11 days Kenya Tanzania combined budget safari

11 days Kenya Tanzania combined budget safari

Tour Information
Highlights : Maasai Mara migration ,Hot air Balloon safari , Lake Nakuru National park, Amboseli Kilimanjaro views,Ngorogoro crater tour,Olduvai Gorge and Lake Manyara Serengeti
Description :  10 days Kenya /Tanzania safari covering Masai Mara. Lake Nakuru and Amboseli parks in Kenya ,Tanzanias famous parks in the Northern circuit . Best safari for wildebeest migration /Hot air balloon safari , Scenic mountains, bird watching. Airport transfers included
Accommodations: Tented camps in Kenya and Pitched Tents while in Tanzania
Transportation ; Custom made 4×4 Tour Vans in Kenya and Land cruisers while in Tanzania
Group Size: Small group safari maximum 6 pax per vehicle – guaranteed window seat
Day 1: Nairobi – Masai Mara

After breakfast you will be picked up from your hotel at 0730 am drive west for Masai Mara Game Reserve with lunch en route arriving in time for an evening game drive. Masai Mara game reserve is Kenya’s finest wildlife sanctuary. Including migrants, well over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. Although July, August, and September are the months when the Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeest and zebra, there is also resident wildlife year round. The famous Masai tribesmen live very close to the game reserve. Dinner and overnight at the camp (with hot showers and flush toilets).

Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation: Miti Mingi Eco Camp Mid-range tented camp located just outside Masai Mara NR
Meals & drinks: Lunch & dinner (Breakfast not included) Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 2: Masai Mara Full Day

After breakfast we will proceed on a full day  game viewing within the reserve. The landscape here is scenic savannah grassland on rolling hills. The reserve is the best park for game in Kenya as it has an extensive road and track network which allows for close range viewing and photography. Break for your picnic lunch at the hippo pool, looking out for hippos and crocodile. Dinner and overnight at the camp.

Main destination: Masai Mara National Reserve
Accommodation: Miti Mingi Eco Camp Mid-range tented camp located just outside Masai Mara NR
Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 3: Masai Mara – Lake Nakuru

After an early morning game drive, drive back to the camp for breakfast. After a leisurely breakfast, depart the Mara region for Nakuru, with lunch en route, with scenic views of Mt Longonot and Lake Naivasha from afar on the main highway. We will arrive in the evening. Dinner and overnight the budget hotel.

Main destination: Lake Nakuru National Park
Accommodation: Chester Guest House Mid-range hotel located just outside Lake Nakuru National Park
Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 4: Lake Nakuru – Nairobi

After breakfast you will depart for a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park known as the home of the white and black Rhinos and Flamingos. Later you will drive to Nairobi with lunch en route arriving in the evening at the Hotel. We can assist you to book the hotel according to your budget. We have a budget hotels for bed and breakfast.

Main destination: Nairobi
Accommodation: Kenya Comfort Hotel lBudget hotel located in or near Nairobi
Meals & drinks: Breakfast Included Drinks not included

Day 5: Nairobi – Arusha

Depart  Nairobi with a shuttle to Arusha arriving at Namanga tentatively 10.30 am, border for immigration procedures and then proceed on to Arusha to arrive in the afternoon. Check in to the hotel booked for bed and breakfast. You will rest and relax for the rest of the day as you prepare for the next day safari.

Main destination: Arusha
Accommodation: Arusha Center Inn Hotel Budget hotel located in or near Arusha
Meals & drinks: Breakfast (Lunch & dinner not included) Drinks not included

Day 6: Arusha – Lake Manyara

Pick up from Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara national park. We arrive in time for lunch at the lodge and after lunch do we head into the Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The park’s varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals, including one of Africa’s largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake.

Main destination: Lake Manyara
Accommodation: Lake Manyara Twiga Campsite
Meals & drinks: Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 7: Lake Manyara – Serengeti

After breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species.
We arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park.

Main destination: Serengeti National Park
Accommodation: Seronera Campsite
Meals & drinks: Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 8: Serengeti – Full day Game Drive

Spend this day exploring the endless plains or one of only a few fortunate people to glide in a Hot Air Balloon over the Serengeti Plains (available at supplementary cost by pre-arrangement). Floating silently above the awakening bush, while spotting wildlife and enjoying the amazing scenery of Africa, across rivers and over numerous small villages.

Day 9: Serengeti – Ngorongoro

After breakfast at the lodge do we depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois
and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution.

We arrive in time for lunch at the camp and after lunch we spend the afternoon hunting for the game. Drive back to the camp for dinner and overnight. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. . We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here.
Main destination: Ngorongoro National Park
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Simba Campsite
Meals & drinks: Meals & drinks: All meals included Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 10: Serengeti – Arusha

Enjoy breakfast, after which we will we will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Later depart to Arusha with your lunch en route arriving in the afternoon. You will be dropped off at the hotel in Arusha booked for bed and breakfast. Dinner on own arrangememts

Main destination: Arusha
Accommodation: Budget campingIn or near Arusha
Meals & drinks: Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included) Drinks not included

Day 11: Arusha – Zanzibar/Nairobi

After breakfast Pickup from the Hotel and drop you at the Airport to connect your Flight to Zanzibar for a beach holiday, or connect Morning Shuttle bus to Nairobi arriving in the afternoon we drop you at the Airport to connect flight back home or drop at the Hotel.

Tour Price Includes

-Transport in a Custom made tour van in Kenya and 4×4 land cruiser in Tanzania
– Crater service fees/conservation fees.
– Services of a professional English speaking guide
– Game parks or national parks entry fees;
– Campsite fees;- Camping gear
– Use of our two/three person tents
-more than 2 litres of water per day

– Foam mattresses;
– Accommodations in Self contained Tents in Masai Mara
1 night accommodations in Nairobi /Arusha on bed and breakfast basis
– Arusha Nairobi shuttle bus transfer
– Three meals per day whilst on safari, prepared by our cook
– 1 litre Mineral water per person per day

Price excludes

  -Flights
– Drinks
– Tipping
– Cultural visits to Maasai villages
– Personal effects
– Kenya /Tanzania Visas