Itinerary

1. Day 1: Nairobi to Mara National Reserve

   • Get picked 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 visitors 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 teeming with the game. Be on the lookout for the 'big five' Mara is famous for and the most sought after in the early 20th century when Kenya was a hunters' paradise. Killing any of them game one some class, pride, heroism. These include the 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 wildebeests 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 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 Masai 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!

   • We return 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.

   • 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, we 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.

     • Optional activity: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with a champagne breakfast.

6. Day 6: Serengeti National Park

   • This morning after breakfast, we 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.

     • Optional activity: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with a champagne breakfast.

7. Day 7: Ngorongoro Crater Tour

   • After breakfast, we 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. It has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Eight million years ago, the Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano, but its cone collapsed, forming the crater that is 610 meters deep, 20 kilometres in diameter and covers an area of 311 sq. km. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. 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: Departure

   • Early morning game drive is followed by breakfast and depart to Arusha, arriving for lunch.

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