Overview About This Safari
In this tour we will cover the 4 most popular destinations in Tanzania - Lake Manyara National Park, Central Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater and Tarangire National Park. Tour starts and ends at Arusha. With our experienced driver guides, it will be a trip of a lifetime!
Itinerary
Arrival
You'll be collected from the airport.
Accommodation before the tour starts can be arranged for an extra cost.
DAY 1: LAKE MANYARA NATIONAL PARK
Pick up at 8:30 AM from your hotel in Arusha and depart for Lake Manyara National Park with a picnic lunch for a full day game drive. As you enter the national park, lush forests of Acacia and Mahogany trees begin to set the mood for what is waiting ahead. The game drive will go on till evening with a small break for picnic lunch. During the game drive watch out for buffaloes, giraffes, impalas, baboons and the blue monkeys. Another spectacle of Lake Manyara National park is the tree climbing lions, however spotting them is a game of luck. In the right season, you can see the shoreline turning pink with millions of flamingos flocking there although in last few years, their numbers saw a significant decline. Post the game drive, you will head back to your lodge where a delicious dinner awaits you.
DAY 2: SERENGETI NATIONAL PARK
After early breakfast we head towards the Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the Ngorongoro highlands and then dry plains behind, we descend into the heart of wild Africa - the Serengeti National Park by around late morning- with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. We head to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti's species. We continue with game drives for the rest of the day in the central region of Serengeti National Park. Our accommodation tonight will be in Central Serengeti.
DAY 3: SERENGETI NP TO KARATU
You wake up early and enjoy a magical game drive in Serengeti National Park before you depart in the afternoon to Karatu. Your accommodation for the night is near the Ngorongoro Crater.
Early the following morning, you descend into the crater for game viewing. Early mornings are the best time to see animals as they are more active than in the rest of the day.
DAY 4: NGORONGORO CRATER
After an early breakfast, we boot up and head out towards the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest volcanic caldera. Almost 20km wide, approximately 600 m deep and known for its large variety of wildlife, the caldera, formed at the explosion of a volcano some three million years ago, was once taller than Kilimanjaro. A self-contained paradise, the caldera hosts an abundance of the finest animal life on the planet.
We will have picnic lunch at the beautiful Hippo pool and continuing with game drives, you will begin a steep ascend to the top exit of the crater. With a 1.5 to 2hr drive left to your accommodation in Karatu, the day will come to a close. Freshly made delicious dinner is kept ready for you at your chosen accommodation. All these days of the safari, will have you quite tired and a good rest is essential. The next day you will begin the last leg of your safari.
DAY 5: TARANGIRE NATIONAL PARK
The final day of your safari will begin by around 7:00 AM after a luscious breakfast. The destination for today is Tarangire National Park which is about 2 hours from Karatu. You will have game drives till around 3:30 PM in this park. Tanzania’s third largest National park is known for its majestic baobab trees that dot the landscape, dwarfing the animals that feed beneath them. The Tarangire River is the centerpiece of this park which is famous for some of the largest herds of elephants in Africa. Here you may see lion, leopard, cheetah, lesser kudu, buffalo, Oryx, eland, giraffe and zebra. By mid afternoon, you will branch out and head towards Arusha where you will be dropped off to your preferred location by about 4:30PM in the evening. With an incredible experience and loads of memories to cherish, this is the time you bid goodbye to your team.
Price is $1,740 per person
Included
Park fees (For non-residents)
All activities (Unless labeled as optional)
All accommodation (Unless listed as upgrade)
A professional driver/guide
All transportation (Unless labeled as optional)
All Taxes/VAT
Roundtrip airport transfer
Meals (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Drinks (As specified in the day-by-day section)
Excluded
International flights (From/to home)
Additional accommodation before and at the end of the tour
Tips (Tipping guideline US$10.00 pp per day)
Personal items (Souvenirs, travel insurance, visa fees, etc.)
Government imposed increase of taxes and/or park fees
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