13-Day The Grand Safari Experience- Kenya and Tanzania

Check for flights arriving in Nairobi in the afternoon or late in the evening for an overnight stay in Nairobi in readiness to start your safari the following day.

You will be met on arrival by our representative who will pick you up from the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transfer you to the hotel for check-in.

Depending on your time of arrival, you can spend the day at leisure and later have dinner and an overnight stay.

Dinner costs will be paid directly to the hotel at check out.

You’ll have an early morning breakfast followed by a pre-safari briefing from your designated driver guide and our team. At 7:30 am, you’ll depart shortly after and drive heading southwards to Amboseli National Park to arrive in time for lunch at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge.

At 4:00 pm, you will enjoy an afternoon wildlife-viewing drive in the Amboseli National Park returning to camp in time to refresh for dinner.

All meals and overnight stays will be at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge.

This will be a full day in Amboseli National Park with morning and afternoon game-viewing drives at 6:30 am and 4:00 pm respectively.

Elephants are a dominant presence in Amboseli; they are tracked almost constantly by researchers, thus the reason they largely escaped the ravages of 1980s poaching. Here, you can spot some of the older “tuskers” lumbering almost delicately before the backdrop of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

All meals and overnight stays will be at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge.

You’ll have an early morning breakfast and shortly after depart with packed lunch boxes.

Your driver-guide will transfer you to the Kenya/Tanzania border town of Namanga for Immigration and customs formalities.

Afterward, he will connect you with your guide on the Tanzania side for a safari briefing. After a pre-safari briefing, you will depart and head to Ngorongoro Conservation Area passing through Arusha town.

You are expected to arrive at Ngorongoro late in the afternoon.

You’ll enjoy the game drive en route for check-in.

You can spend the evening at leisure to relax from the journey.

Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge.

You’ll have an early breakfast in the lodge, depart, and drive to Ngorongoro Crater climbing to the altitude of 8,000 feet. You’ll descend to the floor of the crater for wildlife-viewing drives. Often described as the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World, the Ngorongoro crater is so spectacular, a natural sanctuary for over 25,000 animals, including the black rhino.

Ngorongoro Crater hot lunch will be served at one of the designated sites on the crater floor. As the sun sets on the western side of the crater rim, you will ascend and drive to the lodge to refresh for dinner. (A minimum of 8 Pax is required for the hot lunch if the number is less then guests will have picnic lunch boxes).

Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge.

You’ll have breakfast in the lodge then depart and drive to Serengeti with a brief stop at the Olduvai Gorge.

Olduvai Gorge the ‘Cradle of Mankind’ is world-famous for the Archaeological discoveries made there by Dr. Louis Leakey and Mary Leakey.

You will have lunch at the Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.

At 4:00 pm, you will depart for an afternoon game drive.

All meals and overnight stays will be at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.

You’ll enjoy morning and afternoon wildlife-viewing drives in the park. Apart from the Julius Nyerere National Park, this is the largest of all the parks in Tanzania, summed up as ‘one of the most unique areas in the world’.

The Serengeti contains the largest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa. During the height of the migration towards the Masai Mara, there is a huge concentration of plains game in the reserve, mainly concentrated around the watering places, and with good chances also of seeing the predators at work.

Optional activities available here include guided nature/bird walks, bubbly sundowners, and a starlit dinner by the swimming pool.

All meals and overnight stays will be at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.

Early morning breakfast in the lodge and depart with your driver-guide with picnic lunch boxes and be transferred to the Kenya/Tanzania border town of Isebania for Immigration and Customs formalities. You will be picked up on the Kenyan side by our Kenyan driver-guide who will drive you to the Masai Mara National Reserve to arrive in the late afternoon.

You’ll enjoy a game drive en route to the hotel for check-in followed by an afternoon at leisure.

Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Mara Serena Safari Lodge.

You’ll enjoy two full days in the Mara with morning and afternoon game drives in the reserve at 6:30 am and 4:00 pm respectively. Certainly the most frequented game reserve in Kenya, Masai Mara is a magnificent landscape of open plains bisected by the Mara River and its tributaries and punctuated by marshes and forests. This 650 sq. kilometer reserve supports the highest density of game to be seen anywhere considering its size.

All meals and overnight stays will be at Mara Serena Safari Lodge.

At 7:00 am, after breakfast, you will depart and drive to Kenya’s Rift Valley region to Soysambu Conservancy.

Lunch at Lake Elmenteita Serena Camp followed by an afternoon at leisure.

At 4:00 pm, you’ll enjoy a game drive in the conservancy.

Other optional activities available include:

Escorted nature/bird walks, target archery activities, watercolour painting, jogging/walking, and Swahili lessons among others.

All meals and overnight stays will be at Lake Elmenteita Serena Camp.

After an early breakfast in the camp at 7:30 am, you will depart and drive to the nearby Lake Nakuru National Park. The park, colored by a shimmering flamingo pink from thousands of beautiful birds lining its shores, is a popular place with visitors as well as locals.

Besides the greater and lesser flamingos, the park is home to many other species including, the great-crested Grebe, the black-necked Grebe, little Grebe, pelicans, cormorant, African Darter, Egyptian Geese, night Heron, Fish Eagle, grey heron, Marabou stork, Sacred and Hadada Ibis.

You’ll spend the afternoon at leisure relaxing and unwinding.

Your dinner and overnight stay will be at Lake Elmenteita Serena Camp.

After breakfast, you’ll spend the midmorning enjoying the camp amenities with an early lunch in readiness to depart for Nairobi.

You will depart after lunch and head back to Nairobi to arrive at around 5:00 pm and be transferred to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to catch your flight back home.

You can extend this safari to the beach (Zanzibar, Diani, Mombasa, Watamu at an extra charge).

This marks the end of your safari experience with us.