KENYA · EAST AFRICA
Safari plains, flamingo lakes, and the Swahili coast.
Game drives across the Mara and Amboseli, the David Sheldrick elephants in Nairobi, flamingos on the Rift Valley lakes, and white sand down on the Indian Ocean.
Only in Kenya
Three things you only get here.
Game drives and beach days happen all over the world. These three are pinned to this one country: elephant herds beneath Kilimanjaro, lions on a capital city’s doorstep, and a lake that turns pink with flamingos.
Under the mountain
Elephants Beneath Kilimanjaro
Amboseli is the one place where big-tusker elephant herds cross open pans with Africa's highest mountain filling the sky behind them. Kilimanjaro sits over the border in Tanzania, but the view, and the elephants walking under it, belong to this corner of Kenya.
- 1 Nairobi: Day Tour to Amboseli National Park & Maasai Village
- 2 Day Tour to Amboseli National Park
- 3 Amboseli Day Tour from Nairobi
City meets wild
A Capital With Lions
Nairobi is the only capital city on earth with a full national park on its doorstep. Lions, rhinos, giraffes and zebra range across open plains with the skyline on the horizon. You can be on a game drive before breakfast and back in the city by lunch.
- 1 Nairobi National Park Half-Day Tour; Free Wi-Fi connection
- 2 Nairobi National Park Half-Day Game Drive
- 3 Safari Tour; Nairobi National Park
The pink lake
Flamingos & Rhinos at Nakuru
When the algae blooms, hundreds of thousands of flamingos turn the shallows of Lake Nakuru bright pink, a spectacle only a handful of Rift Valley lakes can stage. The park around it is also one of Kenya's surest places to see both black and white rhino.
- 1 1 Day trip to Hells Gate and Lake Naivasha From Nairobi
- 2 Day Trip: Hell’s Gate Bike Ride & Lake Naivasha Boat Ride
- 3 5 Days Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru & Naivasha Budget Joining Safari
Start here
The first thing to book in Nairobi.
Almost every Kenya trip begins in Nairobi. This is the day out travellers book before anything else.
The classics
Kenya's Most Popular Tours
Nairobi National Park, the David Sheldrick elephants, Old Town Mombasa, Hell's Gate. The experiences most travellers come to Kenya for.
The Great Migration
The greatest wildlife show on earth.
Every year between July and October, well over a million wildebeest and zebra pour north into the Maasai Mara, and the crocodile-lined Mara River is the crossing that stops everyone’s breath. There is nowhere else on the planet you can watch it happen. These are the Mara safaris built around it.
- 1 3 Days Gamedrive Safari In Masai Mara From Nairobi
- 2 From Nairobi: 3 – Days Maasai Mara Group Safari by 4WD
- 3 3 Days Maasai Mara Guided Safari from Nairobi
By region
Kenya is several trips in one country.
The Mara for the Migration. Amboseli for elephants under Kilimanjaro. Nairobi for a game drive before lunch. The coast for white sand and dhows. Each one is its own journey.
Plan the trip
How long do you have?
A Kenya safari can be an afternoon or a fortnight. Three honest shapes for a trip, depending on how many days you can give it.
By experience
Or pick what kind of day you want.
A full-day game drive or a multi-day circuit. The elephant orphanage, a walk through the old towns, a snorkel off Wasini, a Maasai village, a Rift Valley coffee farm.
When the safari's done
Down on the coast.
Old Town Mombasa and Fort Jesus, the reef off Diani, a dhow out to Wasini Island. Where most Kenya trips go to slow down. Three we’d save for the end of the itinerary.
Before you fly out
A day in Nairobi.
Baby elephants at the David Sheldrick orphanage, the Giraffe Centre, Old Town on foot, the markets and museums. The city most safaris begin and end in. Three ways to spend a spare day in it.
Lakes and craters
Into the Rift Valley.
Flamingos and rhinos at Nakuru, a boat among the hippos on Naivasha, a walk through Hell's Gate gorge. The Great Rift cuts straight through Kenya, and these are the days that show it off.
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