12 Days Migration Safari in Kenya and Tanzania, East Africa

You are recommended to plan your visits in advance, as there are plenty of exciting programs filled in the itinerary to make sure you get the most out of this tour.

Day 1 - Nairobi

Twiga Tours representatives will warmly meet you upon arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) along with the traditional, unique and special welcome. The group will be given a wet towels, an authentic safari hat and a beautiful canvas pouch filled with safari essentials.

The group will be transfer to the Sarova Stanley Hotel which is located in the heart of the central business district, to enjoy an overnight stay.

Day 2 - Lake Nakuru National Park, Nairobi

The guide driver will pick you up from the hotel after breakfast, then journey to Lake Nakuru along with a brief stop at the Rift Valley view point.

Arrive at the lodge to a very warm welcome, check-in to the lodge and proceed to lunch. During the afternoon, the group will depart to a game viewing. Some of the interesting places to visit include the Baboon Cliff, Lion Hill and the Mau escarpment. The park is one of the best game viewing with various animal species including prides of lion, cape buffalo, waterbucks, wart hogs, the endangered Rothschild giraffes, the black and white rhino, Burchell’s zebra, impalas, and the elusive leopard among many others. The park is one of the best place to see the endangered black and white Rhino. Also, there are over 300 bird species have been recorded in the park.

The group with enjoy dinner and overnight at Mbweha Safari Camp.

Day 3 - Lake Nakuru National Park and Masai Mara Game Reserve

After a hearty early morning breakfast, the group will journey to the Masai Mara National Reserve that has wonderful scenery and plenty of games.

The group will arrive at the intimate 20-tents Tipilikwani Camp to a very warm welcome and lunch, along with some leisure.

On the afternoon, is the moment you have been longing for, which is depart to an exciting game viewing drive. The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted and stripped hyena, rhino, topi, burchelle’s zebra, the masai giraffe among many others.

The Mara Game Reserve is one that can never disappoint, spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species. For a long time, Mara Game Reserve has stubbed her authority as the granary of wildlife in Kenya.

After that, the group will return back to the lodge for dinner and overnight at the Tipilikwani Luxury Tented Camp.

Day 4 - Masai Mara Game Reserve

After a sumptuous breakfasts, the group will depart for a full day adventure. Be on the look-out for the big five that Masai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the cape buffalo, the leopard, and the black rhino.

In the early 20th century, Kenya was a famous hunting destination. Killing any of the big five game one pride, a sense of class, and feeling of heroism. You may even be so lucky to witness a leopard or a cheetah sprint and make a kill.

The group will then return back to the camp for dinner and overnight at Tipilikwani Luxury Tented Camp.

Day 5 - Masai Mara Game Reserve and Serengeti National Park

The group will enjoy a hearty breakfast and then depart with picnic lunch boxes through the Isebania and Sirari border where our guide drivers will help you through the immigration procedures then continue into Tanzania.

Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometers, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park, which is also one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals. %The group will arrive and check-in to the lodge, have dinner and overnight at the Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Day 6 - Serengeti National Park

This morning after breakfast, the group 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 light, the Serengeti 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 lion, the savannah elephant, the cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted and stripped hyena, the rhino, topi, burchelle’s zebra, the masai giraffe among many others.

Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint, spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve with game-viewing drives.

The group will enjoy dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge.

Day 7 - Serengeti National Park and Ngorongoro Conservation area

After breakfast, the group will depart to Ngorongoro and stop at the Oldupai Gorge. It is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn on human evolution. There will be an on-site talk on the interpretation of the gorge by the resident guide.

The group will arrive and check-in to the lodge along with a warm welcome and lunch. During the afternoon, you can relax from the lodge to enjoy the breath-taking spectacular views of the crater below. 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, the Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano but its cone collapsed, forming the crater that is 610 meters deep, 20 kilometres in diameter, and covers an area of 311 square kilometers. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater is home to many species of the wild game and birds. With the exception of impala and topi, due to fierce competition with the wildebeest and the giraffe because there is not much to eat at tree level.

Almost every species of African plains mammal lives in the crater, including the endangered black rhino and the densest population of predators in Africa. The bird life such as the flamingo is mainly seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.

In the evening, the group will have dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. It is highly recommended to have a warm jacket or cardigan with you.

Day 8 - Ngorongoro Conservation area

After breakfast, the group will descend 610 metres into the crater, which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise. It will be a full day of game-viewing drive along with picnic lunch.

Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact caldera in the world, teams with an abundance of wildlife that are permanently resident on the crater floor. There are prides of lions, herds of cape buffalo, impala, thompson gazelles, rhino, giraffes, golden and black-backed jackal, zebra, cheetah, leopard and the spotted hyena that 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 exist inside a region this size.

Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also one of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area. It is also a home to hundreds of bird species refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor.

Return late afternoon to your lodge, the group will enjoy dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. It is recommended to have a warm jacket or cardigan with you.

Day 9 - Ngorongoro Conservation area and Tarangire National Park

Enjoy your breakfast and then depart to Tarangire. The group will arrive at the lodge and have lunch.

During the afternoon, the group will depart to an exciting game viewing drive in this area dotted with majestic baobab trees, stately eland antelopes among with other game. There is herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry Tarangire river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest, and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It is the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem. It is a smorgasbord for predators and also the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.

The group will enjoy dinner and overnight stay at Tarangire Sopa Lodge. It is recommended to have a warm jacket or cardigan with you.

Day 10 - Tarangire National Park and Amboseli National Park

Enjoy an early morning breakfast, then check-out and depart. Unbelievable but true, all the good bush moments have come to an end. The group will bid farewell to the wonderful lodge manager and his team then depart back to the Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) for your home-bound flight.

Day 11 and 12 - Amboseli National Park

There will be a morning and afternoon game viewing drives. Amboseli offers some of the most breathtaking views in Africa, her scenery is one of the best places for a photogenic view of Mount Kilimanjaro that is best seen on a clear day. Also, Amboseli National Park provides the classic Hollywood image of Africa and famous for her large herds of giant elephants.

The group will enjoy meals and overnight stay at the Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge.

There are multiple of excursions during the tour such as:

• Amboseli National Park, Kenya
• Baboon Cliff, Kenya
• Lion Hill, Kenya
• Lake Nakuru National Park, Kenya
• Masai Mara Game Reserve, Kenya
• Mau escarpment, Kenya
• Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Tanzania
• Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania
• Rift Valley, Kenya
• Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
• Tarangire National Park, Tanzania

The tour with start and end at Nairobi, the capital of Kenya. The group will be gathering at the Sarova Stanley Hotel in Nairobi, one of the five-star luxury hotel located in the heart of the central business district.

Daily breakfast, lunch and dinner will be provided along with unlimited drinking water. Some of the lunches will be in picnic style and dinner will be at the accommodation site.

There is an optional activity during the tour known as the Dawn Balloon Safari, which means the adventure begins just before dawn. Flames from the hot air balloon burners and light the darkness as the crews inflate their craft.

The first pink tongues of the sunlight flicker across the skies and the hot air balloon fills then rises. Suspended in a basket beneath the rainbow-colored canopy, you are off for a game-viewing adventure with an entirely different perspective.

Apart from the occasional hiss of the burners, a lion's roar, elephants crashing through the bush, baboons perched in the tips of the trees startled and screeching to see something above them. The flight above the open plains is magically silent.

The thing that amazes most first-time balloonists is the absolute stillness and silence as you float above the plains forest, the rivers of Masai Mara and Serengeti. If you ever flown elsewhere, you have seen nothing like this.

At the end of the flight, the passengers are treated to a champagne breakfast in the bush, complete with flowers, bone china, and crystal are set out on the table that is placed under a convenient acacia tree.

The finishing touch to the flight is a game drive back to the lodge or camp, with the possibility of seeing the same pride of lions, or herd of elephants that had been viewed while ballooning.

• 11 nights accommodation
• All daily meals
• Branded safari hat and essentials pack
• Bed and breakfast board accommodation in Nairobi
• Complimentary flying doctors while on safari
• Full day crater tour
• Lunch at the Carnivore Restaurant
• Park entry fees
• Professional English speaking guide-driver
• Pop-up roof safari Land Cruiser while on safari
• Round trip airport transfers
• Unlimited game viewing drives
• Unlimited supply of bottled mineral drinking water
• Wet towels upon arrival

• Airfares
• Alcoholic drinks
• Cultural visit to Maasai Village (Manyatta)
• Dawn Balloon Safari
• Laundry fees
• Personal expense
• Soft drinks
• Souvenir
• Travel insurance
• Traveling visa
• Telephone usage
• Tips to camp staff and guide drivers

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• A reservation requires a deposit of 30% of the total price.
• The deposit is non-refundable, if the booking is cancelled.
• The rest of the payment should be paid 30 days before arrival.