Countries: Kenya and Tanzania
Destinations: Nairobi, Lake Nakuru National Park, Lake Naivasha National Park, Masai Mara National Reserve, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Crater Reserve, Tarangire National Park, Arusha, and Kilimanjaro Airport.
Itinerary at Glance
Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park for game drive
Day 3: Transfer to Lake Naivasha National Park for game drive
Day 4: Transfer to Masai Mara for afternoon game drive
Day 5: Game drive in Masai Mara National Reserve
Day 6: Game drive in Masai Mara National Reserve
Day 7: Transfer to Northern Serengeti National Park
Day 8: Game drive in Northern Serengeti National Park
Day 9: Transfer to Central Serengeti National Park
Day 10: Game drive in Ngorongoro crater
Day 11: Game drive in Tarangire National Park, and transfer to Arusha
Day 12: Departure
Trip Overview
This 12 days best of Kenya and Tanzania wildlife adventure safari, will reward you with one of the best lifetime wildlife safari experience, with the highlights, of top Kenya and Tanzania safari destinations. You will enjoy game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park, Lake Naivasha National Park and Masai Mara National Reserve, in Kenya, before crossing over to Tanzania and explore Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Tarangire National Park. This great wildlife safari, assures you of the BIG FIVE encounter, with great bird life and wildlife game drive experience, with arrival in Nairobi and departure in Kilimanjaro/ Arusha Airport.
Days are as action-packed or as gentle as you prefer.
Trip Highlights
- Wildlife safari in Masai Mara Reserve
- Wildlife safari in Lake Nakuru National Park
- Wildlife safari in Serengeti National Park
- Wildlife safari in Lake Naivasha National Park
- Wildlife safari in Ngorongoro crater
- Wildlife safari in Tarangire National Park
- Cultural experience
- Game drives experience
- Scenic boat ride on Lake Naivasha
Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi
Day Itinerary
Welcome to Nairobi – Kenya! Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport aboard an evening flight, and after clearance with immigration, you will proceed to the arrivals area where your One More Adventure Safaris representative will meet you and assist you into your vehicle. Transfer to your city hotel for check in with the rest of the evening at leisure.
Overnight stay at: Azure Hotel Nairobi /similar.
Meal Plan: Bed and Breakfast basis.
Day 2: Transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park (Approx 4 hrs driving time)
Day Itinerary
After breakfast, meet your safari guide, jump into your jeep and drive past the Aberdare ranges and the Great Rift Valley floor on your way to Lake Nakuru. Lunch at your lodge followed by game drives from 1600 hrs. Some of the rare sightings found here are the endangered White Rhinos and Rothschild’s Giraffes. The popular pink necked lesser Flamingos may be spotted here seasonally. Other wildlife found here include Lions, Buffalos, Spotted Hyenas, Elands, Water Bucks, Zebras and birds like Herons, Pelicans, Grebes, Egyptian Geese, Cormorants, Egrets, and Ibis among several others.
Overnight stay at: Lake Nakuru Lodge / similar.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 3: Transfer to Lake Naivasha
Day Itinerary
Breakfast followed by a morning game drive at Lake Nakuru National. Check out by 1000 hrs and drive to the nearby Lake Naivasha, to your booked lodge, where you will check in and have lunch. After lunch, you will enjoy a scenic boat ride on the fresh water Lake. This gives you an opportunity to get up close with wildlife found here.
Overnight stay at: Naivasha Kongoni Lodge / similar.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 4: Transfer to Masai Mara National Reserve (Approx 5 hrs driving time)
Day Itinerary
A sumptuous breakfast will be served at the lodge’s main restaurant from 0630 hrs. Check out of rooms by the latest 0800 hrs and meet your safari driver guide at the lobby.
You will board your customized safari vehicle and depart for the world famous Masai Mara National Reserve, where you will spend a great time, doing endless game drives for two great nights.
You will arrive at your Mara lodge in time for lunch. This evening, you will enjoy your first game drive. The Masai Mara whose Eco system is a southern extension to Serengeti National Park offers the discerning traveler a lifetime opportunity to experience wild nature at its best. Your magical Mara experience begins here with a possibility of spotting some if not all of THE BIG 5 among several other wildlife and bird species.
Overnight stay at: La Maison Royale Masai Mara / similar.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 5: Explore Masai Mara National Reserve
Day Itinerary
You will enjoy early morning and late afternoon game drives at dawn and dusk respectively when the wildlife is more active. You may also opt for a near full day game drive, departing the lodge with packed lunch with the day spent in the vast park in search of wildlife sightings. This culminates with a picnic lunch served on the banks of the Mara River before driving back to your lodge.
This reserve’s open savannahs abound with game density, prolific bird life as well as the annual instinct led wildebeest migration involving over 1.2 million Wildebeests, Zebras and Gazelles which takes place every year between July and October.
This reserve is home to the BIG 5, which are Lions, Leopards, Buffalo’s, Rhinos and Elephants amongst several other animal species. Bird-life is also prolific in the reserve with over 450 bird species having been recorded as residents of this reserve.
Overnight stay at: La Maison Royale Masai Mara / similar.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 6: Masai Mara Game drives
Day Itinerary
You will spend another full day game drive exploring and discovering the vast Masai Mara reserve. You will head out with your guide, and spend another day exploring the park, trying to find what you missed on the previous game drives, of course, a new day, and another strange encounter.
Overnight stay at: La Maison Royale Masai Mara / similar.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Day 7: Transfer to Northern Serengeti- Travel time + 8.5 hrs
Day Itinerary
After breakfast, collect your picnic lunch and depart for the seemingly endless plains; The Serengeti. You enjoy a three-hour drive to the Isebania border crossing point, clear with immigration’s and proceed to northern Serengeti. You will enjoy en route game viewing in search of the BIG CATS that reside here.
Overnight stay at: Ang`ata Tented Camp North/ similar
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 8: Northern Serengeti game drive
Day Itinerary
You will spend the full day exploring the northern part of the Serengeti as you search for major wildlife sightings.
This is where you can witness the great migration between June and October as they graze in the savannah woodlands and along the shores of the crocodile infested Mara River with frequent River crossings between the south and north being witnessed regularly. After the calving season in southern Serengeti between February and March, the migration moves to Seronera in Central Serengeti between April and May, before arriving north from June. Big predators like Lion, Cheetah, Leopard, and scavenging opportunists like jackals, hyenas, vultures, Marabou Storks are always trailing the migration so you also have a chance of catching them in action.
Overnight stay at: Ang`ata Tented Camp North/ similar
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 9: North to Central Serengeti
Day Itinerary
You will enjoy your breakfast, morning game drives in northern Serengeti and then depart for Central Serengeti with en route game viewing. This afternoon, you will explore the most popular part of the Siringet- the Seronera area. The abundance of both predator and prey here will amaze you as you cover different habitat and geographical areas during your game drives.
Overnight stay at: Ang`ata Tented Camp Central/ similar
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 10: Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater – Karatu
Day Itinerary
After breakfast, you depart to the Ngorongoro Conservation area. En route, you may visit the Ol Dupai Gorge, the museum where archaeological collections by Louis and Mary Leakey are displayed insitu. This is an optional opportunity to learn about human evolution and the early man. This afternoon, you descend down the steep walls of the caldera for game drives along the crater floor. Lions, Elephants (including huge bulls), Cheetah, Spotted Hyena, Black Rhino, Gnus, Jackals, Baboons, Buffalos, Flamingos (on the crater lakes), Hippos and even the rare Caracal are some of the animals you might spot here. You will then proceed to Karatu along the Ngorongoro highlands where you enjoy your dinner and overnight stay.
Overnight stay at: Farm of Dreams Lodge/ similar
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 11: Drive to Tarangire for game drives, later, drive to Arusha.
Day Itinerary
After breakfast at your lodge, you will embark to Tarangire National Park for game drives and game viewings.
Tarangire is Tanzania’s third largest national park and sanctuary for an unusually large elephant population. Majestic baobab trees are also an interesting feature of the park, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. Your game drives may reveal lions, giraffes, wildebeest, elephants, Zebras, wildebeests and much more. Lunchboxes shall be served to you by your driver guide at the picnic site inside the park with some rest before proceeding with game drives. Later after amazing hours of exploration, you will exit the park and drive to Arusha for dinner, and overnight.
Overnight stay at: Kibo Palace Hotel/ similar
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 12: Transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport for departure.
Day Itinerary
Following breakfast at your lodge, and depending on your flight time, transfer to the Kilimanjaro International Airport for your departure flight back home.
Thank you for choosing One More Adventure Safaris for your Kenya, and Tanzania wildlife safari experience. It is always sad to say goodbye, but we know that you will have made some great new friends and some very special memories in this beautiful region of East Africa. We hope to see you back again someday for one more adventure safari! End of Safari.
Meal Plan: Breakfast
The Package Includes:
- Pick up and drop off from International Airports;
- 1 nights’ accommodation in Nairobi on bed and breakfast basis
- Land cruiser Jeep 4×4 Safari Vehicle with pop-up roof for game view;
- Experience English-Speaking Safari Guide;
- All park entry, transit and crater fees;
- Visit to a Masai Village bordering Masai Mara (pay a donation of USD 20 per person locally),
- All activities under the program;
- All accommodation under the program on full board basis;
- Three meals per day on the safari;
- Bottled water throughout the safari;
- Binocular (1 per safari vehicle);
- Mto wa Mbu Cultural visit + hot local lunch,
- Applicable government taxes on tour services, concession fees etc.
- Flying Doctor Emergency Evacuation Cover (Must have valid travel insurance)
The Package Excludes:
- Drinks and beverages while at the tented camps & lodges;
- Laundry at the tented camps & lodges and all other costs incurred at the hotels;
- Change of plan or deviation from itinerary
- International Flights(to and fro, your home country to Kenya), Visa (Kenya Visa, Tanzania Visa and East African Visa);
- Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees;
- Hotels/ lodges imposed increase fees
- All things of personal nature;
- Tipping for hotel and safari staff (highly recommended especially for your safari guides and driver)
- Medical / travel insurance (recommended)
- Porters while trekking
- All other items not listed in the inclusions list above.
- Any kind of health requirements/ tests
Please contact us for a free detailed quote on the option of your choice. We can tailor a request that suits your interests, and budget, as well as we can change or upgrade the lodge options. Write to us with more details about your safari.