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The Great African Flying Safari: Inside Kenya & Tanzania. 16 Days.
In Tanzania there’s the grassy Serengeti, populated with creatures that are easy to spot on the treeless expanse. Ngorongoro Crater is simply indescribable. Lion prides, elephant herds, flamingo flocks, and assorted other species nature’s been kind enough to cook up.
How’s that for wild? To get you started thinking about East Africa, R. Crusoe & Son suggests our favorite itinerary, the 16-day Great African Flying Safari: Inside Kenya & Tanzania. Remember, though, that the possibilities in this part of the world are endless. R. Crusoe's Africa tour specialist awaits your call. Touch down in Arusha, Tanzania, and spend the night at the charming Coffee Lodge, a small hotel on a working coffee plantatioin. Devour first-impression views of East Africa from your terrace. Fly into the Serengeti, 5,000 square miles and remoteness and home (along with Kenya's adjacent Masai Mara) to the Great migration. In spring, more than a million head of zebra and wildebeest trek north in search of water and fresh food. Once there, they turn around for home. The herds are pursued by all manner of predators. All in all, arduous for the animals, but a breathtaking spectacle for us humans. Home in the Serengeti is a mobile, seasonal camp set up just for us. This is a part of the safari tradition not many of us get a chance to experience. It's true moveable luxury in the bush– floored tents with windows, bathrooms with showers, a central dining tent where we eat freshl prepared meals on china and sip fine wines. Even the animals get a bit jealous... To Ngorongoro Crater, 2,000 feet deep and teeming with animal life. You simply will not forget your trip into this extinct volcano, a lost world waiting to be explored. Home is the Ngorongoro Crater Lodge, elegance perched on the crater rim. Samburu National Reserve, next, in Kenya's Northern Frontier District. Think crocs, hippos, rare Grevys zebras, reticulated giraffes. Home is Larsen's Camp–top shelf, and excellent as always. Then fly into the Masai Mara, where home is a permanent tented camp with airy verandahs that provide a stage for viewing the wild world around us. There are options here: hot-air ballooning, fishing for giant perch on Lake Victoria. Of course, the game drive go morning and afternoon. To Nairobi, then home, your eyes (and heart) forever open to mother Nature. The Great African Flying Safari. Inside Kenya & Tanzania. 16 Days.
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ou’ve come for the wildlife,
and East Africa won’t disappoint. In Kenya there’s Amboseli’s
elephant herds at the foot of Mount Kilimanjaro. And Samburu, home
of the Grevy’s zebra, the reticulated giraffe, and the long-necked
gerenuk (you’ll see). In the Masai Mara, Streep and Redford
did a scene or two. (if you haven't yet seen "Out of Africa," or
read the novel by Isak Dinesen, do so at once.)