14-Days Kenya & Tanzania Wilderness Safari Tour – The ultimate Thrill Seekers Adventure
Experience the ultimate East Africa Safari Adventure over 14 days, visiting 7 iconic national parks in Kenya and Tanzania. Travel in a 4×4 Safari Land Cruiser/Jeep and explore wildlife, landscapes, and cultural sites. Ideal for thrill-seekers and wildlife enthusiasts.
Trip Highlights
- Visit 7 top national parks: Samburu, Ol Pejeta, Lake Naivasha, Masai Mara, Lake Victoria, Serengeti, Ngorongoro, Amboseli
- Full-day and morning/afternoon game drives
- Big Five & Great Wildebeest Migration viewing
- Cultural visits to Maasai villages and local fishing communities
- Scenic landscapes: savannahs, crater rims, Mount Kilimanjaro, and Lake Victoria
- Luxury and mid-range lodges, tented camps included
- 4x4 safari vehicles with pop-up roofs for photography
Itinerary
0730hrs: Pick up from Nairobi airport or hotel. Take a scenic route via the central highlands to the Samburu National Reserve in the semi-arid northern frontier of Kenya.
Samburu, Shaba and Buffalo springs game reserves are a place of endless skies, dust-red plains and palm-fringed rivers.
The reserves lie on the fringes of the vast and arid desert once known as the Northern Frontier District.
The combined landscape of the Samburu game reserve features rocky battlements, craggy scarps, dry riverbeds and fallen boulders rising out of the thorn scrub against a backdrop of the far-distant hills and the great red Table Mountain known as Ololokwe.
- Dinner & Overnight at Samburu Ashnil Lodge { https://www.ashnilhotels.com/samburu/}.
- Meal Plan: Lunch and Dinner
Day spent at the Samburu game reserve with game viewing drives. Game viewing is concentrated along the Ewaso Nyiro River, the lifeline of this semi desert environment.
You can explore further the adjacent Shaba & Buffalo springs. Dinner & overnights at Samburu Ashnil Lodge or similar
- Dinner & Overnight at Samburu Ashnil Lodge { https://www.ashnilhotels.com/samburu/}.
- Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Game viewing drive at the Samburu. Depart for the cooler Mount Kenya / Laikipia region.
Afternoon game viewing drives at the Olpejeta wildlife sanctuary.
Dinner and overnight at SerenaSweetwater’sLuxury tented camp.
- Mountain lodge: Game viewing from the tree lodge or optional nature activities.
Meal plan: Breakfast, lunch, dinner.
What you may see / do at Mount Kenya national park …
Elephants, tree hyrax, white tailed mongoose, Suni, Black fronted duiker, mole rat, bushbucks, and Elands, Rhino, chimpanzees at Sweetwater’s.
- Dinner and overnight at Serena Sweet waters Safari Lodge (https://www.serenahotels.com/sweetwaters)
- Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
After breakfast, proceed to Lake Naivasha. Afternoon bike and hike to Hell’s Gate National Park.
- Lake Naivasha Country Club { https://sunafricahotels.com/lake-naivasha-country-club} - Mid-range hotel located in or near Lake Naivasha
- Meals & Drinks: All meals included
Morning boat ride to explore Lake Naivasha and view hippos, birds and small game. Later proceed to the Masai Mara Game Reserve.
Late afternoon game viewing drive at the Mara. The Mara makes the ideal hunting ground for Kenya’s famous “big cats” and hosts her largest population of lions.
It also offers the best chance of spotting a leopard in the wild. Other predators include cheetah and spotted hyena.
The Masai Mara is famous for the large herds of elephant and buffalo that inhabit the plains; also for the pods of hippo that wallow in its muddy riverbeds.
Other animal species include the Masai giraffe, Topi, Hartebeest, Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelle, zebra, impala, dik-dik, bushbuck, waterbuck and red duiker.
The reserve also boasts plentiful crocodile, monitor lizard, baboon, vervet, blue and red-tailed monkeys, bush babies, and tree hyrax.
There are over 550 resident and migratory species of birds. Overnight at your Masai Mara safari lodge or tented camp.
Your dinner and overnight will be at Mara Keekorok Lodge {https://sunafricahotels.com/st_hotel/keekorok-lodge/} - Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
- Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
Enjoy a full day game viewing drive at the Masai Mara with picnic lunch at the Mara river crossing. There are optional activities such as guided nature/bird-spotting walks or cultural visits to the local Masai homesteads.
Your dinner and overnight will be at Mara Keekorok Lodge {https://sunafricahotels.com/st_hotel/keekorok-lodge/} - Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
- Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
Extra day at the Masai Mara with scheduled game viewing drives. Overnight at your Masai Mara safari lodge / tented camp
Your dinner and overnight will be at Mara Keekorok Lodge {https://sunafricahotels.com/st_hotel/keekorok-lodge/} - Mid-range lodge located inside Masai Mara NR
- Meal Plan: {Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner}.
Depart Maasai Mara and proceed to the Lake Victoria in Tanzania. The drive is via the Isebania Kenya / Tanzania border town.
Meet Tanzania vehicle and driver guide at Isebania border after clearing with the Immigration & Customs procedures.
Drive to the Southeastern bay of Lake Victoria. Arrive at your lodge late afternoon. Relax on the shores of this lake, which is rich in history. The breeze is refreshing. If you have time, you may visit the Bunda Market.
- Overnight at Lake Victoria Speke Bay lodge (http://www.spekebay.com/).
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
After breakfast, visit a nearby Fishing Village in the company of a local guide. Among other things, you will learn lots about traditional Fishing techniques, selling mode of fresh Fish and the general rural life.
Thereafter, drive into the nearby Serengeti that shares the same ecosystem with the Maasai Mara game reserve.
Ideally, Maasai Mara is the smaller extension of the Serengeti. It is well located for game viewing drives.
A short afternoon game viewing drive en route. Overnight at your lodge/ Tented camp.
- Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Matawil Lodge (https://www.matawiserengeticamp.com/).
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
A full day game viewing drive as we explore this vast nature endowed wildlife reserve. Options of morning and afternoon or full day game viewing sessions are available to you.
The annual wildebeest migration is Serengeti’s most famous attraction.
It is also home to a pride of its lions which have been fitted with radio-transmitter collars so that their movements may be tracked.
Other wildlife you may see includes cheetah, zebra, giraffe, Thompson and Grant’s gazelle, Eland, Impala, Klipspringer, Hippo and Warthog.
- Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Matawil Lodge (https://www.matawiserengeticamp.com/).
- Meal plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
Depart the Serengeti with a game viewing drive en-route. Descend to the floor of the Ngorongoro crater for game viewing in this unique caldera park.
We shall look out for Rhino, Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Cheetah, Buffalo and Hippo. Later we ascend to the crater rim.
Catch a glimpse of the most magnificent sunset views in Africa from the crater rim!
- Overnight at your Ngorongoro crater Serena Safari Lodge (https://www.serenahotels.com/ngorongoro).
- Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner.
After breakfast, proceed to Amboseli national park. Border crossing and immigration formalities at the Namanga border town.
Afternoon game viewing drive at the Amboseli National park with views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
Amboseli is an international biosphere nature reserve featuring dried-out lakebed, rolling savannah and lush green swamps.
Amboseli hosts various animal species including the Elephant, Antelope, Spotted Hyena, Jackal, Warthog, Olive baboon, Vervet monkey……
The observation hill at Amboseli National park offers stunning views of Mount Kilimanjaro.
- Dinner & Overnight at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge { https://www.serenahotels.com/amboseli}
- Meal Plan; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
What you may see at Amboseli national park …
- Elephant, Cheetah, Buffalo, Giraffe, Zebra, Lion, Plain game, crocodile, Mongoose, Hyrax, Lesser Kudu and birdlife features 600 species.
Early pre-breakfast game viewing drive at the national park. Weather permitting the clouds will shear off, leaving you mesmerized by the majesty of the Kilimanjaro and its gleaming snowcapped peaks.
Today shall be spent exploring Amboseli National park on unlimited game viewing drives.
- Dinner & Overnight at Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge { https://www.serenahotels.com/amboseli}
- Meal Plan; Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner
Early pre-breakfast game viewing drive in search of the predators and grazers. Extra exit game viewing drive as you leave Amboseli.
Depart Amboseli for Nairobi to arrive in the late afternoon. Transfer to your Nairobi hotel / Nairobi airport for your outbound flight
- Meal Plan: Breakfast, lunch.
Main Destination: Nairobi
- Accommodation: No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)- Drinks not included
Safari Prices:
- $6570 us Dollars per Head ( All-inclusive Safari Package).
Includes/Excludes
Cost Includes
- - Accommodation as outlined above.
- - All meals noted in the itinerary. Each day generally includes Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner buffets consisting of both western and local dishes.
- - Transportation in standard game viewing safari vehicles complete with a pop-up roof for easy viewing and photography.
- - Every passenger guaranteed a window seat.
- - Your driver/guide speaks English and has in-depth knowledge of the flora, fauna, landscape, culture.
- - A 4x 4 Safari jeep of pop up roof outfitted with two-way, long-range high-frequency radio communications equipment in Kenya.
- - Each safari Vehicle carries safari accessories including wildlife books, binocular for the guide, a first-aid kit, and a fire extinguisher.
- - Flying doctors (AMREF) insurance cover each client doing a safari with us just for emergencies
- - Park entrance fees and game drives as noted in the itinerary.
- - All government taxes, levies, 2 liters of bottled water during safari
- - Pick up from your beach hotel and drop off in Mombasa airport in good time for your outbound flight after the trip.
Cost Excludes
- - Domestic and international airfares and departures taxes.
- - Personal communications charges for telephone calls, faxes, email, etc.
- - Tips and gratuities for your driver/guide.
- - Alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages.
- - Laundry services.
- - Between meal snacks, parks, attractions, and events not included in your itinerary
