Affordable Africa Safaris: The peak and great plains safari 2026

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Day 1. Nairobi to Amboseli National Park (Mount Kilimanjaro)

After breakfast drive to Amboseli National Park.

The Park is famous for its big game and scenic beauty with the landscape dominated by Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Spend a further day in the park on morning and afternoon game-viewing drives. Visitors mainly come to watch the huge herds of elephants. The bull elephants have some of the largest tusks in all of Kenya.

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Day 2. Amboseli to Lake Naivasha

Lake Naivasha. Have Lunch at the lodge and later visit Crescent Island. Take a boat ride to Crescent Island and enjoy a nature walk on Crescent Island, a crescent-shaped peninsula.

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Day 3 & 4. Lake Naivasha to Masai Mara National Park

Wildlife is abundant in the Mara Reserve with the gentle grasslands ensuring that animals are never out of sight. Birds are prolific including immigrants. The big cats - lion, leopard, and cheetah - follow the wildebeest, essentially their main source of food  into the Mara.

The Great Migration in a nutshell

With 1,5 million wildebeest, 400,000 zebra, 12,000 eland and 300,000 Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles trekking from southern Serengeti to the Masai Mara, the 'great' in 'Great Migration' may be a bit of an understatement. The constant year-long migration is an iconic natural phenomenon, the timing of which depends on environmental factors, the weather and of course, the animals themselves. In short, the biggest mammal trek in the world follows the rains. The herds travel 800 kilometers clockwise in a circle through the Serengeti and Masai Mara ecosystems in search of greener, mineral rich pastures and water. The animals spend most of the cycle in the Serengeti in Tanzania, but also spend several months trekking the bountiful plains of the Masai Mara.

Highlights of the Great Migration

As the herds of wildebeest, zebras and gazelles enter the Masai Mara they are met by more than their fair share of lethal predators. Aside from the threat of the big cats, the lemming-like herds are also faced with over 3000 crocodiles lurking in the murky waters of the Mara River during their river crossing. Watching the herds blindly jump from riverbank ledges and into the river waters is spectacular to say the least. Eventually the massive herds are rewarded with spoils of the wide open Masai Mara plains. For a short while, life is good. When the food supply dwindles and the rains move on, so do the herds.

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Day 5. Masai Mara to Nairobi

Depart after breakfast and drive to Nairobi, transfer to the airport for a departure flight at JKIA upon arrival.