9 DAYS TOUR OVERVIEW:
Package for 9 Days Tanzania safari and trekking will leads you to more than three Tanzania parks as shown. The tour will take you to Serengeti National Park with the massive wilderness of over 14500km where every day brings new adventure as well as a new land scape. The same safari will take you to Ngorongoro crater as well as the Ngorongoro conservation Area in Tanzania, this one features one of the highest concentration of game as well as a large population of carnivores and predators in Africa. In these parks, you will witness the amazing African Wildlife species. The tour will take you to Tarangire National Park which has the greatest concentration of the game in Tanzania. Lake Manyara is also part of the safari and you will get a chance to view many water animals and birds. You will get chance to view lots of wildlife including; elephants, lions, zebras, antelopes, birds, and many more. The tour will finally take you to Lake Natron where you will be able to trek mount Oldonyo Lengai before you head back to Arusha.
DAY 01: Arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport to Arusha.
Distance: 43 Km
Time: 45 Minutes
Welcome to Tanzania.On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport you’ll meet your company arranged driver who will transfer you to Arusha city to Mount Meru Hotel for dinner and overnight. Our driver will display your name on an Mupana Tours signboard. These procedures ensure that you are picked up by the correct driver, rather than by some of the airport taxi drivers who are looking for business. You’ll get a chance for Safari briefing/introduction before your dinner.
- Time:45 Minutes
- Meals: Dinner and Overnight
- Accommodation: Mount Meru 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 departs. 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 includes many birds species.During late afternoon you will start drive back to Karatu to 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: 190km
Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
After breakfast, Mupana Tours driver will pick you from your hotel and the tour will depart to the Lake Manyara national park for an extensive 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. Late afternoon transfer to Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge for the Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 04 : Lake Manyara to Lake Eyasi
Distance: 87 Km
Non – game viewing time : 1 – 2 hrs
Today it’s time to interact with the Bushmen, the Hadzabe Tribe, who live in groups hunting with bow and arrows and gathering roots, tubers and wild fruits much as humankind lived in the Stone Age. You will get in depth look at how they continue to survive and how they adapt to their harsh environment and the challenges they face to continue this nomadic existence. The Datoga tribe are blacksmiths, a trade developed over centuries and still practiced in vary much the same way today. They produce the arrow heads for the Hadzabe and brass trinkets, some of which will be for sale by maker himself.Before you leave lake eyas you will spend time by walking around the lake shore to see many birds species around the lake and other small animals found there. Late afternoon transfer to Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge for the Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Forest Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 05: Lake Eyasi to Ngorongoro crater
Distance: 77 Km
Non – game viewing time : 1 – 2 hrs
After breakfast, drive to Ngorongoro Conservation Area, You will descend over 600 meters into the crater to view wildlife. 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 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. Early evening drive back to the crater rim to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge for the Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 06 Ngorongoro crater to Serengeti National Park
Distance: 180 Km
Non – game viewing time : 2 – 3 hrs
Early morning breakfast and after depart to Serengeti National Park. You will stopover at Olduvai Gorge, boasting with a history dating back to the dawn of time. It was here, that the anthropologists Dr. Lois and Mary Leakey discovered the skulls of ‘Nutcracker Man’ and ‘Handy Man’, both very significant links in the chain of human evolution. Evening game drive before you head back to Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge for the Dinner and Overnight.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Ngorongoro Rhino Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 07 :Full Day Serengeti National Park Game Drive
After breakfast, you’ll have a full day game drive in Central Serengeti. Apart from the large mammals, Serengeti is also home to gaudy agama lizards; Rock hyraxes scuffle around the surfaces of the park’s isolated granite kopjes. Wide varieties of dung beetle were found, and around 500 bird species have been recorded ranging from the outsized ostrich and bizarre secretary bird of the open grassland, to the black eagles that soar effortlessly above the Lobo Hills. 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.
DAY 08: Serengeti National Park to Lake Natron
Distance: 300km
Non – game viewing time : 4 – 5 hrs
After an early breakfast. Do a morning game drive towards north Serengeti. Check out of the park at Klein’s gate then transfer to Lake Natron for an early dinner and over night. Go for an evening lake Natron walk for sunset if time allows. Dinner and Overnight at Lake Natron Tented Lodge.
- Meals: Breakfast-Lunch and Dinner.
- Accommodation: Lake Natron Tented Lodge
- Guide: Professional English speaking guide.
DAY 09: Lake Natron to Arusha
Distance: 136 Km
Non – game viewing time : 3 – 4 hrs
Logistic Info approx: 10-12hrs Ascending & Descending.
OLDONYO LENGAI TREKKING: Trekking this volcanic active mountain takes place at night.Ascending starts at 00:00 they get to the top at 6:00am.Descending before it gets hot and so reflective on the volcanic ash.Enjoy a nice breath taking and hair raising view of the gorges and surrounding volcanic features of the mountain.Get to know the ritual sites along the mountain trekking route. Early afternoon after your lunch start drive back to Arusha to your hotel or airport drop off because we will reach the city at early evening.
Price including VAT.
Tour Includes:
- Accommodation before safari.
- Transportation in 4×4 safari vehicle
- Professional, English speaking guide
- Meals: Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner
- Mineral water
- Lake Natron fees
- Overnight Accommodation
- Airport Transfer to and from
- All national park fees
Tour Excludes:
- Alcoholic and soft drinks
- Visa fees
- Tips to Driver/Guide
- Personal spending monies for souvenirs etc.