Tour overview
Explore some of the finest national parks in East Africa on this epic Kenya-Tanzania Safari & Hiking tour, led by a competent tour guide. While on this tour you will feel the pulse of Africa as you track the famous “big five” among other renowned wildlife. Our safari vehicle is well-paced and wilderness camping along the way brings you closer to the region’s wildlife. This tour also takes you along incredible landscapes and up challenging terrain to the continent’s highest peak, Mt Kilimanjaro.
Included
- A transfer from the airport in Nairobi/Hotel.
- Accommodation on safari
- Transport in a 4X4 land cruiser
- All game Park Entrance fees
- Meet and greet by a tour representative upon arrival at the airport
- Services of an English speaking Tour Guide
- Game drives as per the itinerary.
- Entry for Driver/Vehicle
- All Government taxes and levies
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour can be arranged for extra cost
Not Included
- International flights
- Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
- Tips on safari and at camps/lodges
- Items of personal needs
Day 1: From Nairobi to Masaai Mara
Set off the safari after pick-up from your hotel/residence in Nairobi. You will make it to Masai Mara in good time for lunch at your Camp and subsequently have an afternoon game drive in the park. Masai Mara is fantastic for game drives because of the beauty of the topography on top of the animals which you will catch a sight. Go back to the camp in the evening for dinner and overnight.
Prime Destination: Maasai Mara
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: Lunch and Dinner included (Breakfast not included), All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 2: Roaming Masaai Mara
Have breakfast after awaking then set out with your Tour Guide for a comprehensive game drive in this wildlife haven. You will enjoy this whole day inside the park viewing the tremendous attractions prevalent (make certain you have with you a good DSLR camera). Lunch will be taken at the Mara River thence proceed with the game drive until evening hours. Feel free to ask your Guide any questions pertaining this unique destination while you are inside the park. Go back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Prime Destination: Maasai Mara
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 3: To Lake Nakuru (Flamingo Sanctuary)
Following breakfast, head to the park for a final game drive upto mid-morning then depart to Lake Nakuru (lunch will be served en route to Nakuru). On arrival after a few hours’ drive, check in at the hotel at Nakuru and take some rest. Dinner and an overnight stay at the hotel.
Prime Destination: Lake Naivasha
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 4: Back to Nairobi
Spend half a day exploring Lake Nakuru Park, famous for the beautiful flamingos which form a pink swathe at the shores of the lake. They come here in millions at times, making it a spectacle to behold. White and black rhinos are magnificent beasts that you also can’t miss here, as well as leopards, lions, cheetah, buffalo and other animals and birds. After taking lunch, leave Lake Nakuru for a 3 hrs drive to Nairobi for dinner and overnight in a hotel.
Prime Destination: Lake Nakuru
Accommodation: Hotel
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 5: To Lake Manyara through Arusha.
Pick up from your hotels in Nairobi at 5.00 am for an early drive to Arusha with a stopover at the Namanga border post for imigration formalities. Arrive in Arusha at around 9:00 am then proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for the first game drive in Tanzania. A good network of tracks and roads in the park allows excellent game viewing opportunities. Animals seen include buffalo and elephant. Other animals present that can be seen with luck are the tree climbing lions, leopard and black rhino. Lesser flamingos and Egyptian geese are some of the birds seen here. All meals and overnight at your camp in Lake Manyara.
Prime Destination: Lake Manyara
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 6: To Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast,leave lake manyara for ngorongoro crater arriving in the afternoon, descend 2000 ft (670m) into the crater floor for full afternoon crater tour with break for lunch at Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. Black manned lions, rhinos, buffaloes, elephants and other grazing animals abound. Evening game drive, return to your camp for dinner and overnight.
Prime Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 7: To Serengeti
Leave ngorongoro after breakfast for Serengeti arriving in time for lunch after lunch proceed for afternoon game drive in this unique park to see the many animals, dinner and overnight at your tented camp.
Prime Destination: Serengeti
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 8: The Great Serengeti
Spend this full day tracking animals in this vast game reserve. The Serengeti is renowned for its large lion population and is one of the best places to observe prides in their natural environment, and is home to the world's largest movement of animals, often called the “Great Migration.” The Serengeti plains are flat with dotted acacia trees that makes one able to see as far as he can with no interference. Dinner and overnight in your camp.
Prime Destination: Serengeti
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 9: To Tarangire.
After breakfast, leave Serengeti for Tarangire National park lunch enroute. The park has an atmosphere of remoteness and has a good number of monkeys, hornbills, pelicans, and herons among others. Dinner and overnight at your camp.
Prime Destination: Tarangire
Accommodation: Tented Camp
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 10: Back to Arusha
After breakfast proceed for a morning game drive then leave Tarangire National park for Arusha arriving in the afternoon to have dinner and overnight at a hotel.
Prime Destination: Tarangire
Accommodation: Hotel
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 11: To Machame
Pick up from your Hotel in Arusha at 8.00 am for an early start to Kilimanjaro National Park, once we reach the Machame park gate we will proceed directly to Machame hut campsite in an average hiking time of 6 hours for meals and overnight in tents. The attitude here is 3,100m.
Prime Destination: Kilimanjaro
Accommodation: Campsite
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 12: To Shira
After breakfast, hike to Shira hut. The trek takes 4 hours approximately via the rain forest past the valley and a steep rocky ridge ending westward at a river gorge. You will have a rest, dinner and overnight at Shira hut campsite, 3,658m above sea level.
Prime Destination: Kilimanjaro
Accommodation: Campsite
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 13: To Barranco
From Shira, hike to Barranco hut, in an average hiking of 6 hours. We by-pass the lava tower and past the second juntion which brings us to the arrow glacier, attitude 4,876m. We descend to Barranco hut campsite for our third overnight on Kilimanjaro, 3,860. above sea level.
Prime Destination: Kilimanjaro
Accommodation: Campsite
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 14: To Barafu
After breakfast, we leave Baranco and continue to the Karanga valley and the juntion, which connects with the Mweka trail. We hike to Barafu hut where we set up camp. We will have walked for about 8 hours.Dinner and overnight at the hut campsite, altitude 4,600m with the possibility of sighting both Mawenzi and Kibo Peaks.
Prime Destination: Kilimanjaro
Accommodation: Campsite
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 15: To Stella Point and Uhuru Peak-Mweka.
We rise early and head for Stella Point altitude 5,745m on our way to the Summit Uhuru Peak that is 5,896m above sea level. This part of the hikes takes about 6 hours. From the Summit we descend to the Mweka hut campsite, 3,100m above sea level. This part of the descent takes about 5 hours.Dinner and overnight.
Prime Destination: Kilimanjaro
Accommodation: Campsite
Meals & Drinks: All meals included, All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
Day 16: Back to Arusha
After breakfast, we descend to Mweka Park Gate in an average hiking time of 4 hours and then drive back to Arusha where your safari ends.
Prime Destination: KIlimanjaro
Accommodation: No accommodation
Meals & Drinks: Breakfast included (Lunch and Dinner not included), All drinks (except spirits/liquor)
