During this comprehensive tour you will enjoy some of the best safari experiences in Eastern Africa appreciating wildlife from both sides of the boarder between Kenya and Tanzania. On the Kenyan side you will visit Amboseli for the best views of Kilimanjaro and then spend a few days in the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Leaving Kenya you will transfer to Tanzania to go on safari on the infamous plains of the Serengeti and visit the Ngorongoro Crater.

This trip offers the avid traveler the opportunity to go on safari in two of Kenya’s most pristine parks and reserves, Amboseli, boasting the best view of Kilimanjaro, and the Masai Mara, with Africa’s largest migration. With elephant and buffalo breeding grounds in Amboseli, and even more wildlife in Masai Mara, you will take days worth of game drives in both of these regions. You will also have the opportunity to visit a local Maasai village to experience the local traditions and culture. You will then transfer by air from Nairobi, into the plains of Tanzania for the second half of the trip.

The Ngorongoro Crater is a large, un-flooded volcanic caldera which formed when a giant volcano exploded and collapsed on itself some two to three million years ago. It is 2000 feet deep and covers 100 square miles. The Crater is often called ‘Africa’s Eden’ and the ‘8th Natural Wonder of the World,’ and is a main draw for tourists coming to Tanzania as well as a definite world-class attraction. Within the crater rim exists large grazing herds of zebra and wildebeest, the endangered black rhino, and some of Africa’s large cats. Just outside the crater’s ridge, tall Masaai herd their cattle and goats over green pastures through the highland slopes, living alongside the wildlife as they have for centuries. The game viewing is truly incredible, and the topography and views of the surrounding Crater Highlands out of this world.

Serengeti is easily Tanzania’s most famous national park, and it’s also the largest, at 14,763 square kilometres of protected area that borders Kenya’s Masai Mara Game Park. Its far-reaching plains of endless grass, tinged with the twisted shadows of acacia trees, have made it the quintessential image of a wild and untarnished Africa. Its large stone kopjes are home to rich ecosystems, and the sheer magnitude and scale of life that the plains support is staggering. Large prides of lions laze easily in the long grasses, plentiful families of elephants feed on acacia bark and trump to each other across the plains, and giraffes, gazelles, monkeys, eland, and the whole range of African wildlife is in awe-inspiring numbers.

The annual wildebeest migration through the Serengeti and the Masai Mara attract visitors from around the world, who flock to the open plains to witness the largest mass movement of land mammals on the planet. More than a million animals make the seasonal journey to fresh pasture to the north, then the south, after the biannual rains. The sound of their thundering hooves, raising massive clouds of thick red dust, has become one of the legends of the Serengeti plains. The entire ecosystem thrives from the annual migration, from the lions and birds of prey that gorge themselves on the weak and the faltering to the gamut of hungry crocodiles that lie in patient wait at each river crossing for their annual feed.

This trip can be customized to fit your individual travel dates and any specific requests you may have. Your travel consultant will prepare a customized itinerary for you. We offer a choice of 4 star and 5 star hotels.

This tour includes airfare allowance from New York, on non-holiday dates. You do not need to fly via New York; Yampu will fly you the most direct way to your city of destination. Depending on your travel dates and proximity of travel, we will quote you the most economical surcharge from your city or country of origin.