9 Days Kenya and Tanzania Real experience Safari

After breakfast you will be met by your guide in your hotel in Nairobi or pick up from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and depart by road south towards Amboseli National Park. The park and surrounding game reserve covers 1,260 square miles and is mostly arid woodland with a series of swamps and lakes that provide a year round water supply for the wildlife. Amboseli sits in the shadow of Mt Kilimanjaro and is known for it’s large elephant population and other big game that is attracted to the area and it’s underground springs fed from Mt. Kilimanjaro.

You will arrive at the lodge or Tented Camp in time for lunch. In the afternoon you’ll depart on a game drive in search of Amboseli’s famous elephants and with luck Kilimanjaro with be clear for some sunset photos. After game drives you will drive back to your lodge Or Tented Camp for Dinner and overnight.

Meal Plan – Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps are’

• Amboseli Sopa Lodge
• Kibo safari Camp
• Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
• Ol Tukai Lodge

After breakfast you will spend 1 more full day exploring this beautiful area on morning and afternoon wildlife viewing activities. Return to your Lodge or Tented Camp in time for a sundowner before dinner.

Meal Plan – Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps are’

• Amboseli Sopa Lodge
• Kibo safari Camp
• Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
• Ol Tukai Lodge

After breakfast, depart doing game drives as you drive to Namanga Town on the Kenya and Tanzania Border where after Immigration formalities you will change guides Safari cars and continue to Arusha Town. You will stop in Arusha town to do some shopping and depart to Tarangire.

After shopping in Arusha you depart for Tarangire National Park with packed lunch boxes for full day game drives. Tarangire has a diverse landscape, with nine vegetation zones. Ancient Baobab trees (the largest trees in Africa) dot the landscape dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River, that meanders through the park attracts an abundance of wildlife, from elephants, lions, leopards, buffalos, zebras, giraffes, antelopes to a variety of colorful birds. The park is very famous for having the greatest elephant population in Tanzania, and during a safari there you will have the chance of quietly observing many families of elephants interacting. With a stop for a picnic lunch in an observatory inside the park where you will be able to view animals drinking water in the river (and many times lions attacking a thirsty zebra or wildebeest), continue game viewing and finally drive to your lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan - Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps

• Tarangire Sopa Lodge
• Barunge Tented Lodge
• Tarangire Simba Lodge
• Sangaiwe Tented Camp

After breakfast you will go for morning game drives exploring Tarangire National park with packed lunch boxes. After your game drives you will drive to your lodge or Tented camp for Dinner.

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps

Sangaiwe Tented Camp

Tarangire Sopa Lodge

Barunge Tented Lodge

Tarangire Simba Lodge

Depart after breakfast to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day game drive with packed lunch boxes for your picnic lunch. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to a large numbers of buffalos, giraffes, elephants, impalas and a Hippo lake, where large numbers of hippos usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 different species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places where you'll be able to see the Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle. This park has become famous for the climbing lions and the flamingos in the lake shore. The landscapes of these park are absolutely stunning, very different from the Serengeti for example. The game drives are done along the shore of the lake, providing incredible views of giraffes and buffalos in the foreground with the lake, flamingos and flat plains in the horizon. Great photo opportunities! In the late afternoon you drive to Lodge or Tented Camp for overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan - Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps are

• Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
• Bougainvillea safari Lodge
• Eileen Lodge
• Kudu Lodge

After breakfast you depart to the famous Serengeti National Park, home of the Great Migration. Your drive today is spectacular as you drive up the crater highlands, stopping at the rim for a birds-eye view of the spectacular Ngorongoro Crater. Continuing on, as you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti mean "endless plains" in Kiswahili and this 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson's gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds. You will spend two nights in Lodge or Tented Camp in Central Serengeti.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps are;

• Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp
• Serengeti Sopa Lodge
• Serengeti Serena Lodge
• Green Hills Tented Camp

After Breakfast you will have a full day in the Serengeti with a flexible schedule and unlimited mileage. As you crest the hillside, spread out before you, as far as the eyes can see, is the vast Serengeti. Serengeti means endless plains in Kiswahili and this 6,900 sq. mile (18,000 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 million large animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson's gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrates throughout the park. Many smaller animals like rock hyrax, bat-eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboons and African hares also inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds. You will after game drives drive to your lodge or Tented camp for dinner and overnight on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps are;

• Serengeti Heritage Tented Camp
• Serengeti Sopa Lodge
• Serengeti Serena Lodge
• Green Hills Tented Camp

Extra tour recommended: The wonderful balloon flight over the Serengeti plains at an extra rate of 500 USD per client.

Today you will wake up very early to do an early morning game drive before breakfast, to spot the animals when they are more active and also to have a fantastic sun rise in front of you. The sunrise in the African Savannah is one of the most beautiful experiences one can have. After the game drive, return to the campsite for late breakfast. You will then drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and then to Ngorongoro crater rim the 8th natural wonder of the world. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you'll ever see in your life.

On the way from the Serengeti, you have option to stop at the famous Olduvai Gorge at an extra cost of 20 USD per client and pay directly, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made their discovery of the first man that walked the earth. After attending a short lecture describing the archeological digs and geology of the gorge, you'll have time to visit the small museum. Another option is a Masai village Cultural visit at 50 USD for the group and pay directly still inside Ngorongoro Conservation area and then drive to Ngorongoro Crater Rim .

On arrival at the Ngorongoro Crater rim you will drive inside the crater for game drives and you will do afternoon game drives inside the crater and in the later afternoon you will drive out of Ngorongoro Crater and Drive to Karatu for overnight in your lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodge and Tented Lodge are;

• The Retreat Ngorongoro
• Bougainvillea Safari Lodge
• Eileen Lodge
• Kudu Lodge

After breakfast you will drive to Mto wa Mbu for Cultural activities with your guide and in the afternoon you will drive back to Arusha where your guide will transfer you to Kilimanjaro International airport for your late afternoon flight to Zanzibar or you will connect with your outbound flight to your next destination.

Meal Plan – Breakfast and Lunch

Safari start at any time of the year.