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| Viewing: Savannah & Game Parks (Nairobi to Nairobi) |
Package ID: 659 |
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| Savannah & Game Parks (Nairobi to Nairobi) |
Travel through the best of the Kenyan & Tanzanian Game parks: chance of catching the wildebeest migration on film. Special photographic safari with extra comfort & innovative facilities.
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Travel through Kenya and Tanzania visiting the famous game parks of East Africa with a maximum of 16 person in our custom built full size expedition truck. With over a metre of legroom at each seat sit back, relax and experience the wonders of the wildlife migration as it passes through the Serengeti National Park. Also visit the Nukuru National Park, Masai Mara and the Ngorongoro Crater to complete this special wildlife safari with great facilities available for the keen photographer.
We provide the services of an expert photographer and digital download facility on all our overland tours, a unique feature making us stand out from the others!
One of our crew (normally the Tour Leader) is a full-qualified, semi-professional, photographer who will be available to give advice on photographic (and video) techniques; and will organise “workshops/tutorials” on photographic subjects and techniques (eg landscape, wildlife and bird photography, night shots, close-ups and portraits) to assist our guests to improve their photographic technique. We also provide a laptop computer with multi-card reader for those clients with digital cameras to enable you to download your memory cards and burn those special memories to CD or DVD while on tour.
Tour price includes all highlights (inclusive activities worth £395), all ground transport except Zanzibar, all road tolls and vehicle taxes, camping and cooking equipment and services of 3 crew.
Local Payment - US$360 - Local Payment covers all food (3 meals a day - provided by our now legendary Kenyan Cook) and camping fees for the whole tour. This is payable to the tourleader at the start of the tour in US dollars only.
Departs on the 22 June 2008.
ITINERARY
Day 1
Departing from Nairobi we cross the border into Tanzania and head for Arusha, camping our first night a little way out of town with the backdrop of Mt Meru in the distance. CAMPING
Day 2
After a relaxed morning we head into Arusha to have a look at the town and spend some time wandering through the curio markets. Returning to our campsite for some lunch we head for the Ngorongoro Crater stopping along the way to visit a Masai tribal village. We camp that night a short drive from the crater on the outskirts of the town of Karatu. CAMPING
Day 3
Up early the next morning we use local operators to do an all-day game drive into the Ngorongoro Crater in 4X4 vehicles, stopping for lunch at the hippo pools. Leaving the crater floor we drive up to the rim and spend the night in a campsite situated right on the crater’s edge, hopefully giving us a beautiful sunset. CAMPING
Day 4
Next morning we make our way down to the Serengeti Plains, stopping along the way at the Olduvai gorge to visit a museum about early man before entering the great grass plains of the Serengeti. We take game drives through the park and hope to glimpse the spectacle of the great migration of wildlife. We spend two nights camping in the Serengeti giving us the chance to experience the true African bush. CAMPING
Day 5
Game drives in the Serengeti. CAMPING
Day 6
Next morning we leave early on another game drive through the Western Corridor of the park before exiting the park at about lunchtime and heading for Lake Victoria and spending the night on the lakeshore. CAMPING
Day 7-8
Leaving the lake we head for the border and cross into Kenya heading for Lake Nakuru National park camping the night on the edge of the park in a conservancy area. CAMPING
Day 9
Up early next morning we do an all day game drive into the park returning to camp in the late afternoon.
Day 10-11
We then head for Lake Naivasha one of Africa’s great lakes which is renowned for its birdlife. We camp two nights here on the lakeshore to give us time to explore the area the next day. We visit the spiritual home of Joy Adamson, the author of Born Free, and take a walk in the Hells Gate National Park. . CAMPING
Day 12-13
We leave the lake and head for the Masai Mara National Reserve, one of Kenya’s best-known parks. We spend two nights here giving us time to explore the park in search of lion, cheetah and perhaps catch the early stages of the migration into this area. CAMPING
Day 14
Leaving the reserve in the morning we drive back to Nairobi where the tour ends in the afternoon.
Please be aware that most campsites within the National Parks have only very basic ablution facilities with very little water available for washing.
Tour maybe run in reverse dependant on migration movements.
Included highlights:
Ngorongoro Crater Entry and all day 4X4 game drive
Serengeti National Park Entry and Game Drives*
Lake Victoria
Nakuru National Park Entry and game drives
Lake Naivasha - Hells Gate National Park Entry (activities such as cycle hire are at own expense)
Elsmere Conservation Center - Spiritual home of Joy Adamson
Masai Mara National Park Entry and Game drive (4x4 local operators)*
* The Migration: although our itinerary includes both the Serengeti and the Masai Mara, and we make every endeavour to take you close to the migrating herds, we cannot absolutely guarantee that we can reach the route that the herds will be taking, as this depends on access to the area they are in, the state of the grazing and therefore timing of the migration, and any instructions from the Park authorities.
Not included:
Visas, travel insurance, vaccinations, flights, airport taxes, sleeping bag, items of a personal nature, curios or alcohol.
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