10 Days Kenya and Tanzania Combined Luxury Safari

Our Kenya Tanzania safari continues to Lake Nakuru national park. Breakfast then depart the camp for Lake Nakuru National park arriving in good time for lunch at a Lodge. Full afternoon game drives followed by dinner and overnight stay at Sarova Lion Hill camp. Lake Nakuru National Park was first established as a bird sanctuary, before being declared a national park. Lake Nakuru hosts over 400 different bird species, including many water birds. Bird species include the Great White Pelican, African Spoonbill, Yellow-billed Stork, and Long-crested Eagle.

Lake Nakuru National Park is known as an important wildlife sanctuary for some of Africa's endangered species, especially black and white rhinos, and Rothschild's giraffes. The game reserve is also home to lions, waterbuck, buffalo and baboons, which we keep an eye out for on our game drive. Dinner and overnight at Sarova Lion Hill camp (Travel distance – approx. 4 hrs drive)

Our 3rd safari destination in our Kenya Tanzania combined luxury safari is Masai Mara National Reserve. Breakfast the exit the park and drive to your next game viewing destination in Kenya, the world-famous Masai Mara Game Reserve. We arrive at our camp in Masai Mara and have lunch, before embarking on a thrilling afternoon game drive in one of the finest wildlife havens on earth. Then it's time for dinner at the camp. Retire to your spacious rooms and fall asleep to the sounds of the African bush. Dinner and overnight stay at Entim Mara camp or similar

We spend the 2 full day’s game viewing in Kenya's top game park the Masai Mara National Reserve. Our morning and afternoon game drives take us in search of Africa's Big Five and the plethora of other wildlife inhabiting this vast Kenyan game reserve.

On clear days, the Mara offers fantastic orange tinged sunsets well-worth capturing on camera. The Mara reserve is 1510 sq km of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers in Kenya. One glimpse is enough to explain its appeal; it is typical open savannah, with a mass of amazing wildlife. Wherever you go in the vast Masai Mara you will see plenty of wildlife, such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topi, impala, wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos are also found in great numbers. It is also common to see lions either basking after a heavy meal, or surveying the plains for their next meal. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot, but reasonably common. The ultimate action here is, without doubt, the annual wildebeest exodus, the Great Migration, in July and August when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of lusher grass before turning south again in October. Hot-air balloon trips are an entirely outstanding way of seeing the savannah plains teeming with wildlife. These Masai Mara balloon trips can be arranged at extra cost.

Day 6 of our Kenya and Tanzania safari, you will have breakfast at the camp, after breakfast your guide will transfer you to the airstrip to board a flight to Serengeti Seronera – on arrival our guide will meet you and proceed to Kubu Kubu Lodge or similar for lunch – afternoon game drive in Serengeti national park then return to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay

Day spent viewing game in the vast Serengeti plains morning and afternoon game drives are offered, Dinner and overnight at Kubu Kubu Lodge or similar. Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park

It is the Migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous. Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back. The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants.

We view the game as we drive southeast up into the magnificent Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Stopover at The Olduvai Gorge with picnic lunch en-route Over at the Olduvai where we spend the night at the Melia Ngorongoro Lodge or similar at the crater rim.

The Olduvai Gorge cuts through rock beds layered in time sequence from 2 million years ago to the present and it is here where humanoid bones have been found dating back to over 1.75 million years including a direct ancestor of modern man. Fossil footprints (over three million years old) have also been found here and are the most ancient footprints yet discovered. There is an excellent site museum where you can explore the diggings with a guide and it is also a great place to view birds such as the purple grenadier, red and yellow barbet, speckle fronted weaver and slaty colored boubou.

Breakfast then descend into the crater for a full day crater tour with packed lunches . Ascend the crater rim for dinner and overnight stay at Melia Ngorongoro Lodge or similar.

The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ a visit to the crater is a main drawcard for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is home of Ngorongoro Crater. It was formed some 2.5 million years ago from a volcanic mountain sinking due to inactivity, and was initially thought to be higher than Tanzania’s famous Kilimanjaro. The crater has evolved into a unique and integral part of Tanzania’s eco-system. The crater is actually a caldera, measures 22.5 km’s across and the rim walls stand 600m high. Views from within and from the rim are breathtaking (as can be seen from the picture). The crater houses 30,000 animals and a large variety of birds, which rarely move from the area due to the availability of water through wet and dry seasons.