Enjoy your first full day at the Maasai Mara. It’s Kenya’s premier spot for wildlife watching so make sure you fortify yourself with the filling and healthy breakfast on offer. It’s an early start as dawn is perhaps the most beautiful time of day (although some would say dusk is more enchanting we can’t decide!). Hope in to your 4x4 Land Cruiser with its pop-up roof so you can get a clear view but stay safe! For a day of exploring the grassy plains and rolling hills punctuated by clumps of acacia. It’s a landscape that is truly alive with rustling nearby and roars a far there’s plenty to keep you on your toes. Marvel at the grace of the giraffe, the ambling wildebeest, topi, zebra and Thomson’s gazelle; you’ll see lions lazing, elephant herds making their slow and majestic way across the plains; almost-submerged hippos glorying in the mud of the waterholes and if you’re very very lucky a black rhino. You’ll pause your park tour for a tasty picnic lunch but you’ll find that you’ve still got a huge appetite from the day’s fresh air. Which is just as well as we’ll have prepared a feast for you to enjoy while you relax in that beautiful dusk we told you about 

 Day 3 of your in-depth Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar tour sees you up early for breakfast in the fresh air before a guided walk in the morning. Today (or Day 9) you’ll have the option to visit to the typical Maasai village; take part in dance and learn about the everyday life of these part-nomadic people. The Maasai Mara might be Kenya’s most famous national park, but it’s not the only one. Shortly before lunch you are whisked along to the Nakuru National Park, on the floor of the Great Rift Valley, with a stop in Narok for lunch. Nakuru is birdlife central and its chaotic landscape of rocky escarpment, patches of forest and Lakeland has in addition a new eco-system in the haunted, submerged landscape caused by the rising waters of Lake Nakuru. Spend the African dusk relaxing at your comfortable campsite. We hope you’re not too excited to sleep – tomorrow you’ve a wonderful game drive first thing 

 Slept well? We hope so as this morning there is plenty of wildlife to see. It’s another early start (the animals won’t wait for you!) so after a filling breakfast and hot coffee steaming in the cool dawn air you’ll jump into a 4WD and tour the best that the park has to offer. Your guides will decide your route on the day, depending where the animals are but it’s likely you’ll journey to the forests of Flamingo hill, where you might spot a lioness sleeping in the branches. The Park is sanctuary to both black and white rhinos Say goodbye to Nakuru as you head off to Lake Naivasha a freshwater lake home to an array of wildlife including the hippos that spend as much time lumbering on land for food as they do enjoying the cooling waters of the lake. It’s a beautiful tranquil lake setting that has a distinctive atmosphere, different from what you’ve already experienced on your safari across Kenya and Tanzania so far. Spend a comfortable night under canvas, dropping off to sleep to chirping of frogs and night insects. 

Wake to the call of the birdsong - Lake Naivasha has a healthy fish population, including tilapia, black bass and crayfish so of course the birdlife is a delight too. You can spot fish eagles, pelican, cormorant and the turquoise flash of kingfishers. We hope you have your sea legs with you, because you’ll be taking a relaxing boat trip across the shimmering waters of the lake. It’s a chance to see the lake and surrounding landscape from a different perspective, and you can get up close and personal to the hippos.

Your last Kenyan stop on your Kenya Tanzania Zanzibar adventure is the wonderful Amboseli National Park on the Kenya Tanzania border. On the way to the park you’ll catch your first sight of the majestic Mount Kilimanjaro, which dominates the region. Settle into your comfortable campsite close to the park and enjoy a tasty dinner under the stars.

 Our last full day in Kenya is spent further exploring the rich natural abundance of Amboseli National Park. Wake up to the coolness and apricot skies of an African dawn and spend the day soaking up the essence of the African bush, never quite knowing what natural wonder is around the corner. You could stay here a year and still never see everything there is to see so take in what you can. Amboseli National Park is known to be one of the best places in Africa to get close to elephants which roam freely but that’s only one of the reasons to love this place. Its home to over 400 species of birds including over 40 different types of raptor. The long, dry months make vegetation sparse so you’re offered clear views of wildebeest, cheetah, Cape buffalo, lions, impala, hyena and Maasai giraffe. Spend your last moonlit evening in Kenya relaxing with a glass of wine under an acacia tree. 

 It’s up early for a hearty breakfast to welcome the next stage of your adventure – you’ve already seen so much and this is only part 2! Say hello to Tanzania, as your journey takes you from Amboseli, over the Kenya Tanzania border, on the easy 3-hour drive with Mount Kilimanjaro a constant glory on your right. Arrive in the typically Tanzanian town of Moshi, with its colourful markets and constant bustle, a stark contrast to the still calmness of the national parks. Moshi will give you a sense of life in an African town, and you have the day to choose what you’d like to do. Perhaps take the daladala to a local coffee farm to learn the fine art of coffee preparation; or sample the local banana beer, check out the colours of the markets and sample the Asian-influenced cuisine for lunch. Tonight you’ll stay over at a comfy lodge –with a pool! Take a cooling dip before an evening on the town, where you can take your pick of a range of cuisine – Indian, Thai, Italian and Tanzanian. 

 Say goodbye to Moshi and jump into the jeep for the start of your safari across the famous Tanzanian national parks. Tarangire National Park is your first stop, off the beaten track so it might seem like you have it all to yourself. The Tarangire River is at the heart of the activity and when it’s in full flood between July and October, the range of wildlife has to be seen to be believed. Snuffling warthogs (quicker on their feet than you realise), families of mongoose, stately impala and our favorites, the ostrich, all busying themselves in their natural habitat. Look up and once you get used to the pure blue of the heavens, you’ll see tawny eagles, circling slowly on the warm thermals. Overnight in a comfortable camp with all the facilities. 

Waking up to an African dawn is one of the purest joys in life so make sure that you take in the glorious colours that paint across the skies as the sun makes its way above the endless horizon to warm the new day. Today’s new adventure takes you to the world-famous Serengeti its vast plains spiked with baobab and acacia the natural stage where a dizzying array of wildlife play out their lives. The Great Migration, where a million wildebeest and zebra bravely seek out the northern fertile grassland takes place annually across the Serengetiand it’s a sight not to be missed. The Serengeti is Big Nature personified.

You’ll overnight in the Serengeti and it’s time to sit quietly with a glass of wine, soaking in the twilight and watching the shadows lengthenas the moon rises before you.