12 Days Tanzania Safari

Day 1:  Arrival Kilimanjaro airport.

You will be met at Kilimanjaro International Airport by your safari driver guide, Your Safari driver guide will assist you through the airport procedures and then take you directly to  salinero lodge .  Here you will spend the rest of the day recovering from your flight, relaxing and resting for your upcoming adventure. www.salsalinerohotel.com

Day 2: Arusha National Park

Following a wonderful breakfast, we will leave for a game run to Arusha National Park which is a 60 minute drive from your lodge.   Here you will see a variety of animals including zebras, buffaloes, gnus, and giraffes.  After the the morning game drive you will arrive to Momela’s lake view point for your picnic lunch, Afternoon game viewing till 05:00 pm  then drive to Meru view lodge for dinner overnight. F/B www.meru-view-lodge.com

Day 3: Arusha Park to Tarangire national park

Today we drive to Tarangire National Park, for excellent game viewing.

Tarangire is a small park which offers some excellent sights seeing. Generally in the dry seasons Tarangire comes alive as wildlife and birdlife congregate on the Tarangire River, which is a permanent source of water. We spend the night in tarangire safari lodge for dinner and overnight. F/B www.tarangiresafarilodge.com

Day 4: Game drive in Lake Manyara National Park:
Today we drive to Lake Manyara National Park for a full day of game drives. This is one of Tanzania’s smaller parks but still offers a rewarding and diverse safari experience. The lakeshore at Manyara teems with birdlife, and while you are looking for the birds, you might spot one of the elusive tree-climbing lions. There are a surprising number of other large mammals and the striking cliffs on the Rift escarpment form a dramatic backdrop. In the evening we drive to twiga lodge for dinner and overnight. F/B www.twigalodgecampsite.com

Day 5: Serengeti Wildebeest Migration Tracking:
We head towards the Serengeti National Park. En route there is an opportunity to visit Olduvai Gorge. It is within this steep sided ravine that Louis and Mary Leakey made some of the world’s most important archaeological discoveries in the 1950s. Here in a small museum we are able to see evidence of our ancestors that have been dated back 2.5 million years. After lunch we drive into the Serengeti itself and the rest of the afternoon is spent game viewing in the vast plains that are broken only by stands of acacia trees and the occasional kopje. In December, February and March we will normally meet the migration with large herds of wildebeest, zebra, and gazelle. There are always plenty of resident animals, such as giraffe, buffalo, and elephant, and many large predators such as lion, cheetah, and leopard. We return to our Serengeti heritage camp  for the night.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti heritage lodge Full board. www.serengetiheritagecamp.com

Day 6: Serengeti Wildebeest Migration Tracking:
We have another full day in this wonderful park, rising early to make the most of our time. Our guides will choose the best spotting locations for the time of year; we can spend time at the Hippo pool watching these majestic animals laze about in the cool water happily living alongside the crocodiles, watch a big pride of lions, be in the middle of the migration, sometimes surrounded by wildebeest, sometimes by zebras, which travel with the wildebeest. We journey from the wide open plains to the kopjes: these volcanic rocky outcrops provide protection and shelter for a wide variety of animals and from the top we can look out across the vast grasslands of the Serengeti. This diverse and interesting landscape will provide us with the ultimate in game viewing, we will hopefully see all of the plain games; elephants, giraffe, zebra, wildebeest, lions and if you are lucky the elusive leopard and cheetah, as well as huge amounts of interesting bird life, from the elegant secretary birds to the flightless ostrich. We return to our Serengeti heritage camp for the night.
Dinner and overnight at Serengeti heritage camp.. www.serengetiheritagecamp.com

Day 7: Another full day game drive in the North of Serengeti National Park
After breakfast we will take the packed lunch with us 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 north  direction. Around 1230 and 1300 break for your lunch. After having our lunch we will proceed with our 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. Dinner and overnight at www.serengetiheritagecamp.com

Day 8: Game drive in Ngorongoro Crater:
We start the day with an early morning game drive before heading to Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Ngorongoro is a special place in that it is a Conservation Area, not a National Park; this means that the whole area is managed for both the animals and the local Masai people who graze their cattle alongside the indigenous wildlife. During the drive in Ngorongoro we have a chance to glimpse something of the Masai way of life. After stopping at the entrance gate, where there is a chance to learn more about this fascinating volcanic landscape, we will drive around the rim of the Crater for dinner and overnight at Rhino lodge F/B  www.ngorongoro.cc

Day 9 Full day ngorongoro crater

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  supports a vast variety of animals, which include herds of wildebeest, zebra, buffalo, eland, warthog, hippo, and giant African elephants.  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. We 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. Afternoon we drive to Endoro lodge for dinner and overnight. F/B.   www.endorolodge.com

Day 10:  Lake Eyasi Hadzabe and Bushmen Cultural Tour

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. We 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. Late afternoon transfer to lake eyasi safari  lodge for dinner and overnight. www.lakeeyasi.com

Day 11:  Lake eyasi to  Arusha national park.

Following a wonderful breakfast, we will leave for a game run to Arusha National Park which is a  2 hours  drive from your lodge.   Here you will see a variety of animals including zebras, buffaloes, gnus, and giraffes.  After the the morning game drive you will arrive to Momela’s lake view point for your picnic lunch, Afternoon game viewing till 05:00 pm  then drive to Meru view lodge for dinner overnight. F/B  www.meru-view-lodge.com

Day 12: After breakfast transfer to the airport for departure back home or to your next destination