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This 7-day tour will take you around the best places in Tanzania, visiting sites such as Tarangire, Serengeti, and the Ngorongoro Crater, the world’s largest volcanic caldera. Depending on the timing of your tour, you may get a chance to see the great annual migration as thousands of wildebeest and zebra go through the majestic Serengeti Plains followed close by predators.
Tour Highlight
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: Mount Meru Hotel
Breakfast: at the hotel
Morning: Explore one of Tanzania’s most rewarding national parks, a land of big baobab trees, big elephants and big cats. No wonder this ends up being the favorite park in Tanzania for many visitors. Sightings of wildebeest, giraffes, hippos, buffaloes, baboons, vervet monkeys and zebras are also almost guaranteed. Lions are plentiful here – Tarangire is home to one of Tanzania’s healthiest lion populations. While you’ll have to work a little harder to see a cheetah or leopard, it will only enhance your excitement when you do. You can also look forward to classic safari scenery – savannah plains, river woodlands and rocky hills.
Lunch: We will enjoy a 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, permanent lodge in the midst of Ngorongoro highlands.
Destination: Tarangire National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodation: Bougainvillea safari lodge or Similar
Breakfast: at the lodge.
Morning: We drive through the Ngorongoro conservation before reaching Ndutu, you will begin your day game drive. The 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 water for wildlife during the dry season. Ndutu is also home to 6 species of cats – leopard, lion, cheetah, caracal, serval and wildcat.
Lunch: Enjoy your lunch in the wilderness
Afternoon: We’ll reach our carefully selected tented camp, 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.
Destination: Ndutu Plains
Meals included: B L D
Accommodation: Ndutu Safari Lodge or Similar
Breakfast: at the camp
The excitement for today will be quite high as you make your way into the most celebrated wildlife park in the world – The Serengeti, you will head out towards the Serengeti National Park and travel in the midst of the never ending plain grasslands. Serengeti, means endless plains in the local African language and watching the grassland stretch out as far as the eye can see and eventually merging with the sky at the horizon is an absolutely breathtaking view. The Serengeti houses the never miss “Big 5” (elephant, rhino, buffalo, lion and leopard). Along with the “Big cats”, a very pleasant sighting would be one of Africa’s most beautiful animals – The Impala. Lookout for the Serengeti “Kopjes” which are massive boulders of granite standing in a sea of grass. They provide ample shelter to a large variety of flora and fauna.
Lunch: We will enjoy a picnic in the park.
Afternoon: After lunch, we’ll continue our game-viewing drive to witness the wildlife of Serengeti, afterwards, we’ll head to our permanent camp in the midst of the wilderness.
Dinner: At the camp.
Evening: You are free to remain in the lounge area to discuss the day’s activities.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals: B L D
Accommodation: Mawe Tented camp 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 discoveries.
Destination: Serengeti National Park
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Mawe Tented camp or Similar
Breakfast: At the Camp.
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 the camp
Evening: You are free to remain in the main dining area or around the lodge to discuss the day’s wildlife.
Destination: Ngorongoro Highlands
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: Ngorongoro Tortilis camp 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.
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.
Lunch: Picnic at the crater in the sight of hippos
Afternoon: We’ll leave the crater behind, and drive to Arusha, you will transferred to the airport for your own ward connection.
Suggestion.
You can extend your holiday with a visit to the crystal clear waters of the tropical Island of Zanzibar or Pemba.
Destination: Arusha
Meals included: B L D
Accommodations: No accommodation
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Tour Highlights
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Otional Activities
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