Originally Posted by
chillg8r
So does it make sense to visit the Masai Mara, visit with the Masai people, and then head on to the southern Serengeti? Then head over to visit Stone Town in Zanzibar before heading down to S. Africa for our final leg?
My thoughts are mainly a cultural experience in Ethiopia (3-4 weeks), mostly game viewing in Kenya and the Naabi gate area in Tanzania and then onto the sights of Zanzibar (2-3 weeks) and activities in southern S Africa.
Does this make sense for balance?
If so, how would I travel from the Masai Mara area to the Naabi gate area?
Thanks for your information and time.
I'd think arranging land transfers and lodging package might work - you're basically doing a land safari, because those drives would also be game and sightseeing drives, looking over the kopjes, streams, plains.
But whether or not I'd stay long in the Mara would be weather dependent. You could arrive in NBO, transport to Arusha and pick up a Manyara-Ngorongoro (and a few hours at Olduvai Gorge, if you're interested) and Serengeti loop. At that time of year, maybe Seronera and Ndutu - masses of mammals now with young, and of course their attendant predators. (If at Ndutu Lodge, there's usually the odd civet visiting at dinner, and some friendly bats over the bar
.)
A nice place to stay near Ngorongoro and Manyara is Gibb's Farm, among other things a highlands coffee farm with lots of community connections.
Places like
Thomson Safaris and others can arrange things like this. I'm afraid I don't know who else is reliable just now, though in Nairobi Let's Go Travel, an old standard forever, it seems, has been good at arrangements.
There are airline flights between Arusha and Zanzibar.