Day 1 & 2.
Take a seat rate flight to the Namib Desert. Your accommodation for the next two nights is at one of the best lodges in Namibia, Sossusvlei Desert Lodge. Activities include: One morning Sossusvlei excursion, Living Dunes Experience, Desert People Experience, Desert Rock Experience, Desert Drive, Big Dune Walk, Stargazing and self-exploration E-biking and Hiking - all activities are guided and subject to availability.
Flight departs Windhoek around 10h30, arriving at Sossusvlei Desert lodge approx. 12h10.
Property has a gym
Day 3 & 4.
Your destination today is Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp, situated in one of Namibia’s most remote and dramatic landscapes. Take a seat rate flight to Swakopmund where the plane makes a stop to refuel and from there onto Doro Nawas for a second fuel stop. The last leg of the flight takes to Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp. Here you will spend two nights on a fully inclusive basis.
Activities from camp reveal a surprising amount of desert-adapted wildlife, including elephants, oryx, giraffes -and even lions and the elusive brown hyena, as well as Rüppell’s korhaan, Benguela long-billed lark and Verreaux's eagle. Enjoy a day trip overlanding to the wild Skeleton Coast. Insights into the area and its wildlife are presented at the in-camp Research Centre, with opportunities to engage with resident researchers.
Flight departs Sossusvlei Desert Lodge at approx. 09h25, to arrive at Hoanib Skeleton Coast Camp approx.14h05 (including stops to refuel)
No Gym
Day 5-7. Today you will take a seat rate flight back to Doro Nawas and onto Ongava where you will spend the next three nights at Anderssons at Ongava on a fully inclusive basis. The lodge is situated on the private Ongava Reserve adjacent to Etosha National Park and offers exceptional wildlife viewing. Activities include morning and afternoon game drives on the Ongava Private reserve as well as to Etosha National Park. Guided walking trails and night drives are also available. Recommended visit to the Ongava Research Centre adds a fascinating scientific side to your stay. Guests can visit the interactive Visitor Centre to learn about Ongava’s pioneering conservation work.
Flight Departs Hoanib Camp around 10h30 to arrive at Ongava at approx.13h20 (enroute fuel stop(s))
No Gym
Day 8. There will be time for a morning activity should you wish. You will board a seat rate flight back to Windhoek International airport around 13h50 to arrive in Windhoek at approx. 15h15. No flights prior to early evening or alternatively overnight in Windhoek. End of Services
Day 1. Arrival at Johannesburg.
On arrival at OR Tambo Airport you will be met and transfer you to your hotel. You have the remainder of the day at leisure to acclimatize and relax at the hotel facilities.
Day 2. Karongwe Private Game Reserve
From your hotel in Johannesburg, you will be transferred to Hoedspruit, you will be met and transferred to your lodge situated in the Greater Kruger National Park area. Settle in to your accommodation and spend the afternoon at leisure before embarking on a sunset game drive in the private concession, followed by dinner.
Day 3 -4. Karongwe Private Game Reserve
The next two days will be spent exploring the world-renowned Greater Kruger wildlife area with its diversity of life forms, in search of Africa’s Big Five. Keep those cameras ready on game drives in open safari vehicles and/or bush walks and cultural excursions! During your stay you will have the opportunity to grow your conservation footprint by planting an indigenous or fruit tree in the local community. A complimentary t-shirt is given with every tree donated and leave knowing you played your part in planting the seed of conscious travel.
Day 5-6. Sabi Sand Nature Reserve
After early morning breakfast you will be transferred to another lodge for another 2 days wildlife adventure.
Day 7. Flight to Cape Town
This morning after a last hearty breakfast in the African bush, you will be transferred back to Eastgate Airport in Hoedspruit for your onward flight.
On arrival at Cape Town International Airport you will be transferred to your hotel. You have the remainder of the day at leisure to acclimatize and relax at the hotel facilities.
Day 8. Cape Town tour.
This morning you will be collected and taken on an orientation tour of the city. You will see the Company Gardens, Greenmarket Square, the SA Museum and Bo-Kaap. The afternoon can be spent at leisure. We suggest a visit to the V&A Waterfront, situated in the heart of Cape Town’s working harbor, offering an abundance of indoor shopping and entertainment
Day 9. Cape Peninsula
The day is spent exploring the Cape Peninsula and visiting Hout Bay on the Atlantic coast before heading off to Cape Point for lunch. In the afternoon we head back via the Boulders Beach penguin colony.
Day 10. Departure
Depending on your flight, you will be transferred to Cape Town International Airport for outbound flight.
Day 1: Arrive at Kilimajaro International Airport. On arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel. Overnight
Day 2. Arusha-Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, depart for Tarangire National Park. Enjoy a full day game drive with picnic lunch. Discover the park’s famous baobab trees and large herds of elephants. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 3. Tarangire-Serengeti National park.
After breakfast, depart to Serengeti national park with packed lunch via a scenic highland arrive for picnic lunch and afternoon game drive. Witness the endless plains and abundant wildlife. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Day 4. Serengeti Balloon safari and game drive.
Pick up early for a hot air balloon safari followed by a bush breakfast. Thereafter your driver will pick you up and with packed lunch depart for full day game drives until sunset and return to camp to rest and freshen up. You can also opt to do a morning and an afternoon game drive and enjoy the facilities in between.
Day 5. Serengeti-Ngorongoro Crater.
After an early breakfast collect lunch boxes and depart for Ngorongoro and on arrival descend into the crater where you will spend the rest of the afternoon exploring. In the evening ascend back and drive to your lodge for check in, rest and to freshen up for dinner.
Day 6. Ngoromgoro-Arusha
After breakfas depart for Arusha where your safari ends. End of our services
Pick up from Mombasa or Diani and drive towards Tsavo East National Park. Arrive at the Bachuma Gate of the Tsavo East National Park and enjoy a game drive en-route towards the camp/lodge arriving in time for lunch. The sight of dust-red elephants wallowing, rolling, and spraying each other with the midnight blue waters of the palm-shaded Galana River is one of the most evocative images in Africa. This, along with the 300-kilometre long Yatta Plateau, the longest lava flow in the world, makes for an adventure unlike any other in the Tsavo East. It forms the largest protected area in Kenya. It is home to most of the larger mammals, vast herds of dust –red elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, pods of hippo, crocodile, waterbucks, lesser Kudu, gerenuk, and the prolific birdlife features 500 recorded species. Tsavo East is also famous for the Man-Eaters of Tsavo. Beginning in the late 19th/early 20th century, the British began a concerted effort to colonize the interior of Kenya and built a railway through Tsavo in 1898. Two “man-eating lions” terrorized the construction crews led by Lt. Col Patterson, who eventually shot the pair not before they had killed one hundred and thirty-five Indians and local workers. The railway was eventually completed through to Kisumu on Lake Victoria. Have a short siesta, and later in the afternoon, head out for a game drive until sunset and return to the camp/lodge for dinner and overnight
After breakfast, check out and drive towards Tsavo West. Enjoy a morning game drive en-route as you proceed to your camp/lodge for check-in and lunch. From the sight of fifty million gallons of crystal-clear water gushing out from the under parched lava rock that is the Mzima Springs to the Shetani lava flows, Tsavo West is a beautiful, rugged wilderness. The savannah ecosystem comprises open grasslands, scrublands, Acacia woodlands, belts of riverine vegetation and rocky ridges, including the Poacher’s Lookout, where visitors can see the teeming herds in the plains below. Tsavo West offers some of the most magnificent game viewing in the world, and attractions include elephants, rhinos, Hippos, lions, cheetah, leopards, Buffalos, diverse plant and bird species, including the threatened corncrake and near threatened Basra Reed Warbler. Have a short siesta, and later in the afternoon, head out for a game drive until sunset and return to the camp/lodge for dinner and overnight.
Have an early morning game drive in search of Tsavo’s big cats. Return to the lodge or camp for late breakfast. Check out and have an en-route game drive. Depart for Mombasa/ Diani, where your safari ends with a drop off at your beach resort or airport in the late afternoon.
Day 1: Arrive in Nairobi
On arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel for check-in. Pick up in the afternoon for a game drive in Nairobi National Park to look for rhinos and return to your hotel.
Day 2: Nairobi-Amboseli
Pick up at 8:00 AM in Nairobi and leave for Amboseli National Park arriving for lunch. Have an afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at lodge.
A day of game drives in this park, which dust devils swirl around the edges, but in the heart of the park is an amazing swamp which elephants and hippos are in abundance.
A visit to the observation hill will follow where you will look out for the glistering majestic snowcap of Mt Kilimanjaro.
Amboseli is justly famous both for its big herds of elephants, which are the most studied in the world. Living beside the most celebrated culture in the world- the Masai. You will have lunch and a leisure break at the Lodge in the mid-afternoon before returning to the wild for an afternoon game drive. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Have breakfast and an en-route game drive in Amboseli. Drive to Nairobi for lunch. Leave for Lake Nakuru. You have a brief stop at the Rift Valley viewpoint to take photos of the escarpment and the sheer drop of the Rift Valley. Drive on to Lake Nakuru National Park. arriving in the late afternoon. The lake is a spectacular ocean of pink surrounded by forest and plains that are home to lion, rhino, leopard, and large herds of water buck. You shall arrive for lunch. Afternoon game drives around the lake — dinner, and overnight at the lodge.
Have breakfast and a morning game drive. Arrive for lunch then proceed for a game drive upon arrival to this world’s best-loved reserves with its savannah rolling hills and riverine forest, with grazing herds, bountiful bird life and Africa’s largest population of lions. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Early breakfast followed by a full day game drive within the reserve as the rains bring the grasslands of Masai Mara to life, the vast plains rumble with the thunder of approaching hooves as 1.5 million wildebeest migrate up the south into Masai Mara from Serengeti.
The great migration is a vision beyond belief of one of the world’s most impressive spectacles staged every year in Kenya, directed by raw forces of nature. You will also appreciate it’s high animal concentration and abundance of black-maned lions, herds of topi antelope, cheetah, common zebra, Coke’s hartebeest though luck is essential for spotting leopards and rhinos. Dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Early breakfast followed by a game drive. The landscape is breathtaking with its network of roads specially constructed for game viewing. The Mara River bisects the Masai Mara Game Reserve with its tributaries which are bordered by luxuriant riverine forests. Return to your lodge for lunch.
After breakfast, proceed for your final game drive leave for Nairobi with packed lunch arriving in the late afternoon where the safari ends with a drop off at the airport for departure. End of our service
Day 1: Arrive in Nairobi
On arrival you will be met and transferred to your hotel for check-in. Pick up in the afternoon for a game drive in Nairobi National Park to look for rhinos and return to your hotel.
Day 2: Nairobi- Amboseli National Park
Pick up from hotel and depart for Amboseli National Park, famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro to arrive for check-in and lunch. Have a short rest followed by an afternoon until sunset and return to your camp to freshen up for dinner. Dinner and overnight.
Day 3: Amboseli National Park
Full in Amboseli with the occasional view of Mt. Kilimanjaro when the cloud cover breaks. You can opt for a morning game drive after breakfast and afternoon game drive and enjoy the lodge facilities in between or a full day game drive with packed lunch from 8am to 4pm
Day 4: Amboseli-Tsavo West National Park
After breakfast depart for Tsavo West to arrive for check-in and lunch. The Park is set with gently rolling plains, the picturesque Taita hills and lava flows all in a plateau dotted with acacia, scrub, and bush land. Have a short rest followed by an afternoon game drive until sunset.
Day 5: Tsavo West-Tsavo East National Park
Early morning game drive. After breakfast depart for Tsavo East to arrive for lunch the park is the extension of the Tsavo West, and it is home to the ‘red elephants’ called so due to them wetting their skin and then rolling around in the red soil to protect their skin from the sun and the bugs. Have a short rest to relax and enjoy the lodge facilities followed by an afternoon game drive till sunset.
Day 6: Tsavo East-Diani
Early morning game drive and return to the lodge for breakfast. Thereafter depart for Diani arrival to the lodge for check in and lunch. The rest of the day at leisure. Dinner and overnight at Swahili Beach Resort
Day 7-9: Diani
The full days will be spent at leisure in your beach resort in Diani. Dinner and overnight at Swahili Beach Resort
Day 10: Diani-Nairobi -Lamu.
Pick up early and transfer to Malindi Airport for early morning flight to Lamu where on arrival you will be met and transferred to your beach resort. Dinner and overnight at The Majlis
Day 11-13: Lamu
The full days will be spent at leisure in your beach resort in Lamu. Dinner and overnight at The Majlis
Day 14: Depart
Depending on your flight details you will be transferred to the airport in time for the flight to Nairobi to connect to your flight back home. End of our services.
Day 1: Arrive in Nairobi
Upon arrival you will be met and be transferred to hotel for check in.
Thereafter visit Giraffe center and transfer to your hotel for dinner and overnight. The rest of the day will be spent leisurely.
Day 2 : Nairobi-Maasai Mara Game Reserve
Pick up from your Nairobi hotel at 7am and depart for Maasai Mara via the dramatic landscape and the plains inhabited by Maasai pastoralists to arrive for check in and lunch. Have a short rest and at 3pm head out for an afternoon game drive until sunset and return to your camp.
Day 3: Maasai Mara Game Reserve
Full day will be spent in Maasai Mara where at 8am collect packed lunch and depart for a full day game drive. Break for lunch at a picnic site near the river followed by an afternoon game drive towards your camp and the rest of the evening will be spent at leisure.
Day 4: Maasai Mara-Lake Nakuru National Park
After breakfast depart for Lake Nakuru to arrive for check-in and lunch. Have a short rest and enjoy the lodge facilities followed by an afternoon game drive until sunset in search of the rhinos and other wildlife found in the park and return to your lodge to freshen up for dinner.
Day 5: Lake Nakuru --Amboseli National Park
After an early breakfast and with lunch boxes depart for Amboseli National Park, famous for its scenery with a backdrop of snow-capped Mount Kilimanjaro to arrive for an afternoon until sunset and proceed to your camp to check-in and freshen up for dinner.
Day 6: Amboseli National Park
Full in Amboseli with the occasional view of Mt. Kilimanjaro when the cloud cover breaks. You can opt for a morning game drive after breakfast and afternoon game drive and enjoy the lodge facilities in between or a full day game drive with packed lunch from 8am to 4pm.
Day 7: Amboseli-Mombasa-Diani
After breakfast transfer to Emali terminus for 0931hrs train to Mombasa where on arrival you will be met and transferred to your beach resort in Diani. The rest of the day at leisure.
Day 8-9: Diani
The full days will be spent at leisure in your beach resort in Diani.
Day 10: Diani-Nairobi Depart.
Depending on your flight details you will be transferred to the airport in time for your flight to Nairobi to connect to your flight back home. End of our services.
Day 1: Arusha-Serengeti
Pick up from Arusha and drive to Serengeti National Park.
Day 2: Full-day game drives in Serengeti National Park, focusing on the diverse wildlife, including the Big Cats.
Day 3: Serengeti-Ngorongoro
. This is a scenic journey with views of the Rift Valley and the Ngorongoro highlands. You may have the option to visit a Maasai village for a cultural encounter.
Day 4: Ngorongoro game drive.
Day 5: Departure from Ngorongoro to Arusha
Day 1: Arrival in N'djamena
Upon arrival at N'Djamena airport/ Djamous International Airport you will be met and be transferred to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
Day 2.3: N'djamena - Mongo - Abéché
Departure for the tour by taking the Abéché national road. We will pass through several large cities, for example the city of Mongo, Oum Hadjer, and different ethnic groups and tribes. The road is paved to Abéché. After Abéché, Biltine for Kalaït which is one of the great cities of the Sahara.
Day 4,5,6,7: Kalait - Bachikélé - Aloba - Archeï
From Kalaït we reach the tourist site of Ennedi starting with Bachikélé the big mountain with its water source, the arch of Julia and then we go to one of the largest natural arches in the world, the Arch of 'Aloba. We will visit some wonders such as the mountain in the shape of a table, an elephant or a bottle of Champagne. We will also visit the labyrinth of Oyo, the prehistoric rock paintings of Manda Guili and Terkey. We will then go to Guelta d'Archei, the great Guelta of Ennedi with its inexhaustible water source. We will then move on to the labyrinths of Wimina and Abaïké. From there we will take the road to Fada.
Day 8,9,10,11: Return from Kalait to N'Djamena
We return by taking the same road to N'Djamena, making stops to visit cattle water wells, certain mountainous sites, nomadic caravans, the craft market of Abéché, the queen mountain of Guera and the Abou touyour mountain to N'Djamena.
Day 12: Shopping and Transfer to Airport.
Day 1
Bamako
Upon arrival you will be met and be transferred to your hotel for check and overnight.
Optional: City tour depending on the time of arrival
Day 2
Biton Coulibaly, Segoukoro, Segou
Visit the birthplace of Biton Coulibaly, old village of Segoukoro and arrive in Segou.
Day 3
Dougouba, Segou
Traditional village of Dougouba, Sights of Segou.
Day 4
San, Sibi
Sights of San, drive to Sibi via Bamako.
Day 5
Sibi, Bamako and out
Sights of Sibi, drive back to Bamako and fly out.
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