KT 15: 13 Nights/ 14 Days Kenya and Tanzania Honeymoon Safari
Whisk your loved one Kenya and Tanzania for honeymoon for an exciting wildlife safari to Samburu, Sweetwaters, Mt Kenya, Aberdares, Lake Nakuru, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara, including following the wildebeest migration from Serengeti to at Masai Mara.
Day 1: Nairobi
Our Kenyan driver/guide will receive you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transfer you in our safari van to Safari Park Hotel where accommodation will be based on bed and breakfast only.
Meals: Bed and Breakfast
Accommodation: Safari Park Hotel
Day 2: Nairobi – Samburu Game Reserve
After breakfast, depart for Samburu Game Reserve through Central Kenya, the Equator at Nanyuki and Mount Kenya. 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 3: 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 4: 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 5: 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 6: Aberdares – Lake Nakuru
After breakfast, 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 Lake Nakuru National Park, with a brief stop at Nyahururu Thompson Falls. Then proceed to Lake Nakuru. Lunch at Flamingo Tented Hill Camp. Afternoon game drives in the park. Besides the flamingos that the lake is famous for, there are approx 400 other species of birds visiting the lake. Also, many species of game can be found in the park including the introduced Rothschild’s giraffe, black and white rhino, waterbuck, reedbuck, lion, buffalo, leopard, baboon and many species of plains game.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Flamingo Tented Hill Camp
Day 7: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara
After breakfast, depart for Maasai Mara through the floor of the Great Rift Valley, arriving at Mara Serena Safari Lodge in time for lunch. Afternoon game drives. You will spend three nights in Mara, Africa’s most popular game reserve due to the annual migration of thousands of wildebeests from Northern Serengeti in Tanzania.
Meals: Breakfast, lunch and dinner
Accommodation: Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Day 8-9: Masai Mara
Spend the whole day in 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 go for morning and 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 Serena Safari Lodge
Day 10: Masai Mara – Serengeti
After breakfast, check out with packed lunch and depart for Serengeti via Isabenia border. After being helped with immigration formalities, you’ll be handed over to our Tanzania driver/guide and proceed to Serengeti, arriving late in the evening. Game drives en route the lodge.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge
Day 11: 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 Serengeti area, Tanzania. It is most famous due to 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 12: Serengeti – Ngorongoro
After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Crater via Olduvai Gorge archaeological site. Collect lunch boxes from Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge and then descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for game drives. 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 Sopa Lodge
Day 13: Ngorongoro – Lake Manyara
After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National Park, famous for its rare tree-climbing lions and bird life. Upon arrival at Lake Manyara, you’ll have lunch at Kirurumu Tented Lodge and then 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 14: Arusha – JRO – Fly Home
After breakfast, drive to Arusha where you stop at Impala Hotel for lunch. Transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your flight home.