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I traveled to Africa in November 2006.Went to all the places you mentioned. Booked through vacations to go online
and chose the Serengeti Experience with GAP Adventures. GAP Adventures is a budget tour operator so we camped in two person tents. The Vacations to Go web site also has first class and delux tours where you stay in hotels.

The trip was amazing. November starts the light rainy season so we had some rain and cooler weather. But there was still pleanty of time to see the animals. Our guide was terrific and personalised our tours for us. The guides talk to each other and share the last known sighting of a number of animals. The guides are familliar with the normal animal migration and customise the tours to be where the migration is. We also got to visit a Massi village, a orphanage, and the market district of a small town. We visited a reptile park, a Massi historical museum, and a bannanna plantation near Mt. Kilimanjaro.

We had a cook travel with us and he made some traditional African meals along with more western meals.

Our group size was limited to 12 people traveling in 2 Land Rovers.

No mater what style of travel you choose, I'm sure you will have a wonderful time. The people are very friendly and a lot of their economy is based on environmentally friendly tourism.

PS. The roads in the game reserves are not paved because the animals migrating through the reserves are the priority and paved roads and fences would interfear with their natural habitat and migration patterns.