Africa Masai Mara 8 days

Highlights
Lake Nakuru, Lake Naivasha, Masai Mara.

Optional side trips
Hell's Gate Park cycle ride, Crescent Island, Longonot Mountain, Lake Nakuru National Park. Other side trips are available.
At the end of this trip you have the opportunity extend your stay to include the Ngorongoro Crater and Serengeti National Park.

Lake Nakuru National Park is only 60 kilometres across the valley floor. It has the largest herd of black rhino in East Africa, around a million pink flamingos; who are part time residents and more than 400 other bird species. Nakuru means place of the waterbuck in Swahili and these antelope abound in the park as well as impala, buffalo and warthog. The lions here sit in the branches of trees. We leave Lake Nakuru after a morning game drive and visiting Nakuru town to return to Kembu Camp.

Lake Naivasha is well known for its hippo population that comes ashore every night to graze. The camp is protected by an electric fence which stops the hippos coming too close.

Price

From: GBP400 per person (8 days)

Price Includes

• transport expedition vehicle
• meals
• campsite fees

Price Excludes

• The price does not include flights, visas, side trips, lunches and meals out. There are a number of optional side trips that you can choose from and pay for on the route.

Departure Dates

Local Payment -
Payable in £ Pounds Sterling cash but you can pay in $US dollars or Euros cash at the current cross exchange rate on date of departure, check with the driver for the rate. Please pay this to the driver on departure. Travellers cheques, cards or other forms of payment are not accepted.

Side Trips you can do on this trip and Costs
Kenya Price
Lake Nakuru - half day in the park $60
Lake Naivasha - Hell's Gate Park; entry & bike hire to cycle through the park $30
Lake Naivasha - Elsamere Museum & afternoon tea $8
Lake Naivasha - Climb to Mount Longonot extinct volcano crater rim $50
Lake Naivasha - Green Crater Lake $10

Tour summary
Day 1
KENYA We transfer up to Nakuru. Tonight we stay at the old working farm: Kembu Camp.

Day 2
We spend a day at Lake Nakuru, viewing game in a park famous for its soda lake surrounded by over a million pink flamingoes, pelicans, rhinos and tree-climbing lions. If we are lucky we can spot leopard along the lakeside.

Day 3
Lake Naivasha: here hippos come to graze in the evenings. The more energetic can spend the morning cycling through lion-free Hell's Gate National Park or bird watching on the lakeshore. We spend the afternoon visiting Elsemere, the home of Born Free.

Day 4
In the morning you can visit Crescent Island the film location of 'Out of Africa' where you can wander with a guide amongst African wildlife in predator-free surroundings.

Day 5
You have the chance to go bird watching on the lake shores, or to climb Mount Longonot, an extinct volcano. Or you can take a boat out on the Green Crater Lake.

Day 6
We climb the Mau escarpment and pass through the Masai capital of Narok.. The evening is spent in a tented camp on the edge of the Masai Mara reserve.

Day 7
Game driving at its best, in the vast grassland plains, the untouched habitat of the Masai Mara.

Day 8
We return to Nairobi and spend the evening feasting in the famous Carnivores Restaurant.