12 days destination Kenya Tanzania combined safari holiday | Special deal on African safari holiday
Trip Overview
DESTINATION KENYA TANZANIA COMBINED SAFARI HOLIDAY | SPECIAL DEAL ON AFRICAN SAFARI HOLIDAY 12 DAYS
Special offer trip
12 DAYS SAFARI MARA/ NAKURU/ OSTRICH FARM/ LONGONOT/ NAIVASHA/ NGORONGORO CRATER
Arrival, are picked up by our representatives and driven to Flora guest house/ Boulevard hotel/Parkside hotel for overnight.
After breakfast, take a Nairobi city tour and after, leave for Masai Ostrich farm on the outskirts of Nairobi- just the perfect excursion on this day. Depart for Kitengela Ostrich farm by road in time for lunch. Have sumptuous assortment of Ostrich meat and vegetables after which you will have the opportunity to have Ostrich rides with a guide. An excursion in the Ostrich farm will climax your Ostrich tour and leave for Nairobi arriving evening in time for dinner and overnight at Heron hotel for dinner and overnight.
Depart Nairobi in the morning and drive down the escarpment via the floor of the Great Rift Valley, to arrive at Masai Mara Game Reserve in time for an afternoon game drive. Lunch en-route. The open grasslands of the Serengeti- Mara are home to over 3 million large mammals. These include over 1.4 million wildebeest, which migrate in an enormous, straggling herd each year between the southern parts of the Serengeti to the northern part and back again. Evening game drives in the Masai Mara; we have a very good chance of seeing all the major plains animals including lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhino, hyena, cheetah, jackal, warthog and many species of antelope. In this area we also encounter and learn about the Masai, a proud tribal people struggling to preserve their traditions in the face of modernization. Dinner and overnight at Mara Springs en-suite camp/ Mara Sidai / Miti Mingi camp or similar.
(Optional balloon safari for US$ 500 plus concession fees US$70)
Breakfast and spend the day on game drives in Masai Mara. Lunch at the hippo pool. Dinner and overnight at Mara Springs en-suite camp/ Mara Sidai / Miti Mingi camp or similar.
Breakfast, are picked up and driven to Nakuru in time for lunch from Water-buck hotel. After lunch, leave for Menengai crater, a major volcanic crater in the East African Rift. Return to Nakuru, dinner and overnight at Waterbuck/ Midlands/ Alps hotel.
Breakfast and leave for Lake Nakuru park on game drives. The park has prolific bird life including flamingos, white pelicans and the marabou stock among others. Water-buck and Cape buffalo can be seen near the shoreline. Rothschild’s giraffe and the white rhino are additional attractions among other species of plains game and cats like lion. Late lunch, Dinner and Overnight at a Water-buck hotel/ Alps hotel.
Depart for Naivasha along the Great Rift Valley and take walks at Hell’s Gate. Hells’ Gate is a mellow little park with incredible geology near Lake Naivasha. A great thing about the park is that you can hike around on foot. There are few to no major predators here, which are actually good, because it’s one of the few parks where you have the feeling of being very close to the wildlife, unprotected by a vehicle. It gives you a genuine experience and you can have several days of fun in this park. Attractions include Fischer’s Tower, Central Tower, Obsidian Caves, OlKaria Geothermal Station, and the Hell’s Gate Gorge. It’s a long walk from Elsa Gate to Central Tower at the end of the park and back. Lunch from Kenvash hotel or similar and after, proceed to Nairobi in time for dinner overnight at Flora guest/ Parkside budget hotel.
Breakfast and transfer to Arusha Tanzania by morning public shuttle bus arriving in time for lunch. After lunch, leave for Meserani snake park for an afternoon viewing of some of the biggest snakes in Africa. Later, transfer back to Arusha for dinner and overnight at McEllys hotel/ Arusha tourist Inn.
After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro conservation area for a day crater tour, arriving in time for lunch at Wildlife lodge. This visit will actually give you the highest chances of spotting the rare black rhino. The crater is 670 meters deep. The rest of the big five may be seen. Other species encountered include cheetah, grant’s
and Thompson’s gazelle, the common zebra, spotted hyena and wildebeest. Flamingos may also be seen on the Crater Lake. In between tracking game, you will have a break for lunch at the Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. In the evening ascend and out of the crater. Lunch, Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro wildlife lodge.
After breakfast, depart the Ngorongoro Conservation area for Arusha town arriving in time for overnight at Arusha tourist Inn.
Breakfast and board morning shuttle bus to Nairobi to arrive in time for lunch from a restaurant. Afternoon city tour. Dinner and overnight at Flora guest house/ Parkside hotel.
Breakfast and leave for airport for your flight back home.
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WHATS INCLUDED?
- Meet and Greet Services with assistance
- All airport transfers with assistance
- Free excess baggage storage
- Full Board accommodation in star hotels and tent camps.
- Transport in custom-built safari vehicles with a window
seat guarantee. - All park entry fees
- Game-viewing drives per day whilst on safari
- Services of an English-Speaking and professional safari driver/guide
- Complimentary safari hats
WHATS EXCLUDED?
- International Airfares
- Tourist entry VISA where required (required for Kenya and Tanzania US$ 50 per person per entry)
- International airport departure taxes
- Optional excursions not mentioned in the inclusions and/or quoted separately
- Expenditures of personal nature such as telephone calls,
faxes, internet access, laundry etc. - All drinks
- Tips and gratuities to driver guides/lodge/hotel staff . Airport taxes
- All other extras not mentioned in the ‘what’s included’.