12 Days Kenya and Tanzania Budget Group Safari

Day 1: Arrival Nairobi

1. Nairobi
   7h
   Pickup from the airport/hotel by our professional English speaking guide/driver and be taken to your hotel in Nairobi for the overnight on bed and breakfast basis.

Day 2: Nairobi to Maasai Mara

1. Rift Valley Province
   15m
   At 8 o’clock you will be picked up from your Nairobi Hotel and commence the drive to Maasai Mara via the great rift valley view point where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the rift valley.
2. Maasai Mara National Reserve
   6h · Admission ticket included
   You will arrive in the camp in time for lunch. Check in and have lunch. Thereafter at 4:00pm depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve which lasts for 2 hours end at 6:00pm .You then return back to the camp for a sumptuous buffet dinner ending with good time for resting at tented camp

Day 3: Full Day Game Drive in Maasai Mara Reserve

1. Maasai Mara National Reserve
   8h · Admission ticket included
   Have breakfast at 6:30 am and at 7 am, leave for a full day game viewing in the park. On this day, spend the full day exploring Maasai Mara in search of the big five, hippos and Nile crocodile. Thereafter, go for picnic lunch in park under a croton tree shade overlooking the vast landscape of the park.
   
   It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna – lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas and vultures.

Day 4: Maasai Mara to Lake Nakuru National Park

1. Nakuru
   5h
   Early morning breakfast then check out for your drive to Nakuru with lunch on the way. Upon arrival at 5pm you will spend the night at the LANET MAT FAM hotel and have dinner there.

Day 5: Lake Nakuru to Lake Naivasha/Hell’s Gate

1. LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK
   3h · Admission ticket included
   You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7am to straight to the park. Its a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which form part of the Big five animals. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos . The game drive lasts 3 hours, after which you depart on a 1-hour drive to Naivasha at Hells Gate national park.
2. Hell's Gate National Park
   2h · Admission ticket included
   In Hell's Gate people have the option of doing a biking safari people do that here. We arrive at hells gate at 9 am and then we will finish at 12.30 . Head for lunch at a hotel.
   
   Later enjoy an evening boat on Lake Naivasha for 1 hour for hippo viewing and bird watching.

Day 6: Lake Naivasha to Namanga Border

1. Namanga
   3h
   Breakfast at the resort at 6:00am,then check out and thereafter proceed to Namanga which is the border town to get ready for the Tanzania part

Day 7: Namanga/Arusha to Manyara National Park

1. Lake Manyara
   7h · Admission ticket included
   Drive to Arusha and join a group to Manyara national park.
   
   Manyara is 2 hours drive from Arusha and it’s a small park that you can do game drives for 2 to 3 hours. Game drive after lunch until evening.
   
   Lake Manyara National Park is a protected area in Tanzania’s Arusha and Manyara Regions, situated between Lake Manyara and the Great Rift Valley. It is administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority, and covers an area of 325 km² including about 230 km² lake surface.

Day 8: Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park

1. 7h · Admission ticket included
   Breakfast then Leave for Serengeti. Arrive and start game drive enroute to the camp.
   
   More game drives afternoon until late evening
   
   The Serengeti is home to the world’s largest movement of animals, often called the “Great Migration.” More than 1.7 million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra, and 200,000 antelope make their way from the Ndutu region of the southern Serengeti northward through the whole length of the “endless plains” to Kenya’s Masai Mara

Day 9: Serengeti to Ngorongoro

1. 4h · Admission ticket included
   Early morning game drive in Serengeti until 1 pm.
   Depart after lunch for Ngorongoro
2. Ngorongoro Crater
   6h · Admission ticket included
   Game drive enroute to Ngorongoro and later arrive at a campsite to spend night there
   
   Ngorongoro is in northern Tanzania. It’s home to the vast, volcanic Ngorongoro Crater and “big 5” game (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino). Huge herds of wildebeests and zebras traverse its plains during their annual migration. Livestock belonging to the semi-nomadic Maasai tribe graze alongside wild animals. Hominin fossils found in the Olduvai Gorge date back millions of years.

Day 10: Ngorongoro to Tarangire National Park

1. 5h
   Breakfast, game drive then leave for Ngorongoro for a safari game drive with picnic lunch. Depart after 1 pm and start drive to Tarangire National park.
2. Tarangire National Park
   4h · Admission ticket included
   Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania‘s Manyara Region. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The Tarangire River is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry season. The Tarangire Ecosystem is defined by the long-distance migration of wildebeest and zebras. During the dry season thousands of animals concentrate in Tarangire National Park from the surrounding wet-season dispersal and calving areas.

Day 11: Tarangire to Arusha

1. Tarangire National Park
   4h · Admission ticket included
   Breakfast, then leave for game drive until 1pm and start the drive to Arusha.

Day 12: Arusha to Nairobi

1. Nairobi
   7h
   Breakfast, then Board a shuttle to arrive in Nairobi at around 3 pm.

Pickup details

In Kenya, you sleep in budget tented permanent camps but in Tanzania you sleep in campsites. We provide temporary pitched tents for sleeping and we also provide a chef to prepare your meals.. Bathrooms are shared.

• Not recommended for travelers with spinal injuries
• Not recommended for pregnant travelers
• Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels