12 Day Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safari

April 20, 2024

12-Day Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safari

Safari Overview

This 12-day Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safari is a combined wildlife safari. It will take you to two East African countries: Kenya and Tanzania. You will visit Masai Mara Game Reserve, Lake Nakuru National Park, and Amboseli National Park in Kenya. Also, You’ll visit Arusha, Lake Manyara National Park, Ngorongoro, and Serengeti National Parks in Tanzania. All these will award you a true African wildlife safari with plenty of game viewing.

Safari Highlights

Day 1: Arrival and Transfer to hotel in Kenya, Nairobi
Day 2: Transfer from Nairobi to Masai Mara Game Reserve
Day 3: Full Day in Masai Mara Game Reserve exploration
Day 4: Transfer from Masai Mara Game Reserve to Lake Nakuru National Park
Day 5: Transfer from Nairobi to Amboseli National Park
Day 6: Full-day wildlife excursion in Amboseli National Park
Day 7: Transfer from Amboseli National Park to Tanzania, Arusha, and then Lake Manyara
Day 8: Transfer from Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park
Day 9: Full day Game drive in Serengeti National Park
Day 10: Drive from Serengeti Plains to Ngorongoro crater
Day 11: Full Day Game drive in Ngorongoro National Park
Day 12: Transfer from Ngorongoro crater to Arusha/Nairobi

Detailed Itinerary of a 12-Day Kenya and Tanzania Wildlife Safari

Day 1: Arrival and transfer to your Hotel

Your guide from Safari Vacations and Travel Services will meet and greet you at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. Then, he will bring you to your Nairobi accommodation. Overnight stay at a hotel

Day 2: Transfer from Kenya, Nairobi to Masai Mara Game Reserve

This morning, we’ll travel to Masai Mara Wildlife Reserve in time for lunch before heading off on an afternoon game drive. Masai Mara, Africa’s crown gem, is home to a breathtaking assortment of species. These include lions, elephants, cheetahs, leopards, rhinos, giraffes, gazelles, and zebras. You’ll be able to see a pride of lions hunting their prey. Also, you may see a solitary leopard recovering its kill from the upper branches of an acacia tree. Again, expect a male wildebeest battling to entice females into their harem. Another thing you may see is a herd of elephants defending their young from opportunistic predators are all common sights in the Mara. Return to the Lodge/Camp for Dinner and Overnight.

Day 3: Kenya, Full Day in Masai Mara Game Reserve

With a visit to the Mara River, where the wildebeest migration occurs, a whole day is spent game viewing and enjoying this natural beauty. You’ll see both hippos and crocodiles here coexisting in the same waterways. For a good reason, the Masai Mara is Kenya’s most popular safari destination. It is a large reserve of infinite flat grassland linked by rivers, where wildlife’s most spectacular moments take place. Its main feature is the Wildebeest Migration. In this scenario, large herds of Wildebeest rush through the park, leaving a path of fearsome predators in their wake. During the migration, take a seat by the river and watch crocodiles and lions battle for stragglers from the clattering herds of wildebeest.

Day 4: Transfer from Masai Mara Reserve to Lake Nakuru National Park

After breakfast, drive to Lake Nakuru National Park. Here, you’ll embark on a game drive to see the world-famous pink flamingos. They’re in the shallow alkaline lake in Kenya’s Rift Valley, which covers 62 km2. The route from Nairobi to Nakuru descends the Kikuyu escarpment, providing spectacular views of the Kedong Valley and the mountains Suswa and Longonot. The scenery is beautiful, with sedge, marsh, and meadows interspersed with granite cliffs and outcrops. The park also became Kenya’s first rhino refuge in the late 1980s, and it is now home to both White and Black Rhinos. Lions, leopards, hippos, giraffes, and waterbucks are all at home in this one-of-a-kind park. Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.

Day 5: Transfer from Nairobi to Amboseli National Park

Return to Nairobi after an early breakfast. Lunch at Carnivore restaurant will include a feast of game meats. After lunch, drive to Amboseli National Park, which is home to the proud Masai tribe. It also hosts the legendary everlasting snows of Mt. Kilimanjaro and is noted for its breathtaking vistas of the top (weather permitting) and enormous herds of elephants. Enjoy some game viewing on your journey to your lodge or camp for dinner and an overnight stay.

Day 6: Kenya, Full day in Amboseli National Park

A full day in Amboseli, with game drives at 0630 and 1600 hours. Amboseli National Park is one of Kenya’s most prominent national parks. It is at the base of Africa’s tallest peak, Kilimanjaro, 150 miles southeast of Nairobi, near the Tanzanian border. Mount Kilimanjaro, with its snow-capped peak soaring above the clouds, dominates every element of Amboseli. Dinner and overnight stay as described above.

Day 7: Transfer from Amboseli to Arusha, then Lake Manyara

After breakfast, go to Tanzania’s Namanga border. After clearing immigration customs at the Namanga Border Customs clearance, we proceed to Arusha Town for lunch and then to Lake Manyara National Park. in this park, you can frequently spot flocks of baboons roaming along the shoreline of succulent woodland. This park is most known for its tree-climbing lion, which may be seen stretched over acacia tree branches. Dinner and overnight at your preferred lodge/camp.

Day 8: Transfer from Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, drive to the Serengeti National Park through the Olduvai Gorge, often known as the “Land of Humanity” because of the prehistoric residents’ remains discovered there. Arrive at your Serengeti resort in time for lunch before heading out on an afternoon wildlife drive. Overnight stay at the Lodge.

Day 9: Tanzania Full day Game drive in Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, proceed on a morning wildlife drive amid the spectacular beauty of the Serengeti. After lunch, go on an afternoon game drive. On this day, you’ll also see the big 5 animals in the national park. Dinner and overnight stay as described above.

Day 10: Transfer from Serengeti Plains to Ngorongoro crater

You will drive to the legendary Ngorongoro Crater, which offers simply stunning vistas. Continue along the rim to meet a team of guides, a ranger, Masai, and donkeys. Begin a wonderful stroll across this unspoiled Masai land. The trail winds around the rim of the crater, passing through open woods and acacia groves. To your right are breathtaking vistas of the crater bottom below, and to your left are the Serengeti’s infinite plains. A very modest tent is constructed in a distant spot where one of the highland volcanoes’ key rivers enters the crater. Dinner and lodging at the lodge.

Day 11: Full Day Game drive in Ngorongoro National Park

You may expect to see lions, elephants, zebras, hippos, jackals, rhinos, antelopes, and many birds on an early morning game drive (with a picnic lunch). Birds you’ll spot here include the Crater Lake eagle, vulture, and flamingos, as well as the stork, bats, gigantic vulture, holy ibis, kori bustard, blacksmith plover, long-necked heron, and cow eagle. In the afternoon, you will go on a crater rim walking safari. Dinner and lodging at the lodge.