About this trip
This is a family safari from Nairobi to the Maasai Mara, built around 4WD game drives and time with Maasai communities along the way. You travel through the Great Rift Valley, stopping at Lake Naivasha and Crater Lake before reaching the Mara.
It's a participatory camping trip, so you and your family pitch in with setting up tents, cooking and cleaning alongside the group. Evenings are spent at camp with other families, with swimming pools at most stops for the kids to burn off energy.
One night is spent at a basic bush camp in the Loita Hills with cold showers and no wifi, traded for a closer look at Maasai culture.
What you'll do
- 4WD game drives in the Maasai Mara looking for lions, cheetahs and elephants
- Visit the Langata Giraffe Sanctuary for close-up giraffe encounters
- Spend time with a Maasai community learning about traditional tribal culture
- Watch for hippos in the Mara River
- Walk around Crater Lake in the Great Rift Valley
- Overnight near Lake Naivasha
- Some driving days run 6 to 7 hours over often bumpy roads, worth weighing up with younger children
- Participatory camping — your family helps put up and take down tents, cook and clean
- The Loita Hills bush camp has cold showers, hot bucket showers in the morning, and no wifi
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Departing in Sep is cheapest — from £1,335, about 39% below the priciest month (Aug).
Getting there
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Where to stay
A night before your tour in Nairobi · 26 Sept – 27 Sept
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