Welcome to Kenya!
On arrival into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, clear immigration, collect your bags, and proceed through customs to the arrivals hall. Here you will be welcomed by a representative who will assist you with you luggage to the vehicle. You will then be transferred to your accommodation. Check in and spend one night at Sarova Stanley Hotel with breakfast included.
This morning breakfast please your guide in reception at the agree time. Depart with your guide and fellow travellers to Lake Nakuru with a brief stop at the Rift valley view point. On arrival you will have some time to freshen up before lunch and this afternoon depart on a game drive. Some of the interesting places to visit include the baboon cliff, the lion hill and the Mau escarpment. The park is one of the best game viewing parks with various animal species including prides of lion, Cape buffalo, waterbucks, wart hogs, the endangered Rothschild giraffes, the black & white Rhino, the Burchell’s zebra, impalas, and the elusive leopard among many others. Over 300 bird species have been recorded here too. Lake Nakuru National Park is one of the best places to see the endangered black and white Rhino. Enjoy dinner and overnight at the Lodge.
Spend one night at Mbweha Safari Camp including all meals.
After an early morning breakfast depart by road to the Masai Mara National Reserve, offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. Arrive camp to a very warm welcome for lunch and some leisure time. This afternoon is the moment you have been longing for – depart on an exciting game viewing drive in the Mara plains. The Rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard,cheetah,the spotted & stripped hyena, the rhino, topi, burchelle’s zebra, the Masai giraffe among many others. The Mara game reserve is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve….. For a long time, Mara Game Reserve has stubbed her authority as the ‘granary’ of wildlife in Kenya. Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
You have two nights at Tipilikwani Luxury Tented Camp including all meals.
Spend the next day exploring the Mara with your guide and fellow travellers.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Balloon Safari over the Mara plains followed by a champagne breakfast or visit a traditional Masai Manyatta (off the beaten track) and experience the culture of this world famous community. The Masai still live as they did for centuries -interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as you learn about their customs and traditions.
Optional activities at an extra cost.
After an early breakfast depart with picnic lunch boxes via the Isebania and Sirari border where your guide will help you through the immigration procedures then continue into Tanzania. Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometres, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park, and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals. You arrive at your lodge in the early evening, in time for check in, dinner and overnight.
Spend one night at Serengeti Sopa Lodge in a single room including all meals.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with a champagne breakfast.
Enjoy a full day in the Serengeti with game-viewing drives. Hundreds of predators roam the vast savannah plains. We have a high density of cheetahs in the south. Serengeti is also home to hundreds of bird species; among them the out-sized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird, the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with breakfast. Please note, optional activity at extra cost.
After breakfast, you depart to Ngorongoro. You will stop enroute stop at the Olduvai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn on human evolution. Enjoy an onsite talk on the interpretation of the gorge by the resident guide. You arrive at your crater rim lodge to a warm welcome, check in, and then lunch. This afternoon relax, and from your lodge enjoy the breathtaking spectacular views of the crater below. Spend two nights at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge including all meals.
Ngorongoro Crater has the largest unbroken caldera in the world. It has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Eight million years ago, the Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano but its cone collapsed, forming the crater that is 610 metres deep, 20 kilometres in diameter, and covers an area of 311 square kilometres. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds. With the exception of impala and topi (due to fierce competition with the wildebeest) and the giraffe (because there is not much to eat at tree level), almost every species of African plains mammal lives in the crater, including the endangered black rhino, and the densest population of predators in Africa. The birdlife, which includes the flamingo, is mainly seasonal, and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.
After breakfast we descend some 610 metres into the crater, which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise, for a full day of game drive with picnic lunch. Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world teams with an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Prides of lions, herds of Cape buffalo, impala, Thompson gazelles, rhino, giraffes, golden & black-backed jackal, zebra, cheetah, leopard and the spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plains. Unmatched for its natural variety & breathtaking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exist inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area, also a home to hundreds of bird species, refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor. Return late afternoon to your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Enjoy your breakfast then depart to Tarangire National Park, arriving at your lodge for lunch. This afternoon, depart on an exciting game viewing drive in this area dotted with majestic baobab trees, stately eland antelopes among other game. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry Tarangire river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It's the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed. Enjoy dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Spend one night at Tarangire Sopa Lodge including all meals.
Enjoy an early morning breakfast then depart via the Namanga border to Amboseli National Park. You arrive at the lodge to a very warm welcome, check in, and then lunch. Afterward, you will depart on an afternoon game viewing drive. Amboseli is home to lions, buffalo, cheetah, giraffe, baboon, gazelle hippo and wildebeest among many others. It is also an ornithological paradise with over 400 species of birds, flora and fauna and some of the most soul searing views in Africa. Enjoy dinner and overnight at your lodge.
Spend two nights at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge including all meals.
Amboseli National Park provides the classic Hollywood image of Africa. Set in rolling savannah scenery, it is dwarfed by the presence of the pink-tinged, snow-capped peak of Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest free-standing volcanic mountain in the world and topped by one fifth of all the ice in Africa. Against this magnificent backdrop roam vast herds of 'giant' elephant accompanied by a kaleidoscope of other fabulous beasts - lion, buffalo, cheetah, giraffe, baboon, gazelle hippo and wildebeest. Amboseli National Park is also an ornithological paradise with over 400 species of birds, all manner of reptilian, flora and fauna and some of the most soul-searing views in Africa.
Enjoy a full day in Amboseli with an early morning game drive return for breakfast, thereafter the rest of the morning is at leisure. Enjoy lunch and some leisure time, before later in the afternoon heading out for yet another game viewing drive on this majestic backdrop to one of Kenya's most spectacular displays of wildlife - lion, elephant, leopard, rhino, cheetah, buffalo and hosts of plains' game. Afterward, return for dinner and overnight.
After an early breakfast, it's time to check out and head off on your last trail of the African Savannah as you transfer back to Nairobi. Tonight you will be a guest of the Manji Family at their residence for drinks and dinner before being transferred to the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your homebound flight.
Please note many of our guests require another night in Nairobi due to departure flight times. We can add that in later once we finalise your full itinerary!
