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Arrival
Day 1
Arrival KIA– Arusha city
Arrival KIA– Arusha city
On arrival at Kilimanjaro International Airport, you will meet your safari guide who will pick you up and start your trip to Arusha city. The city is located at the base of volcanic Mount Meru and It's a gateway to safari destinations in northern Tanzania. While driving to Arusha on the way if the weather is clear, you will have a chance to have a view of Mount Kilimanjaro the highest mountain in Africa. If time allows depending on your arrival time your safari guide will take you for Arusha town tour where you will experience the Arusha people culture. You will visit the Central market, Maasai market, National Natural history museum and Cultura heritage. After the tour your guide will take you to a hotel for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Arusha (City)
- Accommodation:
- Arusha Planet Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 2
Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park
Arusha - Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast, you will be transferred to Lake Manyara National Park established in 1960, it takes about 2 hours drive from Arusha. The park is known for its tree-climbing lions, underground water forest, Great Rift Valley escarpment, shallow alkaline lake and Hot water springs, the springs are 70 degrees warm enough to boil an egg. Lake Manyara is covered with mahogany trees and therefore an excellent place to spot giraffes, monkeys, and buffalos, zebras, impalas, warthogs, elephants, cheetahs, and hippos among many others. The Park is also a paradise with more than 350 species of birds including more than two million flamingoes. Main tourist activities conducted in the park are game drives, bird watching. After this amazing experience transfer straight to Mto wa Mbu for cultural tour and local lunch.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Manyara National Park
- Accommodation:
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Kirurumu Manyara Lodge
Wildlife in Lake Manyara NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 3
Lake Manyara National Park - Lake Natron
Lake Manyara National Park - Lake Natron
After breakfast, drive to Lake Natron, Lake Natron is a salt or alkaline lake located in north Ngorongoro District of Arusha Region in Tanzania at the border with Kenya. Is the primary breeding site in East Africa for the 2.5 million lesser flamingoes, on the way enter the Great Rift Valley, passing via Engaruka basin and into a semi- desert Area hot wild, and dusty with extinct volcanos Kitumbene and Gelai off to the right and the Mountain of God “Ol Doinyo Lengai” always in front. Around midday we arrive at Camp for lunch and short relaxation, after lunch proceed with lake natron activities organized by the camp and your guide.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Natron
- Accommodation:
- Lake Natron Tented Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 4
Lake Natron - Serengeti National Park (Lobo)
Lake Natron - Serengeti National Park (Lobo)
After breakfast, drive to Serengeti National Park, It is well known for the largest annual circular great wildebeest migration in the world where over 1.5 million wildebeest and 250,000 zebra along with smaller herds of Thomson's gazelle and eland move from the south to northern part up to Maasai Mara Kenya where the herds have to cross the Grumeti and Mara Rivers where around 3,000 crocodiles live in it. The park is also known for calving season where pregnant wildebeest give birth about 8000 baby wildebeest are being born every day in February.
The national park is also home to the largest lion population in Africa. Other animals include the Cheetah, spotted hyena, Black-backed jackal, African golden wolf, honey badger, striped hyena, caracal, serval, Nile crocodile, puff adder. More than 500 bird species can be seen such as Masai ostrich, secretary bird, kori bustards, helmeted guineafowls.
- Main Destination:
- Northern Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Serengeti View Camp - Togoro (North)
Wildlife in Serengeti NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 5
Serengeti National Park (Northern part - Kogatende)
Serengeti National Park (Northern part - Kogatende)
After breakfast, you will depart with picnic lunches for a full-day game drives to a vast herd of wildebeests along with its partners: zebras, elands, gazelles, you can encounter leopards and hyenas and ahead by giant Nile crocodiles and the beauty of the landscape, stretching without end beneath an infinite sky on a Serengeti, changes something within the watcher, who becomes more aware of the place of humankind within the drama of the animal world. In the evening return to Camp/Lodge for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Northern Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Mara Kati Kati Tented Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 6
Serengeti National Park (Northern part - Kogatende)
Serengeti National Park (Northern part - Kogatende)
On this day after breakfast, you will have an early morning game so that you can get an opportunity to spot predators while they’re in action and proceed with the discovery of more wildlife and a chance to enjoy the varied landscapes of the Serengeti National Park, you may also have the opportunity to see the resident predators, leopards, cheetah, and lions, fulfilling their role in the circle of life. Lunch will be an unforgettable experience enjoyed in the middle of the bush. After a game drive your driver will take you back to your lodge/camp for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Northern Serengeti National Park
- Accommodation:
- Mara Kati Kati Tented Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 7
Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro conservation area – Olduvai Gorge
Serengeti National Park - Ngorongoro conservation area – Olduvai Gorge
After breakfast, enjoy enroute game drive to the Ngorongoro Conservation area via Olduvai Gorge which is a rich archaeological site in Tanzania where evidence of the first humans Zinjanthropus boisei was found in 1959. Olduvai is a misspelling of Oldupai, a Maasai word for a wild sisal plant that grows in the area. One day in 1959, Mary went out to work as usual, leaving Louis behind with a headache. She discovered fossilized parts of a skull and upper teeth of a type of hominin that had not been previously identified.
- Main Destination:
- Olduvai Gorge (Highlight)
- Accommodation:
- Ngorongoro Lion's Paw Camp
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 8
Ngorongoro conservation area (Crater)
Ngorongoro conservation area (Crater)
After breakfast, drive inside Ngorongoro crater the world's largest inactive, intact and unfilled volcanic caldera The crater was formed when a large volcano exploded and collapsed about two to three million years ago, the crater has 610 meters deep walls and its floor covers 260 square kilometers. Ngorongoro is the multiple land use where wild animals, local Maasai people and livestock live in harmony. Ngorongoro Crater is also one of the world’s last remaining areas where about 20 endangered black rhino continues to breed and live naturally in the wild. The crater also shelters wildebeest, spotted hyenas, elands, zebras, gazelles, elephants, lions, leopards, cheetahs, Kobs, impalas, Jackals, Hippos, occasional giraffes, and many others.
- Main Destination:
- Ngorongoro Crater
- Accommodation:
- Marera Valley Lodge
Wildlife in Ngorongoro Crater
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 9
Lake Eyasi -Visit Hadzabe and Datoga tribe
Lake Eyasi -Visit Hadzabe and Datoga tribe
Early breakfast, after breakfast around 06:00 am drive to Lake Eyasi area visit visit the Hadzabe people who are known as Bushmen, you will learn their culture of hunting in groups with bows and arrows for survival, they survive with what the environment provides. You will learn how they treat different diseases using their own medicine. You will visit their homesteads and learn more about them and hunt with them. Then visit the Datoga people a semi nomadic and pastoralist. Marking on faces of the Datoga which are around the eyes are among the unique identification of the Datoga. You will see Datoga women grind maize flour in local method using stones and Datoga men doing iron smith using local methods and the other practice of men drinks honey beer on ritual occasions such as funerals.
- Main Destination:
- Lake Eyasi
- Accommodation:
- Marera Valley Lodge
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 10
Tarangire National Park
Tarangire National Park
After breakfast, your driver guide will pick up and drive to Tarangire National Park. This park is home to one of the largest elephant populations in Africa. The park is also famous for giant baobab tree, one of the most common is the old baobab tree (Poacher’s Hide) with a slightly concealed entrance and an internal cavern once used as a hideaway by poachers. Also, the park as permanent Tarangire River which is the most dominant feature here and it’s after this river that the park was named, during the rain season animals move out the park to search flesh green pasture and during dry season animals returns in the park as Tarangire river is only source of water during that time
In addition, there are large numbers of impalas, elands, buffaloes, giraffes, Bohor reedbuck, Coke’s hartebeest, Thompson’s gazelle, the greater kudu, lesser kudu, gerenuk, fringe –eared Oryx, wildebeests, zebras, leopards, lions, hyenas, and cheetah. Also, there are over 545 bird species in the park.
- Main Destination:
- Tarangire National Park
- Accommodation:
- Lake Burunge Tented Lodge
Wildlife in Tarangire NP
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 11
Tarangire National Park - Kondoa Irangi - Dodoma City
Tarangire National Park - Kondoa Irangi - Dodoma City
After breakfast, drive to Kondoa Irangi rock paintings which are found in the Kondoa District, most of the paintings are in Kolo forests where several cultural and heritage paintings portray the ancient lifestyle of the Warangi people. The area was the residence of Chief Mtemi, one of the traditional leaders in Tanzania. There are also several secret places and trees used for ritual performances, paintings of different animals and human beings, hot and cold-water springs, and beautiful landscapes. After the tour at Kondoa proceed to Dodoma city about 2 hours drive for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Kondoa Rock Art Sites (Rock Art)
- Accommodation:
- Morena Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 12
Dodoma – Zanzibar
Dodoma – Zanzibar
After breakfast, your safari guide will drive you straight to Dodoma Airport for your flight to Dar es salaam. On arrival at Dar es Salaam -Julius Nyerere International Airport, you will be board to another flight for your transfer to Zanzibar, Zanzibar is the home of fantastic beaches, balmy weather & warm tropical waters. This archipelago is renowned for clear warm waters, coral reefs and rich marine diversity making it a perfect under-water destination for snorkeling and diving, arrival in Zanzibar meet our guide and transfer to the hotel for dinner and overnight stay.
- Main Destination:
- Zanzibar Island (Tanzania Beaches)
- Accommodation:
- Sunshine Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 13
Zanzibar - Mnemba snorkeling & Dolphin tour
Zanzibar - Mnemba snorkeling & Dolphin tour
This is Sharing trip from Nungwi to Mnemba where we will start with the Dolphin Tour then snorkel at Mnemba reef and also, we might go to the Sandbank when it is available because it can be fully covered when during the high tide. Mnemba Island was ranked as the Best Beach Destination in Africa by trip savvy and is well known for the excellent clarity of its waters (for this area of the Indian Ocean) and the unusually prolific and diverse corals and tropical marine life where you can able to see a lot of colorful fishes while Snorkeling.
Some of the species that you can see at Mnemba reef include; Angel Fish, Blue Spotted Rays, Black Snappers, Groupers, Red Tooth Triggers, Flounder, Octopuses, Leaf Fish, Scorpion Fish, Stone Fish, Frog Fish, lots of Trevallies, and others.
- Main Destination:
- Mnemba Atoll (Zanzibar)
- Accommodation:
- Sunshine Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 14
Prison Island and Nakupenda Sandbank
Prison Island and Nakupenda Sandbank
The Prison Island and Nakupenda Beach Tour is a full-day guided tour that highlights both Prison Island's tour which incorporates the visitation giant’s tortoises, as well as exploring Nakupenda Beach featuring sunbathing, snorkeling a taste of Seas foods as well as seasoned fresh fruits. Prison Island and Nakupenda beach is a full-day trip that begins from forodhani garden, known as the heart of stone town in the morning, lunch on shoal outings, swimming, and beach relaxation. Further, tourists can relax on the sandbank or learn about the marine life around the sandbank before riding a boat, cruising back to Stone Town, or picking up the location. The tour incorporates a trip back on the boat and sails you off to Nakupenda beach. In addition, tourists will have delicious meals including a lunch of fish and tropical fresh fruits. After this fantastic experience, we will take you back to your hotel for dinner and overnight.
- Main Destination:
- Changuu (Prison) Island (Zanzibar)
- Accommodation:
- Sunshine Hotel
- Meals & Drinks:
Day 15
Zanzibar - Stone Town and Spice Farm tour - Transfer to Dar - Departure
Zanzibar - Stone Town and Spice Farm tour - Transfer to Dar - Departure
Discover Zanzibar’s aromatic history on a half-day walking tour of Stone Town, setting out on foot so you can see Stone Town’s narrow, car-free streets and atmospheric corners. After convenient pickup at Zanzibar hotels, you’ll cover some of Stone Town’s highlights, from colonial landmarks to the Old Fort, the house where Freddy Mercury was born, and an Anglican Cathedral that marks the former site of a slave market. Stone Town walking tour with Zanzibar spice trade history Get your bearings in the maze-like UNESCO Site See top landmarks and lesser-known areas Door-to-door transport from hotels in Zanzibar. After this amazing experience, you will be transferred to Dar es salaam city by flight for your onward flight.
- Main Destination:
- Zanzibar Stone Town (Zanzibar)
- Accommodation:
- No accommodation (End of tour)
- Meals & Drinks:
