Arrival at the Jomo Kenyatta International airport in Nairobi where you will be met by All Seasons Safaris & Tours Representative and briefed concerning your safari as we assist with visa formalities, then escorted past the custom counter where you will be given mineral water to freshen up.

 

You will be introduced to your driver guide and be given your personalized detailed itinerary.

 

You will then drive to Nakuru National Park

 

                       Our  Safari Vehicle options on sharing basis

   

Arrive at Kivu Retreat Camp in time for lunch with game drive enroute.

     

16:00hrs- you will have an afternoon game drive at the Lake Nakuru National Park.

 

LAKE NAKURU NATIONAL PARK

Lake Nakuru National park is truly a remarkable park as it has achieved international fame on animal sanctuary. Both black and white Rhinos are being given a new lease of life in this park. Also it is in this park that you will find large numbers of different species of bird life and most outstanding the pink greater and lesser flamingos. The park is best known for its flamingos There are also larges flocks of pelicans and is a home to the waterbuck, leopards and the Rothschild giraffe. The park is also a Rhino sanctuary.

                       

 For bird lovers this an absolutely wonderful place to visit.

 

LAKE NAKURU

It is a very shallow strongly alkaline lake 62 km2 in extent. It is set in a picturesque landscape of surrounding woodland and grassland next to Nakuru town. The landscape includes areas of marsh and grasslands alternating with rocky cliffs and outcrops, stretches of acacia woodland and rocky hillsides covered with a Euphorbia forest on the eastern perimeter.

   

                                                 

Dinner and overnight at the Kivu retreat camp 

 

Traditional dancers display their talent everyday at 9.00 pm.

 

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Breakfast at the camp then proceed to the highlights of your safari “The Magical Mara”.Masai

 

Masai Mara is most famous for the spectacular annual migration of over a million wildebeest, zebra, gazelle etc from the Serengeti in northern Tanzania crossing the Mara River into Kenya in search of fresh feeding grounds, which takes place in late July - October. 

From the International media.
It’s now official. The Mara is an international conservation destination. It’s a verdict that was arrived by a panel of experts and announced in the American broadcasting corporation after many months of research. The wildebeest migrations have now been placed among the 7 new wonders of the world in the same category with The Tibets potala palace, the old Jerusalem city, the polar ice caps of Iceland, The underwater Hawaiian Islands and the Mayan pyramids in Mexico among others.

You are visiting Masai mara to see the annual migrations which starts from the month of June and climaxes in the month of August before closing over to Serengeti towards the month of Oct.

THOUGH MIGRATIONS ARE DESCRIBED HERE BELOW AS THE HIGHLIGHTS OF A MAASAI MARA TOUR, PLEASE NOTE THAT IT’S ONLY IN THE MONTH OF JULY / AUG / SEPT / OCT THAT YOU GET TO EXPERIENCE THIS SPECTACULAR EVENT.

Watch the wildebeest migrations.

You are visiting Masai Mara to see the annual migrations which start from the month of June and climaxes in the month of August before closing over to Serengeti towards the month of Oct

 

             

 

What exactly is the wildebeest migration?

The wildebeest migration is a dramatic story. It takes place within Kenya and Tanzania and is the greatest wildlife show on earth. Between the open plains of Serengeti and the Masai Mara, thousands and thousands of wildebeest and zebras migrate to greener pastures as seasons change and circle of life and death continues. Predators closely follow the wildebeest migrations waiting for an opportunity to strike weak prey as they make their way into different territories.. The most interesting part is when you watch them as they cross the Mara River. The first ones to jump into the river are trampled upon to death by the following multitude. The dead animals become a bridge over which all the other animals cross the river. The crocodiles feed on the remaining carcasses for months.

 

Majority of tourists literally camp in the Mara during this period with their flashy digital cameras. They will trail the migrations and even the members of the big 5 are no longer an interest at this time.  When its time to cross over the river, the tourists will position themselves strategically along the Mara river, trying to get the best shot possible. Others will ride on the hot air balloon to watch the migrations from the skies. To show the implication of this phenomenal show, members of both local and international media also make their way to Mara if only to capture this hot news for interesting reading.  It’s also a common feature in the world travel magazines.  This is a spectacle that should be witnessed at least once in a lifetime.

 

1300 hrs – Finally arrive at the Enchoro Wildlife Camp for lunch and check in.

 1330 hrs – Have your buffet Lunch at the Enchoro Camp.

Enchoro Camp is an affiliate member of YHA-Kenya, which is part of a worldwide network of Youth Hostels in the World.

Simply in the best location of Masai Mara’s Oloolaimutia gate to the world renowned and one of the best Game reserve. ‘Masai Mara’.It offers panoramic views of Oloolaimutia hills on the East gate of the Masai Mara Game Reserve.

               

A very spacious dinning room where you get served with tasty finger liking foods from local and international cuisine, buffets or alacate.It also serve as a meeting room convenient for all kinds of meetings, Training seminars, conferences ,Retreats ,product lunch, weeding receptions etc.

1500 hrs – Enjoy your afternoon tea and coffee at the lobby.

1530 hrs - your driver/guide will take you for an afternoon game drive in search of the shy and elusive leopard, the solitary and ill-tempered Rhino, lions, buffalos, and many others. As the sun starts to edge its way dip into the African horizon it will be the perfect opportunity to capture the beautiful Mara landscape on film or video camera.

Dinner and overnight at the Camp

06:30hrs-Early morning game drives.

 

                        

09:00hrs-Return to the camp for breakfast.

                        Spend the rest of the morning at leisure.

 13:00hrs-Lunch at the camp.

                        Spend the rest of the afternoon at leisure like take a nap.

15:00hrs-Coffee or tea at the lobby.

16:00hrs-Take an evening game drive in search of the not seen animals so far.

 

                   

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

 Or you can choose to exit the Camp after breakfast with picnic lunch so that you can be able to get to the deeper Maasai Mara.

   

You will have an early morning game drive or optional balloon ride.

Optional Balloon ride

06 Schedules:  BALLOON SAFARI IN MASAI MARA – 1 HOUR RIDE.

05:00 am: You will be picked up from your lodge and transfer you to the launch site. Here you will meet your pilot, receive a briefing and watch the inflation of your balloon.

At dawn we take off, rising as the sun rises and float in whichever direction the winds of the morning take us. Your pilot can precisely control the altitude of your balloon: sometimes flying at treetop height, sometimes lower, offering a unique perspective and great photographic opportunities of the wildlife below.

 From time to time the pilot must put more heat into the balloon with the powerful whisper burners. In between these burns, there is silence apart from the natural sounds below.

The flight is for about one hour depending on conditions, on landing you celebrate in the traditional manner with champagne (well, an excellent sparkling wine), before sitting down to a full English breakfast prepared and served in the bush in 'Out of Africa' style with bone china, linen table cloths, King's silver etc.

After breakfast you receive your Balloon certificate and we drive you back to the Lodge with game viewing enroute

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This is how it begins and ends ---LIVE COVERAGE.

You will ascend in early morning when the winds are calmest.

Watch as your professional crew fills the balloon with hot air. Slowly the big colorful bag begins to bulge and take shape. Now board the traditional wicker gondola basket while the expert pilot makes final adjustments. As the pink and red fireball of the sun rises in splendor over the plain, you are up and away –for the flight of a life time!

 Your balloon can soar over the most inaccessible and undisturbed parts of the Mara, with only the intermittent whisper of the balloon’s gas burners punctuating the silence of your majestic flight .Because wind and conditions vary, every flight is a new and a different experience

.From your vantage point about 50—500 feet above the reserve, you have a fantastic 360 degrees bird’s view as one of the most dramatic scenes in nature unfolds beneath you. From here, you will see the wonder of migrations, witness herds of antelope flowing like school of fish across the plain, groups of elephants grazing undisturbed in a remote ravine, lioness stealthily stalking a herd of grunting wildebeest or zebras conferring in a confusion of black and while stripes and bark-like calls.

 After your incredible flight, it is time to come back down to earth for breakfast. As you dig into a splendid breakfast of sizzling bacon, eggs, sausages, home-made breads, fresh tropical fruit and steaming cups of Kenyan tea under the clear blue sky, you might wonder what all the ordinary people are doing on this perfect African morning.

 Before leaving, the pilot will present you with a balloon flight certificate. No flight of the imagination can match this air-borne experience

    Enroute back to the lodge, you can visit a masai village..

 

Visit authentic Masai Village to see and experience their wonderful culture. And while at the village, you will visit the Masai village for local interaction, cultural exchange, dances, fire lighting with a barbeque goat eating ceremony

In the village Masai women dancing will welcome you. A guide will take you through the village explaining in details the way the Masai live, their beliefs and traditions. You will get demonstrations of how the Masai make fire-using sticks. You will go into their houses and will be shown the full family set-up. At the end of the guided tour you will go a market where you will have a chance to buy some items and curios made in their village. While in the village you are allowed to take as many pictures as you want.

 

Lunch at the Camp

 

Afternoon game drive

 

Return to the Camp and have an optional bush dinner specially designed for you amidst Maasai Dancers.

 

Overnight at the Camp

 

Breakfast at the camp then exit the park and head for Lake Naivasha

Arrive at the lake Crayfish in time for lunch.

 

ABOUT CRAYFISH

 

 

Crayfish Camp is located along Moi South Lake Road, 18km from Naivasha town set in natural Acacia woodland within one of the largest flower farms.

 

 It is popular with both domestic and overseas tourists and offers a wide range of activities such as mountain biking, boating, horse riding, nature walks, indoor games and picnicking. Accommodation comprises of senior rooms, basic rooms, and modern tents of different sizes, vehicle and boat sleeping rooms as well as camping facilities using your own tents.

                       

 

You will then have a quick freshen up before proceeding to the Hell’s Gate National Park for afternoon game viewing.

Arrival at Hells gate National park and proceed on with game viewing in this unique National park – you will also have a chance to come out of your vehicles and walk down the gorge to the hot springs and walk back up the gorge.

 

Hell's Gate National Park, near Lake Naivasha, and just 110kms from Nairobi, covers an area of approx 70 sq km - Famous for its hot natural geysers, spectacular looming cliffs and the "Hells Gate Gorge", the park is one of few in Kenya where walking and cycling is allowed. Visitors here may also camp at designated camp sites. Activities in this park also include rockclimbing, bird and game viewing.

Sites of particular interest include Fischer's Tower, formerly a volcano's plug, the Central Tower and Njorowa Gorges, Olkaria and Hobley's which are two extinct volcanos. The wildlife here mainly includes the herbivores such as buffalo, giraffe and the antelope/gazelle family. Hells gate is an ornithologists paradise with over 103 species of bird recorded.

 

Return to the camp for dinner and overnight.

 

 

Have a leisurely breakfast and then depart for Amboseli National Park with a game drive enroute.

 

Arrive in time for lunch at the Kimana camping Site.

About Amboseli National Park

Amboseli lies immediately North West of Mt. Kilimanjaro, on the border with Tanzania. Amboseli was established as a reserve in 1968 and gazetted as a National Park in 1974. The Park covers 392 km², and forms part of the much larger 3,000 Km² Amboseli ecosystem. Large concentrations of wildlife occur here in the dry season, making Amboseli a popular tourist destination. It is surrounded by 6 communally owned group ranches.

 

Amboseli is famous for its big game and its great scenic beauty - the landscape is dominated by Mt. Kilimanjaro.

 

Amboseli has the largest herds of elephants and this makes it the centre of the study of elephants that is carried here

 

At 329 sq km Amboseli is a small park and lacks the profusion of animal species found in the Mara, but the landscape provides limited cover so we have better chances of seeing some of the larger predators.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

 

06:30hrs- have an early morning Game drive

0830hrs-Return to the camp for breakfast.

Spend the rest of the morning at leisure enjoying the beautiful view of the Kilimanjaro from

 the Camp.

13:00hrs have lunch.

 

16:00hrs- more game drives afternoon in search of the big five.

     

Dinner and overnight at the Kimana Camping site.

 

Breakfast at the camp then proceed on to Lake Manyara in arusha Tanzania through Namanga border.

 

Arrive at the Twiga Campsite for lunch with game drive enroute.

 

ABOUT THE TWIGA CAMPSITE

This is an excellent campsite located near Mto wa Mbu village, just a short way from the entrance to Lake Manyara Park. This is the best campsite to stop at on the way to this to Lake Manyara National Park, the Ngorongoro or the Serengeti.

 

Facilities available include, well kept lawns, toilets, showers, small bar, restaurant, evening entertainment, clean bandas (huts) with double bedded rooms, en suite shower, mosquito netting. Covered cooking and dining areas. Excellent security.

 

   Lake Manyara National Park.

Nestling at the base of the Great Rift Valley escarpment, Lake Manyara national park is one of the most beautiful places in Africa. As you enter the gate, the peak is dramatically marked off by lush green vegetation consist of all trees of ground water forest which provide home to troops baboons and blue monkey. Further down the forest opens up in to woodlands, grassland, swamps and beyond. The soda lake itself where over 350 species of bird including the lovely flamingo (lesser and greater), pelican,

 

Sacred ibis, grebe and shock can be viewed (the bird watchers paradise). At the southern end the peak are the hot sulphur spring (60’C) called Maji Moto.

The most famous spectacle in the park are the tree climbing lion which spends most of the day spreading out along branches of acacia trees 6to 7 meters above the ground. The park is also noted for its numerous buffalo, elephants, giraffe, impala, hippo and great variety of small animals which can observe in the course a single day. The park is only 130 km away from Arusha.

 

Dinner and overnight at the Camp.

 

 

Breakfast then exit the park headed Serengeti.

Arrive at Serengeti Serenora Campsite in time for lunch with game drive enroute.

 

 

The name Serengeti is an approximation of the word used by the Maasai to describe the area.

The park covers 14,763 km² (5,700 square miles) of grassland plains and savanna as well as riverine forest and woodlands. The park lies in the north of the country, bordered to the north by the national Tanzania and Kenyan border, where it is continuous with the Masai Mara National Reserve.

 

 

                                

 

The vast and sensational Serengeti is the epitome of most people's dreams about wild Africa; its endless rolling plains perfectly honour the meaning of its name in the Maasai language: Seregenget or Siringitu is the place where the land moves on forever.

                                              

 

The Migration moves west, then north crossing the Grumeti and Mara Rivers where hundreds more die through drowning, or being taken by predatory crocodiles. The survivors settle in the Western Corridor and northern reaches of the Serengeti and in the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya.

 

 

The Serengeti region encompasses the Serengeti National Park itself, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Maswa Game Reserve, the Loliondo, Grumeti and Ikorongo Controlled Areas and merges with the Masai Mara National Park in Kenya.

The Serengeti’s unique ecosystem and abundant flora and fauna have inspired writers, photographers and filmmakers and it’s not difficult to see why.
longest and greatest show on earth, the Great Migration takes place every year and is quite a spectacle to behold! Being there at the height of the migration is a never to be forgotten experience.

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

 

 

 

 

Early morning Breakfast and then you leave the camp with picnic lunch so that you can be able to get to the deeper Serengeti for a full day game drive.

 

 

Overnight at the camp.

 

 

Breakfast at the camp then proceed to Ngorongoro Conservancy Area.

Arrive in time for lunch at the Ngorongoro simba Campsite.

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 ABOUT THE NGORONGORO SIMBA CAMPSITE.

 

      

A very simple campsite overlooking the crater. At night in can be quite cold and misty because of the altitude. Facilities include covered cooking area and basic dining area, cold shower and toilet.

Since new park regulations will restrict Crater Floor visits to half a day the advantages of staying here have been reduced. Nevertheless a useful staging point on the way to the Serengeti.

 

Called the eighth wonder of the world and stretching across some 8,300 sq km, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in northern Tanzania boasts a blend of landscapes, wildlife, people and archaeology that is unsurpassed in Africa. The volcanoes, grasslands, waterfalls and mountain forests are home to an abundance of animals and to the Maasai.

 

12:30 hrs Depart for half day crater tour

          

Ngorongoro Crater

It is one of the world's greatest natural spectacles; its magical setting and abundant wildlife never fail to enthral visitors. It borders the Serengeti National Park to the north and west. A few hours drive to the east takes you to the town of Arusha which nestles at the foot of Mount Meru, within view of Mount Kilimanjaro. Arusha is known as the gateway to the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the Northern Parks.

 

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A population of approximately 25,000 large animals, largely ungulates along with reputedly the highest density of mammalian predators in Africa, lives in the crater.

The main feature of the NCA is the Ngorongoro Crater, which is the world's largest unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera. The Crater, which formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed on itself some two to three million years ago, is 610 m (2,001 ft) deep and its floor covers 260 km² (102 square miles). Estimates of the height of the original volcano range from fifteen to nineteen thousand feet (4500 to 5800 metres) high.

 

Dinner and overnight at the camp

 

 

After breakfast you take a drive to Tarangire and arrive at the Tarangire Nomad Camp in time for lunch.

 

ABOUT NOMAD TARANGIRE CAMP.

 

Nomad Tarangire Camp is located in the remote southern end of Tarangire National Park in Northern Tanzania.

This superb small tented camp is Arabian in design and has just eight tents. Nomads are renowned for the quality of their guiding and private vehicles are used for all guests. The camp can be integrated into overland or flying safaris through these northern parks.

Nomad Tarangire Camp is aimed at folks who are sufficiently outdoorsy to appreciate the finer elements of a real safari and who are willing to pay for quality.

 

Dinner and overnight at the camp.

 

After your last breakfast you will then be transferred to Arusha for lunch and afternoon shuttle back to Nairobi arriving early evening, have optional dinner and later be transferred to the Airport for your flight back home.

For cost of the safari Email us on info@allseasonssafaris.com 

Cost Inclusions

1 Transport in a 4 x 4 Land cruiser vehicle in Tanzania and a 4 x 4 Safari Minivan in Kenya

2 Accommodations in camps with meals

3 All the park entrance fees

4 All the game drives as per detailed Itinerary

5 All shuttle transfers

 

 

 

Complimentary adds on courtesy of traveling with All Seasons Safaris & Tours.

• Mineral water while on safari-1 bottle per person per day 500ml.

• Safari hats while on safari.
• Meet, greet and smile before departure for safari.

Cost Exclusions

• Cost of obtaining visas.
• Expenses like laundry, beverages, bar bill, telephone, mineral water, tips etc.
• International departure taxes.
• Travel & medical insurance.
• Other expenses that are of purely personal nature
• Flying Doctor Service. This caters only for evacuation to reputable hospitals but does not cover hospital bills.

Cost of optional activities while on safari in the Mara

 

Usd 450pp for balloon ride,

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