Min Great Safari Circuit which will take you to Lake Nakuru National Park and Maasai Mara National Reserve in Kenya for 5 days and to Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire in Tanzania for 5 days. This itinerary can be tailored to start either in Kenya or Tanzania. Even you can ask to add more days in other parks in both counties we are flexible for that. Come Explore Africa with us!
Day 1: Nairobi City to Lake Nakuru National Park
Early morning pick up from your Nairobi hotel to Lake Nakuru you will head out on your journey with the ultimate destination to see the exclusive white & black rhino at Lake Nakuru National Park. Along the way you will explore the beautiful nature of The Great Rift Valley formed back more than two million years ago. Upon arrival at Lake Nakuru you will check-in and enjoy a hot lunch at the lodge. After lunch you will embark on an exciting game drive through the evening. You will see the spectacular concentration of majestic pink flamingo; which is just one of the many wildlife features in the park. You will return to the lodge later in the evening for dinner and your overnight stay at Lake Nakuru Lodge.
- Main destination: Lake Nakuru National Park (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Lodge. Mid-Range Lodge located inside Lake Nakuru National Park
- Meals & drinks: All Meals. Drinking water during game drives (Drinks not included)
Day 2: Lake Nakuru National Park to Masai Mara National Reserve
You will rise early and take off for a sunrise game drive in the park. You will return later for breakfast, check-out and then depart; heading to the “Great Jewel” of Africa, Maasai Mara National Reserve. You will make a stop at the native Maasai Town of Narock for your picnic lunch and then drive on to enter Maasai Mara. Once inside the reserve, you will take part in an action packed game drive on your way to the Ilkeliani Camp for dinner and your overnight stay.
- Main destination: Maasai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Ilkeliani Camp. Mid-Range Tented Bush Camp located outside Maasai Mara NR
- Meals & drinks: All Meals. Drinking water during game drives (Drinks not included)
Day 3-4: Masai Mara National Reserve-Full Day Game Drive
This is another day in the famous home of the big five! You will have 2 game drives 0630hrs-1000hrs and 1600hrs to 1830hrs respectively. The Maasai Mara is regarded as the jewel of Kenya that offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is almost unbelievable that over 95 species of mammals, amphibians and reptiles and over 400 bird species recorded on the reserve. A visitor may hardly miss to see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures. Dinner and overnight at Ilkeliani Camp.
- Main destination: Maasai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Ilkeliani Camp. Mid-Range Tented Bush Camp located outside Maasai Mara NR
- Meals & drinks: All Meals. Drinking water during game drives (Drinks not included)
Day 5: Maasai Mara N Reserve to Isbania-Sirari Border Entry to Tanzania-Serengeti NP
The breakfast will be served early and then leave with a game drive en-route with your lunch box as we drive to Sirari boarder point to cross in to Tanzania finish the immigration formalities then change the car to take Tanzanian Jeep to Serengeti national park through Fort Ikoma Gate in the North West corridor of Serengeti. Arrival in the afternoon game drive dinner and overnight at Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge.
- Main destination: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge. Luxury Lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP
- Meals & drinks: All Meals. Drinking water during game drives (Drinks not included
Day 6-7: Serengeti Nationl Park-Full Day Game Drive
Early breakfast the game drive till afternoon back for hot lunch then relax till late in the afternoon in famous Serengeti National Park you will be having a chance to see all big five see all big five e.g. Lions, Elephants, Buffalos, Leopard, Rhino and many other wild animals like Hippos, Zebras, Wildebeests, Cheetahs, Hyenas, Thomson Gazelles just to mention a few. The camps are pitched on a major wildebeest migration corridor in the Central Serengeti, area offers easy access to the scenic places and superb sightings of the big cats that roam the Seronera River. Seronera area its wild paradise you will be able to see thousands of wild animals and also Immigration of wildebeests depending on the season. Then Afternoon game drives there after dinner and overnight at the Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge.
- Main destination: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Kubu Kubu Tented Lodge. Luxury Lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP
- Meals & drinks: All Meals. Drinking water during game drives (Drinks not included
Day 8: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Maasai Boma Visit)
After breakfast with your Picnic Lunch make a game drive briefly in famous Serengeti then to Ngorongoro in the afternoon via Olduvai George believe to be home of the first human being. The skull of Home sapiens was discovered here by Dr. Leakey. This is great history one would live to remember. Maasai Boma Visit nearby to learn and experience their life Style, homes, dance, culture, hand craft etc. till late in the afternoon then drive to your lodge at the crater rim, relax till evening then dinner and overnight Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp.
- Main destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Tanzania).
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp. Mid-Range Tented Bush Camp located inside Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
- Meals & drinks: All Meals. Drinking water during game drives (Drinks not included
Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater then to Katatu Near Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast descends to the world’s seventh wonder Ngorongoro Crater. A caldera that was formed as a results of the great movement of the earth that formed the rift valley. The Ngorongoro wild reserve is a home of wide variety of wild life including the big cats, more than four hundred bird’s species. Enjoy the wildlife till late in the afternoon then ascend to the crater rim then drive outside the Ngorongoro entry gate you will arrive at your lodge relax at leisure later in the evening dinner and overnight at the Ngorongoro Coffee Lodge.
- Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Coffee Lodge. Mid-Range Lodge located just outside Ngorongoro conservation Area.
- Meals & drinks: All Meals. Drinking water during game drives (Drinks not included)
Day 10: Karatu to Tarangire Nationl Park then to Arusha Town
Early breakfast then with your picnic lunch drive direct to Tarangire National Park very famous for its elephant population. Here you will have unique experience seeing nature combine with original way of life of Masaai. Tarangire offers unparalleled game viewing, and during the dry season elephants abound. Families of the pachyderms play around the ancient trunks of baobab trees and strip acacia bark from the thorn trees for their afternoon meal. Breathtaking views of the Masaai Steppe and the mountains to the south make a stop at Tarangire a memorable experience game drive till late in the afternoon then drive to Arusha Town drop off at the hotel of your choice or drop at Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight back home or extension to Zanzibar Island for beach holiday.
- Main Destination: Tarangire National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included) Drinking water (Other drinks not included)
Included
- Park fees (For non-residents)
- All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
- All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
- A professional driver/guide
- All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
- All Taxes/VAT
- Roundtrip airport transfer
- Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
- Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Excluded
- International flights (From/to home)
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
- Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
- Some meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)