Combined Kenya & Tanzania

9 Days Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Manyara, Ngorongoro & Serengeti Budget Safari

9 Days Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Manyara, Ngorongoro & Serengeti Budget Safari is a privately guided safari across Kenya and Tanzania, connecting Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro in one well-paced…

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Duration9 days · 8 nights
Safari styleCombined Kenya & Tanzania
DestinationsKenya, Lake Manyara National Park, Lake Nakuru National Park, Masai Mara National Reserve, Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Serengeti National Park, Tanzania
PlanningPrivate & flexible

The journey at a glance

Tour Overview

9 Days Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Manyara, Ngorongoro & Serengeti Budget Safari is a privately guided safari across Kenya and Tanzania, connecting Masai Mara, Lake Nakuru, Lake Manyara, Serengeti and Ngorongoro in one well-paced 9-day experience.

Expect rewarding wildlife viewing, changing scenery and the character of each destination, with the route arranged for smooth transfers and unhurried time in the places that matter most.

Thoughtful pacingTravel time and experiences balanced carefully.
Local supportA Kenya-based team from planning to journey home.
Made personalDates, stays and details can be shaped around you.

Day by day

Tour Itinerary

Open each day to explore the route, experiences, meals and overnight arrangements.

Day 01Day 01 Nairobi-Masai Mara

Pick up from your hotel in the morning at 7.30 am and head west for Maasai Mara Game Reserve for lunch at your tented camp followed by afternoon game drive in the game reserve which is Kenya’s finest wildlife sanctuary. Including migrants, well over 450 species of animals have been recorded here. Although July, August and September are the months when the Mara plains are filled with migrating wildebeest and zebra, there is also resident wildlife year round. The famous Maasai tribesmen live within the dispersal area of the game reserve. Dinner and overnight at the Masai Mara Camp.

Day 02Day 02 Masaai Mara

After breakfast full day spent game viewing a cross the rich, tree studded grassland and rolling hills. The famous mara is renowned for its great herds of plain game, black-manned lions, leopard and cheetah but also contains numerous elephant and virtually every type of wild life to be found in Kenya, lunch is served in the park at the Mara river, the boarder of Kenya and Tanzania and the scene for yearly wildebeest migration, after luch continue with your game drive covering the park into sections, return to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Day 03Day 03 Masaai Mara-Lake Nakuru

Pre breakfast game drive, return to campsite for late breakfast and leave your campsite and proceed to L.Nakuru arriving in the late afternoon for dinner and overnight in Nakuru.

Day 4Day 4 Lake Nakuru-Nairobi

After early morning breakfast proceed for an extensive game drive in Lake Nakuru National park. The park is known to be the bird’s sanctuary, it is so called the pink lake because the entire surface of the lake is covered by both the lesser and greater flamingoes, this park is also known for it’s big five excluding the Elephants, it is the only park in Kenya where you are assured of seeing both the white and the black rhinos. Leave Lake Nakuru after lunch for Nairobi arriving late afternoon for overnight at a hotel on full board basis.

Day 5Day 5 Nairobi-Arusha-Lake Manyara.

Pick up from your hotels in Nairobi at 5.00 am for an early drive to Arusha with a stopover at the Namanga border post for imigration formalities, arrive in Arusha around 9:00 am and proceed to Lake Manyara National Park for game drive. A good network of tracks and roads in the park allows excellent game viewing opportunities. Animals seen include buffalo and elephant. Other animals present that can be seen with luck are the tree climbing lions, leopard and black rhino. Lesser flamingos and Egyptian geese are some of the birds seen here. All meals and overnight at the camp.

Day 6Day 6 Lake Manyara - Ngorongoro Crater

After breakfast, leave Lake Manyara for Ngorongoro crater arriving in the early afternoon, descend 2000 ft (670m) into the crater floor for a full afternoon crater tour with break for lunch at Ngoitoktok springs picnic site. Black manned lions, rhinos, buffaloes, elephants and other grazing animals abound. Evening game drive, return to Ngorongoro wildlife campsite for dinner and overnight.

Day 7Day 7 Ngorongoro Crater-Serengeti

Leave Ngorongoro crater after breakfast for Serengeti National park arriving in time for lunch after lunch proceed for afternoon game drive in this unique park to see the many animals that are found here, dinner and overnight at Serengeti Seronera campsite or similar.

Day 8Day 8 Serengeti

Morning and afternoon game drive in the Serengeti with a lunch and leisure break at the lodge or campsite in the mid afternoon .The term ‘serengeti’ means endless plains in maasai language. In the central plains there are carnivores like, leopards, hyena and cheetah. This park is normally the scene of the annual migration of the wildebeest and zebras, which occurs between Serengeti and kenya’s maasai mara game reserve. Eagles, Flamingoes, duck, geese, vultures are among the birds that can be seen in the park, Dinner and overnight in your campsite.

Day 9Day 9 Serengeti National park- Arusha

After breakfast leave the campsite or lodge for your last game viewing on your way out of Serengeti National Park to drive to Arusha via Mto wa Mbu village where the tour ends in the afternoon with sweet memories

Know before you go

Inclusions & Exclusions

Tour Includes

  • Private safari transport in a custom 4x4 vehicle
  • Services of a professional English-speaking safari guide
  • Accommodation and meals as described in the itinerary
  • Scheduled game drives and sightseeing in the itinerary
  • Park and conservation-area entrance fees for listed visits
  • Airport and inter-destination transfers described in the itinerary
  • Bottled drinking water while on safari

Tour Excludes

  • International flights and airport taxes
  • Entry visas, travel insurance and required vaccinations
  • Tips and gratuities for guides, drivers and camp or lodge staff
  • Optional activities and excursions not stated in the itinerary
  • Alcoholic and soft drinks, laundry and other personal expenses
  • Items or services not specifically mentioned as included
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“An unbelievable experience with the best guide!”

Every day was unique. Our guide knew every corner of the Mara and answered all our questions.

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