5 Days Kenya Luxury Birdwatching Safari from Maasai Mara to Amboseli

You will leave Nairobi with our professional guide and travel approximately 260–280 kilometres to the Maasai Mara over five to six hours. During the transfer through Great Rift Valley scenery, farmland and open countryside, you may begin observing roadside raptors, storks and common highland birds. After checking in at your luxury lodge and enjoying lunch, you will start an afternoon birding drive through grasslands and acacia areas. Possible attractions include secretary birds, rollers, bustards, vultures, eagles and hornbills, while elephants, giraffes, zebras and predators may also appear.

Destination:

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Overnight:

Fig Tree Camp

  luxury 4 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

❮ ❯

You will leave Nairobi with our professional guide and travel approximately 260–280 kilometres to the Maasai Mara over five to six hours. During the transfer through Great Rift Valley scenery, farmland and open countryside, you may begin observing roadside raptors, storks and common highland birds. After checking in at your luxury lodge and enjoying lunch, you will start an afternoon birding drive through grasslands and acacia areas. Possible attractions include secretary birds, rollers, bustards, vultures, eagles and hornbills, while elephants, giraffes, zebras and predators may also appear.

Destination:

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Overnight:

Fig Tree Camp

  luxury 4 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

❮ ❯

After breakfast, you will travel approximately 230–250 kilometres to the Lake Nakuru region over four and a half to six hours. Roadside observations may include raptors, storks, weavers and agricultural species. After checking in at your luxury accommodation, you may enjoy relaxed birdwatching around lodge gardens and nearby vegetation, depending on arrival time and property rules. Sunbirds, starlings, weavers and other local species may be observed before dinner.

Destination:

MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

Overnight:

The lake nakuru flamingo lodge

  luxury 4 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

❮ ❯

Where timing and entry arrangements permit, your morning may include birdwatching around Lake Nakuru before beginning the approximately 350–400-kilometre journey to Amboseli. Possible Lake Nakuru attractions include pelicans, flamingos, cormorants, herons, fish eagles and woodland birds, together with rhinos and giraffes. The seven-to-eight-hour transfer then passes through changing highland and southern landscapes. After arrival at your Amboseli lodge, you will check in, enjoy dinner and prepare for wetland and savannah birding the next morning.

Destination:

LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK

Overnight:

Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge

  luxury 4 star lodge

Meals & Drinks:

Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

❮ ❯

Depending on lodge location and departure time, you may enjoy a short morning birding drive through Amboseli’s wetlands, open plains and acacia areas. Possible attractions include herons, egrets, pelicans, raptors, ostriches and numerous savannah species, together with elephants, zebras and giraffes. Mount Kilimanjaro may be visible when conditions are clear. After breakfast, you will travel approximately 215–240 kilometres to Nairobi over four to five hours before final drop-off.