KT 18: 15 Nights/ 16 Days Discover Secrets of Kenya, Tanzania and Victoria Falls

Enjoy an amazing wildlife safari in Kenya and Tanzania and then fly to Victoria Falls in Zambia to unwind. This African safari is suitable for your honeymoon or family holiday in Africa, including parents travelling with children. You’ll see stunning African wildlife, landscapes and sceneries at Sweetwaters, Mt Kenya, Aberdares, Lake Nakuru, Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara and the amazing Victoria Falls.

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 – Sweetwaters (Mt Kenya)

After breakfast, depart Nairobi 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 3: Mt Kenya – Aberdares

After breakfast, depart Nairobi 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 4: 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 for Lake Nakuru, with a brief stop at Thomsons Falls. Lunch at Sarova Lion Hill Game. 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: Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge

Day 5: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara

After breakfast, depart for Maasai Mara through the floor of the Great Rift Valley, arriving at Mara Leisure Camp 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.

Spend the whole day in the Masai Mara plains doing game drives and on the look out for herds of wildebeests crossing the crocodile-infested Mara River. 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 6-7: 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 Leisure Camp

Day 8: 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 9: 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 10: 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 11: 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 12: Lake Manyara – JRO – Nairobi

After breakfast, depart for Arusha. Lunch at Impala Hotel in Arusha. Later transfer to Kilimanjaro International Airport to catch your 1530hrs Precision Air/Kenya Airways Flight No. KQ6727 to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, arriving at 1630hrs. Our Kenya driver/guide will pick you from the airport and transfer you to Panafric Hotel for overnight on bed and breakfast. Panafric Hotel has a restaurant where you can buy dinner.

Meals: Breakfast and Lunch
Accommodation: Panafric Hotel

Day 13: Nairobi – Lusaka – Victoria Falls (Zambia)

After breakfast, you’ll be transferred to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to catch your 0805hrs Kenya Airways Flight KQ 702 to Lusaka Airport, arriving at 1200hrs. You will connect Proflight Flight P0 708 to Livingstone Airport. Flight departs at 1500hrs and arrive 1610hrs.

A representative of Chundukwa River Lodge will receive you and transfer you to their hotel. Accommodation will be in a double en-suite based on full board.

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Accommodations: Chundukwa River Lodge

Day 14-15: Victoria Falls

Full day activities at Victoria Falls at your own cost. Activities include white water rafting, river boarding, tandem kayaking and bungee jumping as well as sightseeing flights over the falls by helicopter, fixed-wing aircraft or micro light.