7 Days Nakuru/Masai Mara/Serengeti and Ngorongoro.
Dy1: Nairobi to Nakuru National Park.
You will be picked up from airport or from your hotel in Nairobi by your driver/guide, continue drive to lake Nakuru national park, after check-inn the hotel have your lunch. After lunch you will have game viewing to experience the savannah plain of the Nakuru park. Black and white rhino, giraffes, waterbuck, gazelles, zebras buffaloes among others you will see in this park. Other attractions of this park includes Flamingoes, Pelicans and other water birds also are seen along the lake shore. Evening sunset is very
enjoyable before drive back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Nakuru to Masai Mara
Start with breakfast at your lodge in lake Nakuru national park, proceed to Masai Mara national reserve for more wildlife viewing experiences. Arrive on time for lunch in Masai Mara national reserve, later you will have an evening game drive in the park for viewings elephants, buffaloes, lions, leopard, impalas, and others. Enjoy the evening sunset over the open savannah plains of Mara then drive back to your camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Game drive Masai Mara
Have early morning breakfast and head to the park with your packed lunch for a full day of game drive providing you an opportunity to explore the reserve in its depth, you will be able to see various animals such as elephant, giraffe, prides of lion, and thousands of impala, topi, grants and Thomson’s gazelle. You will also be able to see a variety of bird species recorded to be over 450 bird species recorded to be found in the reserve with 57 birds of prey, in case you visit the park in the right time for the annual wildebeest
migration you will be able to witness the world’s largest wildlife movement seeing large of herds wildebeest migration, zebras and gazelles. You can also do hot air balloon experience on which you will float above the endless plains of Maasai Mara national reserve at an extra cost.
Day 4: Masai Mara to Serengeti National Park.
On this day after breakfast in the morning check-out from your camp, drive with packed lunch to Serengeti national park. Drive through Isebania and Sirari border, on arrive at the border, exchange vehicles and drive hand-over to Tanzanian side, after migration formalities drive to Serengeti, picnic
lunch on the way. Late afternoon after 4 hours of driving check-inn at Serengeti gate, drive with on-route game drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Day 5: Serengeti National park Game drive
Today you will have a full day game drive in central Serengeti, searching for the rest big 5 and other animals, Serengeti national park is wide park with almost 15000sq km, every side of the park has its seasonal visit depend on period of time of the year (months) due migration animals, we are staying at central Serengeti, this area is annual visited area because has its resident animals here, your full day game drives allows your to have different animal viewing and its habits. I n this day arrange with your driver guide about lunch, you may go with picnic or back to the camp for hot lunch, afternoon and evening game drive, experience your game viewing from sunrise to sundown, late afternoon back to the camp for overnight.
Day 6: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater.
Early in the morning have your breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro crater about three hours drive, check-inn at the gate thereafter descend 600 meters to the crater floor, Ngorongoro crater the self-dependent ecosystem, home of carnivores, antelopes and herbivores. If lucky you may see the big 5 in Ngorongoro, this includes lion, leopard, rhino, elephants and buffaloes. At the Magadi lake, several water birds are found here this includes the beautiful flamingoes, herons, pelicans etc. The Lerai forest, home of baboons and monkeys, elephants, bushbucks, waterbucks, even leopard etc. the size of crater floor 260sq km, The Munge River is the source of fresh water in the area, swamps are found here, the place to see hippopotamus, the open areas where you will the grazing animals. Afternoon you will taken to the picnic site, is the same place to see hippos up close, after lunch have on-route game drive ascend and drive to the lodge for overnight.
Day 7: Karatu-Culture tour activities -Arusha.
After breakfast dive to mto wa mbu village, you will have a culture tour activity in this area, these includes biking, walking banana farm visit to experience life style of people in this area guided by local guide, afternoon will have local lunch which are well cooked and prepared by mamaz cooker, very well testing different type of food. There after you will drive back to Arusha town to be transferred to airport for departure.
Rates include:
- Customized Private Safari jeep 4×4 Toyota land cruiser with full-length photographic open roof and all clients are guaranteed window seats. Or 4×4 Open Land Cruiser or Land Rover if requested.
- All services of a trained and experienced English speaking driver guide.
- Serengeti or Ngorongoro National park entry fees.
- Game drives as per the Itinerary.
- All meals and accommodations during safari. (Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner).
- Bottle of water per day.
- Transfers to and from the Airport.
- Government taxes.
Rates exclude:
- International flights from home and back
- Optional Maasai Village visit ($50 per vehicle)
- Optional Serengeti Balloon safari $520pp
- All tipping or gratuities (Highly recommended)
- Expenses of personal nature such as laundry, beverages, etc.