6-Day Amboseli, Lake Naivasha & Maasai Mara Package

🛏 Overnight: Amboseli Sopa Lodge (All Meals)

Your Sopa Classic Kenya Safari begins when your driver-guide meets you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport or picks you up from your Nairobi hotel or home. The drive to Amboseli National Park takes about 4–5 hours. You game drive on the way in, arriving in time for lunch at Amboseli Sopa Lodge. After lunch and a rest, go on an afternoon game drive until sunset.

About Amboseli National Park: Amboseli lies at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest mountain at 5,895 metres, just across the border in Tanzania. Snowmelt from the mountain feeds underground springs that fill Amboseli’s swamps and marshes, attracting large elephant herds and abundant birdlife all year. It’s the best place in Kenya for the classic photo of an elephant or giraffe in front of snow-capped Kilimanjaro.

🛏 Overnight: Amboseli Sopa Lodge (All Meals)

Set out before dawn on a game drive, when the mountain is most often clear of cloud and the animals are most active. Return to the lodge for breakfast and a relaxed late morning. After lunch, take an afternoon game drive to look for elephants, buffalo, giraffes, zebras, hyenas and, with luck, lions.

🛏 Overnight: Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort (All Meals)

After breakfast, drive north through Nairobi to Lake Naivasha in the Great Rift Valley. Check in at Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort in time for lunch. In the afternoon, take a boat ride on the lake to see hippos up close and look for African fish eagles.

About Lake Naivasha: A freshwater lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, and one of Kenya’s best places for birdwatching, with more than 400 bird species recorded. Cormorants breed here all year, pelicans and spoonbills perch on dead acacia trees along the shore, and you’ll almost certainly see the African fish eagle.

🛏 Overnight: Maasai Mara Sopa Lodge (All Meals)

Leave at about 8:00 am for the Maasai Mara, the final stop of your Sopa Classic Kenya Safari. The drive passes through Great Rift Valley escarpment scenery. You game drive on the way in and arrive at Maasai Mara Sopa Lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, take your first game drive in the Maasai Mara National Reserve to look for lions, cheetahs and other predators.

🛏 Overnight: Maasai Mara Sopa Lodge (All Meals)

After breakfast, set out on a game drive to see the Mara’s resident wildlife. If you’re lucky, you may see a hunt. Return to the lodge for lunch, then take an afternoon game drive to look for the Big Five: lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and, rarely, rhino.

🎈 Optional (extra cost): Maasai Mara hot air balloon safari. Get up before dawn for a sunrise balloon flight. Balloons usually take off at about 6:30 am, and you can watch the crew inflate them. The flight lasts about an hour, following the wind over the Mara plains, and gives you a bird’s-eye view of the wildlife below. After landing, enjoy a champagne bush breakfast on the plains and receive a flight certificate from your pilot. Your evening game drive goes ahead as normal.

After breakfast, drive back to Nairobi (about 5–6 hours). On arrival, there’s time for last-minute shopping, then lunch at Karen Blixen Coffee Gardens. Afterwards, we take you to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your flight home, or drop you at your Nairobi hotel or home.

End of your Sopa Classic Kenya Safari.

It’s a private 6-day road safari from Nairobi to Amboseli National Park, Lake Naivasha and the Maasai Mara, staying at Sopa Lodges throughout with all meals included.

6 days and 5 nights: 2 nights at Amboseli Sopa Lodge, 1 night at Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort and 2 nights at Maasai Mara Sopa Lodge.

Yes. It covers Kenya’s three classic landscapes, with mountain scenery, a lake and big cats, in under a week, and it costs less than flying between parks.

Yes, from Amboseli National Park. Kilimanjaro is in Tanzania, but Amboseli has the best views of it. The mountain is most often clear at sunrise, when the itinerary’s first game drive on day 2 is scheduled.

No, it’s an optional extra in the Maasai Mara. If you choose it, your evening game drive still goes ahead as normal.

By road, in a private 4WD safari vehicle with a pop-up roof for game viewing, driven by a professional driver-guide. You game drive on the way into each park.