The 9 Days Kenya and Tanzania Safari is an incredible combination safari itinerary that begins and ends in Kenya. This 9-day Kenya and Tanzania safari takes you through Kenya’s most popular safari parks and Tanzania’s national parks. This 9-day Kenya and Tanzania Safari includes visits to Amboseli National Park, Masai Mara National Reserve, Tarangire National Park, Ngorongoro Crater, and Serengeti National Park, all of which provide fantastic animal safari experiences. This 9-day Kenya and Tanzania safari includes extensive game drives, a guided walking safari experience, and the big wildebeest migration if booked during the season.
Summary Itinerary of 9 Days Kenya and Tanzania Safari
Day 1: Pick up and Transfer to Amboseli National Park
Day 2: Guided Walking Safari in Amboseli, Transfer to Arusha
Day 3: Tarangire National Park Game Drive
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater Drive, Walking Safari
Day 5: Transfer to Serengeti National Park
Day 6&7: Full Day Serengeti National Park
Day 8: Transfer to Masai Mara Reserve
Day 9: Transfer to Nairobi
Detailed Itinerary
Day 1: Pick up and Transfer to Amboseli National Park
Your Kenya safari guide will pick you up from the airport or hotel in Nairobi and bring you to Amboseli National Park. Enjoy lunch on way, and keep an eye out for wild wildlife as you travel to your resort. The lodge serves dinner and provides overnight accommodations.
About Amboseli National Park
This gorgeous Kenyan national park is well-known for being one of the greatest places to get up close and personal with large herds of elephants, making for stunning photographs with Mount Kilimanjaro in the backdrop. Amboseli National Park is home to a diverse population of large beasts and birds.
Accommodation: Sentrim Amboseli Camp. Meal plan includes lunch and dinner.
Day 2: Guided Walking Safari in Amboseli; Transfer to Arusha.
After an early breakfast at the camp, go on a guided walking safari into Amboseli National Park to interact with nature and wildlife, including long-tusked elephants.
You will next move to Arusha via the Namanga border. Your Tanzania safari guide will be waiting to meet you at the border. He will welcome you to Tanzania before transferring you to Arusha, where you will check into your resort and rest. The lodge serves dinner and provides an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Masai Land Safari Lodge.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 3: Tarangire National Park Game Drive
After breakfast, your guide will pick you up from the hotel and drive you to Tarangire National Park. Tarangire National Park is notable for its vast elephant herds, numerous bird species, and towering baobab trees.
Take a game drive in Tarangire National Park and seek for various animal species such as elephants, buffaloes, antelopes, zebras, lions, and leopards, among others, with a lunch stop somewhere in the bush!. After the wildlife drive, you’ll head to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Hhando Coffee Lodge offers breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 4: Ngorongoro Crater Drive and Walking Safari.
After an early breakfast at the resort, drive to the conservancy and descend around 600 meters into the Ngorongoro crater for your wildlife drive. On the Ngorongoro crater floor, look for elephants, lions, buffaloes, rhinos, cheetahs, hippos, antelopes, kudu, zebras, impalas, and gazelles, among other animal species. You will also seek for sites such as Lake Magadi in the crater, where you may witness flamingos and other bird species on the lakeshores.
After your picnic lunch in the outdoors, embark on a walking safari in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, where you will have the opportunity to interact with nature and wild wildlife like as zebras and antelopes while being accompanied by a ranger. Return to the lodge for dinner and an overnight stay, where you may enjoy more wild animal watching opportunities.
Accommodation: As mentioned previously. Meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 5: Transfer to Serengeti National Park.
After a delicious breakfast at the lodge, which you may enjoy at your leisure, you will check out and be transferred to Serengeti National Park. Enjoy a game drive as you depart Tarangire National Park. Enjoy wildlife viewing in the Ngorongoro and Serengeti as you make your way to your lodge, with lunch en route. Look for additional wildlife in the Serengeti while admiring the sunset over the grasslands. The lodge serves dinner and provides an overnight stay.
Accommodation: Mara River Camp by TBC. Meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 6&7: Full Day Serengeti National Park
Begin your day with breakfast at your lodge, then ready for a full day of game viewing in Serengeti National Park. You will begin with a morning game drive around the national park, looking for animals such as elephants, wildebeests, cheetahs, antelopes, kudu, giraffes, waterbucks, zebras, and gazelles, among others. You will have lunch after your morning game drive.
After lunch, you will go on an afternoon game drive to look for various animal species in the Serengeti National Park’s savannah plains. You will also appreciate the breathtaking landscape as you travel throughout the park and see migrating wildebeest herds. A chance to see the Grumeti River crossing. Following our wildlife drive, you’ll return to your lodge for dinner and an overnight stay.
Accommodation: As mentioned previously. Meal plan includes breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
Day 8: Transfer to Masai Mara Reserve
After breakfast at the resort, travel to Masai Mara Reserve Kenya across the Isebania border, where your Kenya safari guide will meet you again. Proceed to the resort while looking for beautiful wild wildlife in the reserve, including herds of wildebeests. You may also observe the huge wildebeest migration in Masai Mara National Reserve. Sentrim Mara Camp offers dinner and an overnight stay.
Meal Plan: Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner
Day 9: Transfer to Nairobi.
After an early breakfast, your guide shall proceed to transfer you to Nairobi arriving in time at the NBO in time for your flight, bringing your 9 Days Kenya and Tanzania Safari to an end.
End of 9 Days Kenya and Tanzania Safari
Includes:
• All day game drives as per itinerary
• Accommodation for the duration of the safari
• 4×4 safari vehicle
• Professional safari and tour guide / driver
• All national park fees
• All meals on the safari
• Crater and concession fees
• Drinking water in the safari vehicle
• Kenya and Tanzania VAT
Excludes:
• Flights
• Items of personal nature (laundry, beverages, etc.)
• Any hotel accommodation before / after the safari
• Entry visas
• Travel insurance
• Tips and gratuities
• Any items not included in the itinerary
