7 days Kenya budget tour takes you to three of Kenya’s best safari locations with a city tour around Nairobi to attractions within the city limits such as Nairobi National Museum where fossils from the East African River valleys are displayed, Nairobi Snake Park, the capital’s shopping areas and others. This is an opportunity for you to explore the diversity of African wildlife ranging from small mammals to the big five and other animals roaming in their natural habitats.
Get ready to enjoy the scenic view of the breathtaking backdrop of the mountain Kilimanjaro in Amboseli and the Great Rift Valley of Lake Naivasha National Park. Your climax is visiting the world-famous Masai Mara National Reserve best for game viewing as well as experiencing the great wildebeest migration renowned as one of the seven world’s natural wonders.
Detailed itinerary
Day 1: Arrival and Nairobi city tour
Upon arrival, meet our representative from Omangwa Safaris who will take you through a briefing about your seven days safari and later drive to a hotel in Nairobi where you will check-in to have lunch after which you will head out for a city tour visiting notable attractions such as the Snake Park and Nairobi national museum. If time allows you will proceed to the giraffe center where you will have the opportunity to feed them while standing on a raised platform. Before dusk return to your lodge to have dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 2: Depart for Amboseli N/P & afternoon game drive
Have your early morning breakfast and set off for your drive to Amboseli national park arriving to check-in at your reserved lodge waiting to have lunch. After your lunch , you will proceed for an afternoon game drive through the park’s vast moorlands, wetlands and savannah plains as you lookout for several animal species such as large herds of elephants, zebras, giraffes, warthogs, hippopotamuses, wildebeests, buffaloes and many more. Return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay before nightfall.
Day 3: Whole day Amboseli National Park
This beautiful day will be spent on game drives in Amboseli national park enjoying magnificent views of Africa’s highest mountain and spectacular sights of large herds of elephants which are believed to be the oldest and most intact social structure of an elephant population in Africa. Other wildlife to be seen includes over 400bird species, Masai giraffes, zebras, Oryx, antelopes, buffaloes, wildebeests, hippopotamus and many more. A picnic lunch will be served in the bush before proceeding with your game drive throughout the entire evening. Head back to your lodge before nightfall and enjoy your dinner and an overnight stay.
Day 4: Transfer to Lake Naivasha & boat cruise
Enjoy your early morning breakfast and depart for Lake Naivasha through the Great Rift Valley while enjoying its spectacular sceneries arriving at your reserved lodge in the perfect time for lunch. After your lunch proceed for a boat cruise along Lake Naivasha famous for its strong populations of hippopotamuses and flamingos. There are over 1,500 hippopotamuses in this area where you are guaranteed of seeing various schools. This lake is a birder’s paradise known to harbor over 400 bird species that beautify the lake. Before dusk return to your lodge for a hot dinner and relax waiting for your drive to the land of the Masai in the next morning.
Day 5: Lake Naivasha to Masai Mara & afternoon game drive
You will depart your lodge and be driven to the land of Masai known for its unique spectacular and memorable sightings of the annual animal migration that involves millions of wildebeests and thousands of gazelles, zebras and other grazers. Arrival will be in the best time for your lunch after which you will head out for your first game drive in the Mara plains. Keep your eyes out for Africa’s big five and predators stalk prey for a meal. Drive back to your lodge while having a magical view of thousands of antelopes gather to make a move to their resting place.
Day 6: Entire day Masai Mara National Reserve
Begin your day with an early morning breakfast and set out with packed lunch for an entire day exploration of the Mara plains. Watch out for hunting scenes while you admire the rolling hills, waving golden savannah grasses and the umbrella-shaped acacia trees. Hot lunch will be served in the bush before proceeding to experience the most spectacular natural event along the Mara River where predators showcase their hunting techniques and grazers apply their escaping skills. Immense yourself in the Masai way of life during a visit to a local village before returning to your lodge to have dinner and an overnight.
Day 7: Travel back to Nairobi & departure
Wake up to scrumptious breakfast and checkout to embark on your drive back to Nairobi arriving in time for your lunch in the city center. Have enough time with your guide reflecting on how your seven days safari has been before being dropped off to the airport for your scheduled flight back home or to a hotel of your preference to relax and write a journal about your safari waiting to say goodbye to Kenya.
