East Africa Safari for 11 Days

Start your adventure today. After meeting your guides and fellow tourists, we’ll load up the safari vehicles and leave. After crossing the Great Rift Valley, we’ll arrive at our Maasai Mara lodge for lunch and our first game drive. Watch for wildlife big and little as we pass those wonderful undulating hills.

After breakfast, take a hot air balloon trip over the African Savannah at sunrise. After a champagne brunch, you’ll resume the morning’s game drive. After lunch and a swim at the resort, we’ll go on our second wildlife drive this afternoon to find Africa’s big cats. Nature’s Great Migration occurs in the Maasai Mara. If you visit at the appropriate time, you can see millions of wildebeest and zebras heading to better pastures.

Kenyan adventurers, shine! After the Maasai Mara, we’ll return to Nairobi this morning for more wonder. We return to Nairobi this afternoon for something spectacular. We’ll visit the Kibera Slum to view the Mirror of Hope Foundation’s outstanding work to break the cycle of poverty through education and better women and children’s lives. After that, unwind and choose from hotel restaurants with Nairobi National Park views in the afternoon.

We’ll enjoy a spectacular game drive in Nairobi National Park after returning to Nairobi. Look for waterholes, cityscapes, and the rare white rhino. We’ll also visit the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Rehabilitation Centre to witness baby elephants play and bathe in the water (the most beautiful chaotic mess you’ll ever see) and learn about their recovery. We’ll go to our lodge on the edge of Amboseli National Park with views of Mt. Kilimanjaro after a picnic lunch and a visit to a local Curio shop. to enjoy a great included meal.

After our buffet breakfast, Masaai warriors will lead us on a short safari walk to a village where they will explain us about their culture and life with wild animals. After lunch, we’ll visit Amboseli National Park, famous for its photos of elephants and wildlife feeding while Mt Kilimanjaro rises in the background. The photographer’s dream is yours. Our last Kenyan supper will be at the resort.

This morning we will have one last game drive in Amboseli before crossing into Tanzania. Arusha is our destination after saying farewell to our Kenyan guides and meeting our Tanzanian ones. We’ll visit the Shanga Community Project, which employs disadvantaged people in arts and crafts. Tarangire, our first Tanzanian resort and national park, awaits us after lunch. Known for its elephants and baobabs.

An early start today will take us into Tarangire National Park for a full day in search of secretive predators and varied scenery. We’ll spend most of the day here with a packed lunch to explore this wildlife area. After that, we’ll visit a Maasai hamlet to learn about their culture. Tonight’s buffet dinner is also worth saving room for!

Our safari vehicles will take us to the Serengeti after breakfast. We stop at Mto Wa Mbu Village and a market on our way to the Serengeti’s main gate, taking in vistas of the Rift valley and Ngorogoro Crater. To reach our overnight lodging, we’ll drive through this immense reserve’s limitless plains. We’ll stay in a Serengeti safari lodge tonight. Dinner is a buffet, and you can eat outside and listen to nocturnal animals wake up to scavenge or hunt under the African sky’s magnificent stars.

We’ll spend the day hunting African plains game with predators on the hunt. Seeing millions of wildebeest and zebra grazing as far as the eye can see is one of Africa’s best sights. A once-in-a-lifetime balloon adventure can make today even better. We return to our safari camp for a buffet meal.

Breakfast is followed by a morning wildlife drive from the Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Crater. Late morning brings us to the Ngorongoro Crater, an old volcano with one of the greatest predator concentrations chasing the plentiful species inside. First, we’ll have a picnic lunch before climbing the plateau. A unique African natural wonder.

Today is our last safari day and last chance to see wildlife. Take one last game drive to Lake Manyara National Park. The grassy floodplains and vast woods of Lake Manyara, known for its tree-climbing lions, offer a unique ecology for wildlife and birdlife.

We’re saying goodbye to your new lifelong friends and our African adventure with full hearts and memories.