4 Days Nairobi City and Masai Mara Safari

4 Days Nairobi City and Masai Mara Safari

4 Days Nairobi City and Masai Mara Safari: The 4-day Nairobi city tour links up with a Masai Mara safari to give visitors exciting African adventures through the city and wildlife reserve. While on a Kenya safari, you will experience top attractions of Nairobi, including Giraffe Centre and David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage, before reaching Africa’s best-known wildlife sanctuary, Masai Mara. You can find all the big five, such as lions, elephants, buffaloes, leopards, and rhinos, living together with cheetahs, Wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, and many bird species also exist in this region.

Highlights of the 4 Days Nairobi City and Masai Mara Safari

Day 1: pickup followed by a Nairobi sightseeing experience

Day 2: Transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve, evening game drive.

Day 3: Full day game drive in Masai Mara National Reserve

Day 4: Morning game drive and transfer back to Nairobi

Detailed Itinerary

Day 1: Pickup followed by a Nairobi sightseeing experience

Our driver guide meets you at your Nairobi address to introduce the upcoming safari before driving you towards for the tour. At the start of your Nairobi city exploration, you will go to the Giraffe Centre to see endangered Rothschild giraffes and see recovered baby elephants at the David Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage.

Before sightseeing you may choose to visit either the Karen Blixen Museum or the Nairobi National Museum. You will eat lunch at a local restaurant then choose between heading to the Nairobi Animal Orphanage and taking a short exploration of Nairobi National Park. Go back to your hotel, have dinner ad rest for the night.

Day 2: Transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve, evening game drive.

Have breakfast at the hotel, and your driver guide will take you to the Masai Mara National Reserve. The drive to Masai Mara National Reserve requires 5 to 6 hours, including a stop at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint for memorable views. You will have lunch in Narok town before continuing to Masai Mara after leaving the town.

When you arrive, you will check into the lodge and head out for your evening wildlife spotting tour of the reserve, where you can see elephants, giraffes, buffaloes, zebras and wild cats such as lions and leopards. Return to the lodge, dinner and rest for the night.

Day 3: Full day game drive in Masai Mara National Reserve

You will have an early meal before venturing into the ridges of Masai Mara National Reserve for an entire day wildlife expedition. The park lets you spot an extensive range of animals, which include both Big Five species and other creatures such as cheetah, hyenas and antelopes.

Visitors who travel to Masai Mara National Reserve between July and October can observe large groups of wildebeests and zebras crossing the Mara River and their hunting predators during the Great Migration.

You will have your lunch at the heart of the reserve during your break before resuming the game drive. Come back to the lodge in late afternoon unwind, dinner and rest.

zebras crossing the Mara River
zebras crossing the Mara River

Day 4: Morning game drive and transfer back to Nairobi

Go for an early morning game drive to catch predators returning from hunting on your last Kenya safari day, for both Nairobi city and Masai Mara exploration. Giraffes, zebras and elephants are visible as they feed on the open grasslands during sunrise.

Return for breakfast at your lodge and check out before travelling back to Nairobi. Have lunch in Narok town, your driver guide will drop you off either at your chosen city spot or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your flight departure.

End of the 4 Days Nairobi City and Masai Mara Safari Trip.

Safari Includes

Nairobi city tour

Park Entrance fees and game drives

Full board accommodation

A 4×4 vehicle with an open-top roof carries you on your safari journey.

Services of an English-speaking driver guide

Pickup and drop off at specific locations in Nairobi

Safari Excludes

International/domestic flights

Visa fees

Personal insurance

Individual purchases, including gifts, souvenirs and gratuities