Your private safari begins with collection from your Nairobi hotel, residence or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport according to your confirmed arrangements.

Meet your professional safari driver-guide and depart Nairobi in your private 4x4 Safari Land Cruiser, travelling toward Kenya's spectacular Great Rift Valley.

Continue to Lake Naivasha, one of the highest and most beautiful freshwater lakes in the Rift Valley.

The lake and surrounding habitats support rich birdlife, while hippos are frequently found in its waters.

Depending on your confirmed programme, you may enjoy an optional boat excursion on Lake Naivasha. The boat experience provides opportunities to observe hippos and waterbirds while enjoying the lake from a completely different perspective.

Alternatively, the afternoon can be enjoyed at leisure at your selected lodge before dinner and overnight.

After breakfast, leave Lake Naivasha and continue through the Great Rift Valley toward Lake Nakuru National Park.

Enter the park and begin your game drive through a varied landscape of lake shore, grassland and woodland.

Lake Nakuru is particularly important for rhino conservation. Your driver-guide will search for both white and black rhinos while also looking for buffalo, giraffes, waterbuck, zebra, baboons and other wildlife.

The park is also internationally recognised for its birdlife. Flamingos and other waterbirds may be present around the lake, although their numbers vary naturally with changing water conditions.

Continue exploring the national park before proceeding to your selected lodge for dinner and overnight.

Enjoy breakfast before departing Lake Nakuru and travelling southwest through the Great Rift Valley toward Maasai Mara.

The scenery changes as you approach the Mara ecosystem, eventually giving way to the open grasslands for which this part of Kenya is famous.

Arrive at your selected lodge or tented camp for check-in and lunch according to your confirmed programme.

Later, depart on your first Maasai Mara game drive.

Search the savannah for elephants, giraffes, buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, antelopes and predators including lions, cheetahs, leopards and hyenas.

Return to your accommodation after the game drive for dinner and your first overnight in Maasai Mara.

After breakfast, dedicate the day to exploring the extraordinary Maasai Mara with your private driver-guide.

With no major transfer required today, you have more time to search different areas of the reserve for wildlife and observe animal behaviour.

Possible encounters include lions, elephants, buffalo, giraffes, cheetahs, leopards, wildebeest, zebra, hyenas, hippos and numerous species of antelope.

Your private vehicle gives your driver-guide greater flexibility to follow promising sightings and concentrate on the animals and photographic opportunities that interest you most.

Depending on your programme, enjoy a picnic lunch in the reserve or return to your accommodation before continuing with afternoon game viewing.

During the seasonal Great Migration period, large concentrations of wildebeest and zebra may move through parts of the greater Mara ecosystem. Their precise timing and location vary according to rainfall and natural grazing conditions.

An optional early-morning hot-air balloon safari can also be arranged in advance, subject to availability and additional cost.

Enjoy breakfast during your final morning in Maasai Mara.

Depending on your confirmed schedule, there may be an opportunity for final wildlife viewing before departing the Mara ecosystem.

Begin your return journey through the Kenyan countryside and Great Rift Valley toward Nairobi.

Upon arrival in Nairobi, your driver-guide will transfer you to your confirmed hotel, residence or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Your safari concludes after five days combining the peaceful freshwater environment of Lake Naivasha, Lake Nakuru's rhino country and the magnificent wildlife plains of Maasai Mara.