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Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

  • You'll be collected from the airport.
  • Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Day 1

Nairobi

Nairobi

Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met and transferred to the After 40 Hotel for your overnight stay. You will be booked into this hotel on a B&B basis. If you arrive early enough, you can go on a tour of the town and experience some of the local culture.

Main destination:
Nairobi (City, Kenya)

Accommodation:
After 40 Hotel Nairobi.

Main Destination:
Nairobi (City, Kenya)
Accommodation:
After 40 Hotel
  • Mid-range hotelin Nairobi (City, Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
  • Drinks not included

Day 2

Nairobi - Masai Mara National Reserve

Nairobi - Masai Mara National Reserve

Today, you will be picked up from the hotel and driven to the famous Masai Mara National Reserve via the Great Rift Valley (lunch will be eaten en route). Upon arrival, you’ll go on an afternoon game drive until you arrive at the lodge around 5-6:00 pm. Your overnight stay will be at the Ashnil Mara Camp. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinking water will be provided.

The Masai Mara is home to the Big Five and is the best place to witness the great migration from July to November.

Main Destination:
Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
Best Time To Visit June to October (For general wildlife viewing) and August to October (For wildebeest migration)
High Season June to October and December to March
Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Masai Mara NR

ElephantCommon
GiraffeCommon
LionCommon
CheetahCommon
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
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BuffaloCommon
HippoCommon
HyenaCommon
LeopardOccasional
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Ashnil Mara Camp
  • Luxury tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 3

Masai Mara National Reserve

Masai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast, you’ll go on a game drive in the Masai Mara. Your overnight stay will be at the Ashnil Mara camp. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinking water will be provided.

The Mara is situated in the southwest of Kenya and covers an area of 1,510 square km (583 square miles). This is a land of breathtaking vistas, abundant wildlife, and endless plains. The reserve is home to an excellent year-round concentration of game, including the more than two million wildebeests, zebras, and other antelopes that make up the famous great migration.

Main Destination:
Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
Accommodation:
Ashnil Mara Camp
  • Luxury tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 4

Masai Mara National Reserve - Serengeti National Park

Masai Mara National Reserve - Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you will drive to Isebania on the Kenya-Tanzania border to get your visa and then drive to Serengeti National Park for a game drive. Your overnight stay will be at the Malaika Seronera Luxury tented camp or similar, The endless Serengeti plains are the setting for the world’s greatest wildlife spectacle—the 1.5 million wildebeest migrating in search of fresh pastures. Each year they trek over 2,500km under the threat of some of Africa’s greatest predators. Depending on the time of your visit, your driver-guide will be able to share with you where the herd’s current location is in the park.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Best Time To Visit January to February and June to October (Different areas are best at different times)
High Season July to March (The Seronera area is crowded)
Best Weather June to October (Little to no rainfall)

Wildlife in Serengeti NP

ElephantCommon
LionCommon
CheetahCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
Show more
GiraffeCommon
HippoCommon
HyenaCommon
LeopardOccasional
Black RhinoVery Rare
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Malaika Seronera Luxury Camps
  • Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti NP (Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 5

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you will have a game viewing towards Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti, Tanzania’s largest national park, covers nearly 6,000 square miles of grassland plains, savannah, kopjes, hills, woodlands, and riverine forest systems that serve as critical water sources and are often excellent sites for wildlife viewing.

Beyond the heralded migration of wildebeests and zebras, the Serengeti is best known for its big predators, including cheetahs and leopards, as well as large pride of lions and clans of hyenas and able to see the Big Five. Your dinner and an overnight stay at Central Serengeti Malaika luxury Tented Camp.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Accommodation:
Malaika Seronera Luxury Camps
  • Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti NP (Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 6

Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Highlands

Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Highlands

After a relaxing morning and an early lunch. You will have an early morning start to your game drive in Serengeti. Later, you'll go back to drive you to the picnic site for brunch and hot lunch. Your driver and cook will load everything on the top of our safari jeep. Then, you'll continue with the game drive while looking out of Serengeti to proceed to Ngorongoro.

Today, you will be doing a wildlife viewing en route on your way from Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater. You will be in Ngorongoro Crater. Late in the evening where the night will be spent on the crater rim. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Accommodation:
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 7

Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Zanzibar

Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Zanzibar

On your last day, you'll start very early in the morning equipped with a picnic lunch you descend 2000 ft. down to the crater floor by our 4×4- 4WD – wheel drive vehicle for game viewing for 5-6hrs. Let's explore this Garden of Eden. Ngorongoro is a huge and deep volcanic crater.

There is rich pasture, swamps, forest, and permanent water on the Crater floor which is why wildlife here is so diverse and numerous. Late in the afternoon drive back to Arusha to Join your booked flight to Zanzibar. Upon arrival at Zanzibar International Airport. Soon after clearing all the immigration procedures, the driver will be ready to transfer you to the hotel for check-in.

Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
Best Time To Visit June to October (Wildlife viewing is best)
High Season Most of the year – July to March (Expect crowds)
Best Weather June to October (Rainfall is little to none)

Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater

LionCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
HyenaAbundant
Show more
ElephantCommon
HippoCommon
LeopardOccasional
Accommodation:
Marea Boutique Hotel
  • Luxury hotelin Jambiani (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 8

Stone town + Prison Island

Stone town + Prison Island

Morning after breakfast you will have the chance to relax on beautiful island known as Changuu island situated north west of stone town, 20 minutes ride to cross the water by small motorboat. The island was used to house rebellious slave, it’s also the home of land giant Aldabra tortoises who imported from Seychelles in the late of 19th century. Have a nice moment to visit Tortoises Park and play with them quite close, fed the tortoise and get memorable photo with them, visit incredible prison building.
Thereafter you will have the chance to explore the heritage capital city of Zanzibar known as old stone town. Visit old central market built in 1904, a bustling place where fish, fruits, vegetable and spices are sold. Stone town is well known as shopping center, do shopping around narrow street by affordable price shop and discover unique Arabs and Indian curved doors at the hidden corner. Other place to visit around stone town are old fort, Indian temp, Freddy mercury house of birth.

Main Destination:
Zanzibar Stone Town (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Accommodation:
Marea Boutique Hotel
  • Luxury hotelin Jambiani (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 9

Safari blue full-day trip sharing with Sea food lunch

Safari blue full-day trip sharing with Sea food lunch

The trip starts in the morning after breakfast at hotel transfer to Unguja Ukuu, taking traditional boat to explore marine life, sunbath on wonderful sandbank, and swimming around blue turquoise water. Snorkel to explore underwater life surrounding by coral reefs with colorful school of fish, thereafter you will have a golden chance to visit Kwale island to discover the nature, have a nice delicious seafood lunch, barbeque, brawns, calamari, octopus etc and enjoy to test tropical fruit which you never test before with excellent local snacks. The trip will end around 4:30pm and back to hotel.

Main Destination:
Zanzibar Island (Tanzania Beaches, Tanzania)
Accommodation:
Kena Beach Hotel
  • Luxury resortat Matemwe Beach (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 10

Jozani forest + Salam cave swimming with turtles

Jozani forest + Salam cave swimming with turtles

Morning after breakfast we will heading to Jozani Forest apart of the forest this is also the home to many beautiful creatures, This is a fabulous tour, we will head directly to the beautiful Jozani Forest Reserve to start our guided tour and surely you will love to see the trees, shrubs and greenery which literally create a natural canopy. We will walk through the nature trail of the forest, where you will be able to see several animal species, including the red colobus monkeys.
At Salam cave find one of the natural lagoon full of sea turtles caught by fishermen and they are releasing them back to the fresh ocean water in the lagoon. Use the unique opportunity to swim with sea turtles.
Discover the new natural Aquarium cave full of sea turtles where you will get closer to them in the crystal clear water.
During the visit you can also feed turtles with sea weed or just spend your time in the water. Also, you can take snorkeling mask to dive and watch them in natural environment.

Main Destination:
Zanzibar Island (Tanzania Beaches, Tanzania)
Accommodation:
Kena Beach Hotel
  • Luxury resortat Matemwe Beach (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 11

Mnemba Dolphin+Snorkeling

Mnemba Dolphin+Snorkeling

We will pick you at the hotel early morning heading to Mnemba Island, if you are lucky you will see wild dolphins however not 100% and if you have swimming experience you swim with dolphin. There is nothing as joyful as being around playful dolphins that you usually normally see in your biology books or in the movies. When the dolphins come up close, you can enjoy their company, see how smart they are in creating a bond with people.

Later after dolphin will go at the shallow cleat water for snorkeling Jump on board and explore the life and beauty that can be found in the turquoise waters of Zanzibar! Snorkeling is a fun activity for young and old and does not require any previous experience. There is a huge variety of marine life to discover. You might even see some dolphins and other sea creatures!
Explore the colorful reefs of Mnemba atoll during snorkeling sessions in the warm and clear water of the Indian Ocean. On the boat, we serve soft drinks and fruit.

Main Destination:
Zanzibar Island (Tanzania Beaches, Tanzania)
Accommodation:
Kena Beach Hotel
  • Luxury resortat Matemwe Beach (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 12

Departure from Zanzibar Airport

Departure from Zanzibar Airport

Soon after the check-out process, you will transfer from the hotel to Zanzibar International Airport. You'll arrive at the airport at the time indicated on the flight tickets.

Main Destination:
Zanzibar Airport (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
  • Drinks not included

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

  • Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
  • You'll be dropped off at the airport.
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