SA 4.0) Steam and flamingos at Lake Bogoria
Lake Nakuru → Lake Bogoria
North of Nakuru, Lake Bogoria National Reserve protects an alkaline lake ringed by hot springs, geysers and the Rift Valley escarpment. The reserve’s management plan records more than a million and a half lesser flamingos at times, though recent rises in the lake have changed their feeding habitat, and sightings vary. The hot springs reach close to boiling point, so keep to the viewing areas. The reserve is also home to the greater kudu, and its swamps, such as Loboi, are rich in birds.
- Overnight
- Lodge at Lake Bogoria, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
An African fish eagle carrying a fish over Lake Naivasha, Kenya. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Charles J. Sharp (CC BY-SA 4.0) South to Lake Naivasha
Lake Bogoria → Lake Naivasha
From Bogoria’s alkaline water the journey travels south to Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake, the third of the trip and the most different in character. The Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute, which runs a research station on its shore, studies the lake’s fisheries of largemouth bass and tilapia, and the effect of the flower farms that dominate the catchment. Hippos graze the lakeside grassland, and the night is spent at a lodge by the lake.
- Overnight
- Lodge at Lake Naivasha, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Mount Longonot rising behind acacia woodland in the Rift Valley. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris Naivasha to Nairobi
Lake Naivasha → Nairobi
The last morning is spent by Lake Naivasha before the short drive back to Nairobi. Mount Longonot, a young volcano, stands on the Nairobi–Nakuru highway near the lake, and Hell’s Gate, with its cliffs and gorges, lies along Moi South Lake Road, both reminders of how volcanic the Rift Valley is. The safari ends in the capital, after six days that combined the Mara with three very different lakes: one fenced for rhinos, one steaming with hot springs and one of fresh water.
- 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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