9 Days Masai Mara – Lake Manyara – Ngorongoro – Serengeti

Pick up at 7- 8:00 A.M from hotel for orientation and depart for the Masai Mara Game Reserve via the view point of the Great Rift Valley and Narok town for lunch. On arrival, proceed for a game drive, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver/guide. Dinner and overnight are at the camp.

The landscape here is scenic savanna grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for game in Kenya as it has an extensive road and track network which allows for close range viewing and photography. Break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool, looking out for hippos and crocodile. Dinner and overnight are at the camp.

Early morning you will have a short game drive in the park. Later the driver will drop you at the camp for breakfast. After breakfast, depart the Masai Mara region for Nairobi with lunch en route. You will be arriving in the evening and be dropped off at the hotel you have booked. on own.

You will be departing from Nairobi with a shuttle to Arusha. Arriving in Namanga Border for immigration procedures at the border and then proceed with your journey to Arusha and arrive in the afternoon. Check-in the hotel in Arusha hotel booked on bed and breakfast. Dinner on your own.

After breakfast drive west on good tarmac road, across the gently rolling Maasai plains with scattered acacia trees, en route you pass many Maasai bomas and Maasai in their colorfully traditional dress walking on the roadside, riding bicycles, herding their cattle and driving overloaded donkeys carts. After two hours of drive you will arrive at Manyara gate, before proceed with a game drive, The first habitat will be the underground forest with water seeping from the rift valley escarpment. There is a great sightings of Hippos, Elephants, Buffaloes, Giraffes, Zebras, Blue monkeys, Baboons. Dinner and overnight at basic fixed tent.

After breakfast, we will take picnic lunch with us and drive west across the gentle rolling Ngorongoro highlands en route you pass Zebra and wildebeest grazing with the Maasai cattle’s and young boys tending them, and Maasai villages[Bomas]. After proceeding to Serengeti and stop at the Nabi gate for lunch. In the afternoon we will be doing our game drive in the central Serengeti with a great sighting of Lions, Hippos, Giraffes, Leopards, Reedbucks, and Elephants Dinner and overnight at the basic fixed tent.

An early morning game drive, it’s always good to start game drive early in the morning, as many animals are active during this time. You will return to the camp for breakfast before heading out for another game drive in the park. Here in the Seronera region, you will often see wildebeests and zebras in close proximity of lions and other predators such as leopards and cheetahs. After a picnic lunch, you will continue your journey towards the Ngorongoro Crater. Once you have reached the crater rim you will enjoy fantastic views of this 600 m deep collapsed volcano. You will stay at the basic fixed tent.

After a very early breakfast leave the Lodge and descend down to the eighth wonder with possibly the largest permanent concentration of wildlife in Africa, with an estimated average of 30,000 large mammals. In addition, this is one of the best reserves in Africa to see Black Rhino. Other sightings include Lions, Hyenas, Jackals, Hippos, Buffaloes, Elephants, Zebras, Wildebeest. After lunch drives back to Arusha be dropped at the ambassador hotel.

After Breakfast picks up from the Hotel and departs to Nairobi with am shuttle bus, arriving in the afternoon drop at the Airport to connect your flight back home or Nairobi Hotel. – if need be to proceed to Zanzibar for Beach holiday we drop you at the Kilimanjaro Airport to connect flight to Zanzibar.