7.15 a.m. Pick from your Nairobi hotel. 8.00 a.m. Depart for Lake Manyara National Park, stopping at Namanga border town for immigration formalities and at Arusha town for lunch. Arrive in time for a game drive during which a fantastic array of bird life can be seen including flamingos that breed in the lake's alkaline waters. The park also offers a spectacular view of the Great Rift Valley and the fig forest here is a good place to see monkeys and some of the 350 species of birds that have been recorded here. With luck, you may spot the tree-climbing lions for which the park is famous. Dinner and overnight at a lodge.
An early breakfast will be followed by departure for Ngorongoro for a full day crater tour with a picnic lunch. The crater is 14.5km wide and is home to all the big five and hence the same may be seen. Hippos, cheetah, antelopes and the spotted hyena abound as well as flamingos in the crater lakes. In the evening ascend up and out of the steep and narrow crater walls for dinner and overnight at a lodge situated on the crater rim.
After breakfast, depart the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for Serengeti National Park via the pre-historic site at Olduvai Gorge, which was discovered by the famous archaeologist Dr L S B leaky. The park covers 12,944 km? of open plains making it one of the largest in the world. The rocky out-crops referred to us 'kopjes' in the eastern part of the park are of scenic beauty and occasionally various cats can be seen lazing on them. The park contains very vast herds of wildebeest, zebra, gazelle and other antelopes. After your game drive you will retire for the night at a lodge after dinner.
Morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti with a lunch and leisure break at the lodge or camp in the mid afternoon. The term 'Serengeti' mean 'endless plains' in Masai language. In the central plains there are carnivores like lion, leopard, hyena and cheetah. This park is normally the scene off the annual migration of wildebeest and zebra, which occurs between the Serengeti and Kenya's Masai Mara. Eagles, flamingo, ducks, geese, egrets, vultures, secretary birds, ibis, stork, heron, kite, pelican, crane and guinea fowl are among the birds that can be seen in the park. Dinner and overnight at a lodge.
After breakfast, depart the Serengeti for Arusha for lunch followed by your onward transfer to Nairobi via Namanga border town for immigration formalities, arriving in the late evening.
