Tour Overview
Northern Tanzania is the most popular safari region. Mainly, because it hosts the world-famous Serengeti National Park. But, that's not the only place to go for the best Tanzania Safari Tours in the north. Serengeti National Park (World Heritage Site) - widely regarded as the best African safari destination.
Included And Excluded
- Departure LocationArusha City
- Return LocationArusha City
- Accomdation while on SafariYes
- Arrival & departure airport transfersYes
- Shared 4x4 Land cruiser vehicleYes
- All Park Fees as specified in itineraryYes
- English Speaking Drive / GuideYes
- All Tanzania government taxes and service chargesYes
- Flying Doctor’s evacuation serviceYes
- Bottled mineral water while on safariYes
- International Flights to/From No
- All items of personal nature phone callsNo
- Travel insuranceNo
- Laundry & VisasNo
- Tips and gratuitiesNo
- Add-on and supplements [Balloon Safari]No
- All other items not mentioned in the inclusions.No
Tour Plan
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ARRIVAL & WELCOME [OPTIONAL FOR LATE ARRIVAL]
OVERNIGHT: ARUSHA
More Africa Travel representative who will transfer you and your luggage to Arusha Town Hotel, upon arrival at Kilimanjaro or Arusha Airport. Our representative will assist you with check-in formalities so you can relax and recharge after your journey. Arusha is Tanzania's Tourism capital that embodies modern African culture alongside memorable wildlife encounters.
- Dinner under own arrangements.
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DAY 02 - ARUSHA – MANYARA
OVERNIGHT: MANAYRA AREA
Pick up from Arusha and transfer to Lake Manyara national park. We arrive in time for lunch after lunch head into the Lake Manyara National Park for an afternoon 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
- Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.
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DAY 03 - MANYARA-NGORNGORO
OVERNIGHT: NGORONGORO / KARATU AREA
After an early breakfast, we drive to Ngorongoro Crater for the crater tour. Your driver guides your vehicle nearly 2,000 feet down into Ngorongoro Crater for a full day of exploration. In addition to viewing larger game, we will drive across the dense forest on the rim to the soda lake to view the outstanding bird life. Today, we enjoy a picnic lunch in the crater itself and ascend back to the lodge for dinner and relaxation. Ngorongoro Crater was an ancient active volcano whose cone collapsed some three million years ago, leaving a deep crater. It is the largest unbroken caldera in the world, the second largest extinct crater, and today shelters arguably the most beautiful wildlife haven left on earth with a spectacular concentration of animals and stunning views. Known as “Africa’s Garden of Eden”, the crater is undoubtedly the best place in Tanzania to see black rhinos as well as prides of lions with magnificent black-maned males. The crater rim is wooded with mountain forest vegetation and is abloom in acres of pink, blue, and white lupines, candle white lilies, and blue hyacinth. The short grasses on the crater’s floor make game easy to spot and photograph.
- Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.
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DAY 04 - NGORONGORO - SERENGETI NP
OVERNIGHT: SERENGETI AREA
After an early morning breakfast, we depart into the early morning game viewing drives at the Serengeti National park where the spectacle of predator versus prey dominates this Tanzania’s greatest and oldest park, arriving in time for lunch at your Lodge/ Camp. After lunch, enjoy an afternoon game drive within and around the Moru Kopjes area. Game drives end just before dusk when you are returned to the familiar surroundings of your camp pleasantly tired but brimming with excitement about your experiences during the day. The Serengeti’s low vegetation means that game viewing is relatively easy. Small rivers, lakes, and swamps dot this magnificent landscape where animals roam in complete freedom. Vast herds of ungulates arrive from the Maasai Mara and begin to congregate in December, culminating in the calving of half a million wildebeest in early February. This southern portion of The Great Migration lasts from December until May, when the herds head out of the Serengeti and into the Mara once more.
- Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.
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DAY 05 - SERENGETI
OVERNIGHT: SERENGETI AREA
Enjoy the day exploring the splendors of the Serengeti with morning and afternoon game-viewing drives, returning to the camp for lunch and dinner. The Serengeti National Park, at 5,700 mi2, is larger than the state of Connecticut. Protected since the 1940s, the area was made a national park in 1951 and is a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Fantastic in its natural beauty and unequalled in its scientific value, this vast expanse of land is home to more than four million different types of animals. Large herds of antelope of every description can be found here: Patterson’s eland, klipspringer, dikdik, impala, zebra, gazelle, water buck, topi, kongoni, Cotton’s oribi, grey bush duiker, roan antelope, buffalo, and wildebeest. Storks, flamingoes, vultures, fish eagles, and ostrich are among the nearly five hundred species of birds that also call the Serengeti home. Include cheetah, lion, leopard, giraffe, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros, are found here. Optional hot Air Balloon can be reserved at a fee.
- Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.
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DAY 06 - SERENGETI - TARANGIRE
OVERNIGHT: TARANGIRE AREA
After breakfast this morning, we embark on the drive to Tarangire National Park, arriving in time for lunch at your lodge/camp. The lodge/camp lies hidden among the kopjes, ancient baobab and grasses of Tarangire National Park. After an afternoon game drive, return to lodge/camp for dinner, relaxation and overnight. Tarangire National Park has a high concentration of wildlife in the dry season, second only to Ngorongoro Crater. Animals found in Tarangire include lion, leopard, elephant, oryx, gnu and greater and lesser kudu. Wildebeest, zebras, Thompson's gazelle, Grant's gazelle, buffalo, elephant, impala, and eland are also frequent visitors to the park. Principal biomes of the park are the grassland and flood plains, which consist of open grassland, acacia trees, thick woodlands beside tributaries, and orchard bush. The Baobab tree, dotted throughout the park growing in open acacia woodland, is a symbol of this park.
- Dinner and overnight as per the standard and type of accommodation option requested.
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DAY 07 - TARANGIRE - ARUSHA
DEPART
Early morning game drive returning to the Lodge/Camp for a full breakfast. The park runs along the line of the Tarangire River and is mainly made up of low-lying hills on the Great Rift Valley floor. Its natural vegetation mainly consists of Acacia woodland and giant African Baobab trees, with huge swamp areas in the south. Both the river and the swamps act like a magnet for wild animals, during Tanzania’s dry season. The Tarangire National Park is reputed to contain some of the largest elephant herds in Africa. This African national park is also home to three rare species of animals – the Greater Kudu, the Fringed-eared Oryx, as well as a few Ashy Starlings. After a picnic lunch, we do an afternoon game drive, which will be followed by exit the park and then be transferred to Arusha arriving late early evening with a drop off in to your hotel of choice or back to the Airport if your flight will be the same day.
- Sadly, the Adventures come to the end but the memories are forever.
