12-Days Nairobi Elephant Orphanage, Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Safari

The tour starts by picking you from your Hotel/Home within Nairobi. You will travel to David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust to walk through the center from 11am - 12pm in an open space, with a rope fence around it.

Ask questions and get up close and personal with the beautiful, friendly elephants under the supervision of trained professionals.

The youngest elephants come trotting out of the bush to greet their keepers who stand at the ready with giant bottles of milk.

For the next 10-15 minutes, you can watch each little one slurp and gargle their milk. Then, you will have time to watch the elephants play.

You find out how old they were when they arrived at the orphanage, where they were rescued from, and what got them into trouble.

The most common reasons for getting orphaned being: Mothers poached, falling into wells, and human/wildlife conflict. Once the youngest are all fed, they are led back into the bush, and it is the turn of the 2-3 year olds.

Some of them can feed themselves, and some are still fed by their keepers. Watch them interact with their keepers, munch on some branches of their favorite acacias, and play with the half drums of water and mud.

• Duration: 1 hour

Optional Visit to Carnivore restaurant for Lunch or Mamba Village for Lunch.

After lunch, we later drive to Giraffe Centre where you feed Rothschild giraffes under the supervision of keepers.

The center has rescued, hand-reared and released around 500-orphaned giraffes back into the wild since opening in 1979.

This attraction offers opportunities to feed the endangered Rothschild's giraffe by hand. The location also offers a fine education on the physiology, behaviors and habitat preferences of these beautiful animals.

• Duration: 3 hours

Pick up from your hotel at 0700 hrs Wild Race Africa Tours & Safari tour officer will do safari briefing. There after together with your knowledgeable, discipline and well-dressed driver guide, depart Nairobi for maasai mara game reserve.

Drive via the scenic Great Rift Valley, to the Mara Reserve arriving in good time for early lunch and relaxation as you wait for the sun to cool down for late afternoon game viewing until around 18:30 hrs when the park closes.

This will then mark your day 1 game viewing introduction within the savannah grassland. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge or similar standard.

• Main destination: Maasai mara game reserve
• Accommodation: Mara sopa lodge or sarova game lodge.
• Meals & drinks: lunch and dinner + clean drinking bottled water (Other drinks not included)

Full days spent exploring the park in search of the big 5 trailing the wildebeest migration herds and predators – Optional balloon safari can be arranged at an extra cost. Overnight stay at Mara Sopa Lodge Mara wildebeest

The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant.

It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture.

Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.

• Main destination: Maasai mara game reserve
• Accommodation: Mara sopa lodge or mara sarova game lodge.
• Meals & drinks: lunch and dinner + clean drinking bottled water (Other drinks not included)

Full days spent exploring the park in search of the big 5 trailing the wildebeest migration herds and predators – Optional balloon safari can be arranged at an extra cost. Overnight stay at Mara Sopa Lodge Mara wildebeest

The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant.

It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture.

Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vultures.

• Main destination: Maasai mara game reserve
• Accommodation: Mara sopa lodge or mara sarova game lodge.
• Meals & drinks: lunch and dinner + clean drinking bottled water (Other drinks not included)

Breakfast then drop off at the airstrip to board a flight to Serengeti seronera – on arrival our guide will meet you and proceed to Kati Kati Tented amp for lunch – afternoon game drives is offered then return to our tented lodge for Dinner and overnight stay.

NB: For those who finds it more adventurous to travel by road from maasai mara to serengeti national park can also do so, though it does involve so many hours (approximately seven hours from maasai mara)

It is for this reason that we recommend flight option, as it is faster hence you will arrive in serengeti national park in good time for an afternoon game viewing around ndutu area or central serengeti national park.

• Main destination: Serengeti National Park.
• Accommodation: Katikati luxury tented camp or Serengeti wildlife lodge or similar standard.
• Meals & drinks: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner + plenty of drinking water while you are in the park 

Day spent viewing game in the vast Serengeti plains morning and afternoon game drives are offered, Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented lodge

Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park It is the Migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous.

Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June.

So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.

The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat.

Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants

• Main destination: Serengeti National Park.
• Accommodation: Katikati luxury tented camp or Serengeti wildlife lodge or similar standard.
• Meals & drinks: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner + plenty of drinking water while you are in the park 

Breakfast then view game as you exit the park and proceed to south to the magnificent Ngorongoro crater via the historical Olduvai Gorge whilst game watching only interrupted by a picnic lunch enroute. Dinner and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge.

The Olduvai Gorge cuts through rock beds layered in time sequence from 2 million years ago to the present.

It is here where humanoid bones have been found dating back to over 1.75 million years including a direct ancestor of modern man.

Fossil footprints (over three million years old) have also been found here and are the most ancient footprints yet discovered. There is an excellent site museum where you can explore the diggings. Game viewing in crater will be on day 8 in the morning.

• Main destination: Ngorongoro National Park.
• Accommodation: ngorongoro wildlife lodge or similar standard.
• Meals & drinks: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner + plenty of drinking water while you are in the park 

After early morning breakfast leave with picnic lunch for a full day crater tour. You will be taken 2000ft down the crater by a 4wheel drive vehicle, explore the crater before ascending back to the Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge for dinner and overnight.

The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ a visit to the crater is a main drawcard for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite excellent attraction. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is home of Ngorongoro Crater.

• Main destination: Ngorongoro National Park.
• Accommodation: ngorongoro wildlife lodge or similar standard.
• Meals & drinks: Breakfast, Lunch and dinner + plenty of drinking water while you are in the park 

Breakfast at leisure, check out of the lodge with picnic lunch boxes in hand for the Namanga border. Make your way through customs and immigration and then meet with our Kenya based tour guide to start your journey to Amboseli National Park. You will have lunch en route.

Once at the park you will enjoy a game drive. Look out for large herds of elephants, lions, leopards, gazelles, wild dogs, and the magnificent view of Mt. Kilimanjaro.

Overnight: Amboseli Kibo Tented Camp

Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.

• Main Destination: Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
• Accommodation: Kibo Safari Camp (https://kibosafaricamp.com/) - Mid-range tented camp located just outside Amboseli NP
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Go on a game drive after breakfast. Return to the camp/lodge for lunch at 1:00pm and then relax by the pool. You will then go on an afternoon game drive until dusk.

This small park (392 sq. km) is the second most popular park in Kenya after Masai Mara, primarily due to the spectacular backdrop of Mt. Kilimanjaro on its southern boundary.

Amboseli means ‘the place of water’ in the Masai language. The park has an endless supply of water filtered through thousands of meters of volcanic rock from Mount Kilimanjaro.

Animal species found here include elephant, zebra, wildebeest, giraffe, impala, and leopard. Birdlife found here include pelican, bee-eater, kingfisher, African fish eagle, and pygmy falcon.

Mount Kilimanjaro forms the backdrop of this game sanctuary and it is a sight to see and marvel at the nomadic, richly decorated Masai also entertain visitors with enchanting dances of ageless Africa.

Dinner and your overnight stay will be at the camp.

• Main Destination: Amboseli National Park (Kenya)
• Accommodation: Kiboko Luxury Camp (https://kibosafaricamp.com/) - Luxury tented camp located in or near Lake Naivasha
• Meals & Drinks: All meals included
• Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Early morning game drive exploring Amboseli National Park one more time. Later Head back to the lodge for a full breakfast. After breakfast, check out and drive to Mombasa your North coast Beach Hotel in Watamu.

-          Main Destination: Nairobi (City)

-          Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)

-          Meals & Drinks: All meals included

-          Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

End of tour:

-         Last Night Hotel accommodation this day is not included in the package. We can help organize it for you at an extra cost though.

-          Drop off will be back to the Hotel or airport.