Visit the Great Rift Valley for its stunning vistas, panoramic & breathtaking views. Experience an excellent combination of wildlife-rich Maasai Mara and Serengeti wildebeest-migration, culture, and stunning landscapes of Lakes Nakuru & Manyara National Parks/ Ornithological paradise. Ngorongoro Crater offers unparalleled views of the wonders of the world. Watch the African “Big Five” animals’ elephants, rhinos, buffalos, lions, leopards. Expert local driver-guide. Leisure at Zanzibar beach.
The Summarized, 16 Days Kenya Safari Itinerary
- Day 1: Nairobi
- Day 2: Nairobi – Lake Nakuru
- Day 3: Lake Nakuru- Lake Naivasha
- Day 4: Lake Naivasha – Maasai Mara
- Day 5: Maasai Mara
- Day 6: Maasai Mara – Serengeti
- Day 7: Serengeti
- Day 8: Serengeti – Ngorongoro
- Day 9: Ngorongoro – Lake Manyara
- Day 10: Lake Manyara – Amboseli
- Day 11: Amboseli
- Day 12: Amboseli – Nairobi – Zanzibar
- Day 13: Zanzibar Island (Stone town excursion)
- Day 14: Zanzibar Island (Spice and Botanical excursion)
- Day 15: Zanzibar Island (siesta at hotel beach front)
- Day 16: Zanzibar to Nairobi to Flight back home.
DAY 1: ARRIVAL NAIROBI
Courtesy of complimentary Airport transfer from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Upon arrival at the Airport, our representative will have all your arrival details ready for pick. You will be transferred to Nairobi accommodation already booked for overnight and breakfast: Accommodation at Movenpick residence Hotel
Meals: Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 2: PICK UP NAIROBI HOTEL / TRANSFER LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
This Morning, You will be pick up from your hotel after the breakfast and your guide will be there earlier enough before departure. Leave Nairobi and head to Lake Nakuru National Park with a stopover at a spectacular view of the Great Rift Valley, the largest valley in the world, the perfect place for selfies, and enjoy a wide spread of valley vegetation. After 30, minutes of a stop-over, you will proceed to Lake Nakuru National Park to arrive in time for check-in lunch. Later in the afternoon, head for a game viewing across the lake of Nakuru. Visitors can enjoy the wide ecological diversity and varied habitats that range from Lake Nakuru itself to the surrounding escarpment and picturesque ridges. Lake Nakuru National Park is ideal for bird watching, hiking, picnic, and game drives. Dinner and Overnight at the lodge/camp. Accommodation at Lake Nakuru lodge
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 3: LEAVE LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK / TRANSFER LAKE NAIVASHA
After breakfast, have a short game drive Lake Nakuru then depart to Lake Naivasha. Arrive in time at Lake Naivasha for lunch. Optional Boat ride at Lake Naivasha. Lake Naivasha is the best place for bird watchers as it has the best unique birds around the lake. Dinner and Overnight at the Lodge. . Accommodation at Lake Naivasha Resort
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 4: LEAVE LAKE NAIVASHA / TRANSFER MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
After your hot buffet breakfast, depart through the floor of Great Rift Valley to Maasai Mara National Reserve. Stopover at Narok town for fueling and buying snacks. Enter the gate of Maasai Mara Reserve to arrive in your lodge in time for check-in for Lunch. Relax and refresh after Lunch. Thereafter afternoon game drive in search of Big Cats in the right time hunting down big gazelles. Dinner and Overnight. . Accommodation at Jambo Mara safari Lodge
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 5: MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
Spend this whole day with a game drive in search of the big five and much other wildlife that inhabits these beautiful savannah plains. There will be a picnic lunch in the course of the day. Optional activities: Hot air balloon with an extra cost of $450 per person or visit to Maasai village with an extra cost of $20 per person. Accommodation at Jambo mara safari Lodge
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 6: LEAVE MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE / TRANSFER SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK VIA ISEBANIA BORDER.
Today, because of the Long-distance drive, you will wake up early for your breakfast so that you have a final morning game drive en-route to Serengeti National Park. You will have Lunch at the border and then both our guides in Kenya and Tanzania will assist you with any formalities as you clear to cross the border. After Lunch and clearance to cross the border, you will proceed with our Tanzania Guide to Serengeti National Park to arrive late afternoon with a game drive en-route to your lodge/camp for dinner and overnight. . Accommodation at Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp,
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 7: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
Today you will have a full day game drive. Following the Wildebeest migration from Serengeti National Park to Maasai Mara National Reserve, the best time is December to July and to see the predators the best time is June to-October.
The park also has over 518 identified bird species where some of them are Eurasian migrants who are present in the European winter months from October to April. Dinner and Overnight will be at your lodge/camp. Accommodation at Serengeti Heritage Luxury Tented Camp
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 8: LEAVE SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK / TRANSFER NGORONGORO CRATER
After your hot buffet breakfast, refresh and check-out of your Lodge. Game drive en-route as you head to Ngorongoro Crater to arrive in time for Lunch. This afternoon, a tour of the crater floor, which is home to numerous plains game and the big five. In the evening you will return to the lodge which is strategically perched on the rim of the collapsed volcano, with the most magnificent views of the crater floor. Dinner and Overnight at the Crater rim. Accommodation at Rhino Lodge.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 9: LEAVE NGORONGORO CRATER / TRANSFER LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
Wake up for your ready buffet breakfast, then check-out of the lodge. Proceed to Lake Manyara National Park in time for check-in for lunch. After enjoying your lodge, you will leave for an afternoon game drive along the park. Lake Manyara national park was conserved to protect its largest herds of elephants and it’s said to be having the largest concentration of elephants in Africa. There are also thousands of flamingoes to be seen in the lakes shallow alkaline waters. Accommodation at Lake Manyara Wildlife Lodge
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 10: LEAVE LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK / TRANSFER AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast at the lodge, depart with picnic lunch boxes to the Namanga border. Clear customs and immigration formalities then join our Kenya tour driver and proceed to Amboseli. You will have lunch en route. Once you arrive at the park, you will enjoy a game drive. Look out for large herds of elephants, lions, leopard, gazelles, wild dogs, and the magnificent view of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Accommodation at Lake Manyara Wildlife Lodge
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 11: AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK
Today, wake up for a full hot buffet breakfast leave with a picnic lunch for a full day game drive in search of its popular residents like the well-known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo with a view of Mt Kilimanjaro. Later return to your lodge/camp for dinner and overnight. Accommodation at Kibo safari Camp
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 12: LEAVE AMBOSELI NATIONAL PARK / TRANSFER AND DROP OFF JOMO KENYATTA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT CONNECT FLIGHT TO ZANZIBAR
Today, you will leave the camp with packed lunch to Nairobi. Upon arrival in Nairobi, you will be directly transferred to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your direct flight to Zanzibar Island. Arrive in Zanzibar Late evening in time for Dinner and Overnight at your resort. Accommodation at Blue Bay Beach Resort and Spa.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 13: ZANZIBAR ISLAND-EXPLORE STONE TOWN
After breakfast, proceed for the morning and afternoon stone town tour, you will be shown around the historical culture and architectural important town of Zanzibar. You will visit the former slave market site, that now stands as an Anglican church built in 1871, the town market, Zanzibar Memorial Museum, House of Wonder built-in 1883 (Beit-Al-Ajab), the old Arab Fort, Palace Museum, Old Indian dispensary (cultural center) to Maruhubi Palace ruins via Living Stone House. . Accommodation at Blue Bay Beach Resort and Spa.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 14: ZANZIBAR ISLAND-EXPLORE SPICE & BOTANICAL TOUR
Today after breakfast, you will be taking a trip to spice and botanical tour. You will have an opportunity to see and taste the tropical fruits, spices plantations, or plots on the island. A variety of spices plants used as ornament, medicines, flowers, fruits, and another interesting flora can be seen during the spice tour and visit Kidichi bath built-in 1850 by the first Sultan for his wife Sheharzad (granddaughter of Fateh Ali Shah of Persia, you will be the transfer to the blue bay beach for dinner and overnight at Blue Bay Beach Resort and spa
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 15: ZANZIBAR ISLAND-SIESTA AT THE OTEL BEACH FRONT
Today, you will have a free day to relax at the hotel as you enjoy the hotel amenities. Relax by the pool holding your cocktail or take a walk around the beachfront experiencing the culture of Zanzibar people. You may buy some souvenirs for future memories. Dinner and Overnight at your Hotel, blue bay beach. . Accommodation at Blue Bay Beach Resort and Spa.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner & Breakfast
DAY 16: LEAVE ZANZIBAR ISLAND / ZANZIBAR ISLAND FLIGHT TRANSFER & CONNECT HOME FLIGHT NAIROBI.
Wake up for your final hot buffet breakfast then check-out of your hotel then transfer for your scheduled flight to Nairobi. Upon arrival in Nairobi, will connect your onward flight home.
INCLUDED
- Government imposed park fees and/or taxes
- Entry Park fees (for non-residents)
- All Meals (as specified in the full itinerary section)
- 15 Nights’ accommodation
- Roundtrip airport transfers
- Arrival meet and Greet at the airports
- Arrival Transfers to Hotels
- A professional driver/guide
- Transportation in open roof tour vehicle
- Bottled water on Safari
- A professional driver/guides
- All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
- Return Flight to Zanzibar
NOT INCLUDED:
- Accommodation on the day before the tour Start
- Accommodation on the last day of tour
- International flights (from/to home)
- Tips and gratuities
- Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
- Additional Drinks and beverages
- Laundry