Day 1: Nairobi – Maasai Mara National Reserve
After breakfast at your Nairobi hotel, you will be picked up by our professional safari guide and depart for the world-famous Maasai Mara National Reserve. The journey takes you through the scenic Great Rift Valley, where you will make a brief stop at the viewpoint to enjoy breathtaking views of the valley and take memorable photos.
Continue to Narok Town for lunch before proceeding to the Maasai Mara. This magnificent reserve forms part of the greater Serengeti ecosystem and is renowned for its spectacular Great Wildebeest Migration, diverse landscapes, and abundant wildlife.
The Maasai Mara is home to the famous Big Five: lions, elephants, leopards, buffaloes, and rhinos, along with numerous other wildlife species and birds.
Upon arrival, enjoy an afternoon game drive as you explore the reserve in search of wildlife. Later, return to your camp for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Camp
Meals: Lunch & Dinner
Day 2: Full Day Maasai Mara Game Drive
After breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full-day adventure inside the Maasai Mara National Reserve.
Explore the endless plains of the Mara, famous for its incredible concentration of wildlife and breathtaking scenery. Your game drive offers excellent opportunities to spot the Big Five, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, antelopes, and many bird species.
Between July and October, the reserve becomes the stage for the dramatic Great Migration, when millions of wildebeests and zebras cross from the Serengeti into the Maasai Mara in search of fresh grazing areas. This spectacular natural event attracts large numbers of predators, including lions, leopards, and cheetahs.
Your experienced guide will ensure you get the best wildlife viewing and photography opportunities while sharing insights into the traditions and culture of the Maasai community.
Return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 3: Maasai Mara – Nairobi
After breakfast at the camp, depart the Maasai Mara region and drive back to Nairobi with lunch en route.
Arrive in Nairobi in the evening and transfer to your hotel for overnight stay.
Accommodation: Nairobi Hotel
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Day 4: Nairobi – Arusha (Tanzania)
After breakfast, transfer to the shuttle bus station for your journey from Nairobi to Arusha.
Travel through the scenic countryside towards the Namanga border, where you will complete immigration procedures before continuing to Arusha. Arrive in the afternoon and check in at your hotel.
Dinner will be at your own arrangement.
Main Destination: Arusha
Accommodation: Charity Hotel (Bed & Breakfast)
Meals: Breakfast included. Lunch & Dinner not included.
Day 5: Arusha – Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, depart Arusha and drive west through the beautiful Maasai plains, dotted with acacia trees and traditional Maasai villages.
Along the way, you will encounter Maasai people dressed in colorful traditional attire, herding cattle, riding bicycles, and going about their daily activities.
After approximately two hours, arrive at Lake Manyara National Park and begin your game drive. The park features diverse habitats, including groundwater forests fed by streams from the Rift Valley escarpment.
Enjoy sightings of elephants, hippos, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, blue monkeys, baboons, and many bird species.
Dinner and overnight at the camp.
Main Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
Accommodation: Fanaka Camp (Budget Accommodation)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 6: Lake Manyara – Serengeti National Park
After breakfast, depart with picnic lunches and drive towards Serengeti National Park through the scenic Ngorongoro highlands.
Enjoy views of zebras, wildebeests, Maasai villages, and local communities along the way before arriving at Serengeti.
After lunch at Nabi Gate, continue with an afternoon game drive in the Central Serengeti, one of the richest wildlife areas in Africa.
Look out for lions, leopards, elephants, giraffes, hippos, zebras, wildebeests, and many other species.
Dinner and overnight at the camp.
Main Destination: Serengeti National Park
Accommodation: Seronera Camp (Budget Accommodation)
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 7: Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater
Begin the day with an early morning game drive, the best time to witness active wildlife as predators hunt and animals move across the plains.
Return to the camp for breakfast before continuing with another game drive through the Serengeti. The Seronera region is famous for excellent wildlife sightings, including wildebeests, zebras, lions, leopards, and cheetahs.
After a picnic lunch, depart towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Upon arrival at the crater rim, enjoy spectacular views of this ancient volcanic caldera, approximately 600 meters deep.
Dinner and overnight at the camp.
Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Accommodation: Basic Fixed Tent
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater – Arusha
After an early breakfast, descend into the Ngorongoro Crater for an unforgettable game drive inside one of Africa’s most remarkable wildlife destinations.
The crater is home to one of the highest concentrations of wildlife in Africa, with approximately 30,000 large animals living within its boundaries.
Enjoy opportunities to spot black rhinos, lions, elephants, buffaloes, hippos, hyenas, zebras, wildebeests, and other wildlife.
After lunch, drive back to Arusha where you will be dropped off at your hotel.
Main Destination: Arusha
Accommodation: Arusha Hotel
Meals: Breakfast & Lunch
Day 9: Arusha – Nairobi
After breakfast, you will be transferred to the shuttle bus station for your journey back to Nairobi.
Arrive in Nairobi in the evening and transfer to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport for your flight back home, or connect with your onward flight from Arusha Airport.
Meals: Breakfast
Cost Includes
- Transportation in a safari vehicle with pop-up roof in Kenya
- 4×4 Land Cruiser safari vehicle in Tanzania
- Airport/hotel transfers
- Accommodation as per itinerary on full-board basis while on safari
- All meals during the safari (Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner)
- Professional English-speaking safari driver/guide
- All applicable national park entrance fees
- Daily game drives in a safari vehicle with a pop-up roof for excellent wildlife viewing
Cost Excludes
- Personal travel insurance
- Personal expenses
- Alcoholic and soft drinks
- Visit to Olduvai Gorge
- Maasai Village visit (USD 10 per person)
- Hot air balloon safari in Maasai Mara (USD 480 per person)
- Tips and gratuities for the safari driver-guide
