After breakfast in your hotel in Nairobi pick up by your professional guide and depart the Nairobi region for Maasai mara with lunch en route. We drive through the dramatic Great Rift Valley with a brief stop at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint where you will have a chance to take photos with a great view of the valley proceed to the Maasai Mara National Reserve lunch at Narok town, this enormous reserve is actually part of the vast Serengeti plains famously known for its spectacular great wildebeest’s migration and is home of the Big Five: Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo, and Rhino. On arrival proceed for an evening game drive, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver/guide. Dinner and overnight at camp or Lodge.
Overview:
Masai Mara Game Reserve which is the most popular tourism destination in Kenya. Located in the Great Rift Valley in primarily open grassland. Wildlife is most concentrated on the reserve’s western escarpment. Its regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife Viewing areas. The annual wildebeest’s migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November. Hardly can a visitor miss to spot the big five. The phenomenal wildbeeste migration which is a spectacular event only seen in Masai mara is the the wonder of the world.
The Serengeti National Park is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth – the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, and birds is also impressive. There’s a wide variety of accommodation available, from luxury lodges to mobile camps. The park covers 5,700 sq miles, (14,763 sq km), it’s larger than Connecticut, with at most a couple hundred vehicles driving around. It’s classic savannah, dotted with acacias and filled with wildlife. The western corridor is marked by the Grumeti River, and has more forests and dense bush. The north, Lobo area, meets up with Kenya’s Masai Mara Reserve, is the least visited section.
The Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera. Forming a spectacular bowl of about 265 square kilometres, with sides up to 600 metres deep; it is home to approximately 30,000 animals at any one time. The Crater rim is over 2,200 metres high and experiences its own climate. From this high vantage point it is possible to make out the tiny shapes of animals making their way around the crater floor far below. The crater floor consists of a number of different habitats that include grassland, swamps, forests and Lake Makat (Maasai for ‘salt’) – a central soda lake filled by the Munge River. All these various environments attract wildlife to drink, wallow, graze, hide or climb.
Itinerary Detail
After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full-day game viewing in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. A Masai Mara safari is an unmissable highlight of any holiday in Kenya. There are breathtaking panoramas in every direction, a vast range of wildlife including the Big Five, and a rich cultural heritage to explore. Kenya’s Masai Mara is, without doubt, one of the greatest safari destinations in Africa. Between July and October, things get busy in the Great Migration. Millions of zebras and wildebeest make the perilous crossing across the Masai Mara in search of new grazing territory. And in their wake comes a veritable horde of predators including lion and leopard. Our guide will make sure that you get the best photographic opportunities as well as enriching you with the different amazing cultural practices of the local communities of Maasai people Dinner and overnight at camp or Lodge.
After breakfast in the camp, you will have an opportunity for a cultural tour which is known as Maasai village tour from 7:30 am to 9 am. Then Depart Maasai mara depart Mara region to Nairobi arriving late evening be dropped at Nairobi hotel booked on bed and breakfast dinner on your own at the restaurant.
After breakfast at Embassy hotel be dropped at the shuttle bus to Arusha through the Namanga border for immigration formalities after the immigration continues to Arusha town arriving in the afternoon our manager will pick you up from the Bus stop and drop you at the Hotel booked on bed and breakfast diner on your own.
Pick up from your Hotel in Arusha, then safari briefing and afterward we depart Arusha and drive to Serengeti National Park you will have lunch on the way Serengeti does not disappoint when it comes to rich game-viewing. Annually from May to December, millions of animals embark on a migration that brings them from central Serengeti to Kenya’s Masai Mara and back again in an incredible spectacle. Even during the ‘down-time’, vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle roam here, along with groups of elephants, giraffes, and buffalo. As the lions, leopards, cheetah, hyenas, and jackals stalk them. Dinner Dinner and overnight at Camp or Lodge.
After breakfast, a short game drive in Serengeti National Park with picnic lunch, until noon, where you will have again game drive to see the beauty of this great park. The afternoon after lunch game en route to Ngorongoro Crater for dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Crater. Overnight at camp or Lodge.
After early breakfast around 05:50 am, descend down the crater at 06 am for 6-7hrs game drive, with picnic lunch. We venture onto the crater floor for an up-close at the residents of this World Heritage Site and enjoy a picnic lunch here. The Ngorongoro Crater provides great game viewing all year-round. The wildlife here makes up a permanent population because grazing and water supplies are plentiful throughout the seasons. Later depart for Arusha with lunch en-route arriving in Arusha town late evening you will be dropped to charity hotel.
After breakfast pick up from your hotel and drop at the Shuttle bus to Nairobi arriving in the Afternoon – drop at the Airport to connect your flight back home.
Price includes
- Transport in a safari 4×4 jeep in Kenya
- Transport in a safari 4×4 jeep in Tanzania
- Pick up from the airport
- Accommodation as per itinerary Full Board Basis (Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner)
- All meals (B L D) while on safari
- Professional Safari Guide / Driver
- All applicable Game Park Entrance Fees
- Game drives on Safari Vehicle with pop-up roof for a game viewing
- Mineral Water
Price excludes
- Personal Insurance
- Items of personal use
- Alcoholic & Soft drinks
- Visit Maasai Village
- Visit the Olduvai Gorge
- Balloon Hot air safari
- Gratuity for your professional driver-guide
Cost of Safari
The cost of this safari will vary depending on date of travel, type of accommodation, transport mode and number of people on the safari.
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