This safari combines the best of East Africa Wildlife Game Parks and locations,
Talk of the Famous Serengeti National Park, the Lovely Ngorongoro Crater, The tree-climbing lions of Lake Manyara National Park. The Amboseli National Park with the best Views of Mount Kilimanjaro, the Great Rift Valley Freshwater, Lake Naivasha, the 8th wonder of the World, Masai Mara National Park and the Rhino Homeland at Lake Nakuru National Park.
Departure: Arusha
Return: Nairobi
Departure Time: Weekly on Tuesday – after lunch.
Duration: 12 Nights
Arrival Kilimanjaro Airport and transfer to Four Points by Sheraton (BB)
Breakfast and Lunch at Mount Meru Hotel. After Lunch drive through the Ngorongoro Highlands to your lodge situated in Karatu just outside the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater covers over 102 square miles (250 square kilometers) of land and is the home of the rare black rhino, prides of lion, elephant, cheetah and great herds of buffalo, antelope and wildebeest. Lunch at Ngorongoro Farm House . Afternoon at Leisure. Dinner and overnight at a Ngorongoro Farm House (FB)
Today you will drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area and descend over 600 meters to the floor of the crater for a day crater tour. Explore the forest areas that are inhabited by monkey and elephant, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos and the open savannah where the lions hunt for food. Picnic lunches will be served in the crater. Late afternoon drive back to Ngorongoro Farm House for dinner and overnight (FB)
After breakfast drive to Olduvai Gorge, site of Louis and Mary Leakey’s renowned archaeological discoveries. Their findings include some of the man’s earliest known ancestral remains. Continue to Serengeti National Park in time for lunch. This enormous park supports every variety of animal imaginable – from large predators such as lion, leopard and cheetah to the smaller herbivores they prey on. Afternoon game drive. Overnight at Serengiti Katikati Camp (FB)
Today you spend the whole day on game drive in this National Park, which is rich with all different species of animals. To give you a better chance of seeing the big five (Lion, Elephant, Leopard, Buffalo and Rhino) you will carry a picnic lunch with you and spend the full day in the Serengeti National Park. Dinner and overnight at Serengiti Katikati Camp (FB)
Breakfast at your lodge. Drive to Lake Manyara, a mineral lake lying in the Rift Valley. Lunch at Kirurumu Tented Lodge . In the afternoon game drive in Lake Manyara National Park, the home of the so-called ‘Tree Lions’. Apart from the varied types of landscape including jungle, swamp and savanna, there are also a large variety of animals including giraffe, zebra, elephant, gazelle, hippos, monkeys and about 350 different species of birds. Dinner and overnight in Kirurumu Tented Lodge (FB)
After breakfast drive with lunch box via Tarakea or Namanga border. Lunch en-route to Amboseli. Afternoon game drive in Satao Elerai conservancy. Dinner and overnight at Satao Elerai Camp (FB)
Early breakfast. Depart for full day in Amboseli National Park with picnic lunch. Late Afternoon return to the camp. This is the best place to view Mt. Kilimanjaro. Optional Bush Walt or Sundowner (at extra cost). Dinner and overnight Satao Elerai Camp (FB)
After breakfast drive to Lake Naivasha to arrive at Lake Naivasha Lodge in time for Lunch. Afternoon at leisure with an optional boat ride in the lake. Dinner and overnight at Naivasha Sopa Lodge (FB)
After breakfast you will drive past the extinct volcano of Mt. Longonot and Suswa into the homelands of the Masai. The Masai Mara located on Kenya’s southern boarder with Tanzania, constitutes the northern stretch of the Serengeti and has the richest concentration of animals in Kenya. After lunch at the Mara Sopa Lodge you will have the opportunity to observe the unique world of the Masai Mara. Dinner and overnight at the Mara Sarova Camp (FB)
You will spend a full day on a game drive which will take you through the vast plains of the Masai Mara searching for the “Big Five”: Elephant, Rhino, Buffalo, Lion and Leopard. For lunch you will return to the Mara Sopa Lodge. Dinner and overnight at the Mara Sarova Camp (FB)
Your journey will take you straight to Lake Nakuru, which is notorious for its flocks of flamingos and pelicans. The park also boasts over 30 rhinos as well as a large population of leopards. Lunch at the Lake Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge will be followed by an afternoon game drive in the park. Dinner and overnight at the Sarova Lion Hill Lodge(FB)
Your day will start with an early morning game drive through the Lake Nakuru National Park. After breakfast at Sarova Lion Hill you will drive a short distance to Nairobi lunch at Carnivore Restaurant and transfer to JKIA Airport. End of safari.
Ngorongoro Farm House
Live the legendary atmosphere of past times on a colonial style coffee plantation farm house.
Hand plaited thatched roof tops, ample verandas and colonial interiors at Ngorongoro Farm House, a small and exclusive hotel built on a 500 acre coffee plantation, all of which has been designed to take you to the comfort and style of past times. Take a walk around the farm to contemplate the daily activities, relax in the fragrant gardens or enjoy the spectacular sunsets with the Oldeani volcano as a backcloth.
A wonderful stop-off during a safari on the north circuit of Tanzania and a privileged place from where one can visit the crater or enjoy activities such a walking safaris to the volcano or excursions to Lake Eyasi on the Rift Valley still inhabited by the Hadzabe tribe.
Kirurumu Tented Lodge
Kirurumu Manyara Lodge is set high on the edge of the Great Rift Valley, enjoying a marvellous, uplifting and panoramic view eastward over Lake Manyara, the Rift floor and Mt. Losimingori. Behind Kirurumu, the Ngorongoro Highlands rise in green and fertile splendour and form the gateway to Ngorongoro Crater and, finally, Olduvai Gorge, the Serengeti.
Satao Elerai Camp
Satao Elerai Camp is located in a quiet, unspoilt, unique setting on a 5000 acre private conservation area 12 kms south east of Amboseli National Park at the foot of Africa’s largest mountain, Mt Kilimanjaro. The camp looks down onto the Amboseli National Park in one direction and up to Mt Kilimanjaro in the other direction, giving clients what is arguably the best location of any camp in Amboseli. The camp currently has 12 luxury en suite mountain facing tents and 5 large luxurious lodge style suites which were built and designed to ensure that your stay will be in compete luxury. Huge beds with top quality mattresses and pillows and a large luxurious duvet ensure that you will sleep through the night in total comfort.
Naivasha Sopa Lodge
Set in one hundred and fifty acres of grassland studded with Acacia bushes and trees, the resort is not only home to our resident giraffe, waterbuck and both Vervet and Colobus monkeys, but it is also a night stop for the hippos when they leave the lake every night to come and trim the grass on our expansive lawns.
With Sopa’s traditional and conscientious care for the environment, we carefully positioned all the buildings on our property so we did not have to fell any of the many trees there. As a result of this, we had to come up with a radically innovative and artistic design for the main public area building which now snakes its way between the trees with long and graceful curves.
It is also why you might well ask just why our two swimming pools with a children’s section and a pool complex with its bar, snack kitchen, pizzeria and health spa; our tennis court; our two conference halls with their four differently sized meeting areas, and our stables are so widely set apart.
Mara Sopa Lodge
Located high on the slopes of the Oloolaimutia Hills, Masai Mara Sopa Lodge was one of the first safari lodges to be built in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve, a reason why its gardens and trees are so lush and mature. All the buildings follow the design of traditional African round houses with conical roofs, and these stretch along the line of the hills with the impressively large public area buildings and the swimming pool at their centre.
Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge
Located on a range of hills that form the western limits of Africa’s Great Rift Valley, the lodge offers spectacular views over the vastness of Africa. The lodge also overlooks Lake Nakuru and its surrounding National Park, one that is a paradise for bird watchers and wildlife lovers alike. Lake Nakuru National Park is mainly a wooded and bushy grassland with a wide ecological diversity and characteristic habitats that range from the lake waters to the escarpment and ridges.
