Kenya & Tanzania With Zanzibar

Duration

12 Nights / 13 Days

Tour Type

International

DAY 2 : Nairobi - Lake Nakuru

After breakfast, drive to Lake Nakuru and arrive in time for lunch. In the afternoon, enjoy a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park. Lake Nakuru National Park is regarded by avid birders' as the greatest world ornithological spectacle on Earth. The park is famous for its pink flamingos lining the lake shore. A spectacular afternoon game run is planned. The park is a sanctuary for the Black Rhino, White Rhino, and Rothschild Giraffe. Bird life include common species like the lesser and Greater Flamingoes, African fish Eagle, Tawny eagles, Green Wood Hoopoes, Cliff chats, Great White and pink-backed pelicans, and other intra-African migrants. Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru National Park.

DAY 3 : Lake Nakuru - Masai-Mara

After breakfast, depart for Masai Mara and drive via Narok (the major Masai administrative center) to one of the stellar events of our safari: the Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya's most precious wildlife sanctuary. This is a big-game country and has long been famed as one of Africa's greatest concentrations of game. Plains games are found here in staggering numbers, which in turn supports a tremendous predator population. During your afternoon game drive, you will have opportunities to see herds of impala, wildebeests, giraffes, elephants, topi, wild buffalo, warthogs, and ostriches, as well as lions, cheetahs, hyenas, and possibly the elusive leopard. Transfer to hotel; overnight at Mara.

DAY 4 : Masai-Mara

Your schedule today includes pre-breakfast and late afternoon game drives. Traveling across the savannah, you’ll rendezvous with the Mara residents- herds of Buffalo wildebeest, hartebeest, impala, and gazelle. The Masai Mara is the northern-most extremity of the great Serengeti ecosystem. Here, black Rhino browse among dense thorn bushes and herds of giraffe and elephant roam the woodlands. Large numbers of hippos gather to feed and swim in the Mara River. Boasting Kenya'’ largest predator population, the reserve is renowned of lion prides up to 20 strong. Nestled under canvas, tonight you’ll dream of all the wonders of Africa, Overnight at Mara.

DAY 5 : Masai-Mara - Serengeti National Park

After early breakfast and armed with picnic lunches drive to Isebania border to clear with customs, picnic lunch will be at one of the designated Picnic sites. Proceed to Serengeti National Park which is undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and the greatest concentration of plains game anywhere. With its wide-open spaces, bright blue skies and creature-filled landscape, over the next days we will discover why the fabled Serengeti typifies the dream of “Old Africa.” Large prides of lions laze in the long grasses; plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trumpet to each other across the plains, while giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland and the whole range of African wildlife present themselves in awe-inspiring numbers), Arrive for check in and a game drive en route with dinner and overnight at Serengeti NOTE: -If you take a Flight from Mara to Serengeti it will take Approx 4 to 5hrs to reach your lodge in Serengeti with all the time including the immigration & border crossing process, but will cut down on your road traveling.

DAY 7 : Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro

After breakfast, drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the largest intact caldera in the world. Its enduring charm stems from its overwhelming physical beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Check in at your lodge in time for lunch and spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure, Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro.

DAY 8 : Ngorongoro Conservation Area

After breakfast, proceed for a full-day crater tour with a packed lunch. Ngorongoro Crater is said to be one of the natural wonders of the world. A spectacular game haunt, the 102-square-mile crater is a perfect caldera, one of the largest on earth. Millions of years ago, a smoldering volcano collapsed, creating the crater and a home for thousands of animals amidst the many types of vegetation that had grown and been nourished over the centuries. Over 30,000 animals live here: prides of lion, elephants, leopards, cheetahsand giraffes; gazelles by the thousands; and multitudes of wildebeests. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro.

DAY 9 : Ngorongoro - Lake Manyara

After breakfast drive to Lake Manyara National Park for lunch and afternoon game drive. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem. The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience,overnight at Lake Manyara.