Today after breakfast, prepare for a long but very scenic and exciting drive. You will head towards the border separating Kenya and Tanzania(Namanga border post). Prepare for the border immigration process which will take a few minutes. After clearing the border immigration process, you will transfer vehicles and join your Tanzanian driver/guide who will welcome you and proceed further with your journey stopping for lunch in Arusha. After lunch, you'll take a few minutes to familiarize yourself with the day-to-day activities of the locals around this small but busy tourist transit town before proceeding further east arriving in Lake Manyara in good time (mid-afternoon).

You have a free afternoon to enjoy the lodge facilities like swimming, and bird watching, or maybe relax by the poolside reading your favorite book or writing your journal in preparation for a busy day tomorrow.

Today after a leisurely breakfast, you'll pack up and drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a morning game drive in search of the animals while they are still active like baboons and dik-diks that forage for food beneath acacia trees, and large herds of buffalos, wildebeest and zebras, which gather on the grassy, sun-drenched plains. Along a narrow belt of acacia woodland, you may even spot the region’s storied tree-climbing lions, ascending branches for a cool breeze. Today's lunch is an African buffet prepared freshly from the farm in a local homestead. After lunch, you'll continue to a local village, where you'll ride on a tuk-tuk or walk viewing rice fields and the local community as you go. You will also have a chance to sample a local banana beer as you take a village walk. Thereafter, you'll travel to Ngorongoro Crater, ascending its outer wall through dense vegetation and arriving at your hotel located at the rim of the caldera in good time for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge a Luxury lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Will be provided

This morning, you'll descend into the crater, arriving ahead of most visitors — thanks to the ideal location of your accommodations on the crater’s rim —you'll descend into the crater floor for the half-day crater tour. There are only two roads that connect the crater rim with the crater floor, One for driving down, One for driving up, and another that goes both ways. The crater is roughly 20 km/12 miles wide and 600 m/2,000 ft deep. Once you’ve reached the top of the caldera, it takes about 45 minutes to descend to the crater floor. The floor is home to a rich and highly concentrated wildlife. Some 20,000 mammals of size live there, Including about 20 black rhinoceros, making the crater the best place in Tanzania to see the rhino.

The animals here are less wary of humans and vehicles and as a result, it's easier to watch them from up close where animals roam the lakes, rivers, and hills. Later, you'll ascend and return to your lodge at the rim for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge a Luxury lodge located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater (Tanzania)

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Will be provided

You'll drive to the vast, wildlife-rich Serengeti National Park and through its spectacular mix of savanna grassland and volcanic hills, stopping en route for a privately guided tour of Olduvai Gorge, one of the key sources of prehuman hominid fossils. Renowned paleontologists Mary and Louis Leakey made many notable finds here, including “Nutcracker Man,” who lived approximately 1.75 million years ago. You'll visit the on-site museum, take in views from the lookout point, and examine the excavations, which revealed 3.7-million-year-old footprints and the 1.8-million-year-old skull of a human. You'll continue to your lodge, which is framed by commanding views of this land of lions, leopards, hyenas, cheetahs, giraffes, and topi. The park also serves as a setting for the Great Migration when it passes through each year. You'll enjoy your room’s blend of elegant and contemporary design with influences from the traditional Maasai culture.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge a Luxury lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP (Tanzania)

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Will be provided

You will wake up to another glorious day in the Serengeti. You will start the day with an early morning game drive to search for animals when they're most active. Then, you will return to the lodge for a relaxed breakfast and lunch.

You'll spend the hottest part of the day relaxing at the camp reading your favorite book, writing your journal about the safari, or just listening to your favorite music while observing the birds. Then, you will head off again in the afternoon for another drive through the park. You'll return to the lodge for dinner and another night under Serengeti's stars.

Note: There's also an option of an early hot air balloon ride here. Please ask the tour consultant before booking this trip if you're interested.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge a Luxury lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP (Tanzania)

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Will be provided

This morning after a leisurely breakfast, you will be transferred to Seronera Airstrip for your scheduled flight to Masai Mara. You will fly to the vast Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya’s finest wildlife spectacle, offering excellent game viewing year-round. The unending landscape hosts some 450 bird species, 95 animal species, and all of the great predators, including the country’s largest lion population. On arrival, you'll meet your driver guide and be transferred to your lodge with a game drive on route arriving in good time for lunch.

After having lunch and familiarizing yourself with your classic tented accommodations, ideally situated at the confluence of Mara’s four game-viewing regions, you will embark on your first guided game drive through the famed reserve in search of the many herbivores and carnivores that call this place home. You will return at sunset for dinner and an overnight stay.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Zebra Plains Mara Camp a Mid-range tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Will be provided

This is a full day spent game viewing across the rich tree-studded grassland and rolling hills of the famous savanna. The Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains game animals like leopards, cheetahs, lions, and other herbivores. It has virtually every other type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. You will have a full-day game drive in Masai Mara Savannah.
Your lunch today is picnic lunch boxes in the savannah under a flat-top acacia tree while watching the animals grazing. You'll continue with the game viewing en route to your camp, arriving late in the afternoon after thoroughly exploring this massive grassland savannah measuring 1,500 sq.
You have an option of booking a balloon ride today which takes off early in the morning. After landing, the crew helps you out of the basket and escorts you to a lovely setting for a bush breakfast which is a lifetime experience and worth the price. Later, you'll join your driver guide at a location and proceed with your full-day game drive.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Zebra Plains Mara Camp a Mid-range tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Will be provided

You'll spend another full-day game viewing across the rich tree-studded grassland and rolling hills of the famous savanna. The Mara is renowned for its great herds of plains game animals like leopards, cheetahs, lions, and other herbivores. It has virtually every other type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. You will have a full-day game drive in Masai Mara Savannah.
Your lunch today is picnic lunch boxes in the savannah under a flat-top acacia tree while watching the animals grazing. You'll continue with the game viewing en route to your camp, arriving late in the afternoon after thoroughly exploring this massive grassland savannah measuring 1,500 sq.
You have an option of booking a balloon ride today which takes off early in the morning. After landing, the crew helps you out of the basket and escorts you to a lovely setting for a bush breakfast which is a lifetime experience and worth the price. Later join your driver guide at a location and proceed with your full-day game drive.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Zebra Plains Mara Camp a Mid-range tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)

Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner Will be provided

Today after breakfast, you'll drive north through Narok to Njoro Road, which crosses the beautiful sceneries of the fertile wheat lands of Mau and the Mau Forest complex (The source of the Mara River). You will arrive at the park in good time for lunch and check into your lodge. Later, you'll depart for an afternoon game drive in this gorgeous park and return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.

Lake Nakuru National Park is among Kenya's finest national parks. The park is gorgeous all year round and boasts rocky escarpments, patches of yellow-barked acacia forest, and a waterfall. It is home to flamingos, black and white rhinos, lions, leopards, buffaloes, hippos, and the endangered Rothschild's giraffes. The southern end of the lake is the best place to see wildlife! The forested area below the Rhinos Cliff is a favorite lion-spotting point where lionesses love to sleep in the trees, and leopards frequent the same site.

You'll depart for an early morning game drive and thereafter return to the lodge for breakfast before driving to Lake Naivasha. Lake Naivasha is a freshwater lake in Kenya outside the town of Naivasha northwest of Nairobi famous for its strong population of hippos, giraffes, wildebeest, and the over 400 bird species in the forest surrounding the lake making it the perfect destination for birders

On arrival, you'll proceed to the lake for a boat ride and walking excursion at the Crescent Island Game Sanctuary. Boat rides here are refreshing experiences that take you on the breezy lake waters as you explore the diverse bird life and wildlife on the lake and its surroundings. You will have a brief nature walk on the island, which is a great opportunity to appreciate nature on the island and around. You'll return to the hotel for lunch. After lunch, you'll proceed to Hellsgate National Park for more outdoor activities like bicycle riding, and rock climbing while watching the animals.

Accommodation

Spend the night at Enashipai Resort & Spa a Luxury resort at Lake Naivasha (Naivasha, Kenya)

Breakfast Lunch and Dinner will be provided

After a leisurely morning breakfast, you will check out of your lodge, pack up, and drive back to Nairobi. On arrival in Nairobi, you will have an (optional) lunch at the famous Carnivore Restaurant. Afterward, you'll be dropped off at your respective hotel or at the airport to mark this as the end of your safari.

Depending on your homebound flight departure time, you will organize with your diver guide the departure time from Lake Naivasha.

Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)

Meals & Drinks

Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included)

Drinking water (Other drinks not included)