11-Day Kenya and Tanzania Safari with Maasai Mara and Serengeti

• Arrive at Nairobi airport for a transfer to your hotel.
• Check in, relax, and let your guide help orient you to places to visit within Nairobi.
• You will be staying at the Heron Hotel on a bed and breakfast basis.

• Depart in the morning for Lake Naivasha.
• On arrival, check in and then head to Hell's Gate National Park.
• You will also enjoy an evening boat ride on Lake Naivasha.
• Lake Naivasha is famous for its high populations of hippos and birds, and you are almost guaranteed to see them. The lake is a birder's paradise, home to over 400 bird species.

Dinner and overnight at Villa Grazia Hotel.

• Have breakfast at the hotel, then drive to Lake Nakuru National Park with a packed lunch for a full-day game drive.
• Visit Lake Nakuru National Park for a special sighting of the rare black rhino, an endangered species and one of the Big Five animals.

Dinner and overnight at Lanet Matfam Resort.

• After breakfast, begin your safari to Maasai Mara National Reserve.
• Arrive at the camp in time for lunch, then check in and enjoy your meal.
• In the evening at 4:00 pm, depart for a sunset game-viewing drive in the Maasai Mara National Reserve, where the chances of seeing the big cats are extremely high. The drive lasts for 2 hours and ends at 6:00 pm.
• Return to the camp or lodge for a sumptuous buffet dinner and a good rest.

Dinner and overnight at Rhino Camp/similar.

• Have breakfast at 6:30 am and leave at 7:00 am 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.
• Afterward, enjoy a picnic lunch in the park under the shade of a croton tree overlooking the park's vast landscape.
• It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual movement 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 Rhino Camp/similar.

• Have breakfast at 6:00 am, then depart for the Serengeti through the Isebania border.
• Arrive at the border at lunchtime. The visa process takes approximately 30 minutes.
• Meet our Tanzanian driver and cook. In Tanzania, transport is by 4-wheel-drive Land Cruiser.
• Enjoy an evening game drive en route to the camp.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Wildebeest Tented Camp/Osinon Camp.

• Set out for the endless open plains and stunning skies of the Serengeti.
• Enjoy a scenic four-hour drive, a full-day game drive, and a late evening game drive.
• Serengeti National Park is located in Tanzania and is best known for its abundance of animals and the great wildebeest migration. The Serengeti covers 14,763 square kilometers (5,700 sq. miles), stretching north to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the west. It has the highest concentration of large mammals on the planet and is famous for its 2,500 lions, the largest concentration found anywhere. The park also has over 518 identified bird species, some of them Eurasian migrants present during the European winter months from October to April.

Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Wildebeest Tented Camp/Osinon Camp.

• After a relaxing morning and an early lunch, proceed to Ngorongoro, where the night will be spent on the Crater Rim.

Dinner and overnight at Octagon Lodge.

• Have an early breakfast and proceed directly to the Crater floor for a full-day crater tour with picnic lunches.
• Later, continue to Lake Manyara.
• Ngorongoro Crater is 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.

Dinner and overnight at Octagon Lodge.

• After breakfast, proceed for a full-day game drive in beautiful Lake 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 of lake surface.

Dinner and overnight at the Venus Premier Hotel.

• Enjoy breakfast and then catch your shuttle back to Nairobi for drop-off at the airport.
• The first shuttle leaves at 7:00 am and arrives in Nairobi around 2:00 pm.
• Another shuttle leaves at 9:00 am and arrives in Nairobi at 4:00 pm, while the last one departs at 11:00 am and arrives at 5:00 pm.
• You will advise us where you would like to be dropped off.