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12 Day Best of Kenya and Tanzania Budget Camping Safari

DAY 1:NAIROBI
Pickup from the airport/hotel by the professional English speaking guide/driver and be taken to your hotel in Nairobi for the overnight on bed and breakfast basis, The Clarion Hotel.
DAY 2:NAIROBI TO MASAI MARA
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 viewpoint where you will have a breathtaking view of the floor of the Rift Valley. You will arrive in the camp in time for lunch. Check in and have lunch. Thereafter at 4 p.m. depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve which lasts for 2 hours and end at 6 p.m. You then return back to the camp for a sumptuous buffet dinner ending with good time for resting at tented camp. Dinner and overnight at Miti Mingi Eco Camp / similar.
DAY 3:MASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
Have breakfast at 6:30 a.m. and at 7 a.m., leave for a full day game viewing in the park. On this day, spend the full day exploring Maasai Mara in search of the big five, hippos, and Nile crocodile. Thereafter, go for picnic lunch in park under a croton tree shade overlooking the vast landscape of the park.
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 Miti Mingi Eco Camp / similar.
DAY 4:MASAI MARA TO LAKE NAKURU
Early morning breakfast then check out for your drive to Nakuru while enjoying a short en-route game drive on your way out. Upon arrival at 5 p.m. you will spend the night at the Lanet Matfam Resort and have dinner there.
DAY 5-LAKE NAKURU TO LAKE NAIVASHA/HELLS GATE
You will have an early breakfast and depart by 7 a.m. straight to the park. It’s a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which form part of the big five animals. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos. The game drive lasts 3 hours, after which you depart on a 1-hour drive to Naivasha at Hell’s Gate National Park.
In Hell’s Gate people have the option of doing a biking safari. You arrive at Hell’s Gate at 9 a.m. and then you will finish at 12:30. Head for lunch at a hotel. Later enjoy an evening boat on Lake Naivasha for 1 hour for hippo viewing and bird watching. Dinner and overnight at Villa Grazia.
DAY 6 :LAKE NAIVASHA TO NAMANGA
Breakfast at the resort at 6 a.m., then check out 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 LAKE MANAYARA NATIONAL PARK
Drive to Arusha and join a group to Lake 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.
Lake Manyara National Park is a protected area in Tanzania’s Arusha and Manyara Regions, situated between Lake Manyara and the Great Rift Valley. It is administered by the Tanzania National Parks Authority, and covers an area of 325 km² including about 230 km² lake surface. Dinner and relax at the Seronera Campsite.
DAY 8 :LAKE MANAYARA NATIONAL PARK TO SERENGETI
Breakfast then leave for Serengeti. Arrive and start game drive enroute to the camp. More game drives afternoon until late evening.
The Serengeti is home to the world’s largest movement of animals, often called the “Great Migration.” More than 1.7 million wildebeest, 500,000 zebra, and 200,000 antelope make their way from the Ndutu region of the southern Serengeti northward through the whole length of the “endless plains” to Kenya’s Masai Mara
Dinner and relax at the Seronera Campsite.
DAY 9 : SERENGETI TO NGORONGORO
Early morning game drive in Serengeti until 1 p.m. Depart after lunch. Game drive enroute to Ngorongoro and arrive at Simba Campsite to spend the night there.
Ngorongoro is in northern Tanzania. It’s home to the vast, volcanic Ngorongoro Crater and “big five” game (elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino). Huge herds of wildebeests and zebras traverse its plains during their annual migration. Livestock belonging to the semi-nomadic Maasai tribe graze alongside wild animals. Hominin fossils found in the Olduvai Gorge date back millions of years.
Dinner and relax at the Simba Campsite.
DAY 10 : NGORONGORO TO TANGIRE
Breakfast, game drive then leave for Ngorongoro for a safari game drive with picnic lunch. Depart after 1 p.m. and start drive to Tarangire National Park.
Tarangire National Park is a national park in Tanzania‘s Manyara Region. The name of the park originates from the Tarangire River that crosses the park. The Tarangire River is the primary source of fresh water for wild animals in the Tarangire Ecosystem during the annual dry season. The Tarangire Ecosystem is defined by the long-distance migration of wildebeest and zebras. During the dry season thousands of animals concentrate in Tarangire National Park from the surrounding wet-season dispersal and calving areas.
Dinner and overnight at campsite.
DAY 11 :TANGIRE TO ARUSHA
Breakfast, then leave for game drive until 1 p.m. 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 p.m.

 

  • All our safaris are on private.
  • Children aged between 0-2 years are free of charge.
  • Children aged 3-12 years pays 50%  of adult rates when sharing same room with adults.
  • Children aged 3-12 years pays 75% of rates when staying on their own room separate from adults.
  • Children of 12 years and above are recognized as adults
 
Season 1 Pax 2 Pax 3 Pax 4 Pax 5 Pax 6 Pax
High(1 July-31 Oct,22 Dec-01 Jan)
4335
3460
3169
3023
2935
2877
Mid(2 Jan-31 Mar,01 Jun-30 June,1 Nov-21st Dec)
4037
3162
2870
2724
2578
2478
Low(1 April-31 May)
3684
2809
2517
2371
2284
2225

±Included

  • 11 nights 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
  • Assistance at any point
  • Pickup and drop off to your hotel
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˜Excluded

  • Gratuities
  • Drinks e.g. alcohol
  • Maasai village at 20 USD per person
  • Balloon Safari at 380 USD per person
  • Pickup or drop off at the airport / hotels not within the Nairobi city centre at an extra small fee of 30 USD each way
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