Kenya-Tanzania combined Safaris (3)
Day 1: Nairobi - Samburu
Transfer after breakfast for Samburu National Reserve. It offers unique vistas of rounded, rugged hills and undulating plains. The mix of wood and grassland with riverine forest and swamp home to a wide variety of animal and birdlife, Buffalo Springs records over 365 species of bird. Game viewing and visibility is excellent: Reticulated Giraffe, Grevy’s Zebra, elephant, oryx, Somali Ostrich, hippo, crocodile, gerenuk, buffalo, lion, leopard, cheetah and hyena. Arrive in time for your hot lunch. Evening game drive.
Accommodation: Full board at Samburu Sopa Lodge.
Meals: Dinner
Day 2: Samburu
Full day of game viewing at Samburu National Reserve with your private safari land cruiser and safari guide.
Accommodation: Full board at Samburu Sopa Lodge.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Samburu - Aberdares
Enjoy your early morning breakfast at Samburu National Reserve. Depart after your morning breakfast for Aberdares to arrive in time for your hot lunch at your hotel. Abounding with wildlife, unfettered by the more rigorous strictures of the Kenyan National Parks and designed to offer a charming blend of under canvas ambiance and uncompromising luxury, it has long been the preferred retreat of wilderness and safari lovers alike. One of only four private game reserves in Kenya.
Accommodation: Full board at Aberdare Country Club.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: Aberdares - Lake Nakuru - Lake Naivasha
Depart after breakfast for Lake Nakuru National Park. The park is home to warthogs, waterbuck, buffaloes, reedbucks, and the occasional leopard. White and black rhinos were introduced to the park some years ago and you may find white rhino at the southern end. The park has also retained its reputation as an ornithologists' delight with more than 400 species of bird found here. Arrive for your hot lunch. Enjoy your afternoon game drive at Nakuru National Park. Transfer in the evening to Lake Naivasha for overnight.
Accommodation: Full board at Panaroma Resort.
Meals: Dinner
Day 5: Lake Naivasha - Masai Mara
Boat rides can be arranged by your guide at a minimal rate. Depart with picnic lunch boxes after your morning breakfast and transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve. It is probably the most famous and most visited reserve in Kenya. It offers breathtaking views (seen in the film "Out of Africa" much of which was filmed here) an extraordinary density of animals including the "Big Five" and many varieties of plains game. Enjoy your en route game viewing at Masai Mara National Reserve.
Accommodation: Full board at Mara Leisure Tented Camp.
Meals: Dinner
Day 6 & 7: Masai Mara
Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Masai Mara Game Reserve with your private safari land cruiser and safari guide.
Accommodation: Full board at Mara Leisure Tented Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8: Masai Mara - Serengeti
Depart after your early morning breakfast for Serengeti via the isebania/sirare border. This will include normal border crossing formalities to take only a few minutes. This is drive will take up to 8 hours through rough road. Serengeti National Park is probably the most famous and most visited reserve in Tanzania and it's also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya's Masai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems, and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering. Enjoy your en route game drive at Serengeti plains.
Accommodation: Full board at Katikati Tented Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 9 & 10: Serengeti
Ask your guide to take you for a full day of game viewing at Serengeti plains.
Accommodation: Full board at Katikati Tented Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 11: Serengeti - Ngorongoro
Enjoy your early morning game drive at Serengeti, transfer after your game for Ngorongoro via the Olduvai Gorge where it’s believed the cradle of mankind were found. The Ngorongoro Crater is often called "Africa's Eden" and the "8th Natural Wonder of the World", a visit to the crater is a main draw card for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater's ridge, tall Masaai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries. Descend to the rim of the crater for your game.
Accommodation: Full board at Tloma Lodge.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 12: Ngorongoro - Tarangire
Depart after breakfast for Tarangire National Park. Day after day of cloudless skies. The fierce sun sucks the moisture from the landscape, baking the earth a dusty red, the withered grass as brittle as straw. The Tarangire River has shrivelled to a shadow of its wet season self. But it is choked with wildlife. Thirsty nomads have wandered hundreds of parched kilometres knowing that here, always, there is water. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It''s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed. Enjoy your afternoon game drive till late evening.
Accommodation: Full board at Burunge Tented Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 13: Tarangire - Lake Manyara
Depart after breakfast for Lake Manyara National Park. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views. Located on the way to Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, Lake Manyara National Park is well worth a stop in its own right. Its ground water forests, bush plains, baobob strewn cliffs, and algae-streaked hot springs offer incredible ecological variety in a small area, rich in wildlife and incredible numbers of birds. Enjoy your evening game drive around the lake.
Accommodation: Full board at Migunga Tented Camp.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 14: Lake Manyara - Nairobi
Transfer after your morning breakfast for Nairobi.
Accommodation: End of tour (no accommodation)
Meals: Breakfast.
Safari price Includes:
- Transport on custom made 8 seater tour van ideal for game viewing and photography
- Full board accommodation whilst on safari
- Accommodation in double/triple room
- All park entrance fees to include government taxes
- Service of an English speaking professional driver/guide
- All game drives as detailed in the itinerary Complimentary return airport transfers
- Bottled water whilst on safari
- Start and end in Nairobi.
- Personalized service
Safari price excludes:
- Tips
- Laundry
- Beverages/Drinks
- International flights
- Visas
- Items of a personal nature
- Any other extras not detailed in
- Hotel accommodations in Nairobi before and after the safari
Day 1: Nairobi - Lake Nakuru
Transfer to Lake Nakuru which covers 180 sq. km. The park is home to warthogs, waterbuck, buffaloes, reedbucks, and the occasional leopard. White and black rhinos were introduced to the park some years ago and you may find white rhino at the southern end. The park has also retained its reputation as an ornithologists’ delight with more than 400 species of bird found here. Arrive in time for your hot lunch at the hotel. Enjoy your game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park.
Accommodation: Full board at Flamingo Hill Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 2: Lake Nakuru - Masai Mara
Proceed after your morning breakfast for Lake Naivasha. Boat rides can be arranged at minimal extra cost. Transfer after your ride to Masai Mara National Reserve. On clear days, the Mara offers fantastic orange tinted sunsets and you will definitely want to capture this moment while sipping on a sundowners back at your lodge.
The Mara reserve is 1510 sq km of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers. Wherever you go in the Mara you will see a frequent amount of wildlife such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos also exist 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 are still reasonably common.
Accommodation: Full board at Mara Leisure Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Masai Mara
Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Masai Mara using your Private 4 x 4 land cruiser. Balloon Safaris can be arranged payable in our office. The ultimate action here is without doubt the annual wildebeest exodus in July and August when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of lusher grass before turning south again in October.
Accommodation: Full board at Mara Leisure Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: Masai Mara - Serengeti
Transfer after your morning breakfast for Serengeti National Park. Serengeti National Park is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems, and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering. Enjoy your en route game drive at Serengeti National Park.
Accommodation: Full board at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: Serengeti National Park
Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Serengeti National Park with your Private safari land cruiser till late in the evening. Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th world wide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing.
Accommodation: Full board at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
Full day of game viewing at Serengeti National Park with your private safari land cruiser. As enduring as the game-viewing is the liberating sense of space that characterises the Serengeti Plains, stretching across sunburnt savannah to a shimmering golden horizon at the end of the earth. Yet, after the rains, this golden expanse of grass is transformed into an endless green carpet flecked with wildflowers. And there are also wooded hills and towering termite mounds, rivers lined with fig trees and acacia woodland stained orange by dust.
Accommodation: Full board at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7: Serengeti - Ngorongoro
Depart after your morning breakfast with your picnic lunch boxes via the Olduvai gorge where it is believed the cradle of mankind began. There after transferred to Ngorongoro Crater which is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World, a visit to the crater is a main draw card for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Masai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries. You will be transferred to your lodge. Descend to the rim of the crater for your game viewing.
Accommodation: Full board at Tloma Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8: Ngorongoro - Tarangire
Transfer after your morning breakfast to Tarangire National Park is probably one of the least visited of the northern Tanzanian game parks, and retains a real air of undiscovered Africa, particularly in the south of the park. Just two hours’ drive away from Arusha. It lies a little distance to the south east of Lake Manyara and covers an area of approximately 2,850 square kilometers. It is named after the Tarangire River that flows through the park. The swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the largest number of species in one habitat anywhere in the world; on drier ground, the Kori bustard – the heaviest flying bird – can be found. Enjoy your afternoon game drive till late in the evening.
Accommodation: Full board at Burunge Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 9: Tarangire - Amboseli
Depart after your morning breakfast for Amboseli via Arusha where you will make a stopover for your hot lunch. Transfer after lunch for Amboseli National Park and this will include normal border crossing formalities at Namanga border. Amboseli National Park is famous for its big game - elephants, lions and cheetahs are the main attractions - and for its great scenery beauty. Amboseli embodies five main wildlife habitats, plus a generally dry lake-bed - Lake Amboseli. These are open plains; extensive stands of yellow-barked acacia woodland; rocky, lava strewn thorn-bush country; swamps and marshes; and at the western end of the reserve, above Namanga, the massif of Ol Doinyo Orok rising to over 2,760m (8.300ft) and still for the most part zoologically unexplored.
Accommodation: Full board at Kibo Safari Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 10: Amboseli - Nairobi
Enjoy your early morning game drive. Depending with your international flight timings, transfer to Nairobi for your flight back home.
Accommodation: End of tour (no accommodation)
What’s included on the price of the safari
- Transport during safari game drives -using 4x4 landcruier Jeep
- Return flight from Mombasa -to Masai Mara -to Mombasa
- All applicable game Park Entrance fees.
- Finest accommodation offered as indicated in the itinerary.
- Three meals a day while on Safari.
- Airport picks up on arrival in Mombasa
- Professional Safari Guide/Driver.
- Guaranteed departures for two or more passengers booking this safari.
- Round trip transport from Nairobi to the designated National Park.Pre–tour itinerary document.
- Extensive and unlimited Game drives
What’s not included on the price of the safari
- Personal expense such as communication charges like emails, faxes, and phone calls
- Hot air balloon safaris
- Masai Village visit
- Drinks like sodas, water, beer and wines
- Gratuity for the driver guide, waiter
- Laundry
- The cost of obtaining visa
- Pre- tour accommodation which can be arranged on request.
Day 1: Nairobi - Arrival
A privately driven vehicle will provide you with a transfer between the hotel and airport. After your guide has loaded up your luggage you will be driven through Nairobi admiring some of the sights (time permitting). Your guide will brief you on your itinerary en-route.
Accommodation: Full board at the New Stanley Hotel
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 2: Masai Mara
This morning you'll meet up with your guide and head off to the Masai Mara. The drive will be about 5 to 6 hours. Head directly into the park for game viewing and then return to the camp for late check-in or check-in first and then head out for an afternoon game drive. Chat with your guide for their recommendation based on your arrival time and park hours.
Enjoy a box lunch while you travel (included in tour price). Head out this afternoon, accompanied by an experience tracker-guide, on an exciting game viewing adventure. Search some of the area`s wildlife hot-spots determined by your guide, as they`ve learned and now understand the games daily routines through tracking. Some wildlife is more difficult than others to spot, for instance the Leopard. These spotted cats blends almost seamlessly into the tall grass and shrubbery, and are even more challenging to spot up in their favorite hangout, the trees.
Accommodation: Full board at Mara Simba Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 3: Masai Mara
Just like the local wildlife, you’ll head out bright and early this morning, alongside an experienced tracker-guide for the day’s first game drive. The eco-diversity and sheer size of the Masai Mara Game Reserve provides the necessary requirements to house a wide range of animal species. The most recognized are known worldwide as the African Big 5, which includes the African Elephant, Cape buffalo, Rhinoceros, Leopard, and the King of the beasts, the Lion.
On today’s afternoon game drive, the choice is up to you: search for the Big 5 or expand your horizons to discover something different. Masai Mara not only has a rich mix of animals – it also has an incredible array of bird life with almost 450 different species.
Accommodation: Full board at Mara Simba Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 4: Masai Mara
Just like the local wildlife, you’ll head out bright and early this morning, alongside an experienced tracker-guide for the day’s first game drive. The eco-diversity and sheer size of the Masai Mara Game Reserve provides the necessary requirements to house a wide range of animal species. The most recognized are known worldwide as the African Big 5, which includes the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Rhinoceros, Leopard, and the King of the beasts, the Lion.
On today’s afternoon game drive, the choice is up to you: search for the Big 5 or expand your horizons to discover something different. Masai Mara not only has a rich mix of animals – it also has an incredible array of bird life with almost 450 different species.
Accommodation: Full board at Mara Simba Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 5: Masai Mara - Serengeti
Depart after your early morning breakfast for Serengeti via the isebania/sirare border. This will include normal border crossing formalities to take only a few minutes. This is drive will take up to 8 hours through rough road. Serengeti National Park is probably the most famous and most visited reserve in Tanzania and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. Enjoy your en route game drive at Serengeti plains.
Enhance your safari adventure in the comfort and serenity of Mbugani Camps, located in the famed Serengeti National Park. Whether you've experienced the wonder of the Serengeti before, or you are embarking on the voyage of your dreams, Mbugani Camps provides you with the perfect balance of natural surroundings and the comforts of home.
Accommodation: Full board at Mbalageti Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 6: Serengeti
This morning’s African adventure begins with an exploratory game drive through Tanzania’s oldest and most recognized National Park, the Serengeti. This location offers the most expansive game viewing in Tanzania. From predators to prey, great herds of grazing herbivores to tactically cunning packs of carnivores, life on the plains of the Serengeti can best be defined as a complete “circle of life.” A photographic dream unfolds before your eyes as giraffes and elephants feast on tasty shrubbery, whilst impalas, gazelles and buffalos dance carefully through the plains as to not become the latest meal for on-looking lions, cheetahs and hyenas.
Spend the day taking in the spectacle of the famous wildebeest migration. This annual migration through the Serengeti and Masai Mara is one of the safari highlights of Africa.
Accommodation: Full board at Mbalageti Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 7: Serengeti - Ngorongoro
This African journey continues as you board a privately driven vehicle, accompanied by a local tracker-guide for your visit to the overwhelming large Ngorongoro Conversation Area. You’ll depart the Serengeti National Park grounds at a somewhat slower pace as to get in some more game-viewing. An optional stop at the Olduvlai Gorge is highly recommended, where at the Serengeti Welcome Centre you’ll have an opportunity to marvel at a panoramic view of the surrounding area from the lookout point.
The massive Olduvai Gorge or Oldupai Gorge is often referred to as “The Cradle of Mankind.” Beginning in the eastern Serengeti plains, the gorge is roughly some 48 kilometers long. Resulting from millions of years of natural erosion, this gorge boasts a steep-sided ravine that cuts and stretches its way through the Great Rift Valley along eastern Africa.
Accommodation: Full board at Rhino Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 8: Ngorongoro - Tarangire
Transfer after breakfast for Tarangire National Park. Probably is one of the least visited of the northern Tanzanian game parks, and retains a real air of undiscovered Africa, particularly in the south of the park. Just two hours’ drive away from Arusha. It lies a little distance to the south east of Lake Manyara and covers an area of approximately 2,850 square kilometers. It is named after the Tarangire River that flows through the park. The swamps, tinged green year round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the largest number of species in one habitat anywhere in the world; on drier ground, the Kori bustard – the heaviest flying bird – can be found. Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Tarangire National Park.
Accommodation: Full board at Burunge Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Day 9: Tarangire - Arusha - Nairobi
Depart after breakfast for Nairobi via Arusha where you will make a stopover for your hot lunch in a local restaurant. Proceed on to Nairobi arriving by 1600 HRS. Depending with your International flight, transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for check-in.
Accommodation: End of tour (no accommodation)
What’s included on the price of the safari
- Transport during safari game drives -using 4x4 landcruier Jeep
- Return flight from Mombasa -to Masai Mara -to Mombasa
- All applicable game Park Entrance fees.
- Finest accommodation offered as indicated in the itinerary.
- Three meals a day while on Safari.
- Airport picks up on arrival in Mombasa
- Professional Safari Guide/Driver.
- Guaranteed departures for two or more passengers booking this safari.
- Round trip transport from Nairobi to the designated National Park.Pre–tour itinerary document.
- Extensive and unlimited Game drives
What’s not included on the price of the safari
- Personal expense such as communication charges like emails, faxes, and phone calls
- Hot air balloon safaris
- Masai Village visit
- Drinks like sodas, water, beer and wines
- Gratuity for the driver guide, waiter
- Laundry
- The cost of obtaining visa
- Pre- tour accommodation which can be arranged on request.