This 8-day Serengeti & Maasai Mara cross border safari takes you through the best of Tanzania and Kenya, visiting five of the most famous national parks and wildlife reserves in East Africa.
One day you’re staring into the mist-filled Ngorongoro Crater, the next you’re at the edge of the Mara River watching wildebeest take their leap of faith.
This isn’t just a safari. It’s eight days of crossing borders—from Tanzania to Kenya—through lands where elephants roam in silence and Maasai herders greet you with quiet pride.
You don’t count how many game drives you’ve had. You remember how they made you feel.
Every bend brings a new view. Every stop tells a story.
Your Kenya & Tanzania adventure starts in Arusha in the morning where you shall have your early morning meet and greet and immediately embark on a swift transfer to Tarangire National Park.
The road trip is scenic—passing farms, Maasai villages, and open plains.
After a about 3 hours of driving, you shall enter inside the park, where you’ll spot herds of elephants moving through the giant baobab trees.
You might also see zebras, giraffes, buffalo, and if lucky—a lion or two. Tarangire is peaceful and full of surprises.
Meals: Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation Options:
Camping: Tarangire Public Campsite
Budget: Tarangire Simba Lodge
Standard: Sangaiwe Tented Lodge
Luxury: Tarangire Treetops / Nimali Tarangire
Early morning, you begin a transfer to Ngorongoro Crater. Upon arrival, you shall embark on a descend to the rim behind you, but down here the world opens wide—green, sunlit, and teeming with life.
Zebra graze near the track. A lion stretches in the grass, unbothered by your presence. In the distance, a lone black rhino moves steadily across the plain.
You follow trails lined with wildebeest, cross shallow streams where buffalo drink, and pause beside a hippo pool for lunch, the air thick with bird calls and the low grunt of giants in water.
By late afternoon, you climb back toward the rim, the light softer now, shadows stretching long across the basin.
The day leaves you quiet because of the magnificent encounters you had. You shall live to remember this experience.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation Options:
Camping: Simba A Public Campsite
Budget: Rhino Lodge
Standard: Ngorongoro Wildlife Lodge
Luxury: The Highlands / &Beyond Crater Lodge
Today, you will depart Ngorongoro immediately after breakfast and drive into Serengeti National Park, famous for the Great Migration and big predators.
Along the way, you’ll see animals like gazelles, wildebeest, and maybe even a leopard resting in a tree. On your way to Serengeti, watchout for the Maasai vilagers and if you need, make a stopover and learn more about them.
Learn about how they dance, relate and live their lives. You’ll arrive in time for an afternoon game drive before heading to camp as the sun sets.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation Options:
Camping: Seronera Public Campsite
Budget: Osinon Tented Camp
Standard: Serengeti Heritage Camp
Luxury: Melia Serengeti / Four Seasons Serengeti
Today is all about exploring. You’ll spend the whole day on a game drive, following the animals and stopping wherever the action is.
Your guide is entirely at your service, you feel free to sop him whenever necessary.
You might find a lion pride near a kill, cheetahs on the move, or elephants bathing in a river.
Lunch is served picnic-style under a tree in the bush before you proceed for further exciting and unforgettable game drives.
After the encounter, proceed to your lodge for dinner, relaxation and overnight.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation Options
Camping: Seronera Public Campsite
Budget: Osinon Tented Camp
Standard: Serengeti Heritage Camp
Luxury: Melia Serengeti / Four Seasons Serengeti
After breakfast, you’ll leave the Serengeti and embark on a drive to explore the Serengeti’s cousin.
You shall drive toward the Kenya-Tanzania border at Isebania and later proceed for a few more hours just before finally arriving your Masai Mara lodge.
The drive is through a a scenic route, with changing landscapes and a chance to see rural life along the way. You shall also have some game viewing enroute.
Once you cross into Kenya, the road is terrible, therefore expect the free African massage just before you finally land into your safari accommodation.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation Options:
Camping: Manyatta Campsite
Budget: Enchoro Wildlife Camp
Standard: Zebra Plains Mara Camp
Luxury: Entim Mara / Mara Serena Safari Lodge
Today is your first true Masai Mara adventure day, you start early and spend the full day exploring the very best of Maasai Mara.
The wildlife here is incredible—lions, cheetahs, giraffes, buffalo, and hippos are every where.
You’ll head toward the Mara River, where during migration season you might see thousands of wildebeest crossing (and crocodiles waiting). It’s one of the wildest scenes in nature.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation Options
Camping: Manyatta Campsite
Budget: Enchoro Wildlife Camp
Standard: Zebra Plains Mara Camp
Luxury: Entim Mara / Mara Serena Safari Lodge
After breakfast, you’ll have your final Masai Mara early morning game drive to encounter the parks morning games just before you embark on a transfer to Lake Nakuru National Park.
The lake is famous for flamingos, but it’s also home to white rhinos, Rothschild giraffes, and leopards.
You’ll enjoy a relaxed afternoon game drive with scenic lake views and a peaceful atmosphere.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner
Accommodation Options:
Camping: Nakuru Wildlife Campsite
Budget: Citymax Hotel Nakuru
Standard: Lake Nakuru Sopa Lodge
Luxury: Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge
To conclude the adventure, you shall have a short morning game drive in the Lake Nakuru park to witness the best of the park just before you begin your journey to Nairobi before you finally arrive in the afternoon.
You can be dropped off at your hotel or the airport.
Meals: Breakfast, Lunch
Accommodation: Not included (can be arranged on request)
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