8-Day Magical Big 5 Kenya & Tanzania - Midrange

You will depart for Masai Mara with a stop at Lake Naivasha, a freshwater lake that is a popular tourist spot in Kenya for locals and foreigners alike. After a 2.5 hours of a drive, you will be at Lake Naivasha, here we book for you a one-hour lake boat safari which provides close encounters with large pods of hippos and rich birdlife like fish eagles, pelicans, and herons. Optional visit to Crescent Island Game Sanctuary often included in boat trips, this walking safari allows you to walk among giraffes, zebras, and gazelles. Enjoy views of the surrounding Rift Valley and freshwater lake landscape.

Hell's Gate National Park Optional Activities, The park is famous for allowing walking and cycling, where you can ride bicycles past wild animals like giraffes, buffalo and gazelles. Guided hikes through the Ol Njorowa Gorge offer spectacular views of towering cliffs. After lunch at a restaurant, you will drive to Masai Mara for Dinner and Overnight.

Today you will be taken on two game drives, one in the morning and the other in the late afternoon after lunch or you may opt to go out for a full day of game viewing. Early mornings and late afternoons are considered the best time to spot animals at their most active. As your safari is private, your game drive timings are flexible and convenient. If travelling with children or on a honeymoon, you'll perhaps want to lie in longer on some days. You may also choose to have a full-day game drive (one for the whole day])with a packed picnic lunch at no extra cost. You'll return in the evening for dinner and your overnight stay at AA Lodge Mara.
Accommodation: AA Lodge Mara

You will have breakfast at the hotel, with a packed lunch heading off to the Isebania border. Today, you’ll drive from Kenya’s Masai Mara into Tanzania, spotting game along the way. On your arrival at the Isebania border, you will clear with the customs office and proceed to Serengeti National Park. Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some two million wildebeests the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebras and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelles join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. The Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa. You will see great herds of buffalos, smaller groups of elephants and giraffes, and hundreds upon hundreds of elands, topis, kongonis, impalas and Grant's gazelles. A picnic lunch will be provided. After stopping for your picnic lunch on a kopje (rock outcropping) in Serengeti, you will continue further into the park and go on a game drive. Your overnight stay and dinner are at the Camp.

After breakfast at your lodge, you will go for a full day of game drives around Central Serengeti. This opens onto the Serenora Valley, a vibrant wildlife area at the heart of the Serengeti. The valley is famous for its resident animal population where you can expect to see wildebeests, lions, elephants, giraffes, zebras, monkeys, baboons, hippos, rhinos, antelopes, many birds, and other species. All meals and your accommodation are at your Camp.

You will have breakfast at the lodge, with a packed lunch, and drive to Ngorongoro Crater for a wonderful game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is just one of those places that have to be seen, words alone cannot do it justice. Leaving your lodge, you’ll drive down into what was once, many eons ago, the fiery heart of a huge volcano. Today this natural amphitheatre has a much more peaceful atmosphere as wildebeests, Coke’s hartebeests, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, and common zebras feed contentedly, or at least as contentedly as the ever-present lions and cheetahs will allow. However, the black rhinos here will be less concerned about these predators. The birdlife in the crater varies according to the seasons. Still, during your visit, you should see grey-crowned cranes, lappet-faced vultures, black-bellied and kori bustards, Fischer’s lovebird and Northern anteater, and chat among many others. Later, you will drive to your Lodge.

After breakfast at the camp, you will begin your drive to Tarangire National Park. As you enter the park you’ll be greeted by a landscape dominated by majestic baobabs rising out of the acacia parkland, forming a perfect backdrop for the large herds of African elephants wandering among them. Other mammals sharing this habitat range from lions, leopards, cheetahs, wild dogs, black-backed Jackals, Kirk’s dik-dik, dwarf and banded mongoose, impala, Beisa oryx, Steinbok and African hares. You should expect to see buffalos, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests and waterbucks. The variety of birds you may see include Maasai ostrich, white-headed vulture, African scops owls and the endemic ashy starling. A picnic lunch will be saved at the designated picnic site. Later, you will drive to Arusha for dinner and an overnight stay at the Lodge.

After breakfast at the hotel, with packed lunch you will drive to the border for Kenya Amboseli National Park, By 11:00am you will start a game drive at Amboseli National Park. A beautiful drive through the lush and green eastern and southern sides of Mount Kilimanjaro. You'll take your cue from the animals, a drive around the Amboseli lake aften provides you with great animal sightings including, Lions, jackals, buffalo, elephants, hyenas etc, With 1,700 elephants in this park, it’s impossible not to see them on a game drive. There are more than 420 species of birds too, including 10 varieties of eagles, and 12 types of heron. Your dinner and overnight stay are at AA Lodge Amboseli.
Accommodation: AA Lodge Amboseli

After a good night's sleep, you'll have an optional early morning game drive in the park. You'll return for breakfast at the AA Lodge Amboseli, then it's departure time. Your safari vehicle will be taking you to Nairobi. You'll stop for a picnic lunch on the way, and have time to do some last-minute gift shopping on the way to Nairobi and at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.