Amboseli, Tarangire, Lake Manyara, Ngorongoro and the Serengeti on a family-paced cross-border safari.
A grand family journey across two countries: elephants beneath Kilimanjaro in Amboseli, baobabs and giant herds in Tarangire, the Ngorongoro Crater and the endless plains of the Serengeti. Game drives are timed around children's energy, with rest at the lodge in the middle of the day and a flight out of the Serengeti to save a long drive at the end.
You are met at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport and transferred to your hotel. If your flight lands early, the afternoon is ideal for the Giraffe Centre, where children (and adults) can hand-feed Rothschild's giraffes from a raised platform.
After breakfast, travel from Nairobi to Amboseli (about 4 to 5 hours), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. You arrive at your lodge in time for lunch. An afternoon game drive across the open plains brings you close to Amboseli's famous elephant herds, with Mount Kilimanjaro rising behind them when the clouds lift.
Spend the day with some of Africa's best-studied elephant herds. Early light is the best time to see Kilimanjaro, and the swamps around Enkongo Narok draw hippo, buffalo and abundant birdlife.
After breakfast, travel from Amboseli to Tarangire (a long day of 6 to 7 hours including the Namanga border crossing and a stop in Arusha), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. You arrive at your camp in time for lunch, followed by a first game drive among Tarangire's baobab trees and elephant herds, with the river a magnet for wildlife in the dry season.
Spend the day among Tarangire's large elephant herds and ancient baobab trees, with good birdlife and plenty of antelope, giraffe and buffalo, and lion and leopard on the lookout.
After breakfast, travel from Tarangire to Lake Manyara (about 1.5 hours), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. You arrive at your lodge near the escarpment for lunch, then enjoy a game drive through the groundwater forest, with baboons, elephants and hippos and a chance of the park's tree-climbing lions.
After breakfast, travel from Lake Manyara to Ngorongoro (about 1.5 hours), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. You arrive on the crater rim in the Ngorongoro highlands, where the air is cool and the views drop into the world's largest intact volcanic caldera. The afternoon is free to enjoy the lodge or take a short rim walk.
After breakfast, travel from Ngorongoro to Serengeti (about 3 to 4 hours), with a picnic lunch or lunch stop on the way. You arrive in the Serengeti for lunch and a first afternoon game drive across endless plains. The park is home to lion, leopard, cheetah and huge herds of zebra and wildebeest, and the scale of the landscape is hard to describe.
Spend the day exploring the park's plains and river valleys with a picnic lunch in the bush. Seronera is known for lion, leopard and cheetah, and the migration herds can be tracked depending on the season.
After breakfast, fly from the Serengeti to Arusha (about 90 minutes) and connect to your onward flight, or take the shuttle back to Nairobi.
