Kenya & Tanzania Wildlife Safari
Day 01
Arrival Transfer, Meet & Greet
Arrive at the airport and meet our representative who will escort you to your hotel and help you check-in.
Evening: Pickup & Transfer to Dubai Marina
- Jambo! You will be met off your flight at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport by our representative and transferred to your hotel for your overnight stay before launching your safari.
- Our representative will assist you with the check-in formalities. Take this opportunity to relax and recover from your flight. Accommodation on bed and breakfast meal plan.
- Beyond the bustle of Kenya’s most cosmopolitan metropolis, experience a haven of elegance and calm nestled among lush gardens at the edge of Nairobi's Central Park, Nairobi Serena Hotel merges business and leisure, art and gastronomy, and five-star style and service.
- This 5-star hotel in Nairobi is a celebration of sophistication and a rich fusion of design influences from Ethiopia, the Maghreb, West Africa, and East Africa. The warmth of a friendly smile, a superlative eye for detail, and gracious service at our Nairobi hotel envelop you from the moment you arrive.
- While the Nairobi skyline glitters just beyond your windows and the Central Business District is just a stroll away, you’ll feel worlds removed from urban distractions in this peaceful setting.
Day 02
NAIROBI- LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
- This morning we drive across the floor of the Great Rift Valley. We arrive at Lake Nakuru National Park in time for a mid-morning game drive. Enjoy lunch at Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge as we get ready for our afternoon short game viewing drive.
- Lake Nakuru is world famous also as a sanctuary for both black and white rhinos. Besides that, more than 400 species of birds can be seen in the park. Between the lake and the cliffs in the west, large pythons inhabit the dense woodland, and can often be seen crossing the roads or dangling from trees.
- Lake Nakuru is among Kenya’s finest national parks. Flanked by rocky escarpments, pockets of acacia forest, and at least one waterfall, the park is gorgeous year-round and is home to both black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, hippos, and endangered Rothschild giraffes.
- Overnight stay at Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge
Day 03
LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK -MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
- After an early breakfast this morning, we drive into the Masai Mara game viewing en route to arrive in time for Lunch at the lodge.
- After, unwind on your private verandah as you look out across the plains of the world-famous Mara.
- The Masai Mara Game Reserve is widely considered one of Africa’s greatest reserves, where the Masai community co-exists in harmony with the local fauna. The co-existence of man and wildlife makes this one of the world’s most unique wilderness regions. The Mara is home to a breathtaking array of life. The vast grasslands are teeming with herds of zebra, giraffe, gazelle, and topi. The acacia forests abound with monkeys and birdlife.
- Enjoy an afternoon game drive in this natural paradise, returning to the lodge for dinner & relaxing around the fire pit.
- Overnight stay at Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Day 04
THE MARA TRIANGLE
- Wake before dawn for the once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to witness a Masai Mara sunrise. After a quick cup of coffee, you'll head out into the park to watch as the sun sets fire to the savannah and the big cats take advantage of the morning cool to search for a meal.
- You'll then return to your lodge for a late breakfast before packing a picnic lunch and heading back out into the park for a day-long exploration of the Masai Mara.
- The Maasai Mara National Reserve is a land of breathtaking vistas, abundant wildlife, and endless plains. The quintessential Maasai Mara safari delivers many attractions, as the reserve is home to an excellent year-round concentration of game, including the more than two million wildebeest, zebras, and other antelopes that make up the famous Great Migration.
- Tonight as you go to rest, you will sleep to the music of Nature – of lions roaring and hyenas laughing, a reminiscence of the might of wildlife.
- Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Safari lodge.
Day 05
MASAI MARA - SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
- After an early breakfast this morning, you will be transferred to the border town of Isebania where we make our way into Tanzania and the Serengeti National Park. Your driver will assist you with customs and immigration formalities. After a picnic lunch, you rejoin your vehicle and continue to the Serengeti and into Serengeti Serena Safari lodge. Enjoy game viewing en route and arrive in time for dinner at the lodge.
- The Serengeti National Park, at 5,700 m2, is larger than the state of Connecticut. Protected since the 1940s, the area was made a national park in 1951 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Fantastic in its natural beauty and unequaled in its scientific value, this vast expanse of land is home to more than four million different types of animals.
- Large herds of antelope of every description can be found here: Patterson’s eland, klipspringer, dik-dik, impala, zebra, gazelle, waterbuck, topi, kongoni, Cotton’s oribi, grey bush duiker, roan antelope, buffalo, and wildebeest. Storks, flamingoes, vultures, fish eagles, and ostrich are among the nearly five hundred species of birds that also call the Serengeti home.
- Serengeti’s low vegetation means that game viewing is relatively easy. Small rivers, lakes, and swamps dot this magnificent landscape where animals roam in complete freedom. Vast herds of ungulates arrive from the Maasai Mara and begin to congregate in December, culminating in the calving of half a million wildebeest in early February. This southern portion of The Great Migration lasts from December until May when the herds head out of the Serengeti and into the Mara once more.
- Overnight stay at Serengeti Serena Lodge
Day 06
WORLD OF TIMELESS NATURAL WONDER
- We set out after an early breakfast amongst the splendor of an African sunrise for a full day of game viewing.
- Negotiating the roads and tracks down from the lodge, you are transported into a world of timeless natural wonder; one where the sights, sounds, and pageantry of life continue just as they have for thousands of years.
- Negotiating the roads and tracks down from the lodge, you are transported into a world of timeless natural wonder; one where the sights, sounds, and pageantry of life continue just as they have for thousands of years.
- You arrive back at the lodge at dusk, pleasantly tired after an exhilarating day. After a well-deserved hot shower, you head to the main lodge for dinner. Take your after-dinner drink on your verandah if you wish, watching the wildlife grazing nearby.
- The atmosphere is remarkably peaceful as night falls, leaving you with dreams of this diverse and wonderful country.
- Overnight stay at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Day 07
SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK - NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
- Rise and shine! After breakfast, you will drive to the crater rim from where you will take on the steep and adventurous trail into the crater. We arrive at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge in time for a scenic lunch overlooking the crater.
- Nestled high above the plains into the crater’s jagged rim, cloaked in river stone and indigenous vines, Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge is barely visible to the naked eye. Framed by arched stone passages and timbered decks, its torch-lit walls are adorned with stylized cave paintings. At the stone heart of the lodge burns a glowing fire, which is kept constantly alight. Dinner at the Lodge.
- Ngorongoro Crater was an ancient active volcano whose cone collapsed some three million years ago, leaving a deep crater. It is the largest unbroken caldera in the world, the second-largest extinct crater, and today shelters arguably the most beautiful wildlife haven left on earth with a spectacular concentration of animals and stunning views. Known as “Africa’s Garden of Eden”, the crater is undoubtedly the best place in Tanzania to see black rhinos as well as the pride of lions with magnificent black-maned males.
- Overnight stay at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge
Day 08
CRATER TOUR
- After breakfast, the driver guides your vehicle nearly 2,000 feet down into Ngorongoro Crater for a half day of exploration. In addition to viewing the larger game, we will drive across the dense forest on the rim to soda lake to view the outstanding birdlife. Today, we enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater itself and ascend back to the lodge for dinner and relaxation. The Ngorongoro Crater floor is wonderful because you can see thousands of animals in a single visit.
- Here, within a few square Kilometres, you can find all the animals that live in the East African savannah. You will see a diversity of wildlife ranging from the “Big Five” – lion, elephant, buffalo, rhino, and leopard – to wildebeests, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, and mountain reedbucks in the forests on the slopes.
- The crater rim is wooded with mountain forest vegetation and is abloom with acres of pink, blue, and white lupines, candle-white lilies, and blue hyacinths. The short grasses on the crater’s floor make the game easy to spot and photograph.
- Overnight stay at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge
Day 09
NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA - LAKE MANYARA N. PARK
- This morning, after breakfast, we drive to Lake Manyara National Park, viewing the game en-route to our lodge. We arrive at the park in time for a picnic lunch then set out for an afternoon game drive and hope to see the park’s famous tree-climbing lions. A wealth of birdlife and large game roam the park and its lake, with the cliffs of the Great Rift Valley forming a stunning backdrop to it all. We shall head on to Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge arriving in time for dinner.
- Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge welcomes you with a peaceful location amidst the rich wildlife and unsurpassed tranquility of Lake Manyara National Park. The lake is home to over 300 migratory birds including flamingoes, long-crested eagles and grey-headed kingfisher; our lodge is designed to mimic this extraordinary birdlife, with an architectural motif featuring swooping avian curves and vibrantly coloured wall frescoes depicting the intricacy of bird migratory patterns.
- Dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Serena lodge.
- The beautiful Lake Manyara covers two-thirds of this national park; the rest consists of steep mountainsides, swamps, dense woodlands, open grassy areas and hot springs. One of the many alkaline lakes of the Great Rift Valley, it was formed three million years ago and is quite shallow – a perfect habitat for the 350 species of birds including pelicans, ibises, storks, Egyptian geese, and flamingoes. Baboons and black monkeys can be heard chattering in the woodlands near the park’s entrance and a multitude of large game can be found traversing the low, grassy areas near the lake’s shore.
Day 10
LAKE MANYARA – ARUSHA - DEPART
- Early morning game drives return to the Lodge for a full breakfast and check out, followed by an onward transfer to Kilimanjaro international airport via Arusha for Lunch.
- N/B: Depending on your departure flight time, day rooms can be arranged for you on request at an extra cost.
INCLUSIONS:
- All arrival and return Airport Transfers
- Exclusive use of guided game drives on a 4x4 land cruiser vehicle
- Services of an English-speaking driver guide
- 9 Nights Accommodation
- All meals as per the itinerary
- Ngorongoro crater tour
- Emergency Medical Evacuation services by Flying Doctors
- All park entrance fees/Crater Fees
- All Kenyan & Tanzania government’s taxes and service charges
EXCLUSIONS:
- International/Domestic flights to / From the country of origin
- All additional guest experiences as otherwise listed
- Safari Shop purchase and in –Curios
- Tips & Gratuities
- All Easter and Festive supplements
- Laundry and phone calls
- Visa Fees
- Yellow Fever Certificate
- Any other item not mentioned in the inclusions.
