2012
Kenya Tanzania combined budget camping safaris, Kenya
Tanzania camping safaris, Serengeti camping tours, Masai Mara
Masai
Mara and Serengeti wildlife migration safari holiday.
Camping across Tanzania and Serengeti national park
Tour Information
Start : Nairobi
End : Nairobi
Tour Duration: 10
Days
Highlights : Lake
Nakuru, Nakuru National Park,Masai Mara, Lake Manyara
Serengeti National Park, Ngorongoro Conservation Area,
Great Rift Valley, Arusha, Nairobi
Accommodations: Hotel
in Nairobi /Self contained Tents in Nakuru/Masai
Mara/Camping in Serengeti /Ngorongoro pitched tents in
Serengeti/ngorongoro
Description: A
budget adventure holiday safari to Kenya and Tanzania
leading parks. This is a safari that promises the best
of Kenya and Tanzania’s premier parks. Visit the small
but rewarding Lake Nakuru National park thereafter
proceeding towards Masai Mara (Kenya’s most celebrated
game park). This is where the great wildebeest migration
is a spectacle to behold for any would be visitor to
Kenya mainly in July and August of each year.
In Tanzania, Ngorongoro Crater is said to have the
world’s densest population of lion. In Lake Manyara
lions have developed a liking for residing in the
branches of trees, where they can both sleep and watch
for prey whilst the Serengeti is notable for its large
migratory herds of wildebeest and zebras with strings of
predators in trail. The Ngorongoro crater also offers
amazing wildlife viewing and scenery
Group Size: Adventure joining
safari
Note :
For a
family or a group of 4 people traveling together we assign a
private vehicle and the tour can depart at their most convenient
day
10 Days Kenya & Tanzania combined joining Migration
safari
2012 Kenya /Tanzania wildlife migration safari budget
holiday to Masai Mara /L. Nakuru and Serengeti wildlife
safari - this tour departs
Saturdays
and
Tuesdays
Day 1 : Nairobi - Masai Mara
National Park
Pick up from your hotel at 0730 hrs. a safari briefing
session with our tour consultant then drive to the
Maasai Mara Game Reserve, the northern part of the
Serengeti, one of Kenya's most favored game-viewing
areas. The reserve covers 700 square miles of
magnificent wilderness. It is the Africa of the
imagination; endless reaches of acacia-dotted grasslands
studded with hazy hills. Afternoon game drive to see the
sundowner as hoping to see Lions in large prides,
Elephants, buffalos, zebras and numerous plain .Dinner
and overnight stay at Mara Enchoro Camp
Day 2 & 3: Masai Mara game
reserve
Full days spent exploring the park in search of the big
5. with a possibilty of seeing the spectacular annual
wildebeest migration /herds that takes place from July
to October .
Optional hot air balloon safari can be arranged at an
extra cost of US$ 450 per person. Dinner and overnight
stay at Mara Enchoro Camp
The
 Mara offers wildlife in such variety and abundance
that it is difficult to believe: over 450 species of
animals have been recorded here. You will easily see
lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests,
zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals,
wild dogs,
buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephant.
It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular
event of the natural world takes place. This is the
annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra
from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and
pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of
the savanna- lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and
vultures
Day 4 Masai Mara - Lake Nakuru National park
Depart the camp soon after breakfast and proceed to Lake
Nakuru National park. Lunch at Lake Nakuru guest house
then proceed for afternoon game drives at Lake Nakuru, a
shallow alkaline lake in the Rift Valley, renowned for
its spectacular flamingo population as one of the
world's greatest ornithological spectacles. Although
Lake Nakuru is primarily a bird sanctuary, there are a
considerable number of animals to be encountered, such
as many large game animals such as zebras, elephants and
gazelles, this is one of our best chances of seeing
rhinos. Lake Nakuru National Park was the first place in
Kenya selected as a rhino reserve. Here is one of the
few places where we can see Rothschild's giraffes.
Dinner and overnight at Lake Nakuru guest house
Day 5 : Lake Nakuru – Amboseli
Depart soon after breakfast and drive to Amboseli
national park via Nairobi with packed lunches. Afternoon
game drives then proceed to Kibo safari camp for dinner
and overnight stay.
Day 6
:Amboseli - Lake Manyara
Early breakfast then proceed for morning game drives
exit the park and, we drive into Tanzania via the
Namanga border. We also pass through Arusha to Lake
Manyara National park with lunch enroute. Regardless of
the direction we approach Manyara from,
the view is always fantastic. We proceed to a camp for
dinner and overnight stay.
Lake
Manyara is a shallow, alkaline lake that is part of the
Rift Valley wall; the lake is at the base of this
dramatic western escarpment giving it a beautiful and
serene setting. In addition to this peaceful setting,
Lake Manyara’s main attractions are its rich bird life,
tree climbing lions and its hippos, which you can see at
a closer range than many other places. Lake Manyara also
hosts thousands of flamingos at certain times of the
year and has diverse vegetation ranging from savannah,
to marshes and acacia woodland, enabling a variety of
wildlife habitats including butterflies.
Day 7: Lake Manyara - Serengeti National park
Morning game drives at Lake Manyara National park then
proceed to Serengeti national park. Game is viewed as we
proceed to the campsite for dinner and overnight stay.
Day 8 Serengeti National park
National park
Full day spent exploring the park .
Serengeti is Africa’s most famous and Tanzania’s largest
park covering 14,736 sq km and is adjoining with the
Masai Mara National reserve in Kenya. With a wildebeest
population of about 2 million and several other hoofed
species (which include zebra, Thomson’s gazelle, impala,
topi, Grants gazelle, Kongoni, Eland, Kirk’s dik dik,
klipspringer, roan, Oryx, oribi, waterbuck, buffalo,
giraffe and warthog), the Serengeti is sure to attract a
string of prey such as lion, leopard, cheetah, hyena,
golden jackals and bat eared foxes. Elephants are
relatively scarce and the few remaining black rhinoceros
are restricted to the Moru Koppies area.
Serengeti also offers rewarding bird viewing with
ostrich and kori bustard being common, a variety of
larks, finches, and raptors can be seen but the most
distinctive small bird is the lilac breasted roller.
Day 9: Serengeti - Ngorongoro Crater
After an early breakfast, we drive south to the
magnificent Ngorongoro crater enter into the crater for
a full day crater tour with packed lunches ascend the
crater and drive to Simba campsite for dinner and
overnight stay
The Ngorongoro crater is the world’s biggest whole
volcanic caldera at 8300 sq km and is arguably the most
stunning arena. It is frequently described as one of the
wonders of the world, not only because of its geological
magnificence, but also because it serves as an
extraordinary natural sanctuary for some of Africa’s
largest populations of large mammals.
Day 10: Ngorongoro –
Arusha-Nairobi
Breakfast at leisure then drive to Arusha to arrive by
1200 hrs, board an afternoon shuttle bus to Nairobi to
arrive by 1800 hrs . Drop off at the airport to board
your home bound flight or a city hotel .
Cost per person joining a group US$ 1995
Tour price includes:-
-transport in a Custom made tour van in Kenya and 4x4
land cruiser in Tanzania
- Start Nairobi – end the tour in Nairobi
-Crater service fees/conservation fees.
- Services of a professional English speaking guide
- Game parks or national parks entry fees;
- Campsite fees;- Camping gear Foam mattresses;
- Use of our two/three person tents;
- Accommodations in self contained tents in Lake
Nakuru/Masai Mara
- Three meals per day whilst on safari, prepared by our
cook
- Arusha /Nairobi Shuttle transfers
- Dinner at the Carnivore Restaurant
- 1 litre Mineral water per person per day
Price excludes:
- Drinks
- Tipping
- Cultural visits to Masai villages
- Sleeping bags
- Personal effects
- Kenya /Tanzania Visas
- Hotel accommodation in Nairobi before and after the
safari
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Wildebeest migration cycle
The endless plains of east Africa are the setting for the
world's greatest wildlife spectacle - the 1.5 million animal
ungulate (wildebeest) migration. From
the vast Serengeti plains to the champagne colored hills of
Kenya's Masai Mara over 1.4 million
wildebeest and 200,000 zebra and gazelle, relentlessly tracked
by Africa's great predators, migrate in a clockwise fashion over
1,800 miles each year in search of rain ripened grass.
There is no real beginning or end to a wildebeest's journey. Its
life is an endless pilgrimage, a constant search for food and
water. The only beginning is at the moment of birth. An
estimated 400,000 wildebeest calves are born during a six week
period early each year - usually between late January and
mid-March.
DECEMBER, JANUARY, FEBRUARY, MARCH
The Serengeti National Park / Ngorongoro Conservation Area is
arguably the most impressive wildlife sanctuary in the world.
During the months December through March the seemingly unending
plains of the southern Serengeti and the Conservation Area are
inhabited by enormous herds of wildebeest and zebra. The great
herds graze on rain ripened grass. In the calving season (late
January through mid March) the herds concentrate at the
Ndutu and Salei
plains ( Southern Serengeti / Ngorongoro Conservation Area)
attracting the attention of predators like lion, cheetah and
hyena.
APRIL, MAY
During the months April and May the depleted plains are unable
to sustain the endless herds. The migration, sweeping west and
north, moves from the short grass plains of the southern
Serengeti / Ngorongoro Conservation Area to the long grass
plains and woodland of the Serengeti's western Corridor, almost
to Lake Victoria . This period is during the long rains and is
considered off season for wildlife viewing in east Africa as
roads are often impassable.
JUNE
By the end of May the wildebeest have exhausted the Western
Corridor's best pastures and the herds must move further north.
Entering the Lamai Wedge and the
Mara Triangle breeding occurs May through June. This is a
transitional period between the rains and the dry season.
JULY, AUGUST, SEPTEMBER, OCTOBER
By July the countless herds have
amassed along the swollen Mara River - a final barrier from the
short sweet grasses of the Masai
Mara. Sometimes the crossing place they have chosen is shallow
allowing the majority of animals to pass safely. In other areas
the waters boil with drowning wildebeest and slashing
crocodiles. Between July and October the wildebeest reside in
the Mara.
NOVEMBER
The arrival of the short rains call the migration southward.
As November ends the migration is making its way back to the
southern Serengeti and early in the year they once again give
birth. The circle of life is complete.
*Note - the migration is a natural event and the timing varies
month by month; year by year.
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