9 Days Combined Kenya & Tanzania Absolute Safari – Masai Mara, Serengeti, Ndutu Area, Ngorongoro & Tarangire

Daily Private Safari Tour by 4×4 Jeep

9-DAY KENYA/TANZANIA ABSOLUTE SAFARI – SEE EAST AFRICA’S MOST EXCITING PARKS

9 days, 8 nights: Masai Mara National Reserve – Serengeti National Park – Ndutu Area – Ngorongoro Crater – Tarangire Park

Starts Nairobi/Ends Arusha – We’ll pick you up from the airport or your hotel. Travel comfortably in your own pop-top 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep.

Enjoy this amazing safari in a customized open-sided Adventure In The Wild Safaris 4×4 Safari Jeep that includes: Cooler Box, long-range high-frequency radio, Power Outlets AC 230V, First Aid Kit, and above all, a professional multi-lingual safari guide who will ensure you have an unforgettable safari experience.

Looking for a complete safari that takes you to Africa’s greatest parks with lots of time to explore each? We designed this active adventure to give you an exciting span of three days in Kenya and Tanzania’s most legendary wildlife reserves.

You’ll arrive in each park in time for an afternoon exploration, followed by a full day of unlimited game drives, and then wrapping up with morning game drives on your third day. And then it’s onto the next amazing African reserve!

A World Of Migrating Wildlife

The most incredible animal migration on the planet moves through our first three parks. We’ll first head to Kenya’s most popular park, the Masai Mara, home to a world of numerous predators – lions, leopards, cheetahs, jackals, crocodiles, and more.

Why so many?
They are lying in wait for the millions of grazers – zebras, wildebeests, gazelle – crossing into the park over the Mara River, on their timeless trek for survival. It’s called the Great Migration, and it is a spectacle of moving wildlife like no other.

And where are all these grazers coming from? You’ve no doubt heard of this world-renowned reserve, Tanzania’s Serengeti National Park. It’s a vast plain of lions, elephants, and uncountable wildebeests. The wildlife migrates from the great Serengeti searching for taller grasses on which to feed. We’ll travel to this second park to discover its over 3,000 lions and 7,000 elephants, in addition to buffalo, African wild dog, impala, baboon, and warthog.

Incredible Ndutu

Perhaps the most fascinating part of the Serengeti is called the Ndutu Area, toward the park’s southern reaches. Ndutu figures importantly in the cycle of the Great Migration, for it is here that these innumerable grazers settle from December through May to give birth to their young.

In these birthing fields, up to half a million newborns drop into the tall, lush grasses of the Ndutu – as many as 8,000 wildebeests, zebra, and gazelle a day! We will have plenty of time here to witness these animal babies taking their first steps into their new world.

Another World

We will leave the vast plains of animal migration for our next stop, entering an incredible universe of wildlife, like no other in Africa. Traveling south we’ll come upon the lush spectacle of the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact volcanic caldera in existence.

We’ll descend into this immense ecosystem, cut off from the rest of the continent but home to over 25,000 animals, every species from lions to hippos to flamingoes. Then, we’ll spend the better part of our day exploring this dramatic UNESCO World Heritage Site.

A Mini Migration

But there are more discoveries still to come on this nine-day absolute safari. You know about the Great Migration from Ndutu to the Serengeti to the Masai Mara. But at our next stop, Tarangire National Park, you may get to witness a smaller migration of thousands of wildebeests, zebra, giraffe, ostrich, and even lions. Most astounding of all: up to 10,000 elephants move through the park from July through October.

As you can see, Africa’s animal migrations touch all aspects of this very complete nine-day safari. Join us in Nairobi as we travel to the best of Kenya and Tanzania, exploring the hordes of wildlife that herd over this incredible pathway to survival.

All-Inclusive

Your Nine-Day Safari includes park entrance fees, accommodations, and meals. Adventure In The Wild Safaris always offers a wide choice of accommodations in Kenya & Tanzania. Depending on your budget and style choose from economy, comfort, or luxury safari lodges or tented camps.

Your Guide

For your entire 9-day journey you’ll be guided, hosted, and looked after by your own experienced driver/guide.

Transportation to the park and game viewing will be in a private 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep – this vehicle is the safari standard with its higher seating and rugged all-wheel drive. Always included on our tours, the Land Cruiser Jeep is just another example of the value we offer you at Adventure In The Wild Safaris.

Customize Your Holiday

If you’d like to customize your safari or have any special desires, please let us know. We’re here to make your safari wishes come true.

Please check the guide below for your African Safari Costs.

Tour Highlights:

Journey Through Kenya

• Views of Mt. Kilimanjaro Africa’s highest
• Farmlands, plantations and towns of Kenya & Tanzania
• Meet local peoples and learn about their cultures

2 Nights at Masai Mara Game Reserve – Kenya

• Iconic world-famous game park – unlimited game viewing drives
• View the Big Five and numerous other wildlife
• Beautiful vast savannah dotted with acacia trees
• Masai culture and tribes’ people

2 nights at Serengeti National Park – Tanzania

• The great migration – vast herds of wildebeest & zebra moving on to Masai Mara Game Reserve in Kenya
• Famous for its dense and varied wildlife
• The Big Five – largest population of lions in Africa

2 Nights at Ndutu Area- Tanzania

• Wildebeest calving fields
• Thousands of newborns of every species
• Lots of big and small cats
• Immense herds of the Great migration

1 Night at Ngorongoro Crater – Tanzania

• World’s largest intact volcanic caldera
• 8th Wonder of the World & UNESCO World Heritage Site
• Dense concentration of easily accessible wildlife
• Olduvai Gorge – site of pre-historic man

1 Night at Tarangire National Park – Tanzania

• High density of elephants & baobab trees
• Immense herds of zebra, wildebeest and Cape Buffalo – can be seen June – November
• Incredible birdlife – over 550 species
• Famous for termite mounds over the landscape

Astounding Wildlife Throughout

• Lion, elephant, cheetah, giraffe, buffalo, warthog, ostrich, pelican and so much more!

Hot air balloon ride at Masai Mara. See vast wildlife herds and landforms below. An unforgettable experience. Please enquire with us. Cost: $420 per person.

We offer an optional visit to a Masai village at Masai Mara. Please arrange this with your driver/guide. Cost: $20 per person.

9 Days Kenya and Tanzania Parks Safari

Day 1
NAIROBI – MASAI MARA RESERVE (270 KM. APPROX. 5-6 HRS.)

Meal Plan: Lunch, Dinner

07:00 hrs. Are you ready for nine busy days of activity, exploration, and adventure? Your Adventure In The Wild Safaris driver/guide will come by your hotel, residence, or location of your choosing. We’ll hop aboard our private 4 x 4 Land Cruiser Jeep and set out on the highway, passing local farms and the great cliffs of the Rift Valley escarpment.

Arriving at the Masai Mara at about midday, we’ll enjoy lunch and go for the first game drive of our nine-day safari. Stretching out before you, take in the Mara’s lovely rolling hills, bedecked with Africa’s unique acacia trees.

You have entered one of the richest and most active ecosystems on the continent. Get ready to experience lions, cheetahs, leopards, elephants, and dozens more species in this world-famous park.

You may also witness one of the Masai Mara’s technicolor sunsets as you head back to your accommodation and dinner.

Day 2
FULL OF DAY OF GAME DRIVES AT MASAI MARA

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

We’ve designed this safari for lots of exploration time in the big parks and that starts right here, right now. This is a day of unlimited game drives and we will be on the trail for rhino, buffalo, giraffe, elephants, lions, leopards, and so much more.

We’ve talked about migrations and if you’re here during the season of the Great Migration, (July – October) you will be immersed in a steady stream of herding wildebeests, zebras, and more entering the park over the Mara River. Also waiting for these trekking wildlife: all the big cats, plus crocodiles in the river.

It’s the law of the jungle, playing out before us in real time.

There is so much to experience in this bountiful park. We have options for cultural and other adventures as well. Take some time to meet the area’s indigenous people, the Maasai in one of their local villages. You can get a close-up look at their herding techniques, their crafts, and their ritual ceremonies. Perhaps pick up some beaded handicrafts as a colorful souvenir of your visit.

For an aerial adventure you’ll not soon forget, we also offer an optional dawn hot air balloon safari. Rising with the sun over the park, you’ll float above the awakening fields to take in the wildlife below and the birdlife all about you. A magnificent moment.

Day 3
MASAI MARA – SERENGETI PARK (95 Km – Appx. 3 hrs.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

We’ve seen plenty of animals in this park but let’s go for one more game drive to any favorite spots or places we’ve missed. And now it’s time to cross over to Tanzania and Serengeti Park, an immense reserve just overflowing with wildlife.

Like at the Mara, we’ll take in an afternoon game drive, looking for large and small game, plus the great varieties of birdlife populating the park.

Day 4
FULL DAY AT SERENGETI

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

It’s the fourth day of our journey and you’re probably starting to get into the safari rhythms – up early and off to the 4 x 4 Jeep for a morning game drive. And though you can take as many game drives as you wish today, please know that you can set out time for relaxation as well. Discuss with your driver/guide how you would like to plan your full day in the Serengeti.

We’ve talked about the large game here stalking these vast fields, thousands of big cats and elephants. But the park is also home to giraffe, impala, warthog, eland, klipspringer, buffalo, African wild dog, jackal, and baboon.

Day 5
SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK – NDUTU AREA (140 Km – Appx 3 hrs.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Let’s take a final game drive through the northern Serengeti over its great fields and spot more grazing, herding, and prowling wildlife as we head south toward the Ndutu Area.

The area makes up part of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and includes Olduvai Gorge, plus great swaths of forests and mountains.

Ndutu is vital to the wildlife of this region, for this is the home of the calving season when hundreds of thousands of newborn wildebeests, zebra, and gazelle drop onto these fields.

We will take the first of many game drives through the varied landscapes of Ndutu discovering the area’s wildlife such as giraffe, zebra, gazelle, and the big cats.

Day 6
FULL DAY AT NDUTU AREA

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Just as we did the Masai Mara and the Serengeti, we are looking forward to a full day of game drives at Ndutu. We’ll travel over the area’s grasslands and through its lush acacia forests, to find as much wildlife as possible.

From December through March, the plains are alive with the sights and sounds of thousands of newborns taking their first steps, crying, baying, and stumbling about. This is the calving season in Ndutu.

All this activity is big-time catnip for the big cats roaming these fields. They have also recently given birth to their young and this is the ideal time to hunt for food for themselves and their newborns.

The nearby lions, leopards, cheetahs, hyenas, caracal, serval, and African wildcats come prowling for the thousands of newly born grazers. The ensuing drama between the protective animal mothers and the hunting predators can be quite emotional.

Even when it’s not migration season, the area is alive with its year-round residents. Expect to see big cats, elephants, giraffes, antelope, hyenas, monkeys, and baboons.

Day 7
NDUTU – NGORONGORO CRATER (86 KM APPX. 2-3 HRS.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Continuing our journey south, we’ll head toward the Ngorongoro Crater, but first, we will arrive at Olduvai Gorge, one of the world’s most important paleoanthropological sites. This is where a treasure of 3 million-year-old fossilized human remains and tools have been unearthed, providing an incredible record of our evolutionary progress.

We can view the ravines and tour the museum here furthering our understanding of the site’s significance and how it has increased our knowledge of humankind’s development.

Then, we will move on to arrive at the precipice of the Ngorongoro Crater. Staring out at the vast volcanic depression below, we’ll get a preview of this lush habitat, home to over 25,000 animals.

Heading down the steep crater walls in our 4 x 4 Jeep, we will descend into a discreet universe of plains, marshland, and forest holding every sort of species – from lions, elephants, and giraffes to hippos and pink flamingoes.

This will be a marvelous day of discovery amongst this dense ecosystem, set apart from the rest of Africa. We’ll enjoy lunch, perhaps overlooking thick flocks of flamingoes. The birds and wildlife in this great volcanic bowl are densely concentrated and we’ll witness all kinds of sightings.

Later in the afternoon, we’ll ascend back up the crater and take in one of Ngorongoro’s magnificent sunsets. A spectacular sight to cap a spectacular day.

Day 8
NGORONGORO – TARANGIRE PARK (171 KM 4 HRS.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Perhaps we’ll catch an amazing sunrise at the crater before we head to Tarangire Park, a not overly touristed reserve but one that offers a depth of wildlife.

Picking up on the theme of migration, Tarangire features its own smaller movement of wildlife. Of course, ‘smaller’ is relative – the migration here can be up to 250,000 animals – a wonderful display of ostriches, warthogs, impalas, lions, leopards, and many elephants.

Also, keep an eye out for the park’s delightful and bizarre baobab trees. With their thick trunks and spindly branches, they appear to have been planted upside down.

Day 9
TARANGIRE – ARUSHA (171 Km – Appx. 4 hrs.)

Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch

It’s our final safari morning so let’s enjoy the awakening day and go for one last game drive before turning toward the town of Arusha. This will be an easy drive and we’ll stop for lunch along the way.