15-day Kiboko Tented Safari

Get the heart-pounding thrill of a safari while enjoying the all the comforts on our 15-day adventure. We'll visit Kenya, known as the "Land of the Safari", with its diverse landscapes, large concentration of game and warm, friendly, hospitable people, and Tanzania, arguably one of Africa's best kept secrets.

Group size: 2-12 adults

Minimum group: 2 clients

Travel mode: Road on a 6 seater Minivan in Kenya and a 6 seater 4x4 Landcruiser in Tanzania

Includes: All meals as specified in the itinerary, boat ride and village visit at Lake Victoria, Olduvai Gorge visit, half-day Ngorongoro Crater tour, one litre of mineral water per day, game drives, park fees, English- speaking driver guide.

Excludes: Sundowners cocktails, and other optional activities

Accommodation: Safari lodges and luxury tented camps

Price: From USD$4485 per person sharing*

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Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi
Upon arrival at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, you will be met by our representative and transferred to the historic 5-star Sarova Stanley Hotel. One of Nairobi’s oldest and best renowned city hotels, it stands in the city centre within easy reach of both shops and tourist attractions, and offering a health club, roof-top swimming pool and a wide selection of restaurants and bars. Overnight at Sarova Stanley on bed and breakfast.

 

Day 2: Nairobi to Samburu
After an early breakfast, drive north to the Samburu National Reserve arriving in time for a late lunch at the Samburu Ashnil camp, a traditional Kenyan safari camp set in extensive grounds on the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River. After lunch, take a game drive in the twin Samburu and Buffalo Springs Reserves followed by sundowners and dinner at the lodge.

 

Day 3: On safari in Samburu
Enjoy a full day on safari in Samburu followed by optional sundowner, meals and overnight at the camp.

 

Day 4: Samburu to Ol Pajeta Ranch
Leave the lodge after breakfast and travel south along the flanks of Mount Kenya to enter the Serena Sweetwaters Tented Camp.

 

Day 5: Ol Pajeta Ranch to Lake Nakuru

After breakfast, drive to Lake Nakuru National Park in time for lunch at Lake Nakuru Lodge. After lunch, enjoy a game drive in the park before returning to the lodge in time for a swim, optional cocktails and thereafter dinner.

 

Day 6: Lake Nakuru to the Mara
After breakfast depart very early and drive to the Masai Mara National Reserve in time for a late lunch at Ashnil Mara Camp, which is a relatively new tented camp, offering 30 luxury tents close to the Mara River. After lunch, enjoy your first game drive in the Mara. In the evening, perhaps take an early swim before enjoying sundowners in the bush or back at the lodge, followed by dinner.

 

Day 7: On safari in the Mara
With a full day to enjoy all that the Mara has to offer with morning and afternoon game drives as well as wide range of optional activities such as guided nature/bird-spotting walks, and cultural visits to local Maasai villages. Breakfast, lunch and dinner at the camp.

 

Day 8: The Mara to Lake Victoria
Early morning game drive. After breakfast cross the border between Kenya and Tanzania at Isabenia (with a picnic lunch) and drive to Musoma. Met on arrival at Tembo Beach Hotel where you will pick your boat which takes 1 hour to Lukuba Island Lodge set on a secluded, soft sand beach on the eastern side of Lake Victoria, the second largest fresh water lake in the world 13 kilometers off the shore of Lake Victoria in the Musoma district. There are a total of eight rooms comprised of five stone built bungalows and a general mess area on Kyameto bay and three large permanent tents on Gonolek bay. The two bays are connected with a lovely stone pathway that meanders right by the little dip pool up on a rocky outcrop. Early evening will be a leisure enjoying the beauty of the Island. Dinner and overnight.

 

Day 9: Lukuba Island Lake Victoria
Day spent at Lukuba Island with activities which include Kayaking on the lake, escorted walks, hiking the sunset rocks, boat trip around the Island. Lukuba Island has countless species of birds flock to its granite boulders, fish eagles and snowy egrets floating over the ripples, as Nile monitors and spotted neck otters swim up on the rocks to sun themselves. Enormous fig and mahogany trees create a lush green canopy which not only filters the equatorial light, but also provides a home for the vervet monkeys and red / blue agama lizards that frequent them. This is a natural lovers’ paradise.

 

Day 10: Lake Victoria to the Serengeti
After breakfast, 1 hour boat transfer to Tembo Beach hotel jetty to rejoin your safari guide. Drive to the Serengeti National Park and drive to Mbuzi Mawe Tented Camp. Lying in a hidden glade, known as ‘the place of the klipspringer (mbuzi mawe), guarded by three-million-year-old granite towers, and located at the very epicentre of one of the world’s most famous national parks, this unique luxury tented-camp offers 16 widely-spaced ensuite tents. Lunch and afternoon game drive. Dinner at the camp.

 

Day 11: On safari in the Serengeti
With a full day’s game-driving in the park, your options are wide. Breakfast, lunch and dinner are served at the camp, where optional guided nature walks can also be taken as well as morning and afternoon game drives. Whilst the annual migration is the Serengeti’s most famous attraction, the Park is also renowned for its lion, many of which have been fitted with radio-transmitter collars so that their movements may be tracked, and additionally for its wealth of cheetah, zebra, giraffe, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelle, eland, impala, klipspringer, hippo and warthog.

 

Day 12: The Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater
After breakfast depart with game drive en-route, drive through the Serengeti to the Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area, stopping enroute for a visit to the world-famous Olduvai Gorge Palaeolithic site and reputed ‘Cradle of Mankind’. Scale the side of the crater, circle the rim and descend to the Ngorongoro crater for afternoon half-day guided tour of the crater. Picnic lunch will be taken at the crater floor. Ascend to your lodge for the evening and dinner at the Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, which offers the finest location of all the crater rim lodges, lying on the southern rim of the crater, directly above the yellow fever trees of the Lerai Forest.

 

Day 13: Ngorongoro Crater to Amboseli
After breakfast drive to Arusha and the Namanga Kenya/Tanzania border. Complete immigration formalities and change vehicles. After a picnic lunch, drive to Amboseli National Park and check into Kilima Safari Camp, which offers 60 classic safari tents, each with ensuite bathroom and large private veranda. In the afternoon, take a game drive around the lush swamps of this world-famous national park.

 

Day 14: On Safari in Amboseli
Spend the entire day game-driving in the park, which is an International Biosphere Reserve featuring the dried-out lakebed of prehistoric Lake Amboseli, rolling savannah and lush green swamps. The plains offer numerous antelopes, spotted hyenas, jackals, warthogs, olive baboons, vervet monkeys and the chance of spotting a lion, leopard or cheetah.

 

Day 15: Amboseli to Nairobi
After breakfast at the lodge, drive to Nairobi and take lunch at the famous Carnivore Restaurant with its glowing BBQs serving all manner of meats to include ostrich, crocodile and more (plus fish, vegetarian choices, salads etc).  Depart for your flight home.

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