Kenya and Tanzania Safari
Kenya · Tanzania
- Travelled
- 2020
- Duration
- 17 days
17-day women's journey through Kenya, Tanzania, 2020.
This is a completed journey. Dates, hotels, prices and arrangements reflect the original departure, not a current offer.
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Key experiences
Highlights
- 01Kazuri Women’s Beading Project
- 02Daphne Sheldrick Animal Orphanage and Karen Blixen Museum & Giraffe Centre
- 03Mount Kenya National Park
- 04Optional: Ol Pejeta Conservancy an unforgettable safari experience
- 05Congreves Conservancy
- 06Trip to Gilgil and to the Saidia Children’s Centre
- 07Nakuru National Park
- 08Masai Mara National Reserve
- 09Optional: Balloon safari over the Mara OR visit a traditional Masai Manyatta;s Community
- 10Serengeti National Park is Tanzania’s oldest park
- 11Ngorongoro Conservation Area
- 12Lake Manyara National Park
- 13Mto wa Mbu Village
- 14ENRICHING LIVES EXCLUSIVE: Experience life in a local community
The WOW factor
- Guaranteed Room mate Match Program: If you don’t have a travelling companion, WOW will match you up with a suitable roommate. We guarantee this match program.
- Accommodations: Superior First Class hotels in central areas (where applicable).
- More inclusions: meals, unique experiences and a personalized host who will pamper you and look after every detail.
- Pre-collected tips: (CAD $22 per person per day) collected with final payment so you don’t need to worry about any tipping. Your host will look after everything.
- Service as it should be: let us cater to the details that make for your fabulous adventures.
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Day by day
JAMBO - KARIBU!! You will be warmly met upon arrival at the airport with our traditional, unique & special welcome (bubbly, wet towels and presentation of authentic safari hat and a beautiful authentic canvas pouch filled with safari essentials). Transfer to your hotel in Nairobi. The rest of your time today is spent at leisure.
Overnight: Nairobi - Eka Hotel – Superior Room
AMKA! Wake Up! After a hearty breakfast, enjoy a visit to the Kazuri Women’s Beading Project. Kazuri, which means “small and beautiful” in Swahili, began in 1975 as a tiny workshop experimenting in hand crafted ceramic beads.
Today Kazuri has grown tremendously and now has a large workforce of over 340 women skilled in the crafting of ceramic beads, strung into beautifully and artistically jewelry. The flair has taken us to a different dimension of making our own unique range of pottery which reflects the culture and wildlife of Kenya. Each piece, like our beads, is handmade and hand painted in rich colors.
Tonight enjoy dinner with the Manji family.
Overnight: Nairobi - Eka Hotel – Superior Room
Meals: B, D
Today, enjoy an unforgettable experience on your visit to the Daphne Sheldrick Animal Orphanage and Karen Blixen Museum & Giraffe Centre. Lunch is at the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden.
Overnight: Nairobi - Eka Hotel – Superior Room
Meals: B, L
After breakfast, check out of your hotel. Then we will set off to Mount Kenya National Park arriving at our ‘tree lodge’ for lunch. Serena Mountain Lodge is situated in the shadow of Mt Kenya, Kenya's highest mountain. It is the only ‘tree hotel’ ever to be built on the slopes of Kenya’s legendary Mount Kenya. It offers a matchless game viewing opportunity whilst combining a glorious panorama of mountain vistas with the primordial splendors of an ancient rainforest.
Floating high on the flanks of Kenya’s highest mountain and secreted deep within her largest forest reserve, the lodge offers not only the champagne-clarity of mountain air, the tranquility of the forest and a colorful cavalcade of wildlife but also the chance of scaling the icy peaks of Africa’s second-highest mountain.
You can awake to the trumpeting of elephant, fall asleep to the symphony of the African night or sit in stillness and observe the fascinating interplay of the animals as they arrive to drink, bathe, spar and forage around the water hole.
Down the secret viewing hide by the water’s edge, you will experience the awesome thrill of being only meters away from some of the most massive beasts on earth - the savannah elephants. Enjoy dinner and overnight at the hotel.
Overnight: Mount Kenya National Park - Serena Mountain Lodge – DBL/TWN Room
Meals: B, L, D
Enjoy breakfast. Afterwards, spend this day at leisure.
OPTIONAL: you may proceed on a half day game viewing drive at the Ol Pejeta Conservancy ~ the combination of amazing wildlife and stunning views across the open plains of Ol Pejeta Conservancy guarantees an unforgettable safari experience. Return to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Overnight: Mount Kenya National Park - Serena Mountain Lodge – DBL/TWN Room
Meals: B, L, D
Depart and drive to Congreves Conservancy. Check-in at the lodge and have dinner. Spend the rest of your time at leisure.
Overnight: Congreves Conservancy - Mbweha Camp – Luxury Camp Room
Meals: B, L, D
Exclusive Enriching Lives Exclusive: After breakfast depart for an exciting day to experience life in a local community.
Enjoy lunch on your own arrangements.
Later on, depart for Lake Nakuru National Park to enjoy an afternoon game viewing drive.
Return to Mbweha Camp for dinner and overnight.
Overnight: Congreves Conservancy - Mbweha Camp – Luxury Camp Room
Meals: B, D
Drive to the Masai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. Arrive for lunch at your lodge.
Enjoy afternoon game viewing drive in this vast and expansive reserve teeming with game. Mara game reserve is famous for her big five; the most sought after in the early 20th century, when Kenya was a hunters' paradise. These include the lion, Cape buffalo, the savanna elephant, black rhino and the elusive leopard. The vast savanna grasslands as far as the eye can see is home to impalas, Maasai giraffes, waterbucks, wart hogs, Thompson & grand gazelles, topis, the resident wildebeests among many others.
Enjoy dinner and spend the night at your lodge
Overnight: Masai Mara Game Reserve - Mara Leisure Camp – DBL/TWN Room
Meals: B, L, D
Proceed on an early morning game viewing drive. Be on the look-out for the big five that Maasai Mara is famous for. These include the lion, savannah (African) elephant, the Cape buffalo, the leopard and the black rhino. Return to the camp for lunch and some leisure time. Return back to the camp for a late breakfast and some leisure time. Later in the afternoon, enjoy another game viewing drive before returning back to the camp for dinner and overnight.
OPTIONAL: Balloon safari over the Mara plains followed by a champagne breakfast OR visit a traditional Masai Manyatta (off the beaten track) and experience the culture of this world famous community. The Masai still live as they did for centuries – interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as you learn about their customs and traditions.
Overnight: Masai Mara Game Reserve - Mara Leisure Camp – DBL/TWN Room
Meals: B, L, D
After breakfast, depart with a picnic lunch for the Serengeti National Park. Enjoy a game viewing drive enroute to the lodge to check in late in the evening for dinner and overnight.
Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometres, the world famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park, and one of the world's last great wildlife refuges. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains game in Africa, including more than three million large mammals.
Overnight: Serengeti National Park - Serengeti Heritage Camp – Luxury Camp Room
Meals: B, L, D
AMKA! Wake up and enjoy an early morning game viewing drive on the vast Serengeti plains. Return for late lunch and enjoy the rest of the morning at leisure. Later in the afternoon proceed on an afternoon game viewing drive.
In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The Rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see is home to the black-maned lion, the savannah elephant, the Cape buffalo, wildebeests, the elusive leopard, cheetah ,the spotted & stripped hyena, the rhino, topi, Burchelle’s zebra, the Maasai giraffe among many others. Serengeti National Park is one that can never disappoint. One is spoilt by the variety of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve with game-viewing drives. Enjoy dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Overnight: Serengeti National Park - Serengeti Heritage Camp – Luxury Camp Room
Meals: B, L, D
After breakfast, we depart to Ngorongoro. We arrive at our lodge to a warm welcome, check-in then have lunch. This afternoon we relax and from our lodge enjoy the breath-taking spectacular views of the crater below.
Ngorongoro Crater has the largest unbroken caldera in the world. It is described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Enjoy dinner and overnight at crater lodge.
NOTE: Warm jacket/cardigan is highly recommended.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge – DBL Room
Meals: B, L, D
After breakfast we descend some 610 metres into the crater, which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise, for a half day game-viewing drive. Enjoy a picnic lunch at one of the allocated picnic sites in the crater.
The Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world teams with an abundance of wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Prides of lions, herds of Cape buffalo, rhino, giraffes, golden & black-backed jackal, zebra, cheetah, leopard and the spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plains.
Unmatched for its natural variety & breath-taking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exist inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area. It is also a home to hundreds of bird species including ostriches, guineafowl, pheasants, partridges, flamingos, doves, cranes and more refreshing in the small lakes in the crater floor.
After lunch, you will return to the Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. Upon returning to the lodge, you may spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure. Enjoy dinner at the lodge and spend the night.
Overnight: Ngorongoro Conservation Area - Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge – DBL Room
Meals: B, L, D
After a leisurely breakfast, you will depart for the Lake Manyara Serena Hotel. Check in for lunch and enjoy the rest of the afternoon and evening at leisure.
Have dinner and spend the night at the lodge.
Overnight: Lake Manyara - Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge – DBL Room
Meals: B, L, D
After a leisurely breakfast depart for Mto wa Mbu Village. Return to Lake Manyara Serena Hotel where the rest of the afternoon/evening is spent at leisure.
Overnight: Lake Manyara - Lake Manyara Serena Safari Lodge – DBL Room
Meals: B, L, D
Depart and drive to Arusha for lunch. Check in at the Lake Duluti Serena Lodge for overnight. Spend the rest of the day at leisure.
Overnight: Arusha - Lake Duluti Serena Lodge – DBL Room
Meals: B
After breakfast, check out of your hotel and transfer to the airport for your homebound flight.
SANA NA SAFARI NJEMA!
****END OF SERVICES****
Wishing you a memorable journey in Kenya & Tanzania!
Vehicles we use on Safari:
-Specially designed 4x4wd Safari Land cruiser
-Custom designed safari land cruiser with pop up roof for maximum game viewing. All vehicles equipped with long range two way HF radios linked to our main offices, cool boxes, reference guide books & UNLIMITED safe drinking water.
Luggage: PACK LIGHT! Luggage space in the SAFARI VEHICLE is strictly limited and as such we recommend per person - ONE piece of SOFT SIDED BAG (not bigger than 24-26inches) and a small flight carry-on that is comfortably carried on one’s person. Do NOT invest in anything that requires GENTLE HANDLING!
IMPORTANT Please Note:
-We highly recommend adequate travel insurance to be carried and our travel insurance policies are available upon request ONLY!
-Your passport must be valid for at least six months after your return date.
-You need a visa to enter Kenya & Tanzania. This maybe be obtained prior to arrival or at the airport.
-Contact your local health clinic or doctor to determine if any inoculations are required.
-Anti-malaria protection is required. Contact your doctor or health clinic.
-Comprehensive travel insurance is essential.
-Tour vouchers will be provided in Kenya & Tanzania respectively.
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What was included
Included
- 16 nights Accommodations
- Daily breakfast, 12 lunches & 13 dinners
- Meet in our unique style with wet towels and ‘bubbly’
- Complimentary Authentic Branded Safari Hat and safari essentials pack
- Full Board Accommodation while on safari
- Services of professional English Speaking guide-driver
- Unlimited mineral drinking water in the safari vehicle while on safari
- Game viewing drives as per program
- Use of a custom designed pop-up roof Safari Land Cruiser while on safari.
- Complimentary Flying Doctors coverage while on safari
- Airport transfers
- Meals where mentioned in the itinerary
- All national park entrance fees
- Masai village visit in between game drives in Masai Mara
- Transport and game drives in our 6-seater safari minibus
- Services of professional experienced English speaking driver-guide.
- All activities mentioned in the itinerary
Not included
- International or domestic airfare
- Kenya visa fee
- Tanzania Visa fees (approx US$ 50.00 per passport holder). Visas are available on arrival at all Entry point/s
- Travel insurance - we strongly recommend that comprehensive travel insurance be purchased for the duration of your journey to protect against any missed or delayed flights, illnesses etc that may cause cancellation of your travel plans.
- Excess baggage charges
- Optional sightseeing
- Departure taxes (subject to change)
- Additional meals and beverages
- Items of a personal nature such as telephone calls, room service, etc.
- Tips and Gratuities (prepaid with final payment)
- Donation to social charity foundations
- Concession fees (in case of any new fees introduce by parks without our knowledge)
- Peak or festive surcharge (if applicable)
- Local hotel/city tax (if applicable)
- Flying Doctors Covers you within East Africa for a period of 14 days. In the eventuality of a medical emergency, you will be airlifted to Nairobi where you will be taken to a good hospital. Hospital bills are born by the patient.
- Please note: Valid Yellow Fever Certificate is required for Entry into Tanzania
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