6 Days Maasai, Serengeti Wildlife Package

6 Days Maasai, Serengeti Wildlife Package

Trip highlights: This is an exciting 6 days safari into one of the best wildlife sanctuaries in East Africa including the famous Maasai Mara Game Park in Kenya , the renowned Serengeti National Park and the iconic Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania . These are some of the most preferred tourist destinations. The trip will start in Nairobi where you will be picked from and transferred to Maasai Mara by road, before proceeding to the Serengeti and Ngorongoro. You will be able to see plenty of wildlife varying from the big five amongst a host of other different animal species. While on this safari, you will travel with the tour guide in a shared safari minivan and stay in wonderful luxury campsites or lodges.

You start with Masai Mara National Park, now the New 7^th wonder of the world and 4^th most preferred tourist destination; a home to wildlife in such abundance and variety that it is difficult to imagine. The most spectacular event of the natural world takes place here; The annual migration of millions of wildebeest and zebra from the Serengeti (Tanzania) in search of water and pasture while being followed on their heels by the predators of the savanna; lion, cheetah, wild dog, jackal, hyena and vulture. It hosts over 450 species of animals which include lions, rhinos, hippos, crocodiles, giraffe, wildebeests, zebras, buffalo, warthogs, hyenas, jackals, wild dogs, buffalo, leopard, many kinds of antelopes and elephants.

We then continue our journey to Serengeti National Park – it’s Tanzania’s first and most famous park. Each year more than 6 million hooves pound legendary ‘haven’ Serengeti endless plains. This migration is usually triggered by the seasonal rains whereby more than a million wildebeest, 200, 000 zebra and 300, 000 Thomson’s gazelle undertake this trek. It is also known for its wealth of leopard and lions. This famous plain is interspersed with wooded hills, towering termite mounds, monumental rocky kopjes, and rivers lined with elegant acacia trees.

Finally we end up in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area – sometimes referred as ‘African Eden’ boasts the finest blend of landscapes, wildlife, people and archaeological sites in Africa. Ngorongoro caldera is 250 square kilometer in size and 600 meters deep. The crater alone supports over 20, 000 large animals. The attractions in this crater include the soda lake, Lake Makat, the Lerai forest and the archeological site at Laetoli. The tour ends in Arusha some kilometers from Ngorongoro.