12
DAYS MASAI MARA / NAKURU / MANYARA / NGORONGORO / SERENGETIDAY
1: NAIROBI
Arrive
Nairobi. Welcome to Nairobi, Kenya's cosmopolitan capital. Once little more than
a watering hole for Masai tribes, today's Nairobi is the largest city between
Cairo and Johannesburg.
If
arrival is in the morning, then in the we drive to Karen Von Blixen's
former home, now a museum. Continue to the Giraffe Center where
you can feed and photograph giraffe from an elevated platform. Return
to the hotel early this evening.
** Complimentary
dinner at The Carnivore Restaurant**
Nairobi has many restaurants offering a variety of exotic and African
cuisine. However, none beats Carnivore for its uniqueness: It is
for carnivorous. It is the only place you can get a variety of game
Meat served in one meal. Its succulent steaks and barbecue dishes
are recommended for every one especially as a welcome or a farewell
Dinner/Lunch. Overnight at Panafric
hotel or similar.
DAY
2: NAIROBI / MASAI MARA
Depart from Nairobi at 08.00hrs and drive to the Maasai Mara Game
Reserve, the northern part of the Serengeti, one of Kenya's most
favored game-viewing areas. The reserve covers 700 square miles
of magnificent wilderness.
It is the Africa
of the imagination; endless reaches of acacia-dotted grasslands
studded with hazy hills. Afternoon game drive to see the sundowner
as hoping to see Lions in large prides, Elephants, buffalos, zebras
and numerous plain animals. Dinner and overnight at the Mara
Sopa Lodge or similar.
DAY
3: MASAI MARA
Full day game viewing coupled with exploring this spectacular Park.
The Mara is the land of African legend: Lion are abundant throughout
the park, as are the elephants, giraffes, and a variety of gazelle
species and zebra. Cheetah and leopard are also regularly seen and,
less commonly, rhino.
The annual wildebeest
migration, one of nature's few remaining wildlife spectacles, occurs
in the Mara from July to September where the big animals and their
predators are to be present in abundance during the time frame of
this trip. Several species of Bee-Eater, the flying rainbow that
heads the list of the Mara's birds, occur in the reserve.
As well as wildlife,
the Maasai Mara is also home to many members of the colorful Maasai
tribe who may be seen around the borders of the park - Morans (warriors)
loping across the plains, young boys herding goats, or elders grouped
under a tree discussing matters of the day .A visit to a Maasai
boma (homestead) reveals this outstanding culture and customs. All
meals and overnight at the Mara
Sopa lodge or similar.

DAY 4: MASAI MARA / NAKURU
A last game run in the picturesque Maasai Mara in the morning through
the Rift Valley drive to Lake Nakuru, a shallow alkaline lake in
the Rift Valley, renowned for its spectacular flamingo population
as one of the world's greatest ornithological spectacles.
Although Lake
Nakuru is primarily a bird sanctuary, there are a considerable number
of animals to be encountered, such as many large game animals such
as zebras, elephants and gazelles, this is one of our best chances
of seeing rhinos. Lake Nakuru National Park was the first place
in Kenya selected as a rhino reserve. Here is one of the few places
where we can see Rothschild's giraffes. Dinner and overnight at
the Lake Nakuru lodge
or similar.
DAY
5: NAKURU / NAIROBI
After breakfast, morning spent game viewing, watching and photographing
birds at Nakuru National Park. Leave for Nairobi with lunch enroute
and a stop for panoramic views of the Great Rift Valley.
Arrive Nairobi
late in the afternoon after driving through lush Kikuyu farmland.
You will be dropped at your hotel. This is one of the few places
where we can see Rothschild's giraffes. Overnight at Lake
Nakuru lodge or similar.
DAY
6: NAIROBI / ARUSHA
Pick from the hotel at 07.30hrs after breakfast. Depart from Nairobi
at 08:00 hrs and drive to the border town of Namanga where you will
clear with customs and immigration formalities. Proceed into Tanzania
to Arusha town. On arrival at 13.30hrs, you will be dropped at your
hotel for overnight. Accommodation is on double room sharing -B/B.
DAY
7: ARUSHA / LAKE MANYARA
Depart from Arusha at around 09.00hrs and drive to Lake Manyara
National Park with your Picnic Lunch for the Game drive. Lake Manyara
is a fresh Water Lake in the Rift valley part of Tanzania. This
park is generally visited as the first stop of safari, which covers
among this park, Ngorongoro and Serengeti.
Animals seen
are hippos, elephant, and birds such as the greater and lesser flamingos,
wildebeest, giraffe, baboon, and the famous tree-climbing lions.
A village market also exist selling mainly fabrics and crafts. Dinner
and overnight at Manyara Wildlife lodge.
DAY
8: LAKE MANYARA / NGORONGORO
Breakfast at around 07.00hrs. Take Picnic Lunch with you and drive
to Ngorongoro Crater floor for a full day game viewing. One of the
world's largest craters containing prolific wildlife. It is a 20-km
wide volcanic crater with 600m walls, packed with just about every
species of wildlife to be found in East Africa.
The crater floor
has been compared to Noah's Ark and the Garden of Eden. Animals
seen are: lion, Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo, Wildebeest, Thomson gazelle,
Zebra, Reedbuck and Flamingos in Lake Magadi - the Soda Lake on
the floor of the crater.
This is a favored
spot for wildlife and the local Masai tribes people because there
is permanent water and grassland on the crater floor. Dinner and
overnight at Ngorongoro Wildlife lodge the edge of the crater rim.
DAY
9: NGORONGORO
Morning and afternoon game drive. All meals and overnight
at Ngorongoro Wildlife lodge.
DAY
10: NGORONGORO / SERENGETI
Breakfast at around 07.00hrs.You will proceed to Serengeti National
Park with Game drive and Picnic lunch enroute. This is Tanzania's
most famous Game Park, covering 14763 sq. km, where wildebeest migrate
across vast plains and landscape in search of precious grassland.
Nowhere else
on earth will you see wildebeest, zebra, and antelope in such enormous
and mind boggling numbers. The gently rolling Savannah (flat grassland),
with bushes and trees only in cluster along riverbanks makes spotting
wildlife easy. Other animals seen are lion, hyena, Thomson's gazelle,
impala, buffalo, topi, eland, giraffe, elephants, cheeter, rhino,
and crocodiles on riverbanks.
The hoofed animals
are constantly on the move in search of grassland, and are watched
and pursued by the predators, which feed off them. This is one of
the most incredible sights you will see and the numbers are simply
overwhelming. Also seen are the Masai tribes people grazing cattle
in their age-old tradition. Serengeti National Park is also the
only Tanzanian Park where you can take HOT AIR BALOON flight similar
to those available in Masai Mara in Kenya. Dinner and overnight
at Seronera wildlife lodge.

DAY 11: SERENGETI
Morning and afternoon game drive. All meals and overnight
at Seronera lodge.
DAY
12: SERENGETI / ARUSHA
Breakfast
at the campsite around 06.30hrs. Take Picnic lunch with you and drive to Arusha
with Game drive enroute. Arriving in Arusha late in the evening where your tour
ends. Overnight at Impala hotel or similar.
DAY
13: ARUSHA / NAIROBI
After
breakfast, board shuttle bus at 07.30hrs. Depart for Nairobi at 08.00hrs to arrive
at around 13.30hrs. Transfer to the airport for flight back home.