The Best of Kenya & Tanzania (2012)

Nairobi • Lake Naivasha • Amboseli • Tarangire • Lake Manyara • Ngorongoro Highlands & Crater • Serengeti • National Park
  • 17 days
  • from only:
  • $4895
  • $288 per day
    Land Tour Only
  • 18 days
  • from only:
  • $6195
  • $345 per dayIncludes international airfare and government taxes
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Detailed Itinerary
Video: Travelers' experiences of The Best of Kenya & Tanzania
NEW-Private Departures
Is this Adventure Right for You?
It's Included
Unique Accommodations
Extend Your Adventure
Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve
Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
Rwanda: Mountain Gorilla Trek
Optional Tours
Local Team & Insider Tips
Grand Circle Foundation
Photos From Our Travelers
Your Travel Handbook
Air information
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Customize your trip

Learn how to customize your adventure, or view standard air routing and travel times. The choice is yours with our True Choice program.

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Customize your trip

With our True Choice Program, you can choose to stay longer before or after your trip on your own, or combine two adventures to maximize your value. Here are more ways to create the OAT adventure that’s right for you:

  • Choose our standard air routing, or work with us to select the airline and routing you prefer
  • Make your own international flight arrangements directly with the airline, applying frequent flyer miles if available
  • Stay overnight in a connecting city before or after your trip
  • Request to arrive a few days early to get a fresh start on your adventure
  • Choose to “break away” before or after your trip, spending additional days or weeks on your own
  • Extend your adventure with our optional pre- and post-trip extensions
  • Combine your choice of OAT adventures to maximize your value
  • Upgrade to business or premium economy class

The air options listed above will involve an additional fee of $100 per person for confirmed requests (as well as incremental airfare costs based on your specific choice). This service fee will be waived for Inner Circle/Sir Edmund Hillary Club members.

Or, when you make your reservation, you can choose our standard air routing, for which approximate travel times are shown below.

GATEWAY

TRAVEL TIME*

Atlanta

23hrs

Boston

19hrs

Denver, Miami

24hrs

Dallas, Los Angeles, Minneapolis, Portland, OR, Seattle

21hrs

Detroit

18hrs

Newark, New York (JFK), Washington, DC (Dulles), Chicago

20hrs

Phoenix

25hrs

San Diego

26hrs

* Estimated total time, including connection and layover. Actual travel time may vary.

The information above reflects approximate flight times from the gateway cities listed to Nairobi, Kenya. Routing is based on availability and subject to change. You will receive your final air itinerary approximately 14 days prior to departure.

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Pre-Trip: Kenya's Masai Mara Game Reserve


4 nights from only $1395
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Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Reserve is a gem of wild beauty. Rolling grasslands yield to breathtaking views of distant mountain ranges. Rich in wild fauna, Masai Mara celebrates Africa at its most untamed. Discover this fascinating land on an affordable extension.

Single Supplement: FREE

Please note: This extension only available on select departures. Ask your Adventure Specialist for details.

It's Included

  • Roundtrip airfare between Nairobi and the Masai Mara
  • Accommodations for 1 night in Nairobi and 3 nights in Kenya’s Masai Mara
  • 10 meals—4 breakfasts, 3 lunches, and 3 dinners
  • 5 game-viewing drives
  • Services of an expert OAT local guide and driver-guides
  • All park fees
  • Bottled water while on game-viewing drives

Optional Tour

Sunrise Balloon Safari ($480 per person)

Day 1
Depart U.S.

We depart the U.S. for London on an overnight flight. Upon arrival, there are a few hours layover before our connecting flight to Nairobi, Kenya.

Day 2
Arrive London/Fly to Nairobi, Kenya

We arrive in Nairobi in the evening. An OAT representative will greet us, and help us transfer to our hotel, where we’ll enjoy a Welcome Drink and a short briefing. Dinner is on our own tonight.

Day 3
Fly to Masai Mara National Reserve/Afternoon game-viewing drive

We enjoy a leisurely breakfast at the hotel and then have the morning at leisure before departing for the airport and the short flight to the Masai Mara. Upon arrival, we’ll enjoy an extensive afternoon game-viewing drive en route to our accommodations for the night. Prepare yourself for an extraordinary experience. The wildlife in the Mara is varied and wonderful: elephant, rhinoceros, lion, hyena, zebra, wildebeest, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelle, topi, reedbuck, and buffalo.

We check in to our permanent tented camp bordering the Mara later this afternoon. Dinner is at our camp tonight.

Day 4
Masai Mara Game Reserve/Game-viewing drives

We rise early for breakfast and then depart for a full-day game-viewing drive. Wildlife in the Masai Mara is so abundant and so varied that you will find the early hours bring game sighting quite different from the drives later in the day. In particular, be alert for many of the bird species that inhabit this wilderness.

We enjoy a picnic lunch out in the African bush and then resume our game-viewing drive. Dinner is at our camp this evening.

Day 5
Masai Mara Game Reserve/Optional Balloon Safari/Morning and afternoon game-viewing drives

Begin today with an optional hot-air balloon safari. Rise before dawn in order to catch the sweeping vista of the morning light over Masai Mara. View the game reserve from a bird’s eye perspective as you gently float for an hour over the grassy plains. Celebrate touchdown with a picnic breakfast in the bush (complete with Champagne),before returning to camp mid-morning.

Or join us for a morning game-viewing drive and a packed breakfast. The Mara is considered one of the great natural wonders of Africa. Here you are likely to see great herds of elephants foraging among the clumps of trees that dot the grasslands, or large predators such as lions and leopards. Crocodiles linger on the riverbank looking for unwary prey, while wildebeest and zebra migrate through the plains.

We return to our camp for lunch, where you’ll have time to relax and contemplate our morning’s adventure. Later this afternoon, we all head out again for our afternoon game-viewing drive. Dinner is at the camp tonight.

Day 6
Game-viewing Drive in the Masai Mara/Fly to Nairobi

We rise early for breakfast and to enjoy a full morning game-viewing drive in the midst of the Masai Mara before returning for a final lunch at our camp. In the mid-afternoon we fly back to Nairobi, where we join up with the main group for The Best of Kenya and Tanzania.