Day 1 – Tsavo East

Your Adventure In The Wild Safaris driver/guide will pick you up from your Diani Beach resort and proceed down the Mombasa–Nairobi highway on your way to Kenya’s largest game reserve, Tsavo East National Park. In no time, you’ll pass through the Tsavo gate and take in the park’s unmistakable rugged landscape.

Tsavo East is home to over 700 of the famous Tsavo lions, renowned in the past as fierce predators. On your first game drives you’ll also be looking for buffalo, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, zebra, gazelle and dozens more species.

Overnight: In-park lodge or tented camp of your choice.

Day 2 – Tsavo East → Amboseli

We’ll be up with the sun to catch the first stirrings of nature with an early morning game drive. Then we’ll exit Tsavo on the way to Amboseli National Park, which lies in the shadow of towering Mt. Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa.

Amboseli’s compact size offers frequent opportunities to view abundant game – especially its famed free‑ranging elephants. There’s also plenty of other wildlife here as well as hundreds of bird species and, of course, great views of Kilimanjaro.

Day 3 – Amboseli → Lake Naivasha

Another early morning will bring us an African sunrise and possibly views of Kilimanjaro’s snow‑capped peak if the clouds break. After breakfast we’ll depart Amboseli with a final game drive.

We’ll head through the Great Rift Valley and stop in Nairobi for lunch before proceeding on to Lake Naivasha. This is the Rift Valley’s highest lake, ringed with cacti and olive trees. We’ll take a boat safari and look for giraffe and zebra along the shore as we glide past neighboring hippos in the lake.

Day 4 – Lake Naivasha → Hell’s Gate → Lake Nakuru

From Lake Naivasha, it’s a quick hop to Hell’s Gate National Park, where we’ll take a bicycle safari riding past zebras, giraffes, impalas and buffalo, amongst the imposing escarpments. Then enjoy a bonus walking safari at nearby Crescent Island.

From there it’s only a one‑hour drive to Lake Nakuru National Park to see the beauty of an acacia forest, plus Rothschild’s giraffes, rhinos, lions, warthogs and even leopards. The park is also known for its birdlife including pelicans and flamingos.

Day 5 – Lake Nakuru → Masai Mara

We’ll complete our Lake Nakuru experience with an early morning game drive as we exit the park. We now make tracks to perhaps the most famous park in Kenya – Masai Mara National Reserve.

The Mara is a picture postcard of Africa with its rolling savannahs, acacia trees and endless herds of migrating zebras and wildebeests. Here, there are boundless populations of lions, leopards, cheetahs, and gazelle, plus hyena, jackal, buffalo and more.

We’ll arrive in time for afternoon game drives to whet your appetite – the beginning of our 3‑day span in the park.

Day 6 – Masai Mara

An exciting day of unlimited game drives through the Mara’s grasslands. Africa’s “Big Five” are a feature of the park and we’ll be on the lookout for them.

We will lunch by the Mara River and, during the migration season (July – October), may witness the crossing of thousands of zebra and wildebeest… and the crocodiles waiting for them in the murky waters.

Day 7 – Masai Mara → Nairobi

After breakfast, we’ll exit the park for one final game drive and then we’re off to Nairobi.

In Nairobi, choose an evening flight to Mombasa or take a modern train back to the coast. You can wash off the “safari dust” back at your resort as you recall your adventures in Kenya’s greatest parks.