Adventure Backpackers Tanzania

6 days Kenya Tanzania Safari , Masai mara ,Serengeti national park & Ngorongoro crater safari

Overview

Just a sneak preview into Tanzania, travelling to the most exciting and famous game parks, experiencing the rich culture and excitement of the wild African savannah. Experience the warmth and true African hospitality of the Adventure backpackers team

Itinerary

DAY 1: NAIROBI-MASAI MARA (L,D)

After breakfast, we pick you up from your hotel at 08:00AM. At 08:30hrs, we 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

Dinner and overnight at Mara Sidai Tented Camp/similar OR MARASopa Lodge/ similar

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.

DAY 2: MASAI MARA – WHOLE DAY (B,L,D)

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.

Dinner and overnight at Mara Sidai Tented Camp/similar OR Mara Sopa Lodge/ similar

DAY 3: MASAI MARA – SERENGETI (B,L,D)

Early Morning breakfast at your camp check out with packed lunch of the camp and drive to Isbania border, process of Visa and crossing to Tanzania will take Like 30 minutes, after proceed to Serengeti with our Tanzania driver guide, you arrive Serengeti for dinner and overnight at Seronera Campsite/similar OR Moivaro.com/ similar

 

DAY 4: SERENGETI  FULL DAY  (B,L,D)

Full day to explore the world’s largest migratory concentration of plain game. Serengeti is famed for its annual migration, when some six million hooves pound the open plains, as more than 200,000 zebra and 300,000 Thomson’s gazelle join the wildebeest’s trek for fresh grazing. Yet even when the migration is quiet, the Serengeti offers arguably the most scintillating game-viewing in Africa: great herds of buffalo, smaller groups of elephant and giraffe, and thousands upon thousands of eland, topi, kongoni, impala and Grant’s gazelle.
Dinner and overnight at Seronera Campsite/similar OR Moivaro.com/ similar

DAY 5:SERENGETI -NGORONGOROB,L,D)

After an early breakfast, we drive south to the magnificent Ngorongoro crater via Olduvai Gorge with picnic lunch. Based on fossil evidence found at the Olduvai Gorge, it is known that various hominid species have occupied the area for 3 million years. Dinner and overnight at Simba Campsite/similar OR Ngorongoro wildlife Lodge/similar

DAY 6:NGORONGORO – ARUSHA(B,L,D) 

Breakfast at the camp then Depart to Arusha  arriving on lunch time