Day 1: Airport to Nairobi

A representative of Epic Wild Tours will pick you up from your hotel after breakfast for some schedule optional day activities like visiting the Nairobi Giraffe Centre and the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, visiting the Kenyan markets where you can browse the pottery, carvings, batik, weaving, sculpture, musical instruments, leather and fabrics or even go for a city tour. You will later in the evening check in at the hotel where you will spend the night.

Day 2: Full Day in Nairobi

After breakfast, our driver guide will join you and you can opt to have a game drive in Nairobi National Park or have a drive to Limuru Tea farm and have a chance to know the tea processing process. After, you will have lunch at our local restaurant and later enjoy a traditional dance at Bomas of Kenya. You will have your dinner at Carnivore and enjoy the exotic African dishes. Later enjoy your stay at your hotel awaiting on the next day adventure.

Day 3: Nairobi to Maasai Mara National Reserve

After breakfast at your hotel in Nairobi, we will pick you up and leave for Maasai Mara National Reserve. You drive through the Great Rift Valley to the Maasai Mara National Reserve. This enormous reserve is actually part of the vast Serengeti Plains, famously known for its spectacular annual wildebeest migration. It is also home to Africa’s Big Five (lions, elephants, leopards, buffalos, and rhinos). Enjoy lunch at the camp and relax before departing on the afternoon game drive. Other animals in the reserve include Maasai giraffes, buffalos, eland, and thousands of plains game, including impalas, zebras, tophi, and both Thompsons and Grant gazelles.

Day 4: Explore Maasai Mara  

After breakfast at 6:30am, you will leave for a full-day game drive with a packed lunch. The search for great wild animals continues! On the plains are large herds of herbivores grazing and cheetahs and leopards hiding in their locations. The Maasai Mara National Reserve is regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife viewing areas. Some 95 species of mammals, amphibians, reptiles, and over 400 bird species are recorded in the reserve. Nowhere in Africa is wildlife more abundant, so a visitor hardly struggles to see the Big Five. Lunch will be at a picnic spot close to the Mara River, where you are sure to see animals cross the river in their attempt to migrate from the north to the south.

Finally, you will return to the camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Day 5: Maasai Mara to Lake Nakuru National Park

After breakfast you will drive to Nakuru, arrive in time for lunch and check in at the lodge. In the afternoon, you get to enjoy a game drive at the Lake Nakuru National Park. Later get back to hotel for dinner and overnight.

Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley lakes at an elevation of 1,754 m (5,755 ft.) above sea level. It lies to the south of Nakuru, in the rift valley of Kenya and is protected by Lake Nakuru National Park. The lake’s abundance of algae used to attract a vast quantity of flamingos that famously lined the shore.

Day 6: Lake Nakuru to Lake Naivasha

After breakfast we’ll drive to Lake Naivasha, where you will arrive at the Lodge in time for lunch and check in. In the afternoon, you can take some time to unwind and relax at the hotel while enjoying the serene surroundings. You also have an option of going on a boat ride on Lake Naivasha.

Lake Naivasha is a stunning freshwater lake fringed by papyrus. The lake and its environs boast a wealth of natural wonders, and the fertile land and abundant water supply have established this area as one of Kenya’s prime agricultural regions. Most of the lake is encompassed by groves of the yellow-barked Acacia Xanthophlea, commonly referred to as the yellow fever tree. These woodlands are teeming with a diverse array of bird species, making Naivasha a world-renowned birding destination. The lake’s waters attract a wide range of wildlife to its shores, including giraffes, buffalos, colobus monkeys, and hippos.

Day 7: Lake Naivasha to Amboseli National Park

After breakfast you will drive to Amboseli Game Reserve where you will arrive in time for lunch. Enjoy you afternoon rest at your own leisure. In the late afternoon, you will go for your first game drive.

Amboseli National Park is famous for its scenery with a backdrop of the snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro, which dominates the landscape, and open plains. The Park is famous for being the best place in Africa to get close to free-ranging elephants among other wildlife species. The ecosystem is mainly savannah grassland, spread across the Kenya-Tanzania border. Other attractions of the park include opportunities to meet the Maasai and spectacular views of Mount Kilimanjaro; highest peak and the highest free-standing mountain in the world.

Day 8: Full Day Amboseli National Park

You will have two game drives scheduled for this day. After breakfast you will take off for the morning game drive on the open flat plains; the ideal place to search for pride of lion, buffalo, cheetah, zebra, and wildebeest. The swamps are good places to catch the elephant as they bathe in the mud. There is a wealth and diversity of bird species to see as well. Ensure your camera has a liberal memory car since Africa has a few better blends of untamed life and landscape. The Royal Court of Kilimanjaro is best known for its views of Mt. Kilimanjaro and its expansive crowds of a free-wandering elephants. You can also visit Maasai Manyatta Village where you can take in more about Africa’s most renowned tribal society. Later in the day, you will return to camp for dinner and your overnight stay.

Day 9: Amboseli National Park to Arusha

You will rise early for a sunrise morning game drive and then return to the lodge for breakfast. After breakfast you will check-out and start off to the Namanga border for exchange of vehicles and journey to Tanzania. This a more relaxed day since your travels to Tanzania will take roughly two hours. You will arrive at hotel, check-in and enjoy a relaxed afternoon or opt to go for a city tour. Later in the evening you will enjoy dinner and your overnight stay.

Day 10: Arusha to Serengeti National Park

After your morning breakfast you will leave Arusha for Serengeti National Park. Serengeti National Park is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometers of protected area that borders Kenya’s Maasai Mara Game Park. 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. Enjoy your en-route game drive at Serengeti National Park.

Day 11: Explore Serengeti National Park

These full-day safaris are the best way to see the full range of what this magnificent park has to offer. Each excursion departs at around 6.30 am, with your 4×4 fully equipped to cross the Serengeti in search of a game. The early mornings are relatively cool, but by midday, it can become very hot indeed and sun-block lotion and hats are advised. Lunch is served under the shade of an Acacia tree as you take a break from scanning the horizons

One of nature’s great occasions is the annual crossing of the Mara river by migrating wildebeest. You can be sure of witnessing this stupendous natural event. Yet it is often in the lesser-known corners of the bush that we spot the highlights of your visit, such as a kill, amorous liaison, or lesser-known creature. A full day on safari gives you every chance of such unforgettable encounters.

Day 12: 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 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 Maasai herds their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries.

Day 13: Ngorongoro Crater to Arusha

After breakfast you will depart Ngorongoro and start your journey to Arusha. Enjoy a scenic drive through the Tanzanian countryside, with a possible stop at a local market or village. Arrive in Arusha by early afternoon, have lunch and then be taken to your hotel, for dinner and overnight stay as you wait for your departure flight the next day.

Day 14: Arusha to Airport

After breakfast, you will check out of the hotel, after which our representative will pick you up and drive you to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your flight. This will mark the end of our safari services.