10 Days Masai Mara/ Serengeti/ Ngorongoro Crater

Kenya safari tour Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro crater Adventure 9 Nights 10 Days gives the best Kenya/Tanzania combined safari – Trail the wildebeest migration paths from Masai Mara to Serengeti national park.

Explore the most famous parks in Kenya/Tanzania in style, this is an all year round safari with rewarding game viewing experience irrespective of the travel period.
In Tanzania, Ngorongoro Crater is said to have the world densest population of lion. Serengeti is notable for its large migratory herds of wildebeest and zebras with strings of predators in trail.

The Ngorongoro crater also offers amazing wildlife viewing and scenery

Day 0: Arrival – Nairobi

Pick up from the airport on arrival and transfer to a City hotel for an overnight stay in readiness for a holiday safari the following morning (Hotel accommodation not included)

Day 1: Nairobi -Masai Mara Game Reserve

Pick up from your hotel at 0730 hrs – Briefing with Asili Adventure safaris Tour officer the drive via the scenic Great Rift Valley, to the Mara Reserve arriving in good time for lunch. Afternoon game drive is taken. Dinner and overnight at Mara Sopa Lodge midrange lodge safari or Mara destiny eco-camp for budget tented camp safari tours.

Day 2 – 4:  Masai Mara Game Reserve Trailing the wildebeest and the big five.

Full days spent exploring the park in search of the big 5 trailing the wildebeest migration herds and predators – Optional balloon safari can be arranged at an extra cost. Overnight stay at  Mara Sopa Lodge/mara destiny eco-camp for a budget safari
The Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of animals have been recorded here.

You will easily see lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant. It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place.

This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena, and vultures.

Day 5: Masai Mara – Serengeti National park

Breakfast then drop off at the airstrip to board a flight to Serengeti Seronera Airstrip– on arrival our guide will meet you and proceed to Kati Kati Tented amp for lunch – afternoon game drives are offered then return to our Tented lodge for Dinner and overnight stay

Day 6 and 7: Serengeti National park full days Game drives

A day spent viewing the game in the vast Serengeti plains morning and afternoon game drives are offered, Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented lodge.

Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park It is the Migration for which Serengeti is perhaps most famous.

Over a million wildebeest and about 200,000 zebras flow south from the northern hills to the southern plains for the short rains every October and November, and then swirl west and north after the long rains in April, May and June. So strong is the ancient instinct to move that no drought, gorge or crocodile infested river can hold them back.

The Wildebeest travel through a variety of parks, reserves and protected areas and through a variety of habitat. Join us to explore the different forms of vegetation and landscapes of the Serengeti ecosystem and meet some of their most fascinating inhabitants

Day 8 Serengeti: Ngorongoro via Olduvai Gorge

Breakfast then views the game as you exit the park and proceed to the 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 Sopa Lodge.

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

Day 9 Ngorongoro Crater Tour

after an early morning, breakfast leaves 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 Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge 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.

Day 10: Ngorongoro – Arusha -Nairobi Safaris

Breakfast at leisure then drives to Arusha to arrive by 1200 hrs  Lunch at Kibo palace hotel then transfer to the airport to board your flight Zanzibar or Kigali. Transfer to Nairobi by road

Kenya and Tanzania safari tour Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro crater Adventure 9 Nights 10 Days best