EAST AFRICA SAFARI

Nairobi:

• Today your adventure begins. You’ll meet your guides and your fellow travellers, and then we’ll load up the safari vehicles and be on our way.

Maasai Mara National Reserve:

• Passing through the Great Rift Valley, we’ll get to our Maasai Mara lodge just in time for lunch – and then head out for our first game drive. Keep your eyes peeled for wildlife large and small as we make our way across those magnificent rolling hills.

Sentrim Mara (or similar)

Included Meals: Lunch, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take an Evening Game Drive in the Maasai Mara MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Maasai Mara National Reserve:

• After an early breakfast, you’ll get the chance to head out on a hot air balloon ride to check out the African Savannah as the sun rises. Then, after a champagne breakfast to top it all off, you’ll rejoin the morning’s game drive. At midday, we’ll head back to the lodge for lunch and a swim, and then embark on our second game drive this afternoon – in search of Africa’s elusive big cats. The Maasai Mara is the setting for one of nature’s greatest phenomena: The Great Migration. If you’re here at the right time of year, you’ll have the chance to witness millions of wildebeest and zebras en route to greener pastures.

Sentrim Mara (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take a morning Game Drive in the Maasai Mara MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Take another afternoon Game Drive in the Maasai Mara MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Maasai Mara Balloon Safari

Maasai Mara National Reserve:

• Rise and shine, Kenyan explorers! With the Maasai Mara lodged firmly in our memories (and our hearts), we’ll make our way back to Nairobi this morning – where plenty more magic awaits.

Nairobi:

• This afternoon we head back to Nairobi, where something truly special awaits us. We’ll visit the Kibera Slum to see the incredible work being done by the Mirror of Hope Foundation – working to break the cycle of poverty through education, helping the women and children to improve their quality of life. Afterwards, the afternoon is yours to relax and choose from a variety of hotel restaurants with views of the Nairobi National Park.

2.5.4. Ole Sereni (or similar

Included Meals: Breakfast

Included Experience:

• Support Mirror of Hope MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Nairobi:

• Back in Nairobi, we’ll have the chance to take a unique game drive in Nairobi National Park. Keep your eyes peeled for waterholes, cityscapes and the elusive white rhino too. We’ll also visit the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant rehabilitation centre to watch baby elephants play and bathe in the water (the most beautiful chaotic mess you’ll ever encounter), and hear the fascinating story of their road to recovery too.

Amboseli:

• After a picnic lunch and a visit to a local Curio shop, we’ll head for our lodge (right on the edge of the Amboseli National Park, might we add, with views of Mt Kilimanjaro too!) to enjoy a delicious included dinner.

Sentrim Amboseli (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Additional Cost Applies:

• Encounter Wild Rhinos & Rescued Elephants at Nairobi National Park

Amboseli:

• After our morning’s buffet breakfast, we will do a short safari walk to a Maasai village, guided by Masaai warriors as they teach us about their culture and everyday lives co-existing with wild animals. After lunch we will head out to Amboseli National Park, famous for its iconic shots of elephants and wildlife feeding in the foreground while the peak of Africa rises in the background: Mt Kilimanjaro. It’s a photographer’s dream, and it’s all yours. Our final dinner in Kenya will be included back at the lodge.

Sentrim Amboseli (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take a Game Drive in Amboseli National Park MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Maasai Village Tour, Amboseli MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Amboseli:

• This morning we will have one final game drive in Amboseli before we head across to the Tanzanian border. We say goodbye to our Kenyan guides as we are welcomed by our Tanzanian guides and drive to the town of Arusha.

Via Arusha:

• Here we will visit the Shanga Community Project, offering employment opportunities to disabled community members through arts and crafts.

Tarangire National Park:

• After lunch we will head off to our first lodge and national park in Tanzania – Tarangire. Famed for its two African giants; the elephant and baobab trees.

Roika Tented Camp (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Visit Shanga Community Project MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Take a morning Game Drive in Amboseli MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Tarangire National Park:

• An early start this morning will take us into the Tarangire National Park for a full day, in the hopes for a glimpse of some of its elusive predators and changing landscapes. We’ll stay here for most of the day with a packed lunch provided to give us the most opportunity of exploring this wildlife wilderness. Afterwards, we’ll visit a Maasai village, meeting some of the locals to learn all about their customs and way of life. There’ll be a buffet dinner tonight too, so be sure to save some room!

Roika Tented Camp (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take a Game Drive in Tarangire MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Maasai Village Tour, Tarangire MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Tarangire National Park:

• After breakfast we’ll set out in our safari vehicles to our next destination: the Serengeti.

Serengeti:

• We take in views of the Rift valley and the rim of Ngorogoro Crater as we make our way to the main gate of the Serengeti, stopping off to visit Mto Wa Mbu Village and a local market. We’ll drive through the endless plains of this vast reserve to reach our accommodation for the night. Tonights accommodation will be a safari-style lodge in the middle of the Serengeti. A buffet meal will be served for dinner, and you’re free to sit outside and listen to the sounds of nocturnal animals waking up to forage or hunt, all while sitting under the bright canopy of stars in the African sky.

Kon tiki Serengeti Camp (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take an afternoon Game Drive in the Serengeti MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Serengeti:

• We’ll spend a full day seeking out the game of Africa’s plains, with predators in hot pursuit of their prey. If the wildebeest migration is around, then you are in for a wildlife treat: millions of wildebeest and zebra grazing for as far as the eye can see really is one of Africas’ greatest spectacles to observe. If you want to make today even more unforgettable, you can opt in for a once-in-a-lifetime Balloon safari. A buffet dinner awaits us back at our safari camp.

Kon tiki Serengeti Camp (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take a morning Game Drive in the Serengeti MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Take another afternoon Game Drive in the Serengeti MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Additional Cost Applies:

• Serengeti Balloon Safari

Serengeti:

• Enjoy some breakfast before we depart the Serengeti with a morning game drive on our way to our next destination, the Ngorogoro Crater.

Ngorongoro Crater:

• In the late morning we reach the Ngorogoro Crater, an ancient volcano, boasting one of the highest densities of predators stalking the abundant wildlife enclosed inside the volcano’s centre. We’ll stop here for a picnic lunch before we ascend the plateau. A true natural wonder, only found in Africa

Eileen’s Tree Inn (or similar)

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Included Experience:

• Take another morning Game Drive in the Serengeti MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience
• Take a Game Drive through Ngorongoro Crater MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® Experience

Ngorongoro Crater:

• Its our last day on safari and our last chance for some wildlife viewing. Opt to jump on one last game drive to Lake Manyara National Park.

Via Lake Manyara:

• Renowned for its famed tree-climbing lions, Lake Manyara is a completely different ecosystem to the other parks we have visited with grassy floodplains and massive forests to spot unique wildlife and bird-life to this region.

Arusha:

• With full hearts and memories made, it’s time to say fond farewells to your new lifelong friends, and to our African adventure.

Included Meals: Breakfast, Lunch

Additional Cost Applies:

• Take a Game Drive on Lake Manyara