NAIROBI – LAKE NAKURU – LAKE NAIVASHA – MAASAI MARA – SERENGETI – NGORONGORO – LAKE EYASI – TARANGIRE – LAKE MANYARA – AMBOSELI – TSAVO WEST |
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.
0700hrs
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, our representative will welcome you to Kenya. You will then be transferred to your hotel. Overnight at Sarova Panafric (BB).
In the morning, our driver will pick you up from the hotel and will briefly go over the itinerary before departing for Lake Nakuru. The drive takes you past the Great Rift Valley to arrive in Nakuru in time for a mid-morning Game drive before breaking for lunch. Another late afternoon game drive provides an opportunity to experience one of the worlds’ largest ornithological bird spectacles . the pink flamingo. Dinner and overnight at Flamingo Hill Tented Camp (FB).
Lake Nakuru National Park is located 140km north-west of Nairobi and it is also one of Kenya’s finest rhino sanctuaries.
Arise for a pre-breakfast game drive. You return to your camp for breakfast and check out. You leave for close by Lake Naivasha one of the Riftvalleys. fresh water lakes. Enjoy your morning resting on the lovely hotel grounds of which is full of nature until time for lunch. In the afternoon enjoy a boat ride on the Lake. Dinner and overnight at Lake Naivasha Sopa Resort (FB).
After breakfast, you continue with your safari which takes you to the famous Maasai Mara Game Reserve. You will go past the Great Rift Valley and pass the Maasai plains and mountains formed as a result of the rift. You arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. Later in the afternoon your guide will take you for your evening game drive in this huge natural reserve. Dinner and overnight Masai Mara Simba Lodge (FB).
You will spend the next days exploring the Maasai Mara, Your safari guide/driver will take you to different parts of the game reserve, tracking down the lions, elephants, monkeys, different types of birds etc. Accommodation and all meals at Masai Mara Simba Lodge (FB).
Early morning breakfast and prepare for the journey to Isebania border where you will meet the Tanzania driver who will take over the safari. You can have lunch at Isebania on own account. You will be driven towards Serengeti to arrive in the late afternoon. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge (FB).
Enjoy your breakfast and set out on a full day game drive in the Serengeti plains. The lodge will provide you with lunchboxes. You return to the lodge in late afternoon. Dinner and overnight Serengeti Sopa Lodge (FB).
Officially, the park is 14,763km but there are no fences and the actual range stretches way past the borders ,into Kenya’s Maasai Mara, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the Maswa Game Reserve in the south-west, the Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas in the west and the Western Corridor.
Today you depart for Ngorongoro Conservancy with a lunch box from the camp to replace lunch missed on arrival day. There will be an optional enroute stop at Olduvai Gorge archaeological site . “The Cradle of Mankind”. In Olduvai Gorge Mary and Louis Leakey found fossilized remains of man’s oldest ancestors. All meals and accommodation Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge (FB).
Early morning descend to the crater for game viewing. Your guide will help you to order lunch box. Allowed time in the crater is maximum 6 hours. In the afternoon you can rest or go for a late game drive at the realm of the crater. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge (HB).
Ngorongoro Eighth wonder of the world. The crater floor is inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to east Africa including the black manned lion and the endangered black rhino.
Today you will be driven to Lake Eyasi. Spend the afternoon exploring the L. Eyasi surroundings. All meals and overnight at Tindiga Tented Camp (FB).
A soda (saline) lake in a hot & dry surrounding except for a few spot where clear springs of water running underground from Oldeani, emerge by the Lakeshore. The area is inhabited by the Hadzabes (Watindiga) a very ancient people who are believed to have lived here for more than 10,000 years. Their Language is vaguely similar to that of Bushman dwellers in Southern
Africa. Also in the area are the MBULU (Of Cushitic Origin) and Nilotic Maasai.
After breakfast, you depart for Lake Manyara – a park famed for its tree climbing lions. Depending on how you feel on arrival at this park, you can decide to start game drive before retiring to your hotel or first check in and go for your game drive later on. Accommodation and all meals at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge (FB).
Enjoy breakfast at leisure and head to Tarangire. There will be morning and afternoon Game drives in this hidden gem of northern Tanzania. Accommodation and all meals at Tarangire Sopa Lodge (FB).
Tarangire National Park, named after the Tarangire River covers an area of appr. 2,850 sq km and is probably one of the least visited parks of the northern Tanzanian game parks. This makes it retain a real air of undiscovered Africa.
After an early breakfast your driver will transfer you to Namanga, the town bordering Tanzania and Kenya. Your Kenya driver/guide will be waiting to welcome you back to Kenya and drive you to Amboseli – the best place to watch elephants against the backdrop of Mt. Kilimanjaro. All meals and accommodation at Amboseli Serena Lodge (FB).
Full day spent in Amboseli Park with a morning and an afternoon game drives. All meals and accommodation at Amboseli Serena Lodge (FB).
Enjoy your breakfast and embark on a three- hour scenic drive through the park to arrive at Tsavo West – Kenya’s largest and least explored National Parks. Accommodation and all meals will be at Kilaguni Serena Safari Lodge (FB).
Tsavo West National Park has various attractions like Mzima springs (with an underground observation tank where one is able to view life under water), The Shetani and Chaimu lava flows, Ngulia Rhino sanctuary
Today will check out after breakfast and head back to Nairobi. You have an opportunity to buy souvenirs upon arrival. You will be dropped at your hotel to freshen up and prepare for your transfer to the airport to board your outbound flight.