Best of Kenya & Tanzania

DAY 1: NAIROBI Late evening arrival at Nairobi. You will be met by our representative who will transfer you to your hotel for an overnight stay.    

Lake Manyara | Masai Mara | Serengeti

DAY 3 & 4: MANYARA- SERENGETI (340 KMS – 5 HOURS) You have your breakfast and take a morning game-drive in Lake Manyara National Park. Then you depart with picnic lunches for the Serengeti National Park. En-route you will stop at the Mto wa Mbu Village and meet the local tribes and learn a little more about their customs and traditions. You arrive at the lodge, check-in for dinner and an overnight stay. Here you will spend two nights and discover Serengeti – one of East Africa’s most fascinating game parks. In the local language, “Serengeti” means “the endless plains that go up to the sky”. And they do just that! One of most striking features of this park is the series of large granite outcrops that dominate the vast plains, making it very different from Kenya’s Masai Mara. Life in the park centres on the triangular trek of several million hooves. This movement is constant and never stops, just following the good grazing pastures.    

Ngorongoro Crater

DAY 6: NGORONGORO You have breakfast and then drive to the Crater Rim – a distance of approx 25 minutes and descend into the crater using a Landover 4×4 for a 6-hours’ game-viewing excursion. Picnic lunches are provided. Return by evening time to Gibbs Farm. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. Views and Vistas of Ngorongoro Crater The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the wonders of the world, and words fail to offer a fair description of the enormity and beauty of this crater. The only comparison could be to the Garden of Eden. A steep wall of thick forest surrounds the circumference, which looks like a natural amphitheatre, 260 sq kms in size. An incredible ecosystem consisting of grasslands, swamps, lakes, rivers, woodlands, forests and an arid area of shifting dunes exists here, and thus the crater is able to sustain a vast resident population of game including elephant, buffalo, lion, hippo, wildebeest, gazelle, leopard, black rhino, monkeys and hyena.    

Mount Kenya

DAY 9: AMBOSELI – NAIROBI – MOUNT KENYA You have an early breakfast and depart for Mount Kenya via Nairobi. You arrive at the Castle Forest Lodge located in the dense forest of Mount Kenya. This is a small – mountain style chalet lodging with personalized service. A great break in nature! Your lunch will be at the lodge. In the afternoon you take a two-hour guided walk into the forest with one of the local mountain guides. This is a pleasant walk where you will see birds, insects, different types of flora and trees and appreciate the finer things of Mother Nature. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.    

Lake Nakuru

DAY 11: ABERDARES – LAKE NAKURU (185 KMS – 4.30 HOURS) You begin your day with an early breakfast. Later we drive to one of the most famous lakes in the Great Rift Valley – Lake Nakuru. You check-in at the Lake Nakuru Lodge, a spectacular lodge overlooking the lake. In the afternoon, you go for a game-drive in the park and around the lakeside. Dinner and overnight at the lodge. Views & Vistas The Lake Nakuru terrain includes areas of sedge, marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrop. In the late 80s, the park also became Kenya’s first rhino sanctuary and is today home to both the white and black rhinos. You will find lions, leopards, hippos, giraffes, and waterbucks in this unique park.    

DAY 14: MASAI MARA – LAKE NAIVASHA (265 KMS – 5 HOURS) You begin your day with an early morning game drive followed by breakfast. You then drive to the neighbouring Lake Naivasha. Lake Naivasha, a fresh-water lake, is one of the most beautiful of Kenya’s Rift Valley lakes with its fringing banks of feathery-headed papyrus, secluded lagoons and channels, blue water-lilies and the Crescent Island sanctuary. You check-in at the Naivasha Sopa Lodge, a spectacular lodge located on 25 acre gardens directly on the lake. This is a great place to now unwind from your safari.