Cornelius Amann
October 06, 2026
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Kenya, Tanzania and Zanzibar: the Masai Mara, the Serengeti and the beach
13 days from Nairobi to Zanzibar: three nights in the Masai Mara, a flight via Nairobi to Kilimanjaro, Tarangire, Ngorongoro Crater and the Serengeti, then Stone Town, a spice farm and two nights on Zanzibar's north coast.
13 days · Nairobi to Zanzibar · up to 12 guests
Masai giraffes in the Maasai Mara Photo: Ray in Manila, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Masai_Giraffe,_Maasai_Mara_(46364250252).jpg)
The facts
At a glance
- Length
- 13 days, 12 nights
- Start and end
- Nairobi to Zanzibar
- Group size
- 7 to 12 guests
- Activity level
Easy
Little walking: a Stone Town walk of about two and a half hours on uneven lanes, short walks at the spice farm and at camp. The effort is early starts around 6 am, long hours in a 4x4 on rough, dusty tracks, five small-plane and airline flights, cold dawns at about 2,300 m on the Ngorongoro rim, and heat and humidity on Zanzibar. Any game drive can be sat out at camp.
- Meals included
- 12 breakfasts, 10 lunches, 9 dinners
- Room of your own
- + CAD 1,750 (estimated price)
- Season
- January to March and June to October
Highlights
Why this trip
- Three nights in the Masai Mara, with a full day out and a picnic in the reserve
- A flight out of the Mara and on to Kilimanjaro instead of a 10-hour border road
- Elephants and baobabs along the Tarangire River at dawn
- Ngorongoro Crater at gate opening, among the first vehicles on the crater floor
- Two nights in the Serengeti, with a full day and a sunrise drive before the flight to the coast
- A morning walk through Stone Town's lanes and lunch at a spice farm
- Two nights on the sand on Zanzibar's north coast, the last day free
- At most six guests in each 4x4, every seat a window, seats rotated daily
What makes this trip different
Free time is part of the plan
Free time and choices are marked on the days they fall.
Solo without the penalty
A room of your own is + CAD 1,750 (estimated price).
Day by day
Itinerary
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Arrive in Nairobi
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport to your hotel in Nairobi
- Welcome dinner
- Stay in Nairobi
- Drive about 45 min
Fly into Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO), about 18 km south-east of the city centre. A driver meets you in the arrivals hall and takes you to your hotel; allow 45 minutes or more, because Nairobi traffic is heavy at rush hour. Have your Kenyan eTA approved before you fly, as there is no visa on arrival.
Afternoon
If you land early, the afternoon is yours: the Nairobi National Museum and the Karen Blixen Museum are both an easy taxi ride, and the hotel can book one for you.
Evening
In the early evening your See Sight Tours guide meets the group for a briefing on the thirteen days ahead: why we start early in the parks, how the window seats rotate, the 15 kg soft-bag limit on the small planes, and which documents to keep in your day bag for the flight into Tanzania. Then we sit down together to a welcome dinner. Repack tonight into a soft bag, because tomorrow we fly to the Mara.
Included
- Pick-up at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO)
- Welcome briefing with your guide
- Welcome dinner
Free time: Free until the evening briefing
Activity: Plan to land by about 3 pm to make the briefing. If your flight lands late, your guide catches you up at breakfast.
Fly to the Masai Mara
Wilson Airport in Nairobi to an airstrip in the Masai Mara, then a game drive to camp
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Masai Mara
- Drive about 30 min
By road the Mara is about 270 km and five to six hours from Nairobi, longer than our four-hour limit, so we fly.
Morning
After breakfast it is about half an hour across town to Wilson Airport, Nairobi's light-aircraft airport, for a scheduled flight of 45 minutes to an hour, sometimes with a stop at another airstrip, over the Great Rift Valley. At the airstrip our Kenyan driver-guides meet us with the 4x4s: at most six guests in each, every seat a window, with a pop-up roof for standing and photos. We game drive to camp, a tented camp in or close to the reserve, for three nights.
Afternoon
Lunch is at camp, then a rest through the heat of the day.
Evening
At about four we head out again as the light softens, over open grassland with lone acacias, looking for lions, elephants, topi and giraffe, and are back by dusk for dinner and the sounds of the night outside the tent.
Included
- Flight from Wilson Airport, Nairobi, to the Masai Mara
- Game drive from the airstrip to camp
- Late-afternoon game drive in the Masai Mara National Reserve
Easier option: Skip the late-afternoon drive and settle in at camp.
Free time: Early afternoon free at camp
Activity: Light-aircraft baggage limit of about 15 kg per person in a soft bag.
A full day in the Mara
Full-day game drive in the Masai Mara National Reserve, with a picnic lunch
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Masai Mara
Morning
We leave at about 6:30 am with coffee in a flask and breakfast packed, because the first hours are when the cats are most active and the light is soft. The Masai Mara is the northern end of the same ecosystem as the Serengeti, about 1,500 square kilometres of grassland cut by the Mara and Talek rivers. From about July to October the wildebeest and zebra herds are usually here, and crossings of the Mara River are possible, though no one can say when or where the herds will cross. Your driver-guides share sightings by radio, and we wait at a crossing point only as long as the group wants. In the other months the Mara keeps its resident lions, elephants, buffalo, hippos, giraffes and cheetahs all year.
Evening
We picnic in the shade of a tree inside the reserve and return to camp in the late afternoon, with time for a shower before dinner. If you have booked the balloon, you lift off at dawn and join us after a bush breakfast.
Included
- Full-day game drive in the Masai Mara National Reserve
- Picnic lunch in the reserve
Optional experiences
- Hot-air balloon flight at dawn with a bush breakfast. Booked in advance.
Easier option: Return to camp at lunchtime with one vehicle, when the group agrees.
Activity: A long day sitting in the vehicle, often on bumpy tracks. Bring a warm layer for the dawn start.
Mara at dawn, a Maasai village in the afternoon
Dawn game drive, then a visit to a Maasai village near the reserve
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Masai Mara
Morning
One more early drive at first light, to a different corner of the reserve from yesterday, chosen by your driver-guides from what was seen the day before. We have coffee before we go and come back to camp at about ten for a late breakfast, then the middle of the day is free: rest in your tent, read on the deck, or watch the plains from camp.
Evening
In the middle of the afternoon we drive a short way out of the reserve to a Maasai village, an enkang of homes inside a thorn fence where families keep their cattle at night. Your hosts show you their houses, explain how cattle shape Maasai life, and talk about school, land and change. The visit fee goes to the community, and the beadwork is for sale without any pressure to buy. We are back for a sundowner looking out over the grassland, and an early night before tomorrow's flights into Tanzania.
Included
- Dawn game drive in the Masai Mara National Reserve
- Maasai village visit with a local host
- Sundowner at camp
Easier option: Skip the village visit and stay at camp all afternoon.
More active option: Swap the dawn drive for a guided walk of about two hours with a Maasai guide and an armed ranger on community land outside the reserve, reading tracks, plants and birds.
Free time: Middle of the day free at camp
Fly out of the Mara to Kilimanjaro and Arusha
Masai Mara airstrip to Wilson Airport, across Nairobi to Jomo Kenyatta, flight to Kilimanjaro, then Arusha
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Arusha
- Drive about 1.5 h
The Mara and the Serengeti touch, but the crossing between them is closed to visitors. The road alternative is the Isebania border west of the reserve, about ten hours to the central Serengeti, so we fly instead.
Morning
A short game drive takes us to the airstrip for a mid-morning flight back to Wilson Airport.
Afternoon
A van takes us across Nairobi, about half an hour, to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, where we sit down to lunch before the flight of about an hour to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO). On a clear afternoon Kilimanjaro shows from the plane. Your guide walks you through Tanzanian entry: passport, e-visa and yellow fever card in hand. Our Tanzanian driver-guides meet us with the 4x4s, and it is about an hour west to Arusha, at the foot of Mount Meru, 4,566 metres.
Evening
Dinner is at the hotel, and the evening is free to rest after a long day of travel.
Included
- Flight from the Masai Mara to Wilson Airport, Nairobi
- Transfer from Wilson to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport
- Flight from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO)
- Help through Tanzanian entry formalities
- Drive from JRO to Arusha
Free time: Evening free in Arusha
Activity: A travel day of about 7 to 8 hours door to door, in three short legs with a sit-down lunch. Keep your passport, Tanzanian e-visa and yellow fever certificate in your day bag. Flight times are set when we book your dates.
Tarangire, the park of elephants and baobabs
Arusha to Tarangire National Park by Makuyuni, then an afternoon game drive
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Tarangire
- Drive about 2 h
Morning
A slower morning after yesterday's flights: breakfast at the hotel and away at about 8:30. It is about two hours west on a good tarmac road through Maasai grazing land to Makuyuni, then south to the gate of Tarangire National Park. Tarangire is known for its baobab trees, some of them many centuries old, and for its elephants, which gather along the Tarangire River in the dry months from about June to October, when the river is the only water for miles.
Afternoon
We game drive to our camp for lunch and a rest through the heat. At about four we head out again along the river, where zebra, wildebeest, giraffe and buffalo come down to drink, and the sandy banks are cut into small cliffs. Lions and leopards are here too, though harder to see in the long grass.
Evening
Back by dusk for dinner, with the river below camp.
Included
- Game drive from the gate to camp
- Late-afternoon game drive along the Tarangire River
- Tarangire National Park fees
Easier option: Skip the late-afternoon drive and rest at camp.
Free time: Early afternoon free at camp
Tarangire at dawn, up to the Ngorongoro rim
Dawn game drive in Tarangire, then via Mto wa Mbu and Karatu to the Ngorongoro Crater rim
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Ngorongoro
- Drive about 3 h
Morning
We leave camp at about 6:30 am for a dawn drive, when the elephants are moving to the river and the light on the baobabs is warm and low. Back to camp for a late breakfast and to load the bags, then we leave the park and drive north and west to Mto wa Mbu, a market town at the foot of the Rift Valley wall, about an hour and a half away.
Afternoon
We stop for lunch with local dishes, then climb the escarpment past Lake Manyara and through the farmland around Karatu, where coffee and wheat grow on the red soil. At the Lodoare gate we enter the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1979, and climb through forest to the crater rim at about 2,300 metres, arriving in the middle of the afternoon. The rest of the day is free.
Evening
The air is cool, so have a warm layer ready for the view into the crater at sunset.
Included
- Dawn game drive in Tarangire National Park
- Lunch in Mto wa Mbu
- Ngorongoro Conservation Area fees
Easier option: Sleep in and skip the dawn drive; we collect you for a late breakfast.
More active option: Walk the Mto wa Mbu market and the banana and rice fields with a local guide for an hour before lunch.
Free time: Late afternoon and evening free on the crater rim
Activity: About 3 hours of road, broken by lunch. The rim sits at about 2,300 m and is cold at night.
Ngorongoro Crater at gate opening, on to the Serengeti
Ngorongoro Crater floor, then Olduvai Gorge and Naabi Hill to Seronera in the central Serengeti
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Serengeti
- Drive about 4 h
Morning
We leave the lodge in the dark with a packed breakfast and reach the descent road as the gate opens, around 6 am, so we drop to the crater floor in the morning mist among the first vehicles. Ngorongoro is a collapsed volcano about 600 metres deep, with some 260 square kilometres of grassland, swamp, forest and the soda lake Magadi on its floor. Lions, hyenas, buffalo, zebra and wildebeest live here all year, and it is your best chance of a black rhino, though they are few and often far off. Breakfast is at a picnic site on the floor; we climb out at about ten, as the crowds build. Then west to Olduvai Gorge, where a small museum tells how Mary Leakey found a hominin skull about 1.75 million years old in 1959.
Afternoon
Picnic lunch there, then on to the Serengeti's Naabi Hill gate and a game drive across the plains to camp near Seronera for two nights.
Included
- Ngorongoro Crater game drive from gate opening, with the crater fee
- Picnic breakfast on the crater floor
- Olduvai Gorge museum
- Game drive from Naabi Hill to camp
- Serengeti National Park fees
Activity: The longest road day: about 4 hours from the rim to Seronera on rough roads, broken by Olduvai and lunch, with the last part a game drive. Cold at dawn on the rim: bring a warm layer and a hat.
A full day in the Serengeti
Dawn and full-day game drives in the Serengeti, planned by season
- Breakfast, lunch and dinner
- Stay in Serengeti
Morning
We leave camp before sunrise, which near the equator comes at about half past six all year, with coffee in a flask and breakfast packed. The Serengeti covers some 14,750 square kilometres and has been a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 1981. Around Seronera the river keeps water and shade through the dry months, so the area holds resident game all year: lions on the granite outcrops called kopjes, leopards in the sausage trees, cheetahs on the open grass. On departures from January to March we head south towards the calving plains near Ndutu, about two hours away; from July to October most herds are in the far north and the Mara, so we stay central and look for the predators. We picnic in the bush, stop at a hippo pool, and give the driver-guides time to wait at a good sighting. A sundowner on the drive back ends the last full day of the safari.
Included
- Dawn game drive with packed breakfast
- Full-day game drive with picnic lunch
- Hippo pool stop
- Sundowner on the evening drive
Optional experiences
- Hot-air balloon flight at dawn with a bush breakfast. Approximate; booked in advance.
Easier option: Return to camp at midday with one vehicle, when the group agrees, and rest through the afternoon.
Free time: Midday rest at camp for those who return early
Activity: A long day in the vehicle; the January to March run to the southern plains adds about two hours each way on rough tracks.
Serengeti sunrise, then fly to Zanzibar
Dawn game drive in the Serengeti, flight from Seronera to Zanzibar, then Stone Town
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Stone Town
- Drive about 18 min
Morning
One last drive at first light, then breakfast at camp and the bags into the 4x4s.
Afternoon
We game drive to the Seronera airstrip for a late-morning scheduled light-aircraft flight to Zanzibar, usually with a stop at Arusha or Lake Manyara, about three hours in all, with a packed lunch in hand. Say goodbye to the Tanzanian driver-guides at the airstrip; your See Sight Tours guide flies on with you. The plains give way to the Rift Valley, then the green coast and the turquoise water of the Zanzibar Channel. Our van meets us at Zanzibar's airport, a short drive from Stone Town, the old trading town on the island's west coast and a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2000. We check into a hotel inside the old town in the middle of the afternoon.
Evening
The evening is free: walk to the Forodhani Gardens on the seafront, where food stalls grill seafood as the sun sets.
Included
- Dawn game drive in the Serengeti
- Flight from Seronera to Zanzibar
- Transfer from Zanzibar airport to Stone Town
Easier option: Skip the dawn drive and have breakfast at camp before the airstrip.
Free time: Evening free in Stone Town
Activity: A travel day of about 6 hours from camp to Stone Town. Baggage limit about 15 kg in a soft bag. Dinner tonight is your own, at the Forodhani stalls or a rooftop restaurant.
Stone Town on foot, a spice farm and the north coast
Stone Town walk, a spice farm in the island's interior, then north to Nungwi or Kendwa
- Breakfast and lunch
- Stay in Nungwi
- Drive about 1.5 h
We start walking at 8:30, before the heat and the day groups. A local guide leads us through the narrow lanes of Stone Town: the carved wooden doors with brass studs, the Old Fort on the seafront, the busy Darajani market, and the Anglican cathedral built on the site of the last open slave market in East Africa, with a memorial and an underground chamber that is hard to forget. About two and a half hours on foot, with a stop for coffee.
Afternoon
Then we drive out of town to a spice farm in the green interior, where the farmer cuts open nutmeg, crushes cinnamon bark and shows how cloves, vanilla and pepper grow, and we eat lunch cooked with what we have just seen. In the afternoon it is about an hour north to the beaches at Nungwi or Kendwa, where the tide moves less than on the east coast and the sea is good for swimming most of the day.
Evening
The evening is yours on the sand.
Included
- Guided Stone Town walk with a local guide
- Spice farm visit with lunch
- Transfer to the north coast
Easier option: Take the short version of the Stone Town walk, about an hour, and wait at a cafe on the seafront.
Free time: Evening free on the beach
Activity: About two and a half hours on foot on uneven lanes in heat and humidity. Cover shoulders and knees in Stone Town and the villages.
A free day on Zanzibar's north coast
Free day at Nungwi or Kendwa
- Breakfast and dinner
- Stay in Nungwi
No alarm.
Evening
After nearly two weeks of early starts, this day is yours and nothing is scheduled until the farewell dinner. Swim, read under a palm, or walk the beach towards Nungwi village, where dhow builders still shape wooden boats on the sand by hand. If you want more, your guide can book a boat out to the reef around Mnemba Island to snorkel among the reef fish and, often, dolphins, or a sunset sail in a traditional dhow along the coast. Both are optional, priced up front and booked only if you ask. The north coast faces west, so the sun sets over the sea, and in the evening we gather on the beach for a farewell dinner together, with seafood and Swahili dishes, to share stories from the Mara to the reef. Bring reef-safe sunscreen and keep swimwear to the beach, out of respect for the villages along the shore.
Included
- Farewell dinner on the beach
Optional experiences
- Snorkelling trip to the reef at Mnemba Island. Booked the day before.
- Sunset dhow sail along the north coast. Booked the day before.
More active option: Snorkel the Mnemba reef in the morning.
Free time: Free all day
Leave from Zanzibar
Nungwi or Kendwa to Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ)
- Breakfast
- Drive about 1.5 h
Morning
A slow morning: breakfast with the sea in front of you and a last swim if you like. We time your transfer to your flight. Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ) is about 65 km south of the north coast, roughly an hour and a half by road through villages and plantations, so we usually leave three hours or more before an international flight. Your guide sees the group off and checks each flight before saying goodbye. Zanzibar has direct flights to the Gulf, to Europe on some days, and to Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Addis Ababa, which connect onward to Canada and the United States; plan for at least one change. Book a flight leaving after about 1 pm if you want the morning on the beach; any time works, and the transfer is included whenever you go. If you want to stay on, we can book extra beach nights.
Included
- Drop-off at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ)
Free time: Morning free on the beach
Activity: Book a flight leaving after about 1 pm to keep the morning free.
- Nairobi1 night
- Masai Mara3 nights
- Arusha1 night
- Tarangire1 night
- Ngorongoro1 night
- Serengeti2 nights
- Stone Town1 night
- Nungwi2 nights
- Zanzibarend
- Overnight stop
- Day trip
- By boat or train
Wildlife and weather: From about July to October the wildebeest and zebra herds are usually in the Masai Mara and the northern Serengeti, and Tarangire is at its best as elephants gather on the river. From January to March the herds calve on the southern Serengeti plains while the Mara keeps its resident game, and Zanzibar is hot and mostly dry. April and May bring the long rains and November the short rains, so we do not run then. Dawns are cool everywhere and cold on the Ngorongoro rim.
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Before you book
Right for you?
Good for you if you want
- Travellers who want the Masai Mara, the Serengeti and a few beach days on one trip, with flights handled
- First-time safari travellers who want borders, flights and park fees taken care of
- Photographers who want a window seat and a pop-up roof every day
- Solo travellers who want a small, steady group from start to finish
Not for you if you want
- Travellers who dislike small planes or early starts
- Anyone who wants three nights in every place: there are single nights in Arusha, Tarangire, on the crater rim and in Stone Town
- Those who want to walk a lot: this is a vehicle-based safari
- Travellers who want only a safari: our Kenya and Tanzania safari covers the same parks without the beach
Book flights after we confirm your seat.
12 nights
Where you'll stay
Your hotels are named in your trip confirmation.
- Nairobi1 night
- Masai Mara3 nights
- Arusha1 night
- Tarangire1 night
- Ngorongoro1 night
- Serengeti2 nights
- Stone Town1 night
- Nungwi2 nights
One price
What's in the price
Included
Accommodation
- 12 nights: 1 in Nairobi, 3 at a tented camp in or near the Masai Mara, 1 in Arusha, 1 in or beside Tarangire, 1 on or near the Ngorongoro Crater rim, 2 at a camp near Seronera in the Serengeti, 1 in Stone Town's old town, 2 at a beach hotel on the sand at Nungwi or Kendwa
- Lodges and permanent tented camps with proper beds and private bathrooms throughout, no camping; hotels of at least a 3-star-plus standard in Nairobi, Arusha, Stone Town and on the beach, named when we confirm your dates
- Rooms shared, or your own for a supplement
Transport
- Pick-up at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (NBO) on day 1
- Drop-off at Abeid Amani Karume International Airport (ZNZ) on day 13
- Light-aircraft flights from Wilson Airport, Nairobi, to the Masai Mara and back
- Flight from Nairobi to Kilimanjaro International Airport (JRO)
- Light-aircraft flight from Seronera in the Serengeti to Zanzibar
- 4x4 Land Cruisers with a pop-up roof and a driver-guide, at most 6 guests per vehicle, in Kenya and in Tanzania
- A private van with driver on Zanzibar
- Bottled or filtered water in the vehicles
Your guide
- A See Sight Tours guide with the group for the whole trip, including every flight and the Zanzibar days
- Licensed Kenyan and Tanzanian driver-guides in every 4x4
- A Maasai host at the village visit, a local guide in Stone Town and the farmer at the spice farm
Activities
- Masai Mara: an afternoon game drive on arrival, a full day with a picnic lunch, and a dawn drive
- Masai Mara: a Maasai village visit, with the fee paid to the community
- Tarangire: an afternoon drive along the river and a dawn drive
- Ngorongoro Crater game drive from gate opening
- Olduvai Gorge museum
- Serengeti: the game drive in from Naabi Hill, a full day planned by season and a final dawn drive
- Stone Town: a guided walking tour of the old town
- Zanzibar: a spice farm visit with lunch
- All park, reserve and conservation fees, including the Masai Mara reserve fee and the Ngorongoro crater fee
- A tipping pool for driver-guides, camp and lodge staff and local guides
Meals
- Breakfast daily (12)
- 10 lunches, days 2 to 11, with picnics on full game-drive days
- 10 dinners: a welcome dinner in Nairobi, all dinners from day 2 to day 9 and a farewell dinner on the beach
Not included
- International flights to Nairobi and from Zanzibar
- Kenya eTA and Tanzanian e-visa fees
- Zanzibar's inbound insurance (about USD 44) and any mainland Tanzania visitor insurance
- Yellow fever vaccination and malaria tablets
- Travel insurance
- Lunch on days 1, 12 and 13; dinner on days 10, 11 and 13
- Drinks, except water in the vehicles
- Tips for your See Sight Tours guide
- Optional balloon flights, snorkelling and dhow trips
- Laundry and personal expenses
- Excess baggage on the light-aircraft flights
Extras
- Room of your own
- CAD 1,750 (estimated price)
When you can go
Dates and prices
Pick your start date when you request to book. We check that date and confirm it in your quote.
Prefer to travel without a group or guide? Ask us about arranging hotels, transport and city tours for you to travel independently.
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Booking terms
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Business addresses
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Questions
What does the price include?
Twelve nights in camps, lodges and hotels, 12 breakfasts, 10 lunches and 10 dinners, all four flights (to and from the Mara, Nairobi to Kilimanjaro, the Serengeti to Zanzibar), airport transfers, 4x4 game drives with at most six guests per vehicle, your See Sight Tours guide, all park and crater fees, the Maasai village, Olduvai Gorge, the Stone Town walk, the spice farm and a tipping pool for local crews.
How big is the group, and will I get a window seat?
The small-group trip runs with 7 to 12 guests in two 4x4s, at most six guests in each, so every guest has a window and room to stand under the pop-up roof. Seats rotate daily, so everyone gets turns at the front.
Who leads the trip?
A See Sight Tours guide travels with the group for all thirteen days, on every flight and on Zanzibar. Licensed Kenyan driver-guides drive the 4x4s in the Mara and Tanzanian driver-guides in Tarangire, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti, with a Maasai host at the village and a local guide in Stone Town.
Why do you fly from the Mara to Tanzania instead of crossing at Isebania?
Because it saves a ten-hour road day. The crossing between the Mara and the Serengeti is closed to visitors, so the road route runs west to the Isebania border and on via Tarime, or back through Nairobi and Namanga. We fly from the Mara to Nairobi and on to Kilimanjaro instead, with entry formalities at the airport. Our safari-only trip uses the Isebania border.
How fit do I need to be?
Not very. Walking is light: about two and a half hours in Stone Town and short paths at camp and the spice farm. The effort is early starts, long hours in a 4x4 on rough tracks, climbing in and out of small planes, cold dawns on the Ngorongoro rim and humid heat on Zanzibar. You can sit out any game drive at camp.
How many times do we change hotels?
Seven times in twelve nights. The Mara gets three nights, the Serengeti two and the beach two. Arusha, Tarangire, the crater rim and Stone Town are single nights, each move under four hours by road, with a free afternoon or evening after most of them. The private trip can add nights where you want them.
I am travelling solo. What is the single supplement?
A room or tent of your own is from CAD 1,750 more than the twin-share price, shown up front. Solo travellers get the same rotating window seat, a place at every group meal and the same guide as everyone else; tell us when you book if you would rather share and we will see whether a roommate is available.
When is the best time to go?
We run January to March and June to October. From about July to October the herds are usually in the Mara and Tarangire is at its best. From January to March they calve on the southern Serengeti plains and Zanzibar is hot and dry. April and May bring the long rains and November the short rains, so we do not run then.
Which Zanzibar beach do we stay on, and why the north?
We stay at Nungwi or Kendwa on the north coast, confirmed with your hotel. The tide there moves much less than on the east coast, so you can swim most of the day, the sun sets over the sea, and Stone Town and the spice farms are on the way, about an hour and a half by road.
Do I need visas, vaccinations or insurance?
Most visitors, including Canadians, need Kenya's electronic travel authorisation and a Tanzanian e-visa, both applied for online. Tanzania asks travellers arriving from Kenya for a yellow fever certificate. Zanzibar requires its own inbound insurance, about USD 44, which is separate from your travel insurance; we confirm it, and any mainland rule, at booking. Both countries carry malaria risk, so ask a travel clinic.
How does booking work?
Choose a start date and request to book. We confirm your place within 24 hours, and no payment is taken when you send the request. The cancellation and refund terms are shown to you before any payment. The small group starts from CAD 10,295 per person sharing, taxes included, and the private trip from CAD 18,530.
Can we travel privately or on our own dates?
Yes. Besides the small group, the trip runs as a private trip for your party only, with your own guide, 4x4s and driver-guides, on a date you choose. If you would rather travel independently on your own dates, ask us from the dates section and we will quote the same camps, flights and beach hotel for you.
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