KT 13: 15 Nights/ 16 Days Jewel of Tanzania Kenya Safari

This African safari highlight the best of Kenya and Tanzania wildlife as the itinerary take you to stunning game parks in Tanzania and Kenya, giving you the best wildlife spot, landscapes, and sceneries in both countries. This Tanzania Kenya safari also allows you to follow the wildebeest migration from Serengeti to Masai Mara between July and October.

Day 1: Nairobi

Our Kenyan driver/guide will receive you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transfer you in our safari van to Ole Sereni Hotel where accommodation will be based on bed and breakfast only.

Meals: Bed and Breakfast
Accommodation: Ole Sereni Hotel

Day 2: Nairobi – Amboseli

After breakfast, depart for Amboseli National Park. Lunch at Amboseli Sopa Safari Lodge. Afternoon game drives in search of herds of elephants, giraffes, lions, and a variety of other animals and birds. We have chosen Amboseli Sopa Lodge for you because it’s the only lodge that gives you the best view of the snow-capped Mt Kilimanjaro at dawn.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Amboseli Sopa Lodge

Day 3: Amboseli

Full day in Amboseli with morning and afternoon game drives. You’ll have an option to visit Maasai manyatta villages to learn their culture and dance. The Masai dancers charge a fee of $35 per person per visit and you’ll pay this directly if you opt to go there.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Amboseli Sopa Lodge

Day 4: Amboseli – Lake Manyara

After breakfast, drive to Namanga – border point Kenya and Tanzania. Our Tanzania driver/guide will receive at the border point and take you to Arusha Town collect lunch boxes then drive to Lake Manyara National Park, famous for its rare tree-climbing lions and bird life. After check in at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge, set off for game drives. Lake Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded, and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Highlights include thousands of pink-hued flamingos on their perpetual migration, as well as other large waterbirds such as pelicans, cormorants and storks. Large buffalo, wildebeest and zebra herds congregate on these grassy plains, as do giraffes – some so dark in coloration that they appear to be black from a distance.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation:  Kirurumu Tented Lodge

Day 5: Lake Manyara – Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge, where you’ll pick lunch boxes and then descend into the crater for a half day crater tour. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro Crater supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard. Return to the lodge in the evening for overnight.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge

Day 6: Ngorongoro – Serengeti

After breakfast, drive to Serengeti National Park, via Olduvai Gorge archaeological site, with game viewing en route in the Serengeti. Lunch at Serengeti Sopa Lodge and then set off for afternoon game drives till sunset.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge

Day 7: Serengeti

Full day in Serengeti with morning and afternoon game drives. Serengeti National Park, undoubtedly the best-known wildlife sanctuary in the world is a large national park in the Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous due to the annual migration of over one million white-bearded wildebeest and 200,000 zebra to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve in search of pasture.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge

Day 8: Serengeti – Masai Mara

After breakfast, depart for depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya via the Isabenia border, carrying packed lunch. After being helped with immigration formalities, you’ll be handed to our Kenyan driver/guide and continue with safari to Masai Mara Game Reserve. Game drives en route your lodge.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Mara Leisure Camp

Day 9-10: Masai Mara

After breakfast, set off into the Masai Mara plains doing game drives and also on the look out for herds of wildebeests crossing the crocodile-infested Mara River. Options: Depart for full day carrying packed lunch or return to lodge for lunch and then set off for afternoon game drives. Optional evening visit to a Masai Manyatta Village to learn the dance and culture of the Masai tribe. (You’ll pay USD35 per person per visit directly to the village).

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Mara Leisure Camp

Day 11: Masai Mara – Lake Nakuru

After an early breakfast, you begin your safari to Lake Nakuru, with a stopover at Lake Naivasha, the only freshwater lake in the Rift Valley. From the top of the Rift Valley escarpment, you can see the lake sparkling under the sun thousands of feet below you. The lake is home to a large colony of hippos and it’s also a Mecca for bird watchers and researchers since over 400 different species of birds have been recorded here. An optional boat ride will be a good idea.

After a brief stopover, you travel in a northerly direction to your next destination Lake Nakuru, which is usually dotted with pink flamingoes lining its shores. After checking in and having lunch at the lodge, you set off to Lake Nakuru for extensive game drives where you can expect to see leopards, lions, giraffes, a million or so of pink flamingoes as well as black or white Rhinos.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation:  Flamingo Hill Tented Camp

Day 12: Lake Nakuru – Samburu Game Reserve

After an early breakfast bid farewell to Lake Nakuru as you drive heading eastwards en route Samburu Game Reserve. Make a brief stopover at Nyahururu Falls, still known to many as Thomsons Falls for its 237ft cascade. After the stopover, you drive northward through Nanyuki town, crossing the northernmost foothills of Mount Kenya, until you reach Isiolo town and then down into the thorny landscape of Samburu country.

After lunch in your lodge, set off for afternoon game drives in the park. This area boosts of unique northern species of wildlife which are not found in any other part south of equator, here you will find the Grevy zebra, Beisa Oryx, Reticulated Giraffe, Somali Ostrich, the long necked gerenuk, herds of elephants and their predators abound. The life-giving Uaso Nyiro River plays a major role in the ecosystem of this region.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

Day 13: Samburu Game Reserve

Before dawn you head out in search of Africa’s wild cats. After the game drive, you return to the lodge for breakfast and some R&R “rest and relaxation", read a book/novel, sunbathe or perhaps go for a refreshing dip in the uniquely designed swimming pool. After lunch, set off for afternoon game drives till sun set.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sarova Shaba Game Lodge

Day 14: Samburu – Sweetwaters (Mount Kenya)

After breakfast, depart for Sweetwaters Tented Camp located in the exclusive Ol Pejeta Conservancy in Mt Kenya region. Lunch at your camp. You can do day and night game drives around the private conservancy, which is home for the members of the “Big Five” (elephant, rhino, lion, buffalo and leopard). The conservancy has a higher wildlife-to-area ratio than any Kenyan national park and is one of only four private game conservancies to have been founded in Kenya. At the forefront of the Kenyan conservancy programme, the conservancy boasts the largest black rhino sanctuary in East Africa, hosts the only chimpanzee sanctuary in Kenya, and shelters large numbers of rare and endangered species.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Sweetwaters Tented Camp

Day 15: Mt Kenya – Aberdares

After breakfast, depart for Aberdares National Park. Access to the park with private vehicles is limited to conserve and protect the environment, which hosts wildlife such as elephant, rhino, buffalo, bush bucks, giant forest hogs, Sykes monkey, leopard, and bongo. On arrival at the Aberdare Country Club, you’ll have lunch (cost included) and in the afternoon, you’ll be transferred to The Ark Game Lodge in the lodge’s vehicle. This tree-lodge is uniquely shaped to resemble the actual Ark, designed with decks from which numerous balconies and lounges provide superb vantage points for viewing the animals visiting the salt-lick and waterhole. A ground-level bunker at The Ark provides excellent photographic opportunities, and the Yasabara waterhole is floodlit by night to enable all-night viewing of game.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: The Ark Game Lodge

Day 16: Aberdares – Nairobi – Depart Home

After breakfast at your lodge, a driver of The Ark Lodge will transfer you back to The Aberdare Country Club where you’ll reconnect with your driver/guide and then depart for Nairobi through Central Kenya. Stop at Safari Park Hotel in Nairobi for lunch. Later, transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to catch your international flight home.