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Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

  • You'll be collected from the airport.
  • Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Day 1

Overnight in Nairobi

Overnight in Nairobi

On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by our office representative and driver guide. After safari briefing, you will traverse the busy city through the busy highway to a Nairobi hotel for overnight on bed and breakfast - Ibis Styles Hotel (B&B).

Main Destination:
Nairobi (City, Kenya)
Accommodation:
Ibis Styles Nairobi Westlands Hotel
  • Mid-range hotel located in Nairobi (City, Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
  • Drinks not included

Day 2

The Famous Mt Kenya Glimpse

The Famous Mt Kenya Glimpse

Depart in the morning after breakfast for Mt Kenya. Along the way you will see both the urban and rural settlements showing the blend of cultures in Kenya. On arrival, check in and enjoy a late afternoon view from your treetop lodge balcony. Mount Kenya is an extinct volcano, often referred to as the 'Place of Light'. Situated in central Kenya, just north of the equator, Mount Kenya lies within the Mount Kenya National Park. It has a trio of summits. The highest, Batian, is 17,057ft (5199m), making it the tallest peak in Kenya, and the second highest across the entire African continent. The mountain’s other two summits, Nelion and Lenana, stand at 17,021ft (5188m) and 16,355ft (4985m), respectively. Together, these snow-capped mountains tower over the surrounding savannah landscape, stony and silent. Meals and Overnight at Serena Mountain Lodge.

Main Destination:
Mount Kenya (Kenya)
Accommodation:
Mountain Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located inside Mt Kenya (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 3

The Land of Flamingoes

The Land of Flamingoes

The Rift Valley is the greatest valley in the world, a continental fault system that stretches from Dead Sea all the way to Mozambique. Lake Nakuru is a bird paradise with hundreds of thousands of pink flamingoes and pelicans, Rhinos, (White and Black) Buffalo, Lion, the rare bushbuck are also present park.

Main Destination:
Lake Nakuru National Park (Kenya)
Best Time To Visit June to February (Best for wildlife viewing; little rain)
High Season July to February (The park gets very busy)
Best Weather June to February (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Nakuru NP

GiraffeCommon
BuffaloCommon
ZebraCommon
HippoCommon
Black RhinoOccasional
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LionOccasional
LeopardOccasional
HyenaOccasional
WildebeestVery Rare
Accommodation:
Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located inside Lake Nakuru NP (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 4

Miles of Magnificent wilderness

Miles of Magnificent wilderness

Depart after breakfast for Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Maasai Mara is the northern part of the Serengeti, one of Kenya's most favored game-viewing areas. Arrive in time for lunch at the camp. You will then have a game drive in the afternoon to see the sundowner hoping to see Lions in large prides, Elephants, buffalos, zebras and numerous plain animals.

Maasai Mara Game Reserve covers 700 Square miles of magnificent wilderness. It is the Africa of the imagination; endless reaches of acacia-dotted grasslands studded with hazy hills. It’s the land of African legend: Lion are abundant throughout the park, as are the elephants, giraffes, and a variety of gazelle species and zebra. Cheetah and leopard are also regularly seen and, less commonly, rhino. The annual wildebeest migration, one of nature's few remaining wildlife spectacles, occurs in the Mara where the big animals and their predators are to be present in abundance during this time frame of your trip.

Main Destination:
Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
Best Time To Visit June to October (For general wildlife viewing) and August to October (For wildebeest migration)
High Season June to October and December to March
Best Weather June to October (Sunny, but not too hot)

Wildlife in Masai Mara NR

ElephantCommon
GiraffeCommon
LionCommon
CheetahCommon
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
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BuffaloCommon
HippoCommon
HyenaCommon
LeopardOccasional
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Mara Serena Safari Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 5

The Land of the Big 5

The Land of the Big 5

A full day in the Mara with an option of doing an early morning game drive before breakfast and an afternoon game drive or depart for a full day game viewing with picnic lunch that will take you to the Mara River to see the hippos and the crocodiles. You can also opt to take a balloon safari which will be followed by a champagne breakfast in the bush (extra cost). An optional visit to a Maasai Boma (homestead) will reveal their outstanding culture and customs (extra cost).

Main Destination:
Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
Accommodation:
Mara Serena Safari Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 6

Out of Africa Breakfast

Out of Africa Breakfast

Balloon Safari: Depending on where you are staying, you will be picked up very early in the morning and transferred by a 4x4 jeep to the launching site at 0500hrs. Here you will meet your pilot, receive a briefing and watch the inflation of your balloon. It’s a dawn take off, rising as the sun rises and floats in whichever direction the winds of the morning takes you. Your pilot can precisely control the altitude of your balloon: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great photographic opportunities of the wildlife below. At other times he will ascend to 1000ft or more to see the enormity and wonderful panorama of the Maasai Mara. From time to time the pilot must put more heat into the balloon with the powerful whisper burners. In between these burns, there is silence apart from the natural sounds below.

Main Destination:
Masai Mara National Reserve (Kenya)
Accommodation:
Mara Serena Safari Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 7

The Magical Serengeti

The Magical Serengeti

Depart after breakfast and drive to Kenya Tanzania border point of Isebania / Sirari with picnic lunch boxes. After the cross border formalities you change the driver guide and the vehicle to a 4x4 land cruiser and a Tanzanian guide. Thereafter embark on a drive to Central Serengeti, with game viewing drives en route. In the evening drive to the Lodge.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Best Time To Visit January to February and June to October (Different areas are best at different times)
High Season July to March (The Seronera area is crowded)
Best Weather June to October (Little to no rainfall)

Wildlife in Serengeti NP

ElephantCommon
LionCommon
CheetahCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
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GiraffeCommon
HippoCommon
HyenaCommon
LeopardOccasional
Black RhinoVery Rare
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Lobo Wildlife Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located inside Serengeti NP (Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 8

Sound of The African Bush

Sound of The African Bush

Following breakfast, an early sunrise will find us on the safari roads of the park, searching for the largest herds of migrating wildebeest. Our driver-guide will choose our route based on his extensive knowledge of the park and the local conditions. Careful planning and local knowledge will allow us to make the most of the trip, which will hopefully include a chance to witness the most amazing animal spectacle in the world, the wildebeest migration. That evening, we will return to our accommodation with more amazing experiences and enjoy the exciting night sounds of the African bush.

Main Destination:
Serengeti National Park (Tanzania)
Accommodation:
Lobo Wildlife Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located inside Serengeti NP (Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 9

A world heritage Site

A world heritage Site

Breakfast at the Camp dining facilities and along with picnic lunch boxes, drive to Ngorongoro Conservation, arriving in time for afternoon crater tour. We spend the rest of the day descending the 2000ft walls of the crater (a World Heritage Site) and exploring this home to nearly 25,000 animals. At this time, we take picnic lunches with us, in order to spend as much time down there as possible. This caldera, formed by a volcano sinking, hosts a unique cross-section of ecosystems, from Soda Lake to savannah and is home to almost every major species of African mammals. Later in the day, our time will run out and we will ascend on the steep slopes, back to the rim of this world famous crater. From here, it is only 30 minutes to our lodge, which bears one of the greatest possible vistas in the world -a sight truly to behold. Once we settle in and had a great sunset cocktail on the terraces, we gather for a very enjoyable dinner and save ourselves.

Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
Best Time To Visit June to October (Wildlife viewing is best)
High Season Most of the year – July to March (Expect crowds)
Best Weather June to October (Rainfall is little to none)

Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater

LionCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
HyenaAbundant
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ElephantCommon
HippoCommon
LeopardOccasional
Accommodation:
Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 10

A scenic Gem

A scenic Gem

After breakfast, collect picnic lunch boxes and drive to Lake Manyara National Park for game viewing drives. Stretching for 50km along the base of the rusty-gold 600-metre high Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara is a scenic gem, with a setting extolled by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest I had seen in Africa”. The compact game-viewing circuit through Manyara offers a virtual microcosm of the Tanzanian safari experience. From the entrance gate, the road winds through an expanse of lush jungle-like groundwater forest where hundred-strong baboon troops lounge nonchalantly along the roadside, blue monkeys scamper nimbly between the ancient mahogany trees, dainty bushbuck tread warily through the shadows, and outsized forest hornbills honk cacophonously in the high canopy. Large buffalo, wildebeest and zebra herds congregate on the grassy plains, as do giraffes – some so dark in coloration that they appear to be black from a distance.

Main Destination:
Lake Manyara National Park (Tanzania)
Best Time To Visit June to October (Easier to spot animals)
High Season July to March (The northern section gets crowded)
Best Weather June to October (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP

ElephantCommon
GiraffeCommon
BuffaloCommon
ZebraCommon
HippoCommon
Show more
LionOccasional
HyenaOccasional
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Lake Manyara Wildlife Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located on the escarpment above Lake Manyara NP (Tanzania)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 11

Finest Wildlife Experience

Finest Wildlife Experience

Amboseli National Park offers one of the finest wildlife-viewing experiences in Kenya and Africa at large. The park lays immediately north-west of Mount Kilimanjaro, on the border with Tanzania. The Park stretches over an area of 392 square km, and forms part of the much larger 3,000 sq km Amboseli ecosystem. Amboseli and the neighboring areas are mainly settlement areas of the Maasai Warriors. The park is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to concentration of free-ranging elephants and best view of Mount Kilimanjaro. Amboseli is a home to different mammals and over 425 birds’ species which include; Elephants, Buffalos, Cheetahs, Lions, Zebra, Jackals, Hyenas, Wildebeests, Baboons, Oryx, Gerenuk, Impala and Grant’s gazelle.

Main Destination:
Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
Best Time To Visit June to October and January to February
High Season December to March and July to October (Busy)
Best Weather June to September and January to February (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Amboseli NP

ElephantAbundant
GiraffeCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
HippoCommon
Show more
HyenaCommon
LionOccasional
CheetahOccasional
LeopardRare to None
Accommodation:
Amboseli Sopa Lodge
  • Mid-range lodge located just outside Amboseli NP (Kenya)
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • Drinks not included

Day 12

Departure

Departure

After breakfast, you will depart for Nairobi arriving in time for lunch (own arrangement). Later on depending on your flight timing, you will be transferred to the airport in good time to catch your flight back home.

Main Destination:
Nairobi (City, Kenya)
Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)
  • Drinks not included

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

  • Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
  • You'll be dropped off at the airport.
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