13 Days Combined Kenya – Tanzania Driving Tour

Your safari begins with a warm welcome in Nairobi by your driver-guide. After a short briefing, depart by road towards Hell’s Gate National Park near Lake Naivasha - a journey of about 2.5 hours through the scenic Great Rift Valley. Upon arrival, check into your lodge and enjoy lunch. In the afternoon, opt for a guided biking or walking safari (optional, at an extra cost) inside the park, a rare opportunity in East Africa. Cycle
past towering cliffs, rugged gorges, geothermal hot springs, and plains dotted with zebras, gazelles, and buffaloes. The dramatic landscapes inspired Disney’s The Lion King. As the sun sets, return to your resort for dinner and an overnight stay.

Tour departs Nairobi city and drive through the scenic Great Rift Valley through Suswa and Narok Town to Masai Mara National Reserve. This is a world class safari destination famous for its annual Great Migration beginning mid-July to early October. Masai Mara is also home to a great number of big Cats, vast savannah plains dotted with acacia trees and a variety of world class safari lodges. You will arrive at your lodge in time for lunch and in the afternoon set out for your first game drive and start your tracing various animals including the big Five and other animals include Zebras, giraffes, wildebeests, impalas, waterbucks, warthogs, baboons, aardvarks, serval cats, striped hyenas, cheetahs among others.
Dinner and overnight stay at your preferred choice of accommodation.

Spend a full day game viewing in the renowned "Eighth Wonder of the Animal World," the Masai Mara. This area is famous for its large herds of plains game, including leopards, cheetahs, and lions, as well as numerous elephants and nearly every other type of wildlife found in Kenya.
You will embark on a full-day game drive in the Masai Mara National Reserve.

For lunch, enjoy a picnic lunch under a flat-top acacia tree in the savannah while watching animals graze nearby. Afterward, continue your game viewing on the way back to your camp,  arriving in the late afternoon after thoroughly exploring this vast grassland savannah that spans
1,500 square kilometers.  Additionally, you have the option to book a hot air balloon ride that takes off early in the morning. After landing, the crew will assist you out of the basket and escort you to a beautiful setting for a bush breakfast. This experience is unforgettable and well worth the price.
You will return at sunset to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

You'll depart for a visit to a local Masai village, then return to the camp for a full breakfast. After breakfast, you'll proceed to Lake Nakuru National Park with lunch en route. You'll enjoy the beautiful scenery of Mount Longonot and Lake Naivasha, and even enjoy an optional fun
activity of boat riding.
Finally, you'll proceed to Nakuru for your dinner and overnight stay at the hotel.

After breakfast, you will leave for a game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park, known for its variety of birds, such as flamingoes. You'll enjoy the sights of hippos, buffalo, and crocodiles at Baboon Cliff. Then, you'll enjoy lunch en route to Amboseli National Park. You'll check in at
lodge for dinner and your overnight stay.

On this day which starts after the early morning breakfast, game drive, you will drive through various habitats and some of great game viewing spots in Amboseli National Park such as Observation Hill where you will have the panoramic view of the Amboseli plains and swamps.
Amboseli offers great Kenya wildlife safari experience from seeing elephants bathing to great wildlife photography with the backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro during the days when the skies are clear.
Dinner and overnight stay at your preferred choice of accommodation.

You will have an early breakfast at 6:00 am and then go for a final game drive through the Serengeti as you exit the park. After that, you will depart for Ngorongoro with picnic lunches.
Once you arrive, you will descend into the crater floor for a half-day crater tour. The crater is approximately 20 km/12 miles wide and 600 m/2,000 ft deep, and there are only two roads that connect the crater rim with the crater floor, one for driving down and another for driving up. It takes about 45 minutes to descend to the crater floor from the top of the caldera. The floor is home to a rich and highly concentrated wildlife population, around 20,000 mammals of varying sizes, including approximately 20 black rhinos.

This makes the crater the best place in Tanzania to see these animals. The animals in this area are less wary of humans and vehicles, making it easier to observe them up close. You can watch them as they roam the lakes, rivers, woodlands, and hills. Exit the crater to the lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

You will depart from Arusha in the early hours of the day and drive to Tarangire National Park, where colossal termite mounds and ancient baobab trees await us. This park is renowned for its immense elephant population, their picturesque scenery, and its diverse birdlife. Tarangire has
an enticing wildlife that includes elephants, lions, giraffes, warthogs, ostriches, impalas, cheetahs, mongoose, buffaloes, and baboons.
Dinner and overnight stay at your preferred choice of accommodation.

After breakfast drive to the iconic Serengeti National Park through the scenic Ngorongoro Highlands. This region and the entire Mara-Serengeti ecosystem is known for its high concentration of animals and the Great Migration a spectacular wildlife phenomenon happening each year between Maasai Mara in Kenya and Serengeti National Park in Tanzania in which over 1.5 million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of zebras
and antelopes cross the crocodiles infested Mara River to Kenya.
You will arrive in time for lunch and ready to begin your afternoon game drive after setting at your camp. During the game drive you will encounter other animals like lion, hyenas, wildebeests, leopard, zebras and more.
Dinner and overnight stay at your preferred choice of accommodation.

You'll have an early breakfast at the camp, then leave with picnic lunches for a six-hour game drive within Serengeti National Park. Here, you will track wildebeest, zebras, giraffes, lions, black rhinos, cheetahs, leopards, hyenas, bushbuck, lesser kudu, wild dog, kongoni, impala, Grant’s gazelle, black-backed jackal, mongoose, olive baboons, and vervet monkeys. You might even see more! By midday, you'll leave the park with a stopover at Olduvai Gorge (at an extra cost of $50 per person).
By evening, you'll arrive at the conservancy area, where you will have dinner and an overnight stay at your lodge.

After breakfast at the camp, you'll leave for a game drive within the Ngorongoro Crater. In the crater, you will have sightings of lions, African elephants, black rhinos, blue wildebeest, leopards, cheetahs, and hyenas. Wild dogs, Grantw's zebras, African buffalo, and hippos are
usually spotted near the crater rim. A picnic lunch close to the crater follows before ascending to the main gate and exiting the crater.
You'll drive to your lodge for dinner and overnight stay.

In the morning, you will depart for Lake Manyara, where you will spend the better part of the
day and enjoy a delectable picnic lunch. The park is nestled at the base of the rusty gold Great
Rift Valley escarpment, and the scenic landscape is breathtakingly magnificent. An abundance
of species is able to reside in the park due to the wide range of habitats. The park records
consist of over 380 species of birds, some of which are migratory, making it the ideal location
for bird watchers. Thousands of pink-hued flamingos occupy the margin of the lake; other large
water birds include pelicans, storks, and cormorants. The wildlife you can expect to see are
buffalo, elephants, giraffe, impalas, and the ferocious hippos that inhabit the water. Our trip
will come to an end in the late afternoon. You will proceed to Arusha, where you will be
dropped off at the hotel.

Breakfast then shuttle bus driver will pick you and transfer you to Nairobi. Drop off at the airport or Nairobi hotel.