Trip Duration: 09 Days/08 Nights
Trip Summary: Nairobi/Amboseli/Ngorongoro/Serengeti/Masai Mara/Naivasha/Nairobi
Trip starts: Nairobi, Kenya
Trip ends: Nairobi, Kenya
Day 01 – Nairobi-Amboseli
Nairobi, city, capital of Kenya, in Nairobi District, situated at an elevation of about 1660 m (about 5450 ft) in the highlands of the southern part of the country. Nairobi is Kenya's principal economic, administrative, and cultural center and is one of the largest and fastest growing cities in Africa.
The city also has a large tourist industry. You will be met on arrival depending with the time of your flight arrival you will be transferred to Amboseli. 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. Enjoy your evening game drive at Amboseli National Park.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 02 – Amboseli
Enjoy your early morning and late evening game drive at Amboseli National Park with your Private safari land cruiser and safari guide.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 03 – Amboseli-Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Depart after your morning breakfast for Ngorongoro Conservation Area, this will include normal border crossing immigration procedures at Namanga border. You will make a stop over at your Arusha hotel in time for your hot lunch. Arusha is the capitol of all Northern departures.
Transfer after lunch for the Ngorongoro Crater, 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.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 04 – Ngorongoro-Serengeti
Transfer from Ngorongoro Conservation Area with your picnic lunch boxes for your half day of game viewing. Descend to the rim of the crater with your private guide and jeep. Transfer after your game for Serengeti National Park via the Olduvai Gorge where anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey made many significant discoveries, contributing to the theory that human life originated in Africa.
Transfer to 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.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 05 – Serengeti
Enjoy your early morning and evening game drive at Serengeti National Park with your private safari land cruiser and safari guide.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena or similar.
Day 06 – Serengeti-Masai Mara
Depart with picnic lunch boxes after your morning breakfast and transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve. You will under go normal immigration procedures at the border. The Reserve is administered by the local county council. 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.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 07 – Masai Mara
Enjoy your early morning and evening game drive at Masai Mara Reserve Park with your private safari land cruiser and safari guide.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 08 – Masai Mara-Lake Nakuru-Lake Naivasha
Depart after your morning breakfast for Lake Nakuru. Lake Nakuru National Park is well known of Buffalos,
Flamingos make the beauty of Lake Nakuru National park which holds thousands of bird species. Transfer after your evening game drive back to Lake Naivasha Sopa lodge for dinner and overnight.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge or similar.
Day 09 – Naivasha-Nairobi
You will be transferred to Naivasha after your morning breakfast back to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your inbound flight back home.
