KE-TZ: 7 Days Safari Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Lake Manyara

Meals: Lunch, Dinner

7.00 am:   pick you up from your hotel or the airport

Head south to the Masai Mara National Reserve through Kenya’s central highlands, viewing the local homesteads and communities. Breaking up the ride, you will stop to rest and enjoy dramatic views of the Great Rift Valley escarpment.

Entering Maasai country, keep an eye out for the local herders in their colourful Shuka’s, tending to their cattle.

Arriving at the park, you will freshen up at your accommodation, enjoy lunch, and then begin your first game drive of this exciting week.

The Mara is easy on the eyes with its green rolling hills, dotted with signature acacia trees. It won’t take long before we begin to spot the wildlife, the park is dense with animals – predators and grazers.

Toward late afternoon, we may be treated to one of the park’s blazing sunsets. This is the Africa you dreamed about.

Head to your safari lodge or tented camp, enjoy dinner and overnight, and swap tales of our first day on safari.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

A day of unlimited game drives. You can decide to head out with a box lunch for full-day game drivers or have breaks in between exploration. Discuss with your driver-guide how you would like to plan your day.

But to get the most out of your Masai Mara experience, we suggest an early rise to see the morning sunlight in the park and its many creatures. You’ll enjoy making your first sightings of the day, whether a gazelle, a zebra, or a lion on the hunt.

Journey down to the Mara River for a picnic lunch and see the hippos and crocs in their natural habitat. This is the site of the Great Migration (July – October), and you’ll be treated to the spectacle of thousands of wildebeests, zebra, and gazelle crossing into the park from the neighbouring Serengeti.

It is an awesome display of raw nature in play, the grazers, and the predators who await them.

You may want to view this migration and the park from a different perspective – high above it all (An optional hot air balloon safari over the Masai Mara. You’ll rise at dawn as the park comes alive, floating gently over the rolling hills and savannahs. An unforgettable experience).

Toward the evening, you will be treated to a glowing sunset as you make your way back to your accommodation for a relaxed dinner.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast and exit the park, head for Tanzania and the Serengeti through the border town of Isebania, where you will go through the formalities, switch vehicles, and meet your new driver guide, who will be our guide for the next several days.

Arriving at the great Serengeti, see its contrast with the Masai Mara, with its vast, almost treeless plains. But don’t be fooled, this immense ecosystem is home to thousands of lions and millions of wildebeests and zebras.

It’s here in the Serengeti that these incredible numbers of grazers breed and multiply before becoming part of the immense migration into the Masai Mara.

You will settle into your Serengeti safari lodge or tented camp for dinner and a relaxing evening.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 A full day of safari going so you can appreciate this vast and active reserve.

You will go for morning and afternoon game drives… but again, you can also carve out time for relaxation at your accommodation.

The Serengeti abounds with a dazzling array of wildlife, and you will be on the lookout for lions, cheetahs, zebra, gazelle, eland, impala, hippos, and warthog, amongst others. But you can’t miss the massive herds of innumerable wildebeests populating this great wild space.

In the evening, over dinner at your Serengeti safari lodge or tented camp, you will have stories and sightings of the day to discuss

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfst and drive through the Serengeti, exiting the park on your way to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.

But you make a stop at Olduvai Gorge, the world-famous site of early man’s preserved antiquities. This is the spot where thousands of fossilized remnants of tools and other artifacts were discovered. A brilliant record of our evolution from millions of years ago.

Proceed to Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact volcanic caldera on the planet. This is a world unto itself, of richly concentrated big game and every manner of wildlife and birds.

Descend the steep crater walls in our 4 x 4, coming to a unique ecosystem of lions, leopards, elephants, rare black rhinos, great herds of zebras, and even hippos and pink flamingos!

The wildlife thrives on the expansive crater floor. Explore and discover all sorts of wildlife, including lions, elephants, buffalo, antelope, zebra, and more in this blue/green world.

 You will stop by Ngoitoktok Springs for your picnic lunch, relaxing and enjoying the company of hippos, water birds, including the bright flamingoes that accent the shoreline.

As the sun begins to wane, you will head back up the crater’s wall in time to catch a brilliant, blazing sunset at the rim – one of Africa’s signature moments.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Get up early and experience where the sun rises over one of the world's largest, intact volcanic craters

Then, head off to Lake Manya National Park. A small but very charming reserve – the deep blue lake presents a canvas for the contrast of bright pink flamingoes carpeting its shores. Yet another magnificent moment on your African safari.

Lake Manyara is famous for its unusual tree-climbing lions. Also look for gazelle, giraffe, impala, hippo, and baboon.

Dinner will be served at our Lake Manyara lodge or tented camp.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast and take the last game drive around the park, depart to Arusha, where you can choose to be dropped off at your hotel or airport.

Or head back to Kenya, Nairobi, where we will drop you to your hotel or the airport