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This 6-day comfort safari allows us to experience the highlights of the Northern Safari Circuit. We experience breathtaking wildlife in the midst of diverse landscapes; monkeys in the forest, lions on trees, elephants amongst the acacia tree, and a huge variety of animals inside a collapsed volcano. We’ll stay in Serengeti for 3 nights, home to some 3 million animals. These spectacular grass plains offer the best opportunity to viewing cheetah, leopard, rhino, 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.
Main Destination: Arusha (City)
Accommodation: Tulia Boutique Hotel & Spa or Similar
Breakfast: at the lodge
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 National Park. Afterwards, we’ll head to our lodgings, a permanent lodge in the midst of the Tarangire national park.
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 friends, and family members at home.
Destination: Tarangire National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Tarangire Safari Lodge or Similar
Breakfast: at the lodge
Rise and shine, we’ll start our safari start our safari early in the morning with a delightful breakfast, before embarking on a short drive from our lodge into the Ngorongoro conservation area. This is our getaway into the stunning Serengeti National Park, one of the largest, and most diverse national park in Tanzania.
Serengeti national park is renowned for its vast plains, great migration, which are home to numerous predators, including over 3000 lions, leopard, hyena, cheetah, and other animals. As we explore the park, we’ll be on the lookout for these amazing creatures, and soak in the breathtaking landscape of the open plains dotted with kopjes
Lunch: Enjoy your picnic at the Serengeti entrance gate
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 friends, and family members at home.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Into Africa Tented camp or Similar
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.
Lunch: At the main dining tent.
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 main dining tent.
Evening: You are free to remain in the main dining tent area or around the campfire to discuss the day’s activities.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Into Africa Tented Camps or Similar
Breakfast: At the camp.
Morning: This morning’s game-viewing drive will focus on observing animal behavior and interactions. We don’t just stop to photograph the next animal on a list, but spend time really getting to know how different species behave. Throughout our ride, our driver-guides will provide expert insight on the various species we’ll encounter.
Lunch: At the camp.
Afternoon: Enjoy a couple of hours of free time before heading out for our final game-viewing excursion in the Serengeti. Isolated rock groups, called kopjes, provide shelter to the solitary leopard, pairs of cheetahs, and prides of lion. We’ll learn from our driver-guides about the clues that tell you if one has recently hunted or is about to hunt. Their quarry is the lone gazelle or vulnerable calf spotted amongst the hundreds of thousands of hoofed herbivores: antelope, zebra, and the ever-present wildebeest.
Dinner: At the camp.
Evening: You are free to retire to your tent to pack or rest up before tomorrow’s day of sightings.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Into Africa Tented Camps or Similar
Breakfast: At the camp.
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.
Lunch: Enjoy your lunch in the sight of hippos
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.
Dinner: At the lodge.
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area or retire to you room.
Destination: Ngorongoro crater
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Farm of dream lodge or Similar
Breakfast: At the lodge.
Morning: 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.
Suggestion.
You can extend your holiday with a visit to the crystal clear waters of the tropical Island of Zanzibar or Pemba.
Destination: Lake Manyara National Park
Meals included: B L
Accommodations: No accommodation
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Otional Activities
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