8 DAYS TOUR OVERVIEW
All 7 Nights – 8 Days Tanzania wildlife safaris and Culture travel packages, specifically include the Ngorongoro Conservation Area and the world famous Ngorongoro Crater National Park in Tanzania. This specific Africa safari and travel itinerary has been designed for visitors with more time on hand for a longer safari or travel tours. It specifically include the Tarangire National Park and have been designed to offer you a total Tanzanian northern circuit safari experience, while keeping your non game-viewing travel time to a minimum.
This unforgettable Tanzania safaris, tours, holidays and travel packages will take you to Tarangire National Park, which 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.
This safaris or holidays travel tours will also 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.
These safaris or holidays travel tours 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.
This safaris will also take you to 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 Tanzania wildlife – inside a self-contained world teeming with animals.
Finally this safari will take you to Manyara Masai Boma where you will be able to learn African culture via this tribe.
COMPANY OFFER:
Note: If you are interested the company will offer you to have morning 1 hr biking tour at Karatu to explore the village of Karatu before you will depart to Manyara Masai Boma, then head back to Arusha.
DAY 01: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport
Distance: 45 Km
Welcome to Tanzania.On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you’ll meet your safari guide/driver who will transfer you to Arusha city to Green Mount Hotel for dinner and overnight. You will get chance for briefing and introduction about your safari before your dinner.
- Hours:45 Minutes
- Meals: Dinner and Overnight.
- Accommodation: Green Mountain Hotel
- Guide: Professional English Speaking guide
DAY 02: Arusha to Tarangire National Park.
Distance: 130km
Non – game viewing time: 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast the tour will departs to Tarangire National Park. First stop is Arusha Town for any last minute purchases before you head off on safari. Afterwards you head towards the Tarangire National Park for a game drive with picnic lunch at the park. Tarangire is well known for its huge elephant population and baobab trees. It forms the center of an annual migratory cycle that includes up to 3000 elephants, 25,000 wildebeest and 30,000 zebras. Late afternoon you’ll drive back to Karatu at Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge for Dinner and overnight
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 03: Tarangire to Lake Manyara National Park.
Distance: 40km
Non – game viewing time: 1 hr
After breakfast the tour departs 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. Late afternoon drive back to Karatu to your accommodation for Dinner and Overnight at Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 04: 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 for 2 nights in Serengeti.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY 05: Full Day Game Drive In Serengeti National Park.
After breakfast the tour will depart with your packed lunch box and proceed with the game drive in the Serengeti National Park. The migration can be seen on a long chain approximately 40 Km heading to the south western direction. Around 1230 and 1300 break for your lunch. After having your lunch you will proceed with your game viewing following the move of the migrants on the southwest of the park. Approximately 1.3 million wildebeest, 250,000 gazelles and 200,000 Zebras have been recorded sharing the short grass. During early evening drive back to Mbugani Tented Lodge for Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Mbugani Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY06: Serengeti to Ngorongoro Crater.
Distance: 145km
Non – game viewing time: 2 – 4 hrs
The day to say good bye to Serengeti National Park. After breakfast you’ll have early morning game drives in Serengeti park and after the tour departs to Ngorongoro Conservation area. You’ll 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 ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution, as one among of our Tanzania History. You’ll meet expertise who will provide you much information about human evolution History in the area. Later afternoon proceed to Ngorongoro Conservation Area to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge where you will have Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
DAY07: Ngorongoro Crater to Karatu
After an early breakfast, you will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. Supported by a year round water supply and fodder, the Ngorongoro conservation Area 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 it’s dense population of predators, which include lions, hyenas, jackals, cheetahs and the ever-elusive leopard, which sometimes requires a trained eye to spot. You will visit Lake Magadi, a large but shallow alkaline lake in the southwestern corner, which is one of the main features of the crater. A large number of flamingos, hippos and other water birds can usually been seen here. Late afternoon you will drive back to Karatu where you will have your Dinner and Overnight at Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge.
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide
Day 8: Karatu to Manyara Maasai Boma to Arusha.
COMPANY OFFER:
Note: If you are interested the company will offer you to have morning 1 hr biking tour at Karatu to explore the village of Karatu before you depart to Manyara Masai Boma, then head back to Arusha (Optional).
Distance:27km
Non – game viewing time: 25 Minutes
After breakfast to your Hotel the tour will depart to Manyara Maasai Boma. This is one of our most popular Culture tours in the Maasai tribe, which is based around a traditional Maasai Boma (dwelling). This tour is led by Maasai local guide and you will be told about tribal customs and the methods in which they build their dwellings. The village you visit still preserve the traditional Maasai way of life and you will be enthralled by the truly wonderful and inspiring tales that these people will tell you about their history and way of life. You will also get a chance to learn how the Maasai women make their beautifully colored and intricate jeweler. The money raised from the sale of their traditional jeweler goes directly back into the local community. In addition, when you join our Maasai Boma trip you will be able to watch a traditional welcome dance – something truly special that is sure to become a lifelong memory. Being up close and personal with nature while walking with a Maasai guide along the deeply spiritual trails their predecessors have trodden for hundreds and hundreds of years is an experience that will surely become the highlight of your visit to this magnificent country.
Later afternoon you will start your safari head back to Arusha City to your hotel or Airport drop off. Ending of our Tanzania Wildlife Safari and Culture Tour.
Activities at Manyara Maasai Boma
- Learning how the Maasai Women Milking in the morning
- Enjoy having Maasai Dancing and Traditional Songs
- Enjoy how Maasai slaughter animals and drinking fresh blood
- Learn How to make Maasai Jewelry
- Distribution of Work according to age (Ngayon-Moran-Laibon-Leigwanan)
- Enjoying knowing how they sleep
Price including VAT
Tour Include:
- Park fees.
- All activities.
- All accommodation before safari
- All accommodation during safari
- A professional English speaking guide.
- All transportation
- All Taxes/VAT
- Meals.- Breakfast – Lunch & Dinner
- Airport transfers.
- Mineral Drinking water.
Tour Exclude:
- International flights..
- Tips.
- Personal items.