Gosheni Safaris Africa

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Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

Arrival (See Getting There for more details)

  • You'll be collected from the airport.
  • Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.

Day 1

Arrival - Arusha

Arrival - Arusha

Arrive at Kilimanjaro Airport and meet and greet our airport office representative who will assist you in case of any visa or passport control issues. You will then be welcomed in our office with refreshments where you will meet your guide. Transfer to your hotel in Arusha for dinner and overnight.

Arusha is a city in Tanzania, East Africa, located at the base of the volcanic Mount Meru. It's a gateway to many safari destinations and to Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa's highest peak at 5,895m, lying some 100 kilometers northeast.

Main Destination:
Arusha (City)
Accommodation:
Gran Melia Arusha
  • Luxury hotel located in Arusha (City)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & dinner (Lunch not included)
  • Drinking water (Other drinks not included)

Day 2

Tarangire National Park

Tarangire National Park

After breakfast at the hotel and a short safari briefing, you will drive to Tarangire for a full-day game drive in Tarangire National Park. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Tarangire National Park is located slightly off the main safari route and is a lovely quiet park in Northern Tanzania. It is most famous for its elephant migration, birding, and quiet authentic safari atmosphere. The majority of travelers to the region either miss out on Tarangire altogether or venture into the park for only a matter of hours, leaving parts of Tarangire virtually untouched.

Main Destination:
Tarangire National Park
Best Time To Visit July to November (Animals come to the Tarangire River)
High Season June to October (The park is full of visitors)
Best Weather June to October (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Tarangire NP

ElephantAbundant
GiraffeCommon
LionCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
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HippoCommon
HyenaOccasional
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Nimali Tarangire
  • Luxury tented camp bordering Tarangire NP without fences
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 3

Tarangire National Park

Tarangire National Park

After breakfast at the lodge, you will have a morning walking safari in the park escorted by an armed ranger. This is followed by a game drive. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.

Here, you will find herds of up to 300 elephants scratching the dry riverbed for underground streams. It’s the greatest concentration of wildlife outside the Serengeti ecosystem (a smorgasbord for predators). It is also the only place in Tanzania where dry-country antelope such as the stately fringe-eared oryx and peculiar long-necked gerenuk are regularly observed.

Main Destination:
Tarangire National Park
Accommodation:
Nimali Tarangire
  • Luxury tented camp bordering Tarangire NP without fences
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 4

Lake Manyara National Park

Lake Manyara National Park

After breakfast at the camp, drive to Manyara National Park for a full-day game drive. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Manyara provides the perfect introduction to Tanzania’s birdlife. More than 400 species have been recorded and even a first-time visitor to Africa might reasonably expect to observe 100 of these in one day. Inland of the floodplain, a narrow belt of acacia woodland is the favored haunt of Manyara’s legendary tree-climbing lions and impressively-tusked elephants.

Main Destination:
Lake Manyara National Park
Best Time To Visit June to October (Easier to spot animals)
High Season July to March (The northern section gets crowded)
Best Weather June to October (Little rainfall)

Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP

ElephantCommon
GiraffeCommon
BuffaloCommon
ZebraCommon
HippoCommon
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LionOccasional
HyenaOccasional
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Lake Manyara Kilimamoja Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located on the escarpment above Lake Manyara NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 5

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, depart to Serengeti National Park in the Central Seronera area for a game drive in the park. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Serengeti National Park is well known for its healthy stock of resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five" named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters. The Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem. The reclusive African leopard is commonly seen in the Seronera region but is present throughout the national park with a population of around 1,000.

Main Destination:
Central Serengeti National Park
Best Time To Visit January to February and June to October (Different areas are best at different times)
High Season July to March (The Seronera area is crowded)
Best Weather June to October (Little to no rainfall)

Wildlife in Serengeti NP

ElephantCommon
LionCommon
CheetahCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
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GiraffeCommon
HippoCommon
HyenaCommon
LeopardOccasional
Black RhinoVery Rare
Wild DogVery Rare
Accommodation:
Melia Serengeti Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 6

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park

After breakfast, go on a full-day game drive in Central Serengeti (the Seronera area) to view the great migration. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. Here, you will meet guests from other companies with mostly a cold sandwich lunch while our services are 5-star. After lunch, we go on an afternoon game drive to view the great migration. In the evening, we check in at the lodge for dinner and overnight.

Serengeti National Park is well known for its healthy stock of resident wildlife, particularly the "Big Five" named for the five most prized trophies taken by hunters. The Serengeti is believed to hold the largest population of lions in Africa due in part to the abundance of prey species. More than 3,000 lions live in this ecosystem.

Main Destination:
Central Serengeti National Park
Accommodation:
Melia Serengeti Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 7

Serengeti National Park

Serengeti National Park

After breakfast at the lodge, go on a full-day game drive in Serengeti National Park searching for big cats and the Big Five. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the lodge for dinner and overnight.

The great migration is when a million wildebeest, each one driven by the same ancient rhythm, fulfill its instinctive role in the inescapable cycle of life. It is a frenzied 3-week bout of territorial conquests and mating. It is survival of the fittest as 40km (25 miles) long columns plunge through crocodile-infested waters on the annual exodus north, replenishing the species in a brief population explosion that produces more than 8,000 calves daily. Then, the 1,000km (600 miles) pilgrimage begins again.

Main Destination:
Central Serengeti National Park
Accommodation:
Melia Serengeti Lodge
  • Luxury lodge located inside Central Serengeti NP
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 8

Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Serengeti - Ngorongoro Conservation Area

Breakfast at the lodge is followed by a game drive in Serengeti National Park searching for big cats and the Big Five. In the afternoon, your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to the camp for dinner and overnight.

"The only living things which look as if they really belong to it are the wild animals. Between the animals and Africa, there is an understanding that human beings have not yet earned" - Laurens van der Post, Venture to the Interior, 1963.

Today, the Serengeti National Park, the Ngorongoro Conservation Area, and the Masai Mara National Reserve across the border in Kenya, protect the greatest and most varied collection of terrestrial wildlife on earth. It is one of the last great migratory systems still intact.

Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Highlands
Accommodation:
Ngorongoro Lion's Paw Camp
  • Luxury tented camp located on the crater rim of Ngorongoro Crater
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 9

Ngorongoro Crater - Lake Eyasi

Ngorongoro Crater - Lake Eyasi

After breakfast, go on a game drive in the Ngorongoro Crater for a full-day crater tour. Your driver will set and prepare a table for a full, hot lunch (soup, bread rolls, main dish, and fruit salad). Have a glass of wine, or tea and coffee after lunch before continuing with the game drive. In the evening, drive to Lake Eyasi for dinner and overnight.

The jewel in Ngorongoro's crown is a deep, volcanic crater, the largest unflooded and unbroken caldera in the world. About 20km across, 600m deep, and 300 sq km in area, the Ngorongoro Crater is a breathtaking natural wonder. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of hippos, flamingos, and other waterbirds can usually be seen here.

Main Destination:
Ngorongoro Crater
Best Time To Visit June to October (Wildlife viewing is best)
High Season Most of the year – July to March (Expect crowds)
Best Weather June to October (Rainfall is little to none)

Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater

LionCommon
BuffaloAbundant
ZebraAbundant
WildebeestAbundant
HyenaAbundant
Show more
ElephantCommon
HippoCommon
LeopardOccasional
Accommodation:
Kisima Ngeda Camp
  • Luxury tented camp located at Lake Eyasi
Meals & Drinks:
  • All meals included
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

Day 10

Bushmen visit - Departure

Bushmen visit - Departure

After breakfast, we visit the Datoga and Busmen tribes and experience their hunting activities. In the afternoon, we return to the lodge for lunch whereafter we drive back to Arusha for drop-off at the airport.

Small groups of Hadzabe Bushmen live around Lake Eyasi. Their language resembles the click languages of other Bushmen further south in the Kalahari. Their small population was seriously threatened, in particular during the period when Julius Nyerere tried to introduce his Ujuma policy.

Main Destination:
Lake Eyasi
Accommodation:
No accommodation (End of tour)
Meals & Drinks:
  • Breakfast & lunch (Dinner not included)
  • All drinks (Except for spirits/liquor)

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

End of tour (See Getting There for more details)

  • Additional accommodation can be arranged for an extra cost.
  • You'll be dropped off at the airport.

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