Some help with the trip please....
We will be entering Tanzania -Serengeti from Kenya
1. We want to travel into the Serengeti from Kenya. It has be recomened we go into the west of the Serengeti, heading to Ngorngoro and L. Manyara for 3 days?
we have been told to cross Isibania Kenya/Tanzania border?
How do we do this from Kenya, is it easy enough?
We do not want to do tours but hire our own guide and transport, and camp.
Any guide and jeep hire compnies yu can recomend?
2. Next up to Arusha, what is it like, what are the good things to see and do there?
nice places to stay?
3. Zanzibar, this is where we plan to splash out and saty some where nice, my girlfriend is heading off to Malawi for Aid work. the plan is to spoil her here. any suggestions, nice places, good food? is there a part of the island that is quite. little village, actually would trade fancy place for real local village, less travlers, think she would like that.
4. when she heads off I am thinking off jumping on a train to the southern Highlands, Makambako or Kigoma in the west, what do you think???
thanks owen
Hi Owen,
Just out of interest where is your girlfriend working in Malawi I am off to Mwaya beach with Ripple Africa at the end of July and I was wondering if she is going to the same place?
I am looking for safaris too with my boyfriend before I head off to teach - good luck with your search
Jo
WE will be entering the Serengeti via the Western Corridor in about two weeks. We are driving down from Nairobi on day 1, staying outside the park at Serengeti Stopover and then driving through the serengeti on day 2. Overnight at one of the crater lodges and then descend the next day. Night 3 in Arusha or Moshi, then Dar, Zanzibar and down, via Mbeya, to lake malawi. From Nkhata Bay we head south and the west to finaly end up in the Falls.
Although we have not driven this route before (the western corridor part) it looks a good route - just break it down into nice easy stages if you're doing a self drive. SD is recomended over getting a guide/driver however most companies will not let you have their precious vehicle without a driver.
Get your crater bookings in soon as most are already full.
The only way from Kenya to Serengeti is via Isibania, and than you have to enter Serengeti NP through the entry gate of the Western Corridor (it is called Ndabaka Gate). The corridor itself is, depending from season, not very attractive, and can be void of animals - except TseTse flies. From the boarder, In TZ, there is a really good tarmack road going to the gate, the problem are the roads on the kenyian side! Where do you come from? if you are coming from the Mara, than you should have a real good driver, because the way from the Olololonyo Gate to isibania is hard to find, and there are mostly no tarmack roads. And: coming from Kenya,going to TZ, you have to change your safari company at the boarder.
Arusha: I recommend the Rivertrees Lodge at Usa River. John Wayne used to stay there, and they have just wonderful cooking, a fantastic garden, and nice dogs. Arusha NP is really worth going to, wonderful landscape, lots of animals, and you can do a walking safari.
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