12 Day Ultimate Safari in Kenya and Tanzania
Breathtaking Kenya Tanzania Safari
Explore the finest wildlife paradise in Kenya and Tanzania! On this safari, all of the senses will be stimulated as you travel through landscapes of staggering beauty, live among the spectacular herds of game, and sleep under canvas beneath the vast African sky. The never-to-be-forgotten experiences of watching abundant wildlife will provoke moments of profound reflection.
Key information
- Maximum group is 6 persons, minimum of 2
- Starting point and ending point: Nairobi
- English speaking driver guide
- Park entry fees included
Highlights
- Daily guided game drives
- Visit Kenya and Tanzania National Parks and Reserves
- See wildebeests, zebras, buffalos, impalas, hartebeests, and gazelles
- Transportation on a private safari van
- Transfer from and to the airport
- 11 nights accommodation
- Provided daily delicious meals
Styles
Accommodation
Sarova Stanley Hotel
The design concept of Sarova Stanley Hotel takes on a Victorian theme, retaining the high ceilings and old world charm of the era while incorporating every comfort and luxury for you. The hotel facilities include 225 luxurious rooms with private bathroom and shower, hair dryer, three telephones, TV with CNN, BBC, M-Net, Super-sport, and three movie channels.
The rooms are all individually air-conditioned and have double-glazed windows, safe, and minibar. There are sixteen suites with three whirlpool tubs, 38 Sarova Club rooms, three restaurants, valet service, 24-hour room service, security service, chemist, travel desk, large shopping complex and a fully equipped health club with a sauna, steam bath, swimming pool, and daily fitness classes.
Mbweha Camp
Tucked away in the spectacular vastness of The Great Rift Valley on a private 6400-acre Congreve Conservancy, Mbweha Camp is nestled up against the southern border of Lake Nakuru National Park with beautiful views of the Eburu and Mau Ranges.
The ten cottages built of lava stone and thatched makuti roof add glamor and style to its contemporary African ambiance with clever use of indigenous artifacts, fabric, and modern cooking pots. Every cottage, styled individually, is surrounded by candelabra euphorbia, yellow barked acacia, and other indigenous trees that provide a relaxed atmosphere as you listen to African night sounds of a lion's roar or the hyena's laughter in the distance.
Tipilikwani Mara Camp
Set on the banks of Talek River and overlooking the Mara plains, Tipilikwani Mara Camp has one of the most spectacular views available. Set in the middle of what is considered the greatest wildlife reserve in Africa, Maasai Mara, it is home to one of the modern wonders of the world; the wildebeest migration as well as home to the Big Five.
You can enjoy an alfresco breakfast by Talek River, enjoy a cold refreshing drink over a spectacular sunset, or experience fine candlelight dining, all of them are overlooked by carefully trained attentive staff. During the day, you can search for lions, cheetahs, elephants, leopards, black rhinos, giraffes, zebras, hippos, and over 500 resident bird species including larks, sunbirds, and the lilac- breasted rollers.
Serengeti Sopa Lodge
Looking out over the seemingly endless Serengeti plains, this hillside lodge is a tranquil oasis set in over 14.000 kilometers square of the national park. Opened in 1992, the lodge can accommodate 170 guests in 79 suites, each enjoying wall-to-wall carpeting, a private lounge with a mini bar, a bedroom with two queen size beds and ample room for a third, an en-suite bathroom with shaver sockets and a hair dryer, and a private verandah which offers stunning views over the plains.
The lodge has direct-dial satellite telephone facilities, satellite television, and wildlife-video-film options. A number of the lodge's electrical generating systems provide 240 volts and 50 cycles 24 hours a day. The double size pool offers a refreshing interlude between game drives as well as wonderful views over the rolling plains of the Serengeti.
Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Spread out along the uppermost eastern rim of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, the lodge offers breathtaking views of the crater floor far below. A day's safari through this unique conservation area provides you with spectacular and memorable game viewing experiences. The lodge is located on Lemala Hill on the uppermost eastern rim of Ngorongoro Crater, a world heritage site, in the volcanic highlands of northern Tanzania.
Opened in 1992, the lodge can accommodate 190 guests in 92 suites, each enjoying wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, a private lounge with a mini bar, a bedroom with two queen size beds and ample room for a third, an en-suite bathroom with shaver sockets and a hair dryer, and a private solarium which offers stunning views either down into the crater floor below or of the setting sun over the western horizon.
The lodge has direct-dial satellite telephone facilities as well as satellite television and wildlife-video-film options. A number of the lodge's electrical generating systems provide 240 volts and 50 cycles 24 hours a day. A swimming pool is situated on the very edge of the crater itself and the water is bracing, even invigorating to say the least, at any time of year. However, for those who would prefer the warmth of a shower or bath in their suite, the pool is a perfect area to unwind and relax while enjoying the views of the crater floor below or the sunsets.
Tarangire Sopa Lodge
The lodge, built as a 'low profile' structure, nestles into a wooded hillside valley overlooking Tarangire Hill. Situated 120 kilometers from Arusha, Tarangire National Park is easily accessible and boasts magnificent herds of elephants and other species of wildlife. The baobab studded landscape also plays host to a vast variety of resident and migratory bird life.
Opened in 1995, the lodge can accommodate 160 guests in 75 suites, each enjoying wall-to-wall carpeting, a private lounge with a mini bar, a bedroom with two queen size beds and ample room for a third, an en-suite bathroom with shaver sockets and a hair dryer, and a private verandah which offers stunning views over the baobab studded landscape.
The lodge has direct-dial satellite telephone facilities as well as satellite television and wildlife-video-film options. A number of the lodge's electrical generating systems provide 240 volts and 50 cycles 24 hours a day. The unique swimming pool, which is located at the edge of a rocky gorge, has its own bar and snack kitchen and offers a refreshing interlude between game drives.
Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
Nestled in the foothills of Kilimanjaro, hidden beneath a copse of giant acacia trees, and beside a gently flowing natural spring lies Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge. With Kilimanjaro’s 6,000-meter-high snow-capped peaks rising behind the lodge and presiding over the landscape which boasts bigger game than almost anywhere else in Africa, the setting is nothing short of magnificent.
Inspired by local Masai architecture, the design of the lodge is in total harmony with the environment. Each guest room conveys a distinctive Maasai Manyatta mood and is furnished with authentic African murals painted by a local artist. The lodge has 96 beautifully appointed rooms and a swimming pool filled with fresh water from a spring flowing from Mount Kilimanjaro.
Program
Day 1: Nairobi
Jambo - Karibu! AGS Travel Africa representatives will warmly meet you upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) with their traditional, unique, and special welcome (bubbly, wet towels, presentation of authentic safari hat, and a beautiful authentic canvas pouch filled with safari essentials). You will then be transferred to Sarova Stanley Hotel, located in the heart of the central business district, and enjoy an overnight stay.
- Meals: breakfast
Day 2: Nairobi - Lake Nakuru National Park
AGS Travel Africa guide driver will pick you up from the hotel after breakfast and drive to Lake Nakuru with a brief stop at the Great Rift Valley viewpoint. You will arrive at Mbweha Camp for a very warm welcome, check-in, and then have lunch. In the afternoon, you will depart for a game viewing. Some of the interesting places to visit include Baboon Cliff, Lion Hill, and Mau Escarpment.
The park is one of the best game viewing parks with various animal species including pride of lion, cape buffalos, waterbucks, warthogs, the endangered Rothschild giraffes, the black and white rhinos, Burchell’s zebras, impalas, and the elusive leopards among many others. Over 300 bird species have been recorded too. Lake Nakuru National Park is one of the best places to see the endangered black and white rhinos. You will enjoy dinner and stay overnight at the lodge.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 3: Lake Nakuru National Park - Maasai Mara National Reserve
After having a hearty early morning breakfast, you will then drive to Maasai Mara National Reserve which offers wonderful scenery and plenty of game. You will arrive at the intimate 20-tent Tipilikwani Mara Camp to a very warm welcome for lunch and some leisure. The afternoon is the moment you have been longing for. You will depart on an exciting game-viewing drive.
The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see, are home to the black-manned lions, the savannah elephants, cape buffalos, wildebeests, the elusive leopards, cheetahs, the spotted and striped hyenas, rhinos, topis, Burchell’s zebras, and Masai giraffes among many others.
Maasai Mara National Reserve can never disappoint. You will be spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in the game reserve. For a long time, Maasai Mara National Reserve has stubbed its authority as the ‘granary’ of wildlife in Kenya. You will return to the lodge to have dinner and stay overnight.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 4: Maasai Mara National Reserve
After having a sumptuous breakfast, you will then depart for a full-day adventure. Be on the lookout for the big five that Masai Mara is famous for. These include lions, savannah (African) elephants, cape buffalos, leopards, and black rhinos.
In the early 20th century, Kenya was a famous big five hunting destination for pride, a sense of class, and a feeling of heroism. You may even be so lucky to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill. After that, you will return to the camp to have dinner and stay overnight.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 5: Maasai Mara National Reserve - Serengeti National Park
After enjoying a hearty breakfast, you will then depart with picnic lunch boxes via the Isebania and Sirari border. There, your guide drivers will help you through the immigration procedures and continue the journey to Tanzania.
Covering an area of 14.763 square kilometers, the world-famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The national park's ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa including more than three million large mammals. You will arrive at Serengeti Sopa Lodge to check in, have dinner, and stay overnight.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 6: Serengeti National Park
After having breakfast in the morning, you will depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game-viewing drives on the vast Serengeti plains. In the early morning and evening, Serengeti's landscape is stunningly beautiful.
The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see, is home to the black-manned lions, the savannah elephants, the cape buffalos, wildebeests, the elusive leopards, cheetahs, the spotted and striped hyenas, rhinos, topis, burchelle’s zebras, and Masai giraffes among many others.
Serengeti National Park can never disappoint. You will be spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in the game reserve with game-viewing drives. You will enjoy dinner and overnight at the lodge.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 7: Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast, you will depart to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You will stop at Oldupai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn about human evolution. You will enjoy an on-site talk on the interpretation of the Gorge by the resident guide. After that, you will arrive at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge for a warm welcome, check-in, and lunch.
In the afternoon, you will relax and enjoy the breathtaking spectacular views of the crater from the lodge. Ngorongoro Crater has the largest unbroken caldera in the world. It has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world.
Eight million years ago, Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano before its cone collapsed and formed the crater that is 610 meters deep, 20 kilometers in diameter, and covers an area of 311 kilometers square. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds.
Except for impalas, topis (due to fierce competition with the wildebeests), and giraffe (because there is not much to eat at tree level), almost every species of African plains mammal including the endangered black rhinos and the densest population of predators in Africa lives in the crater. The birdlife, which includes the flamingo, is mainly seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor. You will have dinner and stay overnight at the lodge. A warm jacket / cardigan is highly recommended.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 8: Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast, you will descend 610 meters into the crater, which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise, for a full day of a game-viewing drive with a picnic lunch. Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world teams with an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Prides of lion, herds of cape buffalo, impala, Thompson gazelles, rhinos, giraffes, golden and black-backed jackals, zebras, cheetahs, leopards, and the spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plains.
Unmatched for its natural variety and breathtaking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exists inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater also has great archaeological importance with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area. The small lakes in the crater floor are also home to hundreds of bird species. You will return to the lodge in the late afternoon to enjoy dinner and stay overnight.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 9: Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Tarangire National Park
After enjoying your breakfast, you will depart to Tarangire and arrive at Tarangire Sopa Lodge for lunch. In the afternoon, you will depart on an exciting game-viewing drive in the area dotted with majestic baobab trees and stately eland antelopes among other games. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry Tarangire's river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeests, zebras, buffalos, impalas, gazelles, hartebeests, and elands crowd the shrinking lagoons.
It is the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem where a smorgasbord for predators and dry-country antelopes such as the stately fringe-eared oryxes and peculiar long-necked gerenuks are regularly observed. You will then enjoy dinner and overnight at the lodge.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 10: Tarangire National Park - Amboseli National Park
After enjoying an early morning breakfast, you will depart via the Namanga border to Amboseli National Park. You will arrive at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge to a very warm welcome, check in, and have lunch afterward. In the afternoon, you will depart to have a game-viewing drive.
Amboseli is home to lions, buffalos, cheetahs, giraffes, baboons, gazelle hippos, and wildebeests among many others. It is also an ornithological paradise with over 400 species of birds, flora, fauna, and some of the most soul-searing views in Africa. You will then enjoy dinner and stay overnight at the lodge.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 11: Amboseli National Park
On this day, you will enjoy morning and afternoon game-viewing drives. Amboseli offers some of the most breathtaking views in Africa. Its scenery, one of the best places for a photogenic view of Mount Kilimanjaro (weather permitting), is next to none and best seen on a clear day. Amboseli National Park provides the classic Hollywood image of Africa. The park is famous for its large herds of giant elephants. You will enjoy meals and stay overnight at the lodge.
- Meals: breakfast, lunch, and dinner
Day 12: Amboseli National Park - Nairobi
In the morning, you will enjoy breakfast before checking out from the lodge. The unbelievably good bush moments will come to an end. You will bid farewell to the wonderful lodge manager and his team and then depart back to Nairobi. You will not leave empty-handed, though. You will have photographs of the special moments you have had on this tour to immortalize the experience.
Your guide driver will then transfer you to the Carnivore Restaurant for lunch and then continue to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) for your home-bound flight.
Included excursions
Besides game drives to the national parks, you will also visit Oldupai Gorge in Tanzania. It is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world where you can learn about human evolution.
Location
This retreat will take place in Kenya and Tanzania, where you will have the opportunity to visit Nairobi, Lake Nakuru National Park, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tarangire National Park, and Amboseli National Park.
Food
Daily delicious meals as stated in the itinerary will be served for you during the safari.
The following meals are included:
- Breakfast
- Lunch
- Dinner
- Drinks
The following drinks are included:
- Water
The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:
- Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Things to do (optional)
- Balloon safari over Maasai Mara (425 USD)
- Balloon safari over Serengeti plains (500 USD0
- Bush walks
- Night game drives
- Sundowner or bush breakfast
- Visits to a traditional Maasai Manyatta (30 USD)
What's included
- 11 nights accommodation
- Authentic branded safari hat and safari essentials pack
- Complimentary flying doctors
- Daily delicious meals
- Daily game drives
- Full day crater tour
- Lunch at the Carnivore Restaurant
- Park entry fees
- Services of professional English-speaking guide driver
- Transfer from and to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)
- Unlimited bottled mineral drinking water during safari
- Use of a custom designed pop-up roof Safari Land Cruiser during safari
What's not included
- International flights, passport, and visa fees
- Comprehensive travel insurance
- Personal expenses (laundry, telephones, soft and alcoholic drinks)
- Tips to the camp’s staff and gratuity to the guide / driver
How to get there
Recommended Airports
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
12 km
Transfer included
Arrival by airplane
Please book your flight to arrive at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO). Transfer from and to the airport is included in the price. AGS Travel Africa will pick you up from the airport.
Cancellation Policy
- A reservation requires a deposit of 60% of the total price.
- The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
- The rest of the payment should be paid 7 days before arrival.
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