Safari Packages in Tanzania (8 Days/7 Night)

Safari Packages in Tanzania Safari

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Overview

This is going to be the trip of your dreams! You’ll be driven around in our own open roof jeep, guaranteeing you a superb safari experience with many opportunities to take great photos. The jeep also has seven window seats, which gives everyone a beautiful view of the animals and landscape. Your private guide will advise you of the best time to start each outing, but as it’s a private safari the final decision will be yours. Let him know anything you need or want, and he will do his best to accommodate you! We visit the recommended lodges and hotels in your travel program on a regular basis to make sure they maintain our high standards at all times, so we can guarantee their superb quality.

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Day 1
Arusha – Lake Manyara National Parks
At around 08.00 Am; your driver is waiting at your Hotel’s lounge and your luggage is parked in the 4×4 safari land cruiser ready to take off You will pass by Arusha town briefly for you to do brief shopping of a few personal effects that you may need as well as to change some money if you wish and off you leave the town past the Arusha Airport further across the Masai Steppe and across the Great Rift Valley to Lake Manyara National Park. The name Manyara is a Masai word for the euphorbia tirucalli tree species which the nomadic Maasai people use to make hedges to protect their homesteads and livestock. The park is highlighted with lots of these trees and the tree climbing lions which are often spotted taking afternoon siesta on the branches. Other animals common in this park include the impalas, giraffes buffaloes and impalas. Just at the entrance of this beautiful park is an underground water forest and a perfect habitat for the Blue monkeys, the baboons, bush bucks and the gigantic elephants sheltering in the sheds from the afternoon sun and devouring the green branches and twigs and herbs. The Hippo pools and at the Lake Manyara itself you will get the chance to observe the Hippos and the aquatic birds including the colorful Flamingos, pelicans, Egyptian geese, cormorants, and many more. You will take lunch at one of the picnic sites in the national park. In the late afternoon you will drive to the campsite.
Day 2
Lake Manyara National Parks – Serengeti National Park
After your breakfast you will take a walk at the Lake again if you wish and thereafter leave for the Serengeti National Park. You will cross the Loliondo Game Controlled area where apparently the wildebeests herds cross on and around November and December when they are coming from Masai Mara in Kenya. After the registration formalities at Klein’s Gate you will go for game drive in the vast plains of the Serengeti National Park (on your way to the lodge) where you will get the chance to see lots of animals and bird life alike. Among animals that can be seen here includes the zebras, buffaloes, baboons, topis, impalas, cheetahs, leopards, and the recently introduced Rhinos which were the only member of the big Five that was missing in this park. All meals included.
Day 4, 5, & 6
Full day Serengeti National Park
Safari in Tanzania is not complete without a visit to Serengeti National Park. At day break you are out to the Serengeti plains for a sunrise game drive that normally offers the only chance of sighting the nocturnal species retiring and other species waking up to a new day before you go back for breakfast. After breakfast you will leave for a full day of game drives exploring the Serengeti. Depending on the season and time of the year, this is where you will witness the magnificent natural phenomenon of the ‘Great migration’ where more than one and a half million wildebeests accompanied by hundreds of thousands of gazelles and zebras brave the crocodile infested rivers and cross the border into the Masai Mara in Kenya in search of green pastures and water. The resident animals and birds that stay all year round in Serengeti makes sure that the park must visit whenever one travels to Tanzania. Later in the afternoon you will drive back to the campsite for dinner and overnight. 3 x Overnight. One night will be in the northern part of Serengeti and the other 2 will be in the southern part. This will ensure the best possible chance to see both the Great Crossing(if time of year is right) and all of the Big 5. All meals included
Day 7
Serengeti – Ngorongoro
After breakfast your drive via Naabi gate to the largest unbroken Caldera of the world; Ngorongoro Crater also referred to as the ‘Eden of Africa’ and also the ‘eighth wonder of the world’. After about an hour and a half steady drive and you will be at the Main Gate of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area where you will undergo some registration formalities and off you drive to the Crater Rim where you will make a brief stop at the Viewpoint. You will then descend to the Crater floor for a full day of game drive in search of the Big Five; The Elephants, Rhino, Lions, Leopard, and Buffaloes which can be sighted in a one day with a little bit of luck. In the Crater floor you expect to see animals at amazingly close range and these includes zebras, topis, gazelles, hartebeests, warthogs, wildebeests, hippos, hyenas, Serval cats, silver backed jackals, and many more species. At the center of the Crater floor is Lake Makat where you expect to see a lot of aquatic bird life like the colorful flamingos, Egyptian geese, cormorants, grebes. After taking lunch at a designated picnic site ear a hippo pool you will continue with game drives till later in the afternoon when you will ascend back to the Crater Rim, where you will check in at your campsite for dinner and overnight. All meals included.
Day 8
Ngorongoro – Arusha
One last game drives in Tarangire or go for a nature walk at the boundaries of the park with the guidance of a Maasai warrior or an armed ranger. After breakfast you will check out of the lodge and drive back to Arusha. Depending on your schedule you will be transferred to your lodge for the night or Kilimanjaro International Airport for departure.
End of your 8 Days Tanzania Lodge Safari

Cost Info

Price includes

all airport pick up and transfers in private car
08 days private safari
Transport and wildlife drives in modified 4 x 4 Land Cruiser with photographic roof hatch
Services of a professional English-speaking safari guide
All wildlife reserve entry fees
All game drives as mentioned in the itinerary
mineral water per person during game drives
08 x FB at safari lodges or tented camps as per itinerary
A visit to a Masai Village

Price excludes

International Flights
Any domestic connection flights on arrival or departure
All items of a personal nature
Gratuities for safari guide and lodge staff (please tip separately)
Travel insurance if needed
Visa fee ( 50 US$ /100 US$ for American or Irish Passport holders– to be paid upon arrival)
Drinks and beverages in lodges
Hot Air Balloon Safari at Serengeti (599 USD per person), including concession fees

from $2,700.00

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Safari Packages in Tanzania (8 Days/7 Night)

Overview

Overview

Itinerary

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Day 1

Arusha – Lake Manyara National Parks

Day 2

Lake Manyara National Parks – Serengeti National Park

Day 4, 5, & 6

Full day Serengeti National Park

Day 7

Serengeti – Ngorongoro

Day 8

Ngorongoro – Arusha

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