kenya safari Amboseli, Aberdares,Nakuru, Masai mara

Amboseli ,Tree Lodge-Lake Nakuru-Maasai Mara.

Highlights:

Amboseli National Park, formerly Maasai Amboseli Game Reserve, is in Kajiado District , Rift Valley Province in Kenya. The park is 39,206 hectares (392 km2; 151 sq mi) in size at the core of an 8,000 square kilometres (3,100 sq mi) ecosystem that spreads across the Kenya Tanzania border. The local people are mainly Maasai, but people from other parts of the country have settled there attracted by the successful tourist-driven economy and intensive agriculture along the system of Swamps that makes this low-rainfall area (average 350 mm (14 in)) one of the best wildlife-viewing experiences in the world. The park protects two of the five main swamps, and includes a dried-up Pleistocene lake and semi-arid vegetation.

The Masai Mara is famous for its exceptional population of Big Cats,game, and the annual migration of zebra,Thomson's gazelles , and wildebeest from the Serengeti every year from July to October, a migration so immense that it is called the Great Migration.

Aberdare National Park is famous for its tree-house hotels - Treetops and The Ark. With walkways and accommodation raised into the forest canopy, you can watch animals from a unique vantagepoint. Positioned by waterholes and natural salt licks, animals provide constant entertainment and seem undisturbed by the stream of curious visitors, some of whom stay up all night to catch sightings of shy animals by floodlight. There is even a viewing hide dug below ground with windows level with the waterhole, where elephants fee come within inches of your face

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Day 1:
This morning drive past the scenic Athi Plains and into the bushy country of Amboseli National Park. Amboseli National Park is a landscape dominated everywhere by the glistening, majestic snowcap of the mighty mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania- a fitting backdrop to the wild region. It is also the region where pastoral Masai and their cattle have lived in harmony with wild creatures for many a century. After lunch, experience an afternoon game drive at the foot of Africa's highest mountain Mt Kilimanjaro. Dinner and overnight is at one of the Amboseli Lodges, located in the very heart of the Amboseli National

Day 2:
Early morning game drive that is rewarded by magnificent views of the mighty Mt Kilimanjaro in Tanzania with its snowcapped summit appearing pink in the rising sun. Amboseli national park is known for its abundance of Elephants as well as Hippopotamus, Giraffe, Lion and Black Rhino. The snows of Kilimanjaro in Tanzania , white and crystalline, form a majestic backdrop to one of Kenya's most spectacular displays of wildlife, creating Kenya's most sought after photographer's paradise. After lunch at Amboseli National park , an extensive game drive is followed by dinner and overnight at one of the Amboseli Lodges.

Day 3:
After breakfast, depart for the Mt Kenya region to the Aberdares National park . Lunch will be at a base hotel from where you will be transferred to your tree lodge at the Aberdares National park. Enjoy the unique experience of all night and unlimited game viewing. Dinner and overnight at a tree lodge in the Aberdares national park surrounded by forest and overlooking an illuminated waterhole and salt lick.

Day 4:
After breakfast at the tree lodge at the Aberdares National park, transfer to base hotel for onward journey to Lake Nakuru National Park . Arrive in time for lunch. Enjoy an afternoon game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park. The park provides a sanctuary for the rhino. Lake Nakuru has always been considered a flamingo lake par excellence. The contrast and apparent dislocation between the shallow soda lake with its primeval birds and the animated woods all around it give Lake Nakuru National Park a very distinctive appeal. Dinner and overnight at a lodge overlooking the lake.

Day 5:
After breakfast at Lake Nakuru National park lodge, depart for Masai Mara game reserve- the land of vast migrating herds. Arrive in time for lunch. In the afternoon, embark on a game drive to get a closer look at the Mara. Return to an archetypal Mara lodge for sundowners, dinner and overnight stay.

Day 6:
Awaken to the sounds of the big game country and venture out to absorb the enormity of the Masai Mara game reserve. In this country of breathtaking vistas, view its vast assemblages of plains game together with their associated predators: Buffalo, Black Rhino, Hippopotamus, Leopard, Cheetah, Common Zebra, Coke's Hartebeest, White bearded Gnu, Oribi, Warthog, and Thompson's and Grant's Gazelles. An early evening game drive to catch up on all that was missed. All meals and overnight stay are at the lodge.

Day 7: After breakfast at the mara lodge, return to Nairobi.