4 Day Mara & Nakuru Jeep Trek

After breakfast, we will drive to Masai Mara National Reserve. Arrive in Masai Mara on time for hot lunch then have an afternoon game drive. This is the most visited and perhaps the most beautiful of all the country’s game reserves. Lying at an altitude of 1650m (5414ft), it covers an area of 1,510sq km (almost 600sq miles) and forms the northern extension of the Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. The Mara is a Maasai word meaning spotted or dappled. It is a mosaic of rolling grassland dominated by red oat grass, small bush-covered hills and along the Mara River and its tributaries flowing towards Lake Victoria, riverine bush and forest. Dinner and your overnight stay are at the camp.

Today we'll have a full-day game drive in Mara with a picnic lunch provided. Members of the “Big Five” (lion, leopard, African elephant, Cape buffalo, and black rhinoceros) are found in the Masai Mara. The population of black rhinos was fairly numerous until 1960 but was severely reduced by poaching in the 1970s and early 1980s, dropping to a low of 15. Numbers have been slowly increasing, but the population was still only up to an estimated 23 in 1999. Hippopotamus and crocodiles are found in large groups in the Mara and Talek Rivers. Leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, jackals, and bat-eared foxes can also be found in the reserve. These animals migrate north around July from the Serengeti plains in search of fresh pasture and return to the south in October. The Great Migration is one of the most impressive natural events worldwide, involving some 1,300,000 wildebeest, 500,000 Thomson’s gazelles, 97,000 topi, 18,000 elands, and 200,000 zebras. Dinner and your overnight stay are at the camp.

There will be no game drive on this day; you will wake up, have breakfast, then drive back to Nairobi. We'll have lunch en route. Then be dropped off at the airport or at your Nairobi accommodation.