Discover Nairobi on a Nairobi City Tour visiting the bustling City Market, the stately Parliament Buildings and the National Museum and Snake Park. Explore galleries on Kenya’s deep prehistory, ethnography and contemporary art, then see living reptile exhibits in leafy museum grounds.

Street life, colonial-era facades and independence landmarks reveal the capital’s layered identity and creative pulse. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour with your Driver Guide.

Dine at Nairobi’s iconic Carnivore Restaurant, famed for its theatrical charcoal-fired grills and generous platters. Sample specialties such as crocodile and ostrich alongside classic Kenyan roast meats, carved tableside and paired with tangy house sauces.

Savor the convivial buzz, open-fire aromas and a signature dawa cocktail as dusk settles over the garden setting. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour.

Meet community members as you visit a Maasai village near the Mara to learn about age-old pastoral traditions. Step inside a family enkang homestead, hear how cattle shape daily life, and watch beadwork techniques passed down through generations.

A short cultural program may include the traditional adumu jumping dance and songs, with time to ask questions respectfully. This experience is at additional cost and bookable on tour; participation supports local initiatives.

Set out on a guided game drive across the acacia-dotted plains of Amboseli National Park, with the snow-capped outline of Mount Kilimanjaro on the horizon. Track giraffe moving through fever trees, watch zebra and wildebeest gather at marsh edges, and listen for the low rumble of elephant drifting over the grass.

Your Driver Guide interprets tracks and behavior, revealing the rhythms of this legendary Maasai homeland. Pause for photos and reflection as the light glows warm across the savannah and the mountain clears, a classic East African tableau.

Rise with first light for an early-morning game drive in Amboseli National Park, when predators are most active and the air is cool and clear. Scan for lions, cheetahs and elusive leopards while large elephant herds cross dusty pans with Mount Kilimanjaro’s snow-capped peak hovering beyond.

Between drives, linger over lunch with mountain views before returning to the bush to observe changing afternoon behaviors. Your Driver Guide’s insight turns sightings into stories of survival in this semi-arid ecosystem of marshes, acacia woodland and open savannah.

Explore Lake Elementaita, a shallow alkaline soda lake within the UNESCO-listed Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley. Watch from camp or stroll short lakeshore paths as pink arcs of greater and lesser flamingos, Great White pelicans and yellow-billed storks sift the shallows against mirrored water and volcanic escarpments.

Your Driver Guide helps identify species and explains how mineral-rich waters sustain this remarkable avian community. Crusted shorelines, shifting light and still reflections create a serene setting for unhurried viewing and photography.

Range across the open grasslands of the Maasai Mara National Reserve on a full-day wildlife safari, following dusty tracks in search for the Big Five. With windows wide and camera ready, encounter lions on termite mounds, stately elephants, and swift cheetahs scanning the plains.

Break for a picnic lunch in the bush before continuing through riverine woodland and rolling savannah. From June to October you may witness the Great Migration, a thunder of hooves as wildebeest and zebra surge across the Mara ecosystem.

Costsaver

• 6 Dinner (D)
• 7 Breakfast (B)
• 5 Lunch (L)

• Full-day game drive within the National Park in search of elephants, leopards, cheetahs and lions
• Visit this bird watchers paradise that’s part of the UNESCO-listed Kenya Lake System in the Great Rift Valley

• Selected hotel dinners, with optional meals to purchase
• Coach and 4 x 4 safari vehicle travel
• Value regional accommodation

• Amboseli: Head out before dawn with your Driver Guide for a morning safari through Amboseli National Park, searching for leopards, cheetahs and lions. As first light spreads across the park, watch herds of African elephants move through the “salty dust” and tall grasses. Pause for lunch with the snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro in the distance, then return to your lodge as the sky deepens towards evening for dinner
• Maasai Mara National Reserve: Accompanied by your Driver Guide, follow dusty tracks across the plains in search of the Big 5, dry grass brushing the roadside and the open bush stretching into the distance. Break for a picnic lunch out in the wild, with the sounds of the landscape around you, before setting off again for the afternoon safari. If you’re traveling between June and October, you may even witness the Great Migration, as vast herds of wildebeest thunder across the plains on their annual journey.