Day 1: Arrival in Nairobi
Your Epic Uganda Vacation guide will meet & welcome you at the airport then transfer to hotel for relaxation.
Accommodation at Eka Hotel/similar
Meal Plan: Dinner and bed
Day 2: Nairobi city tour
Nairobi comes from the Masai word, “Enkare Nyrobi” meaning the “place of cool water”. This day after your breakfast you will proceed on a Nairobi City Tour. The Nairobi City Tour is very interesting; you’ll be impressed by the contrasts of old and new in this cosmopolitan city. You will begin with the Nairobi National Museum and the Snake Park which can take you two hours or so to complete. Afterwards proceed to the Nairobi View point where you can have a spectacular view of the City. The pictures taken from here are always breath taking. This gives you a view to the famed Uhuru Park, Central Park and the sky crappers of the Nairobi City Centre. In the afternoon visit the famed Karen Blixen Museum the home of “out of Africa” book and movie series and afterwards proceed to the Giraffe Centre. This is home to the Rothschild Giraffe where you can witness this magnificent animal and time allowing you can have an opportunity of feeding it. Later you will be transferred back to your hotel for overnight.
Overnightat Eka Hotel/similar. Meal Plan: Breakfast,Lunch, Dinner and bed
Day 3 & 4: Transfer to Masai Mara national park
The next two days shall be spent game viewing, either in the early morning hours or in the evening as this is when we have the best chances of seeing animals. On clear days, Masai Mara offers fantastic orange tinted sunsets and you will definitely want to capture this moment while sipping on a sundowners back at your lodge. The Mara reserve is 1510 sq km of incredible wide-open landscapes and fertile riverine woodland following the looping meanders of the Mara and Talek rivers. Wherever you go in the Mara you are likely to see a frequent amount of wildlife such as Masai giraffe, baboons, warthogs, bat eared foxes, grey jackals, spotted hyena, topis, impala, hartebeests, wildebeest. Elephants, buffaloes, zebras and hippos also exist in great numbers. It is also common to see lions either basking after a heavy meal, or surveying the plains for their next meal. Cheetahs and leopards are harder to spot but are still reasonably common.
The ultimate action here is without doubt the annual wildebeest exodus in July and August when millions of these grass eaters move north from the Serengeti in search of lusher grass before turning south again in October. Balloon trips are an entirely outstanding way of seeing the savannah plains, wildlife after which you come back down for a rich Bush breakfast while viewing thousands of wildlife grazing in the surrounding environment
Overnight at Mara Sopa lodge/similar
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch , Dinner and bed
Day 5 & 6: Transfer to Serengeti National park-Tanzania
Early departure with picnic lunches to the Kenya Tanzania border (Isebania). After border formalities, proceed to Serengeti from Isebania. After the entrance formalities at the park gate, continue to our hotel with game drive enroute.
Serengeti National Park which is
probably the biggest conservation area on planet covering an area of 14763
square kilomentres that borders Kenya’s masai mara national park, most famous
and most visited savannah in Africa. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass,
tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the
quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes
are home to rich ecosystems, and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the
plains support is staggering.
Overnight
at the Serengeti Safari Lodge/similar
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner and bed
Day 7: Game drive and transfer to Ngorongoro craters
Enjoy your early morning game drive at Serengeti, then transfer go Ngorongoro via the Olduvai gorge where its believed the cradle of mankind were found. The Ngorongoro Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ a visit to the crater is a main draw card for tourists coming to Tanzania and a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim, large herds of zebra and wildebeest graze nearby while sleeping lions laze in the sun. At dawn, the endangered black rhino returns to the thick cover of the crater forests after grazing on dew-laden grass in the morning mist. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Maasai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries. Descend to the rim of the carter for your half day of game viewing.
Overnight at the Ngorongoro Safari Lodge
Meal Plan: Bed, Breakfast, Lunch , Dinner and bed
Day 8: Early morning game drive and airport Departure
Early morning game drives then return to the camp for breakfast. After breakfast drive to Arusha. Lunch in Arusha – drop off at the airport to board a flight back home.