Ultimate Kenya & Tanzania

A warm welcome to your "Ultimate Kenya & Tanzania" tour!

Upon arrival at the Nairobi International Airport and clearing immigration formalities, you will be met by an ATG Tours representative and transferred to your hotel where you will check in and be briefed about your safaris.

Enjoy a fun dining experience this evening at the Carnivore Restaurant where a huge variety of meat is served freshly roasted from Maasai swords straight to your sizzling plate!

Overnight stay in Nairobi.

After breakfast this morning, leave Nairobi and travel toward Kenya's fertile highlands, heading down the rift escarpment on the road built by Italian prisoners of war during World War II. On the way, be sure to spot the charming chapel that was built at the foot of the escarpment.

Pass the impressive futuristic Longonot Earth Satellite Station as you head across the valley to Narok, traveling through acres of wheat and barley before reaching the Maasai Mara in time for lunch. Following lunch, set off on your first thrilling game drive, returning to the lodge as the sun sets.

Enjoy dinner tonight and your overnight stay in Maasai Mara.

Early this morning before breakfast you have the optional opportunity to take a fun hot air balloon ride. 

After breakfast, proceed on a full-day game drive with a picnic lunch to search for the myriad species of animals that make this reserve their home. If really lucky, you may witness a kill in action, moment by moment, right in front of your unbelieving eyes! You very likely may even see each of the famous “Big Five”!

Enjoy dinner tonight and your overnight stay in Maasai Mara.

Leaving the Maasai Mara after breakfast, travel across the ‘breadbasket’ of Kenya where acres of wheat and barley dominate the landscape as you head north to Narok, the district headquarters of this part of Maasailand.

Enroute visit Lake Nakuru National Park, another bird lover’s paradise famous for its huge pink flamingo population and hundreds of other species including magnificent birds of prey. Lake Nakuru is also home to black and white rhinos – among many other animals – including the endangered Rothschild's giraffe, and while here you may choose to take an exciting game drive.

As you continue traveling across the vast plains on the floor of the Rift Valley, keep an eye out for herds of giraffes and gazelle as you head up the Mai-Mahiu before arriving at Lake Naivasha, a gorgeous freshwater lake within Africa’s Great Rift Valley, famous for its vast flocks of exotic bird life and huge hippo population.

Check in to your lodge.

Enjoy dinner tonight and your overnight stay at Lake Naivasha National Park.

Following an early breakfast this morning, begin your day traveling toward Nairobi. Leaving the Great Rift Valley behind you, stop for lunch in Nairobi before continuing south to Amboseli National Park, arriving at the camp to check in by late afternoon.

Enjoy dinner at your lodge this evening and your overnight stay at Amboseli National Park.

After an early breakfast, there will be a morning game drive in Amboseli National Park.

Depart the lodge mid-morning to begin the drive to Tanzania where you will enter the country and clear immigration/visa formalities at the Namanga Border. Once the formalities are completed, there will be a change of vehicle followed by a stop for lunch in Arusha. 

At the town of Makuyuni your journey continues up through a scenic escarpment that will bring you to your lodge perched on the edge of the Rift Valley, offering stunning views over distant Lake Manyara – a marvelous sight once described by Ernest Hemingway as “the loveliest lake I had seen in Africa”.

Enjoy dinner tonight and your overnight stay at Lake Manyara.

After breakfast, enjoy a game drive in Lake Manyara National Park followed by lunch back at the lodge.

Afterward, check out and leave Lake Manyara behind as your journey continues northwest across the stunning hilly countryside of the highlands filled with wheat and coffee plantations, and then enter into the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. From here lie the vast plains of the Serengeti where you will begin to spot wildlife as you approach the entrance gate.

Once formalities to enter the park are completed, continue to keep an eye out for wildlife en route to the lodge, arriving in the late evening for check-in.

Enjoy dinner and your overnight stay in Serengeti National Park.

After breakfast today, there will be morning and afternoon private game drives in Serengeti National Park followed by lunch at the lodge.

Serengeti National Park is home to not only all of the members of the “Big Five” (elephant, rhino, lion, leopard and buffalo), it is also the site of the annual ‘migration' of over one million wildebeest and their attendant cast of predators.

Return to the lodge as the sun sets and then enjoy dinner tonight and your overnight stay in Serengeti National Park.

After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro – viewing wildlife across the vast Serengeti plains as you travel – stopping en route for a picnic lunch. Continue to your lodge set high on the rim of the Ngorongoro Crater arriving in the late evening for check-in.

Enjoy dinner tonight and your overnight stay at Ngorongoro.

A truly amazing highlight awaits you this morning as you set out to explore what is commonly referred to as the world’s largest natural wildlife arena. 

After an early breakfast, you will drive to the entry gate of the Ngorongoro Crater and descend with a picnic lunch through the early morning mists 2,000 feet into the crater.

The Ngorongoro Crater – located within the vast Ngorongoro Conservation Area – is the largest intact volcanic caldera on earth and its natural borders have made it a thriving habitat for more than 30,000 different kinds of animals, from elephant and hyena to buffalo, warthog, lion, leopard and even the fabled black rhino, along with a prolific birding population. Due to its size and diversity, the crater floor is comprised of several distinct areas, ranging from forest, swamps, lakes and springs, to open grasslands and sandy dunes…a truly unique wildlife experience! Your picnic box lunch will be served near a pond populated with hippos!

Return to the lodge in the late afternoon and enjoy dinner this evening and your overnight stay at Ngorongoro.

Departing Ngorongoro after breakfast, head southeast past Lake Manyara and the bustling farming community of Mto Wa Mbu Village.

As you travel through the highlands and the Karatu District, enjoy viewing the scenic wheat plains and coffee plantations before journeying down the spectacular escarpment where you turn onto the main Arusha – Dodoma road toward Arusha.

Upon arrival in Arusha, you will be transferred to the Kilimanjaro International Airport to board your international flight as you begin your journey home.