Wild About Africa

SAMPLE TOUR PROGRAM

Day 01: (Friday) Arrival and Overnight in Arusha
Arrive at Kilimanjaro International airport, flight TBA. Meet and greet and transfer to your city hotel in Arusha for overnight stay. Lunch and Dinner on own arrangements; pay direct. Overnight at Four Points by Sheraton Arusha booked on Bed and Breakfast.
Meals: No included meals today

Day 02: (Saturday)
Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, drive to Lake Manyara National park and enjoy morning and afternoon game drives, the park is well known for its tree-climbing lions, elephants and large troops of baboons. The park is also home to an amazing variety of birds and animals considering its small size. Lake Manyara, the shallow alkaline water mass named after the park, covers two thirds of the park’s total area of 330 Kilometers square.  Lunch in the hotel and then enjoy afternoon game drive in the park.
Dinner and Overnight at Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 03: (Sunday) Lake Manyara National Park to Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast, drive to the Ngorongoro Crater rim via the Olduvai area. You can visit a Maasai Village in the Olduvai area (optional activity: extra  cost.) The Maasai people who inhabit Kenya and northern Tanzania are semi-nomadic. Traditionally, they were pastoralists famous for their fearsome reputations as warriors and cattle-rustlers.
In late afternoon, proceed to your camp located on the crater rim for relaxation and overnight stay.
The world-famous Ngorongoro Crater is at the eastern edge of the Serengeti in northern Tanzania. Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera of the once-volcanic Ngorongoro, shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth, ringed with towering walls and sheltering forests, grasslands, fresh springs, and a large soda lake.
Dinner and Overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner

Day 04: (Monday) Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Serengeti National Park
Breakfast at the lodge and depart for Serengeti National Park, The Park is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson's gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, Kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle
Dinner and Overnight at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 05: (Tuesday) Full Day in Serengeti National Park
Full day is spent viewing the spectacle of predator versus prey. Golden-manned lion prides feast on the abundance of plain grazers. Solitary leopards haunt the acacia trees lining the Seronera River, while a high density of cheetahs prowls the southeastern plains. Almost uniquely, all three African jackal species occur here, alongside the spotted hyena and a host of more elusive small predators, ranging from the insectivorous aardwolf to the beautiful serval cat
Dinner and Overnight at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 06: Wednesday) Serengeti National Park, Cross to Kenya via Isabenia border, Masai Mara Game Reserve
Breakfast at the lodge and depart for the border at Isabenia cross and continue to the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Picnic Lunch after entering Kenya.
Optional Afternoon visit to a Masai Cultural Village: This afternoon, join the Masai dancers donning their African regalia and the jingling on their feet, flow by the rhythm of African beats and dance to their tunes that will leave you refreshed. Cost is $25 per person. (Price guaranteed only with advanced booking)
Masai Mara Game Reserve: The Reserve, the Land of Big Cat Diary and Disney’s African Cats, is considered a "must see" for any new and repeat visitor traveling on a safari to Kenya. It is on the "to do" list for many Kenyans and visitors alike because the park is graced by a wide variety of unique and exquisite wildlife and birds. Masai Mara is the best place to see the "Big Five" animals (elephants, lions, leopards, rhinos and buffalo).                                                                                                                                                                Home of the Great Wildebeest Migration: The location of the ’Annual Great Wildebeest Migration’ – one of the natural wonders of the world – is a gloriously beautiful, wildlife-rich savannah landscape. The annual wildebeest migration from June to October consists of over 1.5 million wildebeests, gazelles gnus and Zebras roar converge at the border of Tanzania’s Serengeti and Kenya’s Masai Mara making a spectacular entrance in a surging column of life that stretches from horizon to horizon, before finally plunging wildly into the raging waters of the Mara River, creating a frenzy as the fight against swift currents and waiting hungry crocodiles takes priority. Those that survive crocodiles and raging waters cross over to the patiently waiting predators such as hyenas, jackals, leopards and lions for another survival battle.
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 07: (Thursday) Full Day in Masai Mara Game Reserve
Breakfast in the hotel and depart for a full day game drive with picnic lunch boxes or enjoy morning and afternoon game drives in Masai Mara Game Reserve with lunch break in between the game drives.
Optional Masai Mara Balloon Ride: Early morning wake up at 5:30am and transfer to balloon launch site where you will gather for takeoff. Enjoy early morning ballooning over the plains, getting a bird’s eye view of the game below as the sun creeps slowly over the horizon. After approximately one hour aloft, the balloon lands and we transfer to a bush breakfast site. The smell of bacon, sausages and eggs drift on the breeze as we sample exotic Kenyan fruits and homemade pastries and, if you wish, glasses of bubbly to toast our flight, a tradition initiated by the Montgolfier brothers. Cost Per Person: $480. (Price guaranteed with advanced booking)
Dinner and overnight at Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 08: (Friday) Masai Mara Game Reserve to Lake Nakuru National Park
After breakfast drive to Lake Nakuru National Park heading straight for a game drive. The park has Kenya’s largest population of rhinos. The park is home to Lion Hills, Makalia waterfalls, unique vegetation, a picturesque landscape, yellow acacia woodlands and a wide range of birds most famous being Flamingoes and Pelicans.
The park is also as an ecologically significant region having been named a RAMSAR Site and Important Bird Area. Covering 73 square miles (188 square kilometers), Lake Nakuru is world famous for flamingos. The National Park was created to protect its stunning flocks of lesser flamingo which literally turn its shores pink. These are the millions of flamingoes seeking their food in the salty deep-green waters of Lake Nakuru. The park is indeed a birds’ paradise hosting over 500 species.
Animals include: Thomson gazelles, Grants gazelles, impalas, waterbucks, giraffes, buffaloes or even black rhino, leopards and about 450 birds species in total. Buffalo, leopard, lion, Rothschild Giraffe, White and Black Colobus monkey are plentiful in the forest. The bush lands offer eland, Steinbok, impala, Chandler’s Reedbuck and dik dik, whilst rock hyrax and klipspringer occupy the cliffs and escarpment.
Dinner and Overnight at Lake Elmenteita Serena Camp
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Day 09: (Saturday) NAIROBI
Breakfast in the hotel and drive to Nairobi where you will enjoy the comfort of the Tamarind Tree Hotel. Farewell Dinner at the famous Carnivore restaurant. Overnight Nairobi
Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Day 10: (Sunday) INTERNATIONAL DEPARTURE
Staff transfers you to the airport for your international departure.

THIS PRIVATE Tour Includes:
TANZANIA & KENYA: Transfers pertaining to the tour using Safari LAND CRUISER 4 X 4'S with pop top roofs for sightseeing (Due to limited space in safari vehicles, please pack your belongings in a soft-sided bag. Traditional suitcases with rigid frames or hard plastic sides should not be used), hotels, lodges and camps (based on double occupancy), meals as outlined in the program. Park entrance fees to parks visited in the program. Drinking water throughout the game drivers with the limit of 2 bottles per person, per day. English speaking driver/guides.

Not included inTanzania and Kenya:
AIR, Items of a personal nature such as entry visa, tips, laundry, telephone, beverages at any time except water on game drives as noted in included. Anything not specifically mentioned as included.

Tour Cost:
Tour Cost varies with season and number of travelers.
Discounts for children 06 thru 11 years of age
PLEASE SEND YOUR DATES OF TRAVEL, NUMBER OF TRAVELERS (and if any are children include their age at time of travel)  FOR A QUOTE

Tours must be booked at least 45 days prior to arrival.

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