Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi is one of the largest and most influential cities in Africa, an important commercial and financial regional hub.
The only city in the world with a national park on its doorstep, Nairobi is the hub of East Africa and is packed with unique attractions, from bustling markets to fascinating historical sites such as the Karen Blixen Musuem.
Named after a Maasai watering hole, ‘enkare nyarobi’, which means ‘place of cool waters’, the city is also know for its leafy streets and parks. A modern city with towering skyscrapers and imposing architecture, Nairobi also boasts a beautiful skyline.
Arrival into Nairobi Jomo Kenyatta Airport and met by your English-speaking guide and transferred to your hotel.
Kenya’s capital city, Nairobi is one of the largest and most influential cities in Africa, an important commercial and financial regional hub.
The only city in the world with a national park on its doorstep, Nairobi is the hub of East Africa and is packed with unique attractions, from bustling markets to fascinating historical sites such as the Karen Blixen Musuem.
Named after a Maasai watering hole, ‘enkare nyarobi’, which means ‘place of cool waters’, the city is also know for its leafy streets and parks. A modern city with towering skyscrapers and imposing architecture, Nairobi also boasts a beautiful skyline.
Enjoy the remainder of your day at leisure to relax after your long flight with an overnight stay.
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Hemingways Hotel
After breakfast at the hotel. This morning, meet your English Speaking Guide and depart for panoramic city tour, including a visit to the Giraffe Center.
Lunch today is at Talisman Restaurant (included) - OR - if interested, lunch can be arranged at the Karen Blixen Museum.
Built in 1929, this is the flagship museum for the National Museums of Kenya, housing celebrated collections of Kenya’s history, nature, culture and contemporary art.
Continue to the Daphne Sheldricks Elephant Orphanage (currently closed but will go IF open)
You will have the opportunity to learn about the Orphans Project, participate in the Adopt an Elephant Program, and interact with the baby elephants at the nursery.
The Orphans’ Project exists to offer hope for the future of Kenya’s threatened elephant and rhino populations as they struggle against the threat of poaching for their ivory and horn, and the loss of habitat due to human population pressures and conflict, deforestation and drought.
Time permitting, a stop can be made at Kazuri Beads before returning to your hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
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Hemingways Hotel
At 06:00 hrs breakfast at the hotel thereafter
At 06:45 Transfer to Wilson airport for your onward flight to Amboseli National Park.
Amboseli National Park is well known for its herds of big tusked elephants.
A scenic park in its own right, Amboseli is synonymous with two particular things – majestic herds of elephant and glorious views of Mount Kilimanjaro in neighbouring Tanzania.
Kenya’s second most popular national park after the Masai Mara National Reserve, Amboseli was declared a UNESCO-Mab Biosphere Reserve in 1991.
During heavy rains, the basin at the centre of the park floods, attracting hordes of wildlife. The reserve is an excellent place to view the Big Five, as well as lesser known and rarer wildlife species.
07:30 hrs Depart on your scheduled flight Wilson to Amboselu.
08:20 hrs Met on arrival by camp representative and enjoy a transfer & Game drive en-route to your lodge followed by lunch at the lodge.
13:00hrs Afternoon game activities followed by dinner and overnight stay at the lodge.
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Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
At 06:30 hr breakfast at your lodge.Day will be spent at conservancy with game viewing.
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Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge
At 07:00 hrs breakfast at your lodge, thereafter tranfer to the local airstrip at 0800 hrs.
08:30 hrs Scheduled flight Amboseli to Wilson.
09:50 Arrival at Wilson and connect to your onward flight to Masai Mara National Park.
Situated in the southwest of Kenya, covering an area of 1,510 square km (583 square miles), the Masai Mara National Reserve is a land of breathtaking vistas, abundant wildlife and endless plains.
The quintessential Masai Mara safari delivers many attractions, as the reserve is home to an excellent year-round concentration of game, including the more than two million wildebeest, zebras and other antelopes that make up the famous Great Migration.
10:00 Depart on scheduled flight Wilson to Masai Mara
11:00 Met on arrival at local airstrip and enjoy a transfer & Game drive en-route to your lodge
13:00 Lunch at the lodge
15:00 Afternoon game drive. Shared games at Angama, Private games drives at Serena Safari Lodge Dinner and overnight stay at the lodge
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Mara Serena Safari Lodge
After breakfast day spent at Masai Mara game reserve with game viewing.
Shared games at Angama , private games drives at Serena Safari Lodge.
The reserve is a photographer’s and naturalist’s paradise, with abundant elephant, buffalo, giraffe, lion and cheetah alongside the migratory wildebeest and zebra. Leopards are frequently encountered, endangered black rhino hide in the dense thickets and large rafts of hippo and enormous crocodiles are found in the Mara River. The park is also home to over 450 bird species. Overnight stay.
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Mara Serena Safari Lodge
After breakfast, spent the day at Masai Mara game reserve with game viewing.
Shared games at Angama , private games drives at Serena Safari Lodge.
The reserve is a photographer’s and naturalist’s paradise, with abundant elephant, buffalo, giraffe, lion and cheetah alongside the migratory wildebeest and zebra. Leopards are frequently encountered, endangered black rhino hide in the dense thickets and large rafts of hippo and enormous crocodiles are found in the Mara River. The park is also home to over 450 bird species.
Overnight stay.
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Mara Serena Safari Lodge
After breakfast at the lodge at 08:15 hrs transfer to the airstrip for your flight to Serengeti National Park.
The Serengeti National Park, meaning “endless plains” in the Maasai language, is undoubtedly one of the world’s most celebrated wilderness areas and is an ongoing source of inspiration to writers, filmmakers and photographers.
It is Tanzania’s oldest game reserve, renowned as the site of the annual Great Migration, when an estimated three million antelope – mostly wildebeest — migrate to Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve.
08:45 Depart Mara-Olare Orok
09:30 Arrive at Migori for Kenyan immigration purposes
Thereafter drive across the border to Tarime in Tanzania for immigration purposes (60 to 80 minutes for total transfer and immigration procedures) and board your flight to Sasakwa.
At 11:30 hrs arrive at Serengeti Airstrip. On arrival into the airstrip you will be met by a lodge representative and transferred to your lodge.
At 13:00 hrs Lunch at the lodge.
At15:00 hrs Afternoon game drive.
Shared games at Singita Sasakwa , Private games drives at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.
19:30 Dinner at the lodge with overnight stay.
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Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
After breakfast , Enjoy game drives in Serengeti National Park
Shared games at Singita Sasakwa , Private games drives at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge.
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Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge
After breakfast, meet your English-speaking driver and depart for the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, with game viewing en-route.
The Ngorongoro Crater in Northern Tanzania, once a gigantic volcano, is the largest intact caldera in the world. Some maintain that before it erupted, it would have been higher than Mt Kilimanjaro, the highest peak in Africa.
Today, long since having collapsed and eroded, it is an extensive highland area with the famous 600 m deep Ngorongoro Crater as its focal point. Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth.
Arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. Enjoy the remainder of your day at leisure to relax or to take advantage of the lodge’s amenities. Overnight stay.
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Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
After early breakfast at 0700 hrs meet your english speaking guide and depart to Ngorongoro Crater for a private game drive with picnic lunch at the crater floor.
You will descend into the crater through a lush highland forest, with magnificent birdlife to be spotted among the different tree species. Once on the grassy crater floor, you may discover a large variety of grazing herbivores, as well as the predators that are attracted by this abundant supply of prey. Depending on the time of year, you may see huge flocks of pink flamingo around the shores of the shallow Lake Magadi, while hippo inhabits the surrounding swamp. Arrive to the lodge in time for dinner at 1930 hrs with overnight stay.
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Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
After breakfast transfer to the Lake Manyara airstrip for your departing flight home or onwards to your next destination
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Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Inclusion
Accommodation as specified in itinerary
Meals as specified in itinerary
Transfers as specified in itinerary
English Speaking Driver as specified in itinerary
English Speaking Guide as specified in itinerary
Services of an experienced English-speaking driver-guide
All entrance fees and guided excursions as described in itinerary
All park fees
1 litre bottled water per person per day
Exclusion
International Flights and Airport Taxes
Visa Fees (if applicable)
Medical & Travel Insurance
All expenses of personal nature
Any entrance fees and guided excursions not included in the above itinerary
Early Check In & Late Check Out
Internal & Domestic Flights (priced separately)
Note
Optionals on requests at additional cost.
NETT FLIGHT PRICE: priced from (subject to change)
per person (WILSON - AMBOSELI)
From To Adult
01/01/2023 31/03/2023 AUD 1009
01/04/2023 15/06/2023 AUD 935
16/06/2023 31/10/2023 AUD 1009
01/11/2023 20/12/2023 AUD 935
21/12/2023 31/12/2023 AUD 1009
per person (WILSON > MASAI MARA)
From To Adult
01/01/2023 31/03/2023 AUD 641
01/04/2023 15/06/2023 AUD 596
16/06/2023 31/10/2023 AUD 641
01/11/2023 20/12/2023 AUD 596
21/12/2023 31/12/2023 AUD 641
AUD 2224.00 per person (MASAI MARA > SERENGETI)
Hotels Used:
Hemingways Hotel 5*
Amboseli Serena Safari Lodge 4*
Mara Serena Safari Lodge 4*
Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge 4*
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge 4*
Easter Supplement
AUD 181 per person per night
Christmas Supplement (24/12/2023-26/12/2023 and 31/12/2023-01/01/2024)
AUD 211 per person per night
All quotes are subject to availability and change due to airfare increases, hotel rate increases, currency exchange fluctuations and any other unforeseen circumstances all without prior notice.
Please check and re-confirm all services on this itinerary with GGTS prior to final booking, failure to do so may result in incorrectly scheduled services for which GGTS will not be held responsible in any manner whatsoever.
Itinerary and journey times are close approximations and are subject to change without prior notice.
Light Aircraft Flights:
Baggage allowance is normally restricted between 15kg to 30 kg (depending on country, aviation supplier and seat class chosen) per passenger, inclusive of hand luggage in soft bags. Excess baggage will be charged at prevailing rates and only carried subject to space availability.
Timings in remote areas such as national parks may vary from day to day. It is very important that your clients ask their tour guide or lodge manager to reconfirm flights 24 hours before departure. This reconfirmation process will give the departure and arrival details for the flight(s) the following day and will save unnecessary waiting time and discomfort. Charter companies reserves the right to change departure times or carrier when so required for operational, weather or safety reasons.
Passenger weights limits apply for light aircraft flights and additional seats may be required if exceeding the weight limit. However, please let us know in advance if this is likely to apply so we can do whatever is possible to minimize the likelihood of this becoming an issue.
