10 days Kenya and Tanzania Luxury Safari

You will be picked up at 07:00hrs from your hotel or Airport and drive towards Amboseli National Park arriving on time for lunch and checking in at your lodge/camp. After lunch depart for an afternoon game drive, Amboseli is famous for its big game and its great scenic beauty – the landscape is dominated by Mt. Kilimanjaro. It has the greatest concentration of elephants. Return to your lodge/camp for dinner and overnight.

Early morning game drive then return to the lodge/camp for breakfast and check out. With an extra game viewing as you exit Amboseli, proceed to the cross border at the Namanga Kenya/Tanzania border with a stop for immigration formalities, and drive into Tanzania heading towards Lake Manyara.  This relatively small but diverse park, 120km west of Arusha, is named for the shallow, salt lake that covers a large area of the park. This is seasonal home to large flocks of flamingos and over 500 other bird species, in search of lions lounging in the trees commonly found in the area are elephants, hippos, giraffes, impala, blue and vervet monkeys, bushbuck, baboons, leopards, buffalo, wildebeest and zebra congregating on the grassy plains.

Overnight and dinner at your Lake Manyara safari lodge or tented camp.

Depart towards Tarangire National Park, which covers 1,100 square miles, is known for its great number and diversity of wildlife and birding, a unique feature of the Park is the baobab trees, also referred to as the Tree of Life. These trees are ‘gigantic’ in nature and can store between 300 liters and 1000 liters of water in their trunk, it has a mix of granite ridges, river valleys, and swamps. Vegetation here is a mix of beautiful acacia woodland trees as well as red termite mounds Acacia, Combretum woodlands, and seasonally flooded grasslands. The charismatic black-and-white colobus monkey is also a key attraction as well as the blue monkey, reedbucks, and waterbucks, catching sight of the bashful bushbucks plus duikers. You will be amazed by the variety and numbers of wildlife including the African bush elephant, the big five and rare tree-climbing lion, rhinoceros, leopard, African buffalo and numerous giraffes, impala, ostriches, baboons, big cats, wild dogs and cheetahs.

You will drive back to the lodge/camp for dinner and overnight.

Early breakfast and drive towards the famous Ngorongoro Crater. These are Conservation Area, is unique as it is the world’s largest inactive volcanic caldera, a cauldron-like hollow formed in the volcano with a crater floor covering over 100 sq. miles and 0.4 miles deep. One of the best places to spot the Big Five and critically endangered animals like black rhinos, golden cats, and wild hunting dogs and see the amazing colors, an abundance of wildlife, and a huge variety of flora, the incredible landscape makes the crater one of the Seven Natural Wonders of Africa.

Open grassland covers most of the crater floor, turning yellow with wildflowers in June. The Makat Soda Lake is a great attraction for flamingos and over 500 bird species can be found here including the black kite, black-winged lapwing, Hildebrandt’s spurfowl, lesser flamingo, and the Kenya rufous sparrow other water birds. We arrive at the Crater rim before lunch and descend into the Crater for a game viewing the wildebeest, buffalo, elephant, gazelle zebra, and throw hyena.  After our lunch and a full afternoon inside the Crater, we head to your lodge for delightful dining and overnight amid the plains and her multitudinous animal life.

After breakfast departs towards Serengeti for a full day game drive with a picnic for lunch. Serengeti plains are home to the world’s annual largest movement of animals, known as “The Great Migration.” Millions of wildebeests fulfill the role in the cycle of life frenzied territorial conquests and mating following seasonal rains around the  Serengeti and mara rivers by Masai Mara in Kenya. A view of these huge beasts crossing the crocodile-infested river Mara is proclaimed 7th natural Worldwide wonder. You will be amazed by the variety and numbers of wildlife calving.

The resident predators are lion, leopard, and cheetah fulfilling their role in the circle of life. Serengeti is one of the best places in East Africa to see predators in action because of the open grass plains where the grazing animals gather, predators are numerous and easily visible. You will also be able to see the African bush elephant, the rhinoceros, the African buffalo, the spotted hyena, hunting dogs as well as numerous hippos in the Serengeti Retina hippo pool.

After an extensive game drive, we head for your lodge/camp for a hearty dinner and a night by the fire of relaxation and conversation under the sweeping majesty of the bright stars in Africa and the endless plain.

After breakfast departs towards Serengeti for a full-day game drive with a picnic for lunch. Serengeti is a UNESCO World Heritage Site and one of Africa’s best birding destinations with one of the largest species lists of any African country at over 1,100 bird species including the black crake, Fischer’s lovebird, Ashy starling, Tanzania seedeater and Hartlaub’s turaco. It contains some 20% of the species of Africa’s large mammal population with most wildlife like diceros, Impalas, dik-diks, Impalas, giraffes, hyenas, African wild dogs, and many more.

You will also find Big herds of zebra and Thomson’s gazelle, eland, topi, kongoni, and impala joining the huge herds of wildebeest trekking for fresh grazing. Serengeti offers all seasons arguably the most game-viewing spread across the endless plains.

It’s also one of the oldest and most scientifically significant ecosystems on the planet. Its weather patterns, fauna, and flora are believed to have changed very little over a million years, giving the area a prehistoric feel.

After an extensive game drive, we head for your lodge/camp for a hearty dinner and a night by the fire of relaxation and conversation under the sweeping majesty of the bright stars in Africa and the endless plain.

After early breakfast and check-out, proceed for a morning game drive en route to Masai Mara. Next, you will continue the drive up to the Maasai Mara River where you will have your picnic lunches. The amazing wildlife experience continues. On the plains are large herds of herbivores grazing, cheetahs, and leopards hiding in their locations. Masai Mara is the heart of Kenyan tourism with large species of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and over 400 bird species recorded on the reserve. Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more abundant, and it is, for this reason, a visitor hardly misses seeing the Big Five (buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, and rhino).  Overnight stay at the lodge/camp.

Have breakfast and later head for the last game drive in the Mara National Reserve as we head back to Nairobi for your drop off to your hotel or to the Airport.