10 Days Lake Nakuru, masai mara , Serengeti national park, Ngorongoro crater and tarangire national park

This morning after breakfast, you depart with your guide, driving down into the Great Rift Valley, on your way to in Nakuru. After lunch at the Hotel or Lodge restaurant you’ll depart on an afternoon game drive in the park. Lake Nakuru National Park is famous for its flocks of flamingos, at times numbering in the millions. The Park has a rhino sanctuary and it also contains many leopards in addition to fantastic bird life and the usual plains game.

Overnight – Hotel Lodge or Tented Camp (all meals & activities)

Recommended lodges and Hotels are

• Flamingo Hill Tented Camp
• Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge
• Hotel Citymax
• Ziwa Bush Lodge

After an early breakfast, depart by to the famous Masai Mara Game Reserve, the jewel of Kenya’s game reserves. Located in the northern section of the great Serengeti Plains, it has one of the highest concentrations of wildlife anywhere in Africa. The reserve is the home of the “Big Five” … elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and rhino, as well as cheetah, zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, hippo, impala, gazelle and numerous other wildlife, and hundreds of species of birds. During August to October, the Mara is the scene of annual migration of millions of wildebeest up from the Serengeti plains in search of water and grasses.

Your home for the next two nights will be the secluded Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board. After getting settled in, enjoy picnic lunch and some time to relax. In the afternoon depart on your first game drive in the Mara. Return to Lodge or Tented Camp in time to freshen up and enjoy a sundowner around the campfire before dinner and overnight at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan - Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Recommended lodges and tented camps are;

• Mara Sentrim tented camp
• Mara Sopa lodge
• Mara Serena Safari Lodge
• Ilkeliani Tented Camp
• Ol Moran Tented Camp

You have one more day for multiple or all day game drives – it’s up to you and your guide and the movement of the animals. You may also want to take a walk in the hills escorted by Masai guides who demonstrate their extensive knowledge of plants and animals while surrounded by spectacular landscapes in every direction. Overnight will be at Lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan - Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

You will wake up early in the morning and have your early breakfast and depart for early morning game drive in Maasai Mara while driving out of the National Reserve heading to Isabenia on the Kenya Tanzania border where you will go through immigration formalities and change guides and drive to Serengeti National Park in Tanzania. It will be a long day of driving but the game drives in and out of the parks can be surprisingly incredible. You will do afternoon game drives in Serengeti National Park with overnight in lodge or Tented Camp 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

Two full days 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

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

Two full days 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

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 your breakfast you will drive to Lake Eyasi and join the Hadzabe tribe, one of the last true nomadic tribes of Africa, in a fascinating hunting or fruit gathering session. This is something absolutely unique and out of the beaten track which is a great cultural experience and authentic while providing incredible opportunities for world class photography. After staying a while with the tribe, visit the beautiful Lake Eyasi, a seasonal shallow salt lake on the floor of the Great Rift Valley at the base of the Serengeti Plateau. You can go for some hunting expedition with this tribesmen, share a lunch with them and learn how they make their herbal medicine and in the late afternoon you will drive back to Karatu for overnight in your lodge or Tented Camp on Full Board.

Meal Plan – Breakfast Lunch and Dinner

Recommended Lodges or Tented Camps are;

Recommended Lodge and Tented Lodge are;

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

After breakfast 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 early breakfast you will go for the last early morning game drives in Tarangire National Park and later your guide will drive you to Arusha airport for your afternoon flight to Zanzibar or you will be transferred to Nairobi Shuttle Terminal for your Arusha Nairobi shuttle where on arrival in Nairobi you will be dropped at Jomo Kenyatta International airport to take your outbound flight or you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro International airport for your connecting flight to your next destination.

Meal Plan – Breakfast and Lunch

Safari start at any time of the year.