Day
1: Arusha Town - Lake Manyara National Park
After breakfast you are met by our tour guide/driver, who will
deliver a short safari briefing. You will be driving to Lake Manyara
National Park for a game drive with our picnic lunch. Upon your
arrival Manyara you will be welcomed by the Great Rift Valley
Escarpment view and fun makers' baboon at the entrance of Manyara
in large groups. We will travel through the agricultural and fresh
produce market town of Mto Wa Mbu, which is situated next to the
entrance of the Lake Manyara National Park.
The town is a souvenir hunters paradise, harboring
thousands souvenir salesmen - ready to pounce at your slightest
invitation. The Lake Manyara National Park is one of Tanzania's
most dramatically located African wildlife areas, consisting of
a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park)
at the foot of the Great Rift Valley's western escarpment. The
park's varied habitat attracts a wide variety of animals; including
one of Africa's densely populated of herd of African elephant,
famous tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos,
attracted by the algae in the lake.
We will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park
and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, in search
of the wildlife and birdlife that Manyara host along with a view
of famous hot spring known as "Maji Moto". Late afternoon
you will be transferred to Lake Manyara Hotel or Lake Manyara
Serena lodge for hot shower, dinner and overnight.
Day 2: Serengeti National Park
After breakfast depart for Serengeti National Park passing through
Olduvai Gorge, the site of Leakey's family discovery of fossils
of human and animal ancestors dating back to almost two million
years. The Olduvai Gorge is a historical site of the world and
has much history of the earliest human been and many more historical
information that worth much to visit. You will have your picnic
lunch on the way to Serengeti. Upon your arrival you will check
in to the lodge for hot shower, dinner and overnight at Serengeti
Sopa / Seronera Wildlife Lodge or Serengeti Serena.
Day 3: Serengeti National Park - Full
Day
In the morning after breakfast you will meet your tour guide for
starting a game drive to Serengeti National Park for a full day
game drive. Serengeti is the largest national park in Tanzania
covering more than 14,000 square kilometers. The park is having
numerous numbers of unique features and attractions among them
include: The annual great wildebeest migration (whereby wildebeest,
zebra and gazelle migrates from Serengeti National Park to Masai
Mara National Reserve in Kenya and come back later in the year),
the park is famous for its endless plains and the savannah vegetation
that it owns, balloon safari and been the richest park full of
wildlife and birdlife elsewhere in Africa.
The park also supports many species of wildlife
including Lion, African Leopard, African Elephant, cheetah, African
Buffalo, Thomson's and Grant's gazelle, topi, eland, water buck,
hyena, baboon, impala, African wild dog and giraffe. The park
also boasts about 500 bird species, including ostrich, secretary
bird, Kori bustard, crowned crane, marabou stork, martial eagle,
lovebirds and many species of vultures. Your tour guide will therefore
take you back late in the afternoon at your lodge for hot shower,
dinner and overnight in the lodge been Serengeti Sopa / Seronera
Wildlife Lodge or Serengeti Serena.
Day 4: Serengeti National Park / Ngorongoro
Conservation Area
In the morning after breakfast you will have your picnic lunch
and a morning game drive until in the afternoon in Serengeti National
Park. You will thereafter have your picnic lunch and have short
rest before starting our journey to Ngorongoro Conservation Area.
You will see game on the way and you can also have more photos
of these wild animals. Upon arrival in Ngorongoro you will check
in to the lodge for hot shower, dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro
Serena/ Ngorongoro Sopa and Ngorongoro Wildlife lodge.
Day 5: Ngorongoro Crater
In the morning after breakfast you will meet your driver guide
and been transfer to the crater gate with your picnic lunch ready
for a full day crater tour, explore the crater which is famous
for its great concentration of wildlife and birdlife. This is
probably the most enjoyable day as you can witness how wildlife
wakes up and start their daily activities. If you're lucky enough
you can see a predator hunting a prey or any adventure of your
life time that Ngorongoro crater has for you. Ngorongoro crater
is famous for its different attraction which includes alkaline
lakes, forest, and different vegetation, hot springs, different
kinds of wildlife and birdlife and its landscape.
Among the common wildlife in the crater includes;
lion, leopard, zebra, elephant, African buffalo, warthog, hyena,
wild dogs, the rare black rhino, wildebeest and varieties of migratory
and resident birdlife whereby more than 350 different species
have been recorded. In the afternoon you will ascend the crater
floor and been transferred to Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge / Ngorongoro
Serena for hot shower, dinner and overnight.
Day 6: Ngorongoro crater - Tarangire
National Park
After breakfast you are met by our tour guide/driver, who will
deliver a short safari briefing. After briefing you will be transferred
to Tarangire National Park with your picnic lunch. Tarangire derived
its name from the Tarangire River which crosses along the center
of the park and which provide permanent water for the wildlife
and birdlife of the park round the year. It is here where a large
group of different species of animal concentrate during the dry
season and the best place to take many pictures.
Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia
woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas
in the south. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain
some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. Also it is in Tarangire
by chance you can see the tree climbing African pythons.
Tarangire National Park accommodated migratory
and resident birdlife and believed to be a paradise of birdwatchers
as more that 350 different species have been recorded todate.
Other wildlife that Tarangire accommodates includes the rare Oryx,
impala, giraffe, zebra, lion, leopard and different types of gazelles.
We will enjoy a picnic lunch inside the park
and do two exciting morning and afternoon game drives, along the
Tarangire River. Late afternoon you will be transferred to Tarangire
Safari Lodge or Tarangire Sopa Lodge for hot shower, dinner and
overnight.
Day 7: Tarangire National Park / Zanzibar
Island
Early in the morning after your breakfast you will be driving
to Arusha and upon your arrival you will be transferred directly
to the Arusha airport for your flight to Zanzibar Island. You
will reach in the afternoon and check-in to the hotel in stone
town. Your late lunch will be served at designated restaurant
or hotel in Zanzibar stone town. The day will end up with a relaxation
and rest at the hotel and in the evening you will have hot shower,
dinner and overnight.
Day 8: Zanzibar Full Day
In the morning after breakfast you will go for a spice tour, Jozani
forest reserve and end up with your tour in clear white sand beaches
that Zanzibar Island offers. There are also varieties of sport
games such as diving, snorkeling, swimming and much more that
you need not to miss them when you're in Zanzibar. Your hot lunch
will be at your designated restaurant or you might have packed
lunch depending on the way you plan your excursion with your tour
guide. The day ends up with hot shower, dinner and overnight at
the designated hotel in Zanzibar stone town.
Day 9: Zanzibar Island / Dar Es Salaam
city
In the morning after having a relaxed breakfast you will start
your excursion to Zanzibar historical town of stone town. This
town has much to offers as historical site and you will enjoy
passing the narrow street that it offers. In the afternoon you
will have your hot lunch and thereafter having a short rest before
been transferred to seaport or airport for your safari to Dar
Es Salaam in a day room at a designated hotel in Dar Es Salaam.
In the evening you will be transferred to the Dar Es Salaam International
Airport for your flight back home. |