5-Day Ol Pejeta, Nakuru and Maasai Mara Rhino Safari

The safari travels north from Nairobi into Ol Pejeta Conservancy. The afternoon includes the northern white rhino visit and Sweetwaters Chimpanzee Sanctuary, introducing two conservation programmes through the teams responsible for the animals’ care and protection. A conservancy game drive adds wildlife observation across the surrounding highland landscape. Your guide follows the viewing routes and stops where the animals encountered provide opportunities for observation. The Ol Pejeta overnight completes the first part of the route before the journey continues to Lake Nakuru.

An early Ol Pejeta game drive completes the conservancy visit before the road journey towards Lake Nakuru National Park. The route crosses from the Laikipia highlands into the Rift Valley. An afternoon drive explores Nakuru’s woodland, grassland and lake margins, with your guide looking for rhinos and the other wildlife found along the park tracks. The lake provides a birdwatching setting alongside the land-based wildlife viewing. The day combines the final Ol Pejeta outing with the introduction to Nakuru and its overnight stay.

A morning game drive provides a final Lake Nakuru outing before the journey continues to the Maasai Mara. Your guide explores the park’s lakeside and woodland viewing areas, then the route leaves Nakuru for the Mara’s open savannah. An afternoon game drive introduces the reserve, with stops to observe the wildlife encountered along its permitted tracks. This first Mara outing follows the earlier conservancy and lake experiences and begins a two-night stay. Tomorrow is devoted to a full day of reserve game viewing.

The full Maasai Mara day combines morning and afternoon private game drives. Your guide explores the open grasslands and river corridor, looking for wildlife activity and allowing time at viewing stops to observe animal behaviour. The Mara River area is part of the native programme and adds a river habitat to the plains outings. The day provides a fuller reserve experience after the arrival drive, with the route shaped by the animals encountered. Migration crossings and particular predator encounters are not scheduled events or guaranteed sightings.

The final day returns from the Maasai Mara to Nairobi by road. Your party leaves the Mara base and travels through the surrounding landscape towards the Rift Valley and the capital. This is the return stage after the two Mara nights; the native programme does not include a departure-morning game drive. The journey concludes in Nairobi, completing the five-day sequence of Ol Pejeta conservation visits, Lake Nakuru wildlife viewing and the Mara’s savannah and river game drives.