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One of our Beach 'N Bush safaris, this 8 day road trip is a joyful trek to the dazzling white sand beaches of the Kenyan coast – but let's not hurry there, as the tour takes in two classic Safari locations on the way ~ Tsavo West and Amboseli National Parks. After 2 days relaxing at the beach, take a short 1 hour flight back to Nairobi. <b>HIGHLIGHTS</b> -Visit Amboseli and Tsavo West National Parks, and the beaches north of Mombasa. - Stay at Safari Properties which offer luxurious accommodation and a range of amenities as well as a boutique~like Beach hotel on Shanzu beach. - Embark on 04 Private Safari gamedrives with our Professional Driver-Guide, dedicated to making your trip a success. - See the stunning scenery of Classic African landscapes especially as your approach the coast. Amboseli is also one of the places where one can see Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest mountain. - Swim in the Indian ocean, reef-lined and swimmer friendly ~ relax on the sandy white beaches. - Observe animals at a Salt lick from the balcony of your lodge in Tsavo. - See the unique Geological features in Tsavo, including the 'shetani' Lava flows. - Tour departs daily, subject to availability, Starting and Ending in Nairobi. - Option of adding several activities such as a Nature walks, Mombasa City tours and enjoying a relaxing massage during your trip { optional activities are at additional cost }
<span style="font-family: Segoe UI, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;"><b>HIGHLIGHTS:</b></span></span> <span style="font-family: Segoe UI, serif;"><span style="font-size: small;">A safari to one of Kenya’s most favored game-viewing areas. The reserve covers 700 square miles of magnificent wilderness. It is the Africa of the imagination; endless reaches of acacia-dotted grasslands studded with hazy hills. 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</span></span>
<b>HIGHLIGHTS:</b> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Our 10 Days Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Amboseli, Lake Manyara, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Tarangire Safari takes you to the most famous game parks in Africa. </span></span><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Masai Mara Game Reserve</span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> which is the most popular tourism destination in Kenya. Located in the Great Rift Valley in primarily open grassland. Wildlife is most concentrated on the reserve’s western escarpment. Its regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife Viewing areas. The annual wildebeest’s migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November. Hardly can a visitor miss to spot the big five. The phenomenal wildbeeste migration which is a spectacular event only seen in Masai mara is the the wonder of the world.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Lake Nakuru National Park, </span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">found in the foot of the great rift valley has an elevation of 1754 meters above sea level, is home to stunning flocks of lesser and Greater Flamingos, which literally turn the lake-shores in to a magnificent pink stretch. This is the only park you are asured of seeing the rhinos in black and white and the Rothschild Giraffe.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Amboseli National Park</span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> is situated in Loitoktok District, Rift Valley Province of Kenya. Amboseli National Park ecosystem is mainly savannah grassland spread across the Kenya -Tanzania border, an area of low scrubby vegetation and open grassy plains, all of which makes for easy game viewing. It is the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants, which are for sure a breath-taking sight to behold, whereas various African lions, buffaloes, giraffes, zebras and other species can also be spotted, offering spectacular photographic experiences.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Lake Manyara National Park</span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> lies 130 kilometers outside of Arusha town and encompasses Lake Manyara and its surroundings. There are five different vegetation zones including groundwater forest, acacia woodland, open areas of short grass, swamps and the lake’s alkaline flats. The park’s wildlife includes more than 350 species of birds, baboon, warthog, giraffe, hippopotamus, elephant and buffalo. If lucky, catch a glimpse of Manyara’s famous tree-climbing lions. Night game drives are permitted in Lake Manyara. Located beneath the cliffs of the Manyara Escarpment, on the edge of the Rift Valley, Lake Manyara National Park offers varied ecosystems, incredible bird life, and breathtaking views.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">The Serengeti National Park</span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> is home to the greatest wildlife spectacle on earth – the great migration of wildebeest and zebra. The resident population of lion, cheetah, elephant, giraffe, and birds is also impressive. There’s a wide variety of accommodation available, from luxury lodges to mobile camps. The park covers 5,700 sq miles, (14,763 sq km), it’s larger than Connecticut, with at most a couple hundred vehicles driving around. It’s classic savannah, dotted with acacias and filled with wildlife. The western corridor is marked by the Grumeti River, and has more forests and dense bush. The north, Lobo area, meets up with Kenya’s Masai Mara Reserve, is the least visited section.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">The </span></span><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Ngorongoro Crater</span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera. Forming a spectacular bowl of about 265 square kilometres, with sides up to 600 metres deep; it is home to approximately 30,000 animals at any one time. The Crater rim is over 2,200 metres high and experiences its own climate. From this high vantage point it is possible to make out the tiny shapes of animals making their way around the crater floor far below. The crater floor consists of a number of different habitats that include grassland, swamps, forests and Lake Makat (Maasai for ‘salt’) – a central soda lake filled by the Munge River. All these various environments attract wildlife to drink, wallow, graze, hide or climb.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;">Tarangire National Park</span></span></b><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> offers an unparalleled game viewing, and during the dry season elephants abound. Families of the pachyderms play around the ancient trunks of baobab trees and strip acacia bark from the thorn trees for their afternoon meal. Breathtaking views of the Maasai Steppe and the mountains in the south make a stopover at Tarangire a memorable experience. Herds of up to 300 elephants scratch the dry river bed for underground streams, while migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, impala, gazelle, hartebeest and eland crowd the shrinking lagoons. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem.</span></span></span></span> <span style="font-family: Times New Roman, serif;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"><b>Zanzibar:</b></span></span><span style="color: #444444;"><span style="font-family: Helvetica, serif;"> Wind up your safari with a beach holiday in the finest beaches Africa, Zanzibar will offer the best relaxed moment you will need after the safari.</span></span></span></span>
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Leave Nairobi in the morning at 8.00 am drive to the view point of the great rift valley, descend the escarpment and drive via Narok then to Masai Mara for lunch at the campsite followed by afternoon game drive in Masaai Mara famous for its black manned lions and yearly migration of wildebeests, dinner and overnight at the Enkerok Camp.
A full day spent game viewing a cross the rich, tree studded grassland and rolling hills. The famous mara is renowned for its great herds of plain game, black-maned lions, leopard and cheetah but also contains numerous elephant and virtually every type of wildlife to be found in Kenya. All meals and over night in the Enkerok camp.
Pre breakfast game drive, return to tented camp for late breakfast and leave your tented camp and proceed to Lake Nakuru with lunch enroute at mai mahiu arriving in the late afternoon to check in the hotel in time for Dinner and overnight in Nakuru City Max Hotel.
After breakfast, proceed for an extensive morning game drive in Lake Nakuru National Park to see the many animals that inhabit this unique park. Lake Nakuru is known for it’s millions of flamingoes and other water birds. Leave lake Nakuru National Park to proceed to Amboseli National Park with lunch enroute for dinner and overnight at Amboseli Nyati Camp
After breakfast, get your picnic lunches packed and depart for the full day spent in Amboseli National Park with an optional tour to maasai village to experience their traditional way of life and dances, Meals and night at the Amboseli Nyati Camp
After breakfast leave your hotel , leave the Amboseli park for Nairobi with Picnic lunch served enroute arriving in Nairobi early afternoon, check inn at a budget hotel in Nairobi for a little rest as you prepare for your evening bus transfer to Kampala.
You will be picked up by our guide from the Bus station in Kampala/after an early morning breakfast at 07:00hrs. You will be briefed about the whole safari before you travel to Bwindi Impenetrable which is found in the southwestern part of Uganda. Along the way there is a local drum and craft making community so you will have a visit here.
Then a stopover at the Equator to take photos, also feel free to buy some crafts and souvenirs as you head to Mbarara town where you will have your lunch from. Thereafter, proceed to Bwindi whereby you will arrive in the late afternoon. Check in at the lodge, relax in the evening and have Dinner.
Accommodation: Bwindi View Lodge
After an early morning breakfast, drive to the park headquarters where you will be briefed by the park rangers about what to do and not to do while in the park, also you will be divided in group of 8. After continue and start off gorilla trekking these gentle giants as directed by the rangers.
This is a memorable and an amazing experience watching the Mountain gorillas feed, play around and also do their day to day activities. This activity can take 2 hours or even up to 8 hours since its dependent on the location and movement of the gorillas. Also expect to walk long distances in muddy and steep conditions- this will require you to have a walking stick. On meeting the gorillas you will spend one hour with them as you take photos.
Later, return back to the lodge and in the evening you may choose to relax at the lodge or visit the Batwa community which will expose you to their culture basing on how they live, dance, and also hearing stories concerning their culture which will leave you amazed. Have dinner and overnight.
Accommodation: Bwindi View Lodge
Have an early breakfast, Check-out leaving the “Switzerland of Uganda” behind and start your journey back to Kampala passing through rolling hills with terraces and also you will have a great time viewing the lush vegetation of the different areas you will go through. Have lunch in Mbarara and another stop will be at Mbambire drum makers point. After buying some of these drums, continue to Kampala arriving late afternoon. The guide will drop you off to the hotel of your choice or at the airport to catch your flight back home.
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Masai Mara : Enkerok Tented Camp
Lake Nakuru: City Max Hotel
Amboseli: Amboseli Nyati Camp
Uganda: Bwindi view Lodge
Gorilla permits
Accommodation(Full Board)
Touring and Photography
Transport in 4WD vehicle
Driver/Guide(English speaking and professional)
Park entrance fees
Drinking water
Game drives
International flights
Laundry
Tips given to staff
Visas
Drinks/Beverages
Extra activities not included in the itinerary
Africa Venture Safaris is a DMC for Kenya, safari tour company based in Nairobi offering daily group safaris to Masai mara and other famous national parks in Kenya.
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