Your safari begins with a hotel or airport pickup before setting off on a scenic drive through the iconic Great Rift Valley toward the legendary Masai Mara National Reserve. Along the way, stop at the Great Rift Valley viewing point to take in and photograph the sweeping, historically significant escarpment — one of Africa’s most dramatic landscapes and a highlight of the journey in itself.

The Masai Mara forms the northern reaches of the vast Serengeti ecosystem and stands as Kenya’s most celebrated wildlife destination. It is world-renowned for hosting the Great Wildebeest Migration — nature’s greatest wildlife spectacle — and is one of the best places on Earth to encounter the Big Five: lion, elephant, leopard, buffalo, and rhino all in a single reserve. Upon arrival, enjoy an introductory afternoon game drive across the Mara’s sweeping golden savannah, offering your first thrilling taste of the incredible wildlife encounters that await in the days ahead.

Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Accommodation: Entumoto Safari Camp — an exceptional unfenced luxury tented camp bordering the Masai Mara National Reserve, placing you at the very heart of the African wilderness.

• Meals included: Lunch & Dinner (Breakfast not included)
• Drinks included: All drinks (Spirits & liquor not included)

After breakfast, set out for an action-packed, full-day game drive deep into the Masai Mara, with a packed lunch enjoyed out in the bush. The wildlife spectacle continues to unfold at every turn — vast herds of herbivores graze across the open plains while cheetahs and leopards lie concealed in the golden grass, patiently waiting for the perfect moment to strike.

The Masai Mara is widely regarded as the beating heart of Kenyan safari tourism, and for good reason. The reserve supports an extraordinary diversity of wildlife, including large populations of mammals, amphibians, and reptiles, alongside more than 400 recorded bird species. Nowhere else in Africa is wildlife quite so abundant and accessible — making sightings of the Big Five: buffalo, elephant, leopard, lion, and rhino an almost guaranteed highlight of every game drive rather than a lucky exception.

The day’s most iconic moment arrives at lunch, with your picnic served at the legendary Mara River migration crossing point — one of the most thrilling locations in all of Africa, where thousands of wildebeest and zebras brave crocodile-filled waters in one of nature’s most dramatic and heart-stopping spectacles.

Main Destination: Masai Mara National Reserve, Kenya

Accommodation: Entumoto Safari Camp — an exceptional unfenced luxury tented camp bordering the Masai Mara National Reserve, immersing you fully in the sights and sounds of the African wilderness.

• Meals included: All meals
• Drinks included: All drinks (Spirits & liquor not included)

After breakfast, depart for Keekorok Airstrip for your scenic flight to Serengeti Seronera Airstrip in Tanzania, where your dedicated Tanzania guide will be waiting to welcome you and transfer you to camp — with an exciting game drive en route to settle you into the Serengeti experience from the very first moment.

The Serengeti National Park is a place that defies description. No photograph or story can fully prepare you for the overwhelming sensory experience of being surrounded by millions of wildebeest — their collective hum so dense it resonates through the ground beneath your feet and vibrates through your entire body. As the sun dips toward the horizon, the plains transform into a breathtaking canvas of honey-golden light, painting one of the most beautiful vistas you will ever witness — a sight alone worth making the journey for. Along the way, the genuine warmth and iconic culture of the Maasai people adds a deeply human and heartfelt dimension to the safari experience.

Whether you visit during the peak of the Great Wildebeest Migration or in the quieter green season, the Serengeti is magical year-round — always teeming with wildlife, always surprising, and always leaving visitors longing to return.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Accommodation: Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp — an outstanding luxury tented camp located deep inside Serengeti National Park, offering an authentic and immersive wilderness experience at the heart of one of Africa’s greatest ecosystems.

• Meals included: All meals
• Drinks included: All drinks (Spirits & liquor not included)

After breakfast, embark on a full day game drive across the magnificent Serengeti National Park — a wildlife paradise that never fails to deliver extraordinary sightings at every turn. The name Serengeti derives from the Maasai language, meaning “endless plains” — and the sheer scale and openness of this iconic landscape is immediately apparent as you venture deeper into its vast ecosystems.

The Serengeti supports one of the most diverse and abundant wildlife populations on Earth, with lions, elephants, giraffes, leopards, cheetahs, zebras, wildebeest, warthogs, and spotted hyenas all sharing the plains alongside an exceptional variety of birdlife that delights wildlife enthusiasts of every level. Depending on the season, you may witness the Great Wildebeest Migration in full flow — one of nature’s most awe-inspiring events, where millions of wildebeest and zebras move together in vast columns across the Serengeti, shadowed relentlessly by lions, cheetahs, and other predators in a breathtaking cycle of life that plays out across the endless plains.

Return to camp as the African sky blazes with the colors of sunset, for dinner and an overnight stay at your luxury tented camp deep inside the Serengeti.

Main Destination: Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Accommodation: Elewana Serengeti Pioneer Camp — a premier luxury tented camp situated inside Serengeti National Park, offering world-class comfort and unrivalled access to the heart of the Serengeti ecosystem.

• Meals included: All meals
• Drinking water included (Other drinks not included)

Today’s journey takes you to one of the most extraordinary places on Earth — the Ngorongoro Crater, a UNESCO World Heritage Site and prehistoric natural wonder located just 66 km (41 miles) from the Serengeti, and widely celebrated as the Eighth Wonder of the World. Formed two to three million years ago when a massive volcano collapsed inward upon itself, the Ngorongoro Crater is a geological marvel of breathtaking scale — plunging 2,000 feet (609 m) deep with a crater floor spanning 100 square miles (259 sq km) of stunningly diverse landscape.

From the rim, a sweeping blue-green panorama of open plains, shimmering lakes, and dense forest unfolds below — a world within a world, sheltered by ancient volcanic walls that rise dramatically on all sides. This incredible natural amphitheater is home to one of the most remarkable concentrations of wildlife anywhere on the planet, including massive bull elephants, leopards, black rhinos, wildebeest, buffalo, and what is widely considered the highest density of lions in all of Africa. Spend the day on an immersive crater floor game drive, tracking predators, observing enormous elephant herds, and soaking in the unparalleled scenery of this ancient caldera before transferring to your luxury lodge for a well-earned rest.

Main Destination: Ngorongoro Crater, Tanzania

Accommodation: Neptune Ngorongoro Luxury Lodge — a superb luxury lodge situated less than one hour’s drive from the Ngorongoro Crater, offering exceptional comfort and effortless access to one of Africa’s greatest natural wonders.

• Meals included: All meals
• Drinking water included (Other drinks not included)

After breakfast, pack your picnic lunch and descend into the magnificent Ngorongoro Crater for a final, unforgettable morning of world-class wildlife viewing. The sheer geological scale of the crater is staggering — estimates suggest the original volcano once stood between 15,000 and 19,000 feet (4,500 to 5,800 meters) tall before its dramatic collapse millions of years ago, creating the extraordinary natural amphitheater that exists today.

The crater floor teems with virtually every iconic wildlife species found across East Africa, including lions, elephants, zebras, black rhinos, leopards, buffalo, gazelles, wildebeest, and hippos, alongside a remarkable diversity of bird species that delights wildlife enthusiasts and birdwatchers alike. With such an extraordinary density of animals concentrated within the crater’s walls, every game drive here delivers exceptional sightings and memories that will last a lifetime. Enjoy your picnic lunch in the bush surrounded by this incredible landscape before making the ascent back up the crater walls.

From Ngorongoro, transfer to Arusha — arriving late afternoon or early evening depending on traffic — where you will be dropped off at the airport for your onward flight home. Alternatively, spend one final night in Arusha and fly home the following day at your leisure, giving yourself a relaxed and comfortable conclusion to an extraordinary East African safari adventure.

This marks the end of your 7-Day Kenya & Tanzania Luxury Bush Tour — a truly exceptional journey through the finest wilderness destinations East Africa has to offer.

End of Tour — Arusha, Tanzania (No accommodation)

• Meals included: All meals
• Drinking water included (Other drinks not included)