This 11-day, 10-night Kenya and Tanzania safari is an epic cross-border adventure designed for travelers seeking a deeper, more immersive East African wildlife experience. Covering iconic parks in both countries, the itinerary showcases dramatic landscapes, abundant wildlife, and world-famous safari destinations.
Perfect for those with extra time, this comprehensive safari combines Lake Naivasha, Hell’s Gate National Park, Lake Nakuru, and the Maasai Mara in Kenya with Amboseli, Ngorongoro Crater, and Lake Manyara in Tanzania, offering an exceptional balance of game drives, scenic beauty, and unique safari activities.
Kenya Safari Highlights
Lake Naivasha
A serene freshwater lake in the Great Rift Valley, Lake Naivasha is ideal for boat safaris, where you’ll spot hippos and a rich variety of birdlife. Nearby Crescent Island offers guided walking safaris, allowing close encounters with giraffes, zebras, and antelopes.
Hell’s Gate National Park
Famous for its dramatic gorges, geothermal features, and towering cliffs, Hell’s Gate allows walking and cycling safaris — a rare and exciting safari experience in Kenya.
Lake Nakuru National Park
Renowned for its flamingos (seasonal) and as a protected sanctuary for endangered black and white rhinos, Lake Nakuru also hosts lions, leopards, buffalo, and Rothschild’s giraffes.
Maasai Mara National Reserve
Kenya’s most celebrated wildlife reserve, the Maasai Mara is known for its vast savannahs, dense predator population, and the Great Wildebeest Migration, one of the world’s greatest natural spectacles.
Tanzania Safari Highlights
Amboseli National Park
Set against the stunning backdrop of Mount Kilimanjaro, Amboseli is famous for its large elephant herds and exceptional photographic opportunities.
Ngorongoro Crater
A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Ngorongoro Crater is the world’s largest intact volcanic caldera and boasts one of the highest wildlife concentrations in Africa, including the Big Five.
Lake Manyara National Park
This scenic park is famous for its tree-climbing lions, lush groundwater forests, and diverse birdlife, including flamingos and pelicans.
Safari Logistics
This Kenya–Tanzania combined safari typically begins in Nairobi, Kenya, and ends in Arusha, Tanzania (or vice versa). Cross-border transfers are commonly done via the Namanga border (ideal for Amboseli) or Isebania border, depending on routing and park sequence. Travel is conducted in a private 4×4 safari vehicle, ensuring comfort and optimal wildlife viewing throughout the journey.
Nairobi To Lake Naivasha/hell’s Gate
Pick up from your hotel/Airport and thereafter depart to Hell’s Gate National Park for a biking safari if you can’t bike then you will be driven by vehicle.Later you will proceed to the hotel for lunch and check in. Later in the evening boat on Lake Naivasha.
Activities : Game Drives
Lake Naivasha To Lake Nakuru
Morning departure to Lake Nakuru National park for a special sighting of the rare black rhino (an endangered species), one of the big five animals. Arrive in time for lunch. check in and have lunch. Later depart for a game drive to the park. Its a small park with magnificent, rare white rhinos which form part of the Big five animals. There is also a possibility to see the pink flamingos. Later dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Activities : Game Drives
Lake Nakuru To Maasai Mara National Reserve
Early morning breakfast. En route Maasai Mara Reserve. Arrive at the camp in time for lunch after you check in . Later at 4:00pm depart for a game viewing drive in the Mara Reserve which lasts till 6:00pm. Return back to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Masai Mara Reserve is the most popular tourism destination in Kenya. Located in the Great Rift Valley in primarily open grassland. Wildlife is most concentrated on the reserve’s western escarpment. Its regarded as the jewel of Kenya’s wildlife Viewing areas. The annual wildebeest’s migration alone involves over 1.5 million animals arriving in July and departing in November. Hardly can a visitor miss to spot the big five. The phenomenal wildebeest migration which is a spectacular event only seen in Maasai mara is the wonder of the world.
Activities : Game Drives
Full Day Maasai Mara
Have breakfast at 6:30 am and at 7 am, leave for a full day game viewing in the park. On this day, spend the full day exploring Maasai Mara in search of the big five, hippos and Nile crocodile. Thereafter, go for picnic lunch in park under a croton tree shade overlooking the vast landscape of the park.
It is in the Mara that perhaps the most spectacular event of the natural world takes place: the great migration. This is the annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (in Tanzania) in search of water and pasture. Following on their heels are the predators of the savanna – lions, cheetahs, jackals, hyenas and vultures.
Activities : Game Drives
Depart Maasai Mara To Isebania Border To Serengeti
Have breakfast at 6:00 am, followed by checkout with packed lunch and drive to the Isebania border which is around 4 hours and depart for Serengeti Through the Isebania border In Tanzania we use 4 wheel drive land cruiser. Game drive en route to the camp.
Activities : Game Drives
Full Day In Serengeti
At 7:00AM Set out for the endless open plains and stunning skies of the Serengeti. A scenic four hour drive, full day game drive together with late evening game drive.
Serengeti National Park (Serengeti) is located in Tanzania, best known for its abundance of animals and the great wildebeest migration The Serengeti stretches 14,763 (5,700 sq miles) stretching North to Kenya and bordering Lake Victoria to the West. Serengeti has the highest concentration of large mammals on this planet and its famous known for its 2,500 Lions the largest concentration found anywhere. The park also has over 518 identified bird species where some of them are Eurasian migrants who are present in the European winter months from October to April.
Activities : Game Drives
Serengeti To Ngorongoro
Breakfast check out with breakfast game drive enroute to Ngorongoro crater rim with picnic lunch .Ngorongoro crater provides a protected habitat for thousands of mammals and birds. The entire day is spent on the crater floor viewing lion, hyena, wildebeest, zebra, black rhinoceros, and many species of small antelopes. The Crater is a spectacular setting in which to experience your African safari. Some scientists maintain that before it erupted, Ngorongoro Crater- the largest intact caldera in the world would have been higher than Mount Kilimanjaro, the highest point in Africa. It is one of the few places in Africa where you stand a very good chance of seeing the Big Five (lion, leopard, buffalo, rhino and elephant) in the course of a game- drive. The local Maasai have permission to graze their cattle on the Crater floor, and it is not unusual to see Maasai cattle and buffalo grazing together with lion mere meters away. There are around 1000 lions in the Crater, approximately 20 black rhino, and the spectacular Lerai Forest is one of the best places in Africa to spot leopard.
Activities : Game Drives
Lake Manyara To Arusha
Breakfast then proceed to Lake Manyara National park. Upon arrival you will proceed to the park for game drive. This is a small park 3 to 4 hours game drive will be enough. Lunch will be picnic. Later you will proceed to the lodge for an overnightOut and later depart to Arusha.Upon arrival you will check in at Venus for dinner and Overnight.
Activities : Game Drives
Arusha To Amboseli Through Namanga Border
Breakfast at the hotel. Then later depart for Amboseli National park via Namanga border. Our driver from Kenyan side will pick you up and proceed to Amboseli for an afternoon game drive enroute with picnic lunch.
Activities : Game Drives
Full Day Amboseli National Park
Early morning game drive later return back to lodge for breakfast. After breakfast Full day spent in the park with packed lunch in search of its popular residents like the well-known predators and their opponents like the Zebra, Wildebeest, Giraffe, Hippo with a view of Mt Kilimanjaro. Later return to the camp/ lodge.
Activities : Game Drives
Amboseli To Nairobi
Breakfast at the Lodge and thereafter proceed, check out and drive back to Nairobi drop off Airport for your departure flights.
Activities : Game Drives
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