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Highlights
Optional Activities:
- Cosmopolitan Nairobi
- David Sheldrick's Elephant Orphanage
- Karen Blixen Museum (Out of Africa)
- African Fund for Endangered Wildlife Giraffe Centre
- Dinner with a local family
- Game Drive in Lake Nakuru National Park
- Game Drive in Masai Mara National Reserve
- Visit to the Children’s Garden Centre
- Africa's great Lake Victoria
- Game Drives in Serengeti National Park and Plains
- Oldupai Gorge
- Game Drive in Ngorongoro Crater
- Visit to Kobe Tough Beads and Leather
- Amboseli National Park with Game Drives
- Stunning Accommodation
- Visit a traditional Maasai Manyatta community
- Ngorongoro Crater Walk
- group cooking lesson
- Friends for Company!
Hot Air Balloon Safari over the Masai Mara Reserve - AUD $740 (Subject to availability)
Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains with champagne breakfast - AUD $910 (Subject to availability)
Optional Add On:
Enjoy our 6 Day Zanzibar Add on - Please click here for information.
Inclusions
- Fully Escorted by a Sisterhood Womens Travel Tour Hostess who is on hand to ensure your holiday is a memorable one
- Return Economy airfares ex Melbourne ** (other departure cities available on request / Business Class Upgrade available on request)
- Specialist Driver/Guide
- All transportation as per itinerary
- Meals as per itinerary
- Beautiful accommodation
- All sightseeing as per itinerary including all Park Entry fees
- Gratuities to Driver/Guide
- Willing to share option (subject to availability)
- Meet and Greet before departure via Zoom
- Note: ** Airline Subject to Change
**TIPPING**
Local tipping is customary in Africa. Sisterhood Womens Travel tipping system on all Group Tours involves passengers contributing to a kitty which is paid to the tour hostess at the beginning of the tour who then distributes it daily to service providers on your behalf. This avoids the need for you to consider individual tipping situations daily throughout your trip. The estimated amount for your tour is USD200.00 and this will confirmed in your final documentation.
Notice
Moderate Fitness Level Required
A moderate level of fitness will be required for this tour due to the length and overall physicality of the itinerary. You can expect to walk more than 10,000 steps a day on more challenging terrain and for longer periods. You must be capable of boarding and disembarking coaches, trains and boats unaided and at times handle your own luggage. For more information on our physical ratings please click here
Visas
Australian Passport holders require a visa to enter Kenya and Tanzania. Tourist E-Visas can be applied for online for more information please visit Kenya - https://www.etakenya.go.ke/en Tanzania - https://visa.immigration.go.tz/
We recommend VINA Visas to assist with any visa processing requirements for your intended destination.
VINA Visas obtain travel visas on your behalf by submitting a completed travel visa application, and other required documents, to embassies or consulates.
INSTRUCTIONS:
When you are ready to proceed, start by clicking on the red start lodgement button. Complete the required fields for your visa.
To add more than one passport, click on "Number of passports" and select the required number of passports on the list.
Once you have submitted, you will receive 2 emails, one is a lodgement confirmation and another email with your account details to log back in to download the form and upload your documents.
If you have trouble uploading you can also email it to us to upload.
Follow the instructions and complete the evisa form given on the lodgement.
Sisterhood Womens Travel are able to assist travellers with the application process of the visa - fees apply.
A yellow fever certificate is compulsory to enter Kenya
For all vaccination advice please visit www.travelclinic.com.au
Itinerary
Day 1 - Tuesday 1 April 2025
Melbourne - Kenya (Meals Inflight)
Welcome to Sisterhood Womens Travel! Meet your Sisterhood Tour Hostess and fellow travellers at the Melbourne Airport for our flight to Kenya.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the inflight entertainment of our airlines as we head towards Nairobi. JAMBO - KARIBU!!
Day 2 - Wednesday 2 April 2025
Melbourne - Kenya (D)
Upon our arrival into Kenya, we'll be warmly met upon our arrival with a traditional, unique & special welcome (bubbly, wet towels and presentation of an authentic safari hat and a beautiful authentic canvas pouch filled with safari essentials).
Tonight we will be transfered to the Carnivore Restaurant for dinner
Overnight - The Sarova Stanley (or similar)
Day 3 - Thursday 3 April 2025
Nairobi Sightseeing (B,L,D)
After breakfast, we begin our exploring with a visit to the David Sheldrick elephant orphanage. Opened for just one hour a day and set in the Nairobi National Park, the orphanage will give us a rare opportunity to come close to baby elephants, their ages vary from a few months up to 3 years. Each orphaned elephant is assigned its own keeper who acts as a replacement mother and will stay with the elephant until it is re-introduced into the wild. The keeper also gives a talk about the elephants, where they came from, how they are getting on and how some of the previous orphans are progressing.
We then move on to the Karen Blixen Museum situated at the foot of the Ngong Hills. The Museum was originally the home of Karen Blixen of the Out of Africa fame. This is combined with a visit to the Giraffe Centre, an educational centre and part of the African Fund for Endangered Wildlife. The centre has a small herd of Rothschild's Giraffe which are endangered species and you will get a chance to feed them.
Enjoy lunch at the Karen Blixen Coffee Garden then we will enjoy a special visit to the Children’s Garden Centre, a home supported by the Manji Family through their family foundation, The Manji Foundation to interact with the children living at this home.
Return to the hotel, freshen up then later in the evening, we'll have dinner with the Manji Family.
Overnight - The Sarova Stanley (or similar)
Day 4 - Friday 4 April 2025
Nairobi - Lake Nakuru National Park (B,L,D)
Today after breakfast, we drive to Lake Nakuru with a brief stop at the Rift Valley viewpoint. We'll arrive at our lodge for a very warm welcome and lunch.
This afternoon our first game view to some interesting places including the Baboon Cliff, the Lion Hill, and the Mau escarpment. The park is one of the best game viewing parks with various animal species including prides of lion, Cape buffalo, waterbucks, wart hogs, the endangered Rothschild giraffes, the black and white Rhino, the Burchell’s zebra, impalas, and the elusive leopard among many others. Over 300 bird species have been recorded here too. Lake Nakuru National Park is one of the best places to see the endangered black and white Rhino.
We return to our lodge for dinner and overnight.
Overnight - Sarova Lion Hill Game Lodge (or similar)
Day 5 - Saturday 5 April 2025
Lake Nakuru National Park - Maasai Mara Game Reserve(B,L,D)
Enjoy an early breakfast and depart for the Maasai Mara National Reserve offering wonderful scenery and plenty of game. It is perhaps the only region left in Kenya where the visitor may see animals in the same super-abundance as existed a century ago. Arrive for lunch at our lodge and afterward, we'll enjoy an afternoon of game viewing in the vast and expansive reserve teeming with game. Be on the lookout for the famous big five; the most sought after in the early 20th century, when Kenya was a hunters' paradise. These include the lion, Cape buffalo, the savannah elephant, black rhino and the elusive leopard. The vast savannah grasslands stretch as far as the eye can see and is home to impalas, Masai giraffes, waterbucks, warthogs, Thompson and Grant's gazelles, topis, and the resident wildebeests among many others.
Game drives offer the unforgettable opportunity to enjoy the diversity of animals and birds living permanently in the Maasai Mara, as well as many migratory species and to also learn more about the Maasai people, proud pastoralists and warriors, many of whom still retain their traditional nomadic lifestyle.
Return to the lodge for dinner and overnight.
Overnight - Tipilikwani Mara Camp, Maasai Mara (or similar)
Day 6 - Sunday 6 April 2025
Game Viewing in the Masaai Mara (B,L,D)
Today, as a group, we will enjoy a full day's game-viewing drive and adventure.
We will also visit a traditional Maasai Manyatta and experience the culture of this world-famous community. The Maasai still live as they did for centuries - interact with these nomadic people and experience their way of life as we learn about their customs and traditions.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Balloon Safari over the Mara plains in time with the sunrise and allows guests to experience an eagle’s view of the Masai Mara and all its beauty. To complete the celebration, a champagne breakfast is served on the Mara plains after the flight - AUD$740 (Subject to availability)
Return late afternoon to the camp for dinner and overnight.
Overnight - Tipilikwani Mara Camp, Maasai Mara (or similar)
Day 7 - Monday 7 April 2025
Mwanza, Lake Victoria, Tanzania (B,L,D)
Breakfast is followed by an early departure with Box lunches to the Kenya/Tanzania border where our guide drivers will help us through the immigration procedures. Continue with a brief stopover at a local restaurant for lunch to Serenity Eco Resort situated on the beautiful shores of Lake Victoria, the largest fresh water lake in Africa and the second largest in the world to arrive late afternoon/early evening. Check-in at the lodge.
The massive 6.5 million-hectare Lake Victoria is shared by Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda. Known as one of Africa’s ‘Great Lakes', it is world-renowned as the source of the Nile and is Africa’s largest lake. Its waters are rich in fish life with shimmering shoals of colourful cichlids and large Nile Perch, sought after by the local fishermen.
Dinner and overnight at our lodge.
Overnight - Serenity on the Lake Eco Luxury Resort (or similar)
Day 8 - Tuesday 8 April 2025
Mwanza, The Serengeti (B,L,D)
After breakfast, check-out of the rooms by 10am and spend a relaxed morning at the resort taking in the beauty of the lake. You may want to participate in the optional activities offered by the resort such as canoeing or visit the local village. Depart, after lunch, for the world famous Serengeti National Park and continue with a game drive enroute to arrive at your lodge for dinner and overnight.
Covering an area of 14,763 square kilometers, this world-famous Serengeti National Park is Tanzania's oldest park and one of the world's last great wildlife refuge. The Serengeti ecosystem supports the greatest remaining concentration of plains and in Africa, including more than three million large mammals. The Central Serengeti forms part of the great wildebeest and zebra migration and provides an ideal habitat for a variety of wildlife such as giraffe, impala, waterbuck, hippo, elephant, buffalo, lion, leopard, hyena, jackal, serval and much more.
Overnight - Serengeti Serena Lodge (or similar)
Day 9 - Wednesday 9 April 2025
The Serengeti (B,L,D)
This morning after breakfast, depart with picnic lunch boxes for a full day of game-viewing drives on vast Serengeti plains.
In the early morning and evening light, the Serengeti landscape is stunningly beautiful. The rolling plains and grasslands, stretching far into the horizons as far as the eye can see, are home to the black-manned lion, the savannah elephant, the cape buffalo, wildebeest, the elusive leopard, cheetah, the spotted & stripped hyena, rhino, topi, Burchell’s zebra, Masai giraffe among many others. Serengeti National Park can never disappoint. There are many varieties of bird and wildlife species in this game reserve. Enjoy dinner and overnight stay.
Later in the evening we will enjoy a group cooking lesson.
OPTIONAL ACTIVITY: Dawn Balloon Safari over the Serengeti Plains ending with a champagne breakfast - AUD$910 (Subject to availability)
Overnight - Serengeti Serena Lodge (or similar)
Day 10 - Thursday 10 April 2025
Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro Conservation Area (B,L,D)
After breakfast, depart for Ngorongoro with a stop at the Olduvai Gorge, one of the most important prehistoric sites in the world to learn on human evolution. Enjoy an on-site talk on the interpretation of the gorge by the resident guide and then continue to our lodge to a warm welcome in time for lunch. This afternoon relax at the lodge or enjoy some of the facilities such as farm tour/nature walk or enjoy the beauty of the grounds on bicycle available at the lodge or simply relax
Ngorongoro Crater has the largest unbroken caldera in the world. It has been described as one of the great natural wonders of the world. Eight million years ago, the Ngorongoro Crater was an active volcano but its cone collapsed, forming the crater that is 610 meters deep, 20 kilometres in diameter, and covers an area of 311 sq. km. Spectacular as it is, the crater accounts for just a tenth of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. The crater is home to many species of wild game and birds. Except for impala and topi (due to fierce competition with the wildebeest) and the giraffe (because there is not much to eat at tree level), almost every species of African plains mammal lives in the crater, including the endangered black rhino, and the densest population of predators in Africa. The birdlife, which includes the flamingo, is mainly seasonal and is also affected by the ratio of soda to fresh water in Lake Magadi on the crater floor.
Dinner and overnight at our Lodge.
NOTE: A warm jacket/cardigan is highly recommended.
Overnight - Acacia Farm Lodge (or similar)
Day 11 - Friday 11 April 2025
Ngorongoro Conservation Centre (B,L,D)
After breakfast, we descend some 610 metres into the crater which is home to an abundance of wildlife and a photogenic paradise, for a full day of game-viewing drive with a picnic box lunch.
Ngorongoro Crater is the largest intact caldera in the world. Some of the wildlife that are permanent residents of the crater floor are prides of lions, herds of Cape buffalo, impala, Thompson gazelles, rhino, giraffes, golden & black-backed jackals, zebra, cheetah, leopards and the spotted hyena freely roam on the crater floor plains. Known for its natural variety & breathtaking beauty, there are few places on earth where such a tremendous diversity of landscapes exists inside a region this size. Apart from its wildlife riches, the crater is also of great archaeological importance, with the remains of some of mankind’s earliest ancestors discovered in the area, also home to hundreds of bird species, refreshing in the small lakes on the crater floor.
Later we will enjoy a Ngorongoro Crater Walk. After driving to a scenic and remote trailhead, the walk along the Crater rim will take us through gorgeous foliage, past colourful wild flowers and lush trees unique to the Ngorongoro Highlands. The walk is particularly rewarding for montane forest birds, including the olive sunbird, cinnamon-chested bee-eater, and European roller. You could also– come across larger fauna; such as giraffe, zebra and elephant (which is why you are accompanied by an armed ranger at all times).
Return late afternoon to our lodge. Enjoy dinner and overnight.
Overnight - Acacia Farm Lodge (or similar)
Day 12 - Saturday 12 April 2025
Ngorongoro - Amboseli National Park (B,L,D)
Enjoy an early morning breakfast then depart via the Namanga border where we will clear immigration formalities, change into Kenyan-registered vehicles and proceed to Amboseli National Park. Arrive at the lodge to a very warm welcome and enjoy a late lunch. Later, depart on an afternoon game viewing drive. Amboseli is home to lions, buffalo, cheetah, giraffe, baboon, gazelle hippo and wildebeest among many others. It is also an ornithological paradise with over 400 species of birds, flora and fauna and some of the most soul-searing views in Africa. Enjoy dinner and overnight at the lodge.
Overnight - Oltukai Lodge (or similar)
Day 13 - Sunday 13 April 2025
Amboseli National Park (B,L,D)
Today we enjoy both morning and afternoon game viewing drives. Amboseli offers some of the most breath-taking views in Africa - one of the best places for a photogenic view of Mount Kilimanjaro (weather permitting) is next to none. This is best seen on a clear day. Amboseli National Park provides the classic Hollywood image of Africa. The park is famous for large herds of giant elephants. All meals and overnight at the lodge.
Overnight - Oltukai Lodge (or similar)
Day 14 - Monday 14 April 2025
Amboseli National Park (B,L)
This morning, have an early breakfast. Unbelievable but true, the good bush moments have come to an end. Bid farewell to the wonderful lodge manager and the team and drive back to Nairobi not empty handed though. With us are photographs – a capture of the special moments we have had on this tour to immortalize the experience. Transfer to the Jomo Kenyatta International airport for our home-bound flight.
Sit back, relax and enjoy the inflight entertainment of our airlines as we head towards home.
Or, why not continue the adventure with our Zanzibar Extension? Click here for details.
Day 15 - Tuesday 15 April 2025
Welcome Home!
Welcome Home! What an amazing time we've all enjoyed. Thank you for travelling with Sisterhood Womens Travel and we look forward to welcoming you back for your next adventure.