Your tour begins as you make your way from Arusha to Lake Manyara National Park, which lies on the floor of the Eastern Rift Valley in Tanzania.

Your first night on tour is spent at Lake Manyara Serena Lodge, set on the edge on the Mto Wa Mbu escarpment with incredible views over the park.

In the morning you descend into Lake Manyara National Park for game viewing, returning to the lodge for lunch. In the heat of the day lion can be seen stretched on the branches of flat-topped acacia trees - a habit only endemic to Manyara lions. Along with these amazing tree-climbing lions there are the usual browsers and grazers as well as around 380 species of birdlife.

After lunch you drive to Ngorongoro Crater, where you overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge.

Start the day with a half day game drive in the crater. Grasslands, swamps, lakes, rivers, woodlands, mountains and an incredible abundance of wildlife are all present in this wonderous microcosm of Africa.

You spend the afternoon at leisure at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge, which has been constructed into the rim of the crater with endless views over the plains below.

Depart with a picnic lunch and drive via Olduvai Gorge, where some of the most important fossil humanoid remains have been unearthed, to the Serengeti National Park. There will be game viewing en route to the lodge.

Serengeti Serena Lodge is situated on a hill deep in the heart of Central Serengeti with separate rondavels housing the luxury bedrooms.

Today you have both morning and afternoon game drives in the Serengeti. This is one of the world's last great wildlife sanctuaries in fact the name comes from the Maasai 'siringet' which means 'endless plains', and the Serengeti is just that.

You spend a second night at Serengeti Serena Safari Lodge

In the morning you transfer to Seronera Airstrip for a flight to Arusha. From here you fly to Nairobi, Kenya's capital city.

You spend the night at the 5-star Nairobi Serena Hotel, peacefully set in landscaped gardens and overlooking Central Park.

From Nairobi you are driven to the Samburu National Park in Kenya's rugged and remote Northern Frontier District. After lunch you go on your first game drive in this dramatic landscape - a lava plain with steep-sided gullies and rounded hills.

You spend the night in one of the natural stone cottages at Samburu Serena Safari Lodge, on the banks of the Uaso Nyiro River.

You spend your day on an early morning and afternoon game drive. Some of Kenya's rarer species like the long-necked gerenuk, Grevy's zebra and reticulated giraffe can be seen in this reserve, and the green ribbon of forest on either side of the river is alive with birds.

In the evening you can scan the beautiful view of the river; spotting wildlife such as elephant, monkeys and crocs.

After breakfast you are driven to Lake Nakuru National Park, arriving in time for lunch. Your afternoon is spent viewing game. The shallow soda lake is home to thousands of lesser and greater flamingo, and the park also provides a sanctuary for buffalo, waterbuck, impala, Rothschild giraffe, and leopard.

You spend the night at Naivasha Sopa Lodge on the southern shores of peaceful Lake Naivasha.

• Accommodation
• Meals
• Transportation while on safari - in microbuses
• Qualified English speaking driver / guide
• Airport transfers while on tour (Day 6)
• Flight Serengeti - Arusha
• Flight Arusha - Nairobi
• All government taxes
• Park entrance fees

• International flights
• Visas
• Travel & personal accident insurance
• Porterage
• Gratuities
• Items of a personal nature such as laundry, telephone calls etc
• Any optional excursions not indicated in the itinerary

• Custom-built 9-seater microbuses have been specially adapted for safari use, with sliding windows, roof hatches and high ground clearance to optimise all round visibility for photography.
• Supplemental charges will be applied to all safari tours operating between 16 December and 03rd January each year as well as over the Easter weekend.