6 Days Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru & Amboseli Budget Safari
Big Time pick
Maasai Mara · Lake Nakuru · Amboseli
Budget nights at Miti Mingi Eco Camp (Maasai Mara), Buraha Zenoni (Lake Nakuru) and Nyati Safari Camp (Amboseli).
Kenya · Luxury
6 Days Safe for Women Safari - Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru & Amboseli
A 6-day luxury safari through the Maasai Mara, Lake Nakuru and Amboseli. Accommodation is in lodges.
- Duration
- 6 days
- Route
- Maasai Mara → Lake Nakuru → Amboseli
- Comfort
- Luxury
- Transport
- 4×4 Land Cruiser
- Accommodation
- Overnight at the lodge.
Price
Price on request
The way through.
- 01Maasai Mara
- 02Lake Nakuru
- 03Amboseli
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.
Wildebeest walking in a line across the plains in the Maasai Mara, with hills on the horizon. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris Nairobi to the Mara
Nairobi → Maasai Mara
The first day takes the safari from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara, a long drive in the 4×4 Land Cruiser that ends at the lodge for the first two nights. How the safari is arranged for women travellers, from the guide to the lodge, is explained in full when you plan. Where arrival time allows, the afternoon brings the first game drive, an introduction to the reserve’s open grassland and the animals that make it famous.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Maasai Mara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
Wildebeest strung out across grassland below distant hills in the Maasai Mara. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Big Time Safaris The reserve at its own pace
Maasai Mara
A full day in the Maasai Mara shows the reserve unfolding through the hours, from active early mornings to the slower heat of midday and the gold of late afternoon. Whether the herds are in, which the Mara Conservancy says is usually from June or July to November, or the reserve’s residents have the plains to themselves, there is time to stay with a sighting and watch what happens next. Herd movements follow the rain, so timing shifts from year to year.
- Overnight
- Lodge in the Maasai Mara, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
A female waterbuck in Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0) Across to Lake Nakuru
Maasai Mara → Lake Nakuru
The safari leaves the Mara for Lake Nakuru National Park, a Rift Valley park that combines a semi-alkaline lake with grassland, acacia woodland and rocky escarpments. Kenya Wildlife Service describes it as home to one of the country’s largest populations of black rhinos, as well as white rhinos, and a drive here is a good chance to look for both.
- Overnight
- Lodge at Lake Nakuru, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
An African bush elephant beside an acacia trunk in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0) Lake Nakuru to Amboseli
Lake Nakuru → Amboseli
An early drive in Lake Nakuru National Park comes first, along the lake shore where flamingos and other waterbirds may gather and into the woodland where rhinos browse. Then the long road south leads to Amboseli, near the Tanzanian border, which Kenya Wildlife Service reaches by two main approaches from the Nairobi side, via Emali or via Namanga. The day ends at a lodge in Amboseli, ready for a full day among the elephants.
- Overnight
- Lodge in Amboseli, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
A grey crowned crane in the grass of Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Diego Delso (CC BY-SA 4.0) Amboseli under the mountain
Amboseli
A day in Amboseli is a day with elephants. Kenya Wildlife Service calls the park one of Africa’s premier places to meet large elephant herds, and the setting, with Kilimanjaro across the border on clear days, makes the encounters unforgettable. The swamps and marshes are rich in birds, and Observation Hill gives a view across the plains that helps make sense of the whole park, from the dry grassland to the green of the swamps.
- Overnight
- Lodge in Amboseli, named in your quotation
- Meals
- Set out in your written quotation
An African bush elephant grazing in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. Illustrative photograph. Photograph: Ray in Manila (CC BY 2.0) Back to Nairobi
Amboseli → Nairobi
The last morning offers another chance to see Amboseli’s elephants and, weather permitting, the peak of Kilimanjaro before the drive back to Nairobi. Over six days the safari has covered Kenya’s best-known reserve, a Rift Valley rhino sanctuary and the plains of the south. It ends in the capital, where drop-off arrangements are set out in your quotation. If anything about the journey’s arrangements for women travellers matters to you, it is worth raising with us before booking, so that the answers are in writing.
- 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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