9 Days Tanzania Wildlife Safari
Day0: Final Game drive and Transfer to Nairobi for a flight to Arusha
Wake up early and wait for the driver to take you for the last game drive. The game drive will be done at the Masai plains to catch the predators hunting once again. Look out for lions, ostriches, giraffes, jackals and hyenas. The Masai Mara is one of the few places were once can still see wild Rhinos roaming freely. After this game drive, you will be taken back to the hotel for checkout. The Guide/Driver will then start the journey back to Nairobi. As you travel to Nairobi, you will have an opportunity to do shopping and visiting local artisan shops. The driver will drop you at residence, hotel or at the airport for a flight to Arusha.
Dinner and overnight at The African tulip hotel
Day 1: Transfer to Tarangire National Park
After breakfast at the lodge, you will check out and Drive to Tarangire National Park which is filled with acacia woodland and grassland inside that park. After having for your lunch, head off for a game drive in the park, which is famous for the giant baobab, pred trees. You will expect to spot large herds of elephants, predators like lion, leopard and the plain games. This national park also boasts large variety of spectacular bird life including the endemic species.
Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Osupuko
Day 12: Explore Tarangire National Park
In the morning, you will have breakfast at the lodge and after embark on a full day game drive with a picnic lunch. You will expect to view many animals as well as enjoying the many aspects of animal behaviour. Some of these animals include; giraffes, wildebeest, zebra, common eland, wildebeest, gazelle, buffalo and elephant among others. The guide will point out the fascinating way elephants communicate with the subtle interactions.
Dinner and overnight at Tarangire Osupuko
Day 13: Transfer to Ngorongoro crater
After an Early morning breakfast at your lodge or camp, check out and depart for Karatu where you will visit the Karatu Market and have an ethno- botanical walk including a visit to the local Iraq Tribe at Karatu area. You will then proceed to Ngorongoro crater conservation area. Check in at Endoro lodge where you will refresh and have lunch. After resting you may choose to relax at the beautiful lodge or go for Ranger guided nature walk in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area along the Endoro Trail with hiking up to the Endoro waterfalls and the Elephants Caves.
Accommodation at Endoro Lodge
Day 14: Game drive in Ngorongoro Crater and transfer to Serengeti
After an early breakfast at the lodge, you will take on the early morning game drive within the Ngorongoro crater, with picnic lunch at the hippo pool side. The game drive will go until later in the afternoon. You will expect to spot animals like; the black rhinoceros, African buffalo, hippopotamus, the blue wildebeest, Grant’s zebra, common eland and Grant’s and Thomson’s gazelles, Waterbucks among others. Having done satisfactory game viewing in the Crater floor of the famous Ngorongoro Crater which is literally a natural zoo of wild animals. Later in the afternoon drive to the Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge for dinner and overnight.
Accommodation at Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
Day 15: Transfer to Serengeti National Park
Early in the morning, you will depart for Ndutu via Olduvai Gorge in order to visit the interesting museum which is found at this famous world archaeological site that contains fossils of early two-million-year-old human ancestors. You will continue for a game drive through the vast Ndutu area in the western Ngorongoro to the camp for your lunch. Head out for game drive later in the afternoon, before you return to the camp for dinner and an overnight. On your way you can also visit a Masai Village at the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. You will expect to spot some of the animals that live around the park.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Katikati tented camp
Day 16: Explore Serengeti National Park
After breakfast at the lodge/camp, you will go for a game drive. Set out ready with your packed lunch and enjoy a full day game viewing in the park, which is a home to the greatest concentration of the large mammals on earth. You will expect to spot; non- migratory species that include; large prides of lions, cheetah, solitary leopards, Thomson’s and Grant’s gazelle, and tens of thousands of Topi and Coke’s hartebeest. Masai giraffe, waterbuck, impala, warthog and hippo are also abundant. Some rarely seen species of antelope are also present in Serengeti National Park, such as common eland, klipspringer, roan antelope, bushbuck, lesser kudu, fringe-eared oryx and dik dik as well as the graceful impalas. The landscape in this park is characterised by open plains, kopjes, rock formations that survive from the Pre-Cambrian period as well as the open woodlands.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti Katikati tented camp
Day 17: game drive to the Mara River and Transfer to Lake Manyara
After breakfast at the lodge/camp, drive to the Mara River where you will expect to watch the great migration of the wildebeests, gazelles and zebras. This river gushes through the northern Serengeti from Kenya’s adjacent Maasai Mara Game Reserve. Watching the frantic herds of the wildebeest migration crossing the Mara River can be very spectacular; there are often scenes of great panic and confusion. As you drive through the park, you will expect to spot various animals that live in the par as well as bird. You will also have beautiful views of the great Serengeti plains and later transfer to Lake Manyara.
Dinner and overnight at Twiga Lodge
Day 18: Game drive in Lake Manyara
After breakfast at the lodge, you will take a drive through the park. You will traverse a mosaic of acacia woodlands, grassy floodplains and tall forest in search of wildlife and you will expect to see various mammals that live in the park as well as bird species. You will stop for a while on the lakeshore to admire the different bird species and look for pink flamingo. The rest of the Manyara ecosystem consists of mountainside, marshlands, woodlands, grassy areas and hot springs. You will drive mainly through acacia woodlands, grassy floodplains and tall forest in search of wildlife; including the famous tree-climbing lions and large family herds of elephant.
Dinner and overnight at Twiga Lodge
Day 19: Drive to Arusha
Have breakfast and transfer to Arusha. On arrival in Arusha, there will be time to do some shopping and a day room will be available for resting before being transferred to Kilimanjaro International Airport for your return flight.
End of Safari
This trip will cost 9,590USD per person traveling
The safari includes,
- Park entry fees
- Gorilla tracking permits
- Chimpanzee tracking permits
- Boat cruise
- Game drives
- An English-speaking guide
- Accommodation on full board arrangement
- Transportation
- En route meals
- Transit fees
- Nature walks
- Concession fees
- Crater service
The safari excludes,
- Tips
- Visas
- Flights
- Personal insurance