7 Days Rift Valley Lakes and Masai Mara Safari.
This safari tour visits two of the Rift Valley lakes and the classic Masai Mara. Activities include game drives in Lake Nakuru National Park and the Masai Mara National reserve and also a boat safari on Lake Naivasha. There will be plenty of opportunities to track down all the Big Five, see big five in their natural environment, spot hundreds of species of bird and watch big cats patrol the savannah plains!
Itinerary
You will depart Nairobi early morning for Lake Nakuru National Park (2.5 hours), where you could see over 400 different species of birds, good numbers of white rhinos, the rare Rothschild giraffe and other plains mammals such as lion, zebra and buffalo. On entering the park, you will take a game drive on route to your accommodation at Sopa Lodge, located at the top of a ridge with great views over the lake and park. After lunch, you’ll head out into the park for a game drive before returning to the lodge for dinner.
Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
Meal: Lunch & Dinner.
Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge / Sarova Lion Hill
Today, you will spend the day on game drives exploring the lake shore with all meals at the lodge.
Destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
Meals included: All meals included.
Accommodations: Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge / Sarova Lion Hill
After breakfast, you will head down the Rift Valley to Lake Naivasha and the Sopa Resort (1.5 hours). The lodge is located by the lake and has beautiful grounds with huge cacti and many acacia trees, and there is often wildlife wandering around, such as bushbuck, zebra and giraffe. The main building has an interior garden, fireplaces and low comfy leather sofas.
The rooms themselves are spacious, Swahili-style chalets, either with a balcony or a glass-fronted lounge area for relaxing and wildlife viewing. After lunch, you’ll take a boat safari across the lake, where you may see hippos and many species of birds,s including fish eagles, pelicans, and sometimes flamingoes. Towards the end of your boat safari, you will stop at Crescent Island for a guided nature walk. You’ll then retire to the lodge for the evening, where you can take a swim and enjoy your evening.
Destination: Lake Naivasha
Meals included: All meals included
Accommodations: Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge/Kiboko Luxury Camp
An early morning drive to Masai Mara National Reserve, it holds on as one of the few places left on earth where wildlife still lives comparatively undisturbed, in the numbers that once roamed the plains and forests of Africa. As the northern tip of the vast Serengeti ecosystem, the Mara hosts the spectacular seasonal migration of many thousands of Wildebeest, Zebras and attendant predators. Have lunch en route, evening is spent at leisure. Dinner and overnight at Lodge.
Destination: Masai Mara
Meals included: All meals included
Accommodations: Mara Sopa Lodge / Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Spend the days on game drives exploring the Masai Mara. The open grasslands are home to incredibly rich and varied wildlife, and the awesome, annual migration of millions of wildebeest and antelope is the highlight of any visitor to Africa from July to September. The Maasai Mara Game Reserve is arguably Kenya’s most popular game sanctuary. It is the most famous and most visited game reserve in Kenya. The film ‘Out of Africa’ was made to a great extent in this reserve.
Virtually every type of wildlife can be seen in the Mara due to the migration across the Kenya/Tanzania border which is a spectacle worth seeing as millions of wildebeest, zebra and gazelle from Serengeti plains cross the Tanzania border at the Mara River to into Maasai Mara grazing fields from late June.
The dramatic crossing of the river and the predators who prey on the herds can be viewed from early July to August. The reserve abounds with birdlife since close to about 452 species have been recorded.
Destination: Maasai Mara
Meals included: All meals included.
Accommodations: Mara Sopa Lodge/Mara Serena Safari Lodge.
We wake up at 6 am for a sunrise game drive. At 9 am, we drive back to the accommodation for brunch, then depart for Nairobi. Lunch en-route and arrival in Nairobi at late afternoon.
Destination: Masai Mara – Nairobi
Meals included: All meals included.
Accommodations: End of tour (no accommodation)
Includes/Excludes
Price Includes
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- Mineral water
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Price Excludes
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees






