16-Day Safari from Nairobi to Zanzibar with Masai Mara and Serengeti

• Upon arrival at the airport, our driver will pick you up and drive you to the hotel for check-in and rest at Palacina Resident and Suites.
• Bed and breakfast and overnight at Palacina Resident and Suites, booked on a bed-and-breakfast basis.

Dinner can be taken at the hotel restaurant, depending on what you choose from the hotel menu, at your own expense.

• Spend a relaxing morning at the hotel premises.
• Later, at 2:00 pm, head to Nairobi National Park through the main gate for a 3-hour game drive.
• Your guide will aim to show you as much variety of wildlife as possible. If you are lucky, you may spot rhinos and lions getting ready for the day.

• The driver will pick you up from the hotel and drive you to Wilson Airport to catch your flight to Amboseli National Park, departing at 7:30 am and arriving at 8:30 am.
• Upon arrival, your driver will be waiting for you at the airstrip to drive you to Oltukai Lodge for check-in and lunch.
• Have lunch and a short rest.
• In the afternoon, head out on a game drive in search of popular residents, including well-known predators and animals such as zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, and hippo, all with a view of Mt Kilimanjaro. The park is famous for its scenery, with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro dominating the landscape and open plains.

Dinner and overnight at Oltukai Lodge.

• Set out for an early morning game drive, then return to the lodge for breakfast.
• After breakfast, spend the full day in the park with a packed lunch, searching for its popular residents, including well-known predators and animals such as zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, and hippo, with views of Mt Kilimanjaro.
• Later, return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight at Oltukai Lodge.

• The driver will pick you up from the lodge and drive you to Amboseli Airstrip to catch your flight to Masai Mara, departing at 9:15 am and arriving at 10:30 am.
• Upon arrival at the airstrip, our driver will pick you up and drive you to the camp for check-in and lunch.
• After lunch, depart for a 2-hour game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve.
• Return to the camp for a sumptuous dinner and a restful evening.

Dinner and overnight at Neptune Mara Rianta Luxury Camp.

• Have breakfast at 6:30 am and, at 7:00 am, leave for a full day of game viewing in the park. Spend the 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 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 savannah - lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas, and vultures.

Dinner and overnight at Neptune Mara Rianta Luxury Camp.

• Have breakfast at 6:30 am and, at 7:00 am, leave for another full day of game viewing in the park.
• On this day, 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 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 savannah - lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas, and vultures.

Dinner and overnight at Neptune Mara Rianta Luxury Camp.

• After breakfast at 6:00 am, check out and transfer to the airstrip to catch your flight to Serengeti. Depart from Mara Serena Airstrip at 8:15 am and arrive at Tarime Airstrip at 10:10 am. Depart Tarime at 10:45 am and arrive at Seronera at 12:10 noon.
• The flight goes to Migori; from Migori, you will be transferred to Tarime. From Tarime, you will do a yellow fever check and get your visa at customs before proceeding to Serengeti.
• Upon arrival, meet your Tanzanian guide at the airstrip for a short drive into the heart of Serengeti National Park to Ole Serai Luxury Camp.

• Breakfast at 7:00 am, followed by a full-day game drive in Serengeti with a picnic lunch at 1:00 pm.
• Return to the camp for dinner at Ole Serai Luxury Camp.

• Depart Serengeti at 7:00 am for a Covid test to enable crossing back to Kenya. Leave Serengeti with a game drive en route to the Ngorongoro area, which extends to the national park. Enjoy a picnic lunch.
• Later, proceed through Olduvai Gorge in northern Tanzania. Often called the cradle of mankind, this area is internationally recognized for Louis and Mary Leakey's famous discoveries of early humans and magnificent antiquities documenting the evolutionary history of our stone tool-using ancestors over the last two million years. Research at Olduvai began almost a century ago and has produced an unparalleled wealth of archaeological and paleontological data for the study of key phases of early human evolution. Enjoy museum viewing.
• Proceed to your hotel for check-in.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Oldeani Mountain Lodge.

• Your Ngorongoro Crater safari starts with breakfast and a packed lunch or hot lunch, since you will be inside the crater. Descend into the crater for some of the most wonderful moments in the park. This is remarkable because the crater hosts a wide pride of lions, and you may see them hunt live. Spend almost the whole day down in the crater as you witness much more of nature's action unfolding around you. Break for lunch while taking in the many interesting sights happening before your eyes.
• Later, ascend to your hotel for an overnight stay.

Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Oldeani Mountain Lodge.

• Enjoy an early morning half-day game drive in Lake Manyara National Park beginning at 7:00 am.
• Lake Manyara National Park is a sanctuary for hippo, giraffe, impala, and zebra, and its lake is a magnet for birdlife, including sizeable flocks of pink flamingos. Mahogany and sausage trees are alive with blue and vervet monkeys; elephants feed on fallen fruit, and bushbuck, baboons, and leopard make their homes in the forest.
• It is commonly said that Lake Manyara is one of the best parks in Africa for birdwatchers. If you are a bird-watching enthusiast, then going on a Lake Manyara safari is a must on your Tanzania safari program.
• Depart from Manyara for your hotel in Arusha.

Accommodation for this day is Arusha Coffee Lodge, booked on half board.

• Have breakfast at the hotel and check out. Thereafter, transfer to Arusha Airport to catch your flight to Zanzibar, departing at 13:00 pm and arriving in Zanzibar at 14:35 pm via Regional Air Services LTD.
• Upon arrival in Zanzibar, you will be picked up and transferred to your hotel.
• Half board includes breakfast and dinner at Gold Zanzibar Beach House and Spa. Lunch can be taken from the hotel menu depending on where you will be during the day. Accommodation is in a Deluxe Ocean View room.

• Spend the full day relaxing at the hotel or enjoying the resort facilities.
• Half board includes breakfast and dinner at Gold Zanzibar Beach House and Spa. Lunch can be taken from the hotel menu depending on where you will be during the day. Accommodation is in a Deluxe Ocean View room.

• Spend the full day relaxing at the hotel or enjoying the resort facilities.
• Half board includes breakfast and dinner at Gold Zanzibar Beach House and Spa.
• Lunch can be taken from the hotel menu depending on where you will be during the day. Accommodation is in a Deluxe Ocean View room.

• Have breakfast at the hotel and then transfer to Zanzibar Airport for your flight back to Nairobi, departing at 17:15 pm and arriving in Nairobi at 18:55 pm. There are no earlier flights, so you will have a late check-out.
• Upon arrival, our driver will pick you up and take you to Palacina Hotel and Suites, booked on a bed-and-breakfast basis. Dinner can be taken from the hotel restaurant depending on what you choose from the hotel menu, at your own expense.