3 Days Road Safari to Amboseli National Park
3-day road safari to Amboseli National Park, where you'll witness majestic elephants, stunning views of Mount Kilimanjaro, and diverse wildlife.
Enjoy game drives, bird watching, and cultural encounters with the Maasai people, all set against a backdrop of picturesque landscapes.
Itinerary
Our driver guide will pick you up from JKIA on arrival and drive through Mombasa road towards Amboseli National Park. The drive takes approximately 4 hours and you will arrive late I the evening.
Check in and relax before dinner. At around, 9.30 pm Maasai Morans entertain our guests at the bonfire with their traditional dances and will also explain to you the meanings of their dances and songs.
You are encouraged to join in and see if you could jump higher than a Maasai!
Dinner and overnight at the Camp
The Amboseli National Park’s ecosystem is mainly savannah grassland spread across the Kenya-Tanzania border, and also comprises of forested areas around some of its rivers and lakes. The park is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants among other wildlife species, and its other attractions include opportunities to meet the Maasai tribe’s people, and its spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
With all this and more to see in the park, you might decide to spend a full day there instead of returning to our lodge for lunch. Should this be the case, and for your convenience, we have a tented luncheon and bar venue within a five minute drive from the park gates.
On this day you take an early morning game drive returning for breakfast after which you may opt for an extra game drive or relax/swim.
After lunch, proceed to an afternoon game drive or a visit to the Maasai Cultural Village at a cost.
Alternatively, wake up for breakfast before departing with picnic lunches for a full day game drive returning in the evening for dinner and overnight
Amboseli’s fragile ecosystem displays an impressive wildlife variety, with more than 50 mammal species. The park is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants among other wildlife species. Another attraction at the park is the opportunity to meet the Masaai and of course the spectacular view of Mt. Kilimanjaro.
The elephants are the kings of the park, no doubt. They are fond of the swamp areas, where they share the cool waters with the hippos and hide beneath the papyrus. The park is also home to a large resident population of Burchell’s zebras. Other herbivores include Thomson’s and Grants gazelles, buffalo, warthog, Maasai giraffe, impala, water buck and dik-dik. Baboons and Vervet monkeys inhabit the scarce woodlands. Carnivores are represented by lions, spotted hyenas, wild cats, jackals, caracals and cheetahs. With regards to birds, more than 400 species of birds have been registered, among which outstand pelican, flamingo, kingfisher, African fish eagle, ibis, secretary bird, crowned crane, grey and Goliath herons, cattle egret, black-winged stilt, little grebe, Egyptian goose, martial eagle, pigmy falcon, Masaai ostrich, white backed vulture, lappet faced vulture, yellow-necked spur fowl, kori bustard and hornbills. After the rains, the park gathers large flocks of water birds.
Wake at dawn in time for a final Morning Game Drive. Witness how the Savannah comes alive as the sun rises. Return for breakfast. After breakfast collect your things and say your goodbyes. Embark on another game drive on your way back to Nairobi to arrive in the early afternoon in time for your flight back home.
As you board your plane, treasure the feelings and memories of communing with man and nature.
Tour Activities
- Game Drive
- Guided Nature Walk
- Birding
- Cultural Tours