8 Days Kenya and Tanzania Safari

Overview

you will be picked up from the airport or the hotel by one of our representative and drive to Masai Mara, so named to mean the “spotted plains” in the Mara language.

Day 1 :

NAIROBI – MASAI MARA

06hrs you will be picked up from the airport or the hotel by one of our representative and drive to Masai Mara, so named to mean the “spotted plains” in the Maa language. This is home to the greatest concentration of large mammals and is widely recognized as Africa’s ultimate wildlife reserve. The park is the northern extension to the vast Serengeti-Mara ecosystem, famous for its annual migration of wildebeest. Arrive in time for lunch. Afternoon game drive until sunset in this spectacular place of breathtaking sceneries, never-ending plains and the most abundant variety of wildlife remaining anywhere in the world. The landscape is made up of rolling savannahs dotted with patchy shrubs and bush thickets.

Dinner and Overnight Enkorok Mara
Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner

Day 2 :

MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE

After breakfast you will spend the rest of the day in game watching on morning and afternoon game drives. Wildlife is abundant in the Reserve with the gentle grasslands ensuring that animals are never out of sight. Birds are prolific including immigrants, 450 bird species have been recorded among them 57 birds of prey. Every year the Mara plays host to the world’s greatest natural spectacle; The Great Wildebeest Migration from the Serengeti. The big cats - lion, leopard, and cheetah - follow the wildebeest, essentially their main source of food, into the Mara. So the Mara at this time is literally packed with wildlife, providing lucky visitors on safari with superb sightings of game.

Dinner and Overnight at Enkorok Mara Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 3 :

MASAI MARA – DRIVE TO SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK ISEBANIA BORDER

0600hrs: On this day the guests will have an early breakfast at the camp and then equip with picnic lunches and drive to Isebania border (Kenya/Tanzania Border). On arrival the guests will do the immigration formalities to enter Tanzania side. After the immigration formalities, the guests will meet with a Tanzanian Safari guide and bid farewell to a Kenyan Safari guide.

The guests will drive to Serengeti National Park and have their entrance on the western end of Serengeti at Ndabaka gate. Once in the park the guests will continue with en route game drive to the camp in central Serengeti for rest, dinner and overnight.

Dinner and Serengeti Pure tented camp (No Swimming pool)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 4 :

FULL DAY GAME DRIVE IN SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK

0700hrs: On this day the guests will have a full day game drive in Central Serengeti National Park with morning and afternoon game drives or full day game drives with picnic lunches from the camp.

The migratory and some resident wildebeest, which number over 1.5 million individuals, constitute the largest population of big mammals that still roam the planet. They are joined in their journey through the Serengeti Mara ecosystem by 200,000 plains zebras, 300,000 Thomson's gazelles and Grant's gazelle, and tens of thousands of Topi and Coke's hartebeests. Masai giraffe, waterbuck, impala, common warthog and hippopotamus are also abundant. Some rarely seen species of antelope are also present in Serengeti National Park, such as common eland, klipspringer, roan antelope, bushbuck, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx and dik diks.

Dinner and Serengeti Pure tented camp (No swimming Pool)
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 5 :

SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK – GAME DRIVE IN NGORONGORO CRATER (CRATER TOUR)

0700hrs: On this day, the guests will have their breakfast at the camp and then with en route game drive proceed to Ngorongoro for a crater drive. On arrival at the crater entry gate the guests will descend over 600 meters into the crater floor to view wildlife with picnic lunches. Supported by a year-round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area supports variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot without forgetting a large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually be seen here.

In the late afternoon, the guests will ascend from the crater and proceed to the lodge for rest, dinner and overnight.

Meals and overnight at Eileens Tree Inn
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 6 :

KARATU – DRIVE TO NAMANGA BORDER AND PROCEED TO KENYA

0700hrs: On this day, the guests will have breakfast at the hotel in Arusha and then drive to Namanga border with picnic lunches. On arrival, the guests will do the immigration formalities and bid farewell to a Tanzanian guide and then connect with a Kenyan guide. you will drive to Amboseli and arrive in time for lunch. After lunch relax and later on proceed for an afternoon game drive at Amboseli National Park. Amboseli is located in the lower slopes of mighty Mount Kilimanjaro – Africa’s highest – whose peak lies across the border in Tanzania. It is quite an experience to see Kilimanjaro hovering above the clouds in an early morning. The animal pictures arising against the dramatic backdrop of the mountain will thrill the photography enthusiast. Amboseli is renowned for its huge elephant herds. You are likely to see buffalo, black rhino, zebra, wildebeest and other plain animals. After the afternoon game drive, you will get back to the lodge for dinner.

Dinner and overnight at: Kibo safari Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 7 :

FULL DAY AT AMBOSLELI NATIONAL PARK

Morning game drive and later back to the lodge for breakfast. After breakfast you will spend the rest of the day with morning and evening game drive with picnic Lunch boxes. Later after the game drive you will be back at the lodge for dinner.

Dinner and overnight at: Kibo Safari Camp
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 8 :

DEPARTURE

After breakfast you will drive to Nairobi JKIA. Upon arrival in Nairobi you will have lunch on own account and later be dropped at the airport in time for the evening flight.

Cost Includes & Excludes