This 5 Days Kenya Birding Safari takes you to wild places to enjoy the best sceneries including the Great Rift Valley and the world’s famous Masai Mara National Reserve. You will also explore Lake Naivasha and Lake Nakuru which are the best birding spots in Kenya.

Lake Nakuru National Park is considered to be a greatest world ornithological spectacle on earth by birders. It is famous for being home to both black and white rhinos, buffaloes, giraffes, baboons among others.

Highlights of 5 Days Kenya Birding Safari

Day 1: Nairobi – Lake Naivasha

Day 2: Lake Naivasha – Lake Nakuru National Park

Day 3: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara Game Reserve

Day 4: Birding in Masai Mara

Day 5: Departure

Detailed itinerary of 5 Days Kenya Birding Safari

Day 1: Nairobi – Lake Naivasha

Meet and greet your birding guide and set off for a scenic drive to Lake Naivasha via the great north road. You will have a stop-over at the view points of the Great Rift Valley for stunning views, arriving at Lake Naivasha in time for lunch and bird walking safari in search for herons, black crakes, fish eagles, ospreys, lily-trotters among other species.

Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Lake Naivasha Lodge.

Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

Day 2: Lake Naivasha – Lake Nakuru National Park

Enjoy breakfast and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, regarded as the greatest world ornithological spectacle on the earth by avid birders. Here you get to spot the millions of pink flamingoes lining on the shores of Lake Nakuru, you will have a game drive en-route before checking-in at your lodge for lunch.

Later go for a walk along lake shores to see a number of animals including the White Rhino, Black Rhino, and the Rothschild Giraffe. You will also look out for birds like the Lesser and Greater Flamingoes, Tawny Eagle, African Fish Eagle, Cliff Chat, Green Wood Hoopoes, Great White and Pink Backed Pelicans and other intra-African Migrants. Dinner and overnight stay at Ziwa Bush Lodge

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 3: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara Game Reserve

After breakfast, embark on a journey to Masai Mara Game Reserve with a drive across the floor of the Great Rift Valley. Masai Mara Game Reserve is located in the northern portion of the Great Plains ecosystem neighboring Serengeti. Masai Mara hosts a number of animals including the Big Five that is rhinos, buffaloes, leopard, lions and elephants as well as cheetahs, giraffe, zebras and vast herds of plain antelopes. You will check into your lodge, have lunch, relax and head for a game drive in search of the Big Five and several birds.

Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay at Mara Sentrim Camp

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

5 Days Kenya Birding Safari
Kenya Birding Safari in Maasai mara

Day 4: Birding in Masai Mara

Wake up early morning and head to Masai Mara Game Reserve for a full day bird watching in search for birds like Abdim’s Stork, African finfoot, African wood owl, Ayres’s hawk eagle, Cinnamon-breasted bunting, Denham’s bustard, Giant kingfisher, Grey-crested helmet-shrike, Grey penduline tit, Hildebrandt’s starling, Jackson’s widowbird, Lazy cisticola, Ostrich, Purple grenadier, Red-throated tit, Ross’s turaco, Rosy-throated longclaw, Rufous-bellied heron, Rufous-throated wryneck, Saddle-billed stork, Schalow’s turaco, Secretary bird, Silverbird, Southern ground hornbill, Swahili sparrow, Tabora cisticola, Temminck’s courser, Trilling cisticola, Usambiro barbet, White-bellied go-away bird, Woolly-necked stork, Yellow-mantled widowbird and Yellow-throated sandgrouse among others. Return to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 5: Departure

Have a leisurely breakfast and later set off for Nairobi arriving in time for lunch in Nairobi. You will be dropped off at the airport for your departure flight back home.

End of 5 Days Kenya Birding Safari

Inclusions

  • Park fees
  • All activities (unless labeled as optional)
  • All accommodation as stated in the itinerary
  • A professional driver/guide
  • All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
  • All Taxes/VAT
  • Roundtrip airport transfer
  • All Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
  • Drinking water on all days
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