Met on arrival and taken to your hotel. The evening is free before the drive south in the morning.
Nairobi Serena Hotel

Kenya and Tanzania / East Africa
Amboseli, the crater, the Serengeti and ten days of open plains
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Duration
11 nights, 12 days
Pace
Early mornings, two nights minimum in each camp
Best time
June to October, and January to March for calving
From
$18,100 per person
The idea
The classic east African line, run privately. Elephants under Kilimanjaro at Amboseli, the crater floor before the day visitors descend, the Serengeti with a stop at Olduvai Gorge, and three nights in a private conservancy on the edge of the Mara. You keep the same vehicle and the same guide across both countries, which is what makes the difference on a trip of this length.
What sets it apart
The plan
Open any day to see where you are, where you sleep and what the day holds. The map follows along, and every point on it opens the day that belongs to it.
Met on arrival and taken to your hotel. The evening is free before the drive south in the morning.
Nairobi Serena Hotel
Drive south through the Rift landscape to Amboseli, where large elephant families move across the marshes under Kilimanjaro. Afternoon game drive through woodland and swamp.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Morning and afternoon drives along the salt pan trails, tracking elephant, zebra and wildebeest, with lion and cheetah working the same ground.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Cross into Tanzania and continue to the slopes of Mount Meru. A visit to Kafika House, which provides care to local children living with disability, then sundowners on the terrace.
Arusha Serena Hotel
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
A morning drive at Lake Manyara for baboon troops, dik dik and buffalo, then the climb through forest to the rim of the largest unbroken caldera in the world.
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Descend early, ahead of the day visitors, for the hundred square miles of grassland, soda lake and forest below. Lion, elephant, hyena and, with luck, black rhino. A Maasai village visit in the afternoon.
Ngorongoro Serena Safari Lodge
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Drive into the Serengeti with a private guided stop at Olduvai Gorge, where the Leakeys uncovered footprints almost four million years old.
Meliá Serengeti Lodge
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Lion, leopard, buffalo and elephant, along with giraffe, gazelle and zebra across the kopjes and river lines.
Meliá Serengeti Lodge
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
A light aircraft to Kenya's finest reserve and a tented camp in a private conservancy at the meeting point of four game viewing areas. An afternoon drive to settle in.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Five hundred square miles of savannah, woodland and river frontage. Crocodile and hippo along the water, elephant on the forest edge, and the largest lion population in the country.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
A dawn drive, or a hot air balloon over the plains at an additional cost. The afternoon drive ends with sundowners and a final dinner in camp.
Breakfast, lunch, dinner
Fly back to Nairobi with a reserved dayroom before your international flight home.
Breakfast
Where you would stay
Your ZOMA perks
Because we book through preferred partner programmes, the rate matches or beats what you would get direct, and the extras are guaranteed before you travel, not negotiated at check in.
The fine print
Included
Not included
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