Itinerary Details
Swain Destinations: Ultimate Kenya and Tanzania
Day 1 Arrive in Nairobi, Kenya
On arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Kenya's capital is cosmopolitan, lively, interesting and pleasantly landscaped.
Hemingways Nairobi
Day 2 Nairobi to Chyulu Hills
Transfer to the airport for your onward flight. On arrival you will be met and transferred to your accommodation. Wedged between Kenya’s Tsavo and Amboseli National Parks in the heart of the Chyulu Hills, you will find Ol Donyo Lodge. Located on Mbirikani Group Ranch – 275,000 acres of private wild Africa. It is here you will find tranquility allowing you to soak up true African beauty. Late afternoon, enjoy a shared game drive before returning to the lodge for dinner.
Ol Donyo Lodge
Meals: B, L, D
Day 3 Activities at Ol Donyo Lodge
A full day allows guests to take advantage of variety of activities. Enjoy early morning and late afternoon/early evening game drives in a 4×4 open vehicle, guided bushwalks, night drives, hiking, horse riding, mountain biking, tracking and conservation and community out-reach programs.
Ol Donyo Lodge
Meals: B, L, D
Day 4 Chyulu Hills to Masai Mara (Via Nairobi)
Transfer to the airstrip for your flight to Masai Mara through Nairobi. On arrival you will be met and transferred to your accommodation.
Everything about this reserve is outstanding. The wildlife is abundant and the gentle rolling grasslands ensure that animals are never out of sight. Birds, too, are prolific. Maasai communities live within the dispersal area with their stock but a century of close association with the wildlife has resulted in an almost symbiotic relationship where wildlife and people live in peace with one another. The first sight of this natural wonderland is breathtaking. Here the great herds of shuffling elephants browse among the rich tree-studded grasslands with an occasional sighting of a solitary and ill-tempered rhino.
Mara Plains Camp
Meals: B, L, D
Day 5 Game Viewing in Maasai Mara
When it comes to game viewing, there is nowhere in Africa richer in wildlife or more eventful in encounters than the Mara. A pristine wilderness of haunting beauty, it promises its visitors a profusion of wildlife, prolific bird life and the unprecedented opportunity of catching up with all the members of the ‘Big Five’ in one morning. The scenery is a classic mix of African imagery; miles of lion gold grasslands, shoals of lilac-misted hills, a meandering river, acres of thorn bush and mile upon mile of undulating wilderness. Enjoy a full day in the Mara with two game drives included.
Mara Plains Camp
Meals: B, L, D
Day 6 Maasai Mara to Serengeti
Transfer to the airstrip for your flight to the Serengeti National Park with a stop at Migori Airstrip where you will transfer by road through the Isebania border to clear customs and immigration. Continue by road to Tarime airstrip where you will board your flight to the airstrip. On arrival you will be met and transferred to your accommodation.
Set within Singita’s 350,000-acre private reserve in northern Tanzania, Faru Faru embodies a fresh take on African bush appeal and ushers in a new era of luxury wilderness safaris.
Singita Faru Faru
Meals: B, D
Day 7 Game Viewing in Serengeti
Enjoy a full day in the Serengeti National Park with two game drives included. The untouched wilderness forming part of the Serengeti Mara ecosystem offers visitors a front-row seat to the Great Migration as well as countless other wildlife experiences all year around. With a landscape that combines grassy plains with riverine forests and thorny scrubland, the area is home to a huge variety and vast number of big game and other iconic African animals.
Singita Faru Faru
Meals: B, L, D
Day 8 Game Viewing in Serengeti
Enjoy another full day in the Serengeti with two game drives included.
Singita Faru Faru
Meals: B, L, D
Day 9 Serengeti to Ngorongoro
Transfer to the airstrip for your flight to Lake Manyara Airstip. On arrival you will be met and transferred to your accommodation in Ngorongoro Crater.
Ngorongoro Crater Lodge has been called the game lodge at the top of the world. Between the natural riches of the Crater spread out at its feet and the incredible architecture, it’s easy to believe that you have entered a realm of pure fantasy.
&beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
Meals: B, L, D
Day 10 Game Activities in Ngorongoro Crater
Nearly three million years old, the ancient caldera shelters one of the most beautiful wildlife havens on earth. Endangered black rhino are protected within its rim, giant tusked elephant wander the forests, male lion stalk the grasslands and flamingo crowd the soda lakes. Game drives descend into the Ngorongoro Crater through a lush highland forest, with magnificent birdlife to be spotted among the different tree species. Once on the grassy crater floor, you may discover a large variety of grazing herbivores, as well as the predators that are attracted by this abundant supply of prey. Depending on the time of year, you may see huge flocks of pink flamingo around the shores of the shallow Lake Magadi, while the surrounding swamp is inhabited by hippo.
&beyond Ngorongoro Crater Lodge
Meals: B, L, D
Day 11 Depart Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Transfer to the airstrip for your flight to Arusha Airport. Upon arrival you will be transferred to Arusha Coffee Lodge where you have a day room and lunch included.
Transfer to Kilimanjaro Airport for your departing flight.
Meals: B, L
