Itinerary

1. Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi

   • Pickup from the airport/hotel by our professional English-speaking guide/driver. 

   Be taken to your hotel in Nairobi for the overnight on a bed and breakfast basis. The Heron Hotel.

2. Day 2: Nairobi to Maasai Mara National Reserve

   • At 8 o'clock, you will be picked up from your Nairobi Hotel and commence the drive to Maasai Mara via the Great Rift Valley viewpoint, where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the Rift Valley.
   • You will arrive at the camp in time for lunch. Check-in and have lunch.
   • Thereafter, at 4:00 pm, depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve, which lasts for 2 hours and ends at 6:00 pm.
   • You then return back to the camp for a sumptuous buffet dinner, ending with a good time for resting at the tented camp.

   Dinner and overnight at Miti Mingi Eco Camp/similar.

3. Day 3: Full Day Game Drive in Maasai Mara Reserve

   • Have breakfast at 6:30 am and at 7 am, leave for a full day game viewing in the park.
   • Spend the full day exploring Maasai Mara in search of the big five, hippos, and Nile crocodile.
   • Thereafter, go for a picnic lunch in the park under a croton tree shade overlooking the vast landscape of the park.
   • It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna – lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas, and vultures.

   Dinner and overnight at: Miti Mingi Eco Camp/similar.

4. Day 4: Maasai Mara to Lake Nakuru

   • Early morning breakfast then check out for your drive  to Nakuru .  
   • Upon arrival at 5pm you will spend the night at the LANET MAT FAM hotel and have dinner there.

5. Day 5: Lake Nakuru to Lake Naivasha/Hell’s Gate

   • You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7 am straight to the park. It's a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which form part of the Big five animals. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos.
   • The game drive lasts 3 hours, after which you depart on a 1-hour drive to Naivasha at Hell's Gate National Park.
   • In Hell's Gate, people have the option of doing a biking safari.
   • We arrive at Hell's Gate at 9 am, and then we will finish at 12:30 pm. Head for lunch at a hotel.
   • Later, enjoy an evening boat ride on Lake Naivasha for 1 hour for hippo viewing and bird watching.

   Dinner and overnight at Villa Grazia.

6. Day 6: Lake Naivasha to Namanga Border

   • Breakfast at the resort at 6:00 am, then check out and then proceed to Namanga, the border town, to get ready for the Tanzania part.

   Accommodation at the Namanga River Hotel.

7. Day 7: Namanga/Arusha to Manyara National Park

   • Drive to Arusha and join a group to Manyara National Park.
   • Manyara is a 2-hour drive from Arusha, and it’s a small park where you can do game drives for 2 to 3 hours.
   • Game drive after lunch until evening.
   • Lake Manyara National Park is a protected area in Tanzania’s Arusha and Manyara Regions, situated between Lake Manyara and the Great Rift Valley. It is administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority and covers an area of 325 km², including about 230 km² of lake surface.

   Dinner and relax at the Seronera Campsite.

8. Day 8: Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park

   • Breakfast, then leave for Serengeti. Arrive and start a game drive en route to the camp.
   • Enjoy more game drives in the afternoon until late evening.
   • The Serengeti is home to the world’s largest movement of animals, often called the “Great Migration.” More than 1.7 million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra, and 200,000 antelope make their way from the Ndutu region of the southern Serengeti northward through the whole length of the “endless plains” to Kenya’s Masai Mara.

   Dinner and relax at the Seronera Campsite.

9. Day 9: Serengeti to Ngorongoro

   • Early morning game drive in Serengeti until 1 pm.
   • Depart after lunch. Game drive en route to Ngorongoro and arrive at Simba campsite to spend the night there.
   • Ngorongoro is in northern Tanzania. It’s home to the vast, volcanic Ngorongoro Crater and “big 5” game (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino). Huge herds of wildebeests and zebras traverse its plains during their annual migration. Livestock belonging to the semi-nomadic Maasai tribe graze alongside wild animals. Hominin fossils found in the Olduvai Gorge date back millions of years.

   Dinner and relax at the Simba Campsite.

10. Day 10: Ngorongoro to Tarangire National Park

    • Breakfast, followed by a game drive. 
    • Leave for Ngorongoro for a safari game drive with picnic lunch.
    • Depart after 1 pm and start the drive to Tarangire National Park.
    • Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania‘s Manyara Region. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The Tarangire River is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry season. The Tarangire Ecosystem is defined by the long-distance migration of wildebeest and zebras. During the dry season, thousands of animals concentrate in Tarangire National Park from the surrounding wet-season dispersal and calving areas.

    Dinner and overnight at the campsite.

11. Day 11: Tarangire to Arusha

    • Breakfast, then leave for game drive until 1pm and start the drive to Arusha.

    Dinner and overnight stay at Venus Premier Hotel

12. Day 12: Arusha to Nairobi

    • Breakfast, then Board a shuttle to arrive in Nairobi at around 3 pm.