Day 1: Arrive Nairobi

JAMBO! Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, you will be met by our driver who will assist with the transfer to your accommodation. Before checking in you will be briefed on your program ahead.

Day 2: Nairobi Excursion

Following a short briefing over breakfast, get set to see some of the famous Nairobi sites. Start off with the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage which has a nursery and rehabilitation centre for infant elephants that have lost their families, as well as the occasional rhino, zebra and other wildlife. Daphne was the first person to successfully raise an orphaned infant elephant, discovering a milk formula that has now been used widely. The widow of the famous naturalist and warden of Tsavo from 1948 to 1976, David Sheldrick, Daphne has dedicated her life to conservation. These infants are eventually released into the wild at Tsavo East National Park and end up in the care of other orphans who have been successfully reintroduced to the wild.

Later, visit a nature centre run by the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife. An elevated observation walkway allows you to get face to face with 18-foot-tall Rothschild giraffes. In 1974 Jock Leslie-Melville, grandson of a Scottish earl, and his wife Betty founded the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife (AFEW) and proceeded to move five babies of the highly endangered Rothschild giraffe to their property where they have been successfully reared and have since produced their own offspring. Betty chronicled these events in her book Raising Daisy Rothschild. Visit Karen Blixen Museum, famed by the Oscar-winning movie Out of Africa, Kazuri beads factory, then a city tour as you drive back to your accommodation.

Included meals: Breakfast

Day 3: Nairobi to Maasai Mara

After breakfast, transfer to the airstrip and fly to the Maasai Mara.  Enjoy a short game drive on the way to your accommodation followed by lunch. Go for an afternoon game-viewing drive, returning as the sun sets for dinner and overnight.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 4: Maasai Mara

Maasai Mara is Kenya’s most famous wildlife reserve, providing much of the setting for the film Out of Africa. It is classic savannah – grasslands where animals are plentiful and the vistas spectacular. In this dreamlike land, animals live in freedom, and the Maasai tend their cattle, all sharing the same land with minimal conflict. You have three days of wildlife-viewing opportunities in the Maasai Mara Reserve, also known as the “Jewel of Africa,” a site with one of the largest and most spectacular animal migrations in the world. The reserve is inhabited by many of Africa's most popular wild animals, including lion, cheetah, elephant, leopard, black rhino and hippo. There are also over 500 resident species of birds in the park including ostrich, larks and sunbirds as well as the lovely Lilac-breasted Roller.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 5: Maasai Mara

Enjoy a second day of game viewing drives and other exciting activities at your accommodation.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 6: Maasai Mara to Serengeti

Today fly to Migori where you will be transferred by road for one hour with picnic boxes. Upon reaching Isebania border, clear with the customs & immigration and fly to Serengeti arriving in time for a late-afternoon game-viewing drive.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 7: Serengeti National Park

Your day will be spent at the Serengeti, enjoying game-viewing drives with meals being taken in the true safari style in the vast and sensational Serengeti, which covers 14,763 sq km of endlessly rolling savannah. The venue for ‘the greatest wildlife show on Earth’, the annual migration of over one million wildebeest,the park is also renowned for its lions, cheetahs, zebras, giraffes and plains game.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 8: Serengeti National Park

Enjoy a second day of game-viewing drives in the Serengeti ecosystem.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 9: Serengeti to Ngorongoro

After breakfast, drive to the famous Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area (NCCA), which features rolling plains, lakes, craters, mountains and dormant volcanoes. Enjoy a picnic lunch at the Olduvai Museum. Known as the ‘Cradle of Mankind’, this is one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world. Pioneered by famous paleontologists Louis and Mary Leakey in the 1950s, it offers a glimpse into life two million years ago. Proceed to your accommodation on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater.
The afternoon will be spent at leisure.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 10: Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Today after breakfast, descend into the ‘8th Wonder of the World, a unique biosphere that has remained virtually unchanged since the dawn of time. Enclosed within its towering walls are grasslands, swamps, forests, saltpans, a fresh water lake and a glorious variety of birdlife. Here too are all the members of the ‘Big Five’ (lion, elephant, rhino, leopard and buffalo) as well as a large cast of plains game and one of Africa’s densest populations of
predators. Enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor before climbing back up to the accommodation in time for relaxation before dinner.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 11: Ngorongoro to Lake Manyara

After breakfast, drive to beautiful Lake Manyara, a shallow alkaline lake that shimmers in a cleft in the Great Rift Valley. Lunch will be served at your accommodation.
Later in the afternoon, go for a game-viewing drive in this small but uniquely diverse national park, which is home to the world-famous tree-climbing lions, thousands of flamingoes and nearly 500 species of birds.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 12: Lake Manyara to Arusha

Today drive to Arusha, enjoy a farewell lunch then spend time doing last minute shopping. Later, transfer to Kilimanjaro airport where you will connect to your flight back home.

Included meals: Breakfast, Lunch