Day 1: Arrival [Nairobi]

Pick-up at the Airport

City tour

Spend night at Nairobi Safari Club Hotel

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 2: Nairobi-Maasai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast at around 08:00Am we will proceed with the journey south through the floor of the Great Rift Valley to Maasai Mara, one of East Africa’s most famous reserves, The Maasai Mara consists of undulating hills and great rolling grasslands that sustain some of the most varied wildlife in Africa, if not the world. Arrive in time for game viewing in the Maasai Mara reserve, where lion, elephant, cheetah, giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest, gazelle and other plains game abound, not forgetting the hundreds of species of birds.

Dinner and overnight in-Mara Sopa Lodge.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 3-4: Explore Maasai Mara

Day 3-Full day dedicated to safari game drives in this sprawling Maasai Mara reserve. You can watch a lion, cheetah or leopard hunting or feasting on its kill.

Dinner and overnight at -Sarova Mara Lodge.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 4- Explore Maasai Mara

Early morning game drive, after which –drive to the Lodge for breakfast. After breakfast, take visit to a Maasai village or a hot-air balloon ride. What an exhilarating experience!

Lunch and overnight at the-Mara Sopa Lodge.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 3: Maasai Mara via Naivasha -Lake Nakuru National Park

Depart Maasai Mara after breakfast at around 08Am for Lake Nakuru National Park and the tour begins with a visit to Lake Naivasha , experience a boat ride in Lake Naivasha  to Crescent Island. The Lake has good density of game and it is one Park that within few minutes of game drive, you will achieve quite a lot in terms of sightings. It is also a bird watchers haven. We’ll have lunch at the park. Lake Nakuru national park, famous for its millions of seasonal pink flamingos and other aquatic birds will be our next destination. Game drive en route to –Flamingo Hill Camp. Afternoon out for another game tracking session around the lake, where rhino, zebra, gazelle, buffalo, leopard, and waterbuck can easily and closely be spotted as we will be driving around the lake.

Dinner and overnight at –Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 6: Lake Nakuru National Park-Amboseli

We will have an early morning game drive and head back to our accommodation for breakfast before embarking on our drive from Lake Nakuru National Park to Amboseli National Park. We will have lunch enroute most likely in Nairobi before  Arriving with a short game drive at Amboseli  Sentrim Lodge, check in.

Dinner and overnight at the Amboseli Sopa Lodge..

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Day 7: Explore Amboseli National Park

Early morning pre-breakfast game drive at 0630am, when you have the best chance to see the majestic highest peak of Africa with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro before returning to your lodge for breakfast.

Day 8: Leave for Amboseli Serena Lodge In where conservation and Tourism go hand in hand is a place that you will be able to meet and interact with the locals, the famous Maasai people of Kenya.  The Maasai are native Kenyan ethnic group that still embraces their traditional, cultural and historical practices.

Lunch, Dinner and overnight at the Amboseli Sopa Lodge.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

 Day 9: Amboseli-Nairobi

Morning drive from Amboseli National Park to Nairobi

Depending on what time your flight is we can arrange several optional activities in Nairobi.

Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}

Price:US Dollars 2690.00 Per person sharing

What’s included on the price of the safari

Transport based on customized seven-sitter safari Van or a 4X4 Landcrusier

All applicable game Park Entrance fees.

•    Finest accommodation as indicated in the itinerary.

•    Three meals a day while on Safari.

•    Airport picks up on arrival in Nairobi.

•    Professional Safari Guide/Driver.

•    Guaranteed departures for two or more passengers booking this safari.

•    Round trip transport from Nairobi to the designated National Park.

•    Pre–tour itinerary document.

•    Extensive and unlimited Game drives.

What’s not included on the price of the safari

•    Personal expense such as communication charges like emails, faxes, and phone calls

•    Maasai Village visit

•    Hot air balloon ride

•    Drinks like sodas, water, beer and wines

•    Gratuity for the driver guide, waiter

•    Laundry

•    The cost of obtaining visa

•    Pre- tour accommodation which can be arranged on request.

For further information kindly email info@orangeadventures.co.ke or orange.adventuetravels@gmail.com or elisha.oranga@icloud.com contact us through the following phone numbers +254 725 289 430 or +254 020 7780653 or +254 734 825 127

Additional Trip Notes

OPTIONAL MASAI MARA BALLOON SAFARI STARTING FROM USD 450 PER PERSON:

 Close your eyes, and for a moment feel your body lift up, with you having no control over it, and there is a certain part of you, inside you, saying to yourself, I am crazy for taking this balloon safari. This is what most people feel, when the excitement of a Masai Mara balloon safari crosses one’s emotion of self-control and independence.

Don’t stop! Tell me more about my Masai Mara Balloon Safari in Kenya?

The feeling is indescribable, crispness of the African air, chill in the wind that hits your face as your Mara hot air balloon gradually rises, smoothness in the exhale of your breath, and the excitement to see and learn more. One’s physical presence can be felt on the plains of the Masai Mara when reading this.

You trip begins when you get your wakeup call at your safari lodge or tented camp in the early hours of the morning, as you yawn away, and thoughts about your wildlife viewing from an elevated position begins to stir your mind. The fresh Kenyan traditional hot tea and coffee quickly awaken you, in fact preparing you for a “mission”.

By 6.15 a.m. you are almost arriving at the hot air balloon site in the Masai Mara. As you approach the site, the balloon seems bigger than you expected, the experience is one that has never been visited, and you are about to have a trip of a lifetime.

Liftoff! Up and away we go! At 6.30 a.m., the hot air balloon safari starts. The captain asks you to relax and experience the wonders under the African sky. As you finally start to get a grip on the elevation, an inner smile that resonates on one’s face does not need an explanation. The wildebeest moving in large numbers across the Masai Mara plains, the beauty of the landscape when the rising sun’s bright orange colors are displayed, the elephants at the water pool, and the gazelles and zebras scampering away, just if it was their first time to witness an alien object in the sky.

By 7.30 a.m., one is very content with balloon safari, and it is almost touch down time. There is a celebration, and for those who prefer a toast, champagne is served, as hot breakfast in the bush is being prepared. You ask yourself, is this true? I am really doing this trip of a lifetime in Kenya? In the Masai Mara? As the sweetness and aroma of the African coffee surrounds you, with fresh eggs being served as you like it, you hope for another ride, and wish that such luxury never ended.

By the time you finish your breakfast, you have made up your decision to immigrate to Kenya because such life is only found here. You begin to question yourself, and you feel an urgency to seek, live and enjoy this pristine beauty, a once in a lifetime “thing”.

By 9.00 a.m., you have been declared a champion, a mighty certificate of completion handed out to you which you hope to display in your home country, to family, friends, coworkers. Clapping and participation by everyone present makes you proud to have achieved a trip as wonderful as this.

By then you hear a blaring sound of music or even an annoying buzz, you turn around and switch of the alarm clock. Your eyes wide open, you know that you have to get back to Kenya, to Maasai Mara, again otherwise the recurring dreams will drive you mad.

NATIONAL PARKS & RESERVES INFORMATION

Masai Mara National G.R

Probably the most famous of the reserves, the Masai Mara, in Kenya’s south western corner, boasts an astonishing amount of game. Unfenced, the Mara is bounded in the east by the Ngama Hills and in the west by the Oloololo or Siria Escarpment. Gazelle, wildebeest and zebra graze in large numbers and where prey is found so are predators. Not only is  this a great place in which to find game, but the wide greeny-gold  savannahs spotted with thorn trees make it ideal for photography. The Mara, as it is known in Kenya, is ravishingly beautiful and also offers long, undisturbed views and utterly dramatic panoramas. The weather really means something here. The sun may beat down unforgivingly, huge clouds in fabulous shapes may sweep across the widest of skies, and the wind ripples the grasses as though they are stroked by a giant hand. The landscape is stunning.

The famously black-maned Mara lions are possibly the stars of the Mara show, but cheetah, elephant, kongoni, topi, Thompson’s gazelle, waterbuck, hyena, and primates are all here too. As with the rest of Kenya, the birding is good. There is no settlement within the reserve however; the Mara is in theory owned by the Maasai, pastoralists and, in earlier times, renowned lion-killers. Lodges and hotels offer the opportunity to buy their beadwork, checked cloths and copies of their spears. It is said that if lions scent approaching Maasai on the breeze they move swiftly in the opposite direction.

Famously, the Mara is the northerly end of the Great Migration, that great primeval surge of wildebeest, zebra and antelope that sweeps in from Tanzania’s Serengeti to Kenya’s Masai Mara as the Tanzanian grass starts to fail. The large predators that pick off the weak, the stragglers and the young track them. The great herds, nearing their destination by July, mass along the Mara River, pushing, shoving and fantastically noisy, just waiting for the first animal to cross so that they can all follow, lemming-like, on the final leg of the journey. However, crocodiles lie in wait, sluggishly cruising the waters, fully prepared for their best meal of the year. Many fail in the life-and-death struggle – drowned, eaten by the crocodiles or, made careless or weak by their stressful swim, brought down by lions.  The Masai Mara is terrible yet wonderful, and not to be missed