Ngorongoro is the world’s largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera, and the name is derived from the sound of cowbell (Goro Goro) by the Maasai pastoralists. The crater walls stretch about 2,000 feet up and its floor covers about 260 sq km.

The Ngorongoro conservation area is host to a variety of wildlife and is believed to be the easiest place to spot the ‘Big Five’. The rim and edges of the crater are inhabited by the Maasai who can be seen grazing their cattle on the plateaus.

 

Day 1: Nairobi - Lake Nakuru

Transfer to Lake Nakuru which covers 180 sq km. The park is home to warthogs, waterbuck, buffaloes, reedbucks, and the occasional leopard. White and black rhinos were introduced to the park some years ago and you may find white rhino at the southern end. The park has also retained its reputation as an ornithologists’ delight with more than 400 species of bird found here. Arrive in time for your hot lunch at the hotel. Enjoy your game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park.

Accommodation: Full board at Flamingo Hill Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 2: Lake Nakuru - Masai Mara

Proceed after your morning breakfast for Lake Naivasha. Boat rides can be arranged at minimal extra cost. Transfer after your ride to Masai Mara National Reserve. On clear days, the Mara offers fantastic orange tinted sunsets and you will definitely want to capture this moment while sipping on a sundowner back at your lodge.

The Mara reserve is 1510 sq km of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers. Wherever you go in the Mara you will see a frequent amount of wildlife such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat-eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos also exist in great numbers. It is also common to see lions either basking after a heavy meal or surveying the plains for their next meal. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot but are still reasonably common.

Accommodation: Full board at Mara Leisure Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 3: Masai Mara

Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Masai Mara using your Private 4 x 4 land cruiser. Balloon Safaris can be arranged payable in our office. The ultimate action here is, without doubt, the annual wildebeest exodus in July and August when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of lusher grass before turning south again in October.

Accommodation: Full board at Mara Leisure Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 4: Masai Mara - Serengeti

Transfer after your morning breakfast for Serengeti National Park. Serengeti National Park is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering. Enjoy your en-route game drive at Serengeti National Park.

Accommodation: Full board at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 5: Serengeti National Park

Enjoy your full day of game viewing at Serengeti National Park with your private safari land cruiser till late in the evening. Tanzania's oldest and most popular national park, also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a 7th worldwide wonder, the Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing.

Accommodation: Full board at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 6: Serengeti National Park

A full day of game viewing at Serengeti National Park with your private safari land cruiser. As enduring as the game-viewing is the liberating sense of space that characterises the Serengeti Plains, stretching across sunburnt savannah to a shimmering golden horizon at the end of the earth. Yet, after the rains, this golden expanse of grass is transformed into an endless green carpet flecked with wildflowers. And there are also wooded hills and towering termite mounds, rivers lined with fig trees and acacia woodland stained orange by dust.

Accommodation: Full board at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 7: Serengeti - Ngorongoro

Depart after your morning breakfast with your picnic lunch boxes via the Olduvai gorge where it is believed the cradle of mankind began. Thereafter transferred to Ngorongoro Crater which is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World, a visit to the crater is the main drawcard for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Masai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries. You will be transferred to your lodge. Descend to the rim of the crater for your game viewing.

Accommodation: Full board at Tloma Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 8: Ngorongoro - Tarangire

Transfer after your morning breakfast to Tarangire National Park is probably one of the least visited of the northern Tanzanian game parks, and retains a real air of undiscovered Africa, particularly in the south of the park. Just two hours drive away from Arusha. It lies a little distance to the southeast of Lake Manyara and covers an area of approximately 2,850 sq km. It is named after the Tarangire River that flows through the park. The swamps, tinged green year-round, are the focus for 550 bird varieties, the largest number of species in one habitat anywhere in the world; on drier ground, the Kori bustard – the heaviest flying bird – can be found. Enjoy your afternoon game drive till late in the evening.

Accommodation: Full board at Burunge Tented Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 9: Tarangire - Amboseli

Depart after your morning breakfast for Amboseli via Arusha where you will make a stopover for your hot lunch. Transfer after lunch for Amboseli National Park and this will include normal border crossing formalities at Namanga border. Amboseli National Park is famous for its big game - elephants, lions and cheetahs are the main attractions - and for its great scenery beauty. Amboseli embodies five main wildlife habitats, plus a generally dry lake-bed - Lake Amboseli. These are open plains; extensive stands of yellow-barked acacia woodland; rocky, lava strewn thorn-bush country; swamps and marshes; and at the western end of the reserve, above Namanga, the massif of Ol Doinyo Orok rising to over 2,760m (8.300ft) and still for the most part zoologically unexplored.

Accommodation: Full board at Kibo Safari Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Day 10: Amboseli - Nairobi

Enjoy your early morning game drive. Depending on your international flight timings, transfer to Nairobi for your flight back home.

Accommodation: Non
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

 

Includes:

• Meet and greet services
• Private game drives/activities as per itinerary
• Transfers as specified
• Accommodation and meals as specified
• Park/Entry fees
• Bottle of mineral water per

Excludes:

• International flights
• Visas
• Airport tax (International pay direct)
• Travel/medical/baggage insurance
• Driver guide gratuities
• Drinks/laundry (unless specified)
• Dining rooms tips & Porterage
• Any other items of a personal nature