Trip Duration: 13 Days/12 Nights
Trip Summary: Nairobi/Samburu/Mount Kenya/Naivasha/Masai Mara/Serengeti/Ngorongoro/Manyara/Amboseli/Nairobi
Trip starts: Nairobi, Kenya
Trip ends: Nairobi, Kenya
Day 01 – Nairobi-Samburu
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 and transferred to Samburu National Reserve. 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.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Samburu Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 02 – Samburu
Enjoy your early morning and late evening game drive at Samburu National Park.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Samburu Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 03 – Samburu-Mount Kenya
Enjoy your early morning game drive at Samburu National Reserve. Transfer after your morning game drive for Mount Kenya to arrive in time for lunch at your luxurious tented camp.
A sheltered oasis, clustered around a waterhole and set in the pristine calm of its own private reserve, Sweetwaters Tented Camp is in a class of its own. 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, Sweetwaters excels in the provision of privileged seclusion and private game viewing.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Sweetwaters Tented Camp.
Day 04 – Mount Kenya-Naivasha
Depart after your morning breakfast for Naivasha. Located just beyond Lake Naivasha. Famous for its natural hot geysers, eagle and vulture breeding grounds, visitors have the choice of driving, walking, camping, cycling and rock climbing within the park. Horseback safaris can also be arranged.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Sopa Lodge.
Day 05 – Lake Naivasha-Masai Mara
Depart with picnic lunch boxes after your morning breakfast and transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve. 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 evenng game drive at Masai Mara National Reserve.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 06 – 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 07 – Masai Mara-Serengeti
Transfer from Masai Mara with your picnic lunch boxes for Serengeti National Park via sirare border, you will undergo normal border crossing immigration procedures.
There after transferred to Serengeti National Park which 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.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 08 – 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 Lodge or similar.
Day 09 – Serengeti-Ngorongoro
Game viewing at Serengeti. Depart after your moring breakfast for Ngorongoro Conservation Area. 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.
You will visit the Olduvai Gorge where anthropologists Louis and Mary Leakey made many significant discoveries, contributing to the theory that human life originated in Africa.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 10 – Ngorongoro-Lake Manyara
Descend to the rim of the crater for your half day of game viewing. Transfer with your picnic lunch boxes 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.
Full board accommodation is included in the tour price.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge or similar.
Day 11 – Lake Manyara-Amboseli
Depart after your morning breakfast for Amboseli National Park, you will have a stop at Arusha for your hot lunch at the New Arusha Hotel. There after you will be transferred to Amboseli via the 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.
Enjoy your en route 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 12 – Amboseli
Enjoy your early morning and 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 13 – Amboseli-Nairobi
Enjoy your early morning game drive at Amboseli National Park.
Depart after your breakfast for Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your inbound flight back.
