12 Days Best of Kenya & Tanzania | Budget Camping Safari

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12 Days Best of Kenya & Tanzania | Budget Camping Safari

Tour Overview

It’s a budget safari whereby you join other travelers and stay in budget camps/campsite.

Please note, the safari is based on joining other people in the safari vehicle and staying in budget camps in Kenya while in Tanzania, accommodation is at the campsites. We do provide the tents and sleeping bags, flushing Toilets and hot showers both shared, also there is power within the campsite area to charge phones and cameras.

COST:

USD 2500 per person sharing (minimum 2 people per booking)

Inclusions in the cost:

Accommodation as per the itinerary
All Park entrance fees in Kenya and Tanzania
Bottled water
All meals as per itinerary
All Transport in a van with a pop up roof for easy game viewing in Kenya and a land cruiser in Tanzania
Our assistance at any point.
Pickup and drop off to your hotel

Exclusions in the cost

Tips
Drinks e.g. alcohol
Masai village @ USD 20
Balloon Safari @USD 450 per person

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Tour Itinerary

Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi
Pickup from the airport by our professional English speaking guide/driver and be taken to your hotel in Nairobi for the overnight on bed and breakfast basis.

Day 2: Nairobi to Masai Mara National Reserve

At 8 o’clock you will be picked up from your Nairobi Hotel and commence the drive to Maasai Mara via the great rift valley view point where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the rift valley and get to see the semi active volcanic mountain mt longonot and also other one’s like suswa and margret at a distance for a bout 10minuntes.Then you will drive for another 2 hours to narok town where you will have a break,have lunch at a local restaurant before embarking on your journey to your camp arriving late in the afternoon and rest. At 4.30pm you will embark for a 2 hour game drive in the park where you expect to see the herbivores, zeberas, antelopes, giraffes among many others, also we will be looking for the big cats which come out of their day slumber to start their evening hunts. A sunset picture is hard to miss especially if the skies are clear.6.30pm Return back to the camp for a sumptuous buffet dinner ending with good time for resting at tented camp

Masai Mara Reserve is the most popular tourism destination in Kenya. Located in the Great Rift Valley in primarily open grassland. Wildlife is most concentrated on the reserve’s western escarpment. It’s regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife viewing areas. The annual wildebeest’s migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November. Hardly can a visitor miss to spot the big five. The phenomenal wildebeest migration which is a spectacular event only seen in Masai Mara is the wonder of the world.

Dinner and overnight at the Camp.

Day 3: Full Day Game Drive in Masai Mara Reserve.

Spend the full day exploring Masai Mara in search of the Big Five, especially the big cats which are extremely elusive. You will also get a chance to visit the great Mara river where you will have an opportunity to see the hippo families and the Nile crocodiles. After you will be having a picnic lunch at the park under a Croton tree for shade overlooking the vast landscape and animals grazing. You will continue with the game viewing en route to you camp in the late afternoon.

Optional: In the evening, Visit the local Masai village for a Masai cultural tour at USD 20 per person. Learn about the Masai community and interact with the local Masai people. An overnight at the Masai village can be organized upon request.
Optional: A balloon safari at USD 380 per person (optional) can be organized early morning on this day then proceed with the normal program. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna – lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas and vultures.

Dinner and overnight at the Camp.

Day 4: Depart Masai Mara to Lake Nakuru National Park

Early breakfast at 6pm and thereafter do a short morning game drive, later leave for Nakuru national park, Lunch will be on your way there. Thereafter enter Nakuru national park in the afternoon and do game viewing where you will get a chance to see the endangered species of white rhino and also the Rothchild giraffes, also you will see flamingoes at the lake shores among other aquatic birds. Thereafter drive to your hotel, check in at the LANET MAT FAM hotel and have dinner there.

Day 5: Lake Nakuru to Lake Naivasha/Hell’s Gate

Depart at 7 am. You will start your trip to Lake Naivasha/Hell’s Gate National Park for a mini safari. In hells gate people have the option of doing a biking safari people do that here. We arrive at hell gate at 9 am and then we will finish at 12.30 . Head for lunch at the fisherman’s restaurant. . Enjoy an evening boat on Lake Naivasha for 1 hour for hippo viewing and bird watching.

Dinner and overnight at Astorian Grand Hotel.

Day 6: Lake Naivasha to Namanga Border

Breakfast at the resort and thereafter proceed to Namanga which is the border town to get ready for the Tanzania part.

Accommodation at the Namanga River hotel.

Day 7: Namanga/Arusha to Manyara National Park

Drive to Arusha and join a group to Manyara national park.

Manyara is 2 hours drive from Arusha and it’s a small park that you can do game drives for 2 to 3 hours. Game drive after lunch until evening.

Dinner and relax at the seronera campsite

Day 8: Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park

Breakfast then Leave for Serengeti. Arrive and start game drive enroute to the camp.

More game drives afternoon until late evening

Dinner and relax at the Seronera Campsite

Day 9: Serengeti to Ngorongoro

Early morning game drive in Serengeti until 1 pm.
Depart after lunch. Game drive enroute to ngorongoro and arrive at simba campsite to spend night there.

Dinner and relax at the Simba Campsite

Day 10: Ngorongoro to Tarangire National Park

Breakfast, game drive then leave for Ngorongoro for a safari game drive with picnic lunch. Depart after 1 pm and start drive to Tarangire National park.

Dinner and overnight at campsite

Day 11: Tarangire to Arusha

Breakfast, then leave for game drive until 1pm and start the drive to Arusha.

Dinner and overnight stay at Venus Premier Hotel

Day 12: Arusha to Nairobi

Breakfast, then Board a shuttle to arrive in Nairobi at around 3 pm.