Safari Overview
Amboseli national park is a home to huge Elephants and the best place to view mountain Kilimanjaro. These 3 days safari to Amboseli national park will bring you close to wildlife and great savannah landscape, not forgetting the snow-capped Kilimanjaro Mountain at a glance. Amboseli National Park is a dusty plain at the base of the Kilimanjaro Mountains that is filled with lots of animals and birds. You can also opt to hike the mountain Kilimanjaro from Tanzania on your visit to Amboseli national park.
During the 3 days safari to Amboseli national park, you will have 3 game drives to enable you view abundancy of wildlife.
Safari Highlights
Our driver will pick you up from the airport of hotel in Nairobi and embark on a safari to Amboseli national park. You will be picked from your hotel in Nairobi at 7am and leave for Amboseli National Park. This will be 5 hours drive that will include a few stops at local fruit markets and curio shops, and nice viewpoints to take in the lovely landscape
Early morning breakfast will be served by 6.30am, as you go for the day activity, you will go with packed lunch. You will start the day with an early morning game drive as you will as well view the sunrise.
You will explore more drive trails especially those known to provide best of chances of sighting the cats; Hyena, lions, and leopard. Amboseli provides good chances of seeing the lions and hyenas, however you will need a bit of luck to see the leopard.
At noon you shall drive to the base of the observation hill and take a short hike to the top of the observation point on the hill. Here you will unpack your lunchbox and eat your snacks while enjoying a birds view of the magnificent Amboseli wilderness of dusty plains littered with lush greenery of marshlands where lots of animals will going to quench the afternoon thirst, and backdropped by the rugged hills and the Kili in the far distance.
Early morning breakfast will be served and you will be picked up by our driver for an early morning drive.
You will return to the lodge for relaxing and freshening up for the afternoon hot air balloon experience.
The balloon safari starts at around 6am and the flight is about one hour long. After the balloon safari you would then continue with the safari drive.
You will arrive at your lodge in or near Amboseli National Park and check in for lunch and have a bit of relaxation as you enjoy the epic views of the Kilimanjaro.
At about 3pm you shall drive into the park for your first safari drive in these dusty plains and immediately you shall enjoy wonderful sightings of a range of wildlife. The yellow baboons, giraffes, zebras, warthogs, Thompsons gazelles, Grant’s gazelle, elephants, wildebeest etc. will usher you into this beautiful wilderness.
At sunset you shall drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
After early morning breakfast, you will embark on a game drive as you exit the park for Nairobi or the airport.