6 Days Kenya tour, Mt. Longonot, Hell’s Gate and Masai Mara:
Lake Naivasha is one of the scenic spots in Kenya, boasting of a range of tourist attractions. 6 days Kenya tour Mt. Longonot, Hell’s Gate, Maasai Mara covers this region including a combination with the famous Masai Mara Game Reserve. Firstly, Hell’s Gate National Park is a scenic park that is popular with Kenya walking tours and cycling safaris in full sight of Kenyan wildlife – herbivores only. The park is named for the intense geothermal action within. Secondly, the park is a remarkable placed on the Great Rift Valley.
On this 6 days Kenya tour , you will have an opportunity to take good pictures of Mt Longonot Mountain and view Rift valley in one of the view points on your way to Lake Naivasha. The tour takes you to Lake Naivasha to see Hippos and birds. Further, you go for hiking tour in Hells Gate National Park.
Come for a beautiful hike in one of Kenya’s smaller national parks, Hell’s Gate. Stunning nature, a peaceful atmosphere with zebra, eland, gazelle and giraffe wandering around. After the tour you will drive back to hotel for a night’s lodging.
Highlights of the 6 days Kenya tour to Hell’s Gate, Longonot & Masai Mara:
• Hell’s Gate with its wildlife versus walking and cycling.
• Prolific birds life with over 100 species recorded in the park. These include Verreaux’s Eagles, vultures, augur swifts, and buzzard.
• The crater forest, an extinct volcano, scenic landscape, amazing views of lake Naivasha and the charming Great Rift Valley.
• The remarkable Maasai Mara and her teeming wildlife concentration to include the Big Five and Big Cats
• Scenic boat ride on Lake Naivasha where you can see hippos
• Chance to float on a hot air balloon flight for amazing aerial views of the Maasai Mara plains is not to be missed
6 days Kenya safari itinerary and pricing:
Day one: Arrival into Nairobi, the capital of Kenya
Kenya safari holiday begins when your flight arrives into Nairobi from where you are met, assisted and then transferred to your comfortable hotel on bed and breakfast. Nairobi is Kenya safari hub with all major tours starting here. One of our experts will brief you about your tour in Kenya package. Time permitting, you can book one of the day tours in Nairobi. Accommodation at Sarova Panafric Hotel.
Day two: Drive from Nairobi to Mount Longonot hiking
Your adventure packed Kenya safari tour starts with a pick-up from your hotel at 8 am. The 6 days tour begins with a drive through The Great Rift Valley view point. Arrive at Mount Longonot National Park Gate for registration and to the base from where we start our hike to the top (crater), rising to 9108ft / 2,776m. Rising from the floor of the Great Rift Valley like a monolith is the extinct volcano of Mount Longonot. The unique feature is the thick forest that lies within the crater of the mountain. The crater rim also provides great scenic views across the beautiful Rift Valley all the way to Lake Naivasha.
Major wildlife attractions at Mount Longonot include buffaloes, lion, elands, bush bucks, leopard, giraffe, common zebra, and Grant’s gazelles. You will have a peak circuit trek of the crater. You will then descend from the hike and drive to Naivasha for late lunch. The afternoon is free for sunset boat ride to see the hippos. Dinner and night at your tented camp, Lake Naivasha Crescent Camp, B, L, D
Day three: Hell’s Gate National Park Walking and Cycling
Start with breakfast and a short drive to The Hell’s Gate National Park for a day of guided walking and cycling tour of this scenic park amongst herbivores, no carnivores. The park has spectacular sceneries that include towering cliffs, stark rock towers, water-gouged gorges, scrub-clad volcanoes and belching plumes of geothermal steam. Thus, it is an activity oriented park, a haven for hikers and cyclists.
Common animals to be found here include the African buffalo, eland, zebra, Thomson’s gazelle hartebeest, and baboons. The park is equally home to Chandler’s mountain reedbuck and klipspringer antelope. It has also a prolific bird life with over one hundred species of birds recorded including Verreaux’s Eagles, vultures, augur buzzard and swifts. Return to the camp for the night, Lake Naivasha Crescent Camp, B, L, D
Day four: Traveling from Lake Naivasha, to the scenic Maasai Mara safari holiday Kenya
An early breakfast is provided at the camp. You then drive to the Maasai Mara with on route lunch in Narok. Continue into the camp for check in. There is an afternoon game viewing tour drive in this panoramic savanna game reserve situated in the North of the Serengeti Plains and famous for its highest wildlife concentrations. Dinner & overnight at Ol Moran Tented Camp, B, L, D.
Day five: The Majestic Maasai Mara safari tour
Spend a full day in Masai Mara with packaged safari game drives being the greatest moments for game viewing in this mystic acacia-topped plains, a time where the soft red hues of the sun will give your photographs the clarity of the actual African savanna. The full day of game drives combining the morning and afternoon as you explore in-depth of this fabled wildlife-packed haven.
The Maasai Mara offers a fitting conclusion to your Kenya safari adventure. The Maasai Mara on a Kenyan safari holiday experience is just remarkable for its charming interactions that you witness with individual animals and the vast beauty of these great stretches of plains wilderness. Overnight accommodation at Ol Moran Tented Camp, B, L, D.
Optional on activities during 6 Days holiday safari Kenya:
-Maasai authentic local village tour for cultural experience: US$ 25 per person
-Hot air balloon safari: US$ 450 per person
Day six: The Maasai Mara back to Nairobi, 5~6hrs driving
Early morning game viewing in Masai Mara followed by breakfast and road transfer back to Nairobi marking the end of your Kenya holiday safari experience. In conclusion, it is possible to go on a beach holiday in Zanzibar in Tanzania or Diani in Kenya, B.
6-days Kenya tour price: US$ 1485 per person sharing. Single room supplement: US$ 260
6 Days Kenya package tour price includes:
-Guaranteed price; Guaranteed departure
-Guaranteed window seat!
-Safari transport in a minivan with pop-up roof for game viewing, photography and touring
-Guided Mt. Longonot hiking
-Guided Hell’s Gate walking or cycling safari
-Full board accommodation whilst on safari
-Meals plan as described, B=Breakfast, L=Lunch and D=Dinner
-Accommodation in a choice of twin, double or triple room
-Park entrance fees to include government taxes
-Service of an English speaking professional driver/guide
-Game drives as detailed in the itinerary
-Safari starts and ends in Nairobi
6 Days Kenya safari holiday price excludes:
-Tipping to your tour guide
-Laundry service
-All drinks
-Visas
-Any local and international flights
-Items of a personal nature
-Optional extra activities and any other extras not detailed in the above itinerary
6 days Kenya tour Lake Naivasha – home to hippos and birds
At an altitude of 1,884 meters is the freshwater lake Lake Naivasha, where you will also find a colorful wildlife with the hippos as the lake’s most famous animals. The lake is located in the Rift Valley, a nearly 6,000-kilometer-long valley that cracks down the coast of Africa from Ethiopia to Mozambique. The shallow lake is bordered by green banks with papyrus and acacia trees growing wild, and horticulture and flower farms operated nearby.
The lake is home to many wildlife and we recommend most people traveling to Kenya to drive the 100 kilometers from Nairobi to get out sailing on Lake Naivasha. Especially in the evening and at night you can see the many large hippos that come to cool off in the lake, but also during the day there is plenty to see – especially for ornithologists. In addition, pelicans, eagles, and colorful kingfishers are among the many species you may be lucky enough to see on your boat trip on Lake Naivasha.
In this park, as something special, you can also walk in nature, for example in Hell’s Gate National Park, where the large animals such as hyenas, zebras, buffaloes, gazelles and antelopes also live. Moreover, the nature is raw and beautiful, so it is no wonder that many go here when traveling to Kenya.
Hell’s Gate Adventure: hiking, biking, climbing and more
Hell’s Gate National Park is located 80 kilometers north of Nairobi and was designated as a national park in 1984. The park is sometimes called ‘Kenya’s Grand Canyon’. The 15 kilometer gorge that dominates the park is believed to have formed more than 5,000 years ago when nearby Lake Naivasha overflowed its banks. The extinct volcanoes Olkaria and Hobleys are also located in Hell’s Gate as evidence of the volcanic activity in the area. The underground is still active, and in the park you will find both black volcanic glass and steaming geysers. In the 1980s, a power plant was built to harness the energy, and it now accounts for 15% of Kenya’s energy supply. The park also provided the background for the film adaptation of Tomb Raider in 2002.
You have barely entered the park before you are surrounded by a dramatic landscape of semi-desert, rugged cliffs, open plains and deep gorges. The park is home to, among other things, giraffes, zebras, gazelles, impalas, warthogs and other savannah animals. But since there are no predators, elephants and rhinos in the park, there is the possibility of numerous activities in Hell’s Gate that cannot be done elsewhere. Including hiking, cycling, climbing, bird watching and hiking through the gorges.
About Masai Mara Game Reserve 2023
The Masai Mara is the most famous national park for safaris in Kenya and a must visit on any trip to Kenya. With its 1,500 square kilometers, the National Park of southwestern Kenya is adjacent to the Serengeti in Tanzania, where millions of animals roam the open plains all year round. If there was an award for the world’s best wildlife, the Masai Mara would be nominated if not win it.
On a safari in the Masai Mara you see the big cats like lions, leopards and cheetahs, rhinos, elephants, giraffes and hundreds of bird species. But what Masai Mara is best known for is actually the wildebeest. Not because they are the most spectacular, but because they embark on a dangerous journey every year. This is “the great migration” that you can experience if you travel to Kenya between July and October.
Here, during your safari in Kenya, you can see hundreds of thousands of wildebeest and other animals migrating from the Serengeti in Tanzania to the savannah of the Masai Mara. Along the way, they must cross the Mara River, where the crocodiles lurk, so that the huge numbers of cloven-hoofed animals plunge into the water and fight a nerve-wracking battle to get over to the other side alive. Therefore, it is an incredible natural phenomenon and an experience we guarantee you will not forget.
About 6 days Kenya tours in the country & attractiveness
Bucket list destinations for 6 days Kenya tour to include the Maasai Mara, Hell’s Gate, Lake Naivasha, Mount Longonot, Amboseli with the views of Mount Kilimanjaro, Mount Kenya, and Ol Pejeta to see chimpanzees.
Kenya is definitely a balanced Kenya safari tour destination with huge variety and abundance of glamorous wildlife. The southern parks and wildlife sanctuaries like Maasai Mara Game Reserve and Amboseli National Park are worth seeing. The northern parts of Kenya including Ol Pejeta Conservancy on the Equator and with best views of the mighty snow-capped Mount Kenya and Samburu Game Reserve with the adjacent Shaba and Buffalo Springs Game Reserves where you can watch the Special Five only to be found here. These special five includes – Grevy’s zebra, gerenuk, reticulated giraffe, Somali ostrich, and lastly Beisa oryx.
Combined with the impressive sight of Mount Kilimanjaro, this makes Kenya safari experience a unique holiday destination. Certainly, the annual great wildebeest migration taking place in Maasai Mara is best viewed from the Mara River. This experience is best in July to October each year.
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