Mara to Serengeti
Your tour starts with pick up at 7:30 AM from your Nairobi hotel or Airport and depart to Lake Naivasha which is about 2 to 2.5 hours drive. On reaching Lake Naivasha, proceed for Boat Ride to Crescent Island where you will be doing a nature walk next to zebras, giraffes, wildebeest, waterbucks, antelopes and many types of birds. After the activities at Lake Naivasha, you will have lunch at a local restaurant or at one of the lodges in Lake Naivasha. After Lunch, you will check into your lodge/camp and relax for for a while. Later in the evening you can freshen up and enjoy a freshly prepared dinner. Overnight stay at the lodge.Optional Add-on Tours: You can choose to go to Hell's gate national park near Naivasha where you can do hiking, bicycle riding and other activities at additional cost.
After breakfast, we proceed to Lake Nakuru national park which is about 1.5 hours from Naivasha. Check into your lodge at Nakuru, and depart for morning game drives. After game drives till noon, have lunch and depart for afternoon game drives. After game drives till around 6:00 PM, we proceed to your camp/lodge for a freshly prepared dinner. Overnight stay at your Camp/Lodge.
We start around 7:30 AM from your Nakuru lodge and drive to Masai Mara. This drive will take about 5 to 6 hours. Arrive in Masai Mara shortly after noon and check into your lodge/camp, have hot lunch and then depart for an afternoon game drive. After the game drive, we head back to lodge/camp to reach by around 5:30 or 6:00 PM, freshen up and enjoy a freshly prepared Dinner. Overnight at your lodge.
Today's itinerary is flexible and you can discuss with your guide on the previous evening and plan for today's schedule. You can either have a relaxed breakfast and depart for full day game drives around 9:00 AM with packed lunch and return back to lodge late afternoon around 6:00 PM. Or you can depart at 6:00 AM on an early morning game drive (This is the best time to see the animals and a good chance to witness hunt/kill). Later return to accommodation for breakfast and relax for a bit and depart on an afternoon game drive with packed lunch. You will stop at a picnic spot for having packed lunch and later depart on a game drive till the park is closed. Around 6:00 PM return to lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Enjoy your breakfast at the lodge. Afterward, drive 3.5 to 4 hours (150 km) to the Isebania border with a packed lunch. Pass through Immigration and customs, introduced to your guide and head to Serengeti National park, arrive late afternoon. Enroute game drive to your for overnight for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast depart with packed lunch for full day game drives, Depending on the time of the year the guide will decide to search for migration and game. Serengeti is famous for the big five, plain game, birdlife life, predators and the best highlight is the migration and mara river crossing. Evening drive back to your camp for overnight.
Depart with packed lunch to Ngorongoro conservation area, enroute game drive, visit the Olduvai gorge, afternoon descend the crater. Mid morning descend the crater for 6 hour crater tour. Late evening drive to Karatu village for overnight at Octagon lodge. Meal plan full board.
Depart after breakfast to Tarangire National Park for game drives, via view point of lake Manyara national park and the great Rift Valley. Drive on to Tarangire National Park, Arrive in mid morning, game drives till evening. Overnight at Osupuko Tarangire Lodge. Meal plan full board.
We have a sumptuous breakfast and head to Arusha, arrive in time for lunch. Here you have the option of flying to Zanzibar, transfer to Kilimanjaro airport fr flight home, connecting with a shuttle bus to Nairobi for your onward journey home.
