Discover the greatest wildlife destinations across Kenya and Tanzania on this ten day luxury private safari. From the rhino sanctuary of Lake Nakuru to the drama of the Masai Mara, then across the border into the Serengeti and Ngorongoro, every night is spent at a hand-picked luxury lodge or tented camp with exceptional service and cuisine.
Your private guide meets you at your Nairobi hotel or Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and drives north to Lake Nakuru National Park. You arrive in time for a long afternoon game drive along the lakeshore and through the surrounding woodland, where rhinoceros sightings are frequent and the birdlife is extraordinary. The afternoon light on the flamingo flocks creates photographic moments that are difficult to replicate elsewhere. You are escorted to your luxury lodge inside the park for dinner and overnight.
After breakfast you leave Lake Nakuru and drive southwest to the Masai Mara National Reserve. The journey crosses the Rift Valley floor and climbs through rolling Maasai grazing lands before descending to the reserve boundary. You spend the afternoon on your first Masai Mara game drive, exploring the open plains near the river crossings and the grassland flats where cheetahs hunt in full view. An evening game drive after dinner extends your wildlife viewing into the nocturnal hours, revealing a completely different cast of species. Overnight at your luxury tented camp.
A full day in the Masai Mara with three activity options: a guided walking safari with an armed escort in the morning, a long game drive in the central reserve during mid-morning, and an afternoon drive targeting predator activity near the river. Walking in the Mara gives you access to a completely different scale of experience: tracks, insects, birds and the smell and sound of the bush register with an intensity that is impossible from inside a vehicle. Your luxury camp serves a celebratory bush dinner in the evening.
A final pre-dawn drive in the Masai Mara captures the best of the early morning light before you return for a late breakfast and begin the drive towards Tanzania. The Isebania border crossing is handled by your guide who manages all documentation and immigration procedures, leaving you free to watch the landscape change as you cross into Tanzania. You enter the Serengeti through the western corridor in the early afternoon and spend the remaining hours on game drives in the park.
Your first full day in the Serengeti begins at sunrise with morning drives in the Seronera River valley, the geographic and ecological heart of the park. The permanent water here draws wildlife year-round, making this zone reliably productive regardless of season. Leopards are frequently spotted resting in the broad horizontal branches of sausage trees and figs along the riverbank, while the surrounding open plains are prime hunting grounds for cheetahs and a known corridor for the migration herds between July and October. The luxury tented camp inside the park means you are in position before most other vehicles.
Your guide adjusts the day's route based on the latest intelligence about wildlife movement, ensuring you are positioned where activity is greatest. A full day of game drives covers different habitats within the central Serengeti, from the kopjes where lion prides shelter their cubs to the open grasslands where wildebeest herds of extraordinary size graze and move. A bush breakfast and a picnic lunch are served in the field, maximising time in the park and minimising unnecessary travel.
A morning game drive in the Serengeti is followed by the drive southeast to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The route ascends through highland forest and open montane grassland, passing Maasai herders and panoramic viewpoints. You arrive at the crater rim lodge in the afternoon with time to walk along the rim trail, watching the sun move across the enclosed world of the caldera below. Dinner at the rim lodge is accompanied by views that few restaurants in Africa can equal.
The descent into the crater begins before seven in the morning, dropping through cloud forest before emerging onto the flat crater floor six hundred metres below. The sheer walls of the caldera create a natural enclosure that has preserved one of Africa's most concentrated wildlife populations for hundreds of thousands of years. Black rhinoceros, lion, spotted hyena, elephant, cape buffalo, zebra and flamingo are all present, and the crater's compact size means the entire floor can be covered thoroughly in a single day. A picnic lunch is taken at the hippo pool before you ascend to the rim for dinner and overnight.
The penultimate day of the safari visits Lake Manyara National Park, a park whose intimacy and richness often surprises guests coming from the scale of the Serengeti and the drama of the Ngorongoro. The groundwater forest at the park entrance shelters blue monkey, olive baboon and a canopy full of hornbills and sunbirds. Beyond the forest the floodplains open to the lake shore where flamingo, pelican and stork gather in large numbers and the resident population of tree-climbing lions rests in the branches of fever trees and acacias. You proceed to your overnight accommodation near Arusha after the drive.
A final breakfast is followed by your transfer to Arusha town or Kilimanjaro International Airport. Your guide ensures you arrive with comfortable time for check-in and departure. The ten days conclude with a private collection of memories from two of Africa's finest countries.
All prices are per person. Select your group size and we will put together a personalised quote.
Rates are subject to availability and lodge tariffs at time of booking.
| Group Size | Price (USD) | |
|---|---|---|
| 1Person | $8,100 | |
| 2People | $5,950 | |
| 3People | $5,480 | |
| 4People | $5,100 | |
| 5People | $4,860 | |
| 6People | $4,680 | |
| 7People | $4,540 |
Private luxury tour with premium lodge accommodation throughout. Rates per person based on group size.
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