18 Days East Africa Experience

07:30 hrs., pick up from your hotel, for departure to the Masai Mara via the view point of the Great Rift Valley and Narok town for refueling. Arrive Masai Mara in time for lunch. After lunch and refreshing, proceed for a game drive tracking various animals’ species and birds with your driver guide. Dinner and overnight at the Enkorok Luxury Camp Masai Mara.

After breakfast, proceed on a full day game drive in the reserve. The landscape is scenic savanna grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for game in Kenya as it has the big five and an extensive road and track network which allows for close range viewing and photography. Break for lunch at the hippo pool, looking out for hippos and crocodiles. Dinner and overnight at the Enkorok Luxury Camp Masai Mara.

After breakfast, proceed to your cultural visit at the Masai Village. Get to learn about the Masai People and how they have maintained their culture. After the visit, leave Mara for Lake Nakuru. Arrive in time for lunch and check in. After relaxation, proceed for a guided horse riding and later on an evening game drive. Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru Lodge

After a bush breakfast, proceed for a game drive. Lake Nakuru is well known for its bird life, the white and black rhinos, viewpoints, waterfalls and unique vegetation. Proceed to Amboseli after the Lake Nakuru game drive is done. Lunch will be served in Nairobi. After lunch, leave Nairobi for Amboseli, arriving in the evening for check in and dinner at Ol Tukai Lodge with the view of the Kilimanjaro Mt. in the background.

After breakfast, proceed for a full day game drive at the Amboseli park. Get to see the swamp grounds in which elephants and hippos bathe in abundance. A variety of plain game, antelopes, birds, elephants, lions, rhinos and many animals found in Kenya and not forgetting the great view of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Lunch will be served in the bush as you continue with your game drives tracking down the animals. Diner and overnight stay at Ol Tukai Lodge

Proceed for an early and last game drive in the park. After the drive, get back to the lodge for breakfast as you park to leave the Amboseli for Tsavo East. Arrive in time for check in and lunch. After wards for an evening game drive and later a bush dinner at Voi wildlife lodge.

After breakfast leave Tsavo East with an en-route game drive. Tsavo East is renowned for its large numbers of Red Elephants and the famous man-eating lions and so many other animals found in the park. Arrive in Nairobi for Lunch. Overnight at Best Western Plus Meridian Hotel

After breakfast, The shuttle will pick you up for transfer to Arusha. Arrive in time for lunch. Dinner and overnight at Serena Arusha Hotel.

After breakfast at your hotel, meet your safari guide for full briefing on safari and later depart for Tarangire National park. Famed for its large number of elephants and the huge Baobab trees. Tarangire also is a home to other cats like the Leopard, cheetah, Lion and other wild game. After lunch, proceed for an afternoon game drive and later on exit the park as you transfer to your Lodge located at the base of Great Rift Valley, arriving for dinner and overnight at Sopa Lodge Tarangire

After breakfast at the lodge with an en route game drive, depart for Serengeti with game drives through Ngorongoro. Optional visit to the Olduvai George-an important archaeological site for Dr. Leakey’s family where fossils of mankind are stored.

A further afternoon game drives through Serengeti as you transfer to the Lodge at central Serengeti, arriving for dinner and overnight.  Meals on Full Board at Serena Serengeti Safari lodge

After breakfast, proceed for a full day game driving. Serengeti National Park is an immense park and with its unsurpassed concentrations of wildlife and its vast endless grasslands offers the finest game viewing anywhere in Africa. The Serengeti ecosystem is one of the oldest on earth and the annual wildlife migration, largest mass movement of land mammals on planet earth, is perhaps what makes it famous. Over a million wildebeest and zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then go west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. Serengeti, characterized by the endless plains, acacia trees and punctuated by large stone kopjes presents an archetypal picture of a wild and remote Africa and supports an amazingly large number of wildlife. Animals present include lions, elephants, giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, zebras, wildebeests, leopards, cheetahs, Serengeti’s essential features of climate, flora and fauna have barely changed in the past million years. Lunch, dinner and overnight at Serena Serengeti safari Lodge

After breakfast, depart Serengeti for Ngorongoro with an en route game drive. This being a calving season herds are set to be converging at the plains. This may guarantee you lots of spotting especially the cats and if lucky witness a kill.

Afternoon and evening game drives at the plains of Ngorongoro in search of more herds and the big five as you transfer to the lodge for lunch, dinner and overnight at Serena Lodge Ngorongoro.

After breakfast at the lodge, depart for Ngorongoro Crater. Descend into the crater floor for an extensive game drive of this natural zoo where animals roam freely and are easily spotted while on game drive within range of the safari land cruiser.

Afternoon game drives and ascend the crater as you transfer to your lodge.

Lunch, dinner and overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge.

This area covers the world’s largest unbroken caldera namely Ngorongoro crater and the Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Louis Leaky discovered the origin of early man by unearthing jaws of the Zinjanthropus man. This protected area also includes huge expanses of highlands plains and volcanoes, scrub bush, and forests where the indigenous pastoralists – Maasai people are allowed to live within its boundaries.

The Ngorongoro Crater is a world heritage site and the world’s largest unbroken volcanic caldera which is often referred to as the 8th wonder of the world. The crater is 610 meters deep and 260km2. Breathtaking views of scenery and game can be witnessed from both the crater rim and within the crater floor. It is estimated that over 25,000 larger mammals, mainly Zebra and Wildebeest, exist within the crater itself. Others include Elephant, Warthog, Impala and Buffalo. A Rhino sighting is a rare Possibility but Ngorongoro is your best chance in Tanzania to see the endangered black rhino. Flamingoes and over 100 species of water birds are found at the soda lake on the crater floor.

Breakfast at the lodge and with packed lunches depart for Lake Manyara National park . Arrive at Lake Manyara mid-morning and embark on an extensive game drive of this park. It’s a beautiful little park and is well known for its tree-climbing lions, elephants and large troops of baboons. The park is home to an amazing variety of birds and animals considering its small size. A short visit to this serene park will greatly diversify your safari experience as the lush green jungle habitat is of stark contrast to the other parks you will visit during your safari.

Lake Manyara, the shallow alkaline water mass named after the park, covers two thirds of the park’s total area of 330 Kilometers square.

After exploring Manyara, depart to Kilimanjaro international airport for an evening flight to Zanzibar. Arrive in time for check in and dinner at Ocean Paradise Resort & spa zanzibar.

After morning breakfast, proceed to stone town and tour around. Stone town is a city of prominent historical and artistic importance in East Africa. Its architecture mostly dating back to the 19^th century, reflects the diverse influences underlying the Swahili culture, giving a unique mixture of Arab, Persian, Indian and European elements and for this reason, the town was designated as a UNESCO world Heritage site in 2000.After the tour, you will head back to the Resort for lunch. In the Afternoon, you can either chose to have some relaxation at the beach or embark on sea excursion/water sports at own extra charges. Dinner and overnight at Ocean Paradise Resort & Spa Zanzibar

After breakfast, depart your resort for Prison Island to learn more about history, the reason why there’s many turtles in the island. The island is home to more than 50 Turtles in which some of them are more than 100 years old. It’s possible to feed them and take up close pictures with them and have a great time. The island is also home for peacocks and tiny antelopes.

After the tour, head back to the resort for lunch. Free time in the afternoon for relaxation. Dinner and overnight at Ocean Paradise Resort & spa Zanzibar

After breakfast, proceed for a spice tour. Get to learn, taste and see spices like never before.

Get back to the Resort for lunch.  Afternoon for relaxation. Dinner and overnight stay at Ocean Paradise Resort & spa Zanzibar

Check out of the resort at 10 AM.  Leave for the airport to catch your flight back to Kilimanjaro airport for your international flight back home.

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