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This 6-day luxury safari allows you to experience the highlights of the Northern Safari Circuit. We’ll experience breathtaking wildlife in the midst of diverse landscapes; monkeys in the forest, lions in the trees, elephants among the acacias and a huge variety of animals inside a collapsed volcano. We’ll also visit the Serengeti National Park, home to some 3 million animals. These spectacular grass plains offer the best opportunity of viewing cheetah, leopard, and lion in the true wild.
Tour Highlights
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.
Destination: Arusha
Meal included: D,
Accommodation: Mtoni River Lodge
Breakfast: at the lodge
Leave your accommodation after breakfast, and head to Tarangire National Park. Famous for its magnificent Baobabs and high numbers of elephants. The park has the biggest concentration of migrating animals in the months of (June – October), the dry season provides an awe-inspiring spectacle of wildlife. Spend your day exploring the park’s rich habitats from the life-giving Tarangire River, acacia woodlands, and open grassland to the evergreen swamps which host hundreds of elephants and migratory wildebeest and zebra during the dry season followed by predators. The park offers excellent sightings of elephants, buffalo, giraffes, baboons, lions, cheetahs, and warthogs.
Lunch: We will enjoy picnic in the park.
Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll continue our game-viewing drive to witness the wildlife of Tarangire National Park. Afterwards, we’ll head to our lodgings, a permanent lodge in the mist of the Ngorongoro highlands.
Dinner: At the Lodge.
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area to discuss the day’s activities or share pictures of the animals you saw with family, and friends at home.
Destination: Tarangire National Park
Meal included: B, L, D
Accommodation: Ngorongoro Neptune Luxury lodge
Breakfast: At the lodge.
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 the day 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, wildebeest, and zebra along with Africa’s densest concentrations of hyena.
The Crater’s forests shelter elephants and buffalo, and its wetlands are home to hippos and flamingos while lions, jackals, leopards, and caracals make up the full range of predators. After lunch, you leave the crater behind and drive to the Serengeti National Park.
Lunch: Picnic in the wilderness.
Afternoon: We’ll return to your carefully selected luxury lodge in the midst of the Ngorongoro highland, and you’ll have time to settle in before dinner.
Dinner: At the lodge.
Evening: You are free to remain in the main dining area or around the campfire to discuss the day’s wildlife with other travelers, or retire to your room to rest before tomorrow’s day of discoveries.
Destination: Ngorongoro Crater
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Ngorongoro Neptune Luxury Lodge
Breakfast: at the lodge.
Morning: We drive through the Ngorongoro conservation area to Ndutu, once you reach Ndutu you will begin your day game drive with a convenient stop for your picnic lunch. Sweeping grasslands of the Ndutu cover the region which gradually fade into the Serengeti. Ndutu forms a part of the route for the annual migration of more than 2 million wildebeests and thousands of zebra, antelope and gazelle. During game drives at the right season between December and April, you will be able to see the fertile plains turn into calving grounds and nursery for the great migration. The calving season attracts hordes of predators preying on vulnerable young wildebeest. Crested with Ndutu Lake and Lake Masek, these waterholes offer plenty of wildlife game during the dry season. The Ndutu is also the home ground for 6 species of big cats – leopard, lion, cheetah, caracal, serval and wildcat. The action-packed game drive will end late in the evening.
Afternoon: We’ll reach our carefully selected luxury camp by mid-afternoon and you’ll have time to settle in before dinner.
Dinner: At the camp.
Evening: You are free to remain in the main dining tent area or around the campfire to discuss the day’s wildlife with other travelers, or retire to your tent to rest before tomorrow’s day of discoveries.
Destination: Ndutu Area
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Lake Masek Luxury Camp or Similar
Breakfast: at the lodge.
Morning: We drive to Serengeti National park to Gol Kopjes, once you reach Serengeti you will begin your day game drive with a convenient stop for your picnic lunch. Sweeping grasslands of the Serengeti cover the region which gradually fade into the Serengeti, forms a part of the route for the annual migration of more than 2 million wildebeests and thousands of zebra, antelope and gazelle. During game drives at the right season between December and April, you will be able to see the fertile plains turn into calving grounds and nursery for the great migration. The calving season attracts hordes of predators preying on vulnerable young wildebeest. Crested with Gol water holes and Barafu valley, these waterholes offer plenty of wildlife game during the dry season. The Gol is also the home ground for 6 species of big cats – leopard, lion, cheetah, caracal, serval and wildcat. The action-packed game drive will end late in the evening.
Afternoon: We’ll reach our carefully selected luxury camp by mid-afternoon and you’ll have time to settle in before dinner.
Dinner: At the camp.
Evening: You are free to remain in the main dining tent area or around the campfire to discuss the day’s wildlife with other travelers, or retire to your tent to rest before tomorrow’s day of discoveries.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Sametu Luxury Camp or Similar
Breakfast: at the camp
After an early breakfast, you leave the camp and enjoy your last drive on your way to the Soronera airstrip, you embark on the journey home. Flying over this ancient landscape, you reflect on the spectacles you have witnessed: the dreamy serenity of hot-air ballooning, the thrill of witnessing a hunting pride of lion, and the joyful antics of zebra foals at play. All the sights and sounds of the Safari as they say, remain in your heart, transporting you back to the wide-open sky and endless savannah.
Evening: After arriving Arusha, you will be transferred to Kilimanjaro international airport and connected to your flight back home.
Suggestion: You can extend your holiday with a visit to the crystal clear waters of the tropical Island of Zanzibar or Pemba.
Destination: Arusha
Meal: B, L
Accommodation: No accommodation
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Tour Highlights
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Otional Activities
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