Flying Safaris Tanzania / Kenya( 14 Nights / 15 Days) – WTST 51
Guaranteed Departures Minimum order: 2 People

DAY 1 - ARRIVE ARUSHA
Arrive evening into Kilimanjaro International Airport and after clearing customs you will be met and transferred to the beautiful Arumeru River Lodge. The lodge sits on the hillside. Dinner and overnight stay at Arumeru River Lodge.
Meal Plan: {D}   

DAY 2 - ARUSHA - ARUSHA NATIONAL PARK
This morning you will be met by your private Tanzanian driver/guide who will remain with you throughout your Tanzania safari. Your Tanzania safari begins at the beautiful Arusha National Park, one of the most picturesque in East Africa. This often overlooked park is a small gem with lakes reminiscent of England's Lake District, the 14,000 ft. Mt. Meru and the Ngurdoto Crater. The park is inhabited by elephant, buffalo, zebra, gazelle, wart hog, hippo and an amazing quantity of giraffes. In the Ngurdoto Forest you will have a chance to observe the rare black & white Colobus Monkey. You will have a full day in the park with a picnic lunch arriving back at the lodge in the early evening with time to relax before dinner. Dinner and Overnight at Arumeru River Lodge.
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 3 - ARUSHA - TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
After breakfast at the lodge, you will depart Arusha for scenic Tarangire National Park, Tanzania’s third largest. Here you’ll find a geologic landscape as diverse as the wildlife, with nine distinct vegetation zones ranging from grassland to woodland, from deep gully vegetation to scattered rocky hilltops. Mysterious Baobab trees dot the landscape and the Tarangire River meanders through the park. During the dry season the river attracts an abundance of wildlife, including up to 6000 elephant, lion, cheetah, and buffalo and a variety of colorful birds.
Your accommodations for the next three nights will be at the Tarangire River Camp, set just outside the western border of the park on a high ridge over looking the Tarangire River. Views of Mt. Meru, Kilimanjaro and Ngorongoro, oldonyo lengai, and the Great Rift Valley can be seen from every corner of the Camp. Activities include wildlife viewing in the park and walking and hiking. After lunch we’ll enjoy an afternoon game drive followed by drinks around the fire where we can discuss our day. Dinner is served under the stars or in the dining tent. Dinner and Overnight stay at Tarangire Sopa/Serena Lodge.
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAYS 4/5 - TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
Over the next two days you’ll be awakened at dawn with coffee or tea, then depart on an early morning game drive in the park. Afterwards you will return to camp for a hearty breakfast, then either relax for a while or go for a guided walk. After lunch you will depart in search of leopard – looking for the “chui” tails that hang down from the trees that line the Tarangire River. With a little luck the tail may lead to a leopard. You will return to camp in the early evening for drinks around the fire then dinner. Overnight - Tarangire River Camp (all meals).
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 6 - TARANGIRE - LAKE MANYARA
Arise early this morning and after tea or coffee with biscuits, you’ll leave Tarangire for a short drive across the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to large numbers of buffalo, giraffe, elephant, hippo, impala and the Hippo Pool, where large numbers usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places you will see the comical Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle.

After spending several hours in the park and stopping for a picnic breakfast, you will drive to Eunoto Masai Lodge or Serena Lodge for dinner and overnight stay.
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 7 -LAKE MANYARA - NGORONGORO CRATER
After a hearty Farm House breakfast you will drive a short ways to the crater - the first glimpse takes your breath away. The crater is the largest unbroken caldera on earth. The floor of this collapsed volcano spreads for 102 sq. miles and the walls are 2,000 ft. high, a truly awesome sight. The crater floor is a virtual "Noah's Ark", inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa including the rare black rhino. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake - complete with flamingoes, a forest and open plains.
Spend the day in the crater, stopping for a picnic lunch. In the early afternoon you will head up the steep road leading out and drive to the award winning Serena/Sopa Lodge. Perched on top of the crater rim, each of it’s rooms has a private open air verandah looking out onto the crater floor below. Relax and take in the view until dinner or spend some time in the lounge. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa/Serena lodge.
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 8 - NGORORONGORO - ARUSHA / NAIROBI
This morning you will depart after breakfast back to Arusha’s Kilimanjaro Airport and after saying goodbye to your guide you will catch the scheduled flight to Nairobi’s Wilson Airport. After clearing customs you will be met and transferred to the historic Norfolk Hotel for the evening. Dating from Kenya’s colonial days, the Norfolk is one of Nairobi’s landmarks. The hotel is rich in history, enhanced by up-to-the-minute facilities and amenities including a heated swimming pool, health club (fully equipped gym, aerobics room, sauna & steam rooms), salon, news-stand, and gift shops. Spend the rest of the day relaxing or venture into downtown Nairobi for some shopping. Dinner is on your own tonight. Overnight b/b at Hilton Hotel.
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAYS 9/10 - LEWA WILDLIFE RESERVE
This morning after breakfast you will be met at the hotel transferred to Nairobi’s Wilson Field and depart on the scheduled flight for the Lewa Wildlife Reserve, a private game sanctuary, located in the Laikipia area. Here you’ll encounter the northern species as well as plenty of plains game, elephant, buffalo, and the odd predator… all against a stunning backdrop – Mt. Kenya on one side and the Matthews Range on the other.
Lewa Safari Camp is located in the Ngare Sergio Rhino Sanctuary which is part of the reserve. The twelve luxury tents with private baths en suite (flush toilets and hot water showers) overlook a floodlit water hole where you can watch numerous wildlife come to drink. Besides day time game drives and walks, you will have the opportunity to take night game drives allowing you a chance to see bush babies, aardvarks, bat-eared foxes and several cats. For a special treat, take a morning horseback ride amongst the wildlife, and get within an arm’s length to giraffe and zebra. The ambiance of the camp and the food are wonderful.
Enjoy your days here on morning, afternoon and evening game drive, camel rides and guided wildlife walks. Overnight - Lewa Safari Camp (all meals and most activities)
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAYS 11/12/13 -LEWA WILDLIFE RESERVE MAASAI MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
After breakfast you’ll depart for the airstrip and board a short charter flight back to Nanyuki. From here you will board the 10:00am scheduled flight to the famous Maasai Mara. Located in the northern section of the great Serengeti Plains. This is the home of the "Big Five" ... elephant, lion, leopard, buffalo and rhino, as well as thousands of the greater and lesser plains game. From mid August through October, the vast herds of Wildebeest, Zebra and gazelle, that make up the “great migration” make the Mara their home.
When you land at the airstrip a vehicle from the Kicheche Mara Camp will meet you and with a game drive en-route, transfer you to the remote Kicheche Mara Camp. This is a classic permanent tented camp hidden away in a grove of trees on the Aitong plains of the Maasai Mara. There are a maximum of 22 guests, all staying under canvas in this intimate camp situated in prime wildlife habitat – the camp is completely unfenced. Each tent is comfortably furnished with an en-suite bathrooms and 24 hour lighting. Most tents are set in secluded positions overlooking the plains, where you can watch the wildlife from your veranda or take a nap in the hammock, while others are closer together for families or friends. The spacious Nyati tent acts as the camp lounge with comfortable seating, a library, board games, cards and local crafts.
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 14: MARA NATIONAL RESERVE
After lunch relax bit before heading out on an afternoon game drive, returning to camp for a sundowner by the campfire and dinner under the stars. On your next two days wake with coffee or tea for a sunrise game drive, returning to camp for a delicious brunch, then relax during the heat of the day before departing on afternoon game drives along with optional guided walks and a visit to a local Maasai Village. Overnight - Kicheche Mara Tented Camp (all meals & activities)
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 15: MARA - NAIROBI
After breakfast you’ will say good-bye to the bush and transfer to the airstrip for your 11:00am flight back to Nairobi. At Wilson Field you will be met and transferred to the Norfolk Hotel where you will have a day room. Your afternoon is at leisure to rest and relax or shop for souvenirs. Enjoy dinner on your own, before being met and transferred to the international airport for your flight home.
Dayroom - Norfolk Hotel.
Meal Plan: {B, L}   

WHAT IS INCLUDED IN THE PRICE:
-return ground transport
- full board accommodation for 1 night,
- park entrance fees
- one chimp tracking
- one morning swamp walk for bird watching
- and an English speaking driver/guide.
Prices are subject to accommodation availability.

WHAT IS NOT INCLUDED IN THE PRICE:
- Game park entrance fees shown separately as local payment
- Personal travel insurance/Balloon Safari.
- Flying Doctors Service for emergency evacuation cover valid for 2 months [available in our office at US$25pp within 500km radius or US$50 within 1000kms from Nairobi ].
- Sleeping bags [available for hire in the office at US$15 per bag per safari with US$ 40 refundable deposit]
- All airport/hotel/airport transfers [but can be arranged at extra cost]
- All airport taxes and visas
- All personal expenses and toiletries; e.g. mineral water, toilet tissue, laundry, telephones, beverages, tips, portage, etc.
- Any other extras not stated as included above

DAY 9 -TARANGIRE - LAKE MANYARA / NGORONGORO CRATER
This morning, after an early breakfast, you’ll leave Tarangire and drive across the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park. Although only 205 sq. miles in size this enchanting park is noted for its beauty and incredibly lush acacia forest of giant fig and mahogany trees, which are home to troops of baboons and blue monkeys. The park is also home to large numbers of buffalo, giraffe, elephant, hippo, impala and the Hippo Pool, where large numbers usually gather. Well known for its birds (over 400 species), Lake Manyara is one of the few places you will see the comical Ground Hornbill and the Crested Eagle.
After spending a few hours in the park, you’ll continue to the Ngorongoro Crater, the "eighth wonder of the world". You’ll spend two exciting nights at the dramatic Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, which is perched on the edge of the ancient crater rim. The lodge, which is an architectural masterpiece, is comprised of three separate compounds
that reflect a bygone era when characters such as Lord Delamere adorned the stilted, handcrafted structures with graceful antiques, grand chandeliers and treasures collected from travels through Africa.
Each luxury cottage is discreetly tended by a personal butler, who will bring you tea in bed and stoke the fireplace, ready for your return from your safari on the crater floor. Enjoy a leisurely bath with a view of the crater below. Gourmet meals are served in the elegant
dining room. All of this however, remains subordinate to the magnificence of the verdant crater that pours through the window of every room. Overnight - Ngorongoro Crater Lodge (all meals & activities) .
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

Day 10 - NGORONGORO CRATER
This morning, after an early breakfast, you’ll depart with a picnic lunch and descend to the crater floor for a day of wildlife viewing. The floor of this collapsed volcano spreads for 102 sq. miles and the walls are 2000 feet high, a truly awesome sight. The crater floor is a virtual "Noah's Ark", inhabited by almost every species of wildlife indigenous to East Africa. It contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake - complete with flamingoes, a forest and open plains.
When you’re ready, you’ll ascend the crater and return to your lodge. Enjoy the remainder of the day relaxing in your luxury suite and sip a sherry in front of the fire before dinner. Overnight - Ngorongoro SopaLodge (all meals & activities)
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 11 - NGORONGORO - SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
This morning after breakfast and a final glimpse of the crater, you’re off to the famous Serengeti National Park, the symbol of Africa's wildlife. The word Serengeti comes from the Maasai language meaning "endless plains". The 6,900 sq. mile (18,00 sq. km) park is inhabited by more than 2 large million animals including more than a million wildebeest, hundreds of thousands of plains zebras, and Thomson’s gazelles. Large predators including lions, cheetahs, and hyenas are drawn to the area by this abundance of prey which migrate throughout the park. Many smaller animals – rock hyrax, bat eared foxes, mongoose, honey badger, jackals, monkeys, baboon and African hare inhabit the area along with nearly 500 species of birds. Off road you’ll find the "Kopjes", massive boulder islands of granite standing in a sea of grass, provide shelter to a great variety of plants and animals, from the elusive leopard to the tiny dik dik.
On the way to the Serengeti you will stop at the famous “Oldupai Gorge”, where Dr. Louis and Mary Leakey made their discovery of early man. After attending a short lecture describing the archeological digs, continue across the Serengeti plains to Camp Kusini, located among the huge granite boulders of the Mwaki Nyeb Kopjes, in the far southern Serengeti, amid a vast tract of big game country outside the main tourist circuit. Kusini lies in a lion-haunted landscape of flat-topped acacias and short grass plains. The Mwaki Kopjes, huge tree-tufted piles of boulders, rise like islands from the sea of grass, affording panoramic views north towards the Gol Mountains and Ngorongoro Crater.
Viewing wildlife on the way you will arrive at Camp Kusini in time for lunch. Camp Kusini is located in the Hambi ya Mwaki-Nyeb Kopjes in the south central Serengeti and lies carefully couched in an outcrop of large boulders (or Kopjes). The actual site was chosen because of the views, the unusual location and the all-year proximity of wildlife, due to easy access from the camp to several different types of habitat - short grass plains, rocky outcroppings and acacia woodland. The camp contains 12 double tents scattered around the kopje with the mess tent and common area as the central feature. Privacy between tents is guaranteed as they are at a substantial distance from each other and are generally concealed by a tree or kopje. The tents face in different directions giving different views from the other tents although the general direction of the camp is south. Spectacular sunsets and sunrise can be viewed from the kopje within the camp.
Today after resting up, set out on an afternoon game drive, returning before sunset to drinks around the fire and a delicious gourmet dinner. Overnight - Camp Kusini (all meals & activities)
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAYS 12/13 - SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
During your stay in the Serengeti, you can decide with your guide how you would like to spend your days. On most mornings you’ll be awakened early and after coffee or tea depart on an early morning game drive in the amazing Serengeti. The early mornings are magical in the Serengeti, when the wildlife is just waking up to greet the days. After returning to camp for a hearty breakfast you can depart on a late morning game drive returning to camp for lunch or you may want to depart with a picnic lunch so that you can spend the whole day wildlife viewing.
After a days activities you return to camp for sundowners around the fire and dinner.
Note: Camp Kusini will be used from November - March and August – October.
Grumeti River Camp will be used from April – July for closer proximity to the Migration. Overnight - Camp Kusini (all meals & activities)
Meal Plan: {B, L, D}   

DAY 14 - ARUSHA / NAIROBI / END OF SAFARI
After breakfast you will enjoy your last game drive on your way to the central Serengeti. After saying goodbye to your guide you will board the scheduled flight Kilimanjaro International Airport, from here you will have time for lunch before connecting with your flight back to Nairobi. After landing at Wilson Field, you will be met and transferred to the Norfolk Hotel where you will have the use of a dayroom. Dinner is on your own. Later this evening you will be met and transferred to the JKIA airport to depart on your outbound flight.
Dayroom - Norfolk Hotel
Meal Plan: {B)

The Above costs include:
* Park entrance fees in the game reserves and National Parks
* Full board Accommodation while on safari
* Bed and breakfast accommodation in Nairobi
* Experienced English Speaking driver-guide
* All road transportation and Game drives using custom made Safari minivans with pop-up roof for enhanced photography
* All meals as specified in the itinerary

The costs exclude:-
* Additional sightseeing or deviation from the itinerary/Balloon Safari.
* All items of a personal nature such as tobacco; laundry; phone calls, etc
* Tips and drinks/beverages.
* Any Other Items not mentioned above
* Medical/Travel Insurance