16 Days The Stanley Wing Safari Tour Package

Duration: 16 Days / 15 Nights
Priced From: $8,765 pp dbl. occ.
Dates: Jul - Dec, Jan - Aug

 

Our most comprehensive and perhaps the most popular safari we offer, the Stanley is a magnificent journey through Kenya and Tanzania, with luxuriously long stays in each game park, abundant time for rich wildlife viewing sessions and five exhilarating flights to expedite travel from one game park to another.

Beginning the adventure in Nairobi, our accommodations are at the legendary Norfolk Hotel from where grand safaris have embarked since 1904. A Safari Briefing answers all of our questions, while a lecture by respected Maasai Elder Rakita sets the stage for the exciting events to come. Our stay in Nairobi also affords detailed city sightseeing, including Giraffe Centre where we may hand feed endangered Rothschild giraffes, along with a lunch and lecture at the homestead of Kiambethu Farms, Kenya’s oldest tea plantation.

Culminating our first day is a delightful lunch or dinner with Felix and Jane Pinto at their home high atop Lavington Hill, overlooking Nairobi. After only one visit with the Pintos you will already feel like “well-loved, outof- town relatives,” as declared by Travel+Leisure magazine.

We begin our foray into the bush the following day with a flight to Amboseli National Park. Here we see abundant wildlife and the legendary Maasai tribesmen tending their cattle in the shadows of snow-topped Mount Kilimanjaro. After two nights we fly to Tarangire in Tanzania, a game park with thousands of majestic baobab trees dotting the rolling countryside. It is also home to enormous herds of elephants and the highest number of recorded bird species for any habitat in the world. The Tarangire River runs through the land, providing a permanent water source and along with it, the promise of strong wildlife year round.

We next journey to the incomparable Ngorongoro Crater, a natural caldera spanning over 100 square miles. This stunning creation of nature is home to tens of thousands of animals, as well as numerous Maasai tribesmen and their cattle. We encounter rhino, elephant, buffalo, leopard and lion, as well as hippo, zebra and antelope. The stunning vistas combine with the drama of the world within the crater to take your breath away.

Then comes the vast expanse of the Serengeti. This legendary reserve supports large populations of lion, leopard and other predators that follow the great migrating herds. Hippo, elephant, giraffe and a wide variety of exotic birds are also in abundance. En route to the Serengeti we stop to tour the fossil beds at the Olduvai Gorge, made famous by the discoveries of Louis and Mary Leakey.

After two heady days in the Serengeti, we fly to the Africa of our dreams, the Maasai Mara in Kenya. Remarkable events are planned in this location. In addition to rich game drives, we will thrill to the romance of a bush cocktail party set high upon the Mara Escarpment at sunset. A Maasai village visit will also take place—always a memorable experience—and our nights are spent in the splendour of a luxury tented camp.

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