12 Days Kenya & Tanzania Luxury Flying Safari | Out of Africa Experience
Nairobi | Mara North Conservancy | Central Serengeti | Ngorongoro Crater | Arusha
Day 1 – 2: Nairobi
Day Notes
Met on arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport ex your flight and transfer to Karen Blixen cottages where you are booked for an overnight on bed and breakfast
- Overnight: Karen Blixen Coffee Garden & Cottages
- Basis: Bed and Breakfast
Day 2: Masai Mara Conservancy
Day Notes
After breakfast transfer to Wilson airport for your morning flight to Masai Mara. On arrival at Mara North Airstrip, our professional guide will pick you and enjoy a game drive enroute as you head to the camp arriving in time for lunch and check in. Later in the afternoon, enjoy an enthralling game-viewing drive, spotting lions, cheetahs and other spectacular predators till late evening within the Mara North Conservancy. Dinner and overnight will be at Karen Blixen Tented Camp
- Overnight: Karen Blixen Camp
- Basis: AI: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 3: Mara North Conservancy
Day Notes
After breakfast, proceed on a morning game drive to the world-renowned Leopard Gorge made famous by the BBC Big Cat Diary. Before or after lunch, there is time for a camp eco-walk, a swim, armchair game-viewing with drinks or why not book a spa treatment or a visit to our Maasai Manyatta? In the evening enjoy a night game drive in Mara North Conservancy.
- Overnight: Karen Blixen Camp
- Basis: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 4: Mara North Conservancy
Day Notes
Option 1
Early morning game viewing drive; Try to find the early carnivores as they rush back to their hideout after a busy night of hunting, before the sun catches with them. Return to the camp for a rest, time also to enjoy the swimming pool. Afternoon another game viewing drive awaits you. You can also opt to join the local Masai women who will share their knowledge with you in bead work.
Option 2
Rise before dawn for a spectacular Hot Air Balloon ride followed by a bubbly bush breakfast (optional at extra cost). OR proceed for an early morning game drive. Return to the camp for lunch then later set out on a late afternoon game spotting safari experience in the conservancy and get the opportunity to spot Africa’s ‘Big Five’ – lion, leopard, elephant, rhino and buffalo.
- Overnight: Karen Blixen Camp
- Basis: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 5 – 6: Mara North Conservancy
Day Notes
Full day at Mara North Conservancy with all game drives conducted by the open camp vehicle on shared basis. All meals and overnight will be at the camp on all inclusive.
- Overnight: Karen Blixen Camp
- Basis: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 6: Central Serengeti
Day Notes
After breakfast transfer to the local airstrip for your morning flight to Seronera airstrip centrally located in Serengeti National Park and undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world. The park is unequalled for its natural beauty and boasts of the greatest concentration of plains game anywhere in the world. With its wide-open spaces, bright blue skies and creature-filled landscape, over the next days we will discover why the fabled Serengeti typifies the dream of “Old Africa.” The camp vehicle will will pick you upon arrival and with a game drive enroute, you will be transferred to the camp for check in and lunch. Afternoon game drive will be followed by dinner and overnight.
- Overnight: Lemala Ewanjan Tented Camp
- Basis: AI: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 7: Central Serengeti
Day Notes
Option 1
After breakfast proceed on a full-day game-viewing drive-in search of the myriad species of game that are resident here. If you are lucky, you can witness the kill in action, moment by moment, right in front of your unbelieving eyes! Later drive back to the camp for lunch before proceeding on another exciting game drive where you can expect to see the famous ‘Big 5’if lucky. Dinner and overnight at your camp or similar
Option 2
Rise before dawn for a spectacular Hot Air Balloon ride followed by a bubbly bush breakfast (optional at extra cost) with an evening game drive scheduled for the day. Balloon flights typically take off at 6.30am. Passengers arrive in time to watch the balloon inflation as the pilots torch the colored fabric to life. The flight duration is usually one hour following the days prevailing winds. A Balloon flight allows passengers to float over the world’s most spectacular game reserve, and offers a magical bird’s eye view of the wildlife the Mara is famous for. On landing, the balloon crew sets up a full champagne breakfast complete with “Bloody Mary’s” on the Mara plains. Each passenger receives a certificate from their pilot as a special memoir of this flight. (all this is extra)
Meals and overnight at your camp/Lodge
- Overnight: Lemala Ewanjan Tented Camp
- Basis: AI: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 8: Central Serengeti
Day Notes
Full day game drives at Serengeti with all meals and overnight at the camp
- Overnight: Lemala Ewanjan Tented Camp
- Basis: AI: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 9: Ngorongoro Crater
Day Notes
After breakfast transfer to the local airstrip for your morning flight to Ngorongoro. You will land at Lake Manyara airstrip and transfer by road to Ngorongoro Conservation area, the largest intact caldera in the world. Its enduring charm stems from its overwhelming physical beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. On arrival check in at your camp/lodge where lunch will be served. Afternoon is spent at leisure or book a local excursion at an extra cost. Dinner and overnight at your lodge/camp
- Overnight: Lemala Ngorongoro Tented Camp
- Basis: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 10 – 11: Ngorongoro Crater
Day Notes
After breakfast, pick up packed lunches and descend into the crater floor for a day tour of the crater. Lunch will be at one of the designated sites. The overwhelming physical beauty and the abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor will for sure capture your imagination. Later return to back to your camp/lodge for dinner and overnight
- Overnight: Lemala Ngorongoro Tented Camp
- Basis: All Inclusive – Bed and All Meals
Day 11 – 12: Arusha
Day Notes
After breakfast transfer to Lake Manyara airstrip for your flight to Arusha. On arrival you will be picked by our representative and transfer to your town hotel where you are booked on bed and breakfast
- Overnight: Rivertrees Country Inn
- Basis: B&B: Bed and Breakfast
Day 12: End of Itinerary
Day Notes
After breakfast, and depending on your international flight, enjoy your serene surroundings and later drop off at Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight back home
Basis: B&B: Bed and Breakfast
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