Name: 12 Day Kenya and Tanzania Safari and Zanzibar Beach Holiday
Brand: Fig Tree Tours and Travel
Price: 9000 USD
Availability: InStock
Rating: 7.5 (2 reviews)

Accommodation

Check-in Time:

08:00

Check-out Time:

18:00

The accommodations for this safari will be in mid-range safari tented camp and safari lodges inside the national parks and beach boutique hotels in Zanzibar Islands.

Program

Day 1: Arrival

Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met and transferred to the After 40 Hotel for your overnight stay. You will be booked into this hotel on a B&B basis. If you arrive early enough, you can go on a tour of the town and experience some of the local culture.

Accommodation: After 40 Hotel Nairobi (Kenya)

Day 2: Nairobi to Masai Mara Reserve

.Today, you will be picked up from the hotel and driven to the famous Masai Mara National Reserve via the Great Rift Valley (lunch will be eaten en route). Upon arrival, you’ll go on an afternoon game drive until you arrive at the lodge around 5-6:00 pm. Your overnight stay will be at the Ashnil Mara Camp. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinking water will be provided.

The Masai Mara is home to the Big Five and is the best place to witness the great migration from July to November.

Accommodation: Ashnil Mara Camp, luxury tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)
Meals: Full board

Day 3: Masai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast, you’ll go on a game drive in the Masai Mara. Your overnight stay will be at the Ashnil Mara camp. Breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinking water will be provided.

The Mara is situated in the southwest of Kenya and covers an area of 1,510 square km (583 square miles). This is a land of breathtaking vistas, abundant wildlife, and endless plains. The reserve is home to an excellent year-round concentration of game, including the more than two million wildebeests, zebras, and other antelopes that make up the famous great migration.

Accommodation: Ashnil Mara Camp, luxury tented camp located inside Masai Mara NR (Kenya)
Meals: Full board

Day 4:Masai Mara to Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, you will drive to Isebania on the Kenya-Tanzania border to get your visa and then drive to Serengeti National Park for a game drive. Your overnight stay will be at the Malaika Seronera Luxury tented camp or similar. The endless Serengeti plains are the setting for the world’s greatest wildlife spectacle — the 1.5 million wildebeest migrating in search of fresh pastures. Each year they trek over 2,500 km under the threat of some of Africa’s greatest predators. Depending on the time of your visit, your driver-guide will be able to share with you where the herd’s current location is in the park.

Accommodation: Serengeti Wild Camp (Tanzania)
Meals: Full board

Day 5:Serengeti National Park

After a relaxing morning and an early lunch, you will have an early morning start to your game drive in Serengeti. Later, you'll go back to drive you to the picnic site for brunch and hot lunch. Your driver and cook will load everything on the top of our safari jeep. Then, you'll continue with the game drive while looking out of Serengeti to proceed to Ngorongoro.

Today, you will be doing a wildlife viewing en route on your way from Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater. You will be in Ngorongoro Crater. Late in the evening where the night will be spent on the crater rim. Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ngorongoro Safari Lodge.

Accommodation: Ngorongoro Safari Lodge (Tanzania)
Meals: Full board

Day 7:Ngorongoro Crater to Zanzibar

On your last day, you'll start very early in the morning equipped with a picnic lunch you descend 2000 ft. down to the crater floor by our 4×4- 4WD – wheel drive vehicle for game viewing for 5-6 hours. Let's explore this Garden of Eden. Ngorongoro is a huge and deep volcanic crater.

There is rich pasture, swamps, forest, and permanent water on the Crater floor which is why wildlife here is so diverse and numerous. Late in the afternoon drive back to Arusha to Join your booked flight to Zanzibar. Upon arrival at Zanzibar International Airport. Soon after clearing all the immigration procedures, the driver will be ready to transfer you to the hotel for check-in.

Accommodation: Marea Boutique Hotel, luxury hotel in Jambiani, Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Meals: Full board

Day 7: Stone Town

Morning after breakfast you will have the chance to relax on beautiful island known as Changuu island situated north west of stone town, 20 minutes ride to cross the water by small motorboat. The island was used to house rebellious slave, it’s also the home of land giant Aldabra tortoises who imported from Seychelles in the late of 19th century. Have a nice moment to visit Tortoises Park and play with them quite close, fed the tortoise and get memorable photo with them, visit incredible prison building.

Thereafter you will have the chance to explore the heritage capital city of Zanzibar known as old stone town. Visit old central market built in 1904, a bustling place where fish, fruits, vegetable and spices are sold. Stone town is well known as shopping center, do shopping around narrow street by affordable price shop and discover unique Arabs and Indian curved doors at the hidden corner. Other place to visit around stone town are old fort, Indian temp, Freddy mercury house of birth.

Accommodation: Marea Boutique Hotel, luxury hotel in Jambiani, Zanzibar (Tanzania)
Meals: Full board

Day 8: Safari blue full-day trip sharing with seafood lunch

The trip starts in the morning after breakfast at hotel transfer to Unguja Ukuu, taking traditional boat to explore marine life, sunbath on wonderful sandbank, and swimming around blue turquoise water. Snorkel to explore underwater life surrounding by coral reefs with colorful school of fish, thereafter you will have a golden chance to visit Kwale island to discover the nature, have a nice delicious seafood lunch, barbeque, brawns, calamari, octopus etc and enjoy to test tropical fruit which you never test before with excellent local snacks. The trip will end around 4:30pm and back to hotel.

Accommodation: Kena Beach Hotel, luxury resort at Matemwe Beach (Tanzania)
Meals: Breakfast and dinner (lunch not included)

Day 9:Jozani forest + Salam cave swimming with turtles

Morning after breakfast we will heading to Jozani Forest apart of the forest this is also the home to many beautiful creatures, This is a fabulous tour, we will head directly to the beautiful Jozani Forest Reserve to start our guided tour and surely you will love to see the trees, shrubs and greenery which literally create a natural canopy. We will walk through the nature trail of the forest, where you will be able to see several animal species, including the red colobus monkeys.

At Salam Cave, find one of the natural lagoon full of sea turtles caught by fishermen and they are releasing them back to the fresh ocean water in the lagoon. Use the unique opportunity to swim with sea turtles.

Discover the new natural Aquarium cave full of sea turtles where you will get closer to them in the crystal clear water.

During the visit you can also feed turtles with sea weed or just spend your time in the water. Also, you can take snorkeling mask to dive and watch them in natural environment.

Accommodation: Kena Beach Hotel, luxury resort at Matemwe Beach (Tanzania)
Meals: Breakfast and dinner (lunch not included)

Day 10:Jozani forest + Salam cave swimming with turtles

We will pick you at the hotel early morning heading to Mnemba Island, if you are lucky you will see wild dolphins however not 100% and if you have swimming experience you swim with dolphin. There is nothing as joyful as being around playful dolphins that you usually normally see in your biology books or in the movies. When the dolphins come up close, you can enjoy their company, see how smart they are in creating a bond with people.

Later after dolphin will go at the shallow cleat water for snorkeling Jump on board and explore the life and beauty that can be found in the turquoise waters of Zanzibar! Snorkeling is a fun activity for young and old and does not require any previous experience. There is a huge variety of marine life to discover. You might even see some dolphins and other sea creatures!

Explore the colorful reefs of Mnemba atoll during snorkeling sessions in the warm and clear water of the Indian Ocean. On the boat, we serve soft drinks and fruit.

Accommodation: Kena Beach Hotel, luxury resort at Matemwe Beach (Tanzania)
Meals: Breakfast and dinner (lunch not included)

Day 11:Mnemba Dolphin + Snorkeling

We will pick you at the hotel early morning heading to Mnemba Island, if you are lucky you will see wild dolphins however not 100% and if you have swimming experience you swim with dolphin. There is nothing as joyful as being around playful dolphins that you usually normally see in your biology books or in the movies. When the dolphins come up close, you can enjoy their company, see how smart they are in creating a bond with people.

Later after dolphin, you will go at the shallow cleat water for snorkeling Jump on board and explore the life and beauty that can be found in the turquoise waters of Zanzibar! Snorkeling is a fun activity for young and old and does not require any previous experience. There is a huge variety of marine life to discover. You might even see some dolphins and other sea creatures!

Explore the colorful reefs of Mnemba atoll during snorkeling sessions in the warm and clear water of the Indian Ocean. On the boat, we serve soft drinks and fruit.

Accommodation: Kena Beach Hotel, luxury resort at Matemwe Beach (Tanzania)
Meals: Breakfast and dinner (lunch not included)

Day 12:Departure from Zanzibar Airport

Soon after the check-out process, you will transfer from the hotel to Zanzibar International Airport. You'll arrive at the airport at the time indicated on the flight tickets.

Meals: Breakfast (lunch and dinner not included)

At the end of your tour, you will be dropped off at the airport.

Note: Fig Tree Tours and Travel uses 4x4 Land Cruisers with viewing roofs during the safaris, that can accommodate four or six passengers. Fig Tree Tours and Travel guides are licensed, trained, friendly, and have years of experience.

Guides

Rejeaeli John

John Rejeael is the operating manager at Fig Tree Tours & Travel. He organizes safaris and does tour consultation with at most commitment to make sure that clients have an outstanding trip with Fig Tree Tours and Travel. He is passionate and committed to planning for your enjoyable experience in Tanzania as you build lifetime memories in the tours and activities that they offer.

Location

Fig Tree Tours and Travel invites you to join a 12-day Kenya, Tanzania, and Zanzibar beach holiday. This 12-day safari package will give you enough time to experience great national parks in both Kenya and Tanzania before proceeding to Zanzibar for a beach holiday, Zanzibar is an idyllic beach holiday island and clear blue waters.

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Food

During your stay, you will be provided with daily breakfast, lunch, and dinner. Vegetarian and other special diets can be accommodated. Please let Fig Tree Tours and Travel know ahead of time. Protein options may be minimal on a vegetarian diet, so you may want to bring protein supplements.

The following meals are included:

Breakfast
Lunch
Dinner

The following dietary requirement(s) are served and/or catered for:

Regular (typically includes meat and fish)
Other dietary requirements on request

If you have special dietary requirements it's a good idea to communicate it to the organiser when making a reservation

What's included

Park fees
All activities (unless labeled as optional)
11 nights accommodation
A professional driver / guide
All transportation (unless labeled as optional)
All Taxes / VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals (as specified in the day-by-day section)
Drinking water on all days

What's not included

International flights
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips (Tipping guideline: 10 USD per person per day)
Personal items (souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
Government imposed increase of taxes and / or park fees

How to get there

Recommended Airports

JRO

Kilimanjaro International Airport

239 km

Transfer included

Arrival by airplane

Please book your flight to arrive at Jomo Kenyata International Airport (NBO). Transfers from and to this airport are included. Fig Tree Tours and Travel will pick you up from the airport.

Airport: Kilimanjaro International Airport Airport transfer included: Kilimanjaro International Airport No additional charges. You can request this in the next step.

Cancellation Policy

A reservation requires a deposit of 14% of the total price.
The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
The rest of the payment should be paid on arrival.

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