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10 Days Kenya/Tanzania
Combined safariDay 1: Arrival
Pick up from the airport on arrival and transfer you to Kenya Comfort
hotel for overnight stay
Day 2: Nairobi - Masai Mara
Pick up from your hotel at 0730 hrs and drive via the scenic Great Rift
Valley, to the Mara Reserve arriving in good time for lunch. Afternoon
game drive is taken. Dinner and overnight at Mara Enchoro Camp
Day 3: Maasai Mara Game Reserve
Full day spent exploring the park in search of the Big 5. Dinner and
overnight at Mara Enchoro Camp
The Maasai Mara Game Reserve is arguably Kenya's most popular game
sanctuary. It is the most famous and most visited game reserve in Kenya.
The film 'Out of Africa' was made to a great extent in this reserve.
Virtually every type of wildlife can be seen at the Mara. A spectacle
worth seeing is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest, zebra
and gazelle from Serengeti plains across the Tanzania border and the
Mara River to reach Maasai Mara grazing fields from late June. The
dramatic crossing of the river and the preying on the migrants by
predators can be viewed from early July to August. The reserve abounds
with birdlife since dose to about 452 species have been recorded. Hot
air balloon safaris are readily available in this park
Day 4: Maasai Mara
- Lake Nakuru
After breakfast proceed northwards to arrive in Lake Nakuru National
park in time for lunch. Afternoon game drives in the park where you will
have a chance to visit a unique sanctuary catering for a sizeable number
of the endangered rhinoceros and the Rothschild giraffe. Waterbucks as
well as the predators such as the lion and leopard are common at the
park. Also to be seen is a myriad different variety of birdlife in and
around the lake. Flamingoes are also plenty at the lake. Dinner and
overnight at Lake Nakuru guest house/hotel
Day 5: Lake Nakuru - Nairobi - Arusha
Game is viewed as we exit the park and drive to Nairobi to arrive by
1300 hrs lunch then transfer to Arusha to arrive by 1800 hrs. drop off
at a hotel for dinner and overnight variety of wildlife habitats
including butterflies.
Day 6: Arusha - Serengeti National park
Early morning breakfast then proceed to Serengeti National park with
lunch boxes, explore the park as you proceed to Ikoma safari camp for
dinner and overnight stay Or Seronera campsite
Day 7: Serengeti National park - Ngorongoro conservation Area
Full day spent exploring the park in search of the big 5, exit the park
and proceed to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge for dinner and overnight stay or
Simba Campsite
Serengeti is Africa's most famous and Tanzania's largest park covering
14,736 sq km and is adjoining with the Masai Mara National reserve in
Kenya. With a wildebeest population of about 2 million and several other
hoofed species (which include zebra, Thomson's gazelle, impala, topi,
Grants gazelle, Kongoni, Eland, Kirk, dik dik, klipspringer, roan,
Oryx, oribi, waterbuck, buffalo, giraffe and warthog), the Serengeti is
sure to attract a string of prey such as lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena,
golden jackals and bat eared foxes. Elephants are relatively scarce and
the few remaining black rhinoceros are restricted to the Moru Koppies
area. Serengeti also offers rewarding bird viewing with ostrich and kori
bustard being common, a variety of larks, finches, and raptors can be
seen but the most distinctive small bird is the lilac breasted roller.
Day 8: Ngorongoro crater tour - Lake Manyara
Early breakfast then drive to Ngorongoro crater for a full day crater
tour with Packed lunches ascend the crater and proceed to Lake Manyara Twiga lodge/twiga campsite for dinner and overnight stay
Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground
streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle,
hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It's the greatest
concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem - a
smorgasbord for predators and the one place in Tanzania where
dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar
long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed
Day 9: Lake Manyara - Arusha - Nairobi
Early breakfast then proceed to Lake Manyara national park for game
drives, exit the park and drive to Arusha lunch then transfer to
Nairobi drop off at Kenya Comfort inn hotel for overnight stay
Day 10: Arusha- Nairobi
Breakfast at leisure then transfer to the airport to board your home
bound flight.
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