BIG FIVE TRAIL, AMBOSELI, ABERDARES, SAMBURU, LAKE NAKURU, MAASAI MARA (9 Days, 8 Nights)

 Amboseli is justly famous for its amazing back-drop the glistening snow-cap of Kilimanjaro and also known for its large herds of Elephants. This park embodies five main wildlife habitats plus a generally dry-bed lake, Lake Amboseli. There are open plains, extensive stands of yellow-barked acacia woodland, rocky, lava strewn thorn-bush country, swamps and marshes and the Oldoinyo Orok massif. Here like in the Masai Mara, the pastoral Masai and their cattle have lived in harmony with wild creatures for many a century! The Aberdares National Park, stretching over an area of 800 square km, is the ideal game reserve where you can admire herds of elephants, buffalos, rhinos, and rare animals such as the shy and lovely bongo antelope.

The Samburu Game Reserve stretches over an area of 105 sq km and forms a part of a lava plain made up of a landscape of red dirt, thorn scrub, volcanic rock, dried river beds, steep hills and rocky outcroppings, some large enough to be called mesas. This landscape serves also as the natural habitat for over 350 species of birds and animals (Zebra, Giraffe, Gerenuk, Ostrich, etc) as well for Big Crocodile that can be seen on the banks of the river.

Lake Nakuru is a small, shallow, alkaline-saline lake and one of Kenya's top ornithological sites (5,770 ft / 1,759m above sea level) situated in a closed basin without outlets in the Eastern Rift Valley. The Lake is home to a spectacular bird fauna (about 495 species), in particular the vast flock of flamingoes, and serves as the natural habitat to over 400 species of bird.

The Maasai Mara is a game reserve known as a national Reserve. The Maasai are a proud semi-nomadic tribe whose lives depend on herding cattle and are divided into a number of sub-tribes. The Maasai have survived a troubled past and are under pressure to adhere by modern society standards of living.