Up your chances of spotting the "big five" game animals on this 11-days tour of parks in Kenya and Tanzania. Travel with a guide to Maasai Mara, Serengeti, and more on this all-inclusive tour, which introduces you to local culture while you look for native wildlife. Your guide handles all planning and logistics for you so you can just focus on enjoying the tour.
Inclusions & Exclusions
✔ Lunch
✔ Biking Safari Hells Gate
✔ Dinner
✔ Breakfast
✔ Transport in a 4x4 landcruiser
✔ Pick up and drop off at your hotel within Nairobi
✔ Entry fee Kenya and Tanzania parks
✖ Tips
✖ Maasai Village at extra USD 25 per person(optional)
✖ Drinks e.g Alcohol
✖ Balloon Safari optional
Pickup Locations
1. Crowne Plaza Nairobi
2. Saggys Suites Hotel & Spa
3. Sky Hotel Nairobi
4. Kwetu Nairobi, Curio Collection By Hilton
5. ibis Styles Hotel Westlands Nairobi
6. Best Western Plus Westlands
7. Hilton Nairobi
8. PrideInn Azure Hotel Nairobi Westlands
9. Movenpick Hotel & Residences Nairobi
10. The Headquarters Inn
11. Radisson Blu Hotel, Nairobi Upper Hill
12. Jupiter Parklands Resort
13. Nelis Park Hotel
14. The Concord Hotel & Suites
15. City Airport Apartment Nairobi
16. The Panari Hotel Nairobi
17. Diamond Guest House
18. Lotos Inn & Suites
19. Parkside Hotel
20. Nairobi Transit Hotel
Additional Info: Clients should advise their pick up location within Nairobi city or airport. For airport pick up clients should advise their flight details.
Itinerary
Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi
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Nairobi
Arrive at Nairobi airport for a transfer to your hotel. Check in, relax and your guide will help you to orientate yourself on places to visit within Nairobi. You will be staying at the Heron hotel :http://www.theheronporticohotelnairobi.com/ on bed and breakfast.
Duration: 6 hours
Nairobi to Lake Naivasha/Hell’s Gate
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Hell's Gate National Park
Morning departure to Lake Naivasha. On arrival check in and thereafter go to Hell’s Gate National Park. You will also enjoy an evening boat on Lake Naivasha .
Lake Naivasha is famous for its high populations of hippos and birds and you are almost guaranteed to see one. The lake is a birder’s paradise as it is home to over 400 bird species.
Duration: 4 hours
Lake Naivasha/Hell’s Gate to Lake Nakuru
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Lake Nakuru
Breakfast at the hotel and then commence drive to Lake Nakuru national park with packed lunch for a full day game drive.
Lake Nakuru National park for a special sighting of the rare black rhino (an endangered species), one of the big five animals.
Duration: 4 hours
Lake Nakuru to Maasai Mara
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Maasai Mara National Reserve
After breakfast, start the safari to Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Arrive in the camp in time for lunch .Check in and have lunch. In the evening at 4:00pm depart for a sunset game viewing drive in the Maasai Mara National Reserve where chances of seeing the big cats is extremely high which lasts for 2 hours ,ends at 6:00pm.
Return back to the camp/lodge for a sumptuous buffet dinner ending with good time for resting.
Duration: 5 hours
Full Day Maasai Mara
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Maasai Mara National Reserve
Have breakfast at 6:30 am and at 7 am, leave for a full day game viewing in the park. On this day, spend the full day exploring Maasai Mara in search of the big five, hippos and Nile crocodile. Thereafter, go for picnic lunch in park under a croton tree shade overlooking the vast landscape of the park.
It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna – lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas and vultures.
Duration: 8 hours
Maasai Mara to Serengeti via Isebania Border
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Isibania
Breakfast at 6 am and then depart for Serengeti Through the Isebania border; Arrive border at Lunch time.30 Minutes process of getting visa. Hand over to our Tanzanian driver
Duration: 30 minutes
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In Tanzania we use 4 wheel drive land cruiser. evening game drive en route to the camp.
Duration: 5 hours
Full Day Serengeti
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Set out for the endless open plains and stunning skies of the Serengeti. A scenic four hour drive, full day game drive together with late evening game drive.
Serengeti National Park (Serengeti) is located in Tanzania, best known for its abundance of animals and the great wildebeest migration .The Serengeti stretches 14,763 (5,700 sq. miles) stretching North to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the West. Serengeti has the highest concentration of large mammals on this planet and its famous known for its 2,500 Lions the largest concentration found anywhere. The park also has over 518 identified bird species where some of them are Eurasian migrants who are present in the European winter months from October to April.
Duration: 8 hours
Serengeti to Ngorongoro
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Ngorongoro Crater
After a relaxing morning and an early lunch, proceed to Ngorongoro, where the night will be spent on the Crater Rim.
Duration: 6 hours
Ngorongoro to Lake Manyara
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Ngorongoro Crater
Early breakfast, proceed directly to the Crater floor for a full day crater tour with picnic lunches. Later proceed to Lake Manyara.
Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest caldera. The property has global importance for biodiversity conservation due to the presence of globally threatened species, the density of wildlife inhabiting the area, and the annual migration of wildebeest, zebra, gazelles and other animals into the northern plains. Extensive archaeological research has also yielded a long sequence of evidence of human evolution and human-environment dynamics, including early hominid footprints dating back 3.6 million years.
Duration: 6 hours
Lake Manyara to Arusha
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Lake Manyara
After breakfast, proceed for a full day game drive in beautiful Manyara National Park. See buffalo, giraffe, zebra and many more species, all set against the stunning backdrop of the Great Rift Wall. Proceed to Arusha for drop off.
Lake Manyara National Park is a protected area in Tanzania’s Arusha and Manyara Regions, situated between Lake Manyara and the Great Rift Valley. It is administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority, and covers an area of 325 km² including about 230 km² lake surface.
Duration: 6 hours
Arusha to Nairobi
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Nairobi
Breakfast and then catch your shuttle back to Nairobi to be dropped at the airport.
The first shuttle leaves at 7 am and arrives Nairobi around 2 pm. We have another shuttle for 9 am that arrives Nairobi at 4 pm and the last one for 11 am that arrive Nairobi at 5 pm
You will advise us where you want us to drop you.
Duration: 6 hours
Cancellation Policy
If you cancel at least 6 full day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a full refund.
If you cancel between 2 and 6 day(s) before the scheduled departure time, you will receive a 50% refund.
If you cancel within 2 day(s) of the scheduled departure, you will receive a 0% refund.
Additional info
• Infants are required to sit on an adult’s lap
• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Accommodation options are subject to availability during the time of booking
