Day 1: Thursday
USA to Nairobi Flights
Day 2: Friday
Arrive Nairobi
Transfer to Nairobi Hotel by private car
Dinner and Overnight: Nairobi Serena Lodge (D)
Day 3: Saturday – Nairobi / Amboseli
After breakfast, you drive to the Amboseli National Park (240 KM/approximately 4 hours) for your stay at the Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge (standard room). This afternoon we enjoy our first game drive, across the game rich plains of one of East Africa’s most prolific wildlife areas. Lying within sight of the imposing shadow of Mount Kilimanjaro in neighboring Tanzania, the expansive plains and infinite skies of Amboseli present us with a landscape that is truly African. Home to the proudly independent Masai, its dry savannahs thunder beneath the onslaught of the vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, impala and the elephants for which it is famed. Panoramas filled with lush swamplands and acacia forests provide ideal havens for myriad birds and small mammals, including bee-eaters, kingfishers, caracals and warthogs, whilst cheetahs, lion and hyena hunt the open grasslands.
Overnight: Amboseli Serena Lodge (B, L, D)
Day 4: Sunday – Amboseli
You enjoy Our morning and afternoon game drives see us in search of a staggering array of wilderness experiences, from the magnificent herds of game that sweep across these dusty plains, to the majestic sight of some of the 700 or so elephants for which Amboseli is justly famous. We may even be lucky enough to perhaps encounter the rare black rhino.
Overnight: Amboseli Serena Lodge (B, L, D)
Day 5: Monday: Amboseli / Arusha / Ngorongoro
After breakfast we check out and take a morning game drive en-route towards the border town of Namanga, where we cross into Tanzania and continue to Arusha (160 KM/approximately 2 ½ hours – this does not include any delays that may occur at the border). After lunch in Arusha, we resume our journey to the spectacular setting of the Ngorongoro Crater (190 KM/approximately 4 hours) for our stay at the Ngorongoro.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge (B, L, D)
Day 6: Tuesday – Ngorongoro Crater
Spend a full day exploring the woodlands, lakes and wide-open plains of the Crater floor. Ngorongoro offers unsurpassed viewing of rare black rhinoceros, which are undisturbed by vehicles and allow viewing at close range. Some of its other 25,000 residents include lion, elephant, hyena, wildebeest, buffalo, hippo, ostrich and an abundance of pink flamingos on Lake Magadi. Return to your lodge late afternoon.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Serena Lodge (B, L, D)
Day 7: Wednesday – Ngorongoro / Serengeti
After breakfast drive to Masia Warrior Village for a visit
Drive to Oldupai Gorge for lunch and visit
En-route game drive of the Serengeti.
Overnight: Serengeti Serena Lodge (B, L, D)
Day 8: Thursday: Serengeti National Park
A thrilling day of game viewing will take you to prime areas of central Serengeti for seeing the fullest possible variety of animals. Visit hippo pools in the Seronera Valley, forests where leopard and colobus monkeys live in the treetops, kopjes where lions laze in the shade, and riversides where large animals congregate to drink. Return to your lodge for excellent meals and time to relax on your private balcony, swim in the infinity pool, and perhaps take in a Maasai cultural program or guided nature walk.
Overnight: Serengeti Serena Lodge (BLD)
Day 9: Friday: Serengeti – Western Corridor
After breakfast, you will have a game viewing of the Serengeti and will arrive at one of the most luxury camp in western corridor of the Serengeti Plain. Enjoy your stay.
Overnight: Serengeti Kirawira Camp (BLD)
Day 10: Saturday: Serengeti / Masai Mara
After an early morning game drive, we continue to the border at Isabania (300 KM/approximately 5 hours), where we cross back into Kenya and head for the breathtaking beauty of the Masai Mara National Reserve (3 hours – travelling time depends on game viewing opportunities).
Overnight: Mara Serena Safari Lodge (B,L,D)
Day 11: Sunday – Masai Mara
With almost every species of animal great and small in the park, this is one of Africa’s premier wildlife areas and today we enjoy both morning and afternoon game drives in search of the ‘Big Five’ (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant and rhino). This is safari at its best and Africa at its most spectacular. Heartland of the Masai, southwest Kenya presents a landscape where Africa is laid bare in all its majesty. Here the endless struggle for survival is played out across the vast open plains and riverine forests of this captivating land. Each year the Mara explodes into life, as the annual migration of great herds of wildebeest journey from the Serengeti to fresh pastures in the north. Between July and October the Mara River becomes the setting for the crossing of some 1.3 million animals, bringing with them the inevitable predators and the inevitable dramas.
Overnight: Mara Serena Safari Lodge (B,L,D)
Day 12: Monday – Mara / Nairobi / Depart
After breakfast, you take a game drive en-route to the Serena airstrip for the flight back to Nairobi (1 hour). On arrival we transfer to the city hotel for day room and have free time. In the Evening, transfer to the Airport for your return flight back Home.
Overnight: En route. (B)
Day 13: Tuesday: Arrive home
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