Kenya - Tanzania Safaris: JAMBO EAST AFRICA

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ITINERARY AT A GLANCE

ITINERARY DETAILS

Day 1 Nairobi
On arrival at Jomo Kenyatta Airport you are met and assisted by a tour representative. Transfer from Jomo Kenyatta Airport to your hotel. Day is spent at leisure in Nairobi. Overnight at Hotel Inter-continental Nairobi BB

Day 2 Amboseli National Park
Breakfast and check out. Drive to the Amboseli National Park lying below the most famous symbol of Africa, Mt Kilimanjaro. Arrive for lunch at the lodge. Proceed for an afternoon game drive and return at dusk. Dinner and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge LDBB

Day 3 Amboseli National Park
Enjoy an early morning game drive and return for breakfast at your lodge. Morning and afternoon game drives. Day spent in Amboseli National Park. Meals and overnight at Amboseli Sopa Lodge LDBB

Day 4 Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Drive to the border town of Namanga where you will clear customs and immigration formalities. Proceed in Tanzanian vehicles to Arusha for lunch at the Arusha Hotel. Afternoon proceed to the Ngorongoro Crater the Ngorongoro Crater, the largest intact caldera in the world, with abundant wildlife permanently resident on the crater floor. Arrive late evening for dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa LDBB

Day 5 Ngorongoro Conservation Area
After breakfast descend for a half-day tour of the crater. With its grassy terrain and density of animals, game viewing is exceptional here. Enjoy rare opportunities to view black rhino up close; hippos and flamingos in Magadi Lake; and nearly every other mammal species in East Africa except giraffe, which are unable to climb the crater walls. Return for lunch at lodge. Afternoon at leisure. Meals and overnight at Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge LDBB

Day 6 Serengeti National Park
Breakfast and check out. Drive from Ngorongoro Crater via the fossil beds of Olduvai Gorge, where Dr. Leakey's 1959 discovery of the earliest known human remains put East Africa on the map as the Cradle of Mankind. Proceed thereafter to the Serengeti National Park, undoubtedly the most famous wildlife sanctuary in the world, unequalled for its natural beauty and the greatest concentration of plains game anywhere. Arrive for lunch followed by afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge LDBB

Day 7 Serengeti National Park
After breakfast spend a full day of game viewing drives with picnic lunches in the Serengeti. It has the largest concentration of plains animals - 4 million and 500 species of birds, your chance to see predators chasing their prey and enjoying their kill. Return to the lodge at dusk. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Sopa Lodge LDBB

Day 8 Tarangire
Breakfast and check out. Drive from the Serengeti National Park to the Tarangire National Park, named after the Tarangire River, which rises in Tanzania's central highland. The river lures thousands of plains game to its banks. Arrive for lunch at Lake Manyara Serena and thereafter proceed to Tarangire with game drive en route to the lodge. Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Sopa Lodge L-DBB

Day 9 Nairobi
Breakfast and check out. Drive to Arusha for lunch at the Arusha hotel. Afternoon proceed to the border town of Namanga where you will clear customs and immigration formalities. Proceed in Kenyan vehicles to Nairobi, Kenya's colourful capital city. Enjoy dinner at the Carnivore restaurant and return to the hotel for overnight at Hotel Inter-continental Nairobi L-D-BB

Day 10 Departure
Breakfast and check out. Transfer from your hotel to Jomo Kenyatta Airport. A tour representative will re-confirm your onward flight, and assist you at check-in.

ACCOMMODATION INFORMATION

Hotel Inter-continental Nairobi
The popular Inter-continental is an ideal business cum leisure hotel offering high international standards of service and accommodation that are the hallmark of all Inter-continental hotels worldwide. Overlooking the city, the Nairobi Uhuru Gardens and the Kenyan Parliament, it is only 10 minutes walk minutes from the city centre and 20 minutes from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The hotel offers tastefully decorated rooms, excellent restaurants, conference and meeting rooms, shops, swimming pool, casino and a host of other facilities.

Amboseli Sopa Lodge
Located at the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro, the lodge is set in expansive and mature wooded gardens that face Africa's highest mountain. Built within the area of 190 acres of Masai country, it is an ideal holiday base from which to enjoy numerous pursuits. Spacious cottage style rooms with en suite bathrooms and verandas. All rooms have mosquito nets on windows. Facilities Available: Swimming Pool, Children's Pool, Mountain Climbs, Masai Dancing, Board Games, Hairdryers, 3 Bars, Conference Facilities and Babysitting facilities are also available.

Special groups can enjoy private lunches at our shaded, outdoor bar-b-cue or starlit dinners beside the swimming pool. Minimum temperatures of 11 degrees Celsius and maximums of 32 degrees. The short rains fall between November and December and the long rains between April and May.

Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge
Sopa means welcome in the Masai language and is representative of the warm welcome you will receive at the Sopa lodges. Ngorongoro Sopa is spread out along the uppermost rim of the Ngorongoro World Heritage Site, an ancient extinct volcano that contains the largest permanent concentration of game in Africa. Ngorongoro Sopa offers breathtaking views of the crater floor far below. A sparkling swimming pool refreshes those returning from game drives. The rooms are cool and comfortable.

Opened in 1992, the lodge can accommodate 190 guests in 92 suites, each enjoying wall-to-wall carpeting, central heating, a private lounge with a mini bar, a bedroom with two queen size beds and ample room for a third, an en-suite bathroom with shaver sockets and a hair dryer, and a private solarium which offers stunning views of the crater floor below and the sun setting over the western horizon.

The lodge has direct-dial satellite telephone facilities as well as satellite television and wildlife-video-film options. A number of lodge electrical generating systems provide 240 volts, 50 cycles 24 hours a day. The water supply comes from nearby springs but guests are provided a complimentary bottle of mineral water for drinking. Children of all ages are welcome and special meals at convenient times can be arranged together with a non-professional baby-minder. A swimming pool is situated on the very edge of the crater itself and the cool water is bracing, even invigorating, at any time of year. The pool is also a super area to unwind and relax while enjoying the views of the crater floor below or the stunning sunsets.

Serengeti Sopa Lodge
The Serengeti Sopa lodge is located in the Nyarboro Hills in the south west of the Serengeti National Park and is the only tourism development in this section of the Park. Year round water and the acacia woodland in this area create an ideal environment for the wide variety of wildlife seen in the immediate vicinity of the lodge. Looking out over the seemingly endless Serengeti plains, this hill side lodge is a tranquil oasis set in thousands of square kilometers of Serengeti National Park. The Serengeti Plains are host to a dramatic annual migration of hundreds of thousands of wildebeest, zebra and antelope. This is one of the great spectacles of the natural world.

From December to May the migration gathers in the immediate vicinity of the lodge and provides an unforgettable spectacle, as predators hunt close by. The migration can also be viewed in a more spectacular fashion - on optional hot-air balloon ride across the plains of the Serengeti. Take-off is at dawn and the flight lasts for an hour before a sumptuous champagne breakfast wherever you land. This is followed by a game drive back to the lodge, arriving in time for lunch. As the sun sets over the plains, you may enjoy sundowner cocktails by the pool, and in the evening, after a 4-course dinner, traditional dancers entertain the guests.

Opened in 1992, the lodge can accommodate 170 guests in 79 suites, each enjoying wall-to-wall carpeting, a private lounge with a mini bar, a bedroom with two queen size beds and ample room for a third guest, an en-suite bathroom with shaver sockets and a hair dryer, and a private verandah which offers stunning views over the plains. The lodge has direct-dial satellite telephone facilities as well as satellite television and wildlife-video-film options.

The sopa pools are renowned for their size and location and this one in the Serengeti is no exception. The double size pool offers a refreshing interlude between game drives as well as wonderful views over the rolling plains of the Serengeti.