12-Day Kenya and Tanzania Safari with Masai Mara and Serengeti

• Meet your guide and drive to Masai Mara, with a brief stop at a viewpoint to admire the great scenery of the escarpments.
• Continue the drive to Masai Mara with another stop in Narok town for lunch.
• Check in, relax, and then head out for your first game drive.
• Be on the lookout for animals such as zebras, wildebeests, lions, buffalo, Masai giraffes, waterbucks, leopards, and more.

Return for dinner and an overnight stay at the camp or lodge. The meal plan includes lunch and dinner.

• Spend the whole day exploring the vast open grassland savannahs of Masai Mara.
• Note the park's abundant vegetation and regular rainfall, which support a huge population of herbivores and attract many predators.
• Marvel at the yearly wildebeest migration passing through the park.
• Witness the big cat family stalking their prey before lunging into pursuit.
• Take lunch in a scenic part of the park before continuing with your game drive.

Return for dinner and an overnight stay at the camp or lodge. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Enjoy a pre-breakfast game drive in Masai Mara and watch out for wildlife inside the park.
• Return to the camp or lodge for breakfast.
• Leave for Naivasha town, arriving in time for lunch.
• Relax on the serene shores of Naivasha or choose to take an optional boat ride on the lake.

Dinner and overnight stay at a camp or lodge. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Proceed on a game drive in Hell's Gate National Park, known for its beautiful rocks and as the only park where you can cycle around.
• Continue to Amboseli National Park, arriving in the evening.

Dinner and overnight at the camp. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Enjoy unlimited game drives in Amboseli National Park, returning to the lodge for lunch.
• Continue with an afternoon game drive or opt for a visit to the Masai Village.
• Return to the lodge in the evening for dinner and overnight.
• This park contains swamp grounds where elephants and hippos bathe. A variety of plains game, antelopes, and birds can also be seen, along with the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro if weather conditions permit.
• Have a picnic lunch at Observation Hill on this day.

Return to the camp for dinner and an overnight stay. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Go for early morning game viewing before returning to the camp for a full breakfast.
• Check out and proceed to Namanga Border.
• Later, catch the shuttle bus to Arusha.
• Transfer to Arusha Center Inn Hotel for bed and breakfast.
• Breakfast and lunch are included.

• Depart for Tarangire National Park, arriving in time for lunch and an afternoon of game viewing.
• Look out for rare kudus, elands, lions, and gerenuks in this beautiful park, noted for its multitude of baobab trees and tree-climbing lions.

Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
• Descend 2,000 feet (over 600 meters) to the crater floor for a full-day crater tour with picnic lunch.
• Explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area where you may see flamingos, and the open savannah where lions hunt for food.

Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Drive to Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge, the site of Louis and Mary Leakey's renowned archaeological discoveries.
• Visit the museum at an extra cost and see the findings, including some of man's earliest known ancestral remains.
• Lunch will be at the camp or lodge.
• Enjoy an afternoon game drive in the endless plains of the Serengeti for a chance to see the great herds of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles, or a pride of lions lounging in the shade.

Dinner and overnight at camp, with an upgrade to beds and bedding. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Enjoy an early morning game drive before breakfast.
• Return to the camp for a late breakfast in mid-morning, then depart for Lake Manyara with lunch en route.
• Upon arrival, go for an evening game drive until sunset.

Dinner and overnight at camp or lodge. The meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.

• Enjoy another morning game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, whose inhabitants include hippos, monkeys, tree-climbing lions, flamingos, and other varieties of birdlife.
• Have lunch at the camp.
• After lunch, drive back to Arusha and drop off at Arusha Center Inn for bed and breakfast.

• Enjoy a hearty breakfast at Arusha Center Inn Hotel, then board a shuttle bus to Nairobi, where you will be received and transferred to the airport or your Nairobi hotel.