Day 1: Arrive in Nairobi

A representative of Epic Wild Tours will be at Jomo Kenyatta Airport to pick you up from your flight. Depending on your arrival time, you can visit some of Kenya’s craft markets where you can browse the pottery, carvings, batik, weaving, sculpture, musical instruments, leather, and fabrics for sale. Prepare to haggle! All activities today are at your own cost. You will spend the night in the tranquility of comfort garderns village Hotel; ideally located on the outskirts of Nairobi. The rooms have an en-suite bathroom and overlook the tropical gardens. There is a swimming pool to refresh yourself.

Day 2: Nairobi to Maasai Mara National Reserve

After an early morning breakfast, you will check out and leave then for the Maasai Mara National Reserve. You will pass through Narok Town, a famous Maasai town as you make your way to Masai Mara. After lunch, you will take off for a game drive through the park in search of lion, cheetah, elephant, buffalo, other members of the “Big Five”, plus other animals. Later in the evening, you will return to camp for dinner and your overnight stay. The Maasai Mara is regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife viewing areas. The annual wildebeest migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November.

There have been some 95 species of mammals, amphibians, and reptiles and over 400 birds species recorded on the reserve.

Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more abundant and it is, for this reason, a visitor hardly misses to see the Big Five (buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, and rhino).

Day 3: Explore Maasai Mara

Full Day Game drive

You’ll have a full-day game drive. Depart at 7.00 am, with your 4×4 fully equipped to cross the Mara plains in search of game. At 1800 meters above sea level, it can get cold before the sun rises fully, so we provide blankets and hot water bottles to keep you warm.

By midday, it can become very hot and sun-block lotion and hats are advised. Lunch is served under the shade of an Acacia tree or overlooking the snorting hippos which wallow in the Mara River.

As the afternoon draws to a close and the temperature cools, the shadows lengthen and the Bush changes once more. Evening sightings of rhinos are not uncommon on the way back to camp. Even a bad day is a good day in the Mara since undoubtedly you will have encountered vistas, flora, and fauna new to you.

Day 4: Explore Maasai Mara

Morning and Evening Game Drive Experiences

If you start first thing in the morning, you are likely to find the Mara at its most active. With the sun rising at around 6.00 am, this means an early start to your day. The reward is likely to be the sight of predators who avoid the heat: additional attractions include subtle light on the landscape and the joyous sounds of awakening birds, you return for a hearty breakfast at the camp after 9.00 am.

At around 4.30 pm, we like to explore our own Conservancy, as the cooling temperature brings out the predators. Lion-kills are often fought over by packs of hyenas, jackals, and other scavengers. Yet these life and death scenes are juxtaposed with the impossible beauties of the African sunset, as nature’s ever-changing palette streaks the sky with orange, red, and gold.

Anticipating sunset, your guide will have stopped to prepare sundowners, with a wide choice of drinks. Clasp your favorite drink, ease back in your chair, and watch light shift to dark, heat gives way to the chill.

Day 5: Maasai Mara to Serengeti National Park

Transfer after your morning breakfast to Serengeti National Park. This will take up to 8 hours of driving through a rough road. Serengeti National Park is  Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Maasai Mara National Reserve. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with 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. Enjoy your en-route game drive at Serengeti National Park.

Day 6: Explore Serengeti National Park

If you start first thing in the morning, you will find the Serengeti at its most active. This is when Africa can reveal its cool side, so you should wrap up warm. We aim to be on the road before the sun rises at around 6.00 am. Our 4 by 4 brings you as close as possible to the wildlife, just when the action is likely to be most exciting. Few predators hunt during the heat of the day, so the early morning is the best time to observe the thrill of the chase. It is also a magical time, with the subtle light dappling the landscape.

Heading into the bush for an evening game drive has a level of excitement and character on its own, as predators begin their nightly search for prey. As the day cools and the sky is streaked by red, gold, and orange hues, you may be surprised by the roar of a lion, a galloping giraffe, or the high-pitched giggling of hyenas fighting over a kill. At a suitable vantage point, your guide will pause, allowing you to enjoy a sundowner in blissful comfort.

Day 7: Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Crater

Depart after your morning breakfast with your picnic lunch boxes via the Olduvai Gorge where it is believed the cradle of mankind began. Thereafter, you’ll be transferred to Ngorongoro Crater which is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World. A visit to the crater is the main drawcard 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 Maasais herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.

Day 8: Ngorongoro Crater to Tarangire National Park

After breakfast, you will leave for Tarangire National Park with your picnic lunch. Tarangire derived its name from the Tarangire River which crosses along the center of the park and which provides permanent water for the wildlife and birdlife of the park around the year. It is here where a large group of different species of animal concentrate during the dry season and is the best place to take many pictures.

Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Also, it is in Tarangire by chance you can see the tree climbing African pythons.

You will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, along the Tarangire River.

Day 9: Tarangire National Park to Arusha

After breakfast you will then drive back to Arusha as you are doing a game drive through the Tarangire National Park and exit. You will reach Arusha late afternoon for preparation to be transferred to the airport for your flight back home or for your flight back to Nairobi, marking the end of our services.