Classic East Africa: Kenya & Tanzania

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Amazing Experience

Overview

  • Arrive in Nairobi, Kenya, unwinding at Upper Hill before tomorrow’s safari adventures.
  • Encounter Amboseli elephants with Mount Kilimanjaro backdrop on morning and afternoon game drives, Kenya.
  • Cruise Lake Naivasha, Kenya, spotting hippos and birdlife along the Great Rift Valley shores.
  • Track Big Five on Masai Mara, Kenya, with sweeping savannah views from Oloololo Escarpment.
  • Cross into Tanzania for Serengeti game drives and Ngorongoro Crater vistas before departing Arusha.

 

Trip Includes

  • Private arrival and departure airport transfers in Nairobi
  • Private arrival and departure airstrip transfers
  • 1 night of first-class accommodation in Nairobi
  • 2 nights of first-class accommodation near Amboseli National Park
  • 1 night of first-class accommodation near Lake Naivasha
  • 2 nights of first-class accommodation in the Masai Mara
  • 2 nights of first-class accommodation in Serengeti National Park
  • 2 nights first-class accommodation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area
  • Transport by 1 private 4x4 7-seat vehicle while on Safari
  • Services of a qualified English-speaking driver/guide
  • Included Activities & Sightseeing:
    • 1 private morning game drive & 2 shared afternoon game drives in Amboseli National Park
    • Local visit while in Amboseli
    • Boat ride on Lake Naivasha
    • 1 private morning & 2 afternoon game drives in Masai Mara National Reserve
    • 1 private morning & 2 afternoon game drives in Serengeti National Park
    • Visit to Olduvai Gorge
    • 1 half-day crater tour at Ngorongoro
    • Sundowner Cocktail at Lemala Ngorongoro
  • All Park & Concession fees
  • Scheduled flights Masai Mara - Migori / Tarime - Serengeti, including taxes
  • 1 liter of mineral water per person per day while on a road safari
  • 10 breakfasts, 10 lunches, 9 dinners

 

Trip Excludes

  • Travel Insurance
  • International and domestic airfare & airfare taxes unless specifically indicated
  • Meals and beverages not explicitly listed as included
  • Gratuities
  • Optional excursions
  • Items of a personal nature
  • Passport & Visa fees if applicable

 

Summary

Terms and Conditions

Prices are "from" per person based on twin/double share accommodation and for travel in low season. Seasonal surcharges and blackout dates may apply. Limited seat/spaces and all pricing is subject to change and availability. Rates for single or triple travellers are available on request - please inquire.

 

Upon arrival at Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by local representative and transferred to your hotel. The remainder of the day is at your leisure.

 

Arrive Nairobi

 

Your Accommodation

Radisson Blu Hotel Nairobi

A convenient base for your safari or business trip in Kenya, the new Radisson Blu Hotel Nairobi, Upper Hill stands in the heart of the fast-growing business district. The hotel is just a 20-minute drive from both the airport and Nairobi National Park, a well-known wildlife preserve with herds of zebras, wildebeests and giraffes. 271 rooms and suites offer thoughtful amenities like Free high-speed, wireless Internet and a mini bar along with lovely city or park views.

Radisson Blu Hotel Nairobi

After a relaxed breakfast, you will be picked up from your hotel and driven to Amboseli National Park, arriving in time for lunch. This afternoon, head out on your first game drive in the park. This is the best spot to see free-ranging elephants up close... guaranteed. Framing these regal creatures is the towering backdrop of Mt. Kilimanjaro. You'll enjoy Africa's best views of its snowy peak, weather permitting, in the early morning and late afternoon.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Nairobi to Amboseli National Park

 

Your Accommodation

Kilima Safari Camp

Kilima Safari Camp is located in the area of Amboseli National Park, next to the Kimana Gate Park entrance. The camp is set out on a 360-acre site with spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro. The Kimana area of Amboseli is famous for its large elephant population, where guests can enjoy great game viewing from their tents which face the animal water pools. Kilima offers 72 tents, all set towards Mount Kilimanjaro. The camp has an open general public area offering bar and dinning services as well as a nature room with wildlife information and a place for guest lecture. There is a free form swimming pool and a massage centre available for some great relaxation. A clinic with a resident nurse available to guests. The camp has a fleet of 4x4 vehicles with driver guides. Our local naturalist is available to give guests free lectures and local Maasai dancers also entertain clients in the evening. For a small charge, Maasai Morans are available to take clients on game walks allowing them to walk freely enjoying the openness and beauty of the park. Only from Kilima Safari Camp can one enjoy the special experience of moonlit bush dinners. This excursion involves a night game drive and a barbecue dinner in the Amboseli plains.

Kilima Safari Camp

Today, you'll spend the day in Amboseli National Park with scheduled morning and late afternoon game drives. Amboseli National Park offers unparalleled views of Mount Kilimanjaro- Africa's tallest mountain. Home to large herds of elephants as well as lions, leopards, cheetahs, buffalo, and more. You will also experience a visit to a local Masai village to learn about their culture and way of life.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Amboseli National Park

 

Your Accommodation

Kilima Safari Camp

Kilima Safari Camp is located in the area of Amboseli National Park, next to the Kimana Gate Park entrance. The camp is set out on a 360-acre site with spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro. The Kimana area of Amboseli is famous for its large elephant population, where guests can enjoy great game viewing from their tents which face the animal water pools. Kilima offers 72 tents, all set towards Mount Kilimanjaro. The camp has an open general public area offering bar and dinning services as well as a nature room with wildlife information and a place for guest lecture. There is a free form swimming pool and a massage centre available for some great relaxation. A clinic with a resident nurse available to guests. The camp has a fleet of 4x4 vehicles with driver guides. Our local naturalist is available to give guests free lectures and local Maasai dancers also entertain clients in the evening. For a small charge, Maasai Morans are available to take clients on game walks allowing them to walk freely enjoying the openness and beauty of the park. Only from Kilima Safari Camp can one enjoy the special experience of moonlit bush dinners. This excursion involves a night game drive and a barbecue dinner in the Amboseli plains.

Kilima Safari Camp

After another delicious breakfast at your camp depart for the Rift Valley region and on to Lake Naivasha Traveling over the scenic floor of the Great Rift Valley. Arrival for Lunch at The Enashipai Resort. In the afternoon, take a scenic boat safari across the lake, sailing by hippos, and fish and taking in cormorants, and pelicans, and perhaps see zebra and antelope grazing over on the shore.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Amboseli National Park to Lake Naivasha

 

Your Accommodation

Enashipai Resort

Culturally rich, endowed with nature, historically decadent. Naivasha has many faces and is the source of our inspiration. Enashipai Resort and Spa is where a strong local heritage and abundant nature is blended with pure luxury, and then delivered with a generous sense of warmth. Honestly, we find it hard to imagine a happier place. And we hope you will agree. Join us, kick back and relax in serene surroundings. Karibu.

Enashipai Resort

After breakfast, proceed across the beautiful Great Rift Valley to the world-famous Masai Mara Game Reserve with a stop for lunch enroute. Situated in the southeastern corner of Kenya, the reserve is home to the greatest concentration of large mammals on earth. The Masai Mara and the Mara River form part of the world-famous Great Annual Wildebeest Migration and timing your Masai Mara Safari to coincide with this can be critical if this is the reason for your visit. After lunch enjoy an enthralling game-viewing drive. Spotting lions, cheetahs and many other spectacular predators is the highlight of your day. You might even spot a traditional Maasai Warrior who is still quite common in these parts. Later proceed to your camp for check-in, dinner, and Overnight.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Lake Naivasha to Masai Mara National Reserve

 

Your Accommodation

Mara Engai Lodge

Nestled amongst pristine Kenyan Ravine forest. Set 1000ft high on the Oloololo Siria Escarpment with 120 kms of breath-taking views over the famous Masai Mara Game Reserve and onto migration route overlooking into Serengeti. Features large, luxury, tented-suites and private viewing decks , walking safaris, bush dinners and bush breakfasts, sundowners, masai naming ceremony, learn how to make a fire like a masai, and picnics along with meals overlooking the entire Masai Mara.

Mara Engai Lodge

For those who wish to partake, there is an optional early morning balloon ride with champagne-style breakfast (at an additional cost). Early wakeup call and embark on a morning game drive and later proceed to the appointed site for bush breakfast provided by the lodge. Enjoy a game drive as you make your way back to your lodge for some leisure time and lunch. This afternoon, it is off on another thrilling game drive in the reserve as you search out the many inhabitants that call this area home.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Masai Mara National Reserve

 

Your Accommodation

Mara Engai Lodge

Nestled amongst pristine Kenyan Ravine forest. Set 1000ft high on the Oloololo Siria Escarpment with 120 kms of breath-taking views over the famous Masai Mara Game Reserve and onto migration route overlooking into Serengeti. Features large, luxury, tented-suites and private viewing decks , walking safaris, bush dinners and bush breakfasts, sundowners, masai naming ceremony, learn how to make a fire like a masai, and picnics along with meals overlooking the entire Masai Mara.

Mara Engai Lodge

After another delicious breakfast, as you bid farewell to your Kenyan guide, you will be transferred to the local airstrip for your scheduled flight to Migori. On arrival at Migori, you will have a short road transfer to the neighboring Tarime border where you will go through the normal immigration and customs procedures. Proceed to the Airstrip for your onward flight to Serengeti National Park, on arrival you will be met by your new driver for the remainder of the trip. Enjoy a Picnic lunch en route to Serengeti National Park with an afternoon game drive as you make your way to your accommodations (time permitting).

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Masai Mara National Reserve to Serengeti National Park

 

Your Accommodation

Lemala Ewanjan Camp

Lemala Ewanjan is a deluxe camp with 10 beautiful suite tents set along the western slopes of Makoma Hill within the game-rich Seronera Valley in a secluded part of Central Serengeti. The camp offers breath taking views of the Serengeti plains and its prolific wildlife, sunsets and sunrises. The Seronera Valley is renowned for fantastic year-round game viewing due to abundance of residence cats. Between April and June and November through January the area receives the wildebeest migration, turning the area into an exciting wildlife paradise.

Lemala Ewanjan Camp

Today enjoy the full day in exploring the Serengeti National Park with morning and afternoon game drives in the Park. Undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world, Serengeti National Park is unequaled for its natural beauty and the greatest concentration of plains game anywhere. Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder, the 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.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Serengeti National Park

 

Your Accommodation

Lemala Ewanjan Camp

Lemala Ewanjan is a deluxe camp with 10 beautiful suite tents set along the western slopes of Makoma Hill within the game-rich Seronera Valley in a secluded part of Central Serengeti. The camp offers breath taking views of the Serengeti plains and its prolific wildlife, sunsets and sunrises. The Seronera Valley is renowned for fantastic year-round game viewing due to abundance of residence cats. Between April and June and November through January the area receives the wildebeest migration, turning the area into an exciting wildlife paradise.

Lemala Ewanjan Camp

After breakfast, check out of your accommodations and make your way to Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world. Its enduring charm stems from its overwhelming beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Visit Ol Duvai Gorge enroute, arriving at the Lodge in time for Lunch. Enjoy the afternoon at leisure at your camp.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Serengeti to Ngorongoro Conservation Area

 

Your Accommodation

Lemala Camp Ngorongoro

Lemala Ngorongoro is set in an ancient acacia forest close to the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. The camp has 9 spacious tents, positioned to provide privacy and have minimal impact on the forest environment. They accommodate 2 queen-size beds, and include luxuries like warm, winter weight duvets, hot water bottles and gas heaters. The en-suite bathrooms have a dressing area, flush toilet and a large safari-style shower.

Lemala Camp Ngorongoro

After an early breakfast, descend into the crater on your half-day crater tour. Quite possibly one of the most famous of all Africa's conservation areas, this is one of the places where you stand a good chance of seeing the Big 5. The enduring charm of Ngorongoro stems from its overwhelming physical beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident here. Later you will return to your camp for lunch. Late afternoon, head out for an afternoon sundowner cocktail.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner, Lunch

 

Ngorongoro Conservation Area

 

Your Accommodation

Lemala Camp Ngorongoro

Lemala Ngorongoro is set in an ancient acacia forest close to the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater. The camp has 9 spacious tents, positioned to provide privacy and have minimal impact on the forest environment. They accommodate 2 queen-size beds, and include luxuries like warm, winter weight duvets, hot water bottles and gas heaters. The en-suite bathrooms have a dressing area, flush toilet and a large safari-style shower.

Lemala Camp Ngorongoro

After a delectable breakfast, it's time to head back to Arusha, arriving in time for lunch at the Arusha Cultural Heritage Centre. After lunch, transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport in time for your onward flight.

Meal

Breakfast, Dinner

 

To Arusha and Depart

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