Wildlife Extravaganza: Kenya & Tanzania Adventure of a Lifetime
Embark on a remarkable journey through Kenya and Tanzania, where you’ll encounter the wonders of Maasai Mara Game Reserve, witness the grand wildebeest migration, and explore Lake Victoria’s fishing activities. Delight in captivating game viewing in Serengeti, home to a million wildebeests and predators. Marvel at the awe-inspiring Ngorongoro, a collapsed volcano teeming with wildlife. Conclude your adventure in Tarangire, where diverse wildlife thrives. Immerse yourself in nature, culture, and unforgettable experiences. Book now for an incredible East African adventure!
Tour Overview:
Included:
- All park entrances
- Meals
- Transport in an open roof tour vehicle
- Service of a professional driver and guide
- Bottled water in the car
- 8 nights accommodation
- Game drives as scheduled
Itinerary:
Day 1: Nairobi – Maasai Mara
Pick up from your hotel at around 8.30am and drive southwards along the floor of the Great Rift Valley with a stop-over at the view point with a picnic lunch on the way, arriving at Maasai Mara in the afternoon. Afterward, we proceed for the evening game drive, dinner and overnight stay at Mara Sidai camp with facilities like a hot shower and toilet inside the tent.
Day 2: Maasai Mara full day
After breakfast, the full day is spent in search of elephants, zebras, wildebeests, rhinos, buffaloes, lions, cheetahs, leopards, and other plains game. In the afternoon, you have an optional nature walk or a visit to a nearby Maasai village. All meals and the overnight stay are at the camp.
Day 3: Maasai Mara – Isabenia/Mosoma
Pre-morning game drive and after a late breakfast, a drive to the Sirari/Isebania border of Kenya/Tanzania (Mara/Serengeti) for immigration and customs formalities, which will involve a change of vehicles and driver/guides. Then, departure to Musoma in Lake Victoria arriving in the evening. Dinner and overnight stay at Homabay campsite.
Day 4: Lake Victoria/Serengeti
After breakfast, there are so many activities like fishing, a boat ride to Ngamba Chimpanzee Island, seeing fishing villages, and seeing other communities including the Maasai of Kenya. There are other things to see and do which are optional. Later, there is the drive to Serengeti arriving in the evening. Dinner and overnight stay is at Seronera camp.
Day 5: Serengeti full day
After breakfast, we do the morning game drive and after the picnic lunch, we proceed with the afternoon game viewing in Serengeti. Every year, more than a million wildebeests, 200,000 zebras and 300,000 thomson’s gazelles gather to undertake their long trek to new grazing lands, followed by predators like lions, leopards, cheetahs, and hyenas. During their trek, more than 8,000 calves are produced a day, and thousands are killed by predators. Return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Serengeti full day
After breakfast, you spend another full day in the park exploring since it is a vast place and there are a lot more yet unseen places. Dinner and overnight stay at the camp.
Day 7: Serengeti/Ngorongoro
After breakfast, we have the morning game drive and after a picnic lunch, the afternoon drive. Then, we leave Serengeti for Ngorongoro with an optional stop at Olduvai Gorge, a steep-sided ravine that is 48 km long and cut 100 meters deep through the volcanic soil of the Serengeti plains. We can also take a walk in the mountain forest with a Ranger (paid separately). Buried in the layers are hominids and remains of animals that lived and died more than 2 million years ago. The many sites exposed by the gorge have proven invaluable in furthering the understanding of very early human evolution. The guides will give you on-site information of the gorge. We then proceed to Ngorongoro for dinner and the overnight stay at the camp.
Day 8: Ngorongoro/Tarangire
After Breakfast, we depart for the Ngorongoro crater for a full day of tracking game in the crater floor. You will break for your picnic lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. All the big five can be seen here. This huge caldera or collapsed volcano has an area of 250 square kilometers and is 600 meters deep. Its spectacular setting and abundance of wildlife makes it one of the great natural wonders of the world – it is referred to as the eighth wonder of the world or the Eden of Africa. Late afternoon drive back to Tarangire national park for dinner and overnight stay at the camp.
Day 9: Tarangire/Arusha
After breakfast, we proceed for a morning game drive and after lunch, we depart to Arusha, arriving in the evening. Drop off at your hotel.
