Kenya & Tanzania Combined Tour

0730hrs: Pick up from your Nairobi hotel or Nairobi airport

We shall drive from Nairobi to Masai Mara. We shall arrive in time for an appetizing lunch and afternoon game drive, a good time for some sightseeing before retiring for the night at the respective camp/lodge.

Today shall be spent at the Masai Mara on unlimited game viewing drives.

(Opportunities for optional balloon ride excursion)

The Masai Mara ecosystem hosts the highest concentration of wild animals per sq km than any other game reserve in the region. Elephant, lion, cheetah, buffalo, antelope, warthog, hyena and many more animal species may be seen. Simply stated, the Masai Mara is a one stop for game and scenery viewing.

You shall carry a picnic lunch and spend entire day on game viewing drives for maximum wildlife sightings.

Pre-morning game drive and afterwards have a late breakfast followed by our checkout to Lake Nakuru National park, quite often referred to as the "pink blanket lake" and is one of the worlds famous location for the greatest bird spectacle on earth. A myriad of fuchsia pink flamingos whose numbers are legion often more than a million maybe two. The lake is also rich in other bird life the most popular being the two fish eating birds, pelicans and cormorants. There are over 400 resident species on the lake.

We’ll arrive in time for lunch followed by afternoon safari activities. Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge.

We shall start the day with an early breakfast followed by morning game drive to L. Nakuru National Park where you are going to see a lot of flamingoes and other birds. You also have the chance to see the black and white rhino. Afterwards we’ll depart for Amboseli, arriving for lunch followed by afternoon safari activity.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge.

Today will be an epic day for some photographic sessions. As you’ll quickly discover, we like to get up early on while on safari – it’s the most peaceful time of the day when the gentle morning light softly plays on the fields and the wildlife edges out looking for its breakfast.

We’ll enjoy our breakfast and then set off in our 4 x 4, exploring for more elephants but also lions, cheetah, fox, monkey, baboon, zebra, and more.

Amboseli is known for its profuse and varied birdlife. Your guide will be looking to spot egrets, black serval cat, crake, heron, falcon, eagle, and Egyptian goose by the lakes and marshes, dotting the park.

We might take a drive up Observation Hill, step out from our 4 x 4 and look about the park for buffalo, hippo, pelican, and of course, the many elephants throughout the park.

As the sun’s light begins to fade, we’ll turn again to great Kilimanjaro to look for its snowy summit peeking out from the clouds.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge.

Amboseli – Lake Manyara: (320 kms: 5-6 hrs drive with Stops)

Early pre-breakfast game viewing drive in search of the predators and grazers. Extra exit game viewing drive as you leave Amboseli.

Proceed on the cross-border drive into Tanzania. There shall be a stop for immigration formalities at the Namanga (Kenya / Tanzania) border town.

The scenic drive is via Maasai country, distinct climatic zones and social regions. Lunch shall be at the Arusha town of Tanzania.

Proceed to Lake Manyara for game viewing in search of the famous tree climbing lions and large flocks of flamingos. The Lake Manyara national park is small and scenic.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge.

Morning game drives at Lake Manyara National park, a shallow and scenic at the same time hosting thousands of flamingos at certain times of the year and has diverse vegetation ranging from savannah to marshes and acacia woodland, enabling a variety of wildlife habitats. Later on we’ll proceed to Serengeti national park arriving in the evening game drive enroute to the camp/lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

A full day game viewing drive as we explore this vast nature endowed wildlife reserve, options of morning and afternoon or full day game viewing sessions are available to you.

The annual wildebeest migration is Serengeti’s most famous attraction.

It is also home to a pride of its lions which have been fitted with radio-transmitter collars so that their movements may be tracked. Other wildlife you may see includes cheetah, zebra, giraffe, Thompson and Grant’s gazelle, Eland, Impala, Klipspringer, Hippo and Warthog.

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge.

After breakfast with picnic lunch proceed for a morning game drive, then depart the Serengeti with a game viewing drive en-route

There’s an optional stop at Olduvai Gorge, a river canyon cut a 100 metres deep through the volcanic soil of the Serengeti plains. Buried in the layers are hominids and remains of animals that lived and died more than 2 million years ago. The guides will give you on site information of the gorge.

Descend to the floor of the crater for game viewing in this unique caldera park. We shall look out for Rhino, Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Cheetah, Buffalo and Hippo. Later we ascend to the crater rim to catch a glimpse of the most magnificent sunset views in Africa from the crater rim!

Dinner and overnight at camp/lodge.

After an appetizing breakfast, we shall spend the morning experiencing some sunrise views from the crater rim. Depart for the Ngorongoro crater with your picnic lunch for a full day of tracking game in the crater floor. You will break for your picnic lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. All the big five may be seen. This huge caldera or collapsed volcano is 250 square kilometres and 600metres deep. Its spectacular setting and abundance of wildlife makes it one of the natural great wonders of the world -is referred to as the eighth wonder of the world or the Eden of Africa. Late afternoon drive back to Arusha bringing this epic safari to an end.