9-Days Kenya Tanzania Luxury Wildlife holiday

This is the best of Kenya and Tanzania Africa safari holiday. It goes to Maasai Mara, the eighth wonder of the world and home of the Big Five and wildebeest migration. You will also go to Ngorongoro Crater, the largest UN flooded and unbroken caldera in the world. Serengeti National Park is also a world heritage site and recently proclaimed a seventh worldwide wonder, not forgetting Lake Nakuru National Park which is known as the home of the black and white rhino. Don’t miss this affordable chance to explore the African wildlife!

Overview

• Starting point Nairobi and ending point: Arusha
• Main wildlife to be viewed: the Big Five, wildebeest, zebra, leopard, lion, and cheetah
• Children policy: the minimum age of 2 years old are allowed to join the safari

Highlights

• 8 game drives
• National park gate fees
• Observing the Big Five in Ngorongoro
• A chance to view leopards, lion, cheetah and other big cats in Serengeti
• Services of an English-speaking driver / guide
• Transport in a 4WD vehicle with pop-up roof
• 8 nights' accommodation
• 3 daily meals
• Great visit of Kenya parks

Day 1: Arrive Nairobi

Arrival time at Jomo Kenyatta international Airport. You will be met and picked by African paradise safaris guide and you will be transferred to your city hotel to rest and leisure. Depending on arrival time have a city tour. Accommodation Ibis hotel BB.

• Main destination: Nairobi
• Accommodation: ibis Hotel
• Meals & drinks: Bed and Breakfast

Day 2: Nairobi - Lake Nakuru National Park

Waken by marching elephant and sounds of birds. Have breakfast at your lodge. Check out and drive through the cool Rift Valley environment towards Nakuru. Drive through the park and arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. Have an afternoon game drive at Lake Nakuru National Park. Nakuru is a small park with over 50% of its area covered by the Lake. Located in the middle of the Rift valley, L. Nakuru has a wide variety of animals which includes the Rothschild Giraffe, Lions, White and Black rhinos as well as the Leopard. All these can be spotted depending on your luck. The park is also considered by birdwatchers as an ornithological paradise! A myriad of both Greater and lesser flamingoes has made this lake their home. 

• Main destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
• Accommodation: Flamingo hill tented camp
• Meals & drinks: All meals included

Day 3:Lake Nakuru National Park to maasai mara national reserve

Today you will be picked by African Paradise Safaris guide at the airport or Nairobi hotel.  You will bw picked by the driver and head southwards to Maasai Mara National Reserve. Arrive in time for lunch, relax. Have an afternoon game drive in the reserve.
An exploratory drive around the 1,792 sq. km game park with its low hills and savannah type rolling grasslands, gallery forest on the Mara River and its tributaries. Get introduced to the herbivores; elephant, rhino, buffalo, and the variety of antelopes, the Masai giraffe and the Burchell zebra. The carnivores are the black mane lion, cheetah and leopard. Also to be seen are the largest bird, the Masai ostrich, the Secretary bird, the crested crane and saddle-bill stork. Crocodiles and hippos share the river. Return to your lodge by sunset Dinner and overnight at Mara sun lodge (full board).

• Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
• Accommodation: Mara Sun lodge
• Meals & drinks: All meals included

Day 4: Maasai mara national reserve

Optional Early Morning balloon safari ride (US$450.00 per person ) across the Maasai Mara plain. Breakfast at the lodge then enjoy morning and afternoon game drives. Masai Mara is an extension of the Serengeti ecosystem to the south. Game abounds here; The Mara is noted for its abundance of lions – particularly the superb black maned males. See the great Migraton where over 1.5 million wildebeest and other antelopes crossing the mighty Mara River. Experience the battle between survival and hunger. You are also likely to see lots of elephants here often in large herds, as well as – if you're lucky leopard, cheetah and rhino. All of the Big Five are residents. You're sure to see the African buffalo. Get the cameras ready, stock up on film/tapes and enjoy yourselves! In the evening visit maasai village. Dinner and overnight at mara sun lodge (full board).

• Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
• Accommodation: Mara Sun lodge
• Meals & drinks: All meals included

Day 5: Maasai mara National Reserve - Serengeti Nationa Park

You will have early morning breakfast. Then depart to Isibania Border with packed lunch, on your way to Serengeti National Park. Upon reaching the border finalise with immigration department. Then exchange the vehicle – which you will be using while in Tanzania. Embark with the journey to park where you will arrive in the evening. You will arrive at your camp at time for dinner and relaxing at Ikoma tented camp – Full board.

• Main destination: Serengeti National Park
• Accommodation: Ikoma Tented Camp
• Meals & drinks: All meals included

Day 6: Serengeti national park

These two full days you will explore central Serengeti, with Morning and afternoon game drives. After breakfast leaves at your lodge with package lunch (or have lunch at the lodge) have game drive in the park and arrive at your lodge in late afternoon or on your request.
Tanzania's Serengeti offers superb game-viewing even out of migration time, when vast herds of buffalo, eland, topi, waterbuck, impala, kongoni and Grant’s gazelle can be seen grazing in the thousands. The Serengeti is famous not only for its migrating wildebeest and herbivores but also for its high concentration of big cats and other predators that these grazers attract. The Serengeti is also home to smaller cats, such as the caracal and serval, as well as jackal, fox, mongoose and genet. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati kati tented camp – Full board.

• Main destination: Serengeti National Park
• Accommodation: Kati Kati Tented Camp
• Meals & drinks: All meals included

Day 7: Serengeti national park - Ngoro ngoro Conservancy

Today you will wake have your early and drive to Ngoro ngoro with enroute game drive. Arrive in the lodge at the time for early lunch. After lunch depart to afternoon game drive at the crate. Explore the conservancy with morning and afternoon game drives, visit of crater. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you'll ever see in your life All meals and overnight at ngoro ngoro Rhino Lodge (full board).

• Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater
• Accommodation: Ngoro Ngoro Rhino Lodge
• Meals & drinks: All meals included

Day 8:  Ngoro ngoro crater Full day

Your will have breakfast at the lodge. Explore the conservancy with morning and afternoon game drives, visit of crater. With walls 2,000 ft high and a crater floor that spreads for 102 sq. miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. In fact, the crater has the greatest concentration of wild life in the planet. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake that, from the top, looks like steam, full of flamingoes, a forest and open plains. The large bull elephants that reside here have extremely large tusk, due to the rich mineral content of the volcanic soil and its grasses. They are the most incredible elephants you'll ever see in your life All meals and overnight at ngoro ngoro Rhino Lodge (full board).

• Main destination: Ngorongoro Crater
• Accommodation: Tloma Lodge
• Meals & drinks: All meals included

Day 9: Ngoro ngoro conservancy - Depart

Your will have breakfast at the lodge in leisure. Later depart to Arusha, from there you will be transferred to the airport for your home flight.

                                                     The Above rates include:

• Meals as per the program on a full board basis.
• 2 nights in mara National reserve
• 1 Night in Lake Nakuru National Park
• 1 Night in Nairobi
• 2 nights in Serengeti National park
• 2 nights in ngorngoro conservancy
• Park entry fees for the whole safaris as per the program,
• Transport in 4x4 safari van in Kenya
• Transport in 4x4 jeep/landcruiser in Tanzania
• Services of English speaking local tour guide/ driver.
• 1 Litre of mineral bottled water per person per day.
• Game drives.
• All airport transfers.
• Lunch in the last day.

The Above rates exclude the following:

• Visas
• Gratuities to local guide/drivers based on a driver guide per vehicle.
• Any service not detailed in the itinerary
• Items of a personal nature: i.e. room service, laundry, telephone, alcoholic drinks.
• Comprehensive personal travel insurance for the journey.

The extra

• Balloon safari ride US$ 450 per person in Kenya
• Masai village visit US$ 15 per person