Ultimate Top 14 days Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari
Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari overview
Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari will get you Africa’s diversity from the world’s highest wild game and birding concentration granting you special experiences for example game drives, hot air balloons, birding, staycation facilities, photography, videography, walking safaris, cultural tours, hiking, wildebeest migration among others according to your inspiration. This safari will get you end this African trip in the bets way possible at white sand beaches along the Indian ocean and beach resorts.
Arrival and departure: Nairobi/ Dar-es-salaam
- Day 1- arrive, Nairobi park -game drives & evening city tour
- Day 2- l. Nakuru & flamingos
- Day 3-4- Masai Mara wilderness & wildebeest migration
- Day 5- transfer to Serengeti
- Day 6-7- Serengeti wild game concentration & Africa’s big 5
- Day 8-9- Ngorongoro crater game drives
- Day 10- L. Manyara flamingos -tree climbing lions & bird watching
- Day 11- Tarangire African elephants & Africa’s big 5
- Day 12- transfer to Zanzibar
- Day 13- 14- Zanzibar white sand beaches & resorts to departure
What are the top experiences on Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari?
The Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari is one of Africa’s most perfect & complete wildlife adventure blending safari game drives, special tours and vacation holidays. After this safari, you will appreciate the continent’s beautiful nature and wildlife concentration capacity. Some of the highlights to watch out on this safari experience include:-
- Flamingos; Painting the shores of lake Nakuru pink, thousands of pink flamingos live on the shores feeding on algae and making this lake one of the world’s top birdwatching destinations.
- Wildebeest migration; More than 1.5 million ungulates traverse both Serengeti game park in Tanzania & Masai Mara game reserve in Kenya every year as one of the world’s greatest mammal movement is a great wildlife tour experience.
- Air balloon tours; Flights in air balloons over the savannah, watching birds and animals wake up from their nests & dens is a super photographic experience accompanied with a bush breakfast dining.
- Ngorongoro crater; Located in the world’s largest caldera with lush green that attracts numerous wildlife animals offers magnificent wild game viewing.
- Africa’s big 5 game; Great sightings of these majestic beasts (lions, leopards, elephants, buffaloes & rhinos) in their natural habitat is a unique experience for all travelers from all over the world on game drives.
- White sand beaches; Relaxation sessions in the Indian ocean off the East African coast with white sand beaches, classic resorts, sea food cuisines, scuba diving etc. will guarantee great endings for this Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari.
Detailed Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari itinerary
Arriving at the airport, you will be picked up by our guide and get you to your preferred lodge in Nairobi national park which is just 7km outside the city. The park has numerous bird species and numerous migrant species especially during the time between June and August adding to the more than 400 resident species making it a true birding haven in Africa. Along with mammal species for example Africa’s big 5, giraffes, hippos, ostriches, hartebeests, waterbucks, hyenas, kobs, reptiles among others. This park will give you a unique scenery of the existing interdependency of nature and its wild with modernity. The later afternoon hours will get you back to Nairobi city for a city tour and night life experience.
Accommodation: JW Marriott hotel (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Lake Nakuru which one of the world’s highest bird concentrated areas with more than a million flamingos, storks, geese, ducks among others residing at this shallow lake. The shallowness of lake Nakuru easily exposes algae which acts as food to flamingos and other water birds thus making it a favorite place for them to stay. The pink colored flamingoes flying and settling in huge numbers make this lake one of the most colorful destinations in the world to visit. Other bird species include hottentot teal, bateleur, maccoa duck, pallid harrier, rupell’s vulture, shining sunbird, European roller, long crested eagle among others. Along the birds are mammals such as buffaloes, kobs, water bucks, antelopes, giraffes, baboons, monkeys, reptiles among others. Towards evening time, you will drive out of Nakuru getting closer to the Masai Mara.
Accommodation: Lake Nakuru lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Masai Mara park famously known for its wildebeest migration processions that occur every year. The Maras offer different safari experiences for example air balloon tours, game drives, horse riding safaris and walking safaris with the masai people. The park is a vast green grassland anchored by woodland, swamps, forest species, acacia and the mara river that have maintained an effective eco-system that is a habitat to huge number of wild game. The concentration of wild game in this park will give non-stop action packed safari drives all throughout of Africa’s big 5 game; lions, leopards, cheetahs, elephants, buffaloes, along with rhinos, kobs, hyenas, hartebeests, wildebeests, zebras, giraffes, waterbucks, reptiles, warthogs, monkeys, baboons, crocodiles, hippos, wild dogs, ostriches and numerous bird species all over the park.
Accommodation: Mara river lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Day 5 transfer to Serengeti
On this day you will head out of masai mara game reserve and embark on a journey across the border from Kenya to serengeti in Tanzania.
Accommodation: Serengeti safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
On this day, you will head from your lodge into Serengeti national park, the home of the great wildebeest migration. Never disappointing right from the time of entry till exit, this park is one of the largest parks in Africa and in the world and one of those with the highest concentration of wild game per square km in the world ranging from the Africa’s big 5 to the ugly 5 and more than 500 bird species. With huge lion prides, elephant herds, wildebeests, cheetahs, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, leopards, cheetahs, waterbucks, gazelles, kobs, reptiles, wild dogs. The tour around this park will leave you satisfied by its nature and habitats.
Accommodation: Serengeti safari lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
This day will find you at the Ngorongoro wilderness, the world’s largest crater and its vegetation that gets look like the “garden of Eden” will leave you amazed with the large number of wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, hippos, elands, kobs, bush bucks, waterbucks, rhinos among others and numerous bird species such as turaco, great kingfisher, abdim’s stork, white-backed vulture among others; along with various features such as Ndutu plains, Gol mountain, Endoro waterfalls, Olduvai gorge, shifting sands among others. This part of the planet also holds evidence of human existence millions of years ago.
Accommodation: Marera Valley lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Day 10 Lake Manyara
Lake Manyara national park known for its tree climbing lions & anchored by Lake Manyara’s ecosystem is a soda ash lake and attracts thousands of flamingos for food and residence making it a perfect birding haven. Other wild life in the park include lions, elephants, leopards, cheetahs, hippos, buffaloes, giraffes, oribis, hyenas, gazelles, kobs, waterbucks, zebras, and many more numerous bird species.
Accommodation: Lake Manyara wildlife lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
On this day, you will head to Tarangire national park to continue enjoying amazing discoveries of Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari. The park is enriched with Africa’s big 5 game; lions, leopards, elephants, cheetahs, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, baboons, hyenas, wildebeests, zebras, crocodiles in the Tarangire river that anchors the park’s ecosystem, gazelles, kobs, water bucks, warthogs among others. The other exceptional siting would be of the ancient baobab trees that are scattered all over the park. The park is also resident to over 550 bird species making it a worthy birding destination.
Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa lodge (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
Day 12 transfer to Zanzibar
On this day you will set off on a 10-hour journey to Zanzibar island via Dar es salaam coastal city to continue with your Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari.
Accommodation: Golden tulip hotel (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
You will be able to engage in various activities during your stay there such as; scuba diving, swimming, kite rafting, horse riding, nature walks, sea creature viewing like sea turtles, dolphins, corals among others, spot fishing, enjoying sea food cuisines and coconut cocktails, beach sports, camp fires among others, have a view rare species such as servaline genet, red colobus and bird species such as; African barred owlet, malachite kingfisher, house crow, mosque swallow, pied kingfisher, gray heron, great egret, striated heron, African jacana, African darter, little grebe, African pygmy goose, African pied wagtail among others. Towards the end of the second day you will head back to Dar es salaam for your departure.
Accommodation: Lux Marijani (or a similar one)
Meals: Breakfast | lunch| Dinner
When is the best time for a Kenya to Tanzania and Zanzibar island safari?
Summer/ dry months of June- October and December- February are the best moments for a visit on a combined Kenya and Tanzania safari blended with white sand beach holidays on Zanzibar island in the Indian ocean off the East African coast. Its during these dry months that the savannah grasslands are short and clear with great sightings of wild animals. Start planning your safari with our travel experts at Travitude safari tours to include all your inspirations in your Africa travel itinerary.
Your safari route map;
Inclusions
- Park entry fees
- Airport transfers
- Domestic flights
- Driver & guide
- Government taxes
- Bottled drinking water/ Refreshments
- All activities indicated in the itinerary
- Transport 4×4 safari landcruiser
Exclusions
- International flights
- Travel insurance
- Visa fees & processing
- Extra luggage on domestic flights
- Tipping & gratitude
- Souvenir & snacks
- Accommodation after the end of the trip
- Extra activities, meals, alcohol/liquor
- Any changes to the itinerary
- Anything not mentioned
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