Ultimate Top 14 days Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari 2025- 2026
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, 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.
Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari highlights
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 & birding
Day 11- Tarangire African elephants & Africa’s big 5
Day 12- transfer to Zanzibar
Day 13- 14- Zanzibar white sand beaches & resorts to departure
Detailed Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar safari itinerary
Day 1 Nairobi N.P
Arriving at the airport, you will be picked up by our guide and get you to your booked hotel for a brief rest and there after head out through Nairobi city to 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
Day 2 Lake Nakuru N.P
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; hottentot teal, bateleur, maccoa duck, pallid harrier, rupell’s vulture, shining sunbird, European roller, great snipe, western reef heron, red-capped lark, Abyssinian thrush, eastern imperial eagle, 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
Day 3-4 Masai Mara
Masai Mara park offers different safari experiences for example air balloon safaris, 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
Day 6-7 Serengeti N.P
On this day, you will head out to serengeti national park, the home of the great 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. don’t miss watching numerous lion families, elephant herds, wildebeests, zebras, buffaloes, giraffes, hippos, hyenas, leopards, cheetahs, waterbucks, gazelles, kobs, reptiles, wild dogs, foxes, vultures, eagles, turacos, secretary birds a few but to mention this endless list. 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
Day 8-9 Ngorongoro crater
This day will find you at 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
Today you will be at lake Manyara national park known for its tree climbing lions a behavior not common for lions and huge elephant herds. Lake Manyara that anchors the park’s ecosystem is a soda ash lake and attracts thousands of flamingos for food and residence making it a perfect biding haven. Other wild life in the park include 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 the wild. 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.
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. You will have a tour around the ancient slave trade and coastal traditions that have gone through several civilizations like the Arabic, Portuguese and British occupation in the past such as stone town along with activities that have remained unique to the island such as spice manufacturing and trade. This is one of the best ways to end an African safari. 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
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