7 DAY TOUR OVERVIEW.
All our 7-day Tanzania Wildlife Safaris and Tours, specifically include the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the world famous Ngorongoro Crater in Tanzania. This specific Tanzania safari and travel itinerary has been designed for visitors with more time on hand for a longer safari or tours. It specifically includes the Tarangire National Park and have been designed to offer you a total Tanzanian northern circuit safari experience, while attempting to keep your non game-viewing travel time to a minimum.
This unforgettable Tanzania Wildlife Safaris packages will take you to the Lake Manyara National Park, one of Tanzania’s most dramatically located wildlife areas, consisting of a shallow but huge soda lake, located at the foot of the Great Rift Valley’s western escarpment. The size of the park makes it perfect for a one-day game drive and is notably famous for it’s tree-climbing lions. This safari will also take you to the Serengeti National Park, a massive wilderness of 14500 square km, where every day brings a new landscape and a new adventure. It will also take you to the Ngorongoro Crater and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania, featuring one of the highest concentrations of game and arguably the densest population of predators and carnivores in Africa. Here you will witness an amazing spectacle of African wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals. It will also take you to the Tarangire National Park, which once again features some of the greatest concentration of game in Tanzania – second only to the Ngorongoro Crater – but less crowded and unspoiled – possessing a wild and unkempt beauty.Finally this tour will take you to the Lake Eyasi you will visit these tribes Datoga and Hadzabe, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more.
Day 0: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport to Arusha.
Distance: 45 Km
Welcome to Tanzania. Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you will meet your safari guide/driver transfer to Arusha city to your Allocated accommodation as requested for dinner and overnight. (45 km, 43 minutes)
- Hours:43 Minutes
- Meals: Dinner and Overnight.
- Accommodation: Mount Meru Hotel-Luxury Accommodation:Green Mountain Hotel-Semi Luxury Accommodation
- Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
- Difficulties: Low
Day 1:Arusha to Lake Manyara
Non game-viewing travel time: 2½ hours
Distance: 130 km
After breakfast the tour departs. First stop is Arusha Town for any last minute purchases before you head off on safari. Afterwards you head to Lake Manyara. Lake Manyara National Park offers breathtaking views and a large variety of habitats. Acacia woodlands, water forests, baobab strewn cliffs, algae-streaked hot springs, swamps and the lake itself. And thanks to this the small Park is able to support a large number of animal species and incredible bird life. Manyara has the largest concentration of baboons anywhere in the world and the lions here are also renowned for their tree climbing. Dinner and overnight at Allocated accommodation as requested.
- Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Lake Manyara Serena Lodge-Luxury Accommodation: Flamingo Safari Lodge-Semi Luxury Accommodation
- Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
- Difficulties: Low
Day 2: Lake Manyara to Serengeti National Park.
Distance: 145km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, depart for Serengeti National Park, via the beautiful high lying farmland of Karatu and the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Leaving the highlands behind, you descend into the heart of wild Africa – the Serengeti National Park – with its endless plains, rolling into the distance as far as the eye can see. Then heard to the central park area, known as the Seronera area, one of the richest wildlife habitats in the park, featuring the Seronera River, which provides a valuable water source to this area and therefore attracts wildlife well representative of most of the Serengeti’s species. Arrive in time for lunch and enjoy an afternoon game drive in the Serengeti national park. Dinner and overnight at Allocated accommodation as requested.
- Hours:6
- Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge-Luxury Accommodation:Mbugani Tented Lodge-Semi Luxury Accommodation
- Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
- Difficulties: Low
Day 3: Full Day Game Drive in Serengeti National Park.
Full game drive at Northern Serengeti to Mara River in northern Serengeti affords the most dramatic river crossings. Fierce and deep, cliff-sided and rain-swollen, the river takes an enormous toll of the exhausted and terrified wild cattle that surge through its torrential flow, some drowning helplessly, foundering in narrow defiles, floundering in mud, falling victim to crocodile, staggering, exhausted to dry land and often, in confusion, returning to the same scene of their ordeal allowing the cycle to repeat itself. Dinner and Overnight at the allocated accommodation as requested.
- Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Serengeti Sopa Lodge-Luxury Accommodation:Mbugani Tented Lodge-Semi Luxury Accommodation
- Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
- Difficulties: Low
Day 4 :Serengeti Plains to Ngorongoro Crate
Non game-viewing travel time: 4 hours
Distance: 145 km
After breakfast at the lodge you depart to Ngorongoro Conservation area. You will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Drs. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of the’Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Dinner and Overnight at the allocated accommodation as requested.
- Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Sopa Lodge-Luxury Accommodation : Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge-Semi Luxury Accommodation
- Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
- Difficulties: Low
Day 5 :Ngorongoro Crater to Karatu.
After breakfast early in the morning you descend 600m into this magnificent crater for a full-day game drive. The Ngorongoro Crater is one of the most densely crowded African wildlife areas in the world and is home to an estimated 30,000 animals including some of Tanzania’s last remaining black rhino. 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 huge population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard. You will enjoy a picnic lunch on the crater floor. Dinner and Overnight at the allocated accommodation as requested.
- Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Oldean Lodge-Luxury Accommodation : Forest Tented Lodge-Semi Luxury Accommodation
- Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
- Difficulties: Low
Day 6 :Karatu to Tarangire National Park.
Non game-viewing travel time: 3 hours
Distance: 155 km
After breakfast you depart for the Tarangire National Park. 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 you do an afternoon game drive. Dinner and Overnight at the allocated accommodation as requested.
- Meals: Breakfast. Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Tarangire Sopa Lodge-Luxury Accommodation :Forest Tented Lodge-Semi Luxury Accommodation
- Guide: Professional English guide or other requested by the client.
- Difficulties: Low
Day 7 :Tarangire National Park to Lake Eyasi to Arusha.
Non game-viewing travel time: 2-3 hours
Distance: 110 km
Walking Tour
After breakfast you will heard to Lake Eyasi is a very scenic soda lake found on the southern border of the Ngorongoro Conservation Area. This less visited lake lies at the base of the Eyasi escarpment on the western rift valley wall. This afternoon you will be introduced to the extraordinary people who belong to an indigenous tribe known as the ‘Hadzabe’ (hunter-gatherer Bushmen). The tribe inhabits the shores of Lake Eyasi as do the Nilotic-speaking Datoga tribe. You will visit these tribes, which will include a visit to their homesteads, learn about their way of life, animal tracking, medicinal plants, and much more. Some wildlife and a wide range of bird species can be viewed during walks around the lake, which can be arranged. Early afternoon drive back to Arusha to your Hotel or Airport drop off.
Items included:
- Accommodation Before & During Safari.
- Transportation in 4×4 safari vehicle
- Professional, English speaking guide
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Mineral water
- Overnight Accommodation as requested.
- Airport Transfer
- All national park fees
Items not included:
- Alcoholic and soft drinks
- Visa fees
- Tips to Driver/Guide $20/group/Day
- Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.
- Travel insurance