Wildlife Safari Tour

This wildlife safari tour features scenic tourist destinations, wilderness camps, balloon safaris optional, Maasai tour, unlimited wildlife viewing and much more…

Price

From: USD2450 per person (7 days)

Price Includes

• Accommodation on Half Board basis at the Hotel
• Transport
• Game drives/game viewing
• Park entrance fees
• Professional guide
• All meals
• Visit to olduvai Gorge
• Mineral Bottled water

Price Excludes

• -Tip for guide/porters -Concession Fee (if applicable) -Things of personal nature like insurance, VISA, alcohol -All not mentioned in the itinerary above. FYI: This is Comfortable Trip, customized tour for you to enjoy African Hospitality especially Tanzanian. You will be with Our Professional Driver Guide and have enough experience on wildlife and many places nearby including Maasai villages/bomas. The Driver Guide will explain you more about Tanzania wild animals, their habitat, people and general issues. Extra activities at extra costs are: - Hot Air balloon safaris in Serengeti ( 499 US $ per person) - Night game drives in Lake Manyara (50 US $ per person) - Canoeing safaris (60 US $ per person) - Cultural Tourism exploring Tanzanian local people villages and tribes like Maasai, Bushmen, chagga, barbaig, mbulu e.t.c

Day 01: On arrival at Kilimanjaro Airport, we transfer you to the Hotel in Arusha for overnight. Then next morning start the below Tanzania safari program.

Day 02: After breakfast, start game drives in Tarangire National Park. Tarangire National Park covers approximately 2600 square kilometers and, in the dry season, is second only to Ngorongoro Crater Conservation Area in concentrations of wildlife. Tarangire lies to the south of the large, open grass plains of southern Maasailand, and derives its name from the Tarangire River, which provides permanent water for wildlife in the area.The park is spectacular in the dry season when many of the migratory wildlife species come back to the permanent waters of Tarangire River. Huge herds of wildebeest, zebras, elephants, eland and oryx gather to stay in Tarangire until the onset of the rains when they migrate again to good grazing areas. Dinner and overnight at the Safari Lodge.

Day 03: After breakfast drive to the Great Serengeti National Park with lunch and game drives en route. Going to Serengeti you pass via Ngorongoro Crater and also visit OLDUVAI GORGE (historical site). You will pass through Ngorongoro Conservation Area to reach the Serengeti National Park. Leaving the Ngorongoro highlands behind you will enter the Southern plains of the Serengeti National Park where your eyes will have an opportunity to see up to its limits as you will be viewing the endless plains with lots of animals. Actually the name Serengeti is the corruption of the Maasai word Siringeti which means endless plains. Serengeti is one of the most famous wildlife areas in the world with an area of over 14,000 square kilometres. Serengeti is the home of millions of small and big animals with all big five mammals, over 500 bird species, crocodiles in the Grumeti river other reptiles such as tortoises and snakes. Serengeti has a very beautiful land scape. Apart from variations in vegetations and animal species, there are rolling hills and massive granite rock outcrops (kopjes) which can be up to 20m high. On top of the kopjes animals such as lions, leopards and hyraxes like to rest and give a chance of taking remarkable photos. Serengeti is the home to about 1.4 million wildebeest which do participate in famous migration together with zebras, Thompson and Grant gazelles, and the elands. These animals do migrate annually from the short grass plains of the southern Serengeti exploring the whole park and then cross the Mara River in the north and enter in Maasai Mara game reserve and then back to Serengeti. During your stay in Serengeti there is a very big possibility to see these animals in their journey together with hundreds of predators which usually get a better opportunity of hunting them. Serengeti is a home to lion, leopard, Elephant, Cheetah, Buffalo, Zebra, Wildebeest, Eland, Wild dog, Gazelles, Crocs and more. There are also lot of birds includes the Eurasia migrants. Serengeti National Parks is also mentioned as one of the Current Tourist Seventh Wonders of the World.

On arrival in Serengeti get lunch and proceed with game viewing around Seronera or Eastwards, dinner and overnight in the Safari Lodge.

Day 04: Full day in Serengeti National Park, Breakfast, then half day game
viewing in Lobo area where you will have your hot lunch and go on with game drives until evening, dinner and overnight in the Safari Lodge.

Day 05: After breakfast depart from Serengeti – Ngorongoro Crater Rim. Drive with picnic lunch boxes and game viewing enroute to Ngorongoro Crater. The Ngorongoro Conservation Area covers an area of about 8300 square kilometres and is dedicated for wildlife conservation and pastoralism done by the indigenous Maasai people. There is nothing to compare with the beauty of the NGORONGORO CRATER which is the eighth wonder of the world. It covers an area of 260 square kilometres and you will have to descend for 610 meters to reach its floor which is one of the most densely crowded game park in the world including the endangered (last/few remained) black rhinoceros. Actually the Ngorongoro crater is the caldera although its popularly known as the Crater. There are also lots of other small and big mammals including hyenas, jackals, zebras, mongoose, baboons to mention just a few. The crater is also very rich in bird life with over 400 species recorded with lots of bird of prey such as vultures and eagles. The Ngorongoro crater floor is made up of swamps, rivers, lake, grassland, woodland and a forest. On the other hand the Ngorongoro Conservation Area has a lot of other breathtaking scenery such as shifting sands, the famous volcanic active Oldonyo Lengai Mountain and other unique craters such as Olmoti and Empakai. It is also the home to the proud and colourful indigenous people from the Maasai tribe, one of the tribes which has maintained its culture and traditions intact in spite of the changes brought by Globalization. The area is also important in terms of archaeology as it host the Olduvai Gorge. On your arrival at the Ngorongoro Conservation area you will have a panoramic view of the Ngorongoro Crater.

All the BIG FIVE Rhino Lion, Leopard, Buffalo and Elephant live in this wonderful caldera, others are Zebra, Hippo, Wildebeest, Hyena and more…Birds includes flamingos on the Soda lake, Geese, Storks, Vultures and more…Proceed with game drives in the Crater, lunch will be served in the picnic site in the Crater at Ngoitoktok swamp a Hippo pool. In Evening ascend to the Crater rim. Relax and have Dinner and overnight in the Safari Lodge.

Day 06: Proceed with game drives up to lunch time, after lunch you can do some walking safaris or cultural tours (visit maasai bomas), and Camel or Horse riding. After lunch drive to Lake Eyasi for Sun Set and Observe Bushmen evening life. Dinner and Overnight at Permanent Tented Camp.

Day 07: Early morning experience hunting with Bushmen. -Visit Lake Eyasi will also involve walk with Bushmen. These are datoga and hadzabe tribes -people who are primitive tribes in Tanzania famously known as Bushmen. Get opportunity to watch Bushmen hunting activity like hunting with arrow and bow. After lunch back to Arusha and proceed to Kilimanjaro Airport for flight back home by KLM.