Prices from around $462
TRIP HIGHLIGHTS
Lake Naivasha & Elsamere
Lake Nakuru National Park
Serengeti National Park
Ngorongoro Crater Safari
Visit Mount Kilimanjaro base
Three Nights on Zanzibar Island
COOKING; This trip has a local cook on board the truck. Two meals a day are included while on the truck. We normally have lunch out at local cafes on the way, lots of fun. Meals out and meals on Zanzibar (except breakfast on the Island ) are not included.
CAMPING; We have made a short note of the campsites we use at the end of each day. Those that are more basic tend to be more scenic; that is especially in the game parks where basic toilets and cold showers are the norm. After a night at such camps we do our best to follow with a hot shower bar campsite. Although in the Serengeti followed by the Crater are two basic nights, but the wild beauty and the animals in the park more than makes up for this.
CHANGES; You should be aware that things change frequently in Africa, camps open and close, as do the roads. So there is a chance that the itinerary may have to be changed due to unforeseen circumstances.
START & BEFORE THE TRIP; We meet at the Hotel at 9am on the first day of the trip. We recommend you arrive in Nairobi at least the day before, however if you’re there with a few days to spare there’s lots to see and do around the city. Close to the Hotel is the National Museum, there are markets in and around Nairobi or you can venture further afield to Karen Blixen’s house, Langata Giraffe Centre or even Nairobi National Park for a first glimpse of African wildlife. Hurlingham shopping centre is only 300 metres from the hotel.
KENYA
**Day 1** We leave the capital of Kenya, Nairobi and descend into the Great Rift Valley, stopping at the lookouts with some amazing views at the bottom of the rift we pull into Fishermen’s Camp under the trees on the shore of Lake Naivasha.
The camp has a good bar restaurant overlooking the lake and good facilities.
**Day 2** Lake Naivasha is well known for its hippo population that comes ashore every night to graze. The camp is protected by a deep trench to stop the hippos coming too close. Close by is Hell’s Gate National Park where you can hire bikes to take you around the park and see the herds of zebra, buffalo, hartebeest and gazelle. There is some spectacular scenery here, red cliffs, grassy plains and rock towers made of hardened lava, the remains of ancient volcanoes. It’s a hard ride but well worth it, or you do want you can spend the day on the lake shore, spotting the rich variety of African birds. There are more species of birds on this one lake that there are in the whole of the UK.
Also on the lake is Elsamere, once the home of Joy Adamson and Elsa the lion of ‘Born Free’ fame. Elsamere is now the centre of the Born Free Foundation and you can find out more about their work, see the rare Colobus monkeys and take afternoon tea in the gardens.
**Day 3** Lake Nakuru National Park is only 60 kilometres across the valley floor. It has the largest herd of black rhino in East Africa, over a million pink flamingos (who are part time residents) and more than 400 other bird species. ‘Nakuru’ means ‘place of the waterbuck’ in Swahili and these antelope abound in the park as well as impala, buffalo and warthog. The lions here unusually often sit in the lower branches of trees.
The camp is a simple site in the south of the park, set beside a waterfall.
**Day 4** Kembu Camp. Leaving Lake Nakuru after a morning game drive and visiting Nakuru town, we spend the afternoon at this farm campsite giving you time to relax in the afternoon.
The camp has good facilities and a bar restaurant.
TANZANIA
**Day 5** We climb out of the Rift Valley, up to cool tea plantations before descending to camp on the shores of the largest lake in Africa - Lake Victoria. We enter Tanzania and spend the night either at Speke Camp or in a Hotel in Tereme town.
The camp has good facilities and a bar restaurant or the Hotel is some distance from any star.
**Day 6** Masai Mara Park must be one of Africa’s most famous and justifiably so. The sweeping plains evoke a picture of East Africa that most people hold in their minds and they are rarely disappointed when confronted with the real thing. We enter the park thru the western corridor, which starts near the lake and is on the migration rout of the wildebeest in September. We are likely to see zebra, giraffe, wildebeest, impala, buffalo, elephant and of course the big cats - lion, cheetah and if we’re lucky, leopard.
The camp is a simple site in the middle of the park, among the animals.
**Day 7** Ngorongoro Crater is a collapsed, extinct volcano, thousands of years old and now supporting a wide range of animals. We take Land Rovers with a guide to the heart of the crater to see the game. It’s an excellent place for a game drive as in a small area there is a high concentration of animals, which are not afraid of vehicles.
The camp is a simple site set beautifully on the rim of Ngorongoro Crater, can be very cool at night. We normally pop into the nearby lodges also on the rim of the crater for a view and a drink.
**Day 8** Dropping down from the Crater we spend the night among the Mbulu people in the camp at the edge of Karatu town.
The camp has good facilities and a bar restaurant.
**Day 9** We re-cross the floor of the Rift Valley to Arusha, the northern capital of Tanzania, stopping in town to change money and have a break before heading out of town to the Lake Duluti, a small volcanic lake nestled in a forest reserve.
The camp has good facilities and a bar with simple restaurant on the lake.
**Day 10** Today we transit back to Nairobi by the local shuttle bus.
There is a local payment of US$ 275 payable to the driver
See Kenya - Tanzania dates
Included: 2 meals a day whilst on the truckCookGameparks as per itinerary
Not Included: Sleeping bags, air mats, flights, spending money, visas, insurance etc
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