$2,761 pp (USD)
2 travelers on Start dateArrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport
Welcome to Tanzania
Once you set foot in Tanzanian soil, you will immediately be embraced by the friendly nature of the people. Outside our representative awaits with a broad simile to welcome you, and accompany you to the lodge where you will receive heartfelt welcome. During the journey, you will catch a glimpse of Tanzania amazing landscape, and perhaps the ever presence Impressive Mt. Kilimanjaro. Upon arrival, we will be provided with a briefing for your entire safari.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- Palace Hotel Arusha
- Meals & Drinks:
Arusha to Tarangire National Park
Breakfast: at the hotel
Morning: Drive to Tarangire National Park for some amazing game viewing. The game in this beautiful national park is plentiful and the magnificent bird watching will make a devoted birder (and even the most reluctant) appreciate them. The park is home to up to 2,500 elephants which can be seen looking for underground water in the dry riverbeds during the dry season. You will also see migratory wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, and other incredible sightings like lion, cheetah, leopard, giraffe, baboon, and waterbuck. The park’s scenery is amazing, a landscape dotted with huge baobab trees and the meandering life-giving Tarangire River. It offers excellent game viewing during the dry season (June to October) when the migratory wildebeest and zebra are around.
Lunch: We will enjoy a picnic lunch in the park.
Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll continue our game-viewing drive to witness the wildlife of Tarangire. Afterwards, we’ll head to our camp
Dinner: At the camp.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Winters Tented Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Game viewing in Tarangire National Park
Breakfast: At the camp.
Morning: Game viewing in Tarangire National Park for. The variety of wildlife here is excellent, from lion, cheetah, zebra, and Cape buffalo to a wealth of birdlife. Elephants are plentiful here, traveling in large herds that are not often seen elsewhere in Africa. After several hours of game viewing, we’ll depart the park, and head to the Ngorongoro highlands.
Lunch: You will have picnic lunch.
Afternoon: Afterwards, we’ll head to our lodgings, a permanent lodge in the midst of the Ngorongoro highlands.
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area or retire to your room, and rest to be ready for tomorrow’s discoveries.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Hhando Coffee Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Ngorongoro Crater Tour to Serengeti National Park
Morning: We drive through the Ngorongoro conservation before descending, 610 meters down to the grasslands of the crater floor, an area of about 265 square kilometers. Despite its small size, the Crater is a Big 5 country and the openness of the terrain means easy and rewarding game viewing. You will spend 7 hours exploring the crater floor, stopping to picnic on the grasslands amidst the grazing herds. Formed by a massive volcanic eruption, the world’s largest intact and un-flooded caldera provides a year-round home to an astonishing 25,000 large mammals including black rhino.
The Crater’s forests shelter elephants and buffalo, and its wetlands are home to hippos and flamingos while lions, jackals, leopards, make up the full range of predators. After lunch, you leave the crater behind and drive to the Serengeti
Lunch: Picnic in the crater
Afternoon: We’ll reach our carefully selected tented camp by mid-afternoon and you’ll have time to settle in before dinner.
Dinner: At the camp.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Shuhudia Adventure Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Explore the Serengeti National Park
Breakfast: At the camp.
Morning: We’ll set out to explore the vast expanse of the Serengeti, where the wildlife sightings are typically at their peak in the early mornings and late afternoons, when the temperature cools. The multitude and diversity of wildlife species in this huge protected area are unrivaled anywhere on the planet. Serengeti, in fact, is the Maasai word that means “endless plain.” We’ll return to camp in between game-viewing drives for,
Lunch / at the camp/picnic.
Afternoon: After time to relax, we’ll head out on our afternoon game-viewing drive. Our guides will again help us identify the more elusive animal species, such as bat-eared fox and golden jackal, as well as rare birds like the purple grenadier and the red-cheeked cordon bleu. See if you can spot the odd-looking Secretary bird or the elegant grey crowned crane.
Dinner: At the camp
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area or retire to your room, and rest to be ready for tomorrow’s discoverie.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Shuhudia Adventure Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Serengeti National Park to Ngorongoro Highlands
Breakfast: At the lodge.
This morning is set aside for game drives in the Serengeti. The Serengeti boasts an abundance of wildlife such as impalas, buffalos, crocodiles, and hippos. In addition to the iconic landscapes, you have a good chance of encountering predators and you may see lions, cheetahs and leopards. It is a truly life-changing experience.
Lunch: Picnic in the wilderness,
Afternoon: (Optional) we’ll visiting the Oldupai gorge, and learn about the origin of human kind, and some time at the museum.
Dinner: at Plantation Farm Lodge
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area or retire to your room, and rest to be ready for tomorrow’s discoveries.
- Main Destination:
- Central Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Eileen's Trees Inn
- Meals & Drinks:
Lake Manyara National Park to Arusha
Breakfast: At the lodge.
After 30 minutes of drive we’ll enter Lake manyara National Park, one of the smallest parks in Tanzania, named after the huge lake which covers a third of the parks area. Yet, Lake Manyara is the park with the greatest diversity of habitat than most huge parks, and a great array of wildlife.
You may find yourself in thick woodlands where elephants feast, and lions are lurking among tree brunches. Drive past muddy pools full of hippos, and mysterious jungle where baboons, and monkeys rule. The lake side where thousands of vibrant flamingoes, pelicans, and storks make their summer home.
Lunch: picnic overlooking the Lake,
And don’t forget the impressive 400-Meters – deep Rift Valley Escarpment. A crack in the earth that stretches for a thousand kilometers across East-Africa.
Afternoon: Drive back to Arusha, where your guide will drop you at the airport for your own-ward connection.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks: