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

• Leave Nairobi in the morning and depart via the Great Rift Valley to Masai Mara, crossing the Loita Plains.

• See red-clad Masai warriors tend their multi-coloured herds among the plains game.

• Arrive at Mara in time for lunch.

• Enjoy game viewing en route to Mara Camp for lunch.

• Relish an afternoon game drive.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

• Proceed for morning and afternoon game viewing inside the park with your African safari guide-driver.

• Search for the wild game, including the black-maned lion for which Mara is famous, as well as cheetah, buffalo, wildebeest, zebra, leopard, and Grant's gazelle. Even the rare rhino might come out of the thicket for you, and hyenas are plentiful.

• Extend your drive to Hippo Point, where schools of hippos submerge on the approach of vehicles, only to surface seconds later to snort and show their displeasure, while crocodiles sunbathe on the riverbanks with mouths agape.

• Between meals, there is an optional visit to the Masai villages for an insight into their culture.

Meals and overnight at the camp.

• Set out on an early morning game viewing drive, searching for any wild game you might have missed previously.

• Have breakfast at the lodge and depart for Nairobi, with game viewing en route as you leave the park.

• Enjoy lunch in Nairobi at the Carnivore Restaurant at $40 per person, then proceed to Amboseli at the foot of the mighty snow-capped Mt. Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak.

• Continue with game viewing en route to the camp.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

• Savour morning and afternoon game viewing inside the park. Amboseli is a photogenic park and hosts a great number of game drives to see the lion, elephant, and the splendid cheetah.

Meals and overnight at camp.

• Rise for a morning game viewing drive in Amboseli.

• Have breakfast and cross the border into Tanzania.

• Stop in Arusha for lunch.

• In the afternoon, proceed to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

• Enjoy game viewing en route to the camp.

• Relish breakfast at the camp and depart for a half-day crater tour with a picnic lunch.

• Continue to the vast Serengeti Plains National Reserve via Olduvai Gorge, the site made famous by archaeologist Dr. Leakey, where fossils of humans and animals believed to be over 2 million years old can be seen.

• Stop for lunch en route after arriving in Serengeti in the afternoon.

• Head out for afternoon game viewing inside the park, which is known to host great herds of plains game.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

• Enjoy morning and afternoon game drives inside the park, taking you to different parts of Serengeti, famous for the annual migration when millions of wildebeest (gnus) and zebra set off for Masai Mara in search of better grazing grounds and water.

Meals and overnight at the camp.

• Start with a morning game viewing drive in Serengeti.

• Have breakfast and depart for Lake Manyara National Park.

• Arrive in time for lunch at Lake Manyara camp.

• Enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive inside the park and look for a variety of wild game. You are likely to capture a picture of the curious tree-climbing lions.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

• Rise for early morning game viewing at the park.

• Return to the lodge for breakfast, after which you will depart for Arusha.

• Stop for lunch at Arusha Impala Hotel.

• In the afternoon, proceed to cross the border and continue onward to arrive in Nairobi in the early evening.

• Transfer to the airport for your flight.