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5 Days Masai Mara Kenya Safari Wildlife Adventure
5 Days Masai Mara Kenya Safari Wildlife Adventure to Maasai Mara National Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Naivasha Budget Midrange & Luxury Safari Kenya. Maasai (Masai) Mara National Reserve is a vast game reserve in the semi-arid Narok county in Kenya. It is contiguous with the Serengeti national park in the Mara region of Tanzania.
It is named in the honor of the Maasai people who are the ancestral inhabitants of the area. Mara means spotted in maa, a Masai language. Maasai Mara is globally famous for its exceptional population of wildlife and wildebeest immigration to and from Serengeti every year during the dry season from July to October.
This is commonly known as the Great Migration. A visit to the reserve is a great venture to undertake for a cultural tour of one of the oldest inhabitants of East Africa, the Maasai. This noble tribe is one of the very few tribes that have retained most of its traditions. It has a team of traditional dancers who dance o their call-and-dance response to singing and perhaps their most widely known dance is the damu or rather jumping dance.
You can get to join the dancing as these flexible male dancers jump higher and higher to the rhythms of the enchanting music accompanying their dance stroke. Masai Mara has several tourism activities. Among others, these are the hot air balloons over the reserve, Kenya safari drives, nature walk, bird watching, sightseeing, guided bush walk, and hiking
Detailed 5 Days Masai Mara Kenya Safari Wildlife Adventure
Day 1: Transfer to Maasai Mara and Afternoon Game Drive
You will start your trip with a pick up at your hotel after your early morning breakfast, have a 1 hour’s drive to the Great Rift Valley viewpoint where you will have a breathtaking 15 minutes nature view and photo-taking of the vast lands forming that perfect V-shape with tarmacked roads at the base, patches of vegetation dotting the space, the sun rays stretching far and wide and the mountains in the vicinity meeting the foreseeable edges of the land
Together with your guide will drive to mount Longonot National Park and have a 30 minutes sightseeing session and the spectral and desolate mount Longonot which is home to various species of wildlife. You will then proceed to Narok Town for a dainty mid-afternoon lunch before progressing to the quite free and open Masai Mara.
Your comfortable expeditious journey will deepen into the Masai plains, arrive at the lodge for check-in, and thereafter go for a game drive, allowing you to see a lot of wildlife like lions, elephants, zebras, giraffes, wildebeests, and kobs, among many others
Later drive back to the lodge for relaxation dinner and overnight
Accommodation
Luxury: Keekorok Lodge
Midrange: Jambo Mara Safari Lodge
Budget: Mara Springs Safari Lodge
Day 2: Maasai Mara Full Day Game Drive
Your exceedingly eventful day starts with a hearty breakfast at the lodge and then you will leave for an extensive game drive. You will then come more face to face with all the “big 5” and enjoy the scenic savannah grassland on the rolling hills.
The reserve has an extensive road and track network which allows for undistracted sightseeing and photography. You will then proceed with a game drive to the Mara river, the migration which doubles as the point to spot the fearful and ravenous crocodiles and hippopotamuses.
You will take a break for a wild madcap picnic at noon and rest at the untamed river after which you will head for the Mara Triangle, and then back to the camp, arriving in time for the final and beautiful sunset before dinner
Accommodation
Luxury: Keekorok Lodge
Midrange: Jambo Mara Safari Lodge
Budget: Mara Springs Safari Lodge
Day 3: Masai Village and Lake Nakuru National Park
After a tasteful breakfast and check out from the camp, you will exit the park and then head for the Masai village visit.
The first thing you will surely notice when you get to the village is the brilliant red, blue, and purple patterns of the shukas the Masai wear.
This visibly contrasts strongly with the greens and browns of the orange arid landscape. You will notice the men with their spears and the women bejeweled with bright beaded earrings and scarves.
You typically are given a chance to get to join a demonstration of the Masai dance, taken around a traditional boma and shown how the Masai make fire with sticks.
All this will be before you go to their gift shop. You will also get to take photos and ask the Masai questions about their culture and buy imperishable souvenirs to remind you of your holiday to Mara.
You will then leave to Narok town where your hearty lunch will be served and then proceed to lake Nakuru National Park and feast your eyes with the sightings of the always shy and watchful flamingos, check-in in at your booked hotel/lodge for relaxation dinner and overnight
Accommodations
Luxury: Nakuru Spa Lodge
Midrange: Lake Nakuru Lodge
Budget: Sewala Lodge
Day 5: Boat Ride Lake Naivasha and Transfer to Nairobi
After your breakfast on this 5 Days Masai Mara Kenya Safari Wildlife Adventure, you will have 2 hours which will give you a chance to view lots of hippos and bird species.
You will saunter about the crescent island and then have a boat ride at Lake Naivasha. The fertile and peaceful crescent island is surrounded by permanent salty waters; it is a peninsula and it is accessible by boat from the East or west as well as by road.
The island is famous for wildebeest, waterbucks, zebras, gazelles, and its abundant birdlife. After this activity, you will drive back to Nairobi have lunch in Westlands and then proceed to the airport to catch your flight back home or back to your hotel in Nairobi
End of the 5 Days Masai Mara Kenya Safari Wildlife Adventure
Masai Mara - The Ultimate Kenya Safari
Tour Highlights of this 5 Days Masai Mara Kenya Safari Wildlife Adventure
Day 1: Transfer to Masai and afternoon game drive
Day 2: Full day game Drive Mara and Masai river
Day 3: Masai Village tour and Lake Nakuru
Day 4: Game drive Lake Nakuru
Day 5: Lake Naivasha boat ride and transfer to Nairobi
Safari Inclusions of This 5 Days Masai Mara Kenya Safari Wildlife Adventure
Safari includes:
- Transportation in a tour van/Landcruiser
- Service of an English -speaking tour guide/driver
- All activities mentioned in the itinerary
- Park admissions
- Accommodation on full board
- Entrance fees to all destinations as per the program
- Transfer to and from the airport
Safari exclusions
- All activities not mentioned in the program
- Phone calls bills
- Tips
- International transfers
- Gratitude to tour guides
- Personal insurance
- Personal effects of any nature
- Hotel fees before and after the safari
The Great Rift Valley Viewpoint
The Great rift valley is a series of contiguous geographic trenches across the middle east and Africa from Jordan to Mozambique.
The outstanding view, as you approach Nairobi, is quite unbelievable. The ground unexpectedly disappears from under you, extending to thousands of kilometers in either direction.
An excellent starter to the Kenyan Rift Valley, it may appear, is the most amazing part of this experience- as it sinks deeper to explore the lake system of the Rift
The Great Rift Valley Viewpoint is always a perfect place to stop by, stretch and take vivid pictures.
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