8 Days Tanzania Luxury Safari

Tanzania

8 Day Tanzania Luxury Safari

This tour will focus on; Tarangire, Lake Eyasi, Serengeti, Ngorongoro Crater, Lake Natron, Oldoinyo Lengai & Lake Manyara

Day 1: Arusha

Day 2: Tarangire National Park

Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park 

Day 4: Lake Eyasi

Day 5: Lake Eyasi- Ngorongoro crater

Day 6: Ngorongoro crater – Serengeti National Park 

Day 7: Serengeti National Park

Day 8: Serengeti National Park – Lake Natron

Day 9: Lake Natron – Arusha

 

Day 1: Arusha

Distance: 30km /50km

Met on arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport or Arusha Airport. Transfer to Lake duluti  Lodge for dinner and overnight HB. (40 km, 30 minutes)

  • MEALS: Dinner and Overnight HB
  • ACCOMMODATION:  Lake Duluti Lodgeor similar Accommodation

Day 2: Tarangire National Park

Distance: 130km

Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs.

After breakfast the tour departs. First stop is Arusha Town for any last minute purchases before we head off on safari. Afterwards we head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the centre of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebras.Ngorongoro farm houses.

Day 3: Lake Manyara National Park 

Distance: 190km

Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs.

After breakfast, Tanzania Expeditions driver will pick you up and depart to the Lake Manyara national park for a game drive. This national park is one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a massive but shallow soda lake (covering two-thirds of the park), located 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 largest concentrations of elephants, Lake Manyara’s unique tree-climbing lions, as well as large flocks of flamingos attracted by the algae in the lake. Late afternoon transfer to  Lake Eyasi Safari Lodge

  • MEALS: Lunch, dinner, bed and breakfast
  • ACCOMMODATION: Lake Eyasi Kisima Ngeda Tented Camp 

Day 4: Lake Eyasi

Today it’s time to interact with the Bushmen, the Hadzabe Tribe, who live in groups hunting with bow and arrows and gathering roots, tubers and wild fruits much as humankind lived in the Stone Age. We will get in depth look at how they continue to survive and how they adapt to their harsh environment and the challenges they face to continue this nomadic existence. The Datoga tribe are blacksmiths, a trade developed over centuries and still practiced in vary much the same way today. They produce the arrow heads for the Hadzabe and brass trinkets, some of which will be for sale by maker himself. Late afternoon transfer to  Ngorongoro Gibb’s Farm

Day 5: Lake Eyasi- Ngorongoro crater

Distance: 190km

Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs.

After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro National Park supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants. Another big draw card to this picturesque national park, is its dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. We will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Dinner and overnight at Ngorongoro Serena Lodge

Day 6: Ngorongoro crater – Serengeti National Park 

Distance: 145km

Non – game viewing time : 2 – 3 hrs.

 Early morning break fast and after depart to Serengeti National Park. We will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Do game drive in Serengeti and overnight at the heart of Serengeti Seronera Nasikia tented tented Camp

Day 7: Serengeti National Park

Full day Serengeti National Park game drive including following the wildebeest migration. Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Kati Kati Tented Camp.

Day 8: Serengeti National Park – Lake Natron

Distance: 300km

Non – game viewing time : 4 – 5 hrs.

After an early breakfast, Do a morning game drive then after do a game en route towards north Serengeti. Check out of the park at Klein’s gate then transfer to Lake Natron for an early dinner and over night. Go for an evening lake Natron walk for sunset if time permits. Dinner and overnight at Lake Natron tented camp.

Day 9: Lake Natron – Arusha

Distance: 250km

Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs.

Night ascent & dawn summit bid, Oldoinyo Lengai (seismic conditions permitting). Optional waterfall hike and swim (Depending on what time your flight is leaving). After transfer to Arusha for airport drop off or overnight. (Accommodation can be included upon request at extra cost)

INCLUDES

  • Transportation in 4×4 safari vehicle
  • Professional, English speaking guide
  • Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
  • Mineral water
  • Overnight stays in Safari Lodges / Luxury Tented Camps
  • All national park fees

EXCLUDES

  • Alcoholic and soft drinks

  • Visa fees

  • Tips

  • Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.

  • Travel insurance

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