Our Safari Destinations
Each park offers a unique wildlife experience. Below you'll find what animals to expect, the best time to visit, and current park entry fees for each destination.
Masai Mara National Reserve
The Masai Mara is Africa's most celebrated wildlife destination — a vast expanse of rolling savannah, acacia woodland, and riverine forest in southwestern Kenya. It is home to one of the world's highest concentrations of lion prides (40+ prides), large elephant herds, leopards, and cheetah.
From July to October, the Mara hosts the world's greatest wildlife spectacle — the Great Wildebeest Migration, where over 1.5 million wildebeest, 200,000 zebra, and countless gazelle cross the crocodile-infested Mara River in a frenzy of life and death drama. Outside migration season, the resident wildlife population ensures superb game viewing year-round.
Fees are charged by the Narok County Government and are subject to change. Included in all Kenya Apex Safaris packages.
Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park offers some of the world's most iconic wildlife photography — vast elephant herds roaming the open plains against the backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895 m. With over 1,600 free-ranging elephants, Amboseli is Africa's premier destination for close elephant encounters.
The park's swamps fed by underground meltwater from Kilimanjaro attract enormous concentrations of wildlife year-round. Watch elephant matriarchs lead their families through emerald swamp water, with the snow-capped summit of Kilimanjaro towering above — one of Africa's most photographed scenes, especially at dawn when the mountain is clear.
Fees are set by Kenya Wildlife Service (KWS). Included in all Kenya Apex Safaris packages.
Samburu National Reserve
Remote, rugged, and utterly spectacular — Samburu National Reserve sits in Kenya's hot and arid northern frontier, a landscape of semi-arid scrubland, dramatic rocky outcrops, and the life-giving Ewaso Ng'iro River. Made famous by Joy and George Adamson's lioness Elsa in the classic "Born Free".
Samburu's claim to fame is its exclusive Special Five — species found here but rarely seen in other Kenyan parks: the reticulated giraffe (the world's tallest giraffe subspecies), Grevy's zebra (the most endangered zebra species), the gerenuk antelope with its impossibly long neck, the Beisa oryx, and the Somali ostrich with its striking blue neck. Perfect for those who want something beyond the typical safari circuit.
Samburu fees set by Kenya Wildlife Service. Often combined with Buffalo Springs & Shaba reserves nearby. Included in all Kenya Apex Safaris packages.
Lake Nakuru National Park
Nestled on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, Lake Nakuru National Park is a birdwatcher's paradise and a critical sanctuary for endangered rhino. The alkaline soda lake is famous for attracting enormous flocks of pink flamingos — sometimes over a million at once — coating the shoreline in a stunning blush of colour visible from miles away.
Beyond the flamingos, Lake Nakuru is one of Kenya's most reliable parks for rhino sightings — it shelters both white and black rhinos within a fully fenced, managed sanctuary. The park also hosts remarkable densities of lion, leopard, buffalo, Rothschild's giraffe, and a huge population of waterbuck and reedbuck around the lake's margins.
Fees are set by Kenya Wildlife Service. All fees included in Kenya Apex Safaris packages.
Serengeti National Park
Tanzania's oldest and most celebrated national park, the Serengeti is a UNESCO World Heritage Site covering 14,763 sq km of pristine savannah — a landscape so ancient and undisturbed that the name "Serengeti" comes from the Maasai for endless plains. It is one of the world's greatest wildlife areas by any measure.
The Serengeti is the southern theatre of the Great Migration — January to March sees the calving season on the Serengeti's southern plains, where half a million wildebeest calves are born within a few weeks. The park hosts Africa's highest density of large predators: 3,000+ lion, 1,000+ leopard, and large packs of African wild dog roaming the plains year-round.
Fees are set by Tanzania National Parks (TANAPA). A Tanzanian visa (USD $50) is required for most nationalities. Fees included in all cross-border packages.
Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Ngorongoro Crater is widely considered Africa's greatest natural wonder — the world's largest intact, unflooded volcanic caldera. Formed 2–3 million years ago when a colossal volcano collapsed inward, the crater spans 265 sq km and drops 610 metres from rim to floor, creating a self-contained ecosystem where approximately 30,000 large animals live permanently.
Inside the crater you'll find one of the continent's highest densities of predators: resident lion prides, spotted hyena clans of 100+ individuals, and the elusive black rhino — one of Africa's best places to spot this critically endangered species. The crater floor also features a soda lake with flamingos, hippo pools, and vast open grasslands teeming with zebra, wildebeest, and buffalo. Pair your visit with a stop at nearby Olduvai Gorge, where some of the earliest known human remains were excavated.
Fees set by Ngorongoro Conservation Area Authority (NCAA). Vehicle fee is per trip into the crater. All fees included in Kenya Apex Safaris Tanzania packages.
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