12-Day Kenya and Tanzania Safari with Maasai Mara to Tarangire

• Pickup from the airport or your hotel by a professional English-speaking guide/driver.

You will then be transferred to your hotel in Nairobi for an overnight stay on a bed and breakfast basis at The Heron Hotel.

• At 8 o'clock, you will be picked up from your Nairobi hotel and commence the drive to Maasai Mara via the Great Rift Valley viewpoint, where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the Rift Valley.
• You will arrive at the camp in time for lunch. Check in and have lunch.
• Thereafter, at 4:00 pm, depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve, which lasts for 2 hours and ends at 6:00 pm.
• You then return to the camp for a sumptuous buffet dinner, followed by time to rest at the tented camp.

Dinner and overnight at Miti Mingi Eco Camp or similar.

• Have breakfast at 6:30 am and at 7 am, leave for a full day of game viewing in the park.
• Spend the full day exploring Maasai Mara in search of the Big Five, hippos, and Nile crocodiles.
• Thereafter, go for a picnic lunch in the park under the shade of a croton tree 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.

Dinner and overnight at Miti Mingi Eco Camp or similar.

• Enjoy an early morning breakfast, then check out and begin your drive to Nakuru.
• Upon arrival at 5 pm, you will spend the night at the LANET MAT FAM Hotel and have dinner there.

• You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7 am straight to the park. It is a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos, which form part of the Big Five animals. There is also a possibility of seeing the pink flamingos.
• The game drive lasts 3 hours, after which you depart on a 1-hour drive to Naivasha at Hell's Gate National Park.
• In Hell's Gate, people have the option of doing a biking safari.
• We arrive at Hell's Gate at 9 am, and then we will finish at 12:30 pm. Head for lunch at a hotel.
• Later, enjoy an evening boat ride on Lake Naivasha for 1 hour for hippo viewing and bird watching.

Dinner and overnight at Villa Grazia.

• Breakfast at the resort at 6:00 am, then check out and proceed to Namanga, the border town, to get ready for the Tanzania part.

Accommodation at the Namanga River Hotel.

• Drive to Arusha and join a group heading to Manyara National Park.
• Manyara is a 2-hour drive from Arusha, and it is a small park where you can do game drives for 2 to 3 hours.
• Enjoy a game drive after lunch until evening.
• 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 of lake surface.

Dinner and relax at the Seronera Campsite.

• After breakfast, leave for Serengeti. Arrive and start a game drive en route to the camp.
• Enjoy more game drives in the afternoon until late evening.
• The Serengeti is home to the world's largest movement of animals, often called the "Great Migration." More than 1.7 million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra, and 200,000 antelope make their way from the Ndutu region of the southern Serengeti northward through the whole length of the "endless plains" to Kenya's Masai Mara.

Dinner and relax at the Seronera Campsite.

• Enjoy an early morning game drive in Serengeti until 1 pm.
• Depart after lunch. Continue with a game drive en route to Ngorongoro and arrive at Simba Campsite to spend the night there.
• Ngorongoro is in northern Tanzania. It is home to the vast volcanic Ngorongoro Crater and "Big Five" game - elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, and rhino. Huge herds of wildebeest and zebras traverse its plains during their annual migration. Livestock belonging to the semi-nomadic Maasai tribe graze alongside wild animals. Hominin fossils found in the Olduvai Gorge date back millions of years.

Dinner and relax at the Simba Campsite.

• Breakfast, followed by a game drive.
• Leave for Ngorongoro for a safari game drive with a picnic lunch.
• Depart after 1 pm and start the drive to Tarangire National Park.
• Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania's Manyara Region. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The Tarangire River is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry season. The Tarangire Ecosystem is defined by the long-distance migration of wildebeest and zebras. During the dry season, thousands of animals concentrate in Tarangire National Park from the surrounding wet-season dispersal and calving areas.

Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

• Breakfast, then leave for a game drive until 1 pm and start the drive to Arusha.

Dinner and overnight stay at Venus Premier Hotel.

• Breakfast, then board a shuttle to arrive in Nairobi at around 3 pm.