Kenya & Tanzania Safaris 2027

Arrive Nairobi

Arrive in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, flight TBA. Meet safari driver-guide and after safari briefing, transfer to your city hotel for overnight. Lunch and Dinner on own arrangements; pay direct.

Nairobi to Lake Nakuru National Park

Breakfast in the hotel and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park heading straight for a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park. Established in 1961 and gazette in 1968 as a National Park, the park has Kenya’s largest population of rhinos. The park is home to Lion Hills, Makalia waterfalls, unique vegetation, Picturesque landscape, yellow acacia woodlands and a wide range of birds most famous being Flamingoes and Pelicans. Located in the Great Rift Valley Lake System, the park is also as an ecologically significant region having been named a RAMSAR Site and Important Bird Area. Covering 73 square miles (188 square kilometers), Lake Nakuru is world famous for flamingos, and was created a National Park to protect, its stunning flocks of lesser flamingo which literally turn its shores pink. These are the millions of flamingoes seeking their food in the salty deep-green waters of Lake Nakuru. The park is indeed a birds’ paradise hosting over 500 species. Animals include: Thomson gazelles, Grants gazelles, impalas, waterbucks, giraffes, buffaloes or even black rhino, leopards and about 450 birds species in total. Buffalo, leopard, lion, Rothschild Giraffe, White and Black Colobus monkey are plentiful in the forest. The bush lands offer eland, Steinbok, impala, Chandler’s Reedbuck and dik dik, whilst rock hyrax and klipspringer occupy the cliffs and escarpment. Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge

Lake Naivasha to Masai Mara Game Reserve

After breakfast drive to Masai Mara Game Reserve, Lunch at your hotel and enjoy afternoon game drive in the Game Reserve. Masai Mara Game Reserve: The Reserve, the Land of Big Cat Diary and Disney’s African Cats, is considered a “must see” for any new and repeat visitor traveling on a safari to Kenya. It is on the “to do” list for many Kenyans and visitors alike because the park is graced by a wide variety of unique and exquisite wildlife and birds. Masai Mara is the best place to see the “Big Five” animals (elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos and buffalo). Home of the Great Wildebeest Migration: The location of the ’Annual Great Wildebeest Migration’ – one of the natural wonders of the world – is a gloriously beautiful, wildlife-rich savannah landscape. The annual wildebeest migration from June to October consists of over 1.5 million wildebeests, gazelles gnus and Zebras roar converge at the border of Tanzania’s Serengeti and Kenya’s Masai Mara making a spectacular entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to horizon, before finally plunging wildly into the raging waters of the Mara River, creating a frenzy as the fight against swift currents and waiting hungry crocodiles takes priority. Those that survive crocodiles and raging waters cross over to the patiently waiting predators such as hyenas, jackals, leopards and lions for another survival battle. Wildlife – The Mara is known as one of the finest wildlife destinations in the World. There is an excellent chance of seeing the Big 5, cheetah, serval, hyena, bat-eared foxes, black-backed and side-striped jackals, hippo, crocodile, baboons, warthog, topi, eland, Thompson’s gazelle, Grant’s etc Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge

Full Day in Masai Mara Game Reserve

reakfast in the hotel and enjoy morning game drive. After morning game drive, return to the hotel for lunch. After lunch depart for afternoon game drive until evening. Optional Afternoon Visit to a Masai Cultural Village: This afternoon, join the Masai dancers donning their African regalia and the jingling on their feet, flow by the rhythm of African beats and dance to their tunes that will leave you refreshed. Cost is $35 per person. (Price guaranteed only with advanced booking) Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge

Full Day in Masai Mara Game Reserve

Breakfast in the hotel and enjoy morning game drive. After morning game drive, return to the hotel for lunch. After lunch depart for afternoon game drive until evening. Optional Masai Mara Balloon Ride: Early morning wake up at 5.30am and transfer to balloon launch site where you will gather for takeoff. Enjoy early morning ballooning over the plains, getting a bird’s eye view of the game below as the sun creeps slowly over the horizon. After approximately one hour aloft, the balloon lands and we transfer to the bush breakfast site. The smell of bacon, sausages and eggs drift on the breeze as we sample exotic Kenyan fruits and homemade pastries and, if you wish, glasses of bubbly to toast our flight, a tradition initiated by the Montgolfier brothers. Cost Per Person: $580. (Price guaranteed with advanced booking) Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge

Masai Mara Game Reserve to Serengeti National Park via Isebania Border

reakfast at the lodge and depart for Serengeti National Park with Picnic Lunch from Kenya side, Pick up at Isebania border and you will be transferred to Serengeti National park. Lunch at a picnic site on the way. Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Simba Lodge

Full Day in Serengeti National Park

Full day is spent in this spectacle of predator versus prey dominates Tanzania’s greatest park. Golden-manned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River, while a high density of cheetahs prowls the southeastern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Simba Lodge

Serengeti National Park

After breakfast depart with picnic lunch to Ngorongoro Crater for half day crater tour. The world-famous Ngorongoro Crater is at the eastern edge of the Serengeti in northern Tanzania. Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera of the once-volcanic Ngorongoro, shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth, ringed with towering walls and sheltering forests, grasslands, fresh springs, and a large soda lake. Late afternoon drive to your lodge in Karatu. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Coffee Lodge

Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro

After breakfast, check out and drive to Arusha, arrive in Arusha in time for lunch at a local restaurant, after lunch transfer to Four Points by Sheraton Arusha. Afternoon at leisure. Dinner and overnight at Four Points by Sheraton Arusha (Traditional Room)

Ngorongoro to Arusha

After breakfast transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport for inn time for your flight to Nairobi, Arrive in Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and drive to a local restaurant for lunch, after lunch drive to Giraffe Center. Giraffe Center: The giraffe center is a wonderful and refreshing experience undertaken during our Nairobi excursions in Nairobi. The headquarters for AFEW, the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife also known as the Giraffe Center is a non-governmental, non-profit making organization, which was founded by Betty and Jock Leslie-Melville in 1979. Made famous by ‘Daisy Rothschild,’ a giraffe calf rescued from Soi on the border of Western Kenya, Giraffe Manor was established in 1983 as a sanctuary for the then endangered Rothschild giraffe. The breeding program has been a great success and visitors can now watch these gentle giants at eye level from a raised platform. There is also the opportunity to learn more about giraffe at the interpretation center and hand-feed them while watching the semi-tame family of warthogs snuffle around their hooves in search of tidbits. The tour gives a completely up close and personal interaction where guests have the opportunity to view giraffes as well as feed them. Here is their website link: http://giraffecenter.org/ Transfer to airport in time for your home bound flight.

Departure to go back to USA