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

• You will be picked up from the airport or your hotel upon arrival and transferred to our office for a briefing.
• Meet your guide and the other group members, then depart for the Masai Mara National Reserve via the Great Rift Valley viewpoint and Narok town for refuelling and lunch.
• Proceed to the game reserve, where you will first check in at the camp, have time for a short siesta, and then head out for your first introductory game-viewing experience in the Masai Mara.
• Later, return to Miti Mingi Eco Camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Accommodation: Miti Mingi Eco Camp

• After breakfast, you will proceed on a full day of game viewing within the reserve. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland set across rolling hills.
• The reserve is one of the best parks for game viewing in Kenya, with an extensive road and track network that allows for close-range viewing and photography.
• You will then break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool, while looking out for hippos and crocodiles. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.

Accommodation: Miti Mingi Eco Camp

• Early in the morning, have breakfast and visit a Masai village to interact with the Maasai people and learn more about their culture.
• Discover their dances, their way of life, and how they measure wealth in terms of the number of cattle, wives, children, sheep, goats, and the vastness of their land.
• Later, depart for Lake Nakuru National Park with lunch en route.
• After lunch, stop at Lake Naivasha for an optional activity, which is a boat ride. Then drive to Nakuru town, arriving before sunset. Check in at your budget safari accommodation for dinner and your overnight stay.

Accommodation: City Max Hotel

• After breakfast, you will proceed on a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park.
• The park is known for its prolific birdlife, including flamingos. It also contains a sanctuary for the conservation of the white rhino, while species such as Cape buffalo and waterbuck can be seen near the shoreline.
• Drive to Amboseli National Park, arriving late in the evening with game viewing en route to the camp. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.

Accommodation: Nyati Safari Camp

• This will be a full day of game drives in this park, which contains swampy grounds where elephants and hippos bathe in abundance.
• A variety of plains game, antelopes, birds, and the peak of Mt. Kilimanjaro can be seen if weather conditions permit.
• Picnic lunches will be provided. You will return to the camp for your overnight stay.

Accommodation: Nyati Safari Camp

• You will have early morning game viewing before returning to the camp for a full breakfast.
• Later, you will check out and proceed to the Namanga border.
• After immigration, you will catch the shuttle bus to Arusha. You will be met and transferred to Charity Hotel, booked on a bed and breakfast basis. Dinner will be at your own expense.

Accommodation: Charity Hotel

• After breakfast, you will depart for Tarangire National Park, arriving in time for lunch and an afternoon of game viewing.
• Lesser kudu, eland, lion, and gerenuk can be found in this beautiful park.
• The park is noted for its multitude of baobab trees and its tree-climbing lions. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.

Accommodation: Twiga Campsite

• After breakfast, drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
• This afternoon, you will descend 2,000 feet (over 600 metres) to the floor of the crater for a crater tour with picnic lunch.
• Explore the forest areas inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area where you may see flamingos, and the open savannah where lions hunt for food.
• Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.

Accommodation: Simba Campsite

• Today, you will drive to Serengeti National Park via Olduvai Gorge, the site of Louis and Mary Leakey's renowned archaeological discoveries.
• Visit the museum at an extra cost and see the findings, including some of man's earliest known ancestral remains.
• Lunch will be served at Seronera Camp.
• In the afternoon, enjoy a game drive across the endless plains of the Serengeti for a chance to see the great herds of wildebeest, zebras, and gazelles, or a pride of lions lounging in the shade. Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.

Accommodation: Seronera Campsite

• You will enjoy an early morning game drive before breakfast.
• By mid-morning, return to the camp for a late breakfast and then depart for Lake Manyara with lunch en route.
• Upon arrival, enjoy an evening game drive until sunset. Later, drive back to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Accommodation: Twiga Campsite

• After breakfast, you will have a morning game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, whose inhabitants include hippos, monkeys, tree-climbing lions, flamingos, and other varieties of birdlife.
• Lunch will be at the camp. After lunch, drive back to Arusha for drop-off at Charity Hotel, booked on a bed and breakfast basis.

Accommodation: Charity Hotel

• After breakfast at your hotel, our partner will be ready to take you to the shuttle bus back to Nairobi or drop you off at Kilimanjaro Airport for your flight to Zanzibar.