On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, meet and transfer to your Nairobi Hotel

Overnight at a Nairobi Hotel

Meals: None

Day 2. Nairobi – Nakuru

After breakfast, depart for Lake Nakuru. It is 160 Kilometres from Nairobi to Lake Nakuru National Park, however, about 60 Kilometres out the tour arrives at the Mau escarpment. There is a ‘look out’ from where one can view this natural wonder the-Great Rift Valley. Here the road descends into the Great Rift Valley. On the descent one is surprised to see just off the road, a small Italian style chapel. It was built by the Italian prisoners of war who constructed this fine road. It should be mentioned here that this road from Nairobi to Nakuru was the first overland road to be surfaced with tarmac in Kenya. This park was famous only as a bird sanctuary especially the lesser and greater flamingos. However, now it is home to the white rhino and Rothschild giraffe, besides the herbivores like buck and antelope. Leopard can also be seen in this park. The vegetation is of the drier type. The flat-topped acacia and the candelabra cactus are a feature of the landscape.

Overnight at a lodge in Nakuru

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 3. Nakuru – Masai  Mara

After breakfast, drive across the plains to arrive at the Masai Mara National Reserve in time for lunch. An afternoon drive will doubtless offer a sight of the black-manned lion for which the Mara is famous, sheltering from the heat. This park has a large concentration of wildlife big and small. The Masai Mara is at the bottom of the Rift Valley. There is a definite change in vegetation. The trees on the slopes resemble gnarled olive trees, later their place is taken by flat-topped acacia.

Overnight in a lodge or camp in the Reserve.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 4. Masai Mara

A full day of game viewing and exploring of this Kenya’s finest reserve or alternatively a morning game drive followed by an afternoon swim in the cool water of the hotel swimming pool. You may witness the lion making a kill or a leopard enjoying the meal he had dragged up the tree with him. The vegetation is mostly savanna type with forested areas near the rivers and of course the dwarf acacias to cater for the giraffes. More than 60 species of animals are found here and countless bird species, this includes the Masai ostrich and the secretary bird. This is where the great migration of the wildebeest takes place

Overnight in a lodge or camp in the Reserve.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 5. Masai Mara – Naivasha

After breakfast drive to Naivasha which is arrived in tuime for lunch. Lake Naivasha has a surface of about 44 square miles. In 1929 it was found to have a depth of 34 feet. Crescent Island is part of the rim of submerged volcano whose crater forms the deepest part of the lake. In the driest years, the level of the lake dropped so that the whole rim of Crescent Island was exposed. In the distant past Lake Naivasha stood about 420 feet higher than it does now. Its outlet was at that time through the Njorowa Gorge (Hells Gate). Lake Naivasha is a bird watchers paradise.

Overnight in a lodge in Naivasha

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 6. Naivasha – Amboseli National Park

After breakfast, leave Nairobi in the morning and proceed to Amboseli. Drive across the Athi Plains where the Maasai once roamed fearlessly mingling with the game animals, zebra, giraffe, antelope and lion, grazing their livestock. Clumps of acacia grow along the Athi River and Giraffe may sometimes be seen in the distance feeding on the upper branches. The road is now the busy Nairobi-Mombasa highway.

Amboseli National Park is arrived at in time for lunch. An afternoon game drive will introduce you to the beauty of this park which lies in the shadow of Africa’s highest mountain, Kilima Njaro (19,340 ft). Return to your lodge at sunset to watch a spectacular African sunset.

Overnight at a lodge or a camp in Amboseli

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 7. Amboseli National Park

After breakfast, a whole day’s game viewing in the area of Lake Amboseli, which is a wide salt pan, consisting of permanent swamps. This area has much game, large and small. Elephant, rhino, buffalo, Burchell’s zebra, eland, Masai giraffe and small species of the antelope family, the common water buck, klipspringer, Grant’s gazelle, impala, topi, and the diminutive duiker among others. Lodges have a swimming pool where one can cool off in the mid-day heat before lunch, served with cool drinks by attentive staff.

After lunch, a game drive, returning at sunset for dinner and overnight stay.

After dinner take a seat overlooking the waterhole and saltlick to watch the procession of animals come to drink.

Overnight at a lodge or a camp in Amboseli

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 8. Amboseli – Lake Manyara

An early morning drive is bound to reveal either lion at a kill or enjoying a kill, with hyena and marabou stork waiting for their turn to feast. Mount Njaro will not be cloud covered at this time, revealing its majesty. The visitor can bid farewell to this mountain after breakfast before transferring to Namanga border point. After a brief border formality, depart for Arusha which is arrived in time for lunch. At 14.00 hrs depart Arusha for Lake Manyara arriving at the lodge in the early evening.  The lodges are situated on the Mto-wa-Mbu escarpment, overlooking the Great Rift Valley and the soda Lake Manyara.

Overnight at a lodge in Manyara

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner

Day 9. Manyara – Ngorongoro

After breakfast tour Lake Manyara National Park which is famous for it’s tree climbing lions and vast flocks of flamingoes.  After lunch depart for Ngorongoro arriving in the early evening.

Overnight at a lodge in Ngorongoro

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 10. Ngorongoro

After breakfast at the lodge proceed on a half-day crater tour with picnic lunch.  In the crater, which is considered the “Eighth wonder of the world” you can see a spectacular concentration of wildlife including the big five.  The crater has a variety of habitats including grassland, forest and swamp.  The lake on the crater floor is home to flamingoes and many other species of birds.  Return to the lodge in the early evening.

Overnight at a lodge or a camp in Ngorongoro

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 11. Ngorongoro – Tarangire National Park.

Overnight at a lodge or a camp in Tarangire

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 12. Tarangire-Arusha.
After breakfast, drive back to Arusha which is arrived in time for lunch

Included features:

• Pick up/drop off in your Nairobi Hotel
• Accommodation as described (or similar), based on double occupancy
• Meals as described by Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
• 02 litters bottled mineral water per person per day whilst on safari
• Transportation by specially equipped comfortable Tourist Van with a Pop-up Roof (Guaranteed window seat)
• Services of a professional and experienced English speaking driver/guide
• Game drives and sightseeing as described in the itinerary, inclusive of applicable entrance fees
• Applicable local and government taxes on accommodation and transportation.

Not included:

• Airport transfers airport/hotel /airport
• International Airfare, airport taxes and security related fees
• Meals not described in the itinerary
• Tips and gratuities to driver/guide; hotel/camp and restaurant staff; room service etc.
• Travel Insurance
• Items of a personal nature i.e., telephone/internet usage, laundry, bottled water and other alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, etc.
• Any optional tours or excursions not mentioned in the itinerary

Note: The above rates are subject to availability of rooms at the time of booking