Female Safari Kenya | 8-Day Women-Only Safari from Amboseli to Masai Mara

You are met at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by Hellen Asiko, Director and Guest Experience Curator at Afrikan Accent Adventures, for your private transfer to the Sarova Panafric’s Wangari Maathai Wing, Kenya’s first hotel wing reserved solely for female guests. Once settled, take a short walk to plant a seedling in the hotel gardens, a small, symbolic gesture that opens every one of our women’s journeys. The evening closes with a welcome dinner, where Hellen walks you through the days ahead over Kenyan coffee and conversation.

From this morning, your dedicated female driver-guide from Afrikan Accent Adventures takes over for the remainder of your safari. After breakfast, depart Nairobi for the road journey south to Amboseli, around four to five hours that trades city streets for the open plains beneath Mount Kilimanjaro, with a stop en route. Your guide brings you directly to Ol Tukai Lodge, set amid indigenous woodland at the heart of the park. After lunch, head out on your first game drive, searching for the elephant herds Amboseli is famous for, with Kilimanjaro rising over the swamps whenever the clouds allow.

A full day exploring Amboseli’s swamps and open plains, tracking elephant, buffalo, lion and abundant birdlife against the park’s iconic Kilimanjaro backdrop. In the afternoon, meet members of Team Lioness, East Africa’s first all-female wildlife ranger unit, who patrol this very ecosystem protecting the elephants and other wildlife you have spent the day photographing. It is a rare, direct conversation with women whose daily work is conservation in its most hands-on form. Return to the lodge for a sundowner before dinner.

After breakfast, embark on your journey to Lake Naivasha, around five to six hours crossing the Rift Valley floor arriving for check in and lunch. The lodge grounds themselves are unfenced, and it is entirely possible to watch giraffe and zebra grazing the fairways of the golf course from your veranda. Settle in enjoying the lodge ammenities before dinner.

An unhurried morning at Great Rift Valley Lodge, beginning with a boat ride on Lake Naivasha, gliding past pods of hippo and rich birdlife along the shoreline, before the short drive on to Lake Nakuru, arriving at Sarova Lion Hill, set on a forested ridge above the lake itself, in time for lunch. The afternoon is given to a game drive through Lake Nakuru National Park, home to a closely guarded rhino sanctuary, the park’s famous tree-climbing lions, and, in season, dense flocks of flamingo along the shoreline.

A final morning game drive through Lake Nakuru National Park before the road journey south to the Masai Mara, descending through Rift Valley escarpment scenery along the way. Arrive at Zebra River Camp, an intimate tented camp tucked beside a seasonal river inside the Masai Mara ecosystem, in time to settle in before an afternoon game drive across the surrounding plains.

A full day dedicated to the Masai Mara ecosystem, searching for lion, leopard, elephant, buffalo and rhino, with the Great Wildebeest Migration and Mara River crossings adding drama to the plains between July and October. In the afternoon, visit a Maasai women-led enterprise nearby, where local women run a craft and conservation initiative supporting their families directly through tourism. Return to camp at dusk for a candlelit dinner under an open sky.

After breakfast and check-out drive back to Nairobi, arriving in time for a farewell lunch at the Carnivore restaurant, where Hellen joins you to reflect on the safari and the memories you’ve shared. Drop-off is at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport or a Nairobi address, timed to your onward travel, with your guide staying with you until the very last moment of the journey.