8-Day Kenya & Tanzania- Masai Mara/ Serengeti/Ngorongoro

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

Arrival Nairobi

Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will go through the mandatory usual customs, immigration and health check procedures. You will then be welcomed by a member from Hallmark Travel Planners team who will transfer you to your hotel in Nairobi.

Nairobi is Kenya's capital city, it is one of the largest and most influential cities in Africa, an important commercial and financial regional hub.

Main Destination:

Nairobi (City, Kenya)

Accommodation:

Tamarind Tree Hotel

• Mid-range hotelnear Nairobi (City, Kenya)

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Meals & Drinks:

• Meals at own expense
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Road Transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast leave Nairobi for Masai Mara, arriving in time for lunch.

Check in your lodge and have lunch. In the afternoon, revel in an adventurous game drive. The reserve is a rugged jumble of ancient volcanic cones and craters, boasting with some of the best views of Kilimanjaro and home to a wonderful selection of game, including paradise to bird watchers’ in the south-west corner of the reserve.

The Masai Mara is magnificent, home to Kenya’s richest concentration of wildlife, and regarded by many travelers as an essential stop on any tour of Africa. When westerners think of Africa and safari, this is place they imagine – golden grassland plains pocked with acacia, wildebeests, zebras, lions, and jackals bound by together by the cycle of life and death. Tonight, tuck into a delicious dinner at the lodge, swopping stories of your adventures so far.

Main Destination:

Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)

Best Time To Visit June to October (For general wildlife viewing) and July or 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

Black RhinoRare

Wild DogVery Rare

White RhinoNone

Accommodation:

Zebra Plains Mara Camp

• Mid-range tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Safari activities in Masai Mara

This full day is spent game viewing in Kenya’s finest wildlife park, the Masai Mara National Reserve.

Our morning and afternoon game drives take us in search of Africa’s Big Five and the plethora of other wildlife inhabiting this vast Kenyan game reserve. On clear days, the Masai Mara offers fantastic orange tinged sunsets well-worth capturing on camera. The Masai Mara Game Reserve is 1510km² of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers in Kenya.

Wherever you go in the vast Masai Mara you will see an abundance of wildlife such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos are also found in great numbers. It is also common to see lions either basking after a heavy meal, or surveying the plains for their next meal. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot, but reasonably common.

Main Destination:

Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)

Accommodation:

Zebra Plains Mara Camp

• Mid-range tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Road Transfer Masai Mara to Serenget National Park

Breakfast by 0800am. Check out and leave Maasai Mara region for Isebania border where you will say bye bye to Kenya Guide and meet the Tanzania Guide.

After Visa processing proceed to the shores of Lake Victoria, drive into the nearby Serengeti which shares the same ecosystem with the Maasai Mara game reserve.

This is Tanzania's largest game park, covering some 14736 km² of African bushveld. The Serengeti is a year-round game viewing destination, offering world-class game viewing throughout the year.

Serengeti Park and the neighbouring Masai Mara National Park in Kenya, are however best known for the annual Wildebeest Migration. Also known as the Great Migration, this wildlife spectacle is set in motion when an endless sea of grazers migrate across the plains in search of fresh grazing.

Main Destination:

Central 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

White RhinoNone

Accommodation:

Safari View Luxury Camp

• Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti NP (Tanzania)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Safari Activities in Serengeti National Park

We have 2 days to explore the vast Serengeti plains on game drives, going in search of the staggering variety of wildlife found here. The Serengeti is one of Africa's most famous game parks, boasting prime open savannahs, teeming with wild animals.

This epic wildlife migration sees a wildebeest population of over a million stampeding through grasslands and river. The incredible wildlife migration also includes several other hoofed animals, such as zebra, Thomson's gazelle, impala, topi, Grants gazelle, Kongoni, Eland, Kirk's dik-dik, oryx, oribi, waterbuck, buffalo, giraffe and more! This awe-inspiring herd of grazers, in turn, attracts the predators of Serengeti, from lion, leopard, and cheetah, to hyena, jackals and bat-eared foxes.
The bird watching in Serengeti Park is also impressive, with common sightings including ostrich and kori bustard, as well as larks, finches, raptors and the distinctive lilac breasted roller.

Main Destination:

Central Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)

Accommodation:

Safari View Luxury Camp

• Mid-range tented camp located inside Central Serengeti NP (Tanzania)

Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Drive from Serengeti to Ngorongoro and Karatu

Have your breakfast and after proceed for a game drive within Serengeti National Park, within the valley of Seronera valley, you will find many zebras, lions and the wildebeests, the big cats here include; leopards and the cheetahs. Return to the lodge and check out with picnic lunch boxes, heading for Ngorongoro Area.
A short stop over visit at the Ol Duvai Gorge before proceeding to the crater. Olduvai Gorge stands at the far end of the NCA. It is home to an archaeological site that is regarded as the cradle of humankind.
Afterwards, drive into the crater which has one of the biggest caldera filled with rich and diverse wildlife species. It has got the Acacia forest and the grass steppes were you will find every type of animal from the east African savannah. The
The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera. Estimates say that about 3 million years ago, the intact volcano was almost as high as Kilimanjaro, between 4,500 & 5,800 metres.

Main Destination:

Karatu District (Tanzania)

Accommodation:

Farm of Dreams Lodge

• Mid-range lodgein Karatu (Town, Tanzania)

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Meals & Drinks:

• All meals included
• Drinks not included

Drive from Karatu to Arusha and the airport

This is the last day of this safari. After breakfast you will check out of the safari lodge and drive to Arusha. Depending on your flight out of Africa, you will be transferred to the airport for your flight.

Main Destination:

No major destination visited

Accommodation:

No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks:

• Meals at own expense
• Drinks not included

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