13-Day Private Wildlife Safari Tour of Kenya and Tanzania

Our 13 days to Explore Kenya and Tanzania wildlife safari exposes you to some of the best game parks in the region with abundant wildlife and diverse landscape. Tour starts from Nairobi city and heads to Samburu, Lake Nakuru and Masai Mara, Lake Victoria, Serengeti, Ngorongoro crater, and Tarangire national park Tanzania. While on this lodge and tented camps accommodated safari tour you will have very close encounters with the wildlife population of the region. With the help of your safari guide, you can easily spot lions, cheetahs, herds of elephants, leopards, buffalo, rhinos, and several other jungle beasts on your Kenya Tanzania Explore wildlife safari.

We are well packaged to ensure clients booked on this tour get a rewarding wildlife experience by offering unlimited game drives.

Our 13 days to Explore Kenya and Tanzania wildlife safari exposes you to some of the best game parks in the region with abundant wildlife and diverse landscape. Tour starts from Nairobi city and heads to Samburu, Lake Nakuru and Masai Mara, Lake Victoria, Serengeti, Ngorongoro crater, and Tarangire national park Tanzania. While on this lodge and tented camps accommodated safari tour you will have very close encounters with the wildlife population of the region. With the help of your safari guide, you can easily spot lions, cheetahs, herds of elephants, leopards, buffalo, rhinos, and several other jungle beasts on your Kenya Tanzania Explore wildlife safari.

We are well packaged to ensure clients booked on this tour get a rewarding wildlife experience by offering unlimited game drives.

Itinerary

Day 1: Nairobi – Samburu National Reserve

Stop At: Samburu National Reserve, Samburu National Reserve, Samburu District, Rift Valley Province
Our Kenya and Tanzania wildlife safari starts from your Nairobi hotel at 0700 hrs – Briefing session with Asili Adventure safaris Tour Officer then start off our journey towards the majestic Mt. Kenya en route to the open Savannah of Samburu National Reserve. Lunch at Samburu Sopa Lodge – Afternoon game drives followed by dinner and overnight stay at Samburu Sopa Lodge
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Samburu Sopa Lodge

Day 2: Samburu National Reserve

Stop At: Samburu National Reserve, Nairobi Kenya
Full day spent exploring the park. Morning and afternoon game drives are offered – Dinner and overnight stay at Samburu Sopa Lodge The highlights of Samburu game reserve is the spectacular scenic beauty, rivers and forests. It is an area where the local people have a rich and colorful heritage. The reserves have numerous permanent springs and a wealth of wildlife which includes leopard, hippo, elephant, lion, reticulated giraffe, gravy’s zebra and crocodile in the EwasoNyiro river. Over 365 species of birds have been identified in the sanctuaries.
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Samburu Sopa Lodge

Day 3: Samburu-Lake Nakuru National Park.

Stop At: Lake Nakuru National Park Kenya
We depart the lodge soon after breakfast and continue with our Kenya and Tanzania wildlife safari. proceed to Lake Nakuru National park. Lunch en route followed by an afternoon game drives as the pick lake. The park covers 180 sq km and is home to warthogs, waterbuck, buffaloes, reedbucks, and the occasional leopard. White and black rhinos were introduced to the park some years ago and you will find white rhino at the southern end. The park has also retained its reputation as an ornithologists’ delight with more than 400 species of bird found here.
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Flamingo Hill camp

Day 4: Lake Nakuru – Masai Mara National Reserve

Stop At: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Rift Valley Province
Our 3rd safari destination in our Kenya and Tanzania wildlife safari is the famous Masai Mara National reserve. Depart the camp soon after breakfast and drive via the scenic floor of the Great Rift Valley to Masai Mara. Lunch at the camp before proceeding for evening game drives. Dinner and overnight stay at Enkorok Mara Camp
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Enkorok Mara Camp

Day 5: Masai Mara National Reserve

Stop At: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Rift Valley Province
Explore the Masai Mara, with its abundance of large mammals and diverse birdlife. Big cats are a very prominent feature of the Masai Mara and also include Cheetahs and Leopards, both of which are fairly straightforward to find here. We are definitely at ‘Predator Central’ here and there can be few, if any wildlife spectacles anywhere in the world that can rival the tension, drama and emotion of a Mara crossing. As many as a million wildebeest and 200,000 zebra attempt this epic journey each year. Watching as thousands of wildebeest and zebra gather at a crossing point you can almost feel the pressure build on the animals at the front as they consider the right time to attempt to cross the dangerous waters of the crocodile-infested Mara River. It is, however, a time of plenty for the gigantic Nile Crocodiles that live in the river and lie in wait as hundreds of thousands of animals head north from the Serengeti Plains to feed on the lush Mara grasslands.
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Enkorok Mara Camp

Day 6: Masai Mara National Reserve

Stop At: Maasai Mara National Reserve, Maasai Mara National Reserve, Rift Valley Province
We will spend the day exploring the Masai Mara, with its abundance of large mammals and diverse birdlife. We have the option to either have full and complete days out in the field when lunch can be served out on the savannah or we can return to camp for lunch.
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Enkorok Mara camp

Day 7: Masai Mara – Lake Victoria

Stop At: Lake Victoria
We leave the camp soon after breakfast and proceed to Tanzania via Isebania Border – proceed to Spekebay lodge where you spend time taking a boat ride. Speke Bay Lodge is located on the south-eastern shore of Lake Victoria in Tanzania, East Africa. It is 15 kilometres from the Serengeti National Park. Speke Bay is part of Speke Gulf, named after the famous explorer John Hanning Speke, who, in 1858, discovered Lake Victoria to be the source of the Nile. Embraced by savannah, the Lodge looks like a small village, stretched out along the shores of the lake
Duration: 12 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Speke Bay lodge

Day 8: Lake Victoria – Serengeti National Park

Stop At: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti National Park
Enter Serengeti via Ndabaka gate for a full day game drive. We drive south and west to the western corridor of the great Serengeti via Ndabaka Gate with a picnic lunch. Dinner and overnight stay
Duration: 18 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Mawe Tented camp

Day 9: Serengeti National Park

Stop At: Serengeti National Park, Serengeti National Park
Full day spent exploring the park with morning and afternoon game drives. Meals and overnight stay at Mawe Tented camp or similar. Serengeti is Africa’s most famous and Tanzania’s largest park covering 14,736 sq km and is adjoining with the Masai Mara National Reserve in Kenya. With a wilderbeest population of about 2 million and several other hoofed species (which include zebra, Thomson’s gazelle, impala, topi, Grants gazelle, Kongoni, Eland, Kirk’s dik-dik, klipspringer, roan, Oryx, oribi, waterbuck, buffalo, giraffe and warthog), the Serengeti is sure to attract a string of prey such as lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena, golden jackals and bat-eared foxes. Elephants are relatively scarce and the few remaining black rhinoceros are restricted to the Moru Koppies area. Serengeti also offers rewarding bird viewing with ostrich and kori bustard being common, a variety of larks, finches, and raptors can be seen but the most distinctive small bird is the lilac-breasted roller.
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Mawe tented camp

Day 10: Serengeti-Ngorongoro Via Olduvai Gorge

Stop At: Olduvai Gorge, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania
Morning game drives then return to the camp for breakfast proceed south to the magnificent Ngorongoro crater via the historical Olduvai Gorge whilst game watching only interrupted by a picnic lunch en-route. Dinner and overnight stay at Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge or similar The Olduvai Gorge cuts through rock beds layered in time sequence from 2 million years ago to the present. It is here where humanoid bones have been found dating back to over 1.75 million years including a direct ancestor of modern man. Fossil footprints (over three million years old) have also been found here and are the most ancient footprints yet discovered. There is an excellent site museum where you can explore the diggings
Duration: 1 day

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge

Day 11: Ngorongoro Crater Tour

Stop At: Ngorongoro Crater, Ngorongoro Conservation Area Tanzania
Early morning breakfast then leave with picnic lunch for a full day crater tour. You will be taken 2000ft down the crater by a 4wheel drive vehicle, explore the crater before ascending back to the Hhando Coffee Lodge / Ngorongoro Farm House/ Farm House Valley for dinner and overnight. The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ a visit to the crater is the main drawcard for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA) is home of Ngorongoro Crater
Duration: 12 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Ngorongoro Farm house

Day 12: Ngorongoro – Tarangire National Park

Stop At: Babati, tanzania, Tarangire National Park 3134 Tanzania
Breakfast and drive to Tarangire national park – lunch then proceed for afternoon game drives. Dinner and overnight stay at a Tarangire Roika Tented Camp. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem – a smorgasbord for predators – and the one place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared Oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed
Duration: 12 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
• Lunch
• Dinner
Accommodation included: Tarangire Roika tented camp

Day 13: Tarangire- Arusha

Stop At: Arusha, Arusha, Arusha Region
Breakfast at leisure then drive to Arusha to arrive by 1200 hrs.
Duration: 5 hours

Meals included:
• Breakfast
No accommodation included on this day.