8 DAYS KENYA AND TANZANIA COMBINED BUDGET GROUP SAFARI

You will be picked at the Airport or after breakfast our Representative will meet you to finalize and brief about the safari plan and introduce you to your guide, then depart for the Masai Mara National Reserve via the viewpoint at the Great Rift Valley. You will enjoy lunch in Narok. On arrival in the park, you will proceed on a game drive, tracking various animal species and birds with your driver/guide. You will arrive for dinner and your overnight stay at the Lodge or Campsite.

Your guide will pick you after breakfast to proceed on a full-day game drive within the reserve. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for game viewing in Kenya as it has an extensive road and track network which allows for close-range encounters, known as the 8th Wonder of the World and the best park to view the Big Cats. You will break for your picnic lunch at Hippo Pool, looking out for hippos and crocodiles. In the evening after the game drive, the guide will drop you at the Lodge for dinner and overnight.

Optional early morning Balloon Ride can be organized at an extra cost.

After breakfast in the camp, you will have an opportunity for a cultural tour known as a Maasai village tour, done at an extra cost, direct to the village. Later, depart for Nairobi, with lunch enroute, arriving in the evening, where you will be dropped at your Nairobi hotel or airport to proceed to your next destination.

After breakfast, we depart from Nairobi to Arusha on the AM shuttle bus, through the Namanga border for immigration formalities, arriving in the afternoon. We will take you to the Charity Hotel or similar, booked on bed and breakfast.

After breakfast, drive west on good tarmac road, across the gently rolling Maasai plains with scattered acacia trees; enroute you pass many Maasai bomas and Maasai in their colourful traditional dress. After about two hours of driving, you will arrive at Manyara Gate before proceeding with a game drive. The first habitat is the groundwater forest fed by springs seeping from the rift valley escarpment, with great sightings of hippos, elephants, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras, blue monkeys, and baboons. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge or Camp.

After breakfast, with a picnic lunch, drive west across the gentle rolling Ngorongoro highlands; enroute you pass zebra and wildebeest grazing alongside Maasai cattle and Maasai villages. Proceed to Serengeti, stopping at a picnic site for your lunch, then continue with an afternoon game drive with great sightings of lions, hippos, giraffes, leopards, reedbucks, and elephants. Dinner and overnight at the Camp/Lodge.

After breakfast the driver will pick you and proceed for a final game drive in Serengeti with your lunch enroute, then proceed to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, arriving in the evening. Ngorongoro Crater is one of the seven wonders of Africa. Dinner and overnight at the Lodge or camp.

After breakfast you will be picked by your guide and proceed to descend 2,000ft down into the crater, exploring and viewing animals until you arrive at the crater rim. Enjoy a picnic lunch at the crater, ascend, and drive to Arusha where you will be dropped at the Arusha Hotel booked on bed and breakfast.