7 Days Kenya and Tanzania Safari
Overview
Masai mara – Kenya Tanzania Safari7 Days Kenya and Tanzania Safari – Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro and Lake Manyara.
Tour Highlights
Masai Mara Game Reserve – Kenya
• Iconic world-famous game park – unlimited drives
• The Big Five
• Immense herds of wildlife
• Unforgettable savannah vistas
• Maasai people and culture
Serengeti National Park – Tanzania
– Tree climbing lions
– Varied landscape and wildlife
– Over 300 migratory birds – flamingo & long-crested eagle
– Rift Valley escarpment – dramatic landforms and spectacular backdrop to your visit
Ngorongoro Crater – Tanzania
• The great migration – vast herds of wildebeest & zebra moving on to Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya
– Famous for its dense and varied wildlife
• Famous for its dense and varied wildlife
• The Big Five – largest population of lions in Africa
• World’s largest intact volcanic caldera
• 8th Wonder of the World & UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Dense concentration and easily accessible wildlife
– Olduvai Gorge – site of pre-historic man
Lake Manyara National Park – Tanzania
• Tree climbing lions
• Varied landscape and wildlife
• Over 300 migratory birds – flamingo & long-crested eagle
• Rift Valley escarpment – dramatic landforms and spectacular backdrop to your visit
Included/Exclude
- Transport in a customized 4x4 pop up top Land Cruiser jeep in Kenya/Tanzania
- Services of an experienced English/Other language speaking driver/ guide.
- Accommodation throughout the safari
- Park entry and conservation fees.
- Game viewing drives.
- All meals on safari.
- Bottled drinking water in safari vehicle.
- Pick up and drop off at respective hotel, residence.
- Government taxes and local levies.
- Tips
- Items of personal nature
- Anything not mentioned
Tour Plan
7:00 AM
Pick up from hotel, residence, airport, or place of your choosing and start your journey to Masai Mara National Park. We should arrive at the park about lunchtime. We’ll freshen up at our accommodation and set out on our first game drive. The rolling hills and dramatic acacia trees will first greet us as we track for lions, leopards, cheetahs, and the over 95 different animal species that inhabit this very rich ecosystem. Towards evening, we’ll head back to our Mara safari lodge or tented camp to relax, enjoy dinner, and recap our first safari day.
Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner
We’ll be up early to see the morning bring the park alive with light and bird songs. This is a day of unlimited game drives.
Just discuss your preferences with your guide safari – how much exploring and how much relaxation time you’d like.
Your guide will want to take you to the Mara River for a picnic lunch and to see the hippos and crocodiles inhabiting this special border. During the season of the Great Migration (July – October), this is the crossing site where wildebeests and zebras by the thousands enter the park from the neighboring Serengeti. We’ll return to our Mara accommodation for dinner and relaxation in the evening.
Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner
Let’s get up early for the crossing into Tanzania and Serengeti National Park. We’ll head to the border town of Isebania and the crossing from Kenya into Tanzania.
The Serengeti is part of the same ecosystem as the Masai Mara, but it is in these lands that the masses of wildlife are born and raised before trekking over into the Mara in search of taller grasses and more sources of life-sustaining water.
The vast, almost treeless plains of the Serengeti are home to huge numbers of wildlife, not just the thousands of wildebeests and zebra but also great prides of lions and other big cats.
All meals, and overnight at our camp or lodge in Serengeti
Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner
Just like at the Mara, we’ve designed this safari for a full day exploring this magnificent park.
Enjoy several morning and afternoon game drives. You can’t miss the uncountable wildebeests here and depending on the season, you may witness their birthing by the thousands. Later in the year, these animals flow to the Masai Mara, beginning the Great Migration.
The Serengeti is home to perhaps the largest number of lions anywhere but we’ll also be tracking for cheetah, zebra, giraffe, gazelle, eland, impala, hippo, and the curious and downright amusing warthog.
The vastness and rich displays of wildlife at the Serengeti never fail to impress.
All meals, and overnight at our camp or lodge in Serengeti
Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner
We’ll head out early for a full day traveling from one iconic ecosystem to another, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
On the way, we’ll make a stop at Oldupai Gorge, the most noted anthropological site in the world. Here were discovered thousands of fossilized remnants of early man’s activity – an incredible record of tools and artifacts showing our evolution from millions of years ago.
We’ll arrive at the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact volcanic caldera on the planet. Before us stretches an enclosed world of rich wildlife and protected habitats.
Descending the crater wall in our 4 x 4 Jeep we’ll enter a thriving environment of big cats, elephants, rare black rhinos, and even dense birdlife, like pink flamingoes in the area’s marshlands.
This is an unusual world of wildlife, segregated from the rest of Africa but thriving in its own self-contained ecosystem.
We’ll enjoy lunch down here on the crater floor, with more game drives filling out our day.
Toward evening, we’ll head up the volcano wall to enjoy a dazzling sunset at the crater’s rim. In the evening we go to our Ngorongoro accommodation for dinner and rest.
Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner
If we arise early, we can be treated to a spectacular sunrise at the crater’s rim. And now we’re off to Lake Manyara National Park.
Lake Manyara is not a large park, but it is known for its beauty and of course, the lake itself. Color is a key element here – the blue of the lake contrasts with the thousands of feathery pink flamingoes dressing its shores. It’s as iconic a sight as any in Africa and certain to enchant.
The park is also famous for its unusual tree-climbing lions, a fascinating evolutionary adaptation. Look for them overhead, resting or scanning for prey from their perch up in the trees.
We’ll enjoy dinner here at our Lake Manyara safari lodge or tented camp.
Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner
This pretty park is even more serene and attractive in the early morning light. We’ll take another game drive to soak up the scenery, color, and perhaps some larger game like impala, gazelle, hippo, giraffe, and baboon.
After arrival in Arusha , you choose to do the following:
- To be dropped off at your Arusha hotel.
- To be dropped off at the Arusha or Kilimanjaro airport
- To return to Nairobi in Kenya.
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