East Africa Odyssey

On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta Airport you will be met and assisted by a Goway representative.

You will then be transferred to your hotel and the rest of the day is at leisure.

Why not take in an optional excursion, a visit to the Daphne Sheldrick Orphanage, Giraffe Centre or Karen Blixen museum.

After breakfast, you will drive north via Nanyuki and Mt Kenya to the Samburu National Reserve, enjoying a stop for lunch at Trout Tree Restaurant en route. Rugged and remote, this wildlife reserve provides some of the best and most colorful game viewing in the country. This afternoon, experience your first game drive as you make your way to your lodge.

You will spend the day in the Samburu National Reserve with morning and afternoon game drives in search of the plentiful wildlife the park has to offer.

After breakfast, check out and drive to your camp situated at the famous Ol Pejeta conservancy, well known for Rhino protection. After lunch at your camp, depart on your afternoon game drive until sunset. This evening, there is the option of a night game drive (at additional cost).

After breakfast you will be collected for the day's drive which will take you past the Aberdares mountain range to the floor of the Great Rift Valley, your destination is the Soysambu Ranch where Lake Elmenteita Serena is located. The ecosystem, being part of the Great Rift Valley and with the presence of the alkaline lake of Elmenteita supports lots of bird life as well as plains game. Lunch will be at the camp before an afternoon game drive in the Soysambu Conservancy.

After breakfast, you will drive to the nearby Lake Nakuru National Park for a full day game drive with packed lunch. Lake Nakuru is one of the Rift Valley soda lakes and lies to the south of Nakuru, in the rift valley of Kenya. The lake's algae attract flamingos that one might have a chance of spotting them line the shores of the lake. Other birds also flourish in the area, as do warthogs, baboons and other large mammals. Black and white rhinos have also been introduced. Nakuru means "Dust or Dusty Place" in the Maasai language. Return to Lake Elmenteita after your game drive for your overnight stay.

Drive to the Masai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. A lunch stop is made at Sarova Mara Camp.

This afternoon you will visit a traditional Masai Village and get to learn about their culture.

An early wake-up call this morning before you embark on a game drive and later proceed to the appointed site for Hippo pool breakfast. The rest of the morning is at leisure followed by lunch at your lodge. In the afternoon experience another game drive in the Masai Mara National Park.

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the Mara Serena airstrip for your flight to Migori. On arrival you will be met and then driven to the border town of Isebania where you will go through the immigration and customs procedures at the Tanzanian border. You will then change vehicles as you proceed into Tanzania to the Tarime airstrip for your flight onwards into the Serengeti National Park. You will stop for a picnic lunch once in the park and then the afternoon is spent on a game drive heading towards your lodge for the evening.

Today is spent in the Serengeti with morning and afternoon game drives. The Serengeti eco-system is located in north Tanzania and extends to south-western Kenya and spans some 30,000 km2. The Serengeti hosts the largest terrestrial mammal migration in the world, which is one of the ten natural travel wonders of the world. Serengeti is derived from the Masai language, specifically, "Serengit" meaning "Endless Plains". Approximately 70 larger mammals and some 500 avifauna species are found there. This high diversity in terms of species is a function of diverse habitats ranging from riverine forests, swamps, kopjes, grasslands and woodlands. Blue Wildebeests, gazelles, zebras and buffalos are some of the commonly found large mammals in the region. With the predators, like Lion, Cheetah and Leopard close on their heels.

A second full day in Serengeti National Park with morning and afternoon game drives.

After breakfast, drive to the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world. Its enduring charm stems from its overwhelming physical beauty and the abundance of wildlife, permanent residents on the crater floor. En-route visits the Olduvai Gorge, a site of archaeological findings, where traces of prehistoric man dating back 3.5 million years ago have been discovered. Arrive at your lodge in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon at leisure.

After breakfast, you will depart for half day tour of the crater floor. A population of approximately 25,000 large animals live in the crater; these include the black rhinoceros, and the hippopotamus, which is very uncommon in the area, the wildebeest, the zebra, the eland, and Grant's and Thompson's gazelles. The crater has the densest known population of lions, numbering 62 in 2001. On the crater rim are leopards, elephants, mountain reedbuck, and buffalo. In the middle of the crater there is a large lake inhabited by hundreds of flamingoes and from a distance, they appear as a pink border of the lake. The Crater, a large, unbroken, unflooded volcanic caldera was formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed on itself some two to three million years ago, is 610 m deep and its floor covers 260 km2.

After breakfast at your lodge, you will be driven back to Arusha arriving in time for lunch at the Arusha Hotel.

Thereafter you will be transferred to the Kilimanjaro Airport for your onward flight.