5 Days Nairobi – Masai Mara National Reserve- Lake Naivasha – Solio

Destination: Full-day Maasai Mara National Reserve

You'll have breakfast by 7:00 am EAT and head out for a full-day game drive with picnic lunch boxes. This grants you an opportunity to spot more wildlife, you'll visit the border between Masai Mara National Reserve and Serengeti National Reserve, enjoy a picnic lunch in the bush, and experience the great wildebeest migration between July to September. After the full-day game drive, you’ll head back to the lodge for relaxation, dinner, and a sleepover.

The word Maasai Mara is derived from the word Mara meaning a plain land with small scattered bushes belonging to the Maasai people. It is the home of the African Big Five and is famously known for its captivating 7th Wonder of the World.

Accommodation: Zebra Plains Mara Camp

Meal Plan: Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner

Destination: Lake Naivasha

After breakfast, you'll check out at 7:00 AM EAT. You'll drive to Maasai village where you’ll interact, learn, and participate in the local dances of the Maasai people. After this, you'll drive to Naivasha with short stopovers for a health break and check in at your lodge for a hot lunch. After the lunch break, you'll drive to Hell’s Gate for cycling and nature walks. Hell’s Gate is in the Great Rift Valley with beautiful scenery of the towering cliffs, water-gouged gorges, stark rock towers, scrub-clad volcanoes, and belching plumes of geothermal steam making it one of the most atmospheric parks in Africa. In the evening, you’ll drive back for dinner, relaxation, and an overnight stay.

Accommodation: Sawela Lodges - Mid Range - Lake Naivasha

Meal Plan: Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner

Note: If an accommodation is fully booked, we'll suggest a comparable alternative.

Destination: Solio Ranch

After breakfast, you'll check out by 7:00 pm EAT and head for a boat ride and a walk at the Crescent Island in Lake Naivasha. This is a private Island that rose to fame after the 1985 movie “Out of Africa” which showcased the beautiful nature of Lake Naivasha. The Island has plain terrains that are easy to hike and make walking around it less tedious and very interesting. It is after this, that you'll proceed on with your journey to Nyeri and check in for lunch at the Aberdare Country Club. Later on, you'll head for an afternoon game drive at Solio Game Reserve until 6:30 pm when you'll be checking back to the lodge for dinner and a sleepover.

Solio is the world's first private rhino sanctuary named after a Great Maasai Chief and best known for rhino conservation. It also holds some of the special six animals of Kenya eg (the Reticulated giraffes, Beisa oryx, and vulturine guineafowl) and a variety of bird species among other wildlife.

Accommodation: Aberdare Country Club - Mid-range - Outside Aberdare National Park

Meal Plan: Breakfast/ Lunch/ Dinner

Note: If an accommodation is fully booked, we'll suggest a comparable alternative.

Destination: Nairobi

You'll have breakfast, check out by 8:30 am EAT, and head to Kirinyaga town to visit the Thingira Cultural Village. Here you’ll get an opportunity to engage and interact with the locals who’ll enlighten you about the cultural values and beliefs of their community and their surrounding neighbors who form the Eastern Bantu Community. Later, you'll proceed to Nairobi and be dropped off at the airport, place of residence, or your preferred destination within Nairobi. This marks the end of the safari/ journey.

Meal plan: Breakfast