16/08/2016
14 Days/13 Nights Safari ---- Kenya /Tanzania Escapades
Day 1: Nairobi / Masai Mara
Pick up from your Nairobi hotel or Airport in the morning drive to Masai Mara through The Great African Rift Valley and Narok Town. You will arrive in time for lunch. check in at Mara River Lodge/ Ashnil Mara Camp and have lunch. Afternoon game drive through the park in search of the Lion, Cheetah, Elephant, Buffalo and other members of the Big five plus other animals.
Meal Plan: {Lunch, Dinner}
Day 2: Masai Mara
Early morning game drive game drive return back to lodge for breakfast. After breakfast Full day spend in the park with packed lunch in search of its popular residents like the well known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo and the dangerous Crocodiles with a visit to Mara river. Meals and overnight at Mara River Lodge (at an extra cost of $ US Dollars 450 per person - NOT included in the tour package. Kindly book in advance) – the ultimate safari experience! You leave camp before dawn – the sky is clear, the air is brisk and the conditions are perfect. As the sun rises over the Mara plains, your balloon lifts off, a bright splash of color rising into the blue. Watch as a stunning panorama unfolds below you when the balloon’s basket becomes your lookout post for a bird’s-eye view of the beauty of Africa.
Float silently just a few hundred feet above herds of wild animals. Gazelle and Impala watch curiously with their tails flagging – a warning to others that you are approaching. Upon landing, you celebrate your flight with a glass of champagne, after which the retrieve safari cruisers bring you back to your lodge.
Day 3 : Explore the Masai Mara
We rise early for breakfast and then depart for a full-day game drive. Wildlife in the Masai Mara is so abundant and so varied that you will find the early hours bring game sighting quite different from the drives later in the day.
In particular, be alert for many of the bird species that inhabit this wilderness. We enjoy a picnic lunch out in the African bush and then resume our game drive. Dinner is at the lodge this evening.
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner}
Day 4: Masai Mara – Serengeti National Park
Early Morning Gamedrive in Masai Mara then breakfast after breakfast Take your picnic lunch boxes and drive direct to isebania/sirare border of Kenya and Tanzania, meet with your Tanzanian native driver guide with an excellent 4 x 4 vehicle which is rebuilt for safari to give you a comfortable game viewing. Drive to Serengeti doing shallow game drives with picnic lunch on the way, you will arrive at the camp at around 1800hrs, check in at Serengeti Ikoma Tented Camp for dinner and overnight.
From Isebania to Serengeti National Park …… 152 kms approximately 2 hrs .
Serengeti is Africa's largest national park provides abundant of wildlife made it considered as one of the world heritage site for its nature. The park is famous for its ecosystem that involves the great world event of annual migration of over 1.5 million wildebeests and zebras include large number of carnivores. It is also home to Cheetah, lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, Wildebeest, Hartebeest, Topi, Eland, crocs Thomson and Grant Gazelle and many more?. Birds: Kori bustard ostrich, secretary birds and many more including the migrant birds from Eurasia, dinner and overnight at Ikoma Tented Camp booked on full board basis, FB
Day 5 : Explore Serengeti
A full day with morning and afternoon game drives to explore the plains, Dinner and overnight at Serengeti.
Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park It is the Migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back. The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants
Day 6: HALF DAY IN SERENGETI & TRANSFER TO NGORONGORO CONSERVATION AREA
Today you will leave after leisurely breakfast and spend the morning game viewing as you make your way out of Serengeti. You will enter Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will continue game viewing as you make your way to your overnight lodge/camp located on the rim of Ngorongoro main crater with spectacular views of the crater floor.
Meal Plan{ Breakfast,Lunch,Dinner}
Day 7: NGORONGORO MAIN CRATER GAME VIEWING
You will wake up early in the morning and drive down the Ngorongoro crater where you will spend full day exploring Ngorongoro crater which is a World Heritage Site and home to nearly 25,000 animals, giving you a very real chance of spotting the big five: lion, elephant, endangered black rhino, buffalo and leopard plus countless other African mammal species. You will witness the magnificent array of habitats, each with its own unique wildlife and flora. You will take time out to stretch your legs and enjoy a picnic lunch at Ngoitokitok Springs watching the hippos jostle for position in the water. After lunch you will proceed with game viewing and leave the crater floor in the late afternoon to drive to your next overnight lodge in the Karatu area, a region known for its coffee plantations, sugar cane and rice fields.
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner}
Day 8: Ngorongoro National Park – L. Manyara
Today you will descend 2000 feet (0ver 600 meters) to the floor of the crater for a half day crater tour. Explore the forest areas that are inhabited by monkeys and elephant, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos and the open savannah where the lions hunt for food, with a picnic lunch on Lake Manyara National park .Explore the park famed for tree climbing lions. .Dinner and overnight stay at Migunga Tented Camp
The Lake Manyara National park is serene and beautiful with main attractions of a rich bird life, tree-climbing lions, its elephants, and hippos that you can see at closer range than most other places. Lake Manyara is an alkaline lake and at certain times of the year hosts thousands of flamingos and a diversity of other bird life. Although it is one of the smallest parks, its vegetation is so diverse enabling it to host a variety of wildlife habitats.
Day 9: Depart for Tarangire National Park
Today we will enjoy a full day game-viewing drive in Tarangire National Park. We'll pack a picnic lunch. With nine distinct vegetation zones ranging from grassland to woodland, from deep gully vegetation to scattered rocky hilltops, Tarangire offers a diverse geological landscape as well as diverse wildlife, including an extraordinary concentration of bird life. Bulbous baobab trees dot the landscape and the valley of the Tarangire River dominates the entire scene. Tarangire is teeming with an amazing diversity of exotic flora and fauna including elephant, lion, leopard, and buffalo. Each of our driver-guides has extensive knowledge of the behavior of the great animals.
Elephants are plentiful here, traveling in larger herds than are normally seen elsewhere in East Africa. At lunchtime, we'll pause at a scenic spot for a leisurely picnic meal, the great African wilderness as our backdrop.
Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner}
Day 10 : Manyara National park to Arusha Flight to Zanzibar
Enjoy a morning game drive in Lake Manyara National Park whose inhabitants include hippos, monkeys, tree climbing lions, flamingos and other variety of birdlife. Mid morning, drive back to Arusha. Lunch in Arusha town at 1230hrs the proceed for a scheduled flight to Zanzibar . Upon arrival you will be picked by the hotel representative and be dropped at the HOTEL on Half Board Basis
Day 10 & 11: Great 2 Nights Stay by the Beach
Beautiful days by the beach where you will stay for the next 2 nights on a Dinner, Bed and Breakfast basis. This is the perfect end to a safari as you relax and laze away the days on the white sandy beaches or in the turquoise waters. We believe that THE Z HOTEL is the ideal retreat. The shores of Zanzibar host some of the world’s most splendid coral reefs making diving here one of the biggest attractions. The underwater marine life is a world of its own and you will want to spend hours exploring its surroundings. Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner}.
Day 12: Zanzibar Beach
The shores of Zanzibar host some of the world’s most splendid coral reefs making diving here one of the biggest attractions. The underwater marine life is a world of its own and you will want to spend hours exploring its surroundings.
Meal Plan {Breakfast, Lunch or Dinner}.
Day 13: Depart Zanzibar for your international flight back home
After your morning breakfast, you will have a trip to spice and botanical tour on this tour you will see and taste the tropical fruits, spices plantation or plots in the island. Later in the afternoon you will depart Zanzibar Airport your onward travel arrangements. Meal Plan {B}.
All prices include: all the parkfees/one way flight to Zanzibar/Fullboard accommodation in all properties except the Warere Town house where accommodation is on bed and breakfast/all transportation/water in the safari buses and jeep/services of an English speaking guide/all the transfers
All prices exclude : Tipps/items of personal nature/visas/international flights
