Itinerary

1. Day 1: Nairobi to Masai Mara National Reserve

   • Pick up and drive via Narok to the Masai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. 

   • Arrive for lunch at your lodge. 

   • Enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive in this vast and expansive reserve teaming with game. 

   • Be on the look-out for the 'big five' Mara is famous for and the most sought after in the early 20th century when Kenya was a hunters' paradise.

   • Spot lion, Cape buffalo, the savannah elephant, black rhino and the elusive leopard. The vast savannah grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see is home to impalas, Maasai giraffes, waterbucks, warthogs, Thompson & grants gazelles, topis, resident wildebeest among many others.

   Later in the evening, return for dinner and overnight at your Tented Lodge.

2. Day 2: Masai Mara

   • Enjoy breakfast, then proceed on a full day of game viewing drives & adventure. Be on the lookout for the big five that Maasai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard and the black rhino. We may even be so lucky to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill!
   • Return back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
     • Optional activity: Balloon Safari over the Mara plains followed by a champagne breakfast or visit a traditional Masai Manyatta (off the beaten track) and experience the culture of this world-famous community. The Masai still live as they did for centuries -interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as you learn about their customs and traditions.

3. Day 3: Masai Mara

   • Enjoy breakfast, then proceed on a full day of game viewing drives & adventure. Be on the lookout for the big five that Maasai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard and the black rhino. We may even be so lucky to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill!
   • Return back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
     • Optional activity: Balloon Safari over the Mara plains followed by a champagne breakfast or visit a traditional Masai Manyatta (off the beaten track) and experience the culture of this world-famous community. The Masai still live as they did for centuries -interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as you learn about their customs and traditions.

4. Day 4: Mara to Serengeti

   • Enjoy a hearty breakfast then depart with picnic lunch boxes via the Isebania & Sirari border where our guide drivers will help you through the immigration procedures then continue into Tanzania. 

   • Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometers, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park, and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals. 

   Arrive at the lodge for check-in, dinner and overnight.

5. Day 5: Serengeti National Park

   • This morning after breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains. 
   • In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeest, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted & striped hyena, the rhino, topi, Burchell's zebra, the Maasai giraffe among many others. 
   • Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve with game-viewing drives. 
     • Optional activity: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with a champagne breakfast.

   Enjoy dinner and overnight at our lodge.

6. Day 6: Serengeti National Park

   • This morning after breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains. 

   • In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted & striped hyena, the rhino, topi, Burchell's zebra, the Maasai giraffe among many others. Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve with game-viewing drives. 

   Enjoy dinner and overnight at our lodge.

7. Day 7: Crater Tour

   • After breakfast, depart to Ngorongoro. 

   • Stop at the Oldupai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world, to learn about human evolution.

   • Descend the crater. Ngorongoro Crater has the largest unbroken caldera in the world. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds. The birdlife, which includes the flamingo, is mainly seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to the fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.

   Dinner and overnight at crater lodge.

8. Day 8: Kilimanjaro or JKIA airport

   • Go for an early morning game drive, followed by breakfast and depart to Arusha, arriving for lunch.

   • Later, drop off at Kilimanjaro airport for a flight home or for a shuttle shared bus to Nairobi's JKIA airport.