11 Day Kenya & Tanzania Safari

You will be picked up in Nairobi early in the morning and drive to Lake Nakuru National Park, located across the equator and home to the Rift Valley's most famous lake. It is known throughout the world for its flamingos and is considered one of the World's Natural Wonders. Lake Nakuru is now a rhino sanctuary, home to more than 40 black and 60 white rhinos, but the flamingos have always been the main attraction here.

You will go on a trip to the Masai Mara National Reserve after breakfast. It is one of the few places on the planet where wildlife can still be found in the numbers that once roamed the African plains and forests. The Mara hosts the spectacular seasonal migration of many thousands of wildebeests, zebras, and attendant predators as the northern tip of the vast Serengeti ecosystem. You will arrive in time for lunch, followed by a game drive in the afternoon.

This is a full day with a flexible schedule and unlimited mileage in the Masai Mara. After breakfast, you will go on a full-day game drive with a packed lunch. The reserve is well known for its black-maned lions and abundant resident wildlife, and it's one of the few places where you can see the Big Five during a morning game drive. Many of the cheetahs are so tame that they seek shade from the hot sun under a vehicle.

This is another day in the famous Masai Mara with morning and afternoon game drives where you can do a balloon safari on this day or visit the Maasai cultural village in the mid-morning. Your guide will arrange everything just as you would like the day to be so that it can suit you well.

You'll start the day with an early breakfast before leaving the national reserve and heading to the border which is around a 4 hours drive. After crossing the border, you will drive to Tanzania's Serengeti National Park. It will be a long day of driving, but the game drives in and out of the parks are breathtaking.

This day will be spent in the well-known Serengeti National Park, which is home to the Great Migration. Serengeti means "endless plains" in Kiswahili, and this 6,900-square-mile (18,000-square-kilometer) park is home to over 2 million large animals, including over a million wildebeests, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras and Thomson's gazelles, as well as large predators such as lions, cheetahs, and hyenas. Many smaller animals, such as rock hyrax and monkeys, live in the area, as do nearly 500 bird species. After breakfast, you will spend the entire day in Serengeti National Park.

You will transfer to Ngorongoro, the world's Eighth Natural Wonder, in the morning. In the afternoon, you will descend to the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing in one of the most breathtaking places on the planet. With 2,000-foot-high walls and a crater floor that spans 102 square miles, the crater is a virtual Noah's Ark, home to almost every species of wildlife native to East Africa, including the endangered black rhinos. In fact, the crater has the world's highest concentration of wildlife. It has a river, several swamps, a soda lake that appears to be steam from the top, a forest, and open plains. You will drive up the steep road out of the crater and stay overnight at your accommodation.

After breakfast, you will drive to Tarangire National Park where you will spend the whole day. With a picnic lunch, you will enjoy this park with big baobab trees, tree-climbing lions and big herds of elephants. After the game drive, you will go to Arusha where you will spend the night.

You'll leave early in the morning for Amboseli National Park. You will check into your hotel and spend the afternoon relaxing or going on a game drive, depending on your preferences. Amboseli National Park is located south of Nairobi. The majority of the park consists of a dry, ancient lake bed and fragile grassland with patches of acacia woodland, with a number of small rocky volcanic hills in the southern area. The vegetation around the swamps Ol Okenya, Ol Tukai, and Enkongo Narok is lush, with yellow-barked acacias and phoenix palms.

You will have an early morning departure for good views of Mount Kilimanjaro before clouds gather over the summit, with a packed lunch provided. Despite its changing habitat, Amboseli National Park is possibly the best wildlife area in Africa for up-close encounters with elephants. Elephants feeding and bathing in the swamps, unmolested by poachers, must be one of the highlights of any safari.

You will wake up and have breakfast on your last day in Amboseli. Then leave for Nairobi with lunch at the famous Carnivore Restaurant. Later, you will transfer to your hotel or the airport.