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Arrival
Day 1
Nairobi to Amboseli National Park
Nairobi to Amboseli National Park
Our company representative will pick you up from the airport or your accommodation facility. After a short briefing about the safari, you will be handed over to your experienced driver guide in the morning for a scenic drive southeast towards Amboseli National Park, arriving in good time for lunch. You'll embark on your first-afternoon game drive exploring this acacia woodland, freshwater swamps, scrub brush, and open plains in search of wildlife returning at sunset for dinner and your overnight stay.
Amboseli National Park (392sq km) is famously known for the breathtaking view of Mount Kilimanjaro, the tallest freestanding mountain on earth and the tallest in Africa (5895m). Amboseli is also an elephant’s paradise where the massive African savannah elephants roam from swamp to swamp grazing all day. Because of the abundance of water and pasture, other animals to be spotted here are cheetahs, zebras, giraffes, gnus, gazelles, hippos, and many others.
- Main Destination:
- Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Amboseli NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Amboseli National Park
Amboseli National Park
You'll leave the camp after breakfast, carrying your packed lunch to be enjoyed in the wild. You'll spend the whole day exploring the marshlands and swamps of Amboseli which are fed by subterranean water channels. Water is abundant throughout the year and so is the pasture. Elephants and various other herbivores are found here. You'll return to the lodge late in the afternoon after a long exploration of this 392sq km.
You'll also have an option of starting the day with an early morning game drive to search for animals when they're at their most active. Then, return to the lodge for a relaxed breakfast and lunch. (depending on the location of your lodge)
You'll spend the hottest part of the day relaxing in the camp reading your favorite book or just listening to your favorite music while observing the birds. Afterward, you'll head off in the afternoon (4:00 pm) for another drive through the park. You'll return to the lodge at sunset for dinner and your overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Amboseli to Lake Manyara National Park
Amboseli to Lake Manyara National Park
Today after breakfast, prepare for a long but very scenic and exciting drive. You will head towards the border separating Kenya and Tanzania(Namanga border post). Prepare to pay for your visa which costs $50- $100 depending on the nationality (visa cards NOT accepted). After clearing the border immigration process, you will transfer vehicles and join your Tanzanian driver/guide who will welcome you and proceed further with your journey stopping for lunch in Arusha. After lunch, you'll take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the day-to-day activities of the locals around this small but busy tourist transit town before proceeding further east arriving in Lake Manyara in good time (mid-afternoon).
You have a free afternoon to enjoy the lodge facilities like swimming, and bird watching, or maybe relax by the poolside reading your favorite book or writing your journal in preparation for a busy day tomorrow.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation:
-
Escarpment Luxury Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro Crater
Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro Crater
Today after a leisurely breakfast, you'll pack up and drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a morning game drive in search of the animals while they are still active like baboons and dik-diks that forage for food beneath acacia trees, and large herds of buffalos, wildebeest and zebras, which gather on the grassy, sun-drenched plains. Along a narrow belt of acacia woodland, you may even spot the region’s storied tree-climbing lions, ascending branches for a cool breeze. Today's lunch is an African buffet prepared freshly from the farm in a local homestead. After lunch, you'll continue to a local village, where you'll ride on a tuk-tuk or walk viewing rice fields and the local community as you go. You will also have a chance to sample a local banana beer as you take a village walk. Thereafter, you'll travel to Ngorongoro Crater, ascending its outer wall through dense vegetation and arriving at your hotel located at the rim of the caldera in good time for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Ngorongoro Crater
Ngorongoro Crater
This morning, you'll descend into the crater, arriving ahead of most visitors — thanks to the ideal location of your accommodations on the crater’s rim —you'll descend into the crater floor for the half-day crater tour. There are only two roads that connect the crater rim with the crater floor, One for driving down, One for driving up, and another that goes both ways. The crater is roughly 20 km/12 miles wide and 600 m/2,000 ft deep. Once you’ve reached the top of the caldera, it takes about 45 minutes to descend to the crater floor. The floor is home to a rich and highly concentrated wildlife. Some 20,000 mammals of size live there, Including about 20 black rhinoceros, making the crater the best place in Tanzania to see the rhino.
The animals here are less wary of humans and vehicles and as a result, it's easier to watch them from up close where animals roam the lakes, rivers, and hills. Later, you'll ascend and return to your lodge at the rim for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Park
Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Park
You'll drive to the vast, wildlife-rich Serengeti National Park and through its spectacular mix of savanna grassland and volcanic hills, stopping en route for a privately guided tour of Olduvai Gorge, one of the key sources of prehuman hominid fossils. Renowned paleontologists Mary and Louis Leakey made many notable finds here, including “Nutcracker Man,” who lived approximately 1.75 million years ago. You'll visit the on-site museum, take in views from the lookout point, and examine the excavations, which revealed 3.7-million-year-old footprints and the 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human. You'll continue to your lodge, which is framed by commanding views of this land of lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, giraffes, and topi. The park also serves as a setting for the Great Migration when it passes through each year. You'll enjoy your room’s blend of elegant and contemporary design with influences from the traditional Maasai culture.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation:
- Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Serengeti National Park
Serengeti National Park
You will wake up to another glorious day in the Serengeti. You will start the day with an early morning game drive to search for animals when they're most active. Then, you will return to the lodge for a relaxed breakfast and lunch.
You'll spend the hottest part of the day relaxing at the camp reading your favorite book, writing your journal about the safari, or just listening to your favorite music while observing the birds. Then, you will head off again in the afternoon for another drive through the park. You'll return to the lodge for dinner and another night under Serengeti's stars.
Note: There's also an option of an early hot air balloon ride here. Please ask the tour manager before booking this trip if you're interested.
- Main Destination:
- Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation:
- Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Serengeti to Masai Mara National Reserve
Serengeti to Masai Mara National Reserve
This morning after a leisurely breakfast, you will be transferred to Seronera Airstrip for your scheduled flight to Masai Mara. You will fly to the vast Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya’s finest wildlife spectacle, offering excellent game viewing year-round. The unending landscape hosts some 450 bird species, 95 animal species, and all of the great predators, including the country’s largest lion population. On arrival, you'll meet your driver guide and be transferred to your lodge with a game drive on route arriving in good time for lunch.
After having lunch and familiarizing yourself with your classic tented accommodations, ideally situated at the confluence of Mara’s four game-viewing regions, you will embark on your first guided game drive through the famed reserve in search of the many herbivores and carnivores that call this place home. You will return at sunset for dinner and an overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- Zebra Plains Mara Camp
Wildlife in Masai Mara NR
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Masai Mara National Reserve
Masai Mara National Reserve
This is a full day spent game viewing across the rich tree-studded grassland and rolling hills of the famous savanna. The Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains game animals like leopards, cheetahs, lions, and other herbivores. It has virtually every other type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. You will have a full-day game drive in Masai Mara Savannah.
Your lunch today is picnic lunch boxes in the savannah under a flat-top acacia tree while watching the animals grazing. You'll continue with the game viewing en route to your camp, arriving late in the afternoon after thoroughly exploring this massive grassland savannah measuring 1,500 sq.
You have an option of booking a balloon ride today which takes off early in the morning. After landing, the crew helps you out of the basket and escorts you to a lovely setting for a bush breakfast which is a lifetime experience and worth the
price. Later, you'll join your driver guide at a location and proceed with your full-day game drive.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- Zebra Plains Mara Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Masai Mara National Reserve
Masai Mara National Reserve
You'll spend another full-day game viewing across the rich tree-studded grassland and rolling hills of the famous savanna. The Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains game animals like leopards, cheetahs, lions, and other herbivores. It has virtually every other type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. You will have a full-day game drive in Masai Mara Savannah.
Your lunch today is picnic lunch boxes in the savannah under a flat-top acacia tree while watching the animals grazing. You'll continue with the game viewing en route to your camp, arriving late in the afternoon after thoroughly exploring this massive grassland savannah measuring 1,500 sq.
You have an option of booking a balloon ride today which takes off early in the morning. After landing, the crew helps you out of the basket and escorts you to a lovely setting for a bush breakfast which is a lifetime experience and worth the
price. Later join your driver guide at a location and proceed with your full-day game drive.
- Main Destination:
- Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- Zebra Plains Mara Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 11
Masai Mara to Lake Nakuru National Park
Masai Mara to Lake Nakuru National Park
Today after breakfast, you'll drive north through Narok to Njoro Road, which crosses the beautiful sceneries of the fertile wheat lands of Mau and the Mau Forest complex (The source of the Mara River). You will arrive at the park in good time for lunch and check into your lodge. Later, you'll depart for an afternoon game drive in this gorgeous park and return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Lake Nakuru National Park is among Kenya's finest national parks. The park is gorgeous all year round and boasts rocky escarpments, patches of yellow-barked acacia forest, and a waterfall. It is home to flamingos, black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, buffaloes, hippos, and the endangered Rothschild's giraffes. The southern end of the lake is the best place to see wildlife! The forested area below the Rhinos Cliff is a favorite lion-spotting point where lionesses love to sleep in the trees, and leopards frequent the same site.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Nakuru National Park (Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Nakuru NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 12
Lake Nakuru to Lake Naivasha
Lake Nakuru to Lake Naivasha
You'll depart for an early morning game drive and thereafter return to the lodge for breakfast before driving to Lake Naivasha. Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake in Kenya outside the town of Naivasha northwest of Nairobi famous for its strong population of hippos, giraffes, wildebeest, and the over 400 bird species in the forest surrounding the lake making it the perfect destination for birders
On arrival, you'll proceed to the lake for a boat ride and walking excursion at the Crescent Island Game Sanctuary. Boat rides here are refreshing experiences that take you on the breezy lake waters as you explore the diverse bird life and wildlife on the lake and its surroundings. You will have a brief nature walk on the island, which is a great opportunity to appreciate nature on the island and around. You'll return to the hotel for lunch. After lunch, you'll proceed to Hellsgate National Park for more outdoor activities like bicycle riding, and rock climbing while watching the animals.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Naivasha (Naivasha, Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- Enashipai Resort & Spa
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 13
Lake Naivasha to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
Lake Naivasha to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
After a leisurely morning breakfast, you will check out of your lodge, pack up, and drive back to Nairobi. On arrival in Nairobi, you will have an (optional) lunch at the famous Carnivore Restaurant. Afterward, you'll be dropped off at your respective hotel or at the airport to mark this as the end of your safari.
Depending on your homebound flight departure time, you will organize with your diver guide the departure time from Lake Naivasha.
- Main Destination:
- Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (Nairobi, Kenya)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
