East Africa (Tanzania & Kenya) with Luxury & Style (13 Days): A Sample Itinerary

ID #: DT-KT-13-10-16-07-BESI

DavidTravel Itinerary Highlights include:

• Visit Amboseli National Park, famous for elephant and views of Mount Kilimanjaro
• On afternoon game drives, glimpse resident wildebeest, giraffe, lion and cheetah
• Fly to Manyara near the Ngorongoro Crater where you spend the next two nights at your unique lodge on the crater rim
• Explore the crater grasslands, home to lion and elephant, hyena and endangered black rhino
• Observe Serengeti's habitats ranging from short grass plains traversed by huge herds of zebra and gazelle to deep central valleys hunted by lion and cheetah
• Explore the vast expanse of savannah known as the Masai Mara Game Reserve
• Dense concentrations of resident animal species are a photographer's dream

Overview:

Kenya has considerable land area of wildlife habitat, including the Masai Mara, where blue wildebeest and other bovids participate in a large scale annual migration. Up to 250,000 blue wildebeest perish each year in the long and arduous movement to find forage in the dry season. The "Big Five" animals of Africa can also be found in Kenya: the lion, leopard, buffalo, rhinoceros and elephant. A significant population of other wild animals, reptiles and birds can be found in the national parks and game reserves in the country.

Tanzania is mountainous in the north-east, where Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak, is situated. To the north and west are the Great Lakes of Lake Victoria (Africa's largest lake) and Lake Tanganyika (Africa's deepest lake, known for its unique species of fish). Central Tanzania comprises a large plateau, with plains and arable land. The island of Zanzibar lays just offshore.