12 Days Kenya and Tanzania Group Joining Safari

Your guide meets you at the airport or your hotel for breakfast and a full briefing before you set off for the Mara through the Great Rift Valley. You stop at the escarpment viewpoint on the way and arrive in time for lunch, with an afternoon game drive to follow: golden grassland dotted with acacia, wildebeest and zebra moving across it, and lion, leopard, cheetah and rhino to look for until late evening. Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge.

You leave camp with picnic lunch boxes and spend the whole day in the reserve. Rolling savannah grassland and a dense track network allow for close-range viewing and photography that few parks can match. Lunch at the hippo pool, watching for hippo and crocodile. Dinner and overnight at the lodge or camp.

An optional Maasai village visit after breakfast for an additional fee, then the drive north to Lake Nakuru National Park, arriving for dinner and overnight at your hotel or lodge.

An early breakfast, then into the park. Nakuru was established to protect endangered species and holds both black and white rhino, alongside colobus monkey, leopard, Rothschild’s giraffe and a wide range of plains antelope; the bird list runs to around 400 species. Late in the afternoon you drive on to Naivasha, arriving in the evening for dinner and overnight.

An early start and a short drive to Hell’s Gate for registration. You can cycle or drive through it, as this is one of the few Kenyan parks where you are permitted on foot among the wildlife. Two extinct volcanoes, Olkaria and Hobley’s, sit within the park, along with obsidian left behind by cooled lava. The gorge itself runs between red cliffs past the volcanic plugs known as Fischer’s Tower and Central Tower, and a smaller gorge to the south drops to hot springs. Hot lunch on the road afterwards, then the long drive to Amboseli, arriving in the evening for dinner and overnight.

A full day of game drives with picnic lunch boxes. The park’s swamps hold elephant and hippo year round, with plains game, antelope and a heavy concentration of birds around them, and Kilimanjaro behind when the cloud allows. Dinner and overnight at the lodge or camp.

You leave Amboseli after breakfast for the Namanga border with lunch en route. Once through immigration the road continues to Arusha, arriving during the day to check into your hotel on a bed and breakfast basis.

The drive to Lake Manyara includes lunch on the way, and you arrive in time for a game drive through the park. Tree-climbing lions and large flamingo flocks are what it is known for, though the groundwater forest also holds elephant, buffalo and blue monkey. Dinner and overnight at your lodge or campsite.

You leave Manyara after breakfast with a game drive en route and a picnic lunch on the way. The road runs on through the plains near Seronera with further game viewing before you reach your lodge or camp for dinner and overnight.

A final morning of game viewing as you work east towards the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, lunch taken on the road, arriving in the afternoon. Dinner and overnight at the camp or lodge on the rim.

Down into the crater for the morning, across the grassland, forest and lake habitats packed inside the caldera. Picnic lunch on the crater floor, then the ascent and the drive to Arusha, arriving in time to check into your hotel.

Breakfast, then transfer to the shuttle terminal for the morning bus to Nairobi. The crossing takes most of the day and you are dropped at your hotel or the airport on arrival in the afternoon.