Kenya Tour With Hot Air Balloon Ride (6N/7D)

Our representative will pick you up from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi and take you to your hotel in a private car. Spend the rest of your time leisurely, or take a walk around the area.

Overnight at the hotel in Nairobi.

Find any street food vendor or explore any restaurant there for lunch and dinner.

Giraffe Centre– Around 45 mins-1 hr
Kiambethu Farm– Around 5-6 hrs
OR
Fairview Coffee Estate– Around 1-2 hrs

Full from breakfast, enjoy your Nairobi Tour in a jeep. Begin with a drive to the Giraffe Centre. Get up close and personal with the kind, long-lashed Rothschild giraffes. After that, head to Fairview Coffee Estate or Kiambethu Farm in Limuru, and escape the high of the city, and dive right into the peaceful highland like a mini getaway. Enjoy freshly brewed Kenyan coffee, and learn how this coffee is made from its beans as you walk into these coffee and tea fields.

Overnight at the hotel in Nairobi.

Great Rift Valley– Around 1.5-2 hrs
Great Rift Valley Viewpoint– Around 30 mins
Lake Naivasha– Around 1.5-2 hrs

After breakfast, you drive pass the Nairobi Cityscape behind as you see the colorful minibuses (natatus), bustling roads and the markets on the side into the Great Rift Valley. If you’re lucky, you’ll spot the “Big Five” animals as you ride into Maasai Mara National Reserve, orelse a full day Maasai Mara Game Drive is waiting for you the next day.

Visit the Great Rift Valley Viewpoint and enjoy the view of its plains that astonishing spreads far apart. Enjoy the stillness of its glistening lakes. Take a look at its striking volcanic hills. Its contrasting rugged cliffs somehow blends well and leaves a picturesque impression.

Then take a speed boat ride on Lake Naivasha in the afternoon, and see something special about this lake. Witness the hippos, pink flamingos, up close and its amazing wildlife. Let the moment sink in as you birdwatch here.

Overnight at the lodge in Lake Naivasha.

After breakfast, an early morning start to Maasai Mara National Reserve for a full day of Maasai Mara Game Drive. Explore the Maasai Mara’s expansive plains is on the list. Look for the “Big Five” animals. Enjoy a unique bush lunch in the middle of the African countryside. You can hear and see these animals and birds and appreciate the nature you are surrounded by. Enjoy the thrilling drive as you see other animals such like antelopes, hyenas, cheetahs, up close and other well-known African birds and animals too.

Overnight at the lodge in Maasai Mara.

Hot Air Balloon Ride– Around 1hr
Hot Air Balloon Ride prep–  Around 4-5 hrs (pick-up, drop-off to the location, flight, breakfast after landing)

Full from breakfast, the hot air balloon ride starts early in the morning exploring Maasai Mara National Reserve. This is wildlife safari exploration from a bird’s eye point of view. All the vast landscape, the “Big Five” animals in the reserve, the Mara River, wide grasslands, savannah forests, and other animals like elephants, giraffes, lions, zebras, antelopes lies right beneath you with the golden sunrise on the way. If you’d like, head to a short drive to see the wildlife today. Or, enjoy the rest of your evening leisurely.

Overnight at the lodge or camp in Maasai Mara National Reserve.

After breakfast, explore Maasai Mara National Reserve because a day isn’t enough to explore the amazing wildlife there. Head to Maasai Village, where you’ll be welcomed with traditional songs and dances and explore their homestays (enkangs). The tribes here are deeply connected to nature, and you will witness it in their lovely culture, social structure and their traditions like beadwork, making fire or even herding cattles. The rest of the trip, you can relax or explore the village and the reserve some more.

Overnight at the lodge in Maasai Village.

Now that the final breakfast of the trip is done, you will be taken back to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to head back home. Wishing you a safe flight back home and hope to see you soon.