4 Days Midrange Mara–Naivasha Photographic Road Safari

Our guide will collect you from Nairobi for the beginning of your midrange photographic road safari. You will travel approximately 260–280 km in about 5–6 hours through highland farmland, Great Rift Valley escarpments and rural grasslands before reaching the open savannah and acacia woodland of Maasai Mara. After checking into your midrange lodge or tented camp, our safari continues with a 2–3-hour afternoon game drive. Our guide will search for lions, elephants, giraffes, cheetahs and plains game while positioning the vehicle responsibly for photographs in the softer evening light.

Destination:

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Overnight:

Jambo Mara Safari Lodge

  mid rage 3 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Lunch, Dinner

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You will leave after an early breakfast for a 7–9-hour photographic game drive across Maasai Mara’s short-grass plains, acacia-dotted savannah, riverine forest and seasonal marshes. Our guide will explore productive wildlife areas while giving you time to observe animal behaviour and prepare carefully framed photographs. Depending on wildlife movements, our safari may cover approximately 80–120 km while searching for lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, buffaloes and large groups of grazing herbivores. A picnic lunch will allow you to remain inside the reserve before returning to your midrange accommodation in the late afternoon.

Destination:

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Overnight:

Jambo Mara Safari Lodge

  mid rage 3 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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After breakfast, you will leave Maasai Mara and travel approximately 230–250 km to Lake Naivasha, a road journey of around 5–6 hours. The landscape changes from open savannah and acacia bushland to cultivated Rift Valley farmland, volcanic scenery and the papyrus-fringed shoreline of Lake Naivasha. After checking into your midrange lakeside lodge, you will have time to relax or photograph the lake’s evening atmosphere, birds and surrounding acacia trees.

Destination:

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Overnight:

Naivasha Kongoni Lodge

  mid rage 3 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

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You will begin with an approximately 1-hour boat safari covering a flexible water distance of about 5–10 km along Lake Naivasha’s papyrus-fringed shoreline. Our guide and boat captain will help you photograph fish eagles, pelicans, cormorants, kingfishers and hippos from a safe distance. You will then take a 1½–2-hour guided Crescent Island nature walk covering roughly 2–4 km through lakeshore grassland and acacia woodland, where giraffes, zebras and antelopes may be observed. Afterwards, you will travel approximately 90–100 km to Nairobi in about 2–2½ hours.