This 21 days Lodge and tented camp Safari in Kenya and Tanzania, with beach extension Zanzibar covers the highlights of Kenya and Tanzania. It is one of our most popular East African Safari programs and a great value too!

We organise this trip only as a private Safari, there will be only you on the Safari car! Optionally you can skip the Zanzibar part, just let us know. We can also start and end this trip in Nairobi, going first on the Kenya Safari, then Tanzania. Flight from Arusha to Zanzibar, where the program ends.

This itinerary starts at Kilimanjaro Airport, JRO, and ends on Zanzibar airport.

Day 1 Arrival Tanzania: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport where you will be met by our representative, and transfered to your hotel, the Moivaro Coffee Lodge. Dinner.
Day 2 + 3 Tarangire Nationalpark: After breakfast, you will depart by road to your private tented camp, situated at the boundary of Tarangire National Park. Tarangire, Tanzania’s third largest national park is known for it’s majestic baobab trees that dot the landscape, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The park supports a great diversity of wildlife, especially during in the dry season of July to Novmeber, when the Tarangire River provides the only permanent water supply in the area. During this season wildlife , including up to 6.000 elephants concentrate along the river.
For a cultural experience, walking in the area and visits to some neighboring tribes is offered. Maasai live in the area as well as the Datoga, another tribe of semi-nomadic pastoralists who migrated into this area many decades ago, looking for good grazing land. The Dataoga have resisted neighbouring tribes' cultural infiltrations. The women, still wear fat treated goatskin gowns and carve their faces and bodies to beautify themselves . Learning about their history is as fascinating as the views are breathtaking from the several hilltop peaks in the area. Overnight at Tarangire River Camp. All meals included.
Day 4 Tarangire - Lake Manyara: After breakfast you’ll drive across the floor of the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park. This beautiful park with it’s lush vegetation and tropical forests of giant fig and mahogany trees, takes its name from the Maasai word for "euphorbia tirucalli", a bush which is used to make a thorny hedge to protect their cattle. Elephant, giraffe, buffalo, zebra and a variety of antelope inhabit the park as well as a variety of monkeys and a large population of hippo’s. . If you are lucky you may see the Manyara lions, well known for their tree climbing habits, lazily resting on the branches of an "Acacia tortilis" tree. The birdlife is also abundant, with flamingoes, pelicans, hornbills and plenty of forest species.
After a game drive and a picnic lunch in the park you’ll depart for the Ngorongoro highlands and your overnight accommodation at Karatu. Overnight at Kirurumu Tented Lodge. All meals included.
Day 5 Ngorongoro Crater: This morning your drive takes you the short distance to the "eighth wonder of the world", the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest unbroken caldera on earth. The floor of this collapsed volcano spreads for 102 sq. miles and the walls are 2000ft 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 black named lion and the endangered black rhino. The crater contains a river, several swamps, a soda lake - complete with flamingoes, a forest and open plains. With a picnic lunch you will descend the crater walls and spend the afternoon and early evening wildlife viewing on the crater floor. Overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge. All meals included.
Day 6 - 7 Serengeti: After breakfast depart for Serengeti National Park with a stop enroute at Oldupai Gorge. Oldupai is the famous archeological site where the Leakeys discovered remains of Australopithecus, Homo Habilis and Homo Erectus, bringing crucial understanding to the study of the evolution of the human species.
From Oldupai you’re off to the “Great Serengeti”, likely the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world. The vast Serengeti plains cover an area of over 14,763 square kilometers and during the months of the migration, is the habitat of huge numbers of wildebeest, zebra and Thomson’s gazelle with estimates of up to 1.5 million. From December through March they concentrate at the Ndutu and Salei plains, where the calving season takes place, attracting the attention of predators like lion, cheetah and hyena. In June and July they move into the western corridor and in October and November the herds can usually be found in the northern Serengeti. The Serengeti "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. Overnight at our luxury tented camp. All meals included.
Day 8 - 9 Lake Victoria: Game-drive to Lake Victoria. In the afternoon drive into the nearby hills to take a look at rural Africa, passing through the small villages of the Sakuma people, who grow cotton, ground nuts, sorghum and cassava as well as keeping livestock. Life carries on simply as it has done for centuries, but with a few poignant reminders of the 20th Century! See the local school and take a stroll to the top of a small kopje. Overnight at Speke Bay Lodge. All meals included.
Day 10 - 11 Masai Mara (Kenya): After breakfast, we head for the Masai Mara, Kenya's premier wildlife reserve. The Masai Mara is picture book Africa, endless plains punctuated by flat top acacia trees and home to an array of wildlife. Check into Mara Sopa Lodge, home for the next 2 nights. After lunch, relax before embarking on an afternoon game drive. Overnight at Mara Serena Lodge. All meals included.
Day 12 Lake Nakuru: Early afternoon and head north into the Rift Valley and Lake Nakuru famed for its vast flocks of flamingos. Enjoy a game drive in Nakuru National Park home to rhino, lion, leopard, buffalo and numerous species of plains game. Overnight at Lion Hill Lodge. All meals included.
Day 13 Nairobi - Zanzibar: After breakfast you will be transfered to the airport in Nairobi, for your flight to Zanzibar. Transfer and overnight in the Matemwe Beach Village. Breakfast and dinner.
Day 14 - 18 Zanzibar - Beach Hotel: Relax and enjoy the beaches of Zanzibar. There is a wide range of water sport activities you can do, like snorkeling, scuba diving, boat trips and more. Breakfast and dinner.
Day 19 Zanzibar - Stonetown: After breakfast transfer to the Dhow Palace in Stonetown. On the way we will do the famous Spice Tour. We have developed a special Spice Tour with in depth information not only about spices, but also organically grown herbs and a detailed description about their traditional uses in medicine cosmetics and cooking. After the tour we invite for an opulent lunch at our guides' home, where you can taste the spices and fruits. The Spice Tour is also the cheapest place to purchase spices and spice oils. Dinner in the Dhow Palace. Breakfast and dinner.
Day 20 Zanzibar - City Tour: Today we will show you Stone Town on our Historical Stone Town Tour. This tour takes you through fabled Stone Town, where history appears to stand still. With visits to the House of Wonders, the Palace Museum (People's Palace), Dr Livingston's House and the Arab Fort amongst others, it is a fascinating look at the essence of Zanzibar. You will see Zanzibar's bustling market, winding alleyways, ornately carved and studded doors, two cathedrals and countless mosques! Overnight Dhow Palace, breakfast and dinner.
Day 21 Departure: In the morning departure to airport Zanzibar.

please note: lodges and hotels depending on vacancies

Please ask us for an upgrade to luxury mobile camping, while on Safari.

In the Serengeti you have the opportunity to do an unforgetable balloon ride!