DAY 01 –ARRIVAL
On your arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met and picked by our gudriver and you will be transferred to your city hotel for rest and leisure. Depending on arrival time, you can have a city tour. Your accommodation is Ibis Hotel on a bed and breakfast basis.
DAY 02 –MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
After breakfast at the hotel, you head southwards to Masai Mara National Reserve. Arrive in time for lunch and relax. Later, have an afternoon game drive in the reserve.
Enjoy an exploratory drive around the 1,792sq km game park with its low hills and savannah-type rolling grasslands, gallery forest on the Mara River and its tributaries. Get introduced to the herbivores; elephant, rhino, buffalo, and the variety of antelopes, the Masai giraffe and the Burchell zebra. The carnivores are the black mane lion, cheetah and leopard. Also to be seen are the largest birds, the Masai ostrich, the Secretary bird, the crested crane and saddle-bill stork. Crocodiles and hippos share the river. You’ll return to your lodge by sunset. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at Miti Mingi Eco Camp on a full board basis.
DAY 03 – MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
You’ll have an optional early morning balloon safari ride (US$450.00 per person ) across the Masai Mara plain.
Have breakfast at the lodge then enjoy morning and afternoon game drives. Masai Mara is an extension of the Serengeti ecosystem to the south. The Mara is noted for its abundance of lions, particularly the superb black maned males. See the great migration where over 1.5 million wildebeest and other antelopes cross the mighty Mara River. Experience the battle between survival and hunger. You are also likely to see lots of elephants here often in large herds. If you’re lucky, you’ll see leopard, cheetah and rhino. All of the Big Five are residents. You’re sure to see the African buffalo. Get the cameras ready, stock up on film/tapes and enjoy yourselves! In the evening, visit a Maasai village. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at Miti Mingi Eco Camp ( on full board basis).
DAY 04 –MASAI MARA TO LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
You’ll be woken by marching elephants and the sounds of birds. Have breakfast at your lodge. Check out and drive through the cool Rift Valley environment towards Nakuru. Drive through the park and arrive at your camp in time for lunch. Afterward, have an afternoon game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park.
L. Nakuru is a small park with over 50% of its area covered by the Lake. Located in the middle of the Rift Valley, L. Nakuru has a wide variety of animals which includes the Rothschild giraffe, lions, white and black rhinos as well as leopards. All these can be spotted depending on your luck. The park is also considered by birdwatchers as an ornithological paradise! A myriad of both greater and lesser flamingoes have made this lake their home. Dinner and your overnight will be at Citymax Hotel (on full board basis).
DAY 05 –LAKE NAKURU TO AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
You’ll have a hot breakfast at the hotel. At 8.30 am, drive to Amboseli National Park where you will arrive in time for lunch. After lunch, proceed for an afternoon game drive then return to the lodge for dinner and your overnight stay. During your game drive, you will be searching for the big herds of African elephants, cheetahs, lions, gazelles and the elusive elands. If the weather permits, you will be able to have a magnificent view of Mt. Kilimanjaro. All meals and your overnight stay will be at Kimana Camp.
(Meal plan: Full board).
DAY 06 –EXPLORE AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
You’ll have a full day exploration of the park. After breakfast, depart for the morning game drive. You’ll then be transferred to your lodge for lunch at leisure. Embark an afternoon game drive. Later, you will return to the lodge for dinner. You will be able to see the peak of Mt Kilimanjaro, the Big Five and more than 400 birds species. All meals and your overnight stay will be at Kimana Camp (Meal plan: Full board).
DAY 07–OFF TO ARUSHA (TANZANIA)
You’ll have your early morning breakfast at the lodge and later depart to Tanzania through Namanga. After you are done with immigration, you will exchange vehicles and proceed to Arusha.
Upon arrival at Arusha, you will drive to Elanacha hotel for your lunch/dinner and overnight.
DAY 08–TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast, your tour starts with the drive to Tarangire, Tanzania’s fifth largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Animals concentrate along the Tarangire River, which provides the only permanent water supply in the area. There is a great diversity of wildlife including lions, leopards, cheetah,s and up to six thousand elephants. Dinner and overnight at Migombani Campsite
DAY 09–SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast drive to the Serengeti National Park, enjoying the beautiful high-lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area along the way. Leaving the highlands behind, you will enter into the heart of wild Africa, the Serengeti National Park with its endless plains rolling into the distance, as far as the eye can see. You will head to the central area of the park, known as the Seronera, one of the richest wildlife habitats. In this part of the park, you will visit the Seronera River which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. You will arrive in time for lunch and afterwards, enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti National Park. Later in the day you will have dinner and your overnight stay in the Seronera Campsite.
DAY 10–SERENGETI GAME DRIVE
After breakfast, you don’t want to miss the beautiful essence of Serengeti Plains, your driver guide will take you to the heart of Serengeti, meeting the group of animals such as Zebra, wildebeest or the wild cat and many other will carter your thirst. Later on enjoy your picnic lunch at the Seronera visitors’ center and get more attached to the wilderness. After a day filled with wonder, you will drive to Ngorongoro for dinner and overnight at the Ngorongoro Simba campsite
DAY 11–NGORONGORO CRATER
After breakfast you descend into the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater for a day filled with wonder. The staggering crater walls rise up around you and on the floor of the crater you can find everything from grazing wildebeest to racing big cats, black rhinos bursting through the trees and exotic birds taking flight. You can rest in the shade and enjoy a picnic lunch overlooking the swaying plains, the deep dark forests and the emerald shimmer of this rich and dramatic landscape. After a day of adventure you drive to Arusha for dinner and overnight at Elanacha Hotel
DAY 12–DEPARTURE
After your morning breakfast your driver will be ready to take you to Kilimanjaro International airport for your flight back home or proceed to Zanzibar.
