10-Day Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safari with Masai Mara and Serengeti

• Meet your tour guide at your hotel in Nairobi and transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park, which covers 180 sq km. The park is home to warthogs, waterbuck, buffaloes, reedbucks, and the occasional leopard. White and black rhinos were introduced to the park some years ago, and you may find white rhino at the southern end. The park has also retained its reputation as an ornithologists' delight, with more than 400 species of bird found here.
• Arrive in time for your hot lunch at the hotel. Then, enjoy a game drive in the park.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

• After breakfast, proceed to Lake Naivasha, where boat rides can be arranged at minimal extra cost.
• After your ride, transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve. On clear days, the Mara offers fantastic orange-tinted sunsets, and you will definitely want to capture this moment while sipping on sundowners back at your lodge. The Mara Reserve is 1,510 sq km of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers.
• Wherever you go in the Mara, you will see a frequent amount of wildlife such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat-eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, and wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras, and hippos also exist in great numbers. It is also common to see lions either basking after a heavy meal or surveying the plains for their next meal. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot but are still reasonably common.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

• Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Masai Mara using your private 4 x 4 land cruiser. Balloon safaris can be arranged and are payable at the office. The ultimate action here is, without doubt, the annual wildebeest exodus in July and August, when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of lusher grass before turning south again in October.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

• After breakfast, transfer to Serengeti National Park, Tanzania's most famous national park. It is also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area bordering Kenya's Masai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems, and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering.
• Enjoy your en-route game drive at Serengeti National Park.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Serengeti National Park with your private safari land cruiser till late in the evening.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• Go for a full day of game viewing at Serengeti National Park with your private safari land cruiser. As enduring as the game viewing is the liberating sense of space that characterises the Serengeti Plains, stretching across sunburnt savannah to a shimmering golden horizon at the end of the earth. Yet, after the rains, this golden expanse of grass is transformed into an endless green carpet flecked with wildflowers.
• You can also see wooded hills and towering termite mounds, rivers lined with fig trees, and acacia woodland stained orange by dust.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• After breakfast, depart with your picnic lunch boxes via the Olduvai Gorge, where it is believed the cradle of mankind began.
• Thereafter, transfer to Ngorongoro Crater, which is often called 'Africa's Eden' and the '8th Natural Wonder of the World'. A visit to the crater is the main drawcard for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction.
• Within the crater rim, you can find large herds of zebra and wildebeest grazing nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater's ridge, tall Masai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.
• You will be transferred to your lodge, after which you will descend to the rim of the crater for your game viewing.

Accommodation: Full board at Tloma Lodge

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

• After breakfast, transfer to Tarangire National Park, which is probably one of the least visited of the northern Tanzanian game parks and retains a real air of undiscovered Africa, particularly in the south of the park. It lies a little distance to the southeast of Lake Manyara and covers an area of approximately 2,850 square kilometres. It is named after the Tarangire River that flows through the park.
• Enjoy your afternoon game drive till late in the evening. The swamps, tinged green year-round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the largest number of species in one habitat anywhere in the world. On drier ground, the Kori bustard - the heaviest flying bird - can be found.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

• After breakfast, depart for Amboseli National Park via Arusha, where you will make a stopover for your hot lunch.
• After lunch, continue to Amboseli National Park, including normal border crossing formalities at the Namanga border. Amboseli National Park is famous for its big game - elephants, lions, and cheetahs are the main attractions - and for its great scenic beauty. Amboseli embodies five main wildlife habitats, plus a generally dry lake-bed - Lake Amboseli. These are open plains, extensive stands of yellow-barked acacia woodland, rocky lava-strewn thorn-bush country, swamps and marshes, and, at the western end of the reserve above Namanga, the massif of Ol Doinyo Orok rising to over 2,760 m (8,300 ft) and still, for the most part, zoologically unexplored.

Accommodation: Full board

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

• Enjoy your early morning game drive. Depending on your international flight timings, transfer to Nairobi for your flight back home.

Accommodation: End of tour (no accommodation)

Meals: Breakfast & Lunch