Adventure Backpackers Tanzania
12 days Masai mara Lake Nakuru Lake Naivasha Amboseli Serengeti Ngorongoro Manyara & Tarangire national park safari
Overview
Here’s a chance to experience two countries Kenya and Tanzania visiting the most special parks, off the beaten trail. All parks are dense with predators , grazers but also offers different views of the land scape
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| Destination: | Masai mara Lake Nakuru Lake Naivasha Amboseli Serengeti Ngorongoro Manyara & Tarangire national park |
| Departure: | Nairobi |
| Departure Time: | 0800hrs |
| Return Time: | 1700hrs |
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Itinerary
This is the tour plan for 12 days Masai mara Lake Nakuru Lake Naivasha Amboseli Serengeti Ngorongoro Manyara & Tarangire national park safari . The itinerary can be reversed to start in Tanzania to Kenya
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Nairobi to Masai Mara
pick up from your hotel or Airport then depart for Masai Mara Game Reserve via the Great Rift Valley view point to view the Escarpment. Descend the escarpment and drive to Narok-town where you will stop for lunch. After lunch proceed to Masai Mara arriving in good time for game drive en-route to your self-contain camp. Masai Mara is famous for its black manned lions and yearly migration of wildebeests. Game viewing in the afternoon is guaranteed. Dinner and overnight at Enchoro wildlife Camp/ or Similar (Full board Accommodation) The Masai Mara is Kenya’s arguably the most famous reserve. It’s smooth grass carpeted hills and plains dotted with flat topped acacia trees are full of rich faunal diversity, fulfilling the expectations of any visitor searching the African landscape for the BIG 5. Located west of the Great Rift Valley, Mara is a natural extension of the Serengeti plains in the neighboring Tanzania. The Mara River, the reserve’s backbone traverses north to south. This course is the natural barrier crossed each year by large migratory heard of wildebeest and zebra which march across the two parks in search of pasture, crossing en route, the crocodile infested Mara River. Coupled with ever watchful predatory cats in the midst, the annual migration is a risky affair and fraught with peril. Morning and evening game drives through the Marareserve gives you a chance of spotting a diverse array of wildlife including elephants, giraffe, black rhino, cheetah, gazelle, buffalo, hippo, various other herbivores and bird species.
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Masai Mara Wholeday
A full day spent game viewing a cross the rich savannah grassland and rolling hills. The famous Mara is renowned for its great herds of plain game, black-manned lions, leopard and cheetah but also contains numerous elephants and virtually every type of wildlife to be found here in the Mara. All meals and overnight at Enchoro wildlife Camp/ or similar (Full Board Accommodation - B, L, D)
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Masai Mara to Lake Nakuru
Have Pre- breakfast game-viewing drive from 06:30am to 09:00am.Return to the Camp for full- breakfast and then depart after breakfast to Lake Nakuru National Park, lunch on the way to Lake Nakuru Arriving Late in the evening. Lake Nakuru National Park-is world famous and was created a National Park, to protect its stunning flocks of lesser and greater flamingos, which literally turn its shores pink. Its birdlife is world renowned: a beacon for leading Ornithologists, scientists and wildlife film-makers. The park spans an attractive range of wooded and bush grassland around the lake offering wide ecological diversity, from lake water, woodland to the rocky escarpments and ridges. Notable game within the lake includes hippo and clawless otters. On the shores roam waterbuck, Bohor's Reedbuck and zebra. The woodlands and forest are now home to both black and white rhino. Game viewing is relatively easy: buffalo, leopard, tree climbing-lions, Rothschild's giraffe, Black and White Columbus monkey are plentiful in the forest. The bush lands offer eland, steenbok, impala, Chandler’s reedbuck and dik dik, whilst rock hyrax and klipspringer occupy the cliffs and escarpment. Dinner and overnight at Lanet Matfarm Resort or similar
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Lake Nakuru to Lake Naivasha
After breakfast, proceed for a game drive in the Rhino sanctuary which is home to a colony of about 25 white and black Rhinos. Predators are also resident in the Park. Later, we leave for Lake Naivasha Arriving late in the afternoon.Afternoon leisure with the option of exploring this lake by taking a boat ride to Crescent Island for a negotiable fee at the crescent you will see some animals like giraffes hippos etc, Dinner and overnight at Fisherman Camp
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Lake Naivasha to Amboseli
After breakfast proceed to hells gate park, Hell's Gate national park famous for its natural geysers, star rock towers and geothermal steam that make it one of the most atmospheric parks in Africa. This park was named for its pair of massive red tinged cliffs framing a geothermic active interior of steam vents and bubbling springs.later leave Naivasha forAmboseli arriving late in the evening.Dinner and overnight stay at AA LODGE
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Amboseli National Park Fullday
After breakfast, proceed for a morning game viewing drive. Return to the camp for lunch. After lunch, it’s at leisure or further evening game drive in search of herds of elephants, plains game and the several bird species that are resident in this park. Dinner and overnight at AA Lodge
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Amboseli National Park to Arusha
An early morning breakfast then depart Amboseli with game drive en route to connect at Namanga boarder for Arusha. Dinner and overnight stay at Arusha center inn
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Arusha to Manyara National Park
Pick up from your hotel at 8.30am in the morning for Lake Manyara with picnic lunch arriving late afternoon. Enjoy an evening game drive in the Lake National Park whose inhabitants include hippos, monkeys, tree climbing lions, flamingos and other varieties of birdlife. Dinner and overnight at the panaroma camp
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Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro
After breakfast depart for NgorongoroConservation Area. Lunch at the creator. This afternoon, you will descend 2000 feet (over 600 meters) to the floor of the crater for a half day crater tour. Explore the forest areas that are inhabited by monkeys and elephants, the lake area, where you may see the flamingos and the open Savannahwhere the lions hunt for food. Dinner and overnight at the Simba A camp.
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Ngorongoro to Serengeti National Reserve
After breakfast depart for Serengeti passing through Olduvai Gorge the site of the Leakey family discovery of fossils of human and animal ancestors dating back to almost two million years. Meals and overnight at Seronera campsite.
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Serengeti National Reserve to Tarangire
Today we drive from Serengeti to Tarangire. With a permanent water source, the park is virtually guaranteed enormous herds and excellent game viewing including cheetah, lion (some tree-climbing!), leopard and hyena and a herd of 3,500 elephants. The park is also host to a number of rare species including eland, oryx, kudu and gerenuka tranquil oasis overlooking the rolling plains.Dinner and overnight stay at Zioni camp
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Tarangire to Arusha
This is the last day of our trip; leave Tarangire with an en route game drive. Leave Tarangire for Arusha Arriving late in the afternoon drop you at the airport to catch your flight back at home or extent your trip to Zanzibar
