3 DAYS MASAI MARA KENYA NATIONAL RESERVE WILDLIFE SAFARI
The Overview of 3 days masi mara Kenya
This 3 days Masai Mara Kenya wildlife Safari begins and ends in Nairobi and takes you to the Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya’s best and most stunning wildlife reserve for game viewing on an African safari experience. With over 1500 square kilometers of wildness, the park is home to an abundance of wildlife, including big cats such as lions, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, and many more, including all of the Big 5 creatures, which you will have the opportunity to view on the trip.
The safari highlights
- Drive through Escarpment rift valley
- Viewing of the big five animals
- Unlimited game drives
- Cultural encounters
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Drive from Nairobi to Masai Mara National Reserve and do evening game drive
After breakfast at your Nairobi hotel, the driver will pick you up and take you on a 4-hour journey to Masai Mara Reserve over a road lined with some breathtaking topographies and scenery, the Great Rift Valley Viewpoint. You ought to stop at this overlook to enjoy the landscape and take some photos for your recollection. You will arrive in time for lunch at the resort or at the tented camp.
After some leisure and rest in the late afternoon, you will proceed on a customary evening game drive in Masia Mara reserve, featuring traveling through scorched grasslands, wildlife viewing, vast expanses, and sundown enjoyment. Elephants, gazelles, giraffes, warthogs, wildebeests, zebras, impalas, lions, cheetahs, and leopards are all possible sightings. You return at your lodge at nightfall, just in time for dinner and an overnight stay.
Meal plan: All meals are included
Day 2: Full-day game drive adventure and cultural encounter in Masai mara reserve
After an early breakfast, go on a full-day game drive in the Masai Mara’s vast savannah regions, with a picnic lunch. During the game drive, you will be able to see all of the Big 5 as well as rarer species such as cheetah, bat-eared foxes, Caracal, Jackals, Serval Cats, Honey badgers, and Roan antelope. If you’re lucky, you’ll be able to witness the breathtaking Great Migration, which takes place from July to October and involves over two million Wildebeest, Zebra, Topi, Eland, and Gazelle migrating from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara. They are compelled to cross crocodile-infested rivers, spurred by their thirst for new grass, fighting floods and hopping over hippos while avoiding predators waiting on the opposite bank which creates exciting predator action.
In the evening, you will head to a real Masai community to learn more about the fascinating Maasai culture and way of life of the area’s traditional people. The Maasai were traditional livestock herders who moved to this area from what is now South Sudan in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. With the exception of ritually killing a lion as one of the tests of age, they rarely hunted. Return to your hotel later for dinner and bedtime.
Meal plan: All meals are included
Day 3: Morning game drive or optional hot air balloon wildlife viewing and transfer back to Nairobi
After a leisurely breakfast, you will go on an early morning game drive to witness night creatures before they return to their hideouts or enjoy an optional air balloon safari to fly above the Masai Mara. A champagne brunch in the wild! witnessing abundant game, floating in a balloon is a memorable experience. After that, you will have lunch before returning to Nairobi, where you will be dropped off at your hotel or airport, depending on the time of your flight, bringing this safari to a close.
Meal plan: All meals are included
Brief information about Masai Mara national reserve
The Masai Mara National Reserve is located in Kenya’s Narok area. The reserve, which covers approximately 1,510 square kilometers situated along the Great Rift Valley. The Masai Mara is part of the greater Serengeti ecosystem in Tanzania, which covers 25,000 square kilometers. The Mara and Talek Rivers flow through the Masai Mara Reserve’s rolling grasslands, though numerous seasonal rivers emerge during the wet season but dry out as soon as the rains end. The Masai Mara National Reserve contains four distinct terrain types. The Mara triangle, which is bordered by the Mara River and has verdant grassland and acacia forests that support a wide variety of wildlife species, including migrating wildebeests, the Ngama hills to the east, which have sandy soil and leafy bushes and are home to the majority of the black rhinos, and the central plains, which cover the majority of the greater Mara Eco-system, are among them.
The Masai Mara National Reserve is home to the big five mammals, which include elephants, leopards, rhinos, lions, and buffalo. The Masai Mara is the only wildlife sanctuary with a population of black rhinos. In addition to the big 5, the reserve is home to grazers such as duikers, impala hartebeests, giraffes, roan antelopes, zebra, topi, wildebeest, and Thomson’s gazelles. The entire number of some of these antelopes differs depending on the season due to substantial migration from the Serengeti and Loita Plains. The reserve also contains crocodiles, hippopotamuses, jackals, cheetahs, hyenas, servals, and foxes. Over 470 different bird species have been seen in the Masai Mara, which includes hornbills, secretary birds, ostriches, marabou storks, long-crested eagles, lilac-breasted rollers, African pygmy falcons, Jackson’s bustards, vultures, grey crowned cranes, guinea fowls, pel’s fishing owls, red-winged Schawlow’s Turacos and many more.