DAY 01 - ARRIVAL / WELCOME

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. Nairobi is Kenya's thriving capital city that embodies modern African culture alongside memorable wildlife encounters. Dinner under own arrangements.

DAY 02 - ARUSHA - 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.

DAY 03 - TARANGIRE - NGORONGORO CRATER

OVERNIGHT: NGORONGORO 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.

• The short grasses on the crater’s floor make game easy to spot and photograph.

DAY 04 - NGORONGORO CRATER - SERENGETI

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.

• 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.

DAY 05 - TARANGIRE - NGORONGORO CRATER

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.

• Include cheetah, lion, leopard, giraffe, hippopotamus, and rhinoceros, are found here. Optional hot Air Balloon can be reserved at a fee.

DAY 06 - SERENGETI - ZANZIBAR

OVERNIGHT: ZANZIBAR ISLAND

After breakfast, you will be transferred to the airstrip for your scheduled flight to Zanzibar via Arusha. On arrival in Zanzibar you will be met and transferred to your Hotel, where accommodation has been reserved for the next five nights. Enjoy the day in Zanzibar either by relaxing by the sandy beaches or utilizing the various amenities at the hotel. Zanzibar is much like Venice – there’s simply no other place quite like it. Located 23 miles off the Tanzanian coast, its very name evokes the exotic smell of spices, images of narrow streets, unique architecture, carved doors, clear waters, coral reefs and miles of pristine beaches. The island has a long and rich past as a crossroads of African, Asian, and European cultures.

• Vasco da Gama visited in 1502 en-route to India while Burton, Speake, and Livingstone all staged their expeditions into the “dark heart” of Africa from these shores.

DAY 07 - 09 - ZANZIBAR

OVERNIGHT: ZANZIBAR ISLAND

Relax and read by the pool, by the beach, or ditch your book altogether and dive the many nearby reefs, banks, and atolls. Enjoy the day at your leisure. If you feel the urge to explore historic Zanzibar, you may take advantage of any of our optional excursions at a fee:

Cheetah’s Rock is a unique place where people and animals interact directly – face to face, eye to eye, fur to skin. In addition to meeting Jenny’s rescued wild animals on the tour you will receive substantial information about animal welfare and wildlife conservation. You will learn more about needed protection and conservation of endangered species and more on the behavior of various animal species. You will hear how it is possible to get so close to wild animals using 100% positive reinforcement only animal handling. You are more than welcome to take as many photos as you wish.

Spice Tour- This tour enables one to see, taste and smell various types of spices and fruit, cardamom, nut meg, turmeric root actually grown in the plantations. Other tropical fruits such as jackfruit, custard apple, breadfruit, rambutan, and carambola can also be seen and tasted. Furthermore, you will see plants like henna bush, lipstick tree and lemon grass etc. Others are flowers, ornamental plants and herbs.

Stone Town - The Stone Town of Zanzibar is a fine example of the Swahili coastal trading towns of East Africa. It retains its urban fabric and townscape virtually intact and contains many fine buildings that reflect its particular culture, which has brought together and homogenized disparate elements of the cultures of Africa, the Arab region, India, and Europe over more than a millennium.

Dolphin Tour - This Full day tour takes you to Kizimkazi along the southwest coast of Zanzibar, upon arrival at the fishing village Kizimkazi you will have a brief talk about the behavior and different types of dolphins before proceeding to the dolphin’s locations with 80% chances to see them. There is a fair chance you will get to play and swim with them, returning to the seashore in the afternoon. Lunch under own arrangements.

Prison Island – this half-day tour-boat ride to the island in a small, wooden motorized boat is a must when in Zanzibar! A former prison for slaves and, later, a quarantine station for Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika, the island nowadays gives you the chance to escape to some tranquil reflection.

Jozani Forest – Located in the central-east region of Zanzibar, this forest is home to the rare red colobus monkey, which is endemic to Zanzibar. Jozani is home to other species including Skykes’s monkey, small buck, and bush pigs.

• The mangrove forest is alive with birds of the costal wetland ecosystem.

DAY 10 - ZANZIBAR - ARUSHA DEPART

Breakfast at your Hotel, spent part of the morning at leisure followed by check out at 100hrs hour. Later you will be transferred to Zanzibar Airport where you will connect your flight back home.