DETAILED ITINERARY:

Day 1 – Lake Nakuru National Park
We depart our office in the morning and drive down the Escarpment to the floor of the Great Rift Valley to Lake Nakuru National Park for an afternoon game drive.  This small park covers 180 sq km and is home to warthogs, waterbuck, buffaloes, reedbucks, white and black rhinos, flamingoes and the occasional leopard.  We spend the night at a campsite just outside of town.

Day 2 – Masai Mara
We head south to Narok and the Masai Mara game reserve. Game-viewing en route to our semi-permanent Talek riverside campsite situated at the edge of the reserve. Here we have stand-up tents with beds for use as well as small wood cabins for those after a touch more comfort.

Day 3 – Masai Mara
Day spent exploring the reserve through early morning and late afternoon game drives. Optional visits to a Masai village or local school nearby. Overnight back at the campsite.
Animals to look out for include; giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, and wildebeest (annual migration between July and August). Elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos also exist in great numbers.  It is also common to see lions  though cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot.

Day 4 – Musoma
We leave the campsite and drive through the reserve viewing game en route as we proceed to the Tanzanian border at Isebania / Sirari.  We stop for the night in a quiet town on the shores of the immense Lake Victoria known as Musoma. The surrounding countryside is home to many different tribes including the Kuria, Jita, Luo, and Taturu.

Day 5 – Serengeti National Park
Leaving in the morning, we drive south and west to the western corridor of the great Serengeti via Ndabaka Gate with a picnic lunch enroute.  The afternoon is spent viewing game and we overnight at Ndabaka Gate.  We will spend three days appreciating the vastness of the Serengeti.

Day 6 – Serengeti National Park
Departing in the morning, you drive west game viewing through the western corridor of the Serengeti to the Central region of Seronera. Overnight at one of the campsites at Seronera.
Serengeti is Tanzania’s largest park covering 14,736 sq km. With a wildebeest population of about 2 million and several other hoofed species (which include zebra, Thomson’s gazelle, impala, topi, Grants gazelle, Kongoni, Eland, Kirk’s dik dik, klipspringer, roan, Oryx, oribi, waterbuck, buffalo, giraffe and warthog), it is sure to attract a string of prey such as lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena, golden jackals and bat eared foxes.

Day 7 – Serengeti National Park
A full day’s game viewing in the central Serengeti. Overnight at one of the campsites in Seronera.

Day 8 – Ngorongoro Conservation area
We view game as we drive southeast up into the magnificent Ngorongoro Conservation Area where we spend the night at the Simba (Lion) campsite on the crater rim (cold night). The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s biggest whole volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km and is arguably the most stunning arena.

Day 9 – Ngorongoro crater to Arusha
We start refreshingly early to descend into the crater to enjoy a full morning’s crater tour. The area contains over 25,000 large animals including 26 black rhinoceros. There are 7,000 wildebeests, 4,000 zebras, 3,000 eland and 3,000 Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles. The crater also has the densest known population of lions, numbering 62. Higher up, in the rainforests of the crater rim, are leopards, about 30 large elephants, mountain reedbuck and more than 4,000 buffalos, spotted hyenas, jackals, rare wild dogs, cheetahs, and other felines.
After lunch, we relocate you to Arusha town where we camp at a campsite or you have a choice of upgrading to your own hotel at an extra cost.

Day 10 – Nairobi
After a leisurely breakfast and a walk around Arusha town, which serves as the gateway to Tanzania’s national parks and game reserves, we travel back to Nairobi arriving in the afternoon hours.
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