5 Days Kenya Rift and Wildlife Escape

Your guide meets you at the airport or your hotel for breakfast and a full briefing before you set off for Amboseli, the park known worldwide for its elephants. You arrive in time for lunch at the lodge, with an afternoon game drive to follow. Dinner and overnight.

A full day of game drives with picnic lunches carried with you. The swamps draw elephant and hippo in numbers, plains game and a long list of birds work the ground around them, and Kilimanjaro shows itself on clear days. Back to the lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight.

You leave Amboseli after breakfast with lunch en route, arriving at Naivasha in the afternoon. A boat takes you out to the Crescent Island Game Sanctuary, where you walk among giraffe, zebra and antelope. There are no large predators on the island, which is what makes walking there possible and why it is one of the few places in Kenya you can get this close on foot. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

An early breakfast and the short drive to Hell’s Gate. Cycling or walking to the gorge can be arranged at extra cost when the weather allows. The park holds Olkaria and Hobley’s, two extinct volcanoes, and obsidian left behind by cooled lava; the gorge itself runs between red cliffs past the volcanic plugs of Fischer’s Tower and Central Tower, with a smaller gorge to the south dropping to hot springs. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.

An optional afternoon at the Olkaria Geothermal Spa can be added: a large open-air pool warmed by underground steam, inside the park.

After breakfast you drive back to Nairobi, stopping at the Giraffe Centre and Bomas of Kenya with lunch in the city. Your driver then drops you at your hotel or the airport for your onward journey.