Since it took us about 24 hours to get from Dallas to Nairobi, we spent the night there in the Boulevard Hotel- adequate, but nothing fancy.  Price was the main thing- I would consider it mid-priced.  The staff was professional, and the food was decent.  The courtyard was pretty and visually isolated from Nairobi, and you could hear water rushing and lots of birds.

From there, we flew from Nairobi's other airport- Wilson, to Kilimanjari International Airport on Air Kenya.  From there, we changed to a regional charter operated by Precision Air, and flew on to Arusha, Manyara, where we changed planes again, and on to the Grumeti airstrip in the western Serengeti.  It may sound like a hassle, but the overflights gave a nice overview of the area, and we flew right over Ngorongoro Crater.  And, for all the flights, we got to the western arm of the Serengeti far faster than if we'd taken ground transportation.

The sequence of numbers above give detail of which nights we spent in which location, and more details can be found in the Tanzania section.  When the Tanzania portion of our trip was over, we took a bus back to Nairobi, where we overnighted once more at the Boulevard Hotel.

From there, we boarded a Kenya Airways flight from Nairobi to Harare, Zimbabwe, continuing on to Lusaka, Zambia.  It was a nice flight on a Boeing 767.  We had a short layover in Lusaka, and then we boarded a Zambian Airways flight to Mfuwe, where we stayed for 4 nights.  From there, we flew back to Lusaka and on to Livingstone on Zambian Airways, and stayed another 3 nights, visiting Zimbabwe on foot, as Victoria Falls is split between Zambia and Zimbabwe.

We left Livingstone once again on Zambian Airways for Lusaka, and spent a night there prior to our long journey home.  We left Lusaka and flew back to London Heathrow, spent the night, on to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, the next day, and spent another night, and finally home to Dallas the following day.  A bit of an indirect way home, but  a pleasant one in which we could rest overnight between the long flights.  For us, it also turned out to be the most economical flight path, as we used frequent flier miles, and Vancouver was one of the few options open (even 6 months in advance) for returning to Dallas.  Toronto was also an option, but Vancouver is a nicer city, so we opted for that one, even if it involved a few hours more flying in total.

See the Zambia and Zimbabwe sections for more details on the logistics in those countries.