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9 days
Daily Tour
10 people
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This 5-star luxury boutique is one of the finest hotels in Africa. The staff at Hemingways comprise a dedicated team of hotel and hospitality professionals with a shared vision of being Africa’s best luxury hotel. The hotel sits between Nairobi National Park and the foot of the Ngong Hills.
Further, Nairobi boasts of Nairobi National Park, a large game reserve known for breeding endangered black rhinos and hosts giraffes, zebras, and lions. Next to it is a famous elephant orphanage the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust manages. Among other popular destinations visitors frequent in Nairobi include Karen Blixen Museum, Giraffe Centre, Kazuri Beads Factory, Utamaduni Crafts, and The National Museum.
Enjoy breakfast and transfer to Wilson Airport for a one-hour flight to Amboseli National Park at Africa’s highest mountain’s feet, Kilimanjaro. At Amboseli Airstrip, your safari guide and will meet and take you for a short game drive on the way. Later, you head to Tortilis Camp to check into your luxurious tent.
Tortilis Camp is located in a private conservancy overlooking the Amboseli National Park and Mount Kilimanjaro, making it Amboseli’s favorite hub. The camp is named after the flat-topped umbrella thorn tree, the Acacia Tortilis, and embraces a hill in one of Amboseli’s areas of Acacia Tortilis woodland. Your visit here features unforgettable game drives, nature walks, sundowners, and bush meals inside the national park and the conservancy.
Your luxury tour lets you enjoy whole-day game drives with a picnic lunch in Amboseli. With grasslands crossing Kenya and Tanzania border, this park is a popular choice to get close to free-ranging elephants. Huge elephant herds with their giant tusks roam freely through the swampy areas. Amboseli is also famous for its dramatic views of Mount Kilimanjaro and captivating landscapes. The iconic park also comprises acacia groves and golden savannah plains.
A series of emerald green swamps, which the Kilimanjaro’s melting snows feed, is nearby for your enjoyment. The snowmelt supplies water to numerous elephants, hippos, buffaloes, and plain wildlife. Its patchwork of dusty plains and marshlands forms the heart of a vast ecosystem covering the surrounding Maasai lands.
You can watch wildlife roaming around this vast ecosystem beyond Amboseli National Park during rainy seasons. In dry seasons, most wildlife concentrates in the park. You can also spot large herbivores such as elephants, wildebeests, zebras, and gazelles. Predators such as lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are also visible during morning and afternoon game drives. You enjoy all meals and your night at Tortilis Camp Amboseli.
After breakfast, you’ll leave the Amboseli Game Reserve on a planned flight direct to the Maasai Mara Game Reserve. On your arrival at OL Kiombo Airstrip, your driver-guide will meet and drive you for a short game drive en-route to Kichwa Tembo Tented Camp to check into your tent. The luxury camp lies on the western border of the game-rich Maasai Mara National Reserve in a private concession.
Besides its excellent year-round wildlife concentration, accessing the private conservancy promotes bush walks, night drives, bush dining, and sundowners. The camp overlooks the Maasai Mara’s open plains, Kenya’s favorite game sanctuary and home to abundant wildlife species. Kichwa Tembo lies on Oloololo Escarpment’s edge, where a riverine forest and large plains intersect. Here, you can enjoy a perfect view of the Great Migration. Accommodation features artistically designed and secluded luxury tents in the forest, granting absolute wilderness privacy and tranquility.
Your Mara visit lets you enjoy whole-day game drives with picnic lunches. The Mara is Kenya’s most outstanding luxury safari destination, where over 450 animal species live. It’s a magnificent landscape of open plains the Mara River bisects with its tributaries, not to mention its lush marshes and forests.
This world-renowned wildlife sanctuary is known for its large lion populations, hosts all the Big Five, and supports the highest wildlife density. You can easily spot lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffes, wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, leopards, various antelope types, and elephants here.
You can witness the annual Great Migration, one of the world’s most spectacular natural phenomena. Yearly, about two million wildebeests, numerous zebras, Grant's gazelles, Thompson's gazelles, elands, and impalas cross from the Serengeti to the Maasai Mara and back again seeking fresh pasture. Savannah predators like lions, cheetahs, wild dogs, jackals, hyenas, and vultures follow on their heels.
You’ll take your breakfast and transfer to the airstrip to catch your flight to Migori at the Kenya-Tanzania border. After routine customs and immigration formalities at Isebania Border Post, you’ll take another flight to the Serengeti National Park. Upon landing, your hosts will meet you in the camp’s 4×4 safari vehicle and transfer you to Nimali Serengeti Camp.
Nimali Serengeti lies at the heart of the Serengeti plains and constitutes the Serengeti-Mara ecosystem. It lies close to Makoma Hill, and it’s secluded to offer complete privacy. Its location also lets you witness the Great Migration. The Makoma Hill area is famous for its huge buffalo and elephants herds, giraffes, and predators like lions, cheetahs, and hyenas.
Many other little hills and kopjes mark the landscape, providing favorite hubs for lions to warm and refresh themselves on smooth rock surfaces. You drive into the wild for nostalgic wildlife after enjoying your lunch before returning around sunset for dinner.
On day seven, you enjoy game drives in the Serengeti, which in the Maasai language means “endless plains.” The park lies on Tanzania’s northwest and supports a huge wildlife diversity and abundance. You can view the Big Five, impalas, kongonis, topis, and elands. Its uniquely diverse habitats support over 30 large herbivores species and some 500 bird species.
It features open grass plains in the south, hilly wooded grasslands in the north, black clay plains to its west. It’s also rich in savannah, acacia trees, woodlands, small rivers, lakes, and swamps. Therefore, predators like lions, cheetahs, leopards, wild dogs, jackals, and spotted hyenas love it.
After breakfast, you will check out and transfer to Seronera Airstrip to catch your flight to Manyara Airstrip. This airstrip serves safari camps in Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Your host will meet you at the airstrip then drive you to Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon game drive with a picnic lunch. Lake Manyara National Park lies between the Rift Valley's western escarpment and Lake Manyara’s shallow alkaline water. The park is popular for its flamingos, pelicans, and cormorants and hosts over 400 other bird species.
The park hosts the famous tree-climbing lions, leopards, zebras, bushbucks, waterbucks, hippos, wildebeests, giraffes, numerous blue monkeys, and baboons. After game viewing, you’ll drive to Sanctuary Ngorongoro Camp to spend your night. Sanctuary Ngorongoro lies in an ancient acacia forest on Ngorongoro Crater’s rim and offers excellent accommodation in roomy canvas tents for intimate privacy. The camp’s location near the crater rim’s road facilitates easy access to the crater’s floor.
On your final day, you will start your journey to the crater’s floor at dawn. There, you will enjoy viewing Africa’s Big Five and other animals like zebras, buffaloes, warthogs, wildebeests, hippos, and elephants. Other predators like hyenas, jackals, and cheetahs are also here in plenty.
You’ll enjoy your lunch before being driven to Arusha or Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO) to board your departure flight back home.