Enjoy the Jewel of this African Safari in Kenya’s Maasai Mara and Tanzania’s Serengeti. This is a great safari circuit which will take you into the best parks and reserves in Africa. Experience exclusive white & black rhino at Lake Nakuru National Park! See “BIG CATS” hunting in the early morning in Maasai Mara. Experience the Great Migration of wildebeest in Serengeti. Come explore Africa with us!
Day 1: Jomo Kenyatta International Airport-Nairobi City:
Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport you will be met by our customer service representative who will assist you to your vehicle and drive you to your hotel near Airport. Here you will check-in, enjoy dinner and your overnight stay at Eka Hotel Nairobi.
- Main destination: Nairobi (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Eka Hotel. Luxury hotel located in Nairobi City.
- Meals & drinks: Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included) Drinks not included
Day 2:Nairobi City-Lake Nakuru National Park:
Breakfast, check-out and then depart to Lake Nakuru National park 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 (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Lake Nakuru Lodge. Luxury lodge located inside Lake Nakuru NP
- Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included).
Day 3: Lake Nakuru National Park-Maasai Mara National Game Reserve: After an earlier breakfast Depart Lake Nakuru National Park with your picnic lunch, driving past Mt. Longonot and base town of Narok to Masaai Mara arrive Masai Mara for lunch. After lunch enjoy evening game drive in Masai Mara National Reserve from 1530hrs. The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. You will easily 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 just to mention a few enjoy African wildlife safari till late in the afternoon dinner and overnight at Sekenani Camp.
- Main destination: Maasai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Maasai Mara Sekenani Camp. Luxury Camp located just outside Maasai Mara NR
- Meals & drinks: All meals included. Drinking water during game drives (Other drinks not included)
Day 4: Maasai Mara National Game Reserve-Full Day Game Drive:
You will rise early and take part in a sunrise game drive where you will have a chance to come in contact with “Big Cats” hunting for prey. This is the best time to see the cats actively searching for the day’s meal. Afterwards, you will head back to the lodge for breakfast and then with your picnic lunch & drinking water proceed for full day game drive You will easily 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. After lunch you will take off an afternoon game drive; returning for dinner and your overnight stay at Sekenani Camp.
- Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Maasai Mara Sekenani Camp. Luxury Camp located just outside Maasai Mara NR
- Meals & drinks: All meals included. Drinking water during game drives (Other drinks not included)
Day 5: Maasai Mara National Game Reserve-Full Day Game Drive:
You will rise early and take part in a sunrise game drive where you will have a chance to come in contact with “Big Cats” hunting for prey. This is the best time to see the cats actively searching for the day’s meal. Afterwards, you will head back to the lodge for breakfast and then with your picnic lunch & drinking water proceed for full day game drive You will easily 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. After lunch you will take off an afternoon game drive; returning for dinner and your overnight stay at Sekenani Camp.
- Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Maasai Mara Sekenani Camp. Luxury Camp located just outside Masai Mara NR
- Meals & drinks: All meals included. Drinking water during game drives (Other drinks not included)
Day 6: Masaai Mara GR-Sirari Border-Fort Ikoma Gate-Serengeti National Park
The breakfast will be served early and then leave at sunrise with a game drive en-route with your lunch boxes as you 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 Northern corridor of Serengeti. On route having a chance to see all big five. And also seeing the big herds of wildebeests depending on season. Encounter all that this wildness of Serengeti can offer. Arrival in the evening game drive dinner and overnight at Serengeti Wild Camp.
- Main destination: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Serengeti Wild Camp. Luxury tented camp located in central Serengeti NP
- Meals & drinks: All meals & Drinking water during game drives. (Other Drinks not included)
Day 7: Baloon Safari-Serengeti National Park-Full Day Game Drive:
Optional you can participate in balloon safari: Transfer from your lodge at 0500am by Jeep to launch site. Briefing and watch the inflation of the balloon. At dawn you will take off, rising as the sun rises. Your pilot can precisely control the altitude of your balloon: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great photographic opportunities of the wildlife below. At other times pilot may ascend to 1000 ft or more to see the enormity and wonderful panorama of the Serengeti. The flight is for about one hour depending on conditions. You celebrate in the traditional manner with champagne before having full English breakfast prepared and served in the bush in “Out of Africa” After breakfast you receive your Serengeti Balloon certificate. Then proceed with full day game drive to see more that the nature will provide. Seronera its wild paradise you will be able to see thousands of wild animals and also Immigration of wildebeests depending on the season, dinner and overnight at Serengeti Wild Camp.
- Main destination: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Serengeti Wild Camp. Luxury tented camp located in Central Serengeti NP
- Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water during game drive (Other drinks not included)
Day 8: Serengeti National Park-Full Day Game Drive:
After breakfast you will take off for a morning game drive with a picnic lunch to enjoy along the way. You will take off for another game drive in the evening in famous Serengeti National Park where you will have a chance to see all of the “Big Five”! You will also see large herds of wildebeest. You will return later in the evening for dinner and your overnight stay at Serengeti Wild Camp.
- Main destination: Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Serengeti Wild Camp. Luxury tented camp located in Central Serengeti NP
- Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water during game drive (Other drinks not included)
Day 9: Serengti National Park-Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast you will check-out with your Picnic Lunch make a game drive briefly in famous Serengeti then you will drive 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. Visit nearby Maasai Boma learn their culture and way of living having change to take photographs till late in the evening then drive to your lodge at the Crater rim for dinner and your overnight stay at the Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp
- Main destination: Ngorongoro Conservation Area (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Tortilis Camp. Luxury Tented Camp located near Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & drinks: All meals & Drinking water during game drives. (Other Drinks not included)
Day 10: Ngorongoro Crater-Full Day Game Drive-Karatu:
Early breakfast with your picnic lunch depart to Ngorongoro crater, descend into the floor of the “Seventh Wonder of the World. A caldera that was formed as a result of the great movement of the earth that formed the Great Rift Valley. The Ngorongoro Reserve is home to a wide variety of wildlife including the big cats and more than four hundred bird species. You will enjoy the wildlife, Ngorongoro Crater 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 in the crater till late in the afternoon having a chance to see all big five e.g. Lions, Elephants, Rhinos, Buffalos, Hippos Zebras, Cheetahs, Hyenas Thomson Gazelles and many other Wild animals. have lunch at midday in the bush then proceed with game drive till late afternoon ,you will ascend up to the crater rim then drive to your lodge at Karatu arrival for dinner and your overnight stay at the Farm of Dreams Lodge.
- Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Farm of Dreams Lodge. Mid-Range lodge located near Ngorongoro conservation area.
- Meals & drinks: All meals included. Drinking water during game drives. (Other Drinks not included)
Day 11: Karatu-Lake Manyara National Park-Arusha Town:
After breakfast then with your picnic lunch drive from Karatu to Lake Manyara National Park famous for its lush green scenery, varied bird life, tree-climbing lion, hippo, baboon and many more wild animals. You will take part in a game drive until late in the afternoon enjoying the magnificent landscapes formed by the Great Rift Valley as you head Arusha near Town arrival for dinner and your overnight stay at Venus Primer Hotel.
- Main destination: Lake Manyara National Park (Tanzania)
- Accommodation: Venus Primer Hotel. Mid-Range lodge located in Arusha Town.
- Meals & drinks: All meals included. Drinking water during game drive (Other drinks not included
Day 12: Arusha Town-Amboseli National Park:
After an early breakfast you will check-out and drive from Arusha to Namanga border crossing into Kenya. After migration formalities you will change the car for Kenyan one then proceed to Amboseli National Park. Here you will see a spectacular view of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Take part in an exciting game drive in the mid-morning and also afternoon. The combination of scenery, people and animals is what makes this park fascinating! Beautifully situated at the foot of the towering Kilimanjaro, is the home of the brightly painted Maasai tribe. You may be able to see lion, cheetah, spotted hyena and wild dog, as well as the buffalo, zebras and herds of elephant. All these animals come to drink at the water holes consisting of small lakes or muddy bonds filled by the melting snows of Kilimanjaro. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at Kibo Safari Camp.
- Main destination: Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Kibo Safari Camp. Luxury tented camp located inside Amboseli NP
- Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water during game drive (Other drinks not included)
Day 13: Amboseli National Park-Full Day Game Drive:
Amboseli National Park is renowned for its huge elephant herds. Africa’s highest Mountain – Mt Kilimanjaro sits on the upper slopes of Amboseli National park. Mt. Kilimanjaro’s snow white peak lies across the border in Tanzania. Seeing the Kilimanjaro hovering above the clouds in the early hours of the morning is quite an experience. Apart from the Elephants, Amboseli is a home to; buffalos, black rhinos, zebras, wildebeest and other plain animals. Early morning game drive before breakfast explore the park before it gets hot another chance to have a view of the famous Mt. Kilimanjaro the roof of Africa, not forgetting the dense concentration of wild animals that the reserve can offer. Another short game drive after breakfast. Relax after lunch for it is extremely hot in there. Around 1600hours have another game drive till late in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at Kibo Safari Camp.
- Main destination: Amboseli National Park. (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Kibo Safari Camp. Luxury tented camp located inside Amboseli NP
- Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water during game drive (Other drinks not included)
Day 14: Amboseli National Park-Tsavo East National Park:
After breakfast you will check-out and drive from Amboseli National Park to Tsavo East National Park. This is one of our favorite parks in Kenya, and we love it most of all for its elephants (often caked in Tsavo’s red dust) and its wild lions: the male lions of Tsavo are famous for not having manes. Many visitors see cheetahs hunting out on the eastern plains of the park, and you might also see gerenuk, Somali ostrich and the very hard-to-find hirola antelope. Almost 500 different species of bird have been seen in the park. Game drive till late afternoon the drive to your hotel arrival for dinner and your overnight stay at the Ashnil Aruba Hotel.
- Main destination: Tsavo East National Park (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Ashnil Aruba Hotel. Mid-Range lodge located inside Tsavo East National Park
- Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water during game drive (Other drinks not included)
Day 15: Tsavo East National Park-Full Day Game Drivies:
After breakfast then you will be doing morning and afternoon game drives. This together with Tsavo West National park forms one of the largest National Parks in the world. Divided by the Nairobi-Mombasa Highway, it lies to the East of the Road while Tsavo West lies to the West of the road. You will be able to see dust-red elephants and with some luck you may be able to see a breathtaking experience where you see the large mammals wallowing, rolling and spraying each other with the blue waters of the Galana River. Tsavo East also hosts the longest lava flow in the world measuring 300KM in length forming the Yatta Plateau. This attracts migrating birds from all over the world making it an ornithological Paradise. Historically, it is the home of the Tsavo man-eaters where more than 130 white workers were eaten by lions during the construction the Kenya-Uganda railway. A series of rapids named after a European explorer who passed through the area on his way to Uganda, Captain Lugard foams into crocodile infested pools making it an unforgettable sight. Evening dinner and your overnight stay at the Ashnil Aruba Hotel.
- Main destination: Tsavo East National Park (Kenya)
- Accommodation: Ashnil Aruba Hotel. Mid-Range lodge located inside Tsavo East National Pak
- Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water during game drive (Other drinks not included)
Day 16: Tsavo East National Park-Nairobi City:
Pre-breakfast game drive so as to try and catch a glimpse of the early predators. After breakfast proceed with your game viewing drives till mid-morning then drive to Nairobi City arrival in the afternoon then drop at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your international flight back home.
- Main destination: Nairobi City (Kenya)
- Accommodation: End of tour (no accommodation)
- 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 water during game drives (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